**PHOTOS** - A Fedayeen member is beaten by a group residents on the streets of Basra

Yahoo News Photos ^ | 4-8-03

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Tue Apr 8, 2:29 PM ET

A man, suspected of being a Fedayeen member, is beaten by a group residents on the streets of Basra, Iraq (news - web sites) Tuesday April 8, 2003. (AP Photo/Jon Mills, Pool)

[Yankee]

This photo has inspired me to prepare a care package for Iraqi villagers.

One Small bottle of Advil
Three Dozen axe handles.

[finnman69]

A good start.

[sarasota]

Hey, that's what I heard at noon on the radio--they are asking for an escort out of town! HAHAHAHAHA

[John_11_25]

I suppose someone has to speak up and today it's me.

IF that was a US or UK Soldier on the ground there would be a thousand plus posts, and the perps would be dead in the street.

There seems to be a reporter standing over the two men (Old White guy with blue check shirt), therefore it is safe to say that military personnel were near by.

The Brits say they cannot police the streets, however they would have policed the streets if he had been a UK or US soldier or Reporter lying on the ground.

The Allies have come to Iraq to free the people not to let them revert back to animal insticnts and do whatever they want, public beatings or executions are not acceptable in the west and should not be in the streets of Baghdad.

When Tito ruled Yugoslavia, he was ruthless, but after his death the state crumbled into ethnic differences.

Let us not replace one dictator with Mobocracy, or we will be sending body bags home for the next 50 years, as Iraq will never be stable.

[azhenfud]

Yeah? Tell that Balloon Stuffing to the victims those guys handed over to their REGIME COMMANDER, SADDAM.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Is his ear missing? <<<

Yep, doesn't look like he has an ear to me. That was one of Saddam's favorite tricks with dissenters - cut an ear off, not quite as severe as cutting your tongue out.

This guy evidently got the message after he lost an ear and joined the Fedayeen Saddam....poor bastard; now he's between a rock and a hard place.

[Frank_Discussion]

Swing Away, Merrill!

[Eala]

OMG! Look at the shirt he is wearing. I live in Portland Oregon though. I think it says Rhode Island on it, is there a Portland, Rhode Island?

Oregon, Maine, Texas, Indiana, Connecticut, Tennessee, Michigan, North Dakota, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin all have "Portlands." Rhode Island didn't show on my list.

[green team 1999]

the guy on the background also have a piece under the shirt,right hand making sure don`t fall(get a holster)

[Polybius]

This guy had a gun. Why didn't he use it if he is Fayadeen?

Bang. Bang. Click. Click. Click.

"Oh, Shiite!!"

[Salamander]

The "Tractor & Supply Co." have some wonderful hickory handles.....:))

[Paul_B]

This guy had a gun. Why didn't he use it if he is Fayadeen?

Look at the way he's holding it. He's trying to very definitely convey the fact that he doesn't want to use it. He is wildly outnumbered and wants to get out fast, without firing the shot that will bring upon him his death.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Interesting how much this guy in the Rhode Island shirt resembles a common, garden verity gang member/street criminal in America.....

[konaice]

"WE need to get saw and order established "

I agree, a saw would be most appropriate here.
(SAW = Squad Automatic Weapon = US light machine gun).

Oh, perhaps you meant LAW?

Same difference, A SAW lays down the LAW.

[Joe Hadenuf]

The guy in the brown over tan can be seen on the extreme left of the image of the citizens beaten on the bad guys...Look closely.....

[Joe Hadenuf]

You can only see his shirt and pants in the other image on the extreme left.......

[Anamensis]

Payback's a bummer.

[konaice]

"Let us not replace one dictator with Mobocracy, or we will be sending body bags home for the next 50 years, as Iraq will never be stable."

We are not there to RUN Iraq we are there to liberate it.
This is strictly a domestic squabble which the Brits are wise to stay out of.

Its for Iraqis to decide how to try and punish their own bad boys. The Brits have already put one of the locals in charge. Soon courts will be set up. Untill then, its better to have the populace taking their country in their own hands even at the expense of a few butchers being murdered.

There's a war on. Times are tough. This guy made his bed, and now he gets to die in it.

[TexanToTheCore]

I'm glad to see this happening in Basra. It's called peer pressure and it works.

[oyez]

Maybe sombody yanked out the clip. If he were loaded up, I don't think he would get enough of them before they clobered him again.