**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)

[konaice]

"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."

Nonsense. The gun is nearly empty, but he still values it, probably a couple rounds left.

If he wanted to NOT use it he would drop it and put his hands up.

[Rammer]

I was just thinking about that too. Kinda obvious who REALLY armed Iraq, isn't it?

[browardchad]

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.

In case you didn't notice, green shirt had a gun -- safer to take him down with a 2x4 than to have bullets flying into a crowd, or at the Brits, wouldn't you say?

Law and order will come in time -- willingness of the people to stand up to the their tormentors is a good sign right now.

[A2J]

Is his ear missing?

What did you say?

[RooRoobird14]

I'm surprised all this guy got was a lump on the head. You'd think they'd stomp him into a four foot diameter throw rug.

[Hatteras]

You can get shirts like that at any Good Will store. I'm surprised it doesn't have a Nortel logo on it!

[Redcloak]

"Nothing like a nice piece of hickory."

[azhenfud]

WHAT???

[handk]

...hugh headake.

= huge headache.

Geez!

[azhenfud]

"You can get shirts like that at any Good Will store."

I hear they have some pretty nice genuine Bolivia watches, too!

[al_c]

Looks like this guy's been fighting with Tyson...

Say ... isn't Tyson Muslim now?

[DeathfromBelow]

When you have handed out Sh*t to people for years, they eventually get even or even ahead. Don't like it, use the Golden Rule next time.

[azhenfud]

Life is like a radar - if you put out a bad signal, you'll get a bad return...

[CarmelValleyite]

WHOA! That was GREAT! Thanks!

[thegreatbeast]

Okay. But this isn't the kind of country we want to leave behind when the last of the occupying forces leave. The Iraqi People must build themselves a nation built on a body of Law that applies to All.

[azhenfud]

"Geez!"

fromage?

[thegreatbeast]

Who's the big white guy in the blue plaid shirt in the first photo?

[beaversmom]

The reporters probably take the same stance the wildlife photographer takes--it's not pretty to see that gazelle getting his throat ripped out by the lion, but you have to let nature run its course and not interfere. In this case, retribution is taking its course. I couldn't beat the crap out of someone unless they had done harm to my family. Because I'm a decent human being, I even have some feelings for a worthless, sadistic Feyadeen who is being beaten to a pulp, but I don't begrudge someone doing what they feel is necessary to someone who has probably been evil to a degree that we can't imagine. I imagine a lot of this will be going on until the coalition is firmly rooted in. You can't expect it not to happen and I'm not going to be losing too much sleep over it. Law and order will have to wait for now.

[mommadooo3]

That's the same guy in both pictures? Guy must've changed clothes.

[MHGinTN]

It is the Fedayeen, peopled by Palestinians, Sudanese, Syrians, some Iraqis, Yemeni, Saudis, etc. who will do all they can to prevent law and order in post-war Iraq. If the dudes are Fedayeen, it's a shame they were allowed to leave the area alive, because they will gather two or three more of their thugs and come back with Kalashnikovs to murder the civilians.