Iraqi wedding celebration turns into gun battle

ananova.com ^ | 9 18 03 | ananova

[Alouette]

I didn't know Janet Reno was in Iraq.

[sheik yerbouty]

I'd give the wedding revelers a darwin Award!

[Frank_Discussion]

This doesn't smell right. We supposed were invovled in another "wedding party" massacre in Afganstan, remember? Same circumstances, almost to a letter.

[Shermy]

In Afghanistan they'd get a JDAM.

[Hodar]

Perhaps someone should enlighten these stupid intellectually challenged idiots uninformed people that rifles are not noisemakers, they are deadly weapons.

[DannyTN]

Yeah, I think the "wedding" stories are an excuse to cover their actions and make us look bad.

We should publicly outlaw gunfire and fireworks at wedding celebrations in Iraq. That would eliminate such excuses.

[adam_az]

The wedding party in Afghanistan drew the attention of an AC-130, not a motorized patrol.

[adam_az]

Yes, do it for the chiiiiiiillllldrrrrreeeen!

[Frank_Discussion]

This is true.

[luck of the irish]

here is the footage
http://www.usrcjc.org/photogallery/videos/AC130_Gunship.wmv

enjoy

[doodad]

on his way to buy cigarettes

So cigarettes do kill ya.

[sgtbono2002]

These people are dumber than a bag of Rocks.

[joesnuffy]

Lots of liberal fodder in this one
Gun control...why civilians cant be trusted with firearms
Get us out of Iraq... US GIs killing children again
US soldiers killing innocents wedding party guests...the moral equivalent of terrorists

Of course they arent telling the whole story or the American side of it...perhaps some rounds impatcted...not to mention the fact...that once the bullets fly RPGs usually come along for the ride and only mass concentrations of firepower shuts down the human launchers...before the light it up

Get the press out

[polemikos]

rifles are not noisemakers, they are deadly weapons.

When your only tool is a gun, every problem looks like a target.

yes, it's a joke.

[Dialup Llama]

It's standard Al Jazzera/Al Queda/Reuters protocol to evoke the wedding party gunfire thing from time to time. I actually read a story about a guy who ran an embassay (or attempted to run) checkpoint and the writer stated that the cause was that the driver was a member of a wedding party. A total non-sequiter. Didn't bother the writer of the propaganda piece at all.

[thinktwice]

Culture shock, on both sides.

Americans used to celebrate shooting guns into the air, too; then ... along came liberalism.

[w1andsodidwe]

Americans used to celebrate shooting guns into the air, too; then ... along came liberalism.

That is bull. I was raised on an Iowa farm where we had plenty of guns, but they were never fired in celebration. I now live in the central valley of California, starting about 10 years ago we must cower every New Year's Eve because of the guns shooting in the air. We are told it is just part of the culture of the people recently moved to the area

[BurbankKarl]

yes, same reason the cops in LA park under the fwy overpasses from 11:55pm to 00:25am on New Years Eve.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Oh? I was raised in NYC, you should have heard the guns go off on my block on VJ Day 1945. The neighbors woke us up at 4AM shooting their shotguns in the center of the street. It stopped when they ran out of ammo.