Posted on 07/23/2004 8:12:45 AM PDT by dead
A van carrying Iraqi civilians collided with a US tank near Baghdad, killing nine people and injuring 10 others, the US military said yesterday.
The accident occurred about 10pm on Thursday night (0400 AEST Friday), said Specialist Justin McCue, a press official of the US-led military coalition.
"The van was attempting to pass another vehicle when it collided with the tank," McCue said. "All the injured were taken to a medical facility."
There were no US or coalition casualties, McCue said. He had no other details.
There were slightly different accounts of the crash.
Iraqi police Captain Adnan Salih said nine people were killed and 18 injured in the tank collision with a bus in Tarmiyah, 50km north of Baghdad.
Salih said the fatalities included four men, four women and one child - all of whom had been attending a wedding party in Tarmiyah.
Footage taken by Associated Press Television News showed the twisted wreckage of a minibus and several bodies of accident victims covered by blankets. A small child's orange dress was found amid the wreckage and pools of blood covered the road.
US forces and Iraqi police surrounded the crash site.
An unidentified eyewitness, who said he was a passenger on the bus, told APTN the vehicle was carrying 12 people from the same family when the tank crashed into it.
"They were in a wedding party on their way from Tarmiyah to Baghdad ... (when) an American armoured vehicle hit them and left," the man said.
AP
Another wedding..
This is sort of like a "car-vs-train" article. One lesson I learned from driving a tank on the Autobahn - the tank always has the right-of-way.
I wonder if the air bag in the M-1 Abrams deployed?
So someone trying to pass (presumably by going into the opposite direction lane) and getting into an accident is now somehow an indictment of our military presence in Iraq?
Why is this in the news?
Amazing how many "wedding parties" seem to run into bad luck...
And the lesson of the day, boys and girls, is: "Don't play Chicken with 70 tons of Detroit steel".
Of course it would never occur to Muslims to think that maybe Allah is trying to tell them something.
It's funny how he seems to enforce his will ONLY when non-muslims get killed.
"They were in a wedding party on their way from Tarmiyah to Baghdad ... (when) an American armoured vehicle hit them and left," the man said.
An unidentified eyewitness? Why does AP print this nonsense? (as if I didn't know) First a tank crashes into a van... then an amoured vehicle hit them and left? I bet it was a bunch of neoCons at the wheel... that's it, yeah and they were drinking non-union beer and looking for a picket line to cross. Some reports said that they had a Confederate flag on the tank too.
Are you sure we can't call that tank an SUV?
Because the "news" is whatever the socialist press wants to make it.
The only reason this is in the news is because it offers "evidence" of evil soldiers killing civilians. If I'm not mistaken, quite a few of our soldiers have been killed in auto accidents in Iraq.
Ive seen plenty of reporters mention that Iraqis drive like maniacs.
""They were in a wedding party on their way from Tarmiyah to Baghdad ... (when) an American armoured vehicle hit them and left," the man said."
What, they should have stayed around, and gotten out of their tanks to see what happened?
Good way to become RPG bait.
"They were in a wedding party on their way from Tarmiyah to Baghdad ... (when) an American armoured vehicle hit them and left," the man said.
There's your punchline, right there.
Henceforward, every Iraqi traffic fatality will be the fault of Boosh, the Joos, and their armored vehicles.
If this van had run into a wall, it would be no news at all. I am quite confident that our soldiers are not over there crushing vanloads of wedding-goers for kicks. But you know what, if the Islamakazis stopped blowing things up all the time, there would be a lot fewer American tanks on the streets...
In the article it sounds like the van caused the crash, not the tank. They were passing another vehicle when the VAN crashed into the tank.
A little spin here............big bad tank..........
And now funeral.
MEMO TO IRAQI FEDEHEEN BRIDES GETTING MARRIED:
WEAR BLACK.
If they would just stick to marring ONE WIFE, their life expectancies would go up!
The 9/11 Commission would call this "a serious lack of imagination".
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