2 killed in Protest over 13 killed in previous protest

[Oceans11]

US troops have opened fire on protesters for a second time this week in the town of Falluja, 50 kilometres (35 miles) west of Baghdad.

Ahmed al-Taha, a senior official at Falluja's main hospital, said two people were killed and eight wounded during a march to protest against the deaths of 13 people on Monday night.

Stones and shoes were hurled at the HQ, situated in a compound formerly occupied by the Baath party, and troops opened fire at about 1030 local time (0630 GMT), dispersing the crowd.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2988823.stm

 

[outandup]

Lets see, the protesters have rocks and the soldiers have guns with real live bullets. Not real bright.

"Walter Williams is my hero" outandup 2002

 

[Oceans11]

And the Soldiers in that area are Paras.
Paras are the most usless civilian peacekeepers in existence, and their record proves it.

Each one is a highly strung hairtrigger nutter. Trained to be worth 3 ordinary combat troops.
Their job is to get dropped behind enemy lines into areas where there is overwhelming enemy superiority in numbers and firepower.
Then they have to establish a position, and hold out until the main force arrives, and they mainly use only light weapons.

The Paras got kicked out of Cyprus when the brits used them in the 50's for security purposes.
They antagonised the local population too much, for sport.

The Paras were the troops in charge on Bloody Sunday in Ireland when a whole bunch of civilians got shot.
There is a special hate/hate relationship between the Irish nationalists and the UK Paras, even to this day.

Paras+civilians=Trouble

Maybe someone WANTS trouble, cos thats all paras are any good at.
Thats their job.

 

[DreamMaker]

Expect more casualties. Nothing out of the ordinary in this kind of scenario..

 

[buddyboy]

eek,

"Their job is to get dropped behind enemy lines into areas where there is overwhelming enemy superiority in numbers and firepower.
Then they have to establish a position, and hold out until the main force arrives, and they mainly use only light weapons."

Congrats... You just failed military tactics 101. Where did you get this information?

When I was in the military each soldier was insured for $150,000. Paid about $1000 per month, fed, clothed and housed. Plus all medical, dental, and optical treatment. Add in the investment of training and each US soldier (no matter how dumb) was a major financial investment.

A soldier that serves 4 years before getting killed would probably cost the tax payers around $500K. (if he had dependants it would be much more)

A $500,000 missle would do more damage than a $500,000 soldier using small arms.

and no one has to go to the missle plant to tell the workers that their missle is dead.