(UK)Troops Fire on Iraq Protesters; 6 Killed, US Troops Kill 2 "policemen"

[DuctapeFatwa]

British soldiers and Iraqi police clashed Saturday with armed, stone-throwing protesters in southeastern Iraq, killing six people. U.S. officials acknowledged American soldiers mistakenly killed two Iraqi policemen after they failed to identify themselves to a patrol.

In Baghdad, a senior U.S. military officer confirmed that preliminary reports showed that a U.S. Army medevac helicopter that crashed last week near Fallujah, killing all nine soldiers aboard, was shot down.

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040110_884.html

[bluestateguy]

1. More cops killed

With all the cops who have been "accidently" killed in Iraq by coalition forces I wonder if more have been killed by our forces than by terrorists and criminals. Will the Fraternal Order of Police be taking this into consideration when the decide who to endrose this fall.

[bahrbearian]

2. I thought the Military phrase was " smoke em"

[Crunchy Frog]

3. It looks like things

may be starting to heat up in the British controlled south. I always felt that the relative stability there would be temporary. It looks like the grace period may be coming to an end.

I think things are just going to keep going downhill in Iraq. What a mess.:-(