US forced to pay blood money for US killed Iraqis

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/6419918.htm

Wed, Jul. 30, 2003

U.S. changes tactics in violent Iraq city
By HAMZA HENDAWI
Associated Press

FALLUJAH, Iraq - Faced with sporadic attacks, the U.S. Army has come up with some unorthodox policies to placate Fallujah - handing over security to the locals, compensating people for homes damaged in raids and paying blood money to the families of American-inflicted casualties.

Thanks to the experiment, Fallujah, a conservative and deeply tribal Sunni Muslim city of 200,000 people, is no longer the dangerous place it was for U.S. soldiers as recently as mid-July. But anger remains strong.

"We will fight them to the death if they keep humiliating us," said Farhan Siyam al-Jomaili, a local clan chief.


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[revcarol]

1. Shades of Vietnam!!

Bomb drops on village in Thailand? Send the negotiators to pay them $100 per dead person.Yes, I am talking about an actual event.

Devalue human life, us, the great moral nation? NAW, couldn't be...except it is.