Ex-Gurkha killed in ambush as more riots flare in Basra

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

is an "ex-Gurkha" considered a US coalition combat death ?

and was the Haliburton workers also considered a 'combat death' ?

or are/were both really 'workers' for their respective country's
CIA , M-I5 ?



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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=432529

Ex-Gurkha killed in ambush as more riots flare in Basra
By Justin Huggler in Baghdad

11 August 2003


British soldiers fought to control rioting Iraqis in the southern city of Basra for the second day running yesterday. At least one Iraqi protester was shot dead, but in the chaos in the city nobody could tell who killed him. A Nepalese former gurkha working for a private security firm was shot dead in an ambush by Iraqi gunmen.

Masked men claiming to represent an Iraqi resistance group appeared in a video shown on al-Jazeera television holding rocket-propelled grenade launchers (RPGs) and vowed: "We will make the whole land of Iraq a graveyard to all those villain invaders."

The unrest in Basra is some of the worst the British have faced since the US President, George Bush, declared the war over. While American soldiers have faced daily attacks by RPGs and explosives in the rest of the country, in the south things have been generally quieter for the British.

But the violence which seethed on the streets of Basra yesterday was not orchestrated by the resistance, it appears. Rather it was ordinary Iraqis who took to the streets in fury at constant power cuts and acute fuel shortages. With temperatures above 50C (122F), Iraqis desperately need electricity to power their air conditioners.

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[PATRICK]

1. "not orchestrated"

Well, maybe I have a paranoid conspoiratorial mind. Outside of the hail of potshots from the disgruntled populace the attack casualties have been steady and regular. The targets shifted to outsiders(Jordanians, an oil exec) THEN to the SAFE model territories of Kirkuk and Basra simultaneously.

"Spontaneous" and "coincidence" are now more abused in the media than the words "love" and "patriotism". If it is not coordinated and "planned" then this is the most independently harmonious resistance movement in world history, even accounting for a Vietnameses Communist type strategy being prepared for long in advance for just these likely eventualities.

So WHY should we believe the media judgment that these attacks are not coordinated and organized? Because the Pentagon or WH says so? The same bunch that made all the lies and mistakes in the first place?