Iraqi 'shoe-thrower' shot dead by US forces

[Freedom4all]

An Iraqi man who witnesses said shouted abuse before throwing a shoe at a US army vehicle was shot dead on Wednesday in what the American military said was a suspected grenade attack.

Residents told an AFP reporter in Fallujah that Ahmed Latif, 32, whom they said was mentally disturbed, insulted the soldiers as they patrolled in the centre of the city, and then hurled a shoe at them.

The US military told AFP that a convoy in Fallujah had been attacked with a suspected grenade.

 

[Gilding the Lily]

An Iraqi man who witnesses said shouted abuse before throwing a shoe at a US army vehicle was shot dead on Wednesday in what the American military said was a suspected grenade attack.

Residents told an AFP reporter in Fallujah that Ahmed Latif, 32, whom they said was mentally disturbed, insulted the soldiers as they patrolled in the centre of the city, and then hurled a shoe at them.

The US military told AFP that a convoy in Fallujah had been attacked with a suspected grenade.

It would have been an interesting twist of fate had it been the Bush-shoe-throwing guy.

 

[Kev3188]

Remind me again why you're cheering that someone was killed?

 

[freedom]

It would have been an interesting twist of fate had it been the Bush-shoe-throwing guy.

i agree ..


As for this guy , sounds like some poor crazy guy , the kind that we might see wandering our streets ....

can't blame the troops for shooting him thou .... but we shouldn't cheer some poor mentally ill persons death either ..

 

[Freedom4all]

Remind me again why you're cheering that someone was killed?

Because thats how you do it! Or rather you would what, give him a kiss and appoint him as a czar in Obama's administration? :blink:

 

[Kev3188]

What I find ridiculous is not that it happened, but rather how excited you are that it did. I'm willing to bet that the soldiers that are actually there aren't nearly as enthusiastic.

 

[Freedom4all]

What I find ridiculous is not that it happened, but rather how excited you are that it did. I'm willing to bet that the soldiers that are actually there aren't nearly as enthusiastic.

As an ex-marine, i'll take that bet all day long!

Hoorah

 

[tech2101]

As an ex-marine, i'll take that bet all day long!

Hoorah

No Marine ever calls themselves an ex-marine.

They are a former Marine.

hmmm.

 

[Freedom4all]

No Marine ever calls themselves an ex-marine.

They are a former Marine.

hmmm.

:blink:
Your out of your league (again).

 

[whatkindoffreshhell]

Was it Special Agent Ronald Fleury who took the shot?

 

[tech2101]

:blink:
Your out of your league (again).

We Marines maintain that except for Lee Harvey Oswald, there is no such thing as an "ex-Marine."

source

Ex-Marine:
No such thing. Once a Marine, always a Marine. See Former Marine.

 

[rjh]

Remind me again why you're cheering that someone was killed?

Because republicans believe that all life has value . .unless that life belongs to someone they don't agree with.

 

[nuclearfission]

Because republicans believe that all life has value . .unless that life belongs to someone they don't agree with.

😱ff:
Post something of substance instead of your obvious, blind oath to Demorat Socialist policies.

 

[delldude]

I heard if the foo shi.....oh wrong joke..................................

 

[ORDmech]

Remind me again why you're cheering that someone was killed?

better him than one of our own troops...the crazies over there would be cheering if it was the other way around.