| A short story
By backdraft 17/10/2003 At 21:14 about the daily life as Tantalizer A Swedish journalist witnessed US mercenaries beat an elderly religious man, Maad Ibrahim, almost to death. Mustapha Can, a correspondent for the Swedish evening newspaper Aftonbladet, was with a US patrol, which was hit by two mortar rounds.
He told The Independent: "Suddenly I saw the soldiers kick in a door and drag out an old man who screamed, 'Me no shoot! please, please mister.' The soldiers shouted, 'Shut the fuck up! Shut the fuck up!'
"They tied his hands behind his back and then, as he lay on the ground, one said: 'Keep his head still.' He slammed him on the head with his rifle butt again and again. Then the others kicked him. There was blood everywhere." US officers later admitted they were probably wrong about the old man, but said "these things happen in the heat of the action".
Iraqi leaders in the area say that while Paul Bremer, the head of the US civil administration in Baghdad, claims the guerrillas are an isolated remnant of the old regime, the soldiers assume the opposite. They assume all Iraqis are hostile and support the resistance.
In many cases this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since May, Haj Awwad Abidasad, a 75-year-old merchant, has been trying to get back $16,000 (£9,600) in Iraqi dinars and $4,500 in gold taken from his house by US soldiers. His son, Majid, a physiotherapist, was arrested and held for 63 days.
Mr Abidasad and his son have been told the money and gold were confiscated because a fedayeen, a pro-Saddam fighter, was found in their house, which they deny.
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I think the whole subject "war" is afoul. And I can't get it how people, or world leaders, sees war as a part of politics or as a propper way of solving a political and econamical situation.
It's absurd. But if they think that war is the only way out (wich it never is), why does the wrong people have to suffer?
Yes, take the dictator by force and his men. But still though, treat him like a human being.
The world is filled with people who are lonely and have week selfs. They are not feeling good and often have to do extreme things to feel that they have a place here on earth. They're mentally ill and need help.
Is it those people we hear about, like in this war in iraq, who beat up innocent victims of war? Who has nothing better to do then to join the army cause they felt like kicking ass?
Wrong people at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Them soldiers and officers had no business being there at all.
I'm confident that there are other ways of solving a political problem without war, but when the people in charge feel that they need to show up their dicks war occur without hesitation.
I'm also confident in that war can be run in a better manner.
I think the worst parts of war is when you hear about people whose only fault was to get borne in the wrong country.
Not only does their country get invaded (any war) but they have to put up with all the fucking shit war really is all about.
The girls get raiped - the guys get beat up, the peoples homes get vandalised, people get executed for no particular reason... why?
Well... Just because the brave and heroic soldiers felt like it.
Perhaps the officers in command tell the soldiers to do it, just so that the officers can deny it later when the event surfices, and asure that they will get to the bottom of this.
Pathetic.
Fuck war!
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