NP - Residents Blare Horns, Dance and Empty Government Offices

[joeallonby]

on 4/9/03 10:20 AM, David Morris at fqmorris at yahoo.com wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/09/international/worldspecial/09CND-BAGH.html
> 
> Residents swarmed out onto the streets today, suddenly sensing that the regime
> of Saddam Hussein was crumbling, and celebrating the arrival of United States
> forces. 
> 
> Throngs of men milled about, looting, blaring horns, dancing and tearing up
> pictures of Saddam Hussein. Baath party offices were trashed.

Who put up the pictures of Saddam Hussein? Looting is good?
> 
> Occasional sniper fire continued, but Iraqi resistance largely faded away. The
> American military hesitated to say the war was over, warning instead that more
> fighting could break out, both inside and outside Baghdad.
> 
> But the streets here were full of activity, after days of fearsome warfare.
> 
> The American military emptied jails overnight, releasing their prisoners.

I live in Eastern Massachusetts. I don't want the jails emptied. Some of
those people are there for a reason.

> 
> In the neighborhood called Saddam City, a densely populated Shiite area,
> crowds
> of men shouted and waved their arms in jubilation. Some carried makeshift
> flags. 
> 
> One middle aged man held up a huge portrait of Saddam Hussein, and in the
> middle of the street beat the face of the Iraqi leader with his shoe, a
> particular insult. "This man has killed two million of us,'' he yelled as
> bystanders milled around approvingly.
> 

And as long as you're standing there with an M16 with a grenade launcher
mounted under the barrel, he's continue to wield that shoe.
> 
> 
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