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back at the outhouse .....

Turd blossom is so well known as a fly hunter among his White House staff, says Snow, that somebody "made him White House fly swatters."

Funny that...

General Pace...

Tragic... who's fighting who...

Confusion in night sparked fatal Iraq strike: Villagers

Published Date: October 07, 2007

BAGHDAD: A deadly US air strike on an Iraqi village was sparked by confusion in the night when civilian guards fired at US ground forces thinking they were Al-Qaeda rebels, police and witnesses said yesterday. The US military, meanwhile, denied women and children were among the 25 killed in Friday's raid on Jayzani Al-Imam village, 30 miles (50 kilometres) north of Baghdad, as claimed by Iraqi officials and villagers.

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Villager Ahmed Abu Noor, who accompanied 15 of the more than 40 people wounded in the air strikes to a Baghdad hospital, told AFP civilian guards armed by the Iraqi police had during the night mistaken US troops for Al-Qaeda fighters, who had previously targetted the village.

Guards around the village engaged in a firefight with the troops," said Noor. Soon afterwards the village was bombed by US aircraft. "The air strike hit the guard points around the village as well as the village itself, destroying houses. Twenty-six people were killed, including two women, three students and six guards.

Abu Ahmed al-Khalisi, a villager who was in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Saturday to bury those killed, corroborated Noor's version of events. "The villagers were at their homes on a calm Ramadan night," Khalisi told AFP.
They were taken by surprise to see armed men besieging their village. The village in the past has been targetted by Saddamist and Takfiri (Sunni insurgent) groups.

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Gus: hard to know who's who in the bushit Iraqi mess... Tempers are provoked... People are killed... 

not the first president to do it...

Barack Obama: no flies on him

 

As if tackling the global financial markets and reviving hopes for peace in the Middle East were not enough, Barack Obama yesterday demonstrated a new skill – fly swatting.

In a video that has become an instant online hit, the US president breaks off from an interview with CNBC to deal with a persistent fly.

He waits for the offending insect to settle on his left hand, raises his right and then swats it to gasps of admiration from onlookers.

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