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| Contributor | Gerald Farinas |
| Last Edited | Gerald Farinas Mar 31, 2004 02:28pm |
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| Media | News Service - Associated Press |
| News Date | Wednesday, March 31, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Iraqis Drag US Corpses Through Streets
The Rocky Mountain News
Jubilant residents dragged the charred corpses of four American contractors through the streets Wednesday and hanged them from the bridge spanning the Euphrates River. Five American soldiers died in a roadside bombing nearby. The four contract workers were killed in a rebel ambush of their SUVs in Fallujah, a Sunni Triangle city about 35 miles west of Baghdad and scene of some of the worst violence on both sides of the conflict since the beginning of the American occupation a year ago. It was reminiscent of the 1993 scene in Somalia, when a mob dragged the corpse of a U.S. soldier through the streets of Mogadishu, eventually leading to the American withdrawal from the African nation.
Chanting "Fallujah is the graveyard of Americans," residents cheered after the grisly assault on two four-wheel-drive civilian vehicles, which left both in flames. Others chanted, "We sacrifice our blood and souls for Islam." Associated Press Television News pictures showed one man beating a charred corpse with a metal pole. Others tied a yellow rope to a body, hooked it to a car and dragged it down the main street of town. Two blackened and mangled corpses were hung from a green iron bridge across the Euphrates. Some of the corpses were dismembered. APTN showed the charred remains of three slain men. One resident displayed what appeared to be dog tags taken from one body. APTN showed one American passport near a body and a U.S. Department of Defense identification card belonging to another man. |
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