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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (96862)	4/29/2003 11:06:52 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

To the US troops it was self-defence. To the Iraqis it was murder It could well have been a bit of both. It's very likely that somebody was sniping at the Americans, and very likely that none of the 14 dead and 70 wounded were among the snipers. The lack of bullet holes in the building occupied by the Americans is disturbing, and firing into a civilian crowd is not acceptable even if you are being fired at. This is a problem we are likely to see again. The US troops are simply not trained for this kind of confrontation: they are soldiers, not riot policemen. We have to get some kind of Iraqi police force with the will and training to handle civilian crowds together, but I've no idea how this can be done. The propaganda impact of events like these is enormous, and they will be enormously distorted by the grapevine. This is something Americans, largely, do not understand. Countries where the media has been controlled for many years inevitably develop a "bush telegraph" that is more widely accepted than any official report. Even after the media is freed, the reflexive tendency of the people is to believe the grapevine, not the official version.