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To: NightOwl who wrote (125344)	2/29/2004 4:14:30 PM
From: FaultLine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

At least Poland must be using "smart" bullets if after all that shooting there were only 8 injuries. Polish bullets...?

To: NightOwl who wrote (125344)	3/1/2004 12:58:04 AM
From: Jacob Snyder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No, there were 10 injuries. The Polish soldiers at the checkpoint shot: 8 Shiite pilgrims, accidentally 1 Iraqi policeman, accidentally 1 Polish soldier, accidentally 0 terrorists By contrast, when Americans start shooting at checkpoints, they seem to (usually) be able to kill somebody: Further south, hundreds of Iraqis rallied against coalition troops Sunday after U.S. soldiers fired on a car that failed to stop when a military convoy passed by. One Iraqi was killed and another critically wounded. The shooting took place near Rumaythah, 135 miles south of Baghdad near the city of Samawah,... A crowd gathered around the site of the shooting, where the car sat with its windows broken, chanting "Down with America! Down with Bush!" U.S. soldiers and Dutch marines trying to clear the roadway were pelted with rocks and taunted. "If these massacres don't stop, we shall fight the Americans!" one unidentified protester yelled. "Why do we have to be nice, to cooperate with them? Why do they do this to us?" An Associated Press Television News reporter said the crowd's anger was focused on the American soldiers and that Dutch marines ultimately calmed the crowd. story.news.yahoo.com