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From Errand to Fatal Shot to Hail of Fire to 17 Deaths
By JAMES GLANZ and ALISSA J. RUBIN
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/world/middleeast/03firefight.html?_r=2&bl&ex=1191556800&en=2794af83a6d6c99c&ei=5087&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
BAGHDAD, Oct. 2 — It started out as a family errand: Ahmed Haithem Ahmed was driving his mother, Mohassin, to pick up his father from the hospital where he worked as a pathologist. As they approached Nisour Square at midday on Sept. 16, they did not know that a bomb had gone off nearby or that a convoy of four armored vehicles carrying Blackwater guards armed with automatic rifles was approaching.
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October 4th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
That’s a heartbreaking article when you think that this didn’t have to be. It makes me very angry when I think of the strutting pro-war crowds flying their flags and showing off their FUQ IRACK shirts in the spring of 2002.
October 5th, 2007 at 10:38 am
How ’bout we send all the pro-war people to fight the war?