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UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says it is "increasingly probable" that last Wednesday's explosion which caused a large number of civilian deaths in a Baghdad shopping area was the result of Iraqi action, rather than a coalition missile.
 
Originally posted by Sleepy
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says it is "increasingly probable" that last Wednesday's explosion which caused a large number of civilian deaths in a Baghdad shopping area was the result of Iraqi action, rather than a coalition missile.
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I suspected that at the time, scumbag Iraquis are making it worse for themselves
 
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UK forces under missile attack

British forces say their positions in southern Iraq have come under missile fire.
There were no casualties, but it is the first time missiles have been aimed at coalition targets inside Iraq.

One Seersucker missile landed close to a Royal Marine encampment and another next to a PoW camp at Umm Qasr.

The news emerged as the Ministry of Defence reported a 26th British casualty of the conflict.

A bomb disposal expert was killed in southern Iraq on 31 March, said an MoD spokesman. The man's family have been informed.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2905553.stm
 
Guardian (Half way down page)
Meanwhile it has emerged - as a result of detective work on the internet by a Guardian reader - that the explosion in a Baghdad market which killed more than 60 people last Friday was indeed caused by a cruise missile and not an Iraqi anti-aircraft rocket as the US has suggested.

A metal fragment found at the scene by British journalist Robert Fisk carried various markings, including "MFR 96214 09". This, our reader pointed out in an email, is a manufacturer's identification number known as a "cage code". Cage codes can be looked up on the internet (here ), and keying in the number 96214 traces the fragment back to a plant in McKinney, Texas, owned by the Raytheon Company.

Raytheon, whose headquarters are in Lexington, Massachusetts, aspires "to be the most admired defence and aerospace systems supplier through world-class people and technology", according to its website . It makes a vast array of military equipment, including the AGM-129 cruise missile which is launched from B-52 bombers.
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The last bit is sloppy journalism whilst its true the AGM-129 is made by Raytheon and it is a cruise missile. It's not a tomahawk (BGM-109) its a nuclear armed weapon.

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The B52 carries the AGM86C/D Conventional Air Launced Missile and as the USAF has only got a few hundred they wont use it much in Iraq as there is a strategic reserve level they are not allowed to drop below.]
 
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IRAQIS 'SHOOTING CHILDREN

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Fanatical pro-Saddam Hussein fighters are shooting children in and around Basra, fleeing civilians told British forces. One mother told British medics her 12-year-old son was among dozens of youngsters gunned down by death squads.

The ship's interpreter, Lieutenant Commander Nigel Bassett, said: "His mother says he was definitely shot by Iraqis and there were another group of children in the same place who were all gunned down by Iraqis.

"It seems there was an area of the town where people were leaving or going to get food to assist the coalition and there was a group of tearaways who came in and started indiscriminately shooting, trying to teach people not to co-operate."
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Originally posted by Sleepy
UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says it is "increasingly probable" that last Wednesday's explosion which caused a large number of civilian deaths in a Baghdad shopping area was the result of Iraqi action, rather than a coalition missile.
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Well that's good enough for me then.. Jack Straw is a man of his word lol :rolleyes: ;)
 
fudging the figures......

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http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=1310&lang=en

The official coalition losses are, to put it mildly, “falling behind” the actual figures. The 57 dead acknowledged by the coalition command reflect losses as of the morning of March 26. This information was provided to a BBC correspondent by one of the top medical officials at a field hospital in Al Kuwait during a confidential conversation. “We have standing orders to acknowledge only those fatalities that have been delivered to the hospital, identified and prepared to be sent back home. The identification process and the required standard embalming takes some time – occasionally up to several days. But only the command knows how many casualties we sustained today and you will learn about it in about three days…” [Reverse-translated from Russian] This conversation was taped by the journalist and sent to the editor via a cellular phone network.
Based on the radio intercepts and internal information networks of the US field hospitals as of this morning the coalition losses include no less than 100 killed US servicemen and at least 35 dead British soldiers. Additionally, some 22 American and 11 British soldiers are officially considered to be missing in action and the whereabouts of another 400 servicemen are being established. The number of wounded has exceeded 480 people.
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re: fudging the figures

Any thing from the Russians is suspect. Also reporters generally report casualties within 24 hours, sometimes within hours.
 
Originally posted by dirtydog
Love the way that article says "This is the first fixed-wing aircraft to be lost during Operation Iraqi Freedom, although helicopters have been lost." - er what about the Tornado that the US shot down?
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Just notified them of their mistake
 
Originally posted by dirtydog
Love the way that article says "This is the first fixed-wing aircraft to be lost during Operation Iraqi Freedom, although helicopters have been lost." - er what about the Tornado that the US shot down?
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It's variable geometry not fixed wing.
 
Originally posted by dirtydog
Love the way that article says "This is the first fixed-wing aircraft to be lost during Operation Iraqi Freedom, although helicopters have been lost." - er what about the Tornado that the US shot down?
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To be pedantic, a Tornado isnt strictly fixed wing :)
 
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