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Sounds not all that different from this other incident:

British troops used tanks last night to break down the walls of a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Basra and free two undercover British soldiers who were seized earlier in the day by local police.

An official from the Iraqi interior ministry said half a dozen tanks had broken down the walls of the jail and troops had then stormed it to free the two British soldiers. The governor of Basra last night condemned the "barbaric aggression" of British forces in storming the jail.

British tanks storm Basra jail to free undercover soldiers
Richard Norton-Taylor and Ewen MacAskill
Tuesday September 20, 2005
The Guardian

Was this latest episode still part of "Operation Iraqi Freedom," or have they changed the name?

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Good grief!! I can't think of anything else to say. That's so appalling!

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Juan Cole calls out the U.S. military . . .

There is no more blame for the troops on this than there is blame for the cops on the beat for getting an address wrong.  The correct question is who ordered the raid and why?  

Reads like shit-for-brains-intel.  Again.

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And once again, where is the U.S. media?

Eason Jordan was forced out of CNN for daring to suggest that the U.S. military was targeting journalists in Iraq, and Linda Foley, President of the Newspaper Guild was similarly pilaried by the mainstream for airing similar feelings.

Yet the U.S. mainstream media continues to ignore incidents like this where their fellow journalists are harrassed, jailed, and even murdered. What hypocricy! They piss and moan when Judy Miller goes to jail rather than rat on her criminal bbenefactors in the White House, but when armed U.S. soldiers attack journalists it doesn't even appear on their radar screens.

Not a single organ of the U.S. mainstream media except Editor & Publisher has reported this incident.

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From the wikipedia

Amok, sometimes spelled "amuck" and often used as "running amok," is a Malay word which in that language means to be out of control.

It is often used in English to refer to the behaviour of someone who, in the grip of strong emotion, obtains a weapon and begins attacking people indiscriminately, often with multiple fatalities.

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 W. W. Skeat writes in the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica: "A Malay will suddenly and apparently without reason rush into the street armed with a kris or other weapons, and slash and cut at everybody he meets till he is killed. These frenzies were formerly regarded as due to sudden insanity. It is now, however, certain that the typical amok is the result of circumstances, such as domestic jealousy or gambling losses, which render a Malay desperate and weary of his life. It is, in fact, the Malay equivalent of suicide.

Kind of like suicide by cop, or "going postal" in our society.

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