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11/24/2003 Archived Entry: "Iraqi Teens Drag Bloodied U.S. Soldiers"

I WOULD HAVE SERIOUSLY MESSED UP MOSUL FOR THIS: In a sort of replay of Somalia, Iraqi teens in Mosul dragged two bloody American soldiers from their vehicle and attacked them with concrete blocks.

Witnesses to the Mosul attack said gunmen shot two soldiers driving through the city center, sending their vehicle crashing into a wall. The 101st Airborne Division said the soldiers were driving to another garrison.

About a dozen swarming teenagers dragged the soldiers out of the wreckage and beat them with concrete blocks, the witnesses said.

"They lifted a block and hit them with it on the face," said Younis Mahmoud, 19.

It was unknown whether the soldiers were alive or dead when pulled from the wreckage.

I don't want to sound bloodthirsty but I would have used this as an opportunity to teach Mosul the story about what Rome did to Carthage at the end of the Third Punic War.

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