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Originally posted by pritchke:
It is funny how the article is simply dismissed as being false by almost everyone here just because it is from an Arab newspaper. I am not dismissing it as false, or truth but I expect to some extent the killings listed in the article are true. Possibly taken from scattered areas and instances. They are probably a small percentage compared to the amount of traffic that goes through the checkpoints. Nevertheless very real.
As for some US soldiers being scared, and fidgety on the trigger, it is quite a possibility. We all do not face death the same way.
As for having a translator at checkpoints I think it is a very good idea. Are there translators at coalition check points? Often in different cultures hand signals can mean something different.
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Well I actually did read it all before deciding that the volume of potential BS in the article overwhelmed the volume of potential data. I can understand that arab media behave very much like Fox... bias for the "home team" is virtually expected, but that article went quite a bit over the top IMO. Al Jazeera seems to be the only Arab source I've read/seen that can provide real information, with only a medium smattering of bias.