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US Army Violently Arrests
26 Iraqi Middle Schoolers
How To Increase Hatred Of America
By Lisa Ashkenaz Croke
12-30-3
 
Twenty-six middle school students who threw stones at U.S. troops breaking up a neighborhood pro-Saddam rally Dec. 17 were arrested during a violent raid at their school the following day.
 
Tanks, assault vehicles, hummers and helicopters from the Army's First Armored Division descended on the Adnan Kheiralla Boy's School in the western Baghdad suburb of Amiriya and surrounded the block. Then, armed with machine guns, tear gas, and what one teacher present called, "electric sticks," soldiers and interpreters carrying pictures of the wanted students entered the school and locked the doors.
 
According to information gathered by American journalists on the scene, what happened inside was chaos. An English teacher told reporters from Electronic Iraq (EI) that the soldiers opened fire over students heads "to scare them." Students were tear gassed and beaten. One boy's arm was broken.
 
"Some of them were vomiting, some of them were crying and they were very afraid."
 
EI stated all teachers asked confirmed these accounts.
 
Correspondent Dahr Jamail, who arrived at Adnan Kheiralla after troops had entered, wrote that once released from the school, the students ran out crying and enraged.
 
"This is the democracy? This is the freedom? You see what the Americans are doing to us here?" they shouted.
 
As the tanks headed out, boys threw stones at them. Soldiers responded with random overhead gunfire, sending students, residents and the journalists scrambling for cover.
 
When EI reporter Jo Wilding returned to the school Dec. 18, she spoke with teachers and the students. Wilding noted:
 
"The pupils have painted over the sign at the school's entrance, renaming it Saddam's School. The depiction of Saddam on TV in American hands seems to have made him a heroic symbol even to many who disliked him.
 
"One of the boys told me, 'Only 40 kids out of all of us were on the first demonstration but after the raid, we will all go out on Saturday after school and demonstrate against the occupation. They have turned us all against the American soldiers. We don't care about their tanks; we don't care about their machine guns; we don't care about their prisons any more.'"
 
The arrested boys, estimated ages 14 to 18, were released. One student, persuaded by his teacher to talk to the reporters, said the army failed to notify parents of the arrests and that he and others were held in "chicken cages, about two metres by a metre and a half (approximately 6.5 ft x 5 ft) with criss cross wire" for seven to 10 hours.
 
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Comment
From Jlii
12-30-3
 
Be all you can be = Child Molesters. How brave they are, taking on a high school. Hey Kids, coming to a school near you real soon. And these brave men of the United States Army did this all by them selves no help from the Kurds. What gallantry, how proud their families must be, A whole High School captured without the use of one nuclear weapon. What military genius lead these Freedom Fries eaters to this great victory. Where can I send my bronze to honor this study of courage?
 
I am not surprised I live in a city were they police mace babies. Of course, America likes attacking people of color. When since say, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, has there been a year when the US was not attacking people of color. I'll make easier name a month.
 
It isn't why does the world hate the US; the question is why have they been so patient.
 
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