31 Iraqis killed while celebrating (Darwin Alert!)

[budanski]

31 Iraqis killed while celebrating
news.com (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,6815178%255E1702,00.html)

THIRTY-ONE Iraqis were killed in the capital by stray bullets from celebratory gunfire marking the deaths of Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, a Baghdad newspaper reported today.

Seventy-six people were also wounded, 40 of them seriously, Al-Moatamar, mouthpiece of Ahmed Chalabi's Pentagon-backed Iraqi National Congress, reported citing hospital figures.

The victims included two children, the paper added.

The US government announced the deaths of Uday and his younger brother Qusay on Tuesday after a blistering gunbattle in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.

The US-led administration outlawed celebratory gunfire as part of new weapons controls introduced in early June, but acknowledged that the practice would be difficult to stamp out.

Those wacky Islamists... they're gonna party like it's 1399.

[Pakrat]

oh man...lol...good stuff!!

[Vance]

Of course, they are going to say it's all our fault.... :cantbeli:

[Herrmannek]

How they did it? Did they shot mortar rounds straight into sky?

1st Darwin Award of 2003 in category.... Pararell Suicides ....goes to ...inventive Iraqis.... Their score is 31+76(maybe not a word record but who said they can't start next year) ;)

[Chet Mystery]

If you shoot strait into the air, the ingenious law of gravity dictates that those bullets must rturn to the Earth, many times at high speeds.

Multiply that with over a hundred guns all shooting into the air at once...

...Look Abdul, its starting to rain...oh wait.......

[irishmike21]

lmao wow they couldnt have been more stupid

[RealUltimatePower]

HAHAHAHA LMFAO rofl rofl rofl

Did ya hear the one about how they were celebrating when the US troops got power back to parts of Baghdad. Stray rounds blue up a petrol truck or some kinda tanker and the explosion knocked out power to many city blocks. Then they blamed the Americans!

If Iraq was a person he'd have to ride the short bus, lol.

[martinexsquaddie]

its called Happy fire Knew someone who was in kuwait city when it was liberated you had Teenagers Fireing quad 12.5mm in the air to celebrate and rpgs as well he reckoned it was far scarer than fighting against the iraqs at least you knew which direction the enemy fire was coming from :P

[Scrim]

Aaah you beat me to it Martin, was going to say exact same thing. My buddy said driving through Kuwait after the liberation was scariest part of the war.