Bad Cops! No Donuts!
New shootings by Marines in Mosul today. Apparently some ad-hoc Iraqi police tried to stop looters by firing shots but, probably spooked, the Marines fired on the police, or maybe the anti-US protestors outside the administration offices. Apparently Mosul is split between Kurdish and Arab militia vying for control…
Amal Mahmoud, a 40-year-old taxi driver, said he saw U.S. troops shoot at people. “There were people inside the central bank, which is next door to the governor’s office. They had been looting money for several days. Police were standing outside the bank and fired shots in the air to disperse the looters. The Americans started firing at the people in front of the governor’s office,” rather than at the looters.
Earlier here.