U.S. Troops Shoot, Wound Woman In Baghdad

Military Says Woman, Identified As TV Producer With Hearing Problem, Failed To Stop Near Checkpoint

(CBS/AP)  American soldiers shot and wounded a woman - identified by an Iraqi television station as one of its producers - after she failed to heed warnings to stop near a Baghdad checkpoint recently targeted by suicide and car bombs, Iraqi and U.S. military officials said Saturday.

The U.S. military said in a statement that the woman was "acting erratic" and didn't respond to warnings from Iraqi and American troops near the checkpoint in the central neighborhood of Jadiriyah on Thursday.

"Concerned by the danger she might present to the security forces and civilians, given her repeated failure to respond to warnings, soldiers fired two rounds, wounding the woman," the U.S. military said. It did not provide further details of her behavior.

The Biladi TV station, which is owned by former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, identified the woman as 25-year-old producer Hadeel Emad.

Station spokesman Muhsin Kadhum told The Associated Press that Emad had just left the station and was crossing the street to get a taxi when she was shot.

"She has hearing problems, and she didn't hear the warnings," Kadhum said. "She was wearing a long coat and carried nothing in her hands."

Emad was in critical condition in a Baghdad hospital, Kadhum said.

A medical official at al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad confirmed Emad was brought in for treatment and was listed in critical condition. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information.

An Iraqi police officer told the AP that Emad was walking with her husband and ignored warnings from U.S. troops to stop. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information.

The U.S. military did not identify the woman, but said she was taken to an area hospital.

A U.S. military spokesman, Col. Bill Buckner, said the incident was under investigation and referred all further inquiries to Iraq's Interior Ministry.

Violence has fallen sharply in Iraq over the past year, but an array of attacks Saturday underlined the tensions that persist.

Two people were killed and 10 wounded by a roadside bomb that targeted a Shiite religious march near Zafraniyah, about 12 miles south of Baghdad, police and hospital officials said on condition of anonymity.

In the northern city of Mosul, one policeman was killed when gunmen attacked a patrol, police said.

An Iraqi official said two people were killed and another was wounded when a bomb they were concealing in their car exploded near the town of Sinjar, 75 miles 120 kilometers west of Mosul.

Abdul Rahim al-Shimmery, the mayor of Sinjar, said the two men killed in the explosion were brothers.

In Kirkuk, gunmen assassinated a member of the Kurdistan Communist Party, said police Col. Yazgar Shuker.


Al-Maliki Meets With Ahmadinejad

Iaqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held a series of meetings after he arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday, heading a high ranking delegation of top Iraqi ministers for talks on bilateral ties with Iranian senior officials.

Al-Maliki met First Iranian Vice President Parviz Davoudi and went on to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the presidential palace.

The newly implemented security deal between the United States and Baghdad was expected to top al-Maliki's agenda.

Initially, Iran bitterly opposed the Iraq-U.S. deal, which went into effect on Thursday, fearing it would pave the way to a long-term U.S. presence on its Western border. The agreement allows U.S. troops to stay in Iraq until the end of 2011.

But Tehran has softened its position on the pact in recent weeks.

The visit is al-Maliki's fourth to Iran since he was elected prime minister.

[hermitdave]

I see the dumbest humans on the face of the earth are still treating the illegal invasion of Iraq as something legit.

[tincup356]

no matter what kind of garbage our government will feed us.....the war on terrorism holds much blame as to the economy of the world,,,,,people would be naive to think that the billions wasted there did not hurt the economy....and still are. the only ones that don''t seem to need a bailout are the defense contractors.....looks like them and the big oil companies ended up with everything.

[georgew1956]

she failed to stop at the check point , sounds like
she''s after Katie Couric''s job. but Katie wouldn''t be in harms way. so she done something dumb.

[lmartink]

One more nail in the coffin of the Republi-neo-con idiots. Don''t ever forget that these same jerks thought we should fight a whole series of wars in the name of God, good, and peace.

Unfortunately, the idiots and jerks are still out there. And the rest of you need to keep shoving it down their throats until they either choke, shut the f.u., or go away.

[promaclaura]

-An Iraqi police officer told the AP that Emad was walking with her husband and ignored warnings from U.S. troops to stop. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information.-

Was her husband hard of hearing as well? Why they heck didn''t he give her a heads up that she was being yelled at to stop, especially at a checkpoint that has seen alot of suicide bombers.

[promaclaura]

why didn''''t somebody who cared accompany her...guess nobody did, did they?
Posted by TexHillGirl

It looks like her husband failed her miserably.

[marshall65]

Interesting, shoot a woman, then the troops left the area, according to reports. Apparently not interested in confirming that she was/was not a risk. They just knew they put her down. After about 40 of these cases, we''ll have another 10 billion in legal costs defending troops who now have to answer to the Iraqi authorities. Remember now, Bush negotiated and signed off on the Status of Forces Agreement-the right wingnutjobs can''t pin it on Obama when the deal puts us in the barrel.

[ramos937]

According to the new SOFA, the Iraq government can now go and arrest the American soldier(s) that fired. Anybody ever hear the term, "Star Chamber".

[G H M]

Its time for our troops to get out of there!
Bush is an idiot.!!

[rudy6543]

Station spokesman Muhsin Kadhum told The Associated Press that Emad had just left the station and was crossing the street to get a taxi when she was shot.
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So she leaves the station, like always, crosses the steet to get a taxi, like always, and then gets shot because now her daily activity was suddenly a threat to someone.

[lordsuntzu]

s a LIAR, and probably never saw the outside of a firebase in Vietnam, if he was ever there at all.

pythoncharly six, out:

Posted by pythoncharly at 07:09 PM : Jan 03, 2009
+ report abuse

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you full of ***

[lopezf11]

ms1-1-1,

Is a LIAR, and probably never saw the outside of a firebase in Vietnam, if he was ever there at all.

pythoncharly six, out:

Posted by pythoncharly

What''s a firebase?

[barbaraf4]

THOU SHALL NOT KILL, PERIOD. Posted by drmaqazi
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First, this article is about a woman who was wounded, NOT killed.

Second, the actual commandment, according to the Bible is, "thou shall not MURDER."

There is a difference.

[runningralph]

I remind people that the jihadists started this war decades ago. Whatever unfortunate things happened afterwards can be traced directly back to Islam which authorized this war in the first place.

[barbaraf4]

"Who will be the last to die for a lie?" Posted by earache4
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Supposedly, Jesus already did.

[runningralph]

earache4, Jihad is not about WMDs. It''s about killing infidels. Jihad has been going on since Islam started in the 6th century. The difference now is that since Westerners went to the Middle East and developed their oil fields for them the jihadists have become rich and able to carry out jihad in distant places. Our choice now is to fight or surrender. There may be a better place than Iraq to fight. There are certainly are worse places to fight.

[excoachken]

Victims at both ends of the gun barrel. Innocents killed in Iraq and a soldier who will never overcome his conscience for what a man with no conscience (Bush) forced him to do.

[barbaraf4]

"An Iraqi police officer told the AP that Emad was walking with her husband and ignored warnings from U.S. troops to stop."
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"She has hearing problems, and she didn''t hear the warnings,"
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The "walking with her husband" negates the "hearing problems", since it would have been his responsibility to stop her. Did her husband get shot or was he holding her as a shield so he wouldn''t get shot? Did they search him to see what he was carrying as he was using his wife as a diversion?

[pirmin3]

Trigger happy troops gun down civilians as often as Bushit picks his a$$.

[toncul-2009]

Hamas Kills 9 Israeli Troops, Captures 2 in Gaza Op.
Hanan Awarekeh
http://www.almanar.com.lb/news
site/NewsD
etails.aspx?id=69127&languag
e=en


04/01/2009

And as it has vowed, the Palestinian resistance was waiting for the occupation soldiers to foil their aggression, killing nine of them and wounding dozens others, according to Ezz-eddine Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas%u2019s military wing. Hamas resistance fighters also said they have destroyed an Israeli Merkava with a B-29bomb.

Hamas announced it had captured two Israeli soldiers, an event which, for Israel, would highlight the political risk domestically of sending its troops into Gaza.

[ofbyfor3]

First, this article is about a woman who was wounded, NOT killed.

Second, the actual commandment, according to the Bible is, "thou shall not MURDER."

There is a difference.

Posted by barbaraf4 at 07:48 AM : Jan 04, 2009

Sorry, but MY Bible says ''Thou shalt not KILL''. Don''t know where you got your translation from.

[barbaraf4]

"Sorry, but MY Bible says ''''Thou shalt not KILL''''. Don''t know where you got your translation from."
Posted by ofbyfor3
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http://www.christianhomesite.com/cherryvale/text/10command6.html

[rudy6543]

Sorry, but MY Bible says ''''Thou shalt not KILL''''. Don''''t know where you got your translation from.


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Posted by ofbyfor3 at 10:57 AM

That''s how it is with evangelicals. Take all things out of context, distort the original language and voila! you have instant justification for every damm thing you want to do.

Especially like how they quote just a few words out of context from their Jesus: ''Don''t think I came to bring peace, but a sword.''

[ofbyfor3]

That''''s how it is with evangelicals. Take all things out of context, distort the original language and voila! you have instant justification for every damm thing you want to do.

Especially like how they quote just a few words out of context from their Jesus: ''''Don''''t think I came to bring peace, but a sword.''''

Posted by rudy6543 at 11:30 AM : Jan 04, 2009

Agreed. Happy New Year, rudy!

[ofbyfor3]

"Sorry, but MY Bible says ''''''''Thou shalt not KILL''''''''. Don''''t know where you got your translation from."
Posted by ofbyfor3
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http://
www.christianhomesite.com/cherryvale/tex
t/10command6.html

Posted by barbaraf4 at 11:14 AM : Jan 04, 2009

Is that an accurate translation from the original Hebrew or a modified translation meant to justify what someone WANTS it to mean? There is a difference. EVERY translation I''ve ever seen says ''Thou shalt not KILL''.

[ramos937]

I am now waiting to see if any of our guys are arrested under the new SOFA. If they are, what will our side do? What effect will such an action take on our guys?

[babooph]

The Bushes kill all Iraqis at a rate Saddam would envy ,why is one wounded news?

[rudy6543]

Give me a break, her husband was not hearing impaired and he could have prevented it. As a journalist, they should have known what would happened if they don''''t comply with the troops order. Because the threats of homocidal bomber, no choice but to pull the trigger.
If they used their brain and not blinded by hatred, all of the weaked minded Bush bashers could have figured it out. Do they know that terrorists have used women, childrens, mentally challenge, widow, etc. to committ these type of crime?


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Posted by USA-No1 at 11:34 AM

She was crossing the street to get a bloody taxi. How dangerous could she have been? If there was some kind of road block or something, shouldn''t it be bloody obvious?

[rudy6543]

Commander behind the soldier: Shoot her, shoot her, shoot her!!!!

Doesn''t she know she shouldn''t cross the street?

[unlresources]

Nothing more than a test to see how the American soldiers would react. Straight out of the Terrorism for Dummies manual bought at Amazon.com, test out the American defenses by acting like you didn''t hear halt to see how much you can get away with. Heck, nowadays aren''t many of suicide bombers now female?

[excoachken]

Victims at both ends of the rifle-Thanks again, Cowardly Cowboy, what a legacy!

[lordsuntzu]

its amazing and funny, the same people who were so concerned about the welfare of our American troops are NOW calling them "killers"..

tells you where they stand..

[nikosk11]

Iaqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki held a series of meetings after he arrived in the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday, heading a high ranking delegation of top Iraqi ministers for talks on bilateral ties with Iranian senior officials.

What happened George? Your buddy in Baghdad doesn''t love you anymore?

[toolmangler-2009]

Posted by USA-No1 at 11:34 AM : Jan 04, 2009



I am sorry she was shot, but I agree with USA-No1 ''Her husband can hear and was instrumental in her injury''.