Not Your Sweetie

Turks shower U.S. soldiers with eggs, stones


SILOPI, Turkey, March 29 (Reuters) - Turkish villagers showered U.S. soldiers with
eggs and stones on Saturday when they arrived to recover pieces of a Tomahawk
cruise missile which came down in eastern Turkey on Friday.

Scores of people in Urfa province set upon four jeeps carrying some 10 American
soldiers, breaking windows and shouting slogans against the U.S.-led war in
neighbouring Iraq, Anatolian news agency reported.

Turkish gendarmes later intervened to break up the demonstration. There were no
initial reports of injuries.

Sukru Kocatepe, governor of Urfa province, told Reuters on Friday a Tomahawk
cruise missile, launched from U.S. navy ships in the Mediterranean, had fallen in the
sparsely populated area gouging a deep hole but without exploding.