Sunday, April 13, 2003

(Eye-Witness) "US forces told people to commence looting"
During the morning everybody that tried to cross the streets had
been fired upon. But during this strange silence people eventually
became curious. After three-quarters of an hour the first Baghdad
citizens dared to come forward. At that moment the US solders shot
two Sudanese guards, who were posted in front of a local
administrative building, on the other side of the Haifa Avenue.

- I was just 300 meters away when the guards where murdered. Then
they shot the building entrance to pieces, and their Arabic
translators in the tanks told people to run for grabs inside the
building. Rumors spread rapidly and the house was cleaned out.
Moments later tanks broke down the doors to the Justice Department,
residing in the neighboring building, and looting was carried on to

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