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Not content with shooting policemen and civilians in Iraq, drunken GIs wandered into the Baghdad zoo and killed an endangered species.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. soldier shot and killed a tiger at the Baghdad zoo after it bit another soldier who had reached through the bars of its cage to feed it, a zoo security guard said Saturday.
The soldiers had been drinking beer when they entered the zoo Thursday night after it closed, said the guard, Zuhair Abdul-Majeed.
“He was drunk,” Abdul-Majeed said of the bitten soldier.
After the man was bit, the other American shot the tiger three times in the head and killed it, Abdul-Majeed told The Associated Press.
A completely unrelated note: I’m really amazed at the lack of flowers being thrown at the feet of our soldiers. With what Cheney and Rumsfeld said, I though that the flood of flower petals would be a major problem for our occupying liberating troops.
Why would people in a dangerous situation choose (or be allowed) to consume substances known to slow reaction time and impair senses? That soldier’s lucky his only enemy that night was a tiger…
Comment by Chloe 09.21.03 @ 11:50 pm