![]() Another broke down in tears as he loaded one of the corpses onto a vehicle. ![]() “How can I grieve for so many people?” 1įilkins tells us that among the marines at the scene, reactions to the killings were mixed. ![]() “My whole family is dead,” muttered Aleya, one of the survivors, careening between hysteria and grief. A two-year-old boy, Ali, had been shot in the face. Among them were Omar’s father, mother, brother and sister. In all, six members of Omar’s family were dead, covered by blankets on the roadside. “Everybody knows the word ‘stop.’ It’s universal.” “We yelled at them to stop,” Corporal Eric Jewell told me. In the confusion, the truth was elusive, but it seemed possible that Omar’s family had not understood. They claimed they had stopped in time, just as the marines had asked them to. Omar’s family, ten in all, were driving together to get out of the fighting in Baghdad. They fired four warning shots, tracer rounds, just to make sure there was no misunderstanding. The minibus, they said, kept coming anyway. They were under orders to stop every car. It had been dark, there were suicide bombers about and that same night the marines had found a cache of weapons stowed on a truck. “What could we have done?” one of the marines muttered. Omar, a fifteen-year-old boy, sat on the roadside weeping, drenched in the blood of his father, who had been shot dead by American marines when he ran a roadblock.” In Diyala, east of Baghdad, in the early days of the war, I came upon a group of American marines standing next to a shot-up bus and a line of six Iraqi corpses. That meant that for many Iraqis, the typical nineteen-year-old army corporal from South Dakota was not a youthful innocent carrying America’s goodwill he was a terrifying combination of firepower and ignorance. A remarkable number of them didn’t even have translators. Very few of the Americans in Iraq, whether soldiers or diplomats or newspaper reporters, could speak more than a few words of Arabic. “The most basic barrier was language itself. This one appears in Dexter Filkins’ The Forever War: Also give out consistant penalties as well, and have precedent examples.Content warning: Descriptions of graphic violenceįirst, a story from the years of the American occupation of Iraq, one of thousands that could be recounted. So one "Steward team" can investigate one incedent and the other can investigate the other. With the cheif steward dishing out the penalties, and 2 ex drivers having a non driver as their side to analise the incedents. (I have a list of proposals id like to put to FOTA and the FIA that would make the soprt more open)ģ] Stewarding needs to become more standardised with a pool of Ex Driver Stewards, id recon that 8 is about right, and a pool of 12 non driving stewards with one or two "Cheif Stewards" that go to each race. Lack of transperancy is my biggest crime at present, followed by not listening to the fans enough, then id recon would be stwearding and consistant punishment of drivers.ġ] Transparency needs to be delt with by letting everyone know what engine and gearbox is in what car for what session, as well as for one team, putting their chassis numbers on their press releases.Ģ] Listening to the fans, letting them have their say for the sporting regs and some technichal regs as well, after all the customer always knows best.
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