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US soldier kills rare tiger
20/09/2003 18:26 - (SA)


Bagdad - An American soldier shot and killed a rare Bengal tiger in Baghdad zoo during an apparently drunken party, the head of the zoo said on Saturday.

"The soldiers arrived in the evening with food and beer, accompanied by a group of Iraqi police officers," Adel Salman Musa said of the incident on Thursday night.

"One of the soldiers, who the Iraqi police said had drunk a lot, went into the cage against the advice of his colleagues and tried to feed the animal, who severely hurt his arm," he explained to AFP.

The tiger tore off one of the soldier's fingers and mauled his arm. One of the other soldiers immediately fired at the animal and killed it, he said.

"The soldiers don't have the right to behave like that. That was the most precious and valuable animal in the whole zoo. It was 14 years old and had been born here," Salman Musa said.

The Bengal tiger is an endangered species which is protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

There are only 3 000-4 500 of these creatures left in the wild.

Salman Musa said US soldiers often held parties in the zoo in the evenings. "We have no way of stopping them," he said.

US Sergeant Mark Ingham confirmed to AFP that an American soldier had killed the tiger on Thursday and said the incident was being investigated.

Baghdad zoo reopened to the public in July.

It houses 44 animals other than the prized tiger, most of which came from the palaces of deposed leader Saddam Hussein and his late son Uday, who was a lover of big cats.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/...1419194,00.html

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Dumbfucks. Shit like this will do wonders to enhance our reputation.

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Join the army! Go to forgein countries, kill endangered animals, make friends world wide and party like its 1999!

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Well, damn!

I hope they at least proceeded to bbq the tiger and eat it. Shouldn't be a total waste.

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I don't see what the big deal is. Regardless of whether or not the dumbass went into it's cage, the tiger had to be killed. It attacked a human. It's a pretty standard practice to do when large predators attack people. Now, with that said, the idiot who entered the cage deserved his finger tore off. What the fuck did he think the tiger was, grandma's tabby? Christ.

The score is even on both sides.

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Yeah, I guess. But it sure looks good to the Islamic world that we let our soldiers wander around Baghdad holding drunken parties. They'll be sure to welcome us wholeheartedly in the next middle eastern country we invade.

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They'll be sure to welcome us wholeheartedly in the next middle eastern country we invade.

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Iraqi Zoo Animal Toll Continues to Climb, By Scott Ott

Congressional critics of the Bush administration today attacked the president for "the tragic quagmire" at the Baghdad zoo.

The death toll for Iraqi zoo animals continued to climb yesterday, as a U.S. soldier allegedly killed a Bengal Tiger that was injuring another soldier.

In April, American soldiers shot and killed four lions which had escaped from the same zoo. Hundreds of other animals have been killed or released by looters.

"This zoo war was made up in Texas," said Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA. "The carnivorous cats posed no imminent threat. The whole thing is a fraud."

Mr. Kennedy's Democrat colleagues slammed Mr. Bush for lacking "a zoo exit strategy and timeline."

Meanwhile, French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin (who is a man) called for the zoo to be immediately turned over to a provisional authority consisting of "the more sentient mammals; chimps, orangutans, and whales."

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I don't see what the big deal is. Regardless of whether or not the dumbass went into it's cage, the tiger had to be killed. It attacked a human. It's a pretty standard practice to do when large predators attack people. Now, with that said, the idiot who entered the cage deserved his finger tore off. What the fuck did he think the tiger was, grandma's tabby? Christ.

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Inky, the tiger bit his finger off. If that is not an attack, than what is? A defensive attack is no different than an offensive one. Either way, Private Dumbass is missing a digit because he got bit by a tiger. Thus, the tiger got his head blown off. Shit rolls downhill and the tiger is at the bottom of that hill as far as a drunk pissed off troop with a wounded buddy is concerned.

Do you seriously believe that the life of a tiger is equal to a human? The guy may be a complete tard but he is still higher on the totem pole than some damned cat.

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Inky, the tiger bit his finger off. If that is not an attack, than what is? A defensive attack is no different than an offensive one. Either way, Private Dumbass is missing a digit because he got bit by a tiger. Thus, the tiger got his head blown off. Shit rolls downhill and the tiger is at the bottom of that hill as far as a drunk pissed off troop with a wounded buddy is concerned.

Do you seriously believe that the life of a tiger is equal to a human? The guy may be a complete tard but he is still higher on the totem pole than some damned cat.

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hahhah if you re stupid enough to get in a wild animals personal space barriers then you deserve everything you get.

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hahhah if you re stupid enough to get in a wild animals personal space barriers then you deserve everything you get.

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Do you seriously believe that the life of a tiger is equal to a human?

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Well you wrote above in the original article that the soilder was trying to feed it, undoubtibly holding it with his hand....what did he think was going to happen? To the tiger, that is like food holding food. I think he deserves whatever happened to him.

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Do you seriously believe that the life of a tiger is equal to a human? The guy may be a complete tard but he is still higher on the totem pole than some damned cat.

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Never met tiger before (thank god) but I see many lions, they need to be looked after but perhaps Americans thought it was Saddam in tiger suit?

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I really think they oughta keep the soldiers outta the municipal parks and attractions when they're drinkin and carryin on. Dunno if that's possible, however.

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To those of you that think the life of a tiger is equal too or greater than a human answer me this. If you had to choose which would have to die, you or a tiger, which would you choose? I think the answer is obvious. The cat would end up a pile of bbq and a nice rug.

The idiot should not have been in the cage or fucking with the tiger to begin with but to hell with a damned cat. Cats are not innocent little critters. I've regularly seen cats toy with and torture their prey for hours on end. They can be vicious and vindictive as hell and lots of animals kill for sport with no intention of eating the prey. The idea that mother nature is innocent and does not know hate, wars, and such is pure fantasy. The idiot did get what he deserved when the tiger tore his finger off but so did the cat for attacking a human. Food chain be damned, if I see a friend attacked or if I'm attacked, the attacker is going to die. Humans rule the world and we decided long ago that the food chain has us sitting on the top. The fact that we have to use weapons to be there doesn't matter. We rule and the animals can go suck a dick.

I'd like to know how the hell he got in the cage to begin with. Did the cops they showed up with have the keys? Somehow I doubt the door was unlocked. I think that part of the tale should be told.

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Never met tiger before (thank god) but I see many lions, they need to be looked after but perhaps Americans thought it was Saddam in tiger suit?

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