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Iraqi trial of British shooter postponed

Nov 15, 2009 1:24 PM | By Sapa-AP

The trial of a British security contractor accused of shooting two colleagues to death has been postponed, an Iraqi official said.


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Justice Ministry spokesman Abdul-Sattar Bayrkdar said the trial of Danny Fitzsimons, which had been expected to begin Sunday, has been delayed because the venue is being moved to another building.

The Justice Ministry's main complex in downtown Baghdad was destroyed in a bombing last month, and Barykdar said the ministry is now moving its offices temporarily into a court building in western Baghdad where the trial was to be held.

Barykdar said all cases scheduled for the courthouse "have been postponed until further notice." He could not say when Fitzsimons' trial would begin.

Fitzsimons is accused of shooting two colleagues, a Briton and an Australian, during a fight in Baghdad's Green Zone this summer and then wounding an Iraqi while fleeing. All three men were working for the British security firm ArmorGroup Iraq.

Fitzsimons would be the first Westerner to face an Iraqi trial since a U.S.-Iraqi security pact that took effect Jan. 1 lifted immunity for foreign contractors.

Iraqi authorities had pressed for the lifting of immunity after a September 2007 shooting in Baghdad involving another security firm, North Carolina-based Blackwater Worldwide, now known as Xe.

That shooting left as many as 17 Iraqi civilians dead. Fitzsimons' family and supporters have said that they are worried about whether he can receive a fair trial in Iraq and have called for him to be returned to Britain.

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Nov 15 2009 02:57:25 PM
Billy Hill
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Typical pommie loser, couldn't take the pace and cracked under pressure, turning on his own.

Now his lawyers are trying to get him moved to a psychiatric unit so he can claim insanity.
Nov 15 2009 03:05:26 PM
jones2000
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Billy boy <br/>
<br/>&lt;br/&gt;admit it all you want in life is to be white and have an EU (preff a UK) passport.
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<br/>&lt;br/&gt;Admitting you have a problem will go a long way of helping you my son.
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<br/>&lt;br/&gt;The AA have a good program to help you.
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<br/>&lt;br/&gt;Or as I have suggested several times before, that h ate will burn your brains out BB. &lt;br/&gt;
<br/>&lt;br/&gt;However that could be a good thing... you could become a productive member of the BMF ANCYL and the SACP.
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Nov 15 2009 03:34:12 PM
Billy Hill
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You find it hard to get it through your thick skull that a white can call another "white trailer park trash" or "white hyena sh1t" or whatever don't you bones.

Fact is there are many of us that see your type as being pink monkeys. You are under evolved throwbacks of the human race, as evidenced by the lack of confidence in their own ability, your insecurity as a result thereof, and your dependence on your skin color to be "somebody".

I'm finished with you now bones, you're on my boring racist ignore list, so say whatever you like about me but don't expect a response.

Whatever you have to say about anything is soiled by your prejudice anyway and everyone here knows that by now.

Nov 15 2009 03:59:08 PM
jones2000
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many of us?

U sound like that reefer smoking dimwit.

First a software developer, now an honarary white man... u never cease to amaze billy boy.

Billy boy u need a pshrink in the worst way ... then a BJ.

Nov 15 2009 04:05:18 PM
jones2000
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billy
<br/>
<br/>I know you were not loved by your mummy, so i will give you the attention you need.
<br/>
<br/>My first offerring to help you through the cold dark night...
<br/>
<br/>Take up the White Man's burden--
<br/>Send forth the best ye breed--
<br/>Go bind your sons to exile
<br/>To serve your captives' need;
<br/>To wait in heavy harness,
<br/>On fluttered folk and wild--
<br/>Your new-caught, sullen peoples,
<br/>Half-devil and half-child.
<br/>
<br/>Take up the White Man's burden--
<br/>In patience to abide,
<br/>To veil the threat of terror
<br/>And check the show of pride;
<br/>By open speech and simple,
<br/>An hundred times made plain
<br/>To seek another's profit,
<br/>And work another's gain.
<br/>
<br/>Take up the White Man's burden--
<br/>The s avage wars of peace--
<br/>Fill full the mouth of Famine
<br/>And bid the sickness cease;
<br/>And when your goal is nearest
<br/>The end for others sought,
<br/>Watch sloth and heathen Folly
<br/>Bring all your hopes to nought.
<br/>
<br/>Take up the White Man's burden--
<br/>No tawdry rule of kings,
<br/>But toil of serf and sweeper--
<br/>The tale of common things.
<br/>The ports ye shall not enter,
<br/>The roads ye shall not tread,
<br/>Go mark them with your living,
<br/>And mark them with your dead.
<br/>
<br/>Take up the White Man's burden--
<br/>And reap his old reward:
<br/>The blame of those ye better,
<br/>The h ate of those ye guard--
<br/>The cry of hosts ye humour
<br/>(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:--
<br/>&quot;Why brought he us from bondage,
<br/>Our loved Egyptian night?&quot;
<br/>
<br/>Take up the White Man's burden--
<br/>Ye dare not stoop to less--
<br/>Nor call too loud on Freedom
<br/>To cloke your weariness;
<br/>By all ye cry or whisper,
<br/>By all ye leave or do,
<br/>The silent, sullen peoples
<br/>Shall weigh your gods and you.
<br/>
<br/>Take up the White Man's burden--
<br/>Have done with childish days--
<br/>The lightly proferred laurel,
<br/>The easy, ungrudged praise.
<br/>Comes now, to search your manhood
<br/>Through all the thankless years
<br/>Cold, edged with dear-bought wisdom,
<br/>The judgment of your peers!
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