"LIBERATION"
U.S. soldier kills rare tiger at Baghdad zoo

From the Houston Chronicle:

A U.S. soldier shot dead a rare Bengal tiger at Baghdad Zoo after the animal injured a colleague who was trying to feed it through the cage bars, the zoo's manager said today.

Adil Salman Mousa told Reuters a group of U.S. soldiers were having a party in the zoo Thursday night, after it had closed.

"Someone was trying to feed the tigers," he said. "The tiger bit his finger off and clawed his arm. So his colleague took a gun and shot the tiger."

The soldiers, casually dressed but in military vehicles, had been drinking beer when they entered the zoo Thursday night after it closed, said a zoo guard, Zuhair Abdul-Majeed.

"He was drunk," Abdul-Majeed said of the bitten soldier.

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Drunken soldiers killing rare tigers in their cages is really going to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people, let me tell you. Or not. Probably not. God, this is pathetic.

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