The U.S. military is not a police force, say military officials
Published:
11 April 2003 y., Friday
Some residents grab for guns in order to stop rampant looting in Iraq's capital. U.S. soldiers continue to fight pockets of resistance in Baghdad as everyone asks: Where is Saddam?
Baghdad remained a dangerous no man's land as looters, some of them armed, claimed the streets as shop owners plead for help from passive U.S. marines.
Tennis rackets, refigerators, office supplies, furniture, nothing was saved from the hands of Baghdad looters. There were reports of gunfire as local residents and business owners defended their wares, brandishing AK-47s.
Marines in the eastern part of the city set up a curfew from dusk until dawn on Friday, but officials in said it wasn't the armed forces' job to police the capital.
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