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Teen, 14, turns in guerrilla father
Springfield News-Leader ^
| 12/21/03
| Sudarsan Raghavan
Posted on 12/21/2003 10:36:46 PM PST by Holly_P
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:30:52 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: army; goodnews; intelligence; iraq; tips
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posted on
12/21/2003 10:36:46 PM PST
by
Holly_P
To: Holly_P
I was thinking it was probably tough for the kid. But after reading it, the dad sounded like an abusive jerk who earned it.
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posted on
12/21/2003 10:50:41 PM PST
by
Bogey78O
(If Mary Jo Kopechne had lived she'd support Ted Kennedy's medicare agenda! /sarcasm)
To: Holly_P
Jassem's life, however, is in danger. While interrogating his father and his friend, special forces soldiers revealed that Jassem was the informer, Roehrman said. 97E (Army Interrogators) strike again! I guess they have all the guys who are any good interrogating the big fish.
Guys, come on. You're not supposed to give information to the people you're interrogating. If you reveal the source you lose the source. They must have covered that in AIT at some point.
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posted on
12/21/2003 10:56:08 PM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(The Original One Man Crusading Jingoist Imperialist Capitalist Running Dog Paper Tiger himself)
To: Holly_P
Jassem's life, however, is in danger. While interrogating his father and his friend, special forces soldiers revealed that Jassem was the informer, Roehrman said Too bad that they revealed Hassem's name to his Father. He sounds like one brave boy.
To: Holly_P
Hmmm. This was posted last week elsewhere, after the initial arrest of Saddam, so I draw a blank on what to even search for!
To: Holly_P
Teen, 14, turns in guerrilla father He looks pissed.
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posted on
12/21/2003 11:02:33 PM PST
by
South40
(My vote helped defeat cruz bustamante; did yours?)
To: Holly_P
To: Cultural Jihad
Knight Ridder source for both newspapers and the one I posted from changed the title of the story.
Makes a search pointless doesn't it?
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posted on
12/21/2003 11:08:19 PM PST
by
Holly_P
(Everytime that video clip of Sadaam plays on TV it "bitch slaps" a democrat somewhere.)
To: Steel Wolf
It says SF told him about the kid, not MI. Well, the text says "special forces," not "Special Forces," so they might've meant special operating forces, so they could've been Human Intelligence Collectors attached to USASOC. 'Course, the Army wants Soldier to be capitalized now, in contravention of established usage, and this article doesn't, so using capitalization to identify proper nouns probably isn't ...
Agh. I hate parsing popular media for military info.
To: Cultural Jihad
Thanks for the link. Amazing story.
To: Holly_P
He used to like watching a video of Iraqi soldiers slitting the throat of a captured American soldier during the war. What?
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posted on
12/22/2003 12:01:45 AM PST
by
SkyPilot
To: Holly_P
Janet Reno stated, "that boy belongs with his dad."
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posted on
12/22/2003 4:24:31 AM PST
by
zook
To: South40
his daddy is a monkey
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posted on
12/22/2003 4:26:05 AM PST
by
metalboy
(I`m still waiting for the protests against Al Qaida and Saddam)
To: Holly_P
That rotten kid of mine....
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posted on
12/22/2003 4:28:06 AM PST
by
Lazamataz
(Posted by SarcastiTron version 1.2 (c) 2001. All rights reserved.)
To: Holly_P
They let slip his identity?! That is one dead kid...
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posted on
12/22/2003 4:44:30 AM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: American in Israel
"They let slip his identity?! That is one dead kid..."
Does he need a sponsor to move to this country? My oldest graduates from college this year. My youngest is two years younger than this kid. Hassan could bunk in the same room as my youngest.
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posted on
12/22/2003 4:52:39 AM PST
by
No Truce With Kings
(The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
To: Holly_P
This is almost unheard of in Arab culture. This boy is very brave indeed. I wonder if we are going to protect him?
To: Holly_P
"special forces soldiers revealed that Jassem was the informer, Roehrman said. " Nice going.
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posted on
12/22/2003 7:48:33 AM PST
by
jjm2111
To: Caesar Soze
It says SF told him about the kid, not MI. Well, the text says "special forces," not "Special Forces," so they might've meant special operating forces, so they could've been Human Intelligence Collectors attached to USASOC. Each SF group has a platoon sized detachment of actual intelligence guys who are not Green Berets. Since no one who is not a trained interrogater can legally interrogate EPWs, there is virtually no chance that it was a Green Beret. Anyway, I was just dogging the HUMINT guys because I work in a rival discipline. Support guys often get lumped into being 'special forces' by virtue of being in the same unit, which explains the lack of clarity in the article.
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posted on
12/22/2003 8:30:15 AM PST
by
Steel Wolf
(The Original One Man Crusading Jingoist Imperialist Capitalist Running Dog Paper Tiger himself)
To: American in Israel; Holly_P
They let slip his identity?! That is one dead kid... Let his identity slip?? It doesn't seem likely that it was an accident. Poor kid, did the right thing and he'll be lucky to live much longer...
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