I saw this and immediately thought of you.
Posted on 05/19/2004 2:04:31 PM PDT by veronica
U.S. Military Denies Wedding Party Attacked
May 19, 2004— Arab television networks reported today that a U.S. helicopter had fired on a wedding party in western Iraq, but the U.S. military denied it.
Qatar-based Al-Jazeera quoted eyewitnesses as saying that 40 people, including women and children, were killed in a predawn attack on a village near the Syrian border. The Associated Press said Iraqi officials in the nearby city of Ramadi gave the same death toll.
Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq, denied that U.S. forces fired on a wedding party but said the military would investigate.
Kimmitt said coalition forces did conduct an operation about 15 miles from the Syrian border at 3 a.m., and that ground troops found 40 bodies after the attack. He declined to say whether there were any children among the dead.
Kimmitt said coalition ground troops were investigating a suspected "rat line" — a route used by anti-U.S. insurgents and criminals such as smugglers — when they came under fire.
The troops called in air support, Kimmitt said, and coalition planes attacked the site. He said the ground troops afterward recovered "numerous weapons, 2 million Iraqi and Syrian dinar, foreign passports, and a SATCOM radio."
He said the incident occurred in the desert 50 miles southwest of Husaybah.
Al-Arabiya showed pictures of several covered bodies lined up along a dirt road, along with men digging graves and lowering bodies into them — including the body of a child — while families wept.
They do, lots of 25,000 Dinar notes floating around. I'm thinking of buying some, whaddaya think?
MIght be an investment. LOL.
I saw this and immediately thought of you.
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I got it and do not mean to diminish the smear job. Prime is our preeminent Photoshop artist and we want to keep him up on the competition.
It's a very funny picture.:-)
Sorry, people have been attacking me all day and I've gotten a might defensive. In good news most of the major media backed off quickly from this story. Unfortunatately they kept spinning the "horrors" Iraqi scum suffered in confinement. The media have no sense of shame.
No biggie...I didn't take your reply as anything untoward.
Sorry to hear that you bad such a bad day.
Iraqis Say U.S. Attacked Wedding Party (US Miltary denies the report )
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