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Iraqi 'Wedding Party' Had Terrorist Ties
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/24/04 | Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff

Posted on 05/25/2004 12:08:26 AM PDT by kattracks

Members of a so-called Iraqi wedding party attacked by U.S. forces last week near the Syrian border were heavily armed, carried Syrian cash and held passports from Sudan, Coalition Provisional Authority spokesman Dan Senor revealed Monday.

"Keep in mind what we found at the site of the 'wedding party,'" Senor told Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly.

"We found Sudanese passports, we found Syrian currency, we found a stockpile of weapons," he explained. "We found individual phone numbers to Afghanistan, Syria and other countries that often serve as bases for terrorist operations."

Senor said the size of the "wedding party's" weapons cache was so large that it raised questions about whether the group was actually manning a "way station" for terrorists traveling into Iraq.

He also questioned film footage obtained by The Associated Press showing the alleged wedding celebration taking place in broad daylight - since the attack itself came around 2 a.m. in the morning.



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; weddingparty

1 posted on 05/25/2004 12:08:26 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks

So if terrorists are holding a wedding, we are not allowed to attack them ? If thats the case, the terrorists will be getting married to each other, every day.


2 posted on 05/25/2004 12:10:51 AM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: kattracks

WEDDING PARTY MY ARSE!


3 posted on 05/25/2004 12:11:49 AM PDT by JDoutrider (In God We Trust...)
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To: kattracks

...and the bride wore Kevlar.


4 posted on 05/25/2004 12:19:06 AM PDT by martin_fierro (</pith>)
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To: kattracks
"We found Sudanese passports, we found Syrian currency, we found a stockpile of weapons," he explained.

Ah! Those traditional May weddings in Iraq! :)

5 posted on 05/25/2004 12:35:56 AM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (I feel more and more like a revolted Charlton Heston, witnessing ape society for the very first time)
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To: kattracks
He also questioned film footage obtained by The Associated Press showing the alleged wedding celebration taking place in broad daylight - since the attack itself came around 2 a.m. in the morning.

I have been to 70-80 wedding receptions in my life, none of which lasted longer than within 15 minutes of midnight. No one is going to convince me that Iraqis party that much harder than Americans.

6 posted on 05/25/2004 12:57:26 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: kattracks

The bride sure had hairy knuckles. That was the dead giveaway for me.


7 posted on 05/25/2004 1:37:43 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old.)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

bttt


8 posted on 05/25/2004 1:40:22 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons
Hey you! :)

I've heard General Kimmit say the terrain doesn't look right in the so called "wedding video", and neither does it look right in the video of the graves being dug.

9 posted on 05/25/2004 1:45:48 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (John Kerry: An old creep, with gray hair, trying to look like he's 30 years old.)
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To: kattracks

I saw some footage (some channel...?) of a man carrying a supposedly just killed child, in which the leg of the dead child was extremely stiff......how fast does rigor mortis set in in the dessert at 2 a.m. anyways?


10 posted on 05/25/2004 6:15:13 AM PDT by Day Kay
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To: L.N. Smithee

Actually, even in the 'wedding party bombed' news articles, they explained the wedding party ended at 9pm.


11 posted on 05/25/2004 9:52:11 AM PDT by WOSG (Peace through Victory! Iraq victory, W victory, American victory!)
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To: Sam Hill

Ping to this older article!


12 posted on 06/09/2006 3:46:36 PM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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