Posted on 05/19/2005 3:55:32 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft
PENJWIN, Iraq — Last month, six officers with the Iraqi Border Police were escorting five Iranians down a rural, unpaved road southwest of Halabjah when they stumbled across three more Iranians snooping around.
The five Iranians in custody were being released from whence they came, having been cleared by As-saish, the crack Kurdish security force entrusted with intelligence and interrogations. As is often the case in Iraq, people who live in border towns frequently cross back and forth without any mischief in mind.
That wasn’t the case with the other three Iranian men. They were armed and wearing uniforms. Words were exchanged. At one point the Iranians demanded the Iraqis surrender, even though they were in Iraq. More words were said — and then gunfire rang out.
Great. Lets see the United States of Americo do it down south.
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