A teenage girl waved at our troops... she was hanged within the hour

News of the World ^ | March 30, 2003 | Ian Kirby,

[MadIvan]

GULF WAR II: Brit support grows for conflict + Officer reveals brutality

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A SMILING teenage girl who waved at patrolling British soldiers and accepted a big-hearted squaddie's gift of chocolate was HANGED by agents of Saddam.

The butchers of the dictator's corrupt Ba'ath party had spied on the Muslim youngster from an alleyway in Az Zubayr near Basra.

Battle-hardened troops of the 1st Batallion, The Royal Irish Regiment choked back tears when they later saw her limp beaten body swaying from a lamp-post in the ramshackle south Iraq town held by Allies.

And yesterday their grim-faced commander, Lt Colonel Tim Collins chewed on a cigar and confirmed:

"A teenage girl who waved at my troops was hanged within the hour.

"These daily outrages have made us more determined than ever to crush Saddam's evil regime. There's still much fear among the people we're meeting.

"Our mission is to assuage it, to fill the power vacuum left by the decapitation of the Ba'ath Party.

You have to understand that nobody under the age of 45 has ever known life without it. They have no concept or inkling of freedom—and that's a heavy weight on our shoulders.

" We came into this area hard and at no little risk. We've had great success in cutting off the Ba'ath Party here.

" Its chief who was Lord God On High in these parts is currently considering his options in a Prisoner of War cage.

" I'd reserved judgment on him—and then I found the knuckleduster in his drawer.

" One of the few good things I can say about the party is that they keep meticulous records.

" We established all the names of local members. We knew they were threatening people co-operating with us, so we paid some of them a visit overnight.

" It's not straightforward but it works. One man found a shot through his kitchen floor helped him remember where his weapon was hidden."

Belfast-born Lt Col Collins (pictured above) wears trendy Ray-Ban sunglasses and a kukri—the blade he is entitled to carry as a Gurkha commander. His troops are distributing food and medical supplies and restoring water and power while Ba'ath thugs terrorise the population.

The soldiers have seen the mass graves Saddam's henchmen dug for their countrymen murdered for co-operating with US troops during the last Gulf War in 1991.

This time round, in an unspeakable act of barbarism, children had their throats slit.

And yesterday families fleeing Basra were fired on by Iraqi troops. Compassionate US marines picked up children and took them to safety.

Royal Irish Regiment soldiers foiled a plot by the Ba'ath monsters to assassinate one of their comrades as ‘reprisal' for their liberation of the town.

Lt Col Collins, who gave a rousing speech to his men at the start of the war, stormed: "There will be no murders on my watch. We came into this area with excellent intelligence and have since made first-class local contacts. At the risk of their lives local people offered information to my patrols and it was spot-on. It saved the life of one of my men."

Lt Col Collins based himself in the Ba'ath party HQ as a psychological move.

On the front door, one of his men has defiantly scrawled: "Welcome to Free Iraq."

[Conservababe]

Did Robin Cook really resign, or was he given an opportunity to resign or be fired? LOL

[BlackVeil]

the gift of a way with words like you Brits Indeed, they are great talkers. Why, only 48 hours into the war, they announced that they had taken Basra. And that they had 6,000 Iraqi prisoners, too.

Now, there is this horrific atrocity story. It is the worst Iraqi atrocity story I have seen, since the "babies removed from incubators in Kuwait."

[Brad’s Gramma]

Everyone....go back and read #96, please!

[proust]

How can we confirm this story from other sources? I went to the "news of the world" webpage and see that it has lesbian sex stories in its showbiz section.

[aristeides]

Is this the regiment that Kipling's son served and died in, and that Kipling wrote a book about?

[Happygal]

He resigned as party 'whip' just before Blair won the Commons vote (hands down, I might add). Robin Cook, is nothing more than an obsolete garden gnome.

[k2blader]

Sick.

[Happygal]

I went to the "news of the world" webpage and see that it has lesbian sex stories in its showbiz section.

Madonna got marital problems again?

[Happygal]

BTW..what part of the story do you need confirmed? I'm sure Lt. Col. Tim Collins will be in contact with people in Britain, who will ask him if the quotes directly attributable to him, are true.

It's not as if the story is using anonymous quotes, or anything.

[Live free or die]

There seems to be a lot of talk on this thread about what a knuckleduster is.

This is the American version.

It's an 8 shot .22" S&W rimfire.

[proust]

Yeah, good point.

[nicollo]

A righteous legacy for that little girl is here:

"We established all the names of local members. We knew they were threatening people co-operating with us, so we paid some of them a visit overnight.

She won't have died in vain. God bless her.

[Conservababe]

Now, there is this horrific atrocity story. It is the worst Iraqi atrocity story I have seen, since the "babies removed from incubators in Kuwait."

Ah yes, little one, is this story true, you ask? Or, is it propaganda of the Brits?

And if it is propaganda, and untrue, it shall soon be proven either way.

And do please keep up with the rest of the atrocities told to be disproven or proven, deah?

[Prince Charles]

How hideous! This report clearly shows why these spawn of Satan need to be exterminated down to the last one! Only then can those Iraqis of good will reclaim their country.

[skinkinthegrass]

GOOD READ...Indeed, the US, the sole superpower must be veeery careful here, we must lope-off the heads of these snakes (w/all due respect for snakes ,in general :) of this regime and not give any quarter.

[Canadian Outrage]

Good work Ivan!! It's nice to see a man committed to his wife. I have the same kind of hubby!! Good stuff.

[Dan from Michigan]

A knuckledusters is a ring, that spans four or five fingers. Used by street fighters. A dangerous enough weapon.
At least, that's what a 'knuckle duster' is over here.

Thanks. I was about to ask. Sounds similar to what "Brass Knuckles" are over here.

[joesnuffy]

The Blood of this child is on the hands of the UN
the UN who would not let George Bush Sr march into Baghdad during Desert Storm 1 and finish Saddam off
Its on the hands of Pres Bill and Co Pres Hillary Clinton
France Germany Russia China
The media
Hollywood
The Democrats
The Anti War bowl movement

[kayak]

Do you require a picture of the young girl in order to believe it?

Perhaps you would be enlightened by this account .....

I Was Wrong!**A Must Read

[Illbay]

What astonishes me is that the "anti-war" protestors are silent about these continuing reports of Ba'athist atrocities.

The most I've heard any one of them say is "well, that's what you're hearing from the government."