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A teenage girl waved at our troops... she was hanged within the hour
News of the World ^
| March 30, 2003
| Ian Kirby,
Posted on 03/29/2003 5:55:53 PM PST by MadIvan
GULF WAR II: Brit support grows for conflict + Officer reveals brutality
![](http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/00img/hour03.jpg) LT COL TIM COLLINS: Reveals his battle to lift Iraq's shadow of tyranny![](http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/00img/hour01.jpg) TO THE RESCUE: US marine carries tot to safety after Iraqis fire on civilians
![](http://www.newsoftheworld.co.uk/00img/hour02.jpg) TO LOVING CARE: Forces doc cradles tot
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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 freedomand 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 himand 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 kukrithe 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."
TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom; War on Terror
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To: MadIvan
What a great article! Thanks Ivan!
I was a little apprehensive about how ugly the Battle of Baghdad might get. But after reading this, I'm sure the strategy the Brits are using for Basra will work just fine.
From what I've been reading, its clear the ordinary Iraqis are more than willing to give names of local Ba'ath turds and Fadayeen gangsters, which is the linchpin the coalition needs to bring down the rest of Saddam's house of cards.
Incidentally I just read about the last time Britain occupied Basra (and later conquered Iraq)
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posted on
03/29/2003 6:42:49 PM PST
by
mikenola
To: MadIvan
Vanya,
Has it occurred to anybody over there to put up some sort of a huge billboard poster of a pig doing it to Uncle Saddam, and then sit there and shoot anybody who comes up and tries to knock down the poster?
82
posted on
03/29/2003 6:44:55 PM PST
by
merak
To: Kay Soze
She was hung in the name of Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Mike Farell, David Ducovney, Ed Asner, Tim Robbins, Matt Dameon, ANSWER. These liberal Thugs need to be brought face-to-face w/ the victims of this Iraqi Dicator...make them (the so-called actors...media sl*ts) see their handiwork. The actors are following the lead of Shillary...These actors are sheep, and will be treated as such when time comes...to feed Hillary and to service Bubba.
83
posted on
03/29/2003 6:45:12 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
To: skinkinthegrass
bttt
To: arkady_renko; dennisw; Sabertooth; piasa; maica
Awesome image inspector Renko!
85
posted on
03/29/2003 6:48:45 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: MadIvan
I hope our U.S. liason officers are taking copious notes!
Your troops are showing us how it can be done!
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posted on
03/29/2003 6:50:35 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(----- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com -----)
To: Happygal
Count me in... :|
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posted on
03/29/2003 6:52:15 PM PST
by
skinkinthegrass
(Just because your paranoid,doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :)
To: Kay Soze
I will never ever see another movie with these American Traitors and supporters of Saddam and his death band of islamist cult killers.
88
posted on
03/29/2003 6:54:45 PM PST
by
TLBSHOW
To: skinkinthegrass
She was also hung in the name of Robin Cook, the ex-senior minister who today called for the withdrawl of UK forces.
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posted on
03/29/2003 6:55:12 PM PST
by
lavrenti
To: Kay Soze
She was hung in the name of Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Mike Farell, David Ducovney, Ed Asner, Tim Robbins, Matt Dameon, ANSWER. Bears repeating.
To: Travis McGee
Awesome image inspector Renko! I'm beginning to question if I want to continue being a Russian detective. Even if he is a moral character...
(McGee was my favorite mystery character.)
A_R
To: lavrenti
Robin Cook is an alcoholic, has-been, who ruined his marriage by screwing his secretary. Robin Cook has some nerve taking the 'high moral ground' on anything.
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posted on
03/29/2003 6:57:12 PM PST
by
Happygal
To: MadIvan
"Lt Col Collins based himself in the Ba'ath party HQ as a psychological move."
This shows a nice perception of events. Ba'ath stooges will lose face with the locals.
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posted on
03/29/2003 7:00:05 PM PST
by
Rockpile
To: MadIvan
![](http://www.cbjet.clara.co.uk/lucas/images/harrier.jpg)
Thank God for the Brits! We love you man...
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posted on
03/29/2003 7:00:42 PM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie 'cause they have to)
To: arkady_renko
If I could write fiction 1/2 as well as Martin Cruz Smith I would be extremely satisfied.
Polarstar is my favorite Renko novel.
95
posted on
03/29/2003 7:00:52 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--------------------------- WAR SOLVED HITLER! -------------------------)
To: MadIvan
It aint just the baathouseset
In the Sudan little Christian boys and girls are kidnapped from their families and held as the sex slaves of muslim men..they are raped beaten and tortured..they are told to renounce Christ and worship allah and acknowledge muhammed...if they dont they are burned and hacked up..
Christian ministers have their eyes gouged out..familes torn apart schools burned churches bombed and the people led away in chains..etc etc etc..
This is the ugly face of the core of Islam in its birthplace..
Hopefully we will all wake up ..we will see the world as Israel has experienced and experiences imaging us being hobbled regarding these animals they way we have hobbled Israel..
God help us to destroy them before they and the humanists of our own culture destroy us
To: MadIvan
Monsters...plain and simple, I wouldn't take one Ba'ath party member prisoner...the black flag would go up for them. No prisoners.
It wouldn't be the first time the US or UK have done it. When an American patrol informed high command of the Malmady massacre, it is said, that the order went out to take no prisoners that day.
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posted on
03/29/2003 7:04:49 PM PST
by
Blue Scourge
(If a man hasn't found something he is willing to die for, he is not fit to live. - MLKjr.)
To: MadIvan
NOT a French soldier.
NOT a Hollywood Star.
NOT Hans Blix.
NOT a protester.
NOT Jesse Jackson.
NOT Charlie Rangel.
NOT looking to be a hero.
God Bless the Coalition of The Caring!A_R
To: MadIvan
God Bless the Brits. I believe it was Churchill who said the British and the Americans are ONE people separated by a common language.
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posted on
03/29/2003 7:05:33 PM PST
by
Pfesser
To: Pfesser
I shudder to think that Rummy thought he could go to war without these fine friends.
A_R
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