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Iraqis loot captured Baath party offices outside Basra
Deutche Welle ^
| March 31 2003
Posted on 03/31/2003 2:58:11 PM PST by knighthawk
British soldiers poised to invade Iraq's major southern city of Basra have let a mob loot the local Baath party headquarters to show the US-led war was aimed at helping civilians and ridding the country of the regime's supporters. The building, five kilometres from the city was filled with vast stocks of food, including sacks of rice and grain that came from humanitarian aid deliveries. A British army spokesman said that normally looting was prohibited, because it was a sign that things had got out of control, but in this case it was decided to show Baghdad that the Baath Party was no longer in control. Aid organisations have criticised the chaotic manner in which food is distributed by U.S and British forces, saying that only the young and strong can fight through to grab food, while the ill, weak and elderly are pushed aside and often go without.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baath; basra; iraq; iraqis; loot
To: MizSterious; rebdov; Nix 2; green lantern; BeOSUser; Brad's Gramma; dreadme; Turk2; Squantos; ...
Ping
To: knighthawk
Hope they got all the vaulable paperwork and records out first.
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posted on
03/31/2003 3:00:11 PM PST
by
holyscroller
(Why are Liberal female media types always ugly to boot?)
To: knighthawk
"Aid organisations have criticised the chaotic manner in which food is distributed by U.S and British forces, saying that only the young and strong can fight through to grab food, while the ill, weak and elderly are pushed aside and often go without."Looks like the aid organizations didn't do any better. The Baath party got it all, not the ill, weak and elderly (nor the young and strong either, for that matter, just the Baaths).
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posted on
03/31/2003 3:03:10 PM PST
by
holyscroller
(Why are Liberal female media types always ugly to boot?)
To: knighthawk
How's Al-Jazeera covering this?
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posted on
03/31/2003 3:07:32 PM PST
by
RonF
To: knighthawk
I bet the food is not distributed with banned weapons like the UN was doing.
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posted on
03/31/2003 3:11:42 PM PST
by
dalebert
To: RonF
Peter hasn`t reported back yet.
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posted on
03/31/2003 3:14:26 PM PST
by
bybybill
(first the public employees, next the fish and, finally, the children)
To: knighthawk
Iraqis loot captured Baath party offices outside BasraFrom the title, I thought they were grabbing the staplers, three-hole punches, etc. - much like we do here in someone's cubicle after they've left the company.
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posted on
03/31/2003 3:19:31 PM PST
by
snarkpup
To: snarkpup
LOL!
To: knighthawk
"To the victor goes the spoils". I'd say this was the first step of victory for the Iraqi people.
To: snarkpup
I get dibs on the Aeron chair!
To: holyscroller
No doubt they did.
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posted on
03/31/2003 5:15:18 PM PST
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: snarkpup
I read that Iraq is one of the world's largest importers of cognac (doubtless taking care of the Tikritis). I suspect there is some real good drinking in that HQ.
That Baath Party HQ can be seen as a sumptuous watering hole for the Tikriti overlords amidst Shiite squalor.
To: caisson71
If we had betrayed the Kurds to the Turks we could have made things easy for ourselves. Similarly if we would betray both Kurds and Shiites by ruling through Tikriti colloborators in classic imperial fashion we would make postwar governance easy for ourselves. But we're not shopping for a quisling thug to do our dirty work.
The Anglosphere has demonstrated that it will win because it has the will, the purpose, and moral vision.
To: dalebert
Bingo!
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posted on
03/31/2003 6:34:40 PM PST
by
Howlin
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