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Iraqi informer angered by treatment of POW
Knight Ridder Newspapers ^
| April 3, 2003
| By JUAN O. TAMAYO
Posted on 04/03/2003 7:09:25 PM PST by 68skylark
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To: Fester Chugabrew
Good point.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:35:37 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: Steve0113
Exactly. No doubt the Special Ops had questions re all the exit doors, mechanical room locations, etc etc one would never consider otherwise.
To: Calpernia
He told them about the woman prisoner, and about a U.S. military uniform he had also seen, presumably of a U.S. soldier killed in the fighting in and around Nasiriyah, some of the heaviest of the war. Is this what you are referring to?
"and about a U.S. military uniform he had also seen, presumably of a U.S. soldier killed in the fighting"
These were probably the men that they buried outside the hospital.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:39:10 PM PST
by
B4Ranch
(Keep America safe! Thank the troops for our freedom. No slack for Iraq!)
To: 68skylark
Fedayeen raided his house the next day, he said, taking away all his possessions and even his car, a Russian-made Muscovitch Brazilia 680. He said a neighbor was shot and her body dragged through the streets just for waving at a U.S. helicopter. "Very bad people," he said. "There is no kindness in my heart for them."
This isn't the first account I've read wherein an Iraqi talks in such a guileless way about Saddam's henchmen, or implies that these killer gangs in their neighborhoods are other than their government.
To: freedomlover
Hopefully that "colonel" took a few slaps from the special ops right before he had his heart shown to him.
To: skr
no kidding! This guy deserves US citizenship more than many of the people here in the US
To: 68skylark
Clearly this man & family should be rewarded with permanent residency in the US should they desire along with sufficient funds to start over. Just like the reward for Osama & friends his intelligence information was invaluable and led to the recovery of one fine US soldier. These type of deed need to be rewarded so others will take the initiative and risk to help the USA. The government routinely rewards drug informants very well and this IMO is certainly more important that snitching out some dope pusher.
To: Calpernia
"I LOVE this story. But a few things jumped out at me. If his wife worked normally at this hospital and he normally went there; why did he need to walk back to scout it to draw the maps? Why wouldn't he have been able to do this onsite rather than return and come back? "
I use to work at a hospital and my husband visited me several times there.. he still can't get around the place without asking me which way to go :) Of course this is a large hospital here. I saw in the rescue video they went down a couple flights of stairs so it could be a large hospital in a town of 500,000 people. (i think that's the number of people I read were there.. i could be wrong though) And as to the other POW, I'm afraid it was likely one of those 11 bodies they also found. 2 of them were supposedly in the hospital morgue.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:43:17 PM PST
by
honeygrl
To: Enemy Of The State
Good grief... there's enough info in there for a simple google search to lay in artillery coordinates!
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:46:04 PM PST
by
ALS
To: big ern
"He may not know why but I do. Under Saddam he only knows fear. Fear can be a great motivator but after you've lived with fear Hope can be an even greater motivator. America provides Hope for Mohammed and that is why he loves America and he really knows nothing about America, except he knows what is most important about America. America provides Hope." Bingo. America will always remember and honor our war heroes. The people of Iraq, OTOH, will forevermore curse the name of Saddam Hussein and those who enabled his schiziod, satanic reign of terror.
To: big ern
America provides Hope. Ugh... remember Slick Willie, "The Man From Hope"...
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:48:11 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: rolling_stone
We don't want them to come here... we need people like them to stay and help rebuild a Free Iraq.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:49:20 PM PST
by
ambrose
To: big ern
Your response should be made a QUOTE! Matter of fact, I may use your statement on the Iraqi Refugee site I'm making, hold do I credit you?
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:51:08 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: 68skylark
This is such a beautiful story that it needs to be told over and over again.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:52:30 PM PST
by
tessalu
To: B4Ranch
I unfortunately caught that after I read a 2nd time. I wish it wasn't true.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:52:39 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: 68skylark
WOW!
To: freedomlover
Hopefully that "colonel" took a few slaps from the special ops right before he had his heart shown to him.I don't know if that happened.
But I think it's a cheerful thing to hope for!
To: honeygrl; Steve0113
Yes, I now get the picture. I admit, I was suspicious. But, being familiar with a place is not the same as being able to 'map' it. Thanks.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:55:07 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: Calpernia; big ern
I have a bad habit of working with multiple browser windows open. Hence typos in message posts. The: "hold do I credit you?" should have been "how do I credit you". But I'm sure you figured that out.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:57:56 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: 68skylark
Thank you Lord for blessing this man and his family in ways too numerous to count.
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posted on
04/03/2003 7:59:58 PM PST
by
ApesForEvolution
(Yes, let us allow the economies of gerdung, frunk, mexiztlan, chirushcom and canadastan to wither...)
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