Iraqi informer angered by treatment of POW

Knight Ridder Newspapers ^ | April 3, 2003 | By JUAN O. TAMAYO

[Calpernia]

Good point.

[freedomlover]

Exactly. No doubt the Special Ops had questions re all the exit doors, mechanical room locations, etc etc one would never consider otherwise.

[B4Ranch]

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.

[Cultural Jihad]

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.

[freedomlover]

Hopefully that "colonel" took a few slaps from the special ops right before he had his heart shown to him.

[Enemy Of The State]

no kidding! This guy deserves US citizenship more than many of the people here in the US

[rolling_stone]

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.

[honeygrl]

"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.

[ALS]

Good grief... there's enough info in there for a simple google search to lay in artillery coordinates!

[Prince Charles]

"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.

[ambrose]

America provides Hope.

Ugh... remember Slick Willie, "The Man From Hope"...

[ambrose]

We don't want them to come here... we need people like them to stay and help rebuild a Free Iraq.

[Calpernia]

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?

[tessalu]

This is such a beautiful story that it needs to be told over and over again.

[Calpernia]

I unfortunately caught that after I read a 2nd time. I wish it wasn't true.

[Incorrigible]

WOW!

[68skylark]

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!

[Calpernia]

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.

[Calpernia]

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.

[ApesForEvolution]

Thank you Lord for blessing this man and his family in ways too numerous to count.