Palestinian, Jordanian gunmen fighting in Baghdad (US Infantry in fierce battle with Palestinians)

Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 7, 2003 | Caroline Glick

[Asher]

Apr. 7, 2003

Palestinian, Jordanian gunmen fighting in Baghdad

By CAROLINE GLICK

Baghdad

The US Army's 3rd infantry division, 2-7 Mechanized Infantry Brigade, is involved in a fierce battle with Palestinian and Jordanian gunmen in the industrial area of southern Baghdad.

The people shooting at US forces are using coordinated attacks using RPG's, suicide trucks, artillery, and sniper fire.

Two journalists and two military personnel were killed in the coordinated attack by the Palestinian and Jordanian fighters.

Military sources are saying that they know from prisoners of war that the Palestinian and Jordanian fighters are attempting to reorganize Iraqi resistance in Baghdad.

The military sources called the gunmen "thugs".

There are some US casualties, but many more enemy casualties.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, that video was up after the newer C130 was used in Afghanistan.

I guess the New Spectre (I believe that is what the new gunship is called), makes the old Puff The Magical Dragon look like a popgun.

[judicial meanz]

Excellent article

[goody2shooz]

King Abdullah of Jordan's Queen is a Palestinian. What would you expect?

They probably both hate America, a fact evident by their driving Queen Noor out of Jordan (she is now back home in the U.S.).

[Illbay]

This is true, BTW, about the Jordanian queen being a Palestinian, and Queen Noor (the king's stepmother) being essentially personna non grata at the Jordanian palace.

Source: Parade Magazine, Sunday March 30, 2003.

[Colofornian]

Figures the Palestinians would add their two cents worth, along with the Jordanians

Don't you think that's overcharging?

[judicial meanz]

Definitely.

[Colofornian]

I don't believe Islam is a death cult...

islam is a spiritual death cult in that they worship a false god...a god of destruction {John 10...he steals, he kills, he destroys...the marks of the Beast w/in Baghdad whose been slithering around Mesopotamia for centuries}

[Tribune7]

I remember reading that the most fanatic defenders of Berlin were members of an SS detachment made up of foreigners.

[Illbay]

If "worshipping a false god" makes you a "death cult," then there are death cults abounding.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

"Do they still get their 72 virgins...?"

Here are a few select pseudo-virgins and virgin substitutes to tantalize those tangling with the tread of an M1A1 (and this is just a beginning list - to be added to freely by fellow Freepers):

HELEN THOMAS; CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR; HELEN THOMAS; MAUREEN DOWD; HELEN THOMAS; ELEANOR CLIFT; HELEN THOMAS; BARBRA STREISAND; HELEN THOMAS; CHER; HELEN THOMAS; JESSICA LANGE; HELEN THOMAS; JULIA ROBERTS; HELEN THOMAS; SUSAN SARADON; HELEN THOMAS; JENNIFER ANNISTON; HELEN THOMAS; JANEANE GAROFELO; HELEN THOMAS; HILARY CLINTON; HELEN THOMAS; NANCY PELOSI; HELEN THOMAS; etc (Please not the repeating pattern)

[risk]

I bet they wont be dancing on the street tonight in Palestine, celebrating US deaths. Now its our turn to dance.

The difference? We're celebrating the deaths of their warriors, not their innocent women and children. I'm sure every one of us here remembered those dancing Palestinians the minute our tanks entered Baghdad.

I'll never forget 9/11; the pain is finally getting some relief, if just a small measure.

[eleni121]

Jordan has been dealing with Palie scum for years. Don't forget that the majority of Jordanians are so-called Palies.

[eleni121]

All three look like kissin' cousins...whick they might be.

[Illbay]

Well, there is a sharp social division between true "Jordanians" and Palestinians.

The "Pallies" are considered the N***ers in Jordan.

That said, I can tell you this from my own, personal experience.

There was group of maybe half a dozen Jordanians who went to the same engineering school I did, back in the early 1980s. They were all more or less devout Muslims, and I did get a kick out of talking to them about their religion. It seemed that, from a religious philosophy point of view, they had their heads on straight.

But that was eclipsed by this aspect of their character that I would called "the tribalism." They were very, very insistent on all these "traditions" like women as second-class citizens, etc.

They looked on American women as "whores." One of them, the most outspoken, mentioned to me that he had asked his parents to allow the girl from his village to whom he was betrothed--this apparently occurred when they were young children--to go ahead and marry him, and come to live with him while he finished school, because he was very lonely.

They refused, reminding him that he had to finish his schooling, and then serve his two years compulsory military service before he could be married.

So he said he was just going to find "some American girl who can live with me while I'm here." He had no problem with the notion that he could have a sexual relationship with an American girl, because "all American girls are whores, you can tell by the way they dress."

Anyway, the final thing that was striking about them was how much they hated Israel and Jews. They would constantly complain about "the criminal Begin" (this was when Menachim Begin was still Prime Minister of Israel) and they would predict that "Sadat is going to die some day for his treachery" (which also happened, of course).

Just a weird bunch. I never got that creepy feeling with the Iranians or the Egyptians that I knew in school. The Jordanians were bad; the only ones worse were the Saudis and the Iraqis, who would have nothing whatsoever to do with any Americans.

Oh, and I also knew a few Palestinians. They were mostly okay, ironically enough.

[dark_lord]

The thing I find weird is this. Buses, at night, driving on roads through the desert -- should show up quite brightly on infrared. And any traffic from Syria into Iraq has to be suspect. Don't we have special forces interdicting these bozos?

[Princeliberty]

You realize we are stilling giving
money to Arafat as begun under Clinton.

[truth_seeker]

"How convenient for all our enemies to congregate in one place to die. Saves us the expense of transporting all our troops and equipment."

Some have opined we are engaged in WWIV, against the muslims that aren't peaceful and tolerant.

So why don't we just make such a declaration, a challenge all willing jihadis to come and converge in the Iraq desert? "Here we are. Come and get us."

Then we can just "Get It On." That would be a viable scenario, to get it done, and over with.

It would spare us from having to run all around, responding to their terror.

[American in Israel]

Get a life sick-water... (hint, troll is not a life)

[American in Israel]

It's all about Moabites and Edomites and Philistines, God is talking about specific tribes he had dealt defeat for His People. I can't find the rest of the so-called verse.

Well Moab and Edom it the physical location now called Jordan, and the Philistines land was Gaza. So the one you read is quite actualy quite topical.