Hurt and disillusioned, some Arab fighters go home

Reuters | 4/09/03 | Mariam Karouny

[JudgemAll]

"We stayed at the front five days and we didn't eat anything. I saw two dead bodies shot in the head."

Some martyr, I'd expect him to make stew out of it instead of complaining.

[JudgemAll]

Muslims believe that those killed in jihad, or holy war, are martyrs who go straight to paradise.

Whose Jihad? Losers, you're bound for hell.

[JudgemAll]

The body of another volunteer was brought home last week. Crowds met his wooden coffin with flowers and rice in the narrow streets of Beirut's Bourj al-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp.

The Lebanese volunteers who fought the Americans in Iraq, however briefly, say they are heroes.

These people are not Lebanese, they are Palestinian trouble makers. This article is full of sh!t.

[reagan_fanatic]

Too bad the Americans didn't get a chance to make a Salaam sandwich out of him...

[RogueIsland]

"I went there to be a martyr, not to be murdered by a brother," he told Reuters. "We went there to help them liberate their country, and all they did was shoot us in the back."

Ha Ha! -- Nelson Muntz

[Coop]

Salaam, a Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim, said he was unprepared for the hostility of some Iraqis to volunteers like himself. "I went there to be a martyr, not to be murdered by a brother," he told Reuters. "We went there to help them liberate their country, and all they did was shoot us in the back."

I will apologize in advance for trivializing war and death...

but Bwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[butter pecan fan]

"I went there to be a martyr, not to be murdered by a brother," he told Reuters. "We went there to help them liberate their country, and all they did was shoot us in the back."

That's what is known as a clue.

Unfortunately, you missed it.

Even more unfortunately, it missed you too.

[InvisibleChurch]

they have the same complaints as the human shields

[dennisw]

Hahahhahahha ... great post.

[PogySailor]

Gee Salaam, what did you expect? You go there to lend aid to the guy with his boot in their face and they are angry at you. What a shock!

[DianaN]

"I am a brave hero". "Don't use my last name, though 'cause that really would scare me." Ha Ha Ha, what a joke. Syrian passport? Hope the guys at the State Dept. remember this the next time some Syrian diplomat claims to be our friend; I doubt they will though.
Diana

[firewalk]

Thanks for the ping

[Walkingfeather]

You know this story reminds me of the stories of when we would fight the indians in the 1800'S. Many would run to the soldiers touch them on the shoulder and run off, so they could brag that they did it. Many didn't make it. It is the same here. I think they get the same milage out of losing as they would winner. Wasn't it Woody Allen that said." Half of like is just showing up"...

[Amalie]

If that's how they want to play it - go home and pretend they were heroes, Beruit may finally get freedom after 25 years of terror. Line up for battle, boys, and give it your best shot; we're sendin' in the Marines...and they STILL know how to use a rifle.

[5by5]

You had a kalashnikov?! Why, all we had were rocks. When we ran out of rocks the Iraqis told us to fart in their general direction.

Signed, Hammad

[chimera]

"I am not afraid of the Americans. On the contrary I want to fight them.

Then go back and try again. Coward.

He said the closest he got to action against the Americans was to shoot a rocket propelled grenade at a tank. "I feel I am stronger than a hero," Salaam said. "I thought when I saw an airplane I would flee, but I stayed and I waited for them and God gave me the strength."

So firing a single grenade and watching an airplane make a hero? Geez, there were Iraqis driving pickup trucks at tanks and Bradleys, getting blown to pieces in the process, and this guy thinks he's a hero? Should have followed the Iraqis' example and died fighting.

The Lebanese volunteers who fought the Americans in Iraq, however briefly, say they are heroes.

Well, they've got some fairly low standards for the "hero" status, I guess. Then again, Himmler considered himself a hero because he could stand and watch while others machine-gunned unarmed civilians by the hundreds.