US Troops Raid Iraqi 'Terrorist' Camp, Apache Down

Reuters ^ | Thu June 12, 2003 12:15 PM ET | Andrew Marshall

[mgc1122]

As a result of this action, I really want to know is how many raghead "peaceful" types are on the express road to paradise ... and whatever the number is, it's not enough.

[jpl]

It must have killed Reuters to have to actually use the word terrorist, which they put in quotation marks of course.

[Destro]

Earlier this week: Two U.S. Soldiers Die in Kosovo Apache Helicopter Crash

[linn37]

sic em !

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good!

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[Destro]

I noticed that too.

[ApesForEvolution]

Did Reuters just use the word 'terrorists'?? Shudder..

[Billthedrill]

It must have killed Reuters to have to actually use the word terrorist, which they put in quotation marks of course.

Oh, yeah. I prefer Al Jazeerah - they're rooting against us less.

[blam]

"He said the camp was attacked with "lethal force" in an operation that was still under way"

Gittin' down to business.

[AAABEST]

It must have killed Reuters to have to actually use the word terrorist, which they put in quotation marks of course.

Sorry you're wrong. A terrorist is someone who attacks innocents to create fear in the mind of the populace. Someone who attacks soldiers they view as an enemy is a soldier or maybe a guerilla or some such. Not a terrorist.

Politicians, propagandists and people who need to embelish a weak case like the throw words like "terrorist" around in order to create a response in people who don't have a clue.

[Joe 6-pack]

"A terrorist is someone who attacks innocents to create fear in the mind of the populace. Someone who attacks soldiers they view as an enemy is a soldier or maybe a guerilla or some such. Not a terrorist."

I have to agree with you. The Khobar tower bombing and USS Cole were not acts of terrorism, they were acts of war. They should have been handled as such at the time.

[Dog]

Just heard on Fox that we used AC-130's and Fighters and Apaches plus ground troops ....70 bad guys are now checking out those virgins!

[AAABEST]

Did you see that post where the FBI is refusing to call ELF, ALF and the like "terrorist" groups. Preferring the more generic "criminal"

I don't have a problem with that per se, but we all know that the next militia whitey who farts upwind will be labeled a "terrorist". This is what happens when people torture the English language.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Angry locals near Balad showed a Reuters television crew ransacked houses, and said residents had been assaulted during the U.S. operation. In some houses, furniture had been overturned and beds upended. Books and ornaments were scattered on the floor.

So, residents had been "assaulted". Examples: "books" and "ornaments" "scattered on the floor".

The horror!

Saddam was nothing compared to this.

[Dr. Frank fan]

Angry locals near Balad showed a Reuters television crew ransacked houses, and said residents had been assaulted during the U.S. operation. In some houses, furniture had been overturned and beds upended. Books and ornaments were scattered on the floor.

So, residents had been "assaulted". Examples: "books" and "ornaments" "scattered on the floor".

The horror!

Saddam was nothing compared to this.

[Dr. Frank fan]

A terrorist is someone who attacks innocents to create fear in the mind of the populace. Someone who attacks soldiers they view as an enemy is a soldier or maybe a guerilla or some such. Not a terrorist.

You have a point.

It would make sense to me to call them "terrorists" if they had Ties To Al Qaeda (tm) or something like that, since Al Qaeda is a group which among other things commits terrorist attacks. However, it's not clear that they do, and initially I even got this story confused with another story posted currently (about arrests of people which are supposed to have ties to Al Qaeda...)

[blam]

"Just heard on Fox that we used AC-130's and Fighters and Apaches plus ground troops ....70 bad guys are now checking out those virgins!"

Heard that too. F-16's dropping JDAMS, sounds like a sizeable operation. Suspected most are foreigners, not Iraqi's.

[ContentiousObjector]

we invaded their country, they have every right to fight back.

They aren't terrorists

If some dudes invaded our country we would also fight back, it is simple human nature.

[KayEyeDoubleDee]

Sorry you're wrong. A terrorist is someone who attacks innocents to create fear in the mind of the populace. Someone who attacks soldiers they view as an enemy is a soldier or maybe a guerilla or some such. Not a terrorist.

Yea, right, I seriously doubt that these soldiers would attack any civilians, given the chance. I mean its not like the Baathists were using women and children as shields.