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To: FreedomCalls
she ran away. Then they detained her to get an explanation

You know we use words because they mean things. She didn't flee, she didn't run away. She left. No they didn't "detain" her. They surrounded her with automatic weapons and threatened to blow her brains out if she moved. Apparently they did not actually want an explanation, since once it turned out not to be a real bomb they charged her withing having a fake bomb, but it wasn't that either.

How about the notion that the girl is legally innocent of that which you are accusing her of being guilty of, even though you apparently don't know enough about a bomb to know what one doesn't look like either.

253 posted on 09/22/2007 11:12:28 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: AndyJackson
"even though you apparently don't know enough about a bomb to know what one doesn't look like either"

This is a real IED discovered in Fallujah. It is an open circuit board with electronic components attached, dangling wires -- some covered in black electrical tape, a battery holder for a 9-volt battery, and bags of stuff that resemble Play Doh (Semtex).

What did she have again? An open circuit board with electronic components attached, dangling wires -- some covered in masking tape, a 9-volt battery (hers was attached), and a handful of Play Doh (which resembles Semtex).

263 posted on 09/23/2007 12:51:12 AM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty," not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: AndyJackson
RE: # 253

No they didn't "detain" her. They surrounded her with automatic weapons and threatened to blow her brains out if she moved.

def: detain -- 1.to keep in custody; confine. 2.to keep; withhold. 3. to keep from going on; delay.

Now, I don't know about you. pal, but, if they surround me with automatic weapons and threaten to blow my brains out if I move, I have brains enough to freeze as stiff as a marble statue. And, I will also consider myself thoroughly detained.

286 posted on 09/23/2007 9:22:43 AM PDT by Turret Gunner A20
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