US forces capture 112 Iraqis including general suspected of Saddam links

[Barrett808]

BAGHDAD (AFP) - US forces have captured 112 Iraqis, including a general reported to have links to ousted president Saddam Hussein and financial backers of anti-coalition attacks, the military said.

"The general officer they captured, Abed Hamed Mowhush al-Mahalowi ... was a Republican Guard air defense commander. He is reported to have links with Saddam Hussein and financiers of anti-coalition activities," a statement said.

The raid in Al-Qaim, near the Syrian border, "yielded 112 detainees, including a major general in the former Iraqi army air defense branch," it said.

Troops from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment (3ACR), responsible for the western Al-Anbar province, a hotbed of anti-US activities, "cordoned off sections of the city and searched more than 29 houses to find subversive elements including 12 out of 13 they targeted for capture."

Coalition forces said they raided a terror camp in Al-Qaim in June, leaving dozens of foreign fighters killed in the ensuing battle.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1514&e=1&u=/afp/20031008/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_capture_031008163951

[SodoffBush]

1. Why not round up a batch 'o clerics while they're at it?

Throw a "bullet fest" in the center of Baghdad, like they did yesterday?

[tabasco]

2. Super! Great time to declare victory and get the f*ck outta there.

I'm sure the attacks will decrease dramatically now. NOT.

[xxqqqzme]

3. it must B very

difficult 2 find 112 Iraqis in Iraq!

What?!? this saddam-loving 'general' wasn't a 'card' or has that metaphor been tossed aside.

[arcane1]

4. remember Bush saying Saddam and his sons can step down...

and avoid a war?

Sons are dead

Who knows where Saddam is

but now, pretty much anyone who ever worked for the Iraqi gov't is on a wanted list... and the war won't end till we get them all

:eyes:

[loudnclear]

5. "Suspected" "Alleged" "Though to be"

Same kind of evidence Israel uses to brutalize Palestinians.
No proof. Just being Iraqi and living and breathing.

[MasonJar]

6. 112

112 arrested. How many guilty of anything? How many sent to Gitmo? How many stripped naked? Etc.?

[lumpy]

7. How many Iraqi detanees have been arrested so far,

that have not been killed that is? Where are the concentration camps located in Iraq that hold these Iraqis?

[leesa]

8. Right. How old are these townsfolk? 10years old, 98 years old?

[teryang]

9. We won every battle, time to leave

WE WON, LET'S GO HOME!

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. Wow. Super. I do have one little question....

...How many were old people and children?