Urban warfare motorcycles on sale in Bahgdad.

[JoFerret]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=nm/iraq_motorcycle_dc


<<...Russian 650cc Ural motorcycles on sale now and easily adapted for urban warfare at the local welder for a litte extra cost.


The once-feared Saddam Fedayeen militia and the Jerusalem Army paramilitary force ordered the Urals just before the U.S. invasion of Iraq as part of a defensive strategy that relied on high mobility but was scarcely implemented.
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"I reckon we'll see demand from Sadr city," said a salesman, referring to a Shi'ite Muslim Baghdad slum area where U.S. troops have fought deadly clashes with Iraqis.
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[htuttle]

1. Urals are very nifty bikes

I've read that the sidecar wheel is actually geared to the motorcycle's rear axle, giving it two drive wheels in back.

[Champion Jack]

5. here's one

[Eye and Monkey]

2. The salesman said "I reckon..."? Doesn't seem a local colloquialism.

[celestia671]

3. Well golly gee whiz!(Extreme sarcasm alert!)

Now I know where I want to spend my summer vacation, exotic, yet thrilling Baghdad!:nuke:

[Cocoa]

4. getting ready for when the war really starts

I'm fearing that this period will be looked back on as the prelude to the actual war.