2 brothers 1 in a wheel chair 1 teenager few bodyguards 3hr fight

[spanone]

200 troops priceless

[diamond14]

1. SIX hours...an old man, a young boy, a man in a wheelchair,

and one other guy...held off 200 troops from the 101st Airborne for SIX hours...complete with helicopters, missiles, planes, armor...

there were no additional people at all, no prisoners or deaths...

"4 charred bodies", $30 million reward to saddam's cousin.....

PRICELESS....

-snips-

A military task force formed to hunt for Saddam and his top supporters led the raid Tuesday morning, U.S. officials told CNN. That unit was backed by 200 troops from the Army's 101st Airborne Division, along with armor and air cover, officials said.

Sanchez said soldiers from the 101st Airborne's 2nd Brigade were fired upon when they approached the house.

"The division subsequently employed multiple weapon systems to subdue the suspects, who had barricaded themselves inside the house and continued to resist detention fiercely," he said. (Gallery: The firefight scene)

Helicopters, TOW missiles and A-10 attack planes were used in the battle.


http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/22/sprj.irq.sons/index.html

[spanone]

3. Sounds a bit like overkill, but the cameras need helicopters and

shit all over.

[DemBones DemBones]

2. Neither brother was a teenager. eom

*

[spanone]

5. One of the brothers sons

[Pastiche423]

4. Where's the wheelchair?

No mention was made of Uday's wheelchair. He is/was a para and would not have had mobility w/o it. I find it strange that that one identifyer has not been mentioned.

Actually, I think the whole thing is bogus.

[grasswire]

6. and now in another story...

...we learn that from 3-9 GIs were killed in the fight.

[CWebster]

9. wondered about that too

Heard one story claiming it was a 3 hour gun fight, another said 6 hours. One correspondent claimed the Iraqis were rejoicing another said they were angry.

Can't even get their stories straight.

[Rose Siding]

7. But you are totally forgetting...

how much safer we are here in America tonight.

We can all sleep easy knowing that this changes everyth....ummm...er....NOTHING AT ALL! :silly:

[diamond14]

8. just your average third-world-country hiding place....

[karlschneider]

10. So U and Q, with 150,000 troops looking for them. Where to hide?

Oh, I know! In their second cousin's house in Kurdish territory. A really big house where nobody would ever think of looking.:eyes: And they actually hate each other, but decided it would be a good idea for both to hide out in the same opulent house, owned by their relative who of course wouldn't be known by US intelligence...

Don't even GIVE me a break, just offer one for a phenomenal fee.

:eyes:
:crazy:
:grr:

[diamond14]

11. and now bush* hands saddam's cousin the $30 million, for the

four unidentifiable "charred bodies"...easy money if you can get it...

reminds me of bush* giving $43 million to Osama's Taliban in May 2001, so they could use the funds to attach the WTC/Pentagon on 09/11/2001...

link to shrub's faustian deal with the Taliban, published in the Los Angeles Times 4 months before the attack...shrub's deal with the devil...never forget...

-snips-

That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that "rogue regime" for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention.

Never mind that Osama bin Laden still operates the leading anti-American terror operation from his base in Afghanistan, from which, among other crimes, he launched two bloody attacks on American embassies in Africa in 1998.

Sadly, the Bush administration is cozying up to the Taliban regime at a time when the United Nations, at U.S. insistence, imposes sanctions on Afghanistan because the Kabul government will not turn over Bin Laden.




http://www.robertscheer.com/1_natcolumn/01_columns/052201.htm