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2003-08-20 Iraq

Kurdish militia capture Iraqi ex-vice president

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Posted by Steve 2003-08-20 9:28:48 AM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Did they beat him?

Did they torture a confession out of him?

Did they gas him, slit his throat and hang him by the heels from some street lamp?

What a bunch of wussies.

I like the Kurds a lot but they seem to be a little soft hearted to really get into the anti-terrorism thing....they need a bit more killer instinct.

Oh excuse me, I forgot about the reward money.....now THAT is capitalism in action.

Posted by SOG475 2003-8-20 10:38:48 AM|| 2003-8-20 10:38:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Turkey now has an incentive to help out, namely the pipeline. When the pipeline from Kirkuk to Turkey is working, the fees to Turkey range up to $1/barrel and Turkist citizens get jobs at the Med terminus of the pipeline. Turkey got a taste of fees last week before the ALQ/Baathists struck. All the distrust, etc. doesn't mean much when there is a cold cash potential,especially for a government that is frequently in precarious financial condition.

Posted by mhw 2003-8-20 11:26:54 AM|| 2003-8-20 11:26:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 More details: An Arabic TV station broadcast footage Wednesday of former Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan's capture this week, showing pictures of a docile captive who had been a ruthless lieutenant to Saddam Hussein. Kurdish forces of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan captured Ramadan Monday in Mosul, the northern Iraqi city where the fugitive dictator's sons were killed last month. In the footage shown on Al Jazeera Wednesday, men blindfolded and handcuffed a placid and silent Ramadan in a house with a portrait of PUK leader Jalal Talabani on the wall. "We are not like you, we have a conscience," one man told Ramadan, referring to massacres of Kurdish and Shi'ite Muslim opponents by Saddam's forces during the Iraqi leader's 24-year rule. "There wasn't a beautiful girl in Baghdad that you didn't touch. We knew about everything," the man was heard saying.
"I don't know," Ramadan said. "You were vice president, so don't say you don't know," his interrogator replied. "I won't hit you," he added.
The man also said they had been hunting for two months for Ramadan, whose hair and mustache appeared gray in the TV recording. They had been dark before he disappeared. Ramadan, a ruthless and long-serving right-hand man who once suggested President Bush fight a duel with Saddam, was handed over to the U.S. 101st Airborne Division a few hours later, after a brief interrogation by the PUK.

How'd that duel work out, Taha? Guess you forgot that the challenged party gets to pick weapons.

Posted by Steve 2003-8-20 2:11:02 PM|| 2003-8-20 2:11:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody know the national anthem of Kurdistan?

Posted by Matt 2003-8-20 2:25:37 PM|| 2003-8-20 2:25:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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