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2004-06-10 Iraq-Jordan

Arab Men Posing as TV Crew Arrested in Baghdad

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Posted by 2004-06-10 12:36:47 PM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Pull out the lavender panties, two more coming in for "interrogation".

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-10 1:21:29 PM|| 2004-06-10 1:21:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Sez they were caught posing as "employees of an international television company".

That's a wee bit too coy; don't want to get us mouth-breathing warmongers all riled up at al-Jazeera, do they ?

Posted by Carl in N.H 2004-06-10 1:25:09 PM|| 2004-06-10 1:25:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds like a practice run.
They used the same tactic to whack the leader of the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan just before 9/11.

Posted by Dan M 2004-06-10 1:26:06 PM|| 2004-06-10 1:26:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 +------------------------------+
|CNN Identification..............|

|...............................................|
|Habib Mohamed Habib........|
|Occupation : Cameraman.....|
|Nationality : Syrian..............|
|DOB : July 1 1980...............|
|Hair : Brn ..Eyes : Brn..........|
| Ht : 1m80 .. Wt 81kg..........|
+--------------------------------+

PHONY ID?

PS : Photo of Uday Hussein in his early 20s
(Pre-shaved head)

Posted by BigEd 2004-06-10 1:38:14 PM|| 2004-06-10 1:38:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Dammit! This is great news, but why publish the details?! Now the asshats worldwide know to wash their hands verrry carefully before their next recon.

Posted by Dar 2004-06-10 1:42:28 PM|| 2004-06-10 1:42:28 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Nothing like advertising how to beat security measures.Just wonder what would have happened if they had used "real" employee names ?

Posted by rich woods 2004-06-10 2:11:49 PM|| 2004-06-10 2:11:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Can these guys be positively identified as terrorists? If so, give them the firing squad.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-10 2:43:30 PM|| 2004-06-10 2:43:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Concur, Dar and rich woods. I've long wondered why existing or novel sniffing and other devices haven't been used in Iraq to ID bad guys. And not just passively, at a checkpoint, but offensively. Remotely monitored sensors, round-ups of folks anywhere near found IEDs for quick screening, etc. Also thought we should have been messing with weapons/explosives caches we come across, putting various taggants all over after discreetly disabling weapons and spoiling explosives -- make for real interesting mass-screenings later.

Posted by Verlaine 2004-06-10 6:02:33 PM|| 2004-06-10 6:02:33 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 So are they CBS employees or not?

Posted by Shipman 2004-06-10 6:42:50 PM|| 2004-06-10 6:42:50 PM|| Front Page Top

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