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2005-05-14 Iraq-Jordan

U.S. Says Iraq Border Operation Successful

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Posted by Fred 2005-05-14 13:57|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 It may be, but if the border can't be guarded and protected, then it will be only a temporary success.

Posted by twobyfour 2005-05-14 16:07|| 2005-05-14 16:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Did Syria get the message? That's more important than the independent operators

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-05-14 16:35|| 2005-05-14 16:35|| Front Page Top

#3 First mention of the caves of the Euphrates. I also suspect that they are herding bad boyz into Qaim to concentrate them, then they will Falluja-ize the city, making it permanently off limits to all sorts of troublemakers.

Posted by Anonymoose 2005-05-14 17:01|| 2005-05-14 17:01|| Front Page Top

#4 caves of the Euphrates

I knew that Ali Baba and 40 cuthroats had to be somewhere there!

Posted by twobyfour 2005-05-14 17:16|| 2005-05-14 17:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I read in an article a couple of days ago.....mention a missile strike on a cave...

Posted by Grins Sluper5274 2005-05-14 17:38|| 2005-05-14 17:38|| Front Page Top

#6 All well and good, but we should have extended the operations with hot pursuit into Syria where the thugs vacated to. A few well-placed hellseeking missiles on the Syrian side would have sent a resounding message to all relevant parties.

Posted by Captain America 2005-05-14 17:38|| 2005-05-14 17:38|| Front Page Top

#7 The military said the operation confirmed its intelligence about a region north of the Euphrates River, including the existence of "cave complexes" used by insurgents in the nearby escarpment. It did not elaborate

What was in those caves...

Posted by Grins Sluper5274 2005-05-14 17:40|| 2005-05-14 17:40|| Front Page Top

#8 rats, bats and gats.

Posted by Fling Thratle4181 2005-05-14 20:06|| 2005-05-14 20:06|| Front Page Top

#9 What do you think was there? It was green and it was a lots of it.

Rats too, but they tried to scurry away as fast as you'd say: "Open Sesame". Then there was a lot of rat...atatatatat.

I can't say no more...

Posted by Ali Baba 2005-05-14 20:13|| 2005-05-14 20:13|| Front Page Top

#10 The Ali Baba story treats Ali as a hero, who stole from robbers, turning the tables. Yet the name is used constantly in the ME as an epithet for a robber. Why is this? Mental laziness? The influence of some individual interpreter?

He must be rehabilitated!

Posted by Brian H">Brian H 2005-05-14 20:49|| 2005-05-14 20:49|| Front Page Top

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