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| Turkish Troops Caught Sneaking Into Kirkuk | |
| 2003-04-25 | |
| American forces caught a Turkish special forces team trying to sneak into the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, Time magazine reported Thursday on its Web site. The magazine reported that a dozen Turkish soldiers, dressed in civilian clothes and trailing an aid convoy, were detained Wednesday by the U.S. Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade. Ah HAAAAA! Now we know where Murat is.
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| Posted by:FreeTheKurds |
| #3 Mike: How can you be so sure it's the Green Fezzes and not a Shriner convention? All the Shriners I know have automatic weapons so no one will take their cool little go-carts. Let's not be too hasty here! |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-04-25 12:10:50 |
| #2 The way they surrendered, it appears that the origin of this operation was political, not military, and that this particular unit may have thought that this was a half-assed mission to begin with. |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-25 11:41:31 |
| #1 While there would have been a certain satisfaction in shooting them out of hand, what the airborne did to them is actually more humiliating. Just think about it: the elite Turkish Green Berets ("Green Fezzes?") creep into Iraq to execute their elaborate and masterful covert operations plan, and . . . get pulled over at a checkpoint ("We've been expecting you."), fed, interrogated, tucked in safe for the night ("We took care of their security."), and then sent home very publicly the next morning ("We can't shoot 'em, after all, they are our 'allies.'"). Message to the Green Fezzes: YOU PEOPLE ARE AMATEURS. No doubt, there was also a message to the |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-04-25 11:30:16 |