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| Iraq-Jordan |
| I am so bummed, it was not a wedding after all!! |
| 2004-05-22 |
| US says no evidence that forces struck wedding party in Iraq Of course there is nothing regarding this any place else on the web. But are we not surprised!! The US military Saturday displayed photographs of military equipment, medical supplies and "dormitory" style accommodation at the site of a US airstrike that some people claim had hit a wedding party in Iraq. US Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt showed the images at a press conference in Baghdad in response to repeated questions over the incident, in which some media organisations have reported more than 40 people were killed at a wedding. Kimmitt said US forces which scoured the area of the combined ground and air attack in the western Iraqi desert had found "no evidence of a wedding". Instead they discovered items such as "terrorist training manuals", military binoculars, foreign passports, medical equipment and possible narcotics, and dormitory-style accommodation for 300 people. He repeated that the attack on Wednesday was based on intelligence that armed insurgents were gathering in the remote desert near the Syrian border and that US ground forces were fired upon before calling in the air strike. The Arab satellite news channel Al-Arabiya aired footage of bodies wrapped in blankets and loaded on trucks, and quoted witnesses as saying that aircraft also destroyed other houses apart from the venue of the wedding party. It was a good effort by the US Military to stop terrorist breeding tho |
| Posted by:Long Hair Republican |
| #4 They'd even registered at "Bloodbath and Beyond"*. LOL. That's just plain mean. LOL! |
| Posted by: Shipman 2004-05-22 7:32:51 PM |
| #3 Jay over at Sacred Cowburger has this story covered, too. "Er,er on second thought we wuzn't having a wedding; it wuz a sleep-over of 300 of our closest friends." |
| Posted by: GK 2004-05-22 7:07:01 PM |
| #2 |
| Posted by: A Jackson 2004-05-22 7:03:16 PM |
| #1 It was supposed to be a wedding. They'd even registered at "Bloodbath and Beyond"*. But the bride got cold feet while walking the "rat line" in from Syria! She was told to wear socks, the desert gets chilly at night. That left one of her bridesmaids to carry all the ammo she had with her. Pity really because the caterer won't refund and the "guests" stood at the open bar and had too many shots. By the end of the reception, they were all wiped out. __________________ *from "The Simpsons" |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-05-22 7:02:12 PM |