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Iraq-Jordan
U.S. CAN'T IDENTIFY FOREIGN FIGHTERS
2004-11-25
The United States has captured more than 1,300 insurgents in Faluja. But officials acknowledge that the U.S. military has been largely unable to identify the insurgents or determine their nationality. As a result, they said, military intelligence has been unsuccessful in determining the extent of the role of foreign fighters in the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Lt. Gen. Lance Smith, deputy chief of U.S. Central Command, said the military believes that only several dozen of the more than 1,300 detainees in Faluja were foreigners. But he acknowledged that the military required help from Iraqi authorities to distinguish Iraqi detainees from foreigners. "It is very difficult to determine what a foreign fighter is," Smith said. "They do not carry ID cards or passports as they're in there doing this fighting. So it takes an Iraqi or another Arab to be able to tell by accent and stuff where they're from, where they might be from, and that is an ongoing process, as we go and interview the detainees."
Posted by:Fred

#9  Eh, doesn't seem to have slowed Captain Hook down all that much. I wouldn't take chances like that...

Oy, oy - shipman, don't be dissing TGA. It's the Bundeswehr that makes recruits memorize world series winners. Wehrmacht's been defunct since 1945, at least partially due to this exact training deficiency.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2004-11-25 10:37:26 PM  

#8  The idea is to cut off their fingers just below the shoulder and send 'em back where they came from, as a warning. Would YOU like to live the rest of your life having to be fed by someone else, dressed by someone else, and have your a$$ wiped by someone else? To be totally at someone else's mercy for everything you do? It's a great deterrent, especially for moose-limblesss.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2004-11-25 6:18:42 PM  

#7  do bullets care what nationalities ppl are?In other words shoot em in the head and be done with it.
Posted by: smokeysinse   2004-11-25 9:54:19 AM  

#6  LOL ed! TGA won't tell you that Werhmacht troops above the rank of private are required to memorize world series winners. :)

Best to trick 'em Tastes Great or Less Filling.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-11-25 8:21:05 AM  

#5  Always a safe answer, and correct.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-11-25 7:45:43 AM  

#4  Yankees?
Posted by: True German Ally   2004-11-25 7:30:46 AM  

#3  Ask them who won the World Series in 1937.
Posted by: ed   2004-11-25 7:04:55 AM  

#2  But officials acknowledge that the U.S. military has been largely unable to identify the insurgents or determine their nationality.

Of what help would this information be? Are letters going to be sent to Assad, Khamenei, or whoever asking them to please stop it??

The best and least troublesome solution would be to dispatch these degenerates in battle, allowing them to collect their raisins. No incarceration, no upkeep, no future amnesty, and no expense.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2004-11-25 2:12:27 AM  

#1  Can't imagine it would be all that tough for Iraqis to sort most of them out.

In any case, they should be given about 30 years to think it over and perhaps some will fill in their info forms correctly .....
Posted by: Verlaine   2004-11-25 1:35:11 AM  

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