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2003-10-30 Iraq
Iraqi Insurgents Attack Freight Train
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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-10-30 11:47|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I seem to remember insurgents as typically attacking opposing forces, instead of citizenry and infrastructure.

How about calling them "idiots"?
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-30 12:07:06 PM||   2003-10-30 12:07:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "Death to the infidel boxcars!"
Posted by Mike  2003-10-30 12:28:10 PM||   2003-10-30 12:28:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 More like "bandits". Also, go find the engineer who survived without injury and ran away. Wonder if he was involved in the plan????
Posted by seafarious  2003-10-30 12:34:22 PM||   2003-10-30 12:34:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Next up: "Iraqi Insurgents Attack Rock."

Or as the NYT will headline it: "Chaos in the Desert: Rocks Remain Insecure."
Posted by Matt 2003-10-30 1:04:47 PM||   2003-10-30 1:04:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Hey, Abdul, you said I could be Butch Cassidy this time!"
"Shaddup and put the loot on the camel, al-Sundance!"

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2003-10-30 2:03:48 PM||   2003-10-30 2:03:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Not much different than what happens near El Paso - minus the explosives.
Posted by Pappy 2003-10-30 2:10:38 PM||   2003-10-30 2:10:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 These are educated Iraqis. They've read books about Lawrence of Arabia, and want to repeat the train wrecks with themselves as the beneficiaries.
Posted by Insufficiently Sensitive  2003-10-30 4:19:16 PM||   2003-10-30 4:19:16 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Think ya used enough dynamite there, Achmed?
Posted by tu3031 2003-10-30 5:32:15 PM||   2003-10-30 5:32:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 You're right IS...... but then again who don't like a really good train wreck.

They gave him his orders in Tikrit Iraqiii..
sayin Abdul you're way behind time.....

This ain't '98 its old..... huuummmm.
Posted by Shipman 2003-10-30 9:06:58 PM||   2003-10-30 9:06:58 PM|| Front Page Top

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