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2005-03-28 Iraq-Jordan
Surrounded or not surrounded, that's the question
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Posted by Steve 2005-03-28 11:51:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [11129 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 I'm taking this to be the looses possible definitions of "surrounded" ... In my head, I'm auto-translating this to mean, "We kinda know where he is ... we're keeping an eye out."

;)
Posted by ExtremeModerate  2005-03-28 12:35:52 PM|| [http://www.mwgames.com]  2005-03-28 12:35:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 "We kinda know where he is ... we're keeping an eye out."

"We've narrowed it down to Iraq. Or Iran. Maybe Jordan, Syria, Egypt. He might be weekending in Turkey...
Posted by Steve  2005-03-28 12:51:44 PM||   2005-03-28 12:51:44 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 In the Saudi version,

first bad guy is surrounded,

then completely surrounded,

then totally surrounded,

then he escapes
Posted by mhw 2005-03-28 1:00:02 PM||   2005-03-28 1:00:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Iraqi security forces have surrounded Iraq's most-wanted terrorist, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the country's interior minister announced.

Has the interior minister ever had contact with any Saudi officials? If so, I'd be leery of any we-got-him-surrounded declarations.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-28 1:23:14 PM||   2005-03-28 1:23:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Of course, the first question that comes to mind is why the Interior Minister is jawing this up right now. Better to first nab Zarqawi or pop him, then have a big publicity festival over it. Not goot to crow before you take over the chicken coop.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2005-03-28 1:59:58 PM||   2005-03-28 1:59:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 He's been surrounded for 2 years. Its the capturing that seems to be the missing link.
Posted by Yosemite Sam 2005-03-28 2:22:03 PM||   2005-03-28 2:22:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Is it too late to call in some Bangladeshi Police?
Posted by Phil Fraering 2005-03-28 2:35:27 PM|| [http://newsfromthefridge.typepad.com]  2005-03-28 2:35:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 note this is the OUTGOING Interior Minister, perhaps angling for a slot in the new govt?
Posted by Liberalhawk 2005-03-28 2:39:18 PM||   2005-03-28 2:39:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 call in the Israeli army. That'll smoke 'im out.
;o)
Posted by PlanetDan  2005-03-28 2:40:54 PM||   2005-03-28 2:40:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Still, it'd be great if they ALREADY captured this mutt, and are using the "we haven't got him YET" act to keep trolling for the smaller fish?!?!?
Posted by Justrand 2005-03-28 2:43:29 PM||   2005-03-28 2:43:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#11  Prince Abadalah al Saoud said "The terr is completely surrounded. He is somewhere in a circle one thousand miles in diameter. We have one cop at
each of the cardinal points of that circle. Thus the guy is surrounded according to the Holy Quran"
Posted by JFM 2005-03-28 3:27:56 PM||   2005-03-28 3:27:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Fetch the Klein Bottle! We've located him in the Mobius Strip driving a white Torus.
Posted by Shipman 2005-03-28 3:30:32 PM||   2005-03-28 3:30:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 I think I know the problem. One eye was already out, then when you take the second eye out, there are no more eyes?!?
Posted by Dennis Kucinich  2005-03-28 4:47:15 PM||   2005-03-28 4:47:15 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 I think I know the problem. One eye was already out, then when you take the second eye out, there are no more eyes?!?
Posted by Dennis Kucinich  2005-03-28 4:48:09 PM||   2005-03-28 4:48:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Unfortunately, he's using the word "surrounded" in it's Saudi form.

Uhhhh....How does this differ from the Phrench form?
Posted by anymouse  2005-03-28 4:55:27 PM||   2005-03-28 4:55:27 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 Uhhhh....How does this differ from the Phrench form?

One form means to let the bad guys run away ... the other means to run away from the bad guys.

;-)
Posted by ExtremeModerate  2005-03-28 5:20:19 PM|| [http://www.mwgames.com]  2005-03-28 5:20:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 Fetch the Klein Bottle! We've located him in the Mobius Strip driving a white Torus.

Shipman, I made it up to the word 'Torus' before I sprayed a mouthful of wine all over my monitor. Please try harder next time. { ;^)
Posted by Parabellum 2005-03-28 5:58:53 PM||   2005-03-28 5:58:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Yeah, he's surrounded by 20 million Iraqis.
Posted by KBK 2005-03-28 7:41:47 PM||   2005-03-28 7:41:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 Ship - ROFLMAO!!!!

Beverage Alert on # 12!
Posted by .com 2005-03-28 7:50:06 PM||   2005-03-28 7:50:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#20 Shipman-Such refined wittiness from you. And here I am such a damn techno-peasant that it goes right past me. Well, not really but ....
Posted by sea cruise 2005-03-28 7:54:49 PM||   2005-03-28 7:54:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#21 Ship -
I don't know what was funnier: your comment or the fact that everybody here probably got it...

"Quick - to the Klein Bottle!"(spinning Batman graphic)

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-03-28 10:08:43 PM||   2005-03-28 10:08:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#22 Frank -
Could we place "Fetch The Klein Bottle" as one of the rotating titles? It's a keeper!

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2005-03-28 10:09:54 PM||   2005-03-28 10:09:54 PM|| Front Page Top

#23 would that I could - Fred's driving this ship of fools - I'm just a volunteer
Posted by Frank G  2005-03-28 10:46:09 PM||   2005-03-28 10:46:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#24 Shipman---LMAO! White Torus. that's a scream!!! The crew of the SS Rantburg are all stowaways.

Now get with yer dooty, matey, or ye all go in the sinktrap, arrr.
Posted by Alaska Paul  2005-03-28 11:32:22 PM||   2005-03-28 11:32:22 PM|| Front Page Top

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