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2006-09-25 Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2006-09-25 08:38|| || Front Page|| [11134 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 it's the Basra nightlife that attracted him

Posted by Frank G 2006-09-25 09:36|| 2006-09-25 09:36|| Front Page Top

#2 The nightlife, and the mini-golf.

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2006-09-25 11:32|| 2006-09-25 11:32|| Front Page Top

#3 "He even appeared in a video on an Arab TV station to boast about it. But he was tracked to Basra."
That's the problem with opening your yap too much.

Al

Posted by frozen al 2006-09-25 11:51|| 2006-09-25 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Ummm... Which upazila in Basra did the Brits catch him in?

Basra update: security cam at the local 7-11

Posted by RD 2006-09-25 12:21|| 2006-09-25 12:21|| Front Page Top

#5 They're fallin like dominos lately. I do hope this is a turning point. Stop it.
I'm sorry, really I know that we must decimate, decimate, decimate before we get their attention.
I just had a flash of unbridled optimism. It won't happen again.

Posted by wxjames 2006-09-25 12:29|| 2006-09-25 12:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Only three rounds of decimate wxjames? That still leaves 0.9^3 left which is 73%... bah!, far too many methinks!

"those bloody Romans, what have they ever done for us?"

Posted by Thritch Ebbealing5597 2006-09-25 17:21|| 2006-09-25 17:21|| Front Page Top

#7 Thritch was me BTW...

Posted by Tony (UK) 2006-09-25 17:24|| 2006-09-25 17:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Do we know he really was killed? I think if I had caught him alive I'd say he was killed so whatever info we might be able to squeeze out of him might have a little bit longer useful life, and so I could avoid the 'difficulties' of defending the conditions of his interrogation and imprisonment.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-09-25 18:44|| 2006-09-25 18:44|| Front Page Top

#9 A British military spokesman said forces came under fire and that the man they were trying to detain was killed in the exchange

RAB tactics spinnin' through the web?

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-09-25 21:08|| 2006-09-25 21:08|| Front Page Top

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