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What the "Mainstream" Media is not reporting on "Wedding" Attack in Iraq on Syria Border
United States Central Command ^ | 5/19/2004 | US Central Command

Posted on 05/20/2004 5:26:45 PM PDT by Thanatos

May 19, 2004 Release Number: 04-05-46

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

COALITION FORCES RAID SUSPECTED FOREIGN FIGHTER SAFE HOUSE NEAR SYRIAN BORDER

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- At 3 a.m. May 19, Coalition forces conducted a military operation against a suspected foreign fighter safe house in the open desert, 85 km SW of Husaybah, and 25 km from the Syrian border.

During the operation, Coalition forces came under hostile fire and close air support was provided. Coalition forces on the ground recovered numerous weapons, 2 million Iraqi and Syrian dinar, foreign passports, and a SATCOM radio.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iraq; weddingattack
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1 posted on 05/20/2004 5:26:45 PM PDT by Thanatos
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To: Thanatos
Coalition forces on the ground recovered numerous weapons, 2 million Iraqi and Syrian dinar, foreign passports, and a SATCOM radio.

Just damn! My hubby and I sure didn't receive goodies like that at our wedding reception, LOL.

2 posted on 05/20/2004 5:32:28 PM PDT by Reborn
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To: Thanatos
Apparently it's a Mesopotamian Arab tradition to hold large all-night wedding parties hanging with the terrorists in remote areas of the desert and shooting away large quantities of ammunition.

I will never marry an Arab Muslim. That's for sure!
3 posted on 05/20/2004 5:35:53 PM PDT by dufekin (John F. Kerry. Irrational, improvident, backward, seditious.)
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To: Dark Wing

ping


4 posted on 05/20/2004 5:38:20 PM PDT by Thud
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To: Thanatos

2 million new Iraqi Dinar would make a nice money tree at the reception (one =3.35 US dollar)...Syrian Pound isn't worth the paper it's printed on..(one = almost 2 US cents)


5 posted on 05/20/2004 5:40:43 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Reborn
Just damn! My hubby and I sure didn't receive goodies like that at our wedding reception, LOL.

Us neither. Did get three crock pots, though. I don't even know how to cook crock.

6 posted on 05/20/2004 5:43:59 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter
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To: Thanatos

wedding reception or "insurgent" meeting, either way I'm glad they got pounded.


7 posted on 05/20/2004 5:46:54 PM PDT by rageaholic
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To: Thanatos

I don't recall the Russians interrupting their artillery bombardment of Berlin during Adolf and Eva's nuptials.


8 posted on 05/20/2004 5:51:34 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Thanatos

What does Sky News have to say on the subject - they being the source of info worth discussing round these here parts.


9 posted on 05/20/2004 5:52:39 PM PDT by familyofman
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To: Thanatos

We're always glad to hep consummate these little shindigs. You'all git together again soon, ya hear?


10 posted on 05/20/2004 5:54:06 PM PDT by kcar (www.TheUNsucks.com)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I thought all they got were goats and 35 pound bags of cous cous and sheets of tent canvas. My wife and I got a one week vacation/honeymoon on Cape Cod and 3 turquoise colored hand Mixmasters.


11 posted on 05/20/2004 6:02:41 PM PDT by Cato the Censor
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To: Thanatos
Everyone who recieved a satcom radio for a wedding gift raise your hand.

Hell, anyone who has a satcom radio (satellite telephone), raise your hand.

12 posted on 05/20/2004 6:04:54 PM PDT by fritzz (You can't climb the ladder to success with your hands in your pockets. Unknown)
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I don't see any hands out there, do you?


13 posted on 05/20/2004 6:07:38 PM PDT by ladyinred (Torture is what happened to Nick Berg!)
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To: Thanatos

14 posted on 05/20/2004 6:09:13 PM PDT by Smartass ( BUSH & CHENEY IN 2004 - Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Thanatos

Yeah - I mean, it's for the convenience of the guests and all, but I can't help but think it a little bit mercenary for a bride to register with some high-end store. Why buy detonators and plastique from Sak's when you can get them much cheaper at Abu's House of Terror in downtown Baghdad?


15 posted on 05/20/2004 6:13:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: gov_bean_ counter
Did get three crock pots, though. I don't even know how to cook crock.

Suggestion: Use the crock pots as chamber pots for those cold winter nights.

16 posted on 05/20/2004 6:23:35 PM PDT by Ole Okie
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Sounds a bit like the wedding party "massacre" in Afghanistan, the "Baby Milk" factory in Baghdad or the "aspirin factory" that we bombed. It's absolutely amazing what the press will write about these incidents. The cartoon down below says it all...Put on the wedding dress and call CNN. Gotta love it!!


17 posted on 05/20/2004 6:36:19 PM PDT by conshack
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To: kcar

I'm getting married this summer. Suppose I oughta to book this place for my reception? Money tree and free fireworks!!!


18 posted on 05/20/2004 6:39:06 PM PDT by conshack
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To: Ole Okie

If you put a roast in a crock pot and then put the whole thing in a microwave then the crock pot and the microwave cancel each other out and you can just go back to using all of the traditional cooking times in an old Betty Crocker cookbook circa 1970. Try it!


19 posted on 05/20/2004 6:39:11 PM PDT by rogue yam
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To: Smartass

Absolutely brilliant depiction. Hope Mohammed wasn't wearing the wedding dress though. That would constitute abuse if we took any action like that.


20 posted on 05/20/2004 6:43:12 PM PDT by conshack
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