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Marines Finding Surrendering Fighters
Associated Press
| Sat, Nov. 13, 2004
| EDWARD HARRIS
Posted on 11/13/2004 12:10:16 PM PST by mdittmar
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:10:16 PM PST
by
mdittmar
To: mdittmar
"Tell them we'll take care of them. But we've got a casualty and that's the priority."
I love soldiers. They are Real Men.
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:12:10 PM PST
by
bannie
(Jamma Nana!)
To: mdittmar
Headline:
Marines Finding Surrendering Fighters From the article: It's pretty clear these guys aren't fighters
Hmmmmm....
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:12:22 PM PST
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: mdittmar
Egyptian men plead for help as US Marines of the first Division enter a building in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. The three men claimed could not flee the city as one of them fell ill. The US Marines gave them food and water and took them out of the city.
Egyptian men get food and water after US Marines of the first Division entered a building in the western part of Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 13, 2004. The three men say they could not flee the city as one of them fell ill. The US Marines took them out of the city.
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:14:59 PM PST
by
saquin
To: xm177e2
Yeah, that was a pretty stupid headline. Obviously these weren't "surrendering fighters".
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:15:43 PM PST
by
saquin
To: mdittmar
The earlier Marine patrol had left rations for the three, but the Egyptians apparently had not understood it was food, or how to open the thick brown plastic pouches. The men had not eaten for days. Boyce and his squad kneeled with the men, splitting open the packs of wheat bread, processed cheese and chocolate milkshakes, which the Egyptians devoured with trembling hands.Aw, this brought tears to my eyes...I'm so proud of our guys...
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:17:11 PM PST
by
lsee
To: All
Anyone dressed as Iraqi Nat'l guardsmen or Iraqi police that attacks coalition troops should be executed.
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:17:45 PM PST
by
BushMeister
("We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around." --Ronald Reagan)
To: mdittmar
Killing and capturing bad guys ~ Bump!
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:18:25 PM PST
by
blackie
(Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
To: mdittmar
The three Egyptians were traveling to Baghdad for medical care when the were caught up in the Fallujah fighting.Don't they have doctors in Egypt?
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:18:53 PM PST
by
Texas Eagle
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of what he was never reasoned into." Jonathan Swift)
To: saquin
Hey Dan Rather, are you going to show pictures like these on post #4 on your newscast? Are you?
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:19:21 PM PST
by
Aeronaut
(This is no ordinary time. And George W. Bush is no ordinary leader." --George Pataki)
To: mdittmar
"The three Egyptians were traveling to Baghdad for medical care when the were caught up in the Fallujah fighting."
What medical care? according to most media reports medical care is virtually nonexistent and the hospitals are full of civilian casualties.
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:19:24 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(I come swinging the olive branch of peace.)
To: cripplecreek
...according to most media reports... Maye these guys were wise enough to ignore "most media reports".
To: mdittmar
"I wonder what 'Bitta Bitta' means?"
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:22:47 PM PST
by
Types_with_Fist
(I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
To: cripplecreek
"The three Egyptians were traveling to Baghdad for medical care when the were caught up in the Fallujah fighting." Honest, officer...we were just out for a drive...we heard shootin' and just came over for a look/see...honest, we weren't fighting.
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:24:12 PM PST
by
weenie
(Islam is as "dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog." -- Churchill)
To: mdittmar
"
Marines use plastic bands called flexcuffs on the detainees' wrists, wrap cloth around their eyes and lead them out into streets filled with broken glass, shrapnel and concrete shattered by bullets or bombs."
LOL! allah must be so proud of his surrendering army of terrorists.
To: cripplecreek
What medical care? according to most media reports medical care is virtually nonexistent
Yep, that's a (criminally) under-reported aspect of Saddam's Iraq.
There was medical care for the inner-circle Baathist and friends, but the rest of
the poor civilians went lacking.
That's why our nurses and medics are teaching the Iraqi MDs how to do real
medicine. The Iraqi MDs just didn't get decent training or equipment as long
as Saddam was building palaces.
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:25:11 PM PST
by
VOA
To: mdittmar
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:35:29 PM PST
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
To: mdittmar
The problem the first time thropugh Falluja was too many young men surrendering and then turning on us. Anyone in uniforms of Iraqui police who arent Iraqui police should be executed as spies.
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posted on
11/13/2004 12:38:53 PM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(I aint wrong, I aint sorry , and I am probably going to do it again.)
To: Texas Eagle
Perhaps they were traveling along and one fell seriously ill so they headed for Baghdad because (1) literally any port in a storm-the person was so serious they were willing to try anywhere or (2) they do not have access to current news and assumed a big town would have medical help.
You never know who to trust but I am touched to read that they were so helpless and pathetically tried to thank their American heroes. For right now, I'm going with assuming they are just what they seem.
God Bless our American heroes. They are the best of the best!
To: lsee
The earlier Marine patrol had left rations for the three, but the Egyptians apparently had not understood it was food, or how to open the thick brown plastic pouches. The men had not eaten for days.Starving and lacking the curiosity to aid their own survival sort of sums it up about the masses of illiterate Muslims in the middle east.
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