Posted on 03/26/2006 6:07:13 AM PST by runvus
Saddam planned to deploy 'camels of mass destruction' By James Langton (Filed: 26/03/2006)
Saddam Hussein planned to use "camels of mass destruction" as weapons to defend Iraq, loading them with bombs and directing them towards invading forces.
The animals were part of a plan to arm and equip foreign insurgents drawn up by the dictator shortly before the American-led invasion three years ago, reveals a 37-page report, captured after the fall of Baghdad and just released by the Pentagon. It is part of a cache of thousands of documents that the United States Department of Defence says it does not have the resources to translate.
British soldier in Iraq Earlier this month, the Pentagon released copies in the original Arabic onto the internet in the hope that others would interpret them into English.
Handwritten on official paper, one of the reports appears to be a road map for the insurgency, with detailed instructions for training what it calls suicide bombers.
In the memo, they are described as "estishehadeyeen", Arabic for suicide martyrs, and would almost certainly have been foreign volunteers.
The memo details a training commission to be headed by senior officers, including a colonel from the "Directory of Political Orientation". Their job, says the report, was to "prepare a very intensive training course", "to raise the physical fitness and train in the use of Kalashnikovs and hand grenades".
It continues: "The largest section of the course will be specialised to focus on using the explosive material in the body, in motorcycle, in cars, and in camels". Camels will be "provided by the Directory of General Military Intelligence".
The memo also reveals the incredible bureaucracy that underpinned Saddam's Iraq. Rifles and hand grenades were to be provided by a Department of Armament and Equipping, explosives by the Directory of Military Engineering and "religious sermons that emphasise jihad'' by the Directory of Political Orientation and the Religious Scholars.
The papers have been translated by Arabic-speaking members of Free Republic, a conservative internet discussion forum that believes the documents will justify British and American claims that Saddam had made Iraq a haven for terrorists.
If the translation is correct, it suggests that many of the foreign fighters now attacking coalition forces and bombing Iraqi civilians were directly trained by the Saddam regime, although there are no known reports of camels being used in suicide attacks.
Where are you going to R&R?
This is the first time I've ever gotten a Camels of Mass Destruction ping. - Allegra
Would either of you like to be on my Camels of Mass Destruction Official Ping List?
What, like I have enough time in my day to read all the Camels of Mass Destruction threads?
Okay, okay, put me on your Camels of Mass Destruction Official Ping List, but if I get more than 25 pings a day I'm gonna ask to be taken off.
My tagline was wrong. I'm going in....
37 DAYS.
Going to Jolly Olde England to hang out with my crazy, redheaded sister who lives there. (She's a FReeper...I'm pinging her since we're talking about her...Heh!) We're going to pop over to Ireland for a couple of days, too. I want to have a pint at a pub called Finbar's. I know there has to be one in Dublin.
I just can't wait to be able to eat REAL FOOD again.
I'll be home 'round September. I want little quails and stuff. ;-)
Look, Flyer, either you're dedicated to keeping up with the latest Camels of Mass Destruction news or you're not.
What a target they would make.
Forewarned is forearmed.
I'll maintain the Donkey Carts of Mass Destruction ping list.
I'm assuming y'all want to be on that one. It's a medium volume ping list.
If I'm gonna be on the Camels of Mass Destruction ping list and the Donkey Carts of Mass Destruction ping list, y'all have to be on my Donkey Carts Pulling Camels of Mass Destruction ping list.
Added!
Thanks for putting me on the DCMD list.
The CMD ping list is also medium volume, but considering (exciting!) recent developments in camel technology and related fields I expect it to be high volume by late summer.
Oh Flyer, everyone knows there's no such thing as a Donkey Carts Pulling Camels of Mass Destruction ping list!
I was just told by OPSEC that if there is one, I'd better subscribe to it.
Praise be to Allah, and so forth and so on.
Summary of CMD testing to date:
Further testing is required for the CMD program, but additional test camels must be obtained , Allah be willing. The day was not a total loss, however. A bountiful camel roast was had by Man #7 ~ #10.
"GERBILS of MASS DESTRUCTION!"
more like GERBILS of A$$ DESTRUCTION........ serious bio-war hazard.......
ROTFLMAO!
I was just told by OPSEC that if there is one, I'd better subscribe to it.
Do you think that it's possible that there really is one?!
If so, this is huge!
Saddam used camels in the gulf war also
http://www.abadan.net/joke/sound/iraq.gif
If you go back into the Free Republic image archives, during the invasion period, you are going to find a photo depicting two Iraqi soldiers prodding a missle carrying donkey.
I think someone captioned the image "Iraqi Mobile missle launcher"
No. PETA would have looked the other way so they would not be perceived as supporting the Bush war effort in any way. It's the same situation when the feminists looked the other way when Bill Clinton was getting oral sex from all those interns. With liberals, it's always politics before principles.
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