[Desecrated]

The official line is the bus came into view after the weapons had already been released and unable to be recalled. The bus drove onto the bridge and was destroyed.

[jriemer]

The official line is the bus came into view after the weapons had already been released and unable to be recalled. The bus drove onto the bridge and was destroyed.

The DEBKA story sounds nice; however, bombing the bridge blocks an easy escape path for Sadamite vermin fleeing Bagdad to Syria. Coalition forces already bombed the snot out of the highway and sole fueling oasis between Jordan and Bagdad for the same reason.

If it turns out that the bus carried pro-Iraqi goof-balls as well, chalk it up as a two-fer.

[Southack]

"The official line is the bus came into view after the weapons had already been released and unable to be recalled. The bus drove onto the bridge and was destroyed."

12 years ago when we were actually destroying bridges in Iraq, that spin would have been believable, too.

Hey, anybody notice that the Iraqis have a lot of "ex-military" fighting in civilian clothes?!