A teenage girl waved at our troops... she was hanged within the hour

News of the World ^ | March 30, 2003 | Ian Kirby,

[MadIvan]

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A SMILING teenage girl who waved at patrolling British soldiers and accepted a big-hearted squaddie's gift of chocolate was HANGED by agents of Saddam.

The butchers of the dictator's corrupt Ba'ath party had spied on the Muslim youngster from an alleyway in Az Zubayr near Basra.

Battle-hardened troops of the 1st Batallion, The Royal Irish Regiment choked back tears when they later saw her limp beaten body swaying from a lamp-post in the ramshackle south Iraq town held by Allies.

And yesterday their grim-faced commander, Lt Colonel Tim Collins chewed on a cigar and confirmed:

"A teenage girl who waved at my troops was hanged within the hour.

"These daily outrages have made us more determined than ever to crush Saddam's evil regime. There's still much fear among the people we're meeting.

"Our mission is to assuage it, to fill the power vacuum left by the decapitation of the Ba'ath Party.

You have to understand that nobody under the age of 45 has ever known life without it. They have no concept or inkling of freedom—and that's a heavy weight on our shoulders.

" We came into this area hard and at no little risk. We've had great success in cutting off the Ba'ath Party here.

" Its chief who was Lord God On High in these parts is currently considering his options in a Prisoner of War cage.

" I'd reserved judgment on him—and then I found the knuckleduster in his drawer.

" One of the few good things I can say about the party is that they keep meticulous records.

" We established all the names of local members. We knew they were threatening people co-operating with us, so we paid some of them a visit overnight.

" It's not straightforward but it works. One man found a shot through his kitchen floor helped him remember where his weapon was hidden."

Belfast-born Lt Col Collins (pictured above) wears trendy Ray-Ban sunglasses and a kukri—the blade he is entitled to carry as a Gurkha commander. His troops are distributing food and medical supplies and restoring water and power while Ba'ath thugs terrorise the population.

The soldiers have seen the mass graves Saddam's henchmen dug for their countrymen murdered for co-operating with US troops during the last Gulf War in 1991.

This time round, in an unspeakable act of barbarism, children had their throats slit.

And yesterday families fleeing Basra were fired on by Iraqi troops. Compassionate US marines picked up children and took them to safety.

Royal Irish Regiment soldiers foiled a plot by the Ba'ath monsters to assassinate one of their comrades as ‘reprisal' for their liberation of the town.

Lt Col Collins, who gave a rousing speech to his men at the start of the war, stormed: "There will be no murders on my watch. We came into this area with excellent intelligence and have since made first-class local contacts. At the risk of their lives local people offered information to my patrols and it was spot-on. It saved the life of one of my men."

Lt Col Collins based himself in the Ba'ath party HQ as a psychological move.

On the front door, one of his men has defiantly scrawled: "Welcome to Free Iraq."

[libertylover]

God bless our troops. If you live in an area where you occasionaly see people in uniform, then I'd suggest you do what I've started doing: I walk right up to them, offer a handshake, and say, "I want to take this opportunity to say thank you for your service to our country." Everyone I've said it to seemed shocked in a very appreciative way.

Ivan - If you see any of your blokes in uniform, please thank them on my behalf. BTW, I spent 3 years at RAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. I was ready to come home but I really love your country and its people as well.

[handk]

"Belfast-born Lt Col Collins (pictured above) wears trendy Ray-Ban sunglasses and a kukri—the blade he is entitled to carry as a Gurkha commander."

[Asher]

From the complete Oxford English Dictionary on CD-Rom:

'knuckle-'duster

[f. knuckle n. + duster. (orig. criminals' slang, U.S.)]

A metal instrument made to cover the knuckles, so as to protect them from injury in striking, and at the same time to add force to a blow given with the fist thus covered.

1858 Times 15 Feb. (Farmer), - Knuckle-duster+a formidable American instrument, made of brass, which slips easily on to the four fingers of the hand, and having a projecting surface, across the knuckles, is calculated+to inflict serious injury on the person against whom it is directed.

1861 All Year Round 13 July 372 - But what the crew most feared, was the free use of the ‘brass knuckles’ or ‘knuckle-dusters’.+ These are brass finger-guards, not unlike what the Roman gladiators called the cestus; they constitute a regular portion of the equipment of an officer of the American mercantile marine.

1862 Illustr. Lond. News 11 Jan. 51/2 - The American ‘shoulder-hitters’, ‘knuckle-dusters’, and ‘gum-ticklers’.

1862 Ann. Reg. 193 - One of them struck him a fearful blow with a ‘knuckle-duster’.

1873 Slang Dict. s.v., - Sometimes a knuckle-duster has knobs or points projecting, so as to mutilate and disfigure the person struck.

1870 Standard 15 Dec., - I have been in many mobs, and have been charged both by cavalry and the knuckleduster brigade in Paris.

[TexasCowboy]

"Ping to more Iraqi atrocities."

Yes! Absolutely horrible!!

What we MUST remember, though, is that the Shi'ites, the Shias or any other sect of Muslims in that part of the world will do the same thing.
This is not an Iraqi characteristic; it is a Muslim characteristic - a religion born and nurtured with the blood of it's adherents.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

If you can get Fox News, watch it. I can't stand the alphabet networks---you'd think we were about ready to surrender.

[FireTrack]

"The French, coward, b@stard pigs have this girl's blood on their hands as well. Chirac is a sick puke."

Hey, it wouldn't surprize me if we find that soddom has supplied the sick pervert chirac with young boys and girls during his visits to Iraq.

I suspect it's a tool that soddom uses alot. Maybe why scott ritter turned. soddom's sons even have the look of a pimp.

[b4its2late]

These scumbags will pay in the end.

[Bluntpoint]

"After their deaths, they need to be buried in pig skin."

Send a pig to hell. Bury it an Baath Iraqi skin.

[nutmeg]

God Bless the Coalition of The Caring!

AMEN to that. Nice post (#98)

[DCPatriot]

"...Somebody forward this to Martin Sheen..."

What for? He'd claim that the girl would still be alive had the Americans not ventured into Iraq.

[mware]

This sounds like the division of the Desert Rats.

[F.J. Mitchell]

Those pompous asses protesting the war, are in fact endorsing each and every atrocity committed by these Ba'athless bastards.

[Young Rhino]

Send a pig to hell. Bury it an Baath Iraqi skin.

Good idea. However, I can't think of any reason to punish the pig in such a fashion. I'd rather send the pig to my favorite BBQ joint. :-)

[reg45]

Actually it was George Bernard Shaw who said: "The British and the Americans are two people separated by a common language."

[lavaroise]

Coming to an "antiwar" neighborhood near you...

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

A SMILING teenage girl who waved at patrolling British soldiers and accepted a big-hearted squaddie's gift of chocolate was HANGED by agents of Saddam.

Monstrous evil. Their time is coming.

[NEPA]

The DUhs won't believe it. They're comparing stories like this one to the baby incubator propaganda from Gulf War I.

I've been over there (on DU) often since the war started and the anti Americanism has reached fever pitch. We are illegal invaders and some openly say they do not have compassion for the killed, captured, injured troops. Some even say they don't feel sorry for the families of the Americans killed.

Yet they believe every word of Iraqi propaganda (we're targeting civilians etc).

[Mark17]

God has a special place for 'men' like these.

Yes He does, and you can best believe its temperature runs slightly higher that what they are used to.

[holyscroller]

Weather report for Baghdad, Iraq:

Today, partly sunny, temp in the 50s with winds from the west at 10 mph.

Tomorrow, sunny in the morning, temperatures rising in the afternoon to 23,000 degrees and winds approaching 1,750 mph.

[Humidston]

No way! Is that really you?? If so, HOWDY!