17 Republican Guard division members killed: Iraqi Commander

Agence France-Presse (AFP) ^ | 4-2-03

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BAGHDAD, April 2 (AFP) - Seventeen members of the Baghdad division of Iraq's elite Republican Guard have been killed and 35 wounded, its commander told Iraqi television Wednesday, after the United States reported the division had been destroyed.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

BWWWWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[Catspaw]

Feces happens.

[eureka!]

That accounts for one sortie. Now account for the 997 others flown today.....

[kevao]

Wow, so our air power atrited the entire division down to just 52 people prior to yesterday's attack?

[zingzang]

I think he meant there were only 17 left out of the division! No matter, we'll take care of them as well.

[Semper Paratus]

its commander told Iraqi television Wednesday

Make that, Shredded commander.

[Ippolita]

En France ils disent "la merde ça passe"
LOL!

[savedbygrace]

He forget to mention that the other 5,948 tore off their uniforms and ran away.

[try phecta tom]

He further stated that they expected to push further tomorrow and hopefully reach toledo, ohio by the weekend

[Illbay]

I thought the Arabs invented the "zero."

Then how come he left off so many of them when he published his numbers?

Shouldn't it read "17,000 killed and 35,000 wounded"?

[BOBTHENAILER]

I wonder how long it will take to finally eliminate the media's designation of Iraqi units as "ELITE or VAUNTED".

The description of the Iraqis as elite or vaunted does as much harm to those words as the rump rangers and carpet munchers are doing to the word GAY.

[TADSLOS]

What he meant was that 17 members of his Division staff were killed and 35 others on his staff were wounded tripping over each other in a mad scramble to Baghdad.

[scouse]

This is the same reason that we gave up using the body count, it never seems to come out correctly.

[BenLurkin]

It all depends on what the meaning of "destroyed" is.

[kissthis]

It's really hard to count when all you have is a pink fog hanging over the area.

[Naspino]

Aaron Brown: "Well of course -- there is no way for us to tell who is tellin the truth and who is not."

[browardchad]

ROFLMAO!

[ibme]

similar subject

Caterpillars fling faeces afar to fool foes

[Amerigomag]

While the numbers may be wildly optomistic the strategy isn't.

The pattern of retreat and dispersal has been clearly established. Many of the individual enemy may have indeed retreated to Baghdad.

Substantial numbers of the army may have converted from an organized, mechanized force to small groups, of lightly armed irregulars laying in waite in the metroploital areas to create both US domestic and international political pressure on our US administration if old fashioned, had to hand combat and the destruction of Iraq's infrastruce is caused by asymetric, urban warfare.

I don't think the we are stupid enough to take the bait.

[Steel Wolf]

Shouldn't it read "17,000 killed and 35,000 wounded"?

No, I think it was supposed to read "Out of both divisions, we still have 17 soldiers who are nearly dead, with another 35 fully unharmed."