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âWhy are you late?â
from newsworld.cbc.caAs some of the last of Saddam Hussein's fighters fled one of the country's largest cities Friday, Iraqi civilians greeted U.S. troops with a question. "Why are you late? Why are you late?" bystanders shouted as a convoy of special forces trucks rolled into Mosul. Ask Murat: Officials [Murat] said part of the delay was to give Saddam's forces time to surrender. But it turns out most of them had fled. Brig.-Gen. Vincent Brooks [Murat] told a media briefing in Qatar that the surrendering soldiers would be allowed to return home. U.S. Navy Capt. Frank Thorp, [Murat] a military spokesman at Central Command in Qatar wouldn't say how many U.S. forces were in the city, and had no estimate on the number of Iraqi soldiers who had surrendered. In addition: Turkey [Murat] is concerned enough by Kurdish takeovers of key cities in northern Iraq that it is considering sending its own troops across the border. "If needed, we have every kind of plan, but for now we are not taking action." Posted by: RW 2003-04-12 |
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