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US Troops Detain 59 Men Traveling West from Iraq
U.S. special forces have detained 59 terrorists men traveling toward the western border of Iraq carrying cash and letters offering rewards for killing U.S. soldiers, the U.S. military said on Saturday. "At a checkpoint in the west, coalition special operations forces stopped a bus with 59 military-aged men traveling west," U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told a news briefing at Central Command war headquarters in Qatar. "Among their possessions were letters offering financial rewards for killing American soldiers and 630,000 U.S. dollars in 100-dollar bills. The men and all their possessions have been taken into coalition control."
| "Well, Mahmoud, you can start 'splainin' any time now. We're real interested in hearing what y've got to say. Are you making off with the head money you were supposed to hand out? Or did you earn it in Baghad? And where, pray tell, did the money came from?" |
Several U.S. soldiers have been killed or wounded in a number of suicide bomb attacks on checkpoints in Iraq. Brooks said he did not have any information on the nationalities of the men nor any details on who the letters they were carrying were from. Arab volunteers from across the Middle East came to Iraq to pot a few Merkins help fight the U.S.-led invasion. "We've found people who were not Iraqis in a variety of places. We don't know in this case if they were or were not. We certainly know they were leaving Iraq to the west," Brooks said.
On Friday, the U.S. military said Iraqi leaders were trying to escape to other countries, including Syria to the west, and said it had issued troops with a list of 55 key Iraqi figures to be captured or killed.
| One of whom is reported by FoxNews to have turned himself in this morning... |
Posted by: Spot 2003-04-12 |
