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Iraq
Disguised U.S. Soldiers Reportedly Escape From Iraq
2003-07-27
By Aws al-Sharqi, IOL Iraq Correspondent
IslamOnline.net - U.S. soldiers in Iraq are escaping from Iraq under the guise of Kurdish citizens, wearing the famous Iraqi and Arab al-Dashdasha (loose headdress) which has become mush sought-after recently, Iraqis told IslamOnline.net Sunday, July 27.
Whoops! There goes another one now...
However, a U.S. colonel categorically denied that 2,500 U.S. soldiers have escaped from duty so far, noting that it was a rumor propagated by the Baathists and the loyalists to ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
"And no, I have not stopped beating my wife..."
Speaking to IOL, Saeed al-Aidany, a galabia (gown) seller, said, "We were surprised at the very beginning to see a lot of U.S. soldiers buying al-Dashdasha, but it came to our knowledge that they used it as a camouflage to make their escape to Gulf states".
Not, as you might at first think, as souvenirs...
Aidany further claimed that U.S. soldiers were also seen buying Kurdish costumes to make their way to Turkey through northern Iraq.
"Why, Bob! You look so... Kurdish."
Abdul Amir al-Hasnawi, a truck driver, alleged he helped two U.S. soldiers escape to Kuwait. "Two Black U.S. soldiers arrived in Basra through a Christian go-between from Baghdad, who used to work as a translator with the Americans. They were in jeans and I smuggled them to Kuwait in return for $450 each," Hasnawi told IOL. "The go-between told me that the two soldiers did not to be gunned down in Iraq without a cause," he added.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

#9  What this story actually confirms is what a backward view of the world the shopkeeper must have. Where does he think these 2500 soldiers will escape to? Does he think they can just cross the dusty border from Mexico into the US, like perhaps from Pakistan into Afghanistan, then go happily home thinking nobody will bother them so they can chalk everything up to experience and forget about it? Will they stay in the arab states, convert to Islam, and pilgramage to Mecca every year? C'mon....
Posted by: Rafael   2003-7-27 4:01:57 PM  

#8  In a relates story an unnamed Iraqi source said that the Americans were cooking their stomachs at the Baghdad Airport. I had someone pick me up a towel and fanbelt, but at a Dining Out somebody stole it when I got drunk :-(
Posted by: Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter)   2003-7-27 3:38:03 PM  

#7  SW - Wasn't that sweet when they actually removed the toll? Imagine that: build a toll road, collect tolls till it's paid off, turn it into a free public highway, exactly as advertised. Phreakin miracle! Re: Prissy Hen - musta looked like Olive Oyl, but with a bigger beak, eh?
Posted by: PD   2003-7-27 3:25:08 PM  

#6  Foghorn after an encounter with Prissy Hen:

"That girl, I say that girl reminds me of the road between Dallas and Forth Worth ---- no curves!"
Posted by: Steve White   2003-7-27 3:16:58 PM  

#5  Daffy Duck's great comment after seeing the rich widow ducks son:

"Cute, like a stomach pump!"
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2003-7-27 2:01:56 PM  

#4  JDB - I didn't know that little goodie - Thx! Ah, how short the memories of the truly and uniquely gifted ungrateful can be... the US defending the hapless helpless Muslims of Bosnia from the Serbs whilst all of Arabia and Islam played the fiddle lyre (or is that liar?)...

Barbara - (snicker) I lovs Bugs. "Is you is or is you isn't my baby?" Mel Blanc had a way with werdz, no? And then there was Foghorn Leghorn...
Posted by: PD   2003-7-27 1:53:18 PM  

#3  3 words for the so-called "journalist": Pa-the-tic!

In the words of that great philisopher, Bugs Bunny: Watta maroon!
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2003-7-27 1:44:25 PM  

#2  I remember "reuters" running a similar story during the Kosovo campaign in '99. You'll recall we lost no pilots (praise to Allah!)...

Anywho, "reuters" found a couple of Greeks (sympathetic to the Serbs) who insisted that the US was shipping home 20-25 coffins a day because these Greeks had seen them! Therefore, we were lying about no combat losses and the plucky Serbs had us on the run!

ILO is propaganda, "reuters" is gullible, and our enemies, foreign and domestic (see Green Party above) will clutch at any straw.
Posted by: JDB   2003-7-27 1:29:50 PM  

#1  Now this is a scream! I used to belong to a group that bought souvenirs for the poor legs who were stuck out in the dunes after Gulf War I (the AF pukes all lived in town - in the infamous Khobar Towers). Most of the poor grunts never got a chance to see the glories of Al Khobar and its crown jewel: the Al Shula Mall - an overstatement if there ever was one, believe me. Anyway, the point is: the numero Uno choice, the overwhelming choice by a landslide souvenir was the Arab headgear. Everyone wanted a dishtowel & fan belt set. So that's what we bought. Tons of the shit. There was no doubt it was a hit at the next Halloween party after they got home.

This twinkie dress merchant, Saeed al-Aidany, is prolly selling the stuff like he sez - but in his tiny little mind it would never occur to him that it was because our troopies think it's some seriously funny shit. So he's doing what all small-brained creatures do: assuming they would do what he would do - run like hell.

As for the truck driver, you know he was paid in greenbacks, if the story's true. So, Abdul Amir al-Hasnawi, show me, dude. $450 in $USD? Hey vets - how long would it take for you to come up with that much scratch (not to mention in a war zone) when you were tooling around in the Big Green Machine? Several months at least. And Mr al-Hasnasal would've done it for $45, not to mention $450. I like the part about them being black - IOL thinks this will make it more believable. Heh, what jerkoffs.

This is either "tell the reporter what he wants to hear" silliness - or it was created from scratch by the "journalist." And, icing on the cake, it is brought to you by Al Jizzwadi's erstwhile competition for the most outrageous BS they can dream up to peddle to the idiot A-rab Street, the National Enquirer of the A-rab press (and that's really saying something): Islam OnLine.

What a hoot!
Posted by: PD   2003-7-27 12:26:37 PM  

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