Article

2003-03-31 Iraq

Iraqi diplomat puts enemy fatalities at 700

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-03-31 10:13 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Must be getting his info from Murat...

Posted by tu3031 2003-03-31 10:17:45|| 2003-03-31 10:17:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Or vice versa...

Posted by Fred 2003-03-31 10:23:34|| 2003-03-31 10:23:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Who does he expect to believe him? *Mental note: Must check Pravda later*

Re. the US PoWs: Telegraph print edition reports four bodies found in shallow graves are believed to be those of PoWs sown on Iraqi TV last week. Anyone found this story online?

Posted by Bulldog 2003-03-31 10:27:19|| 2003-03-31 10:27:19|| Front Page Top

#4 Unfortunately, this is often the only "information" the "Arab street" gets, and they believe it. It's time to create an Arabic "Voice of Freedom" radio/television capability, and start beaming reality to these folks.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-03-31 10:42:34|| 2003-03-31 10:42:34|| Front Page Top

#5 1. I wonder how many US fatalies they think there were in Afghanistan.
2. I wonder what they will think of their Arabmedia types when the war ends in Iraq.
3. I think I recall that during the 1972 arab-israeli war, the Arabmedia told there people about immiment Israeli surrender many times and when the Israelis won, it discredited the Arabmedia for about a half decade. Of course the psychosis may be heavier now.

Posted by mhw 2003-03-31 10:53:19|| 2003-03-31 10:53:19|| Front Page Top

#6 With regard to casualties in Afghanistan, there was an article in one of the Pak papers yesterday or Saturday that there are 500 U.S. deaders in cold storage in Jacobabad that the Merkins are afraid to do anything with.

When this is over, the ArabMedia will move on to the next confrontation, keeping all the rumors from this one and the one before. Truth is a flexible concept, a resource available to the state, rather than something that stands on its own. Remember, Sammy sez he won Gulf War I. When we win, it will have been with the help of Zionists, or space aliens, or something.

Posted by Fred 2003-03-31 11:01:04|| 2003-03-31 11:01:04|| Front Page Top

#7 I think they might be counting 82 year old WWII vets who have passed away from old age since the beginning of March as "coalition forces".

Posted by Capsu78 2003-03-31 11:04:58|| 2003-03-31 11:04:58|| Front Page Top

#8 Fred is right. This type of propaganda is never reconciled afterward. They just pick up their gear and move on to the next lie.

Posted by Spot 2003-03-31 12:45:56|| 2003-03-31 12:45:56|| Front Page Top

#9 Arabs claim they invented algebra. Clearly they jumped right past addition and subtraction then.

Posted by Yank 2003-03-31 13:49:31|| 2003-03-31 13:49:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Wouldn't you love to see them try to fly the "captured helicopter"?

Posted by Hermetic 2003-03-31 15:36:05|| [akablog.blogspot.com] 2003-03-31 15:36:05|| Front Page Top

#11 The dichotomy between the counts are those Iraqi soldiers who were dressed in British and American uniforms. Expect that the dichotomy is going to grow geometrically over the next seveal weeks.

V

Posted by Timmy the Wonder Dog 2003-03-31 16:38:24|| [morningthunder.blogspot.com] 2003-03-31 16:38:24|| Front Page Top

#12 They forgot.

One Sammy dead
One jr Sammy dead
One jr Sammy with speech impediment dead.

Posted by Brew 2003-04-01 00:47:07|| 2003-04-01 00:47:07|| Front Page Top

08:32 raptor
08:19 raptor
08:03 Ptah
07:22 Ptah
07:16 Ptah
07:14 Ptah
06:50 Ptah
06:13 George
05:57 Former Russian Major
00:58 tbn
00:47 Brew
00:44 Dishman
00:35 ziphius
00:34 Brew
00:31 Brew
00:29 ziphius
00:24 Anonymous
00:18 Brew
00:11 Anonymous
00:03 Anonymous
00:00 Tom Schaller
23:59 Brew
23:59 Reed
23:53 Reed