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2004-12-17 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by tipper 2004-12-17 9:58:55 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 American foreigners? Chechen foreigners? Libyans? Yemeni? Mongols?

Posted by Seafarious 2004-12-17 10:19:54 AM|| 2004-12-17 10:19:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Witnesses said one of the men appeared to be Turkish and two others looked European.

French? Bosnian? Irishmen fleeing Columbia?

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-17 11:21:51 AM|| 2004-12-17 11:21:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hey TW, there are a few Westerners that should enjoy the Fallujah haircut, like the Trio of Irish Tenors enroute from Columbia.

Posted by Rightwing 2004-12-17 1:00:56 PM|| 2004-12-17 1:00:56 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 But how can they be a trio if there are only two of them? ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2004-12-17 9:05:06 PM|| 2004-12-17 9:05:06 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Interesting update from Al Reuters:

A U.S. military spokesman said troops had recovered three male bodies in western Mosul at around 6 p.m., but they appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent.

"All three died of gunshot wounds. None of the three were decapitated," he said. "A fourth body was not discovered."

Was the Reuters eyewitness fabricating his account (not impossible at all)? If not, what happened to the decapitated body and why would an armed foreigner allow himself to be taken hostage after all that has happened?
If the original account is a fabrication, what is the motive behind it? Obscuring bad news for pro-terror forces might be one. Note that the other three bodies were apparently not mutilated, completely atypical for Islamofascists.
Conclusion: It is possible that the 3 (or 4) dead men were terrorists or tools and that this was a hit by Kurdish or government plain clothesmen, or pro-government vigilantes. We shall see.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-17 10:44:11 PM|| 2004-12-17 10:44:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell, it might even be the Irish mercenaries or similar vermin and this was a rub-out by an allied deep-cover team.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-12-17 10:45:33 PM|| 2004-12-17 10:45:33 PM|| Front Page Top

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