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2005-03-25 Iraq-Jordan

U.S. forces thwart "Great Escape" in southern Iraq

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Posted by Steve 2005-03-25 2:20:06 PM|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "... complained that the filters on their trucks were getting jammed."

I wonder what poor SOB got the detail to clean that out.

Posted by Xbalanke 2005-03-25 3:08:43 PM|| 2005-03-25 3:08:43 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 They should have waited till somebody was in the tunnel digging and then filled it with sewage.

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-03-25 3:16:49 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-03-25 3:16:49 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 hee hee! Allan didn't want you to escape, obviously, Jihadi-boys! Back to making big rocks into small ones to fill that tunnel up

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-25 3:19:18 PM|| 2005-03-25 3:19:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 LotR. I like how you think. The fountain of sewage gushing from a barrack will ID the starting point of the tunnel.

Posted by ed 2005-03-25 3:21:47 PM|| 2005-03-25 3:21:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Great Escape" and "Escape from Colditz" are not novels, they're the real deal.

Posted by Mrs. Davis 2005-03-25 3:27:25 PM|| 2005-03-25 3:27:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 when they uncovered a 600-foot tunnel
be impressed Infidels! Where my glove?

Posted by abu Koola King 2005-03-25 3:48:35 PM|| 2005-03-25 3:48:35 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Great Escape" and "Escape from Colditz" are not novels, they're the real deal

I meant to say history books. There was another whose title escapes me about a group of British POWs who dug a tunnel from underneath a vaulting horse they carried out every day and set next to the wire. While some Brits exercised on it, another inside the horse dug the tunnel. They had to cover it and conceal the opening every evening before carrying the horse back to the barracks.

Posted by Steve 2005-03-25 4:04:59 PM|| 2005-03-25 4:04:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 What happens when Ranburgers are captured.... thisn a picture of the Bridge over the River Kry.

Posted by Shipman 2005-03-25 4:10:20 PM|| 2005-03-25 4:10:20 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Not really suprising when you think about it. Underground seems to be their natural habitat

Posted by Michael 2005-03-25 4:11:38 PM|| 2005-03-25 4:11:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Paleo mole-men among them

Posted by Frank G 2005-03-25 4:14:02 PM|| 2005-03-25 4:14:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Ed - I stole from another Rantburger's suggestion on what to do with a tunnel found under the US-Mexico border some weeks back. ;)

Posted by Laurence of the Rats 2005-03-25 5:07:25 PM|| [http://www.punictreachery.com/] 2005-03-25 5:07:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 Steve, I think it was called The Wooden Horse. I still have it in the basement somewhere.

Posted by HV 2005-03-25 5:37:03 PM|| 2005-03-25 5:37:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 As pointed out, the Great Escape movie was based on a book by one of the surviving prisoners. The real story is quite amazing.

Posted by Spot 2005-03-25 8:16:19 PM|| 2005-03-25 8:16:19 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Like the norks, they are not happy unless they are burrowing. Pumping sewage into the hole during the great escape and having it go artesian in the barracks is great diabolical thinking. I was thinking that gassing the tunnels during an escape would be diabolical. But then the prisoners would complain to the Red Thingy or ImNasty International and all the festivities would end. Artesian sewage. Now that's a good 'un.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2005-03-25 11:49:21 PM|| 2005-03-25 11:49:21 PM|| Front Page Top

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