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2006-05-08 Iraq

Task Force 145 may have struck again in Samarra

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Posted by Anonymoose 2006-05-08 17:25|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Heh, an appointment in Samarra for ol' Zark. What could be more poetic!

Posted by SteveS 2006-05-08 17:53|| 2006-05-08 17:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Thank you very much. So few remember.

Posted by John OHara 2006-05-08 18:03|| 2006-05-08 18:03|| Front Page Top

#3 Sorry, John. I was actually thinking of the folk tale that inspired the title of your novel.

Death replied,"I was surprised to see him here in Baghdad, for I have an appointment with him tonight in Samarra."

Posted by SteveS 2006-05-08 19:05|| 2006-05-08 19:05|| Front Page Top

#4 read this again and see if you can tell me what happened to him:
On Saturday, Ali Wali (a.k.a. Abbas bin Farnas bin Qafqa) who is described as "Ansar al-Islam's military command responsible for training and military operations including the planning of suicide operations, ambushes and kidnappings... an expert in the implementation of explosives as well as in the use of artillery, tanks and anti-aircraft weapons... and allegedly was an expert in toxins and poisons." CENTCOM provides a time line of Ali Wali history:

WTF?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-08 19:37|| 2006-05-08 19:37|| Front Page Top

#5 nice writing LOL!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-08 19:38|| 2006-05-08 19:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I like the reporting better when they give credit to coalition forces and leave any mention of a TF145 out.

Posted by 49 Pan">49 Pan 2006-05-08 20:23|| 2006-05-08 20:23|| Front Page Top

#7 It's the CounterTerrorism blog, 49 Pan. They are interpreting what Centcom didn't say. I'm afraid people can't be stopped from thinking such romantic nonsense. ;-)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-05-08 20:32|| 2006-05-08 20:32|| Front Page Top

#8 Personally, I would like to see TF 145 become a romantic legend - kind of a cross between The Ghost Who Walks and the RAB but with more firepower.

Blood soaked patch of sand and a few scattered entrails in the desert? Must have been TF 145. Pyramid of skulls left by an intersection before dawn? TF 145. Car battery dead? Probably TF 145. Rumors of stern-faced men sneaking into Iran carrying cages filled with gene-spliced chubacabras? You know who!

But I guess I'm just a romantic at heart.

Posted by SteveS 2006-05-08 21:22|| 2006-05-08 21:22|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL, SteveS. Indeed, a legend is born. I need new wallpaper... Got a pic of one of those skull pyramid thingies?

Posted by Groque Cruns4159 2006-05-08 21:29|| 2006-05-08 21:29|| Front Page Top

#10 or a US-controlled Chupacabra!

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-05-08 21:44|| 2006-05-08 21:44|| Front Page Top

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