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2006-10-23 Iraq

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Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-23 18:43|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Holy Shiite!

CNN's John Roberts just reported that US troops have raided a private Iraqi TV station in connection with the search for the missing soldier and uncovered a large cache of weapons and explosives. They are also reporting that the missing person is not an American but an Iraqi translator. Roberts is embedded with the same unit as the missing translator.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2006-10-23 18:52|| 2006-10-23 18:52|| Front Page Top

#2 Yeah Fox hit this with the little bit of info they had a little bit ago and indicated it was a translator and, thus, probably not a US soldier.

Posted by .com 2006-10-23 18:55|| 2006-10-23 18:55|| Front Page Top

#3 CNN's John Roberts just reported that US troops have raided a private Iraqi TV station in connection with the search for the missing soldier and uncovered a large cache of weapons and explosives.

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Posted by mrp 2006-10-23 19:31|| 2006-10-23 19:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Television stations now have their own private weapons caches? What do the reporters imagine is happening beyond the entry lobby doors?

Posted by trailing wife 2006-10-23 19:48|| 2006-10-23 19:48|| Front Page Top

#5 The ones that are overt propaganda machines do, it would seem.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 20:26|| 2006-10-23 20:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Private TV station...

Hostile to the US...

Armed and a danger to the US...

HOLY SHIT!!! THEY RAIDED CNN!!!

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2006-10-23 20:48|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-10-23 20:48|| Front Page Top

#7 Inshallah.

Posted by lotp 2006-10-23 20:59|| 2006-10-23 20:59|| Front Page Top

#8 RC, LOL!

Posted by twobyfour 2006-10-23 21:04|| 2006-10-23 21:04|| Front Page Top

#9 They discovered a weapons cache in Iraq?
NO F'ING WAY!

Posted by Floluter Phemp9244 2006-10-23 22:28|| 2006-10-23 22:28|| Front Page Top

#10 And after the Iraqi National Security Advisor, or some such office, found out about the weapons seizure, he ordered (successfully) the US to return the weapons.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-10-23 22:35|| 2006-10-23 22:35|| Front Page Top

#11 Yeah Fox hit this with the little bit of info they had a little bit ago and indicated it was a translator and, thus, probably not a US soldier.

Sounds like he's both: translator and USA officer.

Via foxnews.com: An employee at Baghdad's al-Furat TV, which was raided by American forces earlier Monday, said the U.S. forces conducting the search told him they were looking for an abducted American officer of Iraqi descent.

I read elsewhere that he's an American of Iraqi descent and a US soldier.

God be with him and his family.

Posted by xbalanke 2006-10-23 23:23|| 2006-10-23 23:23|| Front Page Top

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