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2004-04-07 Iraq-Jordan

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Posted by Chuck Simmins 2004-04-07 2:05:59 PM|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Near the decimated shell of a U.S. humvee lay the body of one attacker clad in what Royer called an "old-style" surplus U.S. flak jacket. An Iraqi man working for the Marines as a translator paced toward one of the bodies, kicked it, then turned away.

Posted by Liberalhawk 2004-04-07 2:18:24 PM|| 2004-04-07 2:18:24 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 If we build a giant DNA database of all the perps and corpses, eventually we could take a thug off the streets, sample him, compare his DNA to the database and have a pretty good idea if he is "in the family." Scary but cool.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-04-07 2:46:32 PM|| 2004-04-07 2:46:32 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 The patrolling Marines were slammed by M-16s...

Really? M-16s and not, say, AK-47s?

Posted by eLarson 2004-04-07 5:37:10 PM|| 2004-04-07 5:37:10 PM|| Front Page Top

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