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| 183 Iranians killed in Iraq since April |
| 2003-08-22 |
| Head of Ilam governorate court, Mohammed Parani said Thursday that 183 Iranians have died after entering Iraq, illegally to visit holy sites since the fall of Saddam Hussein last April. Iran’s Official News Agency (IRNA) quoted the official as saying "the Iranian authorities received the bodies of 183 Iranians who died in Iraq during the past four months with only 175 remains delivered to their families while the others remain unidentified." Shot up too bad to identify? According to IRNA, he added that the cause of deaths was due to increasing heat in Iraq and mine fields left from the Iranian-Iraqi war. Mine fields, yeh, that would explain the "wounds". Iran had warned its citizens not to cross the borders with Iraq and stopped 9,000 Iranians from entering Iraq last week. Somebody is quietly shipping bodies home, think they’re sending a message? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #9 Yeah - hold your fire. Seem like good points - and no weird breathing in the graph. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2003-8-22 6:39:49 PM |
| #8 Hey guys-- I don't think Steveerossa is the infamous Stevey Robinson. (1) This one can sort of spell, and (2) though he calls us fools, he seems to have a few valid thoughts. |
| Posted by: TPF 2003-8-22 6:35:59 PM |
| #7 most of those Iranian pilgrims are not anti American...most r very religious and tend to mind their own business. American soldiers see them everyday and dont bother them. However, younger Iranian pilgrims have been very amazed at the sight of the American soldiers. And lately i read, they have been overcoming their shyness and walk upto the American soldiers and ask them for a picture taken together. The stoic robocop-like marine figure with shades on is sort of Admired by Iran's youth the passage said. They then go to Iran to show off their picture and maybe sell them to N-Sync crazed young persian chicks. What do you know |
| Posted by: steveerossa 2003-8-22 6:27:15 PM |
| #6 That was a long one, Stevey. Better go take a nap and rest up. But first...mom's got cake and ice cream! |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-8-22 4:06:38 PM |
| #5 Hey stevey pilsbury boy I wonder how many of those"pilgrams"had ak-47's and grenades under those funny dresses they wear? Hope they put a pigs bladder in each body bag. |
| Posted by: raptor 2003-8-22 3:58:29 PM |
| #4 "hey fools"...yep stevey robinson's back and bigger than ever. "i tend to read alot"... must be "My Big Picture Books" huh? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-8-22 2:15:15 PM |
| #3 hey fools those Iranians entering are not combatants and probably did not get shot. Iranians go to Iraq as pilgrims to Najaf and Kerbala. Right now there is a thriving trade in transporting dead bodies from Iran to be buried in Najaf at IMAM ALI'S shrine. Most old men from Iran always make the journey to Iraq knowing fullwell that due to age and weather they will probably die in Iraq upon which they will be buried together with Imam Ali at the shrine. It is a shiite thing. The American troops have sealed offical border crossing to Iran and thus the Iranians have to sneak using back routes and thus the dead bodies decompose along the way since it takes longer to get to Najaf and when they get there they r badly decomposed. It is a shiite thing. Najaf now draws top dollar from burying dead shiites from Around the world. some saudi pay a million dollars to be buried in Iraq. Special smuggling gangs which operated undercover during Hussein are now in the open cashing in. that is the clarification, i tend to read alot. |
| Posted by: steveerossa 2003-8-22 2:07:42 PM |
| #2 Not enough. |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-8-22 1:11:27 PM |
| #1 holy sites You mean Krazy Kassim's Kalashnikovs-R-Us? The Great Uncle Saddam Secret Resistance Headquarters & Used Camel Emporium? The 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized) Desert Live Fire Range? Those holy sites? |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-8-22 12:22:12 PM |