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| Iraqi "resistance" "captures" two GIs’ ID cards |
| 2003-08-22 |
| A previously unknown Iraqi group obtained two U.S. soldiers’ identification cards and claimed to be holding them captive, but Pentagon officials said the soldiers were safe and had never been missing. A statement left with the two cards at a Lebanese Broadcast Corp. office on Friday claimed the Americans were captured in attacks near Baghdad. The station broadcast close-ups of the two cards, prompting the Pentagon to investigate. "The report is not true. Both soldiers are accounted for," said Spc. Anthony Reinoso, an Army spokesman in Iraq. One of the soldiers, Andrew C. Peters of Indiana, Pa., lost his Pennsylvania driver’s license when he was injured in a land mine explosion on Aug. 1, officials said. Peters, 37, was in surgery Friday at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, said Col. David Ellis, the hospital’s acting commander. "He is doing very well," Ellis said. "We captured his driver’s license. If he don’t have that he can’t drive or buy booze, so he might as well be captured. That counts." The other card bore the name of Capt. Katherine V. Rose of the 142nd Corps Support Battalion, based at Fort Polk, La. The battalion is currently deployed in Iraq. Rose also is safe, military officials said. The identification for Rose was not an official military ID and appeared to be a business card. "We filched it from the little fishbowl full of business cards at the Bob Evans in Tikrit. That counts as a ’capture’ too!" Pentagon officials said the military was investigating the incident to determine how the previously unknown group, calling itself Al-Madina al-Munawara "We wanna liberate Iraq from liberty." It threatened attacks against U.S. troops and soldiers sent to Iraq from other countries. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 Poor fellow. He might die from the infection in his finger! |
| Posted by: Charles 2003-8-22 4:32:48 PM |
| #5 Did the ID cards put up a fight? Yes. Poor Mahmoud, he got the worst paper cut you ever saw! |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-8-22 3:42:56 PM |
| #4 Did they think that nobody would notice that the people were not actually captured? Negligable gain and a further eroding of Islamic credibility. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-8-22 2:52:39 PM |
| #3 Did the ID cards put up a fight? Those Ba'athists are such brave, courageous fighters! |
| Posted by: Dar 2003-8-22 1:53:40 PM |
| #2 I guess this means that Capt. Rose wins a free lunch. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2003-8-22 1:52:00 PM |
| #1 At least you don't have to feed and hide a bizness card... |
| Posted by: seafarious 2003-8-22 1:48:37 PM |