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Iraq

Security forces arrest 11 mooks, seize guns in Basra

2008-06-16

Basra, June15, (VOI)-Joint army and police forces on Sunday arrested eleven wanted persons during raid operations conducted in Basra, a police source said. Joint Iraqi army and police forces conducted raid-and-search operations in different parts of Basra, capturing eleven persons on a wanted list, a Basra police source, who requested anonmity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq.

The source noted the joint forces seized 45 mortar rounds, 23 anti-tank rockets, twelve canon shellings, ten landmines and seven hand pommegrenade. He added forces also seized a Katyush rocjets, 14 anti-tank mines, 23 bolt wires.

No shutter guns, of course ...

Posted by:Steve White

#11 mhw, potato in French is pomme de terre, apple is pomme. Stupid? Odd comment.

Posted by: remoteman 2008-06-16 17:51

#10 Can you confirm that the R.A.B. are now working as mercs in Iraq now, Steve, or is that still classified?

Hush! That's not until after they finish training the Denver police on crowd control.

Posted by: Steve 2008-06-16 16:38

#9 seems both Potato and Apple mean "Pomme" in French and both take the feminine definite article.

stupid language

Posted by: mhw 2008-06-16 14:20

#8 Excellent synosis, Admiral; however you omitted the obligatory tag line that follows the demise of the suspect during the inevitabel 'cross-fire'(wanted on the venrable 12 systems):"He's dead, Jim."

Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-06-16 13:57

#7 No, the "Potato Masher" was a WW2 german hand grenade.

Posted by: Redneck Jim 2008-06-16 13:55

#6 Nope. Potato(e). Pomme Frits are what frogs call freedom fries. N'cest pas, A5089?

And with that, I have exhausted whatever French I recall from 45 years ago.

I believe the colloquial term used by GIs was potato masher.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-06-16 13:26

#5 I think pomme means apple in French, mhw. Does that help? ;-)

Posted by: trailing wife 2008-06-16 13:13

#4 I am not sure what a 7-hand pommegrenade is or what a rocjet is.

I'm guessing these are transliterations for Iraqi slang.

Posted by: mhw 2008-06-16 13:09

#3 The shutter gun is a prized piece of R.A.B. evidence, which is traditionally brought out during raids as a kind of talisman.

1) Tip off
2) Visit suspect at 3am
3) Interrogation reveals location of weapons cache / gang hideout
4) Police take suspect to hidey, shootout ensues
5) Suspect tries to run away, is shot in crossfire.
6) Gang members arrested, rinse & repeat.

Can you confirm that the R.A.B. are now working as mercs in Iraq now, Steve, or is that still classified?

Posted by: Admiral Allan Ackbar 2008-06-16 11:32

#2 A shuttergun is the traditional weapon of choice of polar bear hunters in Bangladesh.

Posted by: bruce 2008-06-16 07:12

#1 Alright, I'm ignorant. So, whatza shuttergun?

Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2008-06-16 02:02

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