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2008-06-16 Iraq

Security forces arrest 11 mooks, seize guns in Basra

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Posted by Steve White 2008-06-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

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

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2008-06-16 02:02|| 2008-06-16 02:02|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by bruce 2008-06-16 07:12|| 2008-06-16 07:12|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-16 11:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-16 13:09|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by trailing wife ">trailing wife 2008-06-16 13:13|| 2008-06-16 13:13|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-16 13:26|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2008-06-16 13:55|| 2008-06-16 13:55|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-16 13:57|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2008-06-16 14:20|| Front Page Top

#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">Steve 2008-06-16 16:38|| 2008-06-16 16:38|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by remoteman 2008-06-16 17:51|| 2008-06-16 17:51|| Front Page Top

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