Sadr aide says Iraqis capture coalition soldiers (unconfirm)

[tuckerhat]

Might be another unsubstantiated claim...hopefully.

http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/L07598356.htm


07 Apr 2004 13:29:12 GMT
Sadr aide says Iraqis capture coalition soldiers
(Adds more details, background)

BEIRUT, April 7 (*******) - A top aide to the militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said on Wednesday that his supporters had captured a number of soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition during clashes currently taking place across a large swathe of Iraq.

"Some tribes have captured some occupation forces on the streets," Qays al-Khazali told a news conference in the Shi'ite Muslim holy city of Najaf.

He gave no further details. The news conference was broadcast by Lebanon's al-Manar television station, mouthpiece of the militant Shi'ite Hizbollah group.

There was no immediate comment on the report from the command of U.S.-led forces in Baghdad.

Khazali denounced a U.S. military pledge earlier on Wednesday to destroy Sadr's Mehdi Army militia.

"The Mehdi Army is the Iraqi people and destroying the Iraqi people is a crime," he said.

Sadr's militia has been battling the occupying forces across south and central Iraq since Sunday.

[Maverick77]

Ill believe it when I see it.

[Uncle Sam]

They aslo killed 500,000,000 U.S. troops...But hey, that's "unconfirmed"

[Resevoir Hogs]

Ya until the tapes come out or units start reporting MIAs then claims like this have **** cred.

On a similar note I remember a student telling me that his tribe in Iraq had captured 56 US troops. This was way back during the invasion. Btw he was Shia. Course that was a pile as well.

[California Joe]

This cat thinks he's Tony Montana doesn't he.

[Resevoir Hogs]

Ha probably

[SerbPVO]

If true...they're already dead.
These guys got no appreciation for modern rules of war, ie. PoW treatment.

I read how they executed that poor El Salvador soldier a few days ago...

[Brozozo]

Ya until the tapes come out or units start reporting MIAs then claims like this have **** cred.

On a similar note I remember a student telling me that his tribe in Iraq had captured 56 US troops. This was way back during the invasion. Btw he was Shia. Course that was a pile as well.

If he said that to me I'd show him pictures of the columns of thousands of Iraqi POWs, thousands of burnt out vehicles from both wars and pictures of his tribe members lying dead in ditches with 2 in their chest and one in the head. I wonder how proud he'd be then.

[HELEX]

Well, at least it is possible...

[Brozozo]

I read how they executed that poor El Salvador soldier a few days ago...

Hmm, didn't hear bout that one, what happened?

[Resevoir Hogs]

Brozozo wrote

Resevoir Hogs wrote:
Ya until the tapes come out or units start reporting MIAs then claims like this have **** cred.

On a similar note I remember a student telling me that his tribe in Iraq had captured 56 US troops. This was way back during the invasion. Btw he was Shia. Course that was a pile as well.


If he said that to me I'd show him pictures of the columns of thousands of Iraqi POWs, thousands of burnt out vehicles from both wars and pictures of his tribe members lying dead in ditches with 2 in their chest and one in the head. I wonder how proud he'd be then.

Yea I just laughed at him and walked off. No patients to waste on liars and enemy symps. Though he did get expelled for other reasons latter woot


And wasn't the Salvadorian soldier killed in action? not excecuted?

[SerbPVO]

I read how they executed that poor El Salvador soldier a few days ago...

Hmm, didn't hear bout that one, what happened?

They shoved a hand grenade in his mouth.

[Resevoir Hogs]

ummm do you have a link to the story on that Serb?

[Brozozo]

I read how they executed that poor El Salvador soldier a few days ago...

Hmm, didn't hear bout that one, what happened?

They shoved a hand grenade in his mouth.

If that's true, that's absolutely horrible! They should reataliate with even more horrible acts, I'd totally support that and would even carry them out myself!!! I'm absolutely at a loss of words. May they and their children burn in f*cking hell if that's true. NO MERCY!!!

Try to get a link to a story though, don't want to waste all this passion on nothing.

[Resevoir Hogs]

From what I've read of SerbPVO's posts I doubt that is true.
Also what news agency reports with that much graphic detail. All the reports I've read about him indicated he was shot in combat. Not excecuted with a grenade (which is in itself a rediculous concept)

Look I'm all for seeing justice done and the coalition forces coming out on top but we have to show constraint and commiting worse acts than excecution wouldn't help our position in the least.

[Romulus]

Wonder who their spokesman is? Baghdad Bob?

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/_39061593_min-ap-203body.jpg

[Marmot1]

Wonder who their spokesman is? Baghdad Bob?

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/_39061593_min-ap-203body.jpg
You mean Comic Ali? (European name of Bagdad Bob) ;)

[cut]

comical ali (as a reference to chemical ali)

as for the coalition soldiers claim, the pentagon said they were alll accounted for, but a reporter and his photographer were captured, apparently put to trial and then released.

[SeanAshi]

Are the Iraqi shiites getting support from Iran?

[James]

I thought Comical Ali said that we weren't even in Baghdad yet...

This is very confusing...

[Russian Texan]

What's the difference between these two?

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040407/capt.llj10604072037.rumsfeld_llj106.jpg

and

http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/images/_39061593_min-ap-203body.jpg

Atleast the Iraqi dude was funny, Rumsfeld is just a pathetic lying SOB...

Not looking to start any flames here, I just hate that Rumsfelf m****f***.

[American Patriot]

Rumsfeld is a good guy.

[Ratamacue]

I thought Comical Ali said that we weren't even in Baghdad yet...

This is very confusing...

I've heard rumors that he was lying all along.

[Tane Angle]

rofl

[Tane Angle]

By the way, Rumsfeld is an arrogant, ignorant explitive who's done horrible things for our nation and our people. I'm not impressed by the monkey man either; shrub, as James would call him. But that's just my personal opinion. Have a good one, and just some thoughts... ;)

[Apogee]

By the way, Rumsfeld is an arrogant, ignorant explitive who's done horrible things for our nation and our people. But that's just my personal opinion. Have a good one, and just some thoughts... ;)

I don't think I'm allowed to comment on this one, as he's my boss and all.

[Tane Angle]

Hey bud, great to see you. :D How's it going up there?

Can you comment on my edit in?

[Romulus]

Since when did this hand gesture become the "in" thing for politicians to do when they talk??? All of them do it from Clinton, Bush, etc...... God it annoys the hell outta me.

http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20040407/capt.llj10604072037.rumsfeld_llj106.jpg

[TriggerPuller]

Chemical Ali and Baghdad Bob are 2 different people!

TP

[rafaelcb]

I read how they executed that poor El Salvador soldier a few days ago...

Hmm, didn't hear bout that one, what happened?

They shoved a hand grenade in his mouth.

This is false propaganda once more. The Salvadorean soldier was killed in action. Never taken prisioner nor executed.

Source: CNN

"La muerte del soldado salvadoreño se produjo en enfrentamientos entre las fuerzas lideradas por el ejército español y partidarios del clérigo chiíta Moqtada al-Sadr, cerca de la ciudad sagrada iraquí de Nayaf, dijeron fuentes médicas."
=
"According to medical sources, the death of the salvadorean soldier happened during fights betwwen spanish-led forces and followers of shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, close to the holy city of Nayaf."

[Soulhunter]

Chemical Ali of course is different from Baghdad Bob!

But Baghdad Bob was also called Comical Ali in reference to the chemical one ...

And: Rumsfeld for mayor of Falludjah! If he's so tough as he thinks he is, he could handle that job easily ...