Go Back to the B3 Home Page
Complaints, compliments, arguments? Email me.
[<< "Are NGOs the next to go?"] [Archive Index] [>>"This is a fascinating article"]
06/23/2003 Archived Entry: "All those Middle Eastern countries look the same..."
All those Middle Eastern countries look the same...
Even more on the Saddam-not-dead story - it gets worse, folks...
- A US attack last week on a convoy believed to have been carrying Iraqi leaders injured five Syrians and may have occurred on Syrian territory, Pentagon officials said. CNN reported that Syrian border guards were engaged during the incident Thursday, but Pentagon officials would not identify the injured Syrians or confirm if US forces clashed with Syrian forces on the border.
The attack aimed at suspected "leadership targets" in the convoy, which was heading toward Syria, officials said.
"There were a few Syrian nationals involved in the incident," said Lieutenant Colonel Gary Keck, a Pentagon spokesman. "A few may have been injured. We are treating those."
A US defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity said five Syrian nationals were injured, three of whom were treated for their injuries.
"It is still to be determined which side of the border" the convoy was on when it was hit, Keck said, adding that the United States was working with the Syrian government.
The tail-chasing continues. Saddam, wherever he is, laughs at us.
Replies: somebody speaks up.
How about a Silent-Era movie analogy?
Osama is Charlie Chaplin, Saddam is Buster Keaton, and the US military/intelligence agencies are the Keystone Cops.
This is the stuff of great comedy. Oh, wait, people are dying.
Posted by Metropolitan99 @ 06/24/2003 10:50 AM NY
