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FreeMarketNews.com
Friday, October
14, 2005
It's happened
again - allied troops being caught with bombs. This time it is the
Americans captured in the act of setting off a car bomb in Baghdad. Last
time, as FMNN reported only weeks ago, two British soldiers, apparently
working for British intelligence, were caught near Baghdad similarly
equipped.
According to the
Mirror-World, "A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in
Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of
a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday. … Residents of western
Baghdad's al-Ghazaliyah district [said] the people had apprehended the
Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood
in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon. Local people found they looked
suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was
when they discovered that they were Americans and called the … police."
Just as in the British incident, the Iraq police arrived at
approximately the same time as allied military forces - and the two men
were removed from Iraq custody and wisked away before any questioning
could take place.
The incidents are
said to be fueling both puzzlement and animosity among Iraqis. Yet the
motivation behind such activities remains formally unknown since in both
cases the soldiers involved have been removed with an efficiency that
has quashed any attempts at an interrogation.
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