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| Mar 11th, 2003 12:56 PM | ||
| El Blanco | "Can we just hang out here until the fighting starts? You can take our weapons and we will officially surrender once the war gets underway. We just don't wanna go back. We'll never hear the end of it." | |
| Mar 11th, 2003 12:13 PM | ||
| Matt Harty |
From the sound of it, the soldiers didn't have much of a unit, if any, to go back too. 
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| Mar 11th, 2003 12:10 PM | ||
| kellychaos |
How would you like to be in the shoes of the soldiers who had to return to their units after that little miscue? 
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| Mar 10th, 2003 05:15 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
agh Quote:
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| Mar 9th, 2003 11:36 PM | ||
| CaptainBubba |
They couldn't take them as P.O.W.s because we aren't at war yet silly 
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| Mar 9th, 2003 11:23 PM | ||
| Jeanette X |
Iraqi soliders Iraqi soliders are forced to serve. If they refuse, they are tortured. Why the hell didn't they just take them as P.O.W.s?! |
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| Mar 9th, 2003 02:13 PM | ||
| CaptainBubba | I don't blame the troops. I blame their superiors for not preparing them for such an event. It goes against everything thats been spouted about us wanting them to defy Saddam and leave the country. | |
| Mar 9th, 2003 02:09 PM | ||
| El Blanco | Maybe not a war crime, but they definatley should have offered to help them defect. Oh, well, can you blame them for not knowing what to do? | |
| Mar 9th, 2003 01:24 PM | ||
| CaptainBubba |
Sorry, we need to at least kill a few of you. SADDAM'S SOLDIERS SURRENDER Mar 9 2003 Mike Hamilton reports from Camp Coyote in Kuwait TERRIFIED Iraqi soldiers have crossed the Kuwait border and tried to surrender to British forces - because they thought the war had already started. The motley band of a dozen troops waved the white flag as British paratroopers tested their weapons during a routine exercise. The stunned Paras from 16 Air Assault Brigade were forced to tell the Iraqis they were not firing at them, and ordered them back to their home country telling them it was too early to surrender. The drama unfolded last Monday as the Para batallion tested mortars and artillery weapons to make sure they were working properly. The Iraqis found a way across the fortified border, which is sealed off with barbed-wire fencing, watchtowers and huge trenches. A British Army source in Kuwait contacted me to explain how the extraordinary surrender bid unfolded. The source said: "The British guys on the front-line could not believe what was happening. They were on pre-war exercises when all of a sudden these Iraqis turned up out of nowhere, with their hands in the air, saying they wanted to surrender. "They had heard firing and thought it was the start of the war. "The Paras are a tough, battle-hardened lot but were moved by the plight of the Iraqis. There was nothing they could do other than send them back. "They were a motley bunch and you could barely describe them as soldiers - they were poorly equipped and didn't even have proper boots. Their physical condition was dreadful and they had obviously not had a square meal for ages. No one has ever known a group of so-called soldiers surrender before a shot has been fired in anger." Last night the Ministry of Defence officially denied the incident had taken place, but the story was corroborated by an intelligence source. Meanwhile Saddam Hussein has ordered thousands of troops back to Baghdad as he turns the city into a fortress. It is believed that two rings of steel are being established around Baghdad. The outer one consists of regular Iraqi army soldiers and the inner one is made up of Republican Guard fighters - thought to be the only troops that will put up fierce resistance. -In my opinion Refusing to give these guys asylum should be considered a war crime. In all possibility these same British troops could be killing every single one of these guys next week.
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