Iraq: US Agents disguised in Arab dress tried to blow up car Iraqis apprehend two Americans disguised as Arabs trying to detonate a car bomb in a residential neighborhood of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district on Tuesday. 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 told Quds Press that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon (11 October 2005). 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 Iraqi puppet police. Five minutes after the arrival of the Iraqi puppet police on the scene a large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed to the astonishment of the residents of the area. Quds Press spoke by telephone with a member of the al-Ghazaliyah puppet police who confirmed the incident, saying that the two men were non-Arab foreigners but declined to be more precise about their nationality. Quds Press pointed out that about a month ago, the Iraqi puppet police in the southern Iraqi city of al-Basrah arrested two Britons whom they accused of attempting to cause an explosion in the city. The Britons were taken into custody by the Iraqi puppet police only to be broken out of prison by an assault of British occupation troops. That incident has created a tense relationship between the British and the local puppet authorities in al-Basrah, Quds Press noted. http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/66432
FUCK..TERRORISTS MOTHERFUCKERS! US TROOPS FUCK HOME!! the episode yesterday is proberly US troops too!
Car bombs are generally detonated remotely. The implication of the story seems to be that Americans want to set off bombs in Iraq, which is not consistent with what they actually do, which is go around and defuse bombs.
Correction: Americans go around and defuse bombs that are a threat to "themselves". All which, in turn, leaves the possibility of keeping the War on Terrorism fueled by "insurgent" attacks on Iraqi civilians going. Iraqi civilians aren't American soldiers so their protection of bomb defusals isn't as great. And hell, above all, they'd still just be labelled as "collateral damage". - N
It's bad PR no matter who gets blowed up. Aren't they SUPPOSED to blow up a "booby trapped car"? That sounds like a good idea to me.