Arab fighters coming to Iraq like bugs to a bug zapper
Of 70 killed in a recent attack by the US, villagers recognized only one.
"Packets of Algerian tobacco, paperwork from Egypt and Yemen, and Saudi religious tracts and shopping tags were found among the scorched detritus of the camp yesterday by The Telegraph, the first British newspaper to reach the remote location.
"Local people who buried the bodies within 24 hours, in keeping with Muslim teaching, recognised just one man. They believe that the rest of the heavily armed group, who arrived by lorry last weekend, were foreigners and Iraqis from other parts of the country."
"...Scattered on the ground were approximately 20 pairs of crumpled black trousers and jackets - the uniform of the fanatical Fedayeen Saddam (Saddam's Martyrs). Military rucksacks and kitbags lay alongside, as well as civilian clothes and training shoes. The remains of a medical kit of bandaging, syringes, painkillers and sutures suggested the fighters had been well-equipped.
"Along a gully, the remnants of the group's arms cache stretched for hundreds of yards. About 30 hand-held surface-to-air missile launchers, countless missiles, mortar rounds and flares, and the remnants of rocket-propelled grenades, were strewn across the ground. The scorched face of the rock escarpment where the fighters had pitched their tents bore testimony to the ferocity of the attack.
"They probably thought they had found an ideal hiding place next to the bullrushes of a stream in otherwise unforgiving terrain; instead it became a shooting gallery from which there was no escape."
Of 70 killed in a recent attack by the US, villagers recognized only one.
"Packets of Algerian tobacco, paperwork from Egypt and Yemen, and Saudi religious tracts and shopping tags were found among the scorched detritus of the camp yesterday by The Telegraph, the first British newspaper to reach the remote location.
"Local people who buried the bodies within 24 hours, in keeping with Muslim teaching, recognised just one man. They believe that the rest of the heavily armed group, who arrived by lorry last weekend, were foreigners and Iraqis from other parts of the country."
"...Scattered on the ground were approximately 20 pairs of crumpled black trousers and jackets - the uniform of the fanatical Fedayeen Saddam (Saddam's Martyrs). Military rucksacks and kitbags lay alongside, as well as civilian clothes and training shoes. The remains of a medical kit of bandaging, syringes, painkillers and sutures suggested the fighters had been well-equipped.
"Along a gully, the remnants of the group's arms cache stretched for hundreds of yards. About 30 hand-held surface-to-air missile launchers, countless missiles, mortar rounds and flares, and the remnants of rocket-propelled grenades, were strewn across the ground. The scorched face of the rock escarpment where the fighters had pitched their tents bore testimony to the ferocity of the attack.
"They probably thought they had found an ideal hiding place next to the bullrushes of a stream in otherwise unforgiving terrain; instead it became a shooting gallery from which there was no escape."
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