01-10-2005, 01:14 PM
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Getting Medieval on your ass
Location: 13th century Europe
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There was no one in the three targeted houses bar women and children. Baij's police station had been blown up and its police had fled. The town's English-speaking former mayor, Abdullah Fahad, was frank about the town's allegiances. "There are terrorists here, not from Syria, not from Mosul, but from Baij. Some are Baathists and some are Islamists and before they hated each other but now they work together, and they tell people that if they don't work with them they will kill them."
Mr Fahad, who claimed to have survived several assassination attempts and whose son had been kidnapped, refused to help the Americans on the grounds that he would be murdered if he did. When the American commander offered to protect him, he replied: "Thank you, but you are not always here. This is the first time I have ever seen you." Whereupon the American troops labelled Mr Fahad a "bad guy", and debated whether to detain him.
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Here's a "bad" guy from the article above. You even read it? So much for your black and white world.
Last edited by Coppertop; 01-10-2005 at 01:58 PM..
Reason: spelling
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