Something's Up... Iraqi Troops Surrendering!

[Lost Cause]

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.

No one has ever known a group of soldiers to surrender before a shot has been fired in anger."


www.sundaymirror.co.uk

Rivers of blood..my ass!

 

[Guest]

Thank God

now maybe the rest of them will surrender too

 

[sweet soft kiss]

At least they are improving... In Desert Storm they were surrendering to CNN camermen...At least they upgraded to surrendering to real military men...

 

[Sue69]

Thank God

now maybe the rest of them will surrender too

Ditto!

 

[Killswitch]

lol....you cant surrender now....come back next week.....sheesh.

I should have added the British 16th air assault brigade to my gay list....

 

[android1966]

Premature capitulation?

 

[Lost Cause]

I feel sorry for them...

Those poor souls out there living in fear for their lives, they can't go home, they can't go forward. Then to add insult to injury, they're told they aren't good enough to surrender ahead of schedule.
I have a vision of them like scolded dogs hiding over the other side of a sand dune, eating toenails, and waiting for the real invasion.
We ought to go fetch them back, so they can point out landmines and such.

I hope we hurry up so those poor guys can get some hot chow!

 

[Viper Vic]

Premature capitulation?

Now that is funny!

 

[miles]

pp, donkey shit, redwave, and the usual riffraff are going to be so disappointed. They love talking about thousands of GI's coming home in body bags.

Don't you know all of Iraq's military is quaking in their boots? How much longer before one of them poisons Saddam's hummus or puts a bullet behind his ear?

 

[Lost Cause]

Those Iraqi soldiers may get captured soon..

The news just announced that the U.N. observers are being withdrawn from the Iraq/Kuwait border under a "Condition Red" evacuation order.

 

[Guest]

Re: I feel sorry for them...

Those poor souls out there living in fear for their lives, they can't go home, they can't go forward. Then to add insult to injury, they're told they aren't good enough to surrender ahead of schedule.
I have a vision of them like scolded dogs hiding over the other side of a sand dune, eating toenails, and waiting for the real invasion.
We ought to go fetch them back, so they can point out landmines and such.

I hope we hurry up so those poor guys can get some hot chow!

I thought almost this exact same thing.

 

[Viper Vic]

Don't you know all of Iraq's military is quaking in their boots? How much longer before one of them poisons Saddam's hummus or puts a bullet behind his ear?

Soon I hope.

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

I find this rather hard to believe based on a good understanding of the 16th para. For one, they are that professional that they wouldn't even bother with fucking training exercises and would already be within Iraqi territory knocking cunts out. The war has already started and been going on for longer than most of you think. It is just the US and Britian are using the no fly zones as an excuse to bomb targets within Iraq to allow troops on the ground to push forth to take various prime positions.
A paratrooper is someone that is dropped from a plane behind enemy lines on a specific mission. Not a soldier waiting at the border running around doing training exercises.

What I do however find hilarious is how a lot of Americans within this thread are acting as though the Iraqi soldiers surrendered to US troops.
Just remember one thing ok? They were BRITISH!(if indeed there is any real truth behind it). So don't carry on as though the Iraqi's were frightened because they thought they were American. The only people that really fear American troops are their own allies. Seems the most lives lost in wars these days of coalition forces are from America's sloppy tactics and cunts that can't aim straight.

Most likely just a government initiated propaganda stunt to help Blair win over some backing over here. Afterall, when around 90% of people are against you, anything to make them feel as though the war will be over in a day or two could help you at the polls next trip.

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

Just for the record, wasn't it George W Bush that clearly stated that the US want a regime change to 'liberate' the Iraqi people?

Surely if these Iraqi troops came out of nowhere with their hands up, they would be defecting? They are apart of a regime run by a tyrant and a dictator aren't they?

Sending them back would surely be sending them to their deaths wouldn't it?

Maybe they got one of the millions of leaflets dropped by US planes saying to surrender or face the consequences?

Isn't there a barbwired electric fence along the border of Iraq and Kuwait? I guess they got through one of the cut out holes in it that the Kuwaiti's have accused US marines in the area of doing.

Or don't the US people hear of all these things going on?

 

[Lost Cause]

Just where, Kunt ala Mode.......

Did anyone say they were US Troops?
You suffer from severe US envy, I know that American troops would have taken them to HQ Intel for questioning and chow, not send them back into the wastelands.

 

[miles]

Kuntmode

Since I have you on ignore, I don't know what you said, but I'm sure it was something stupid.

 

[busybody..]

Seems that the Iraqi's not only use French arms....

But.....

Have French war attitudes......

Firecracker goes off......Raise you white hankies.........

 

[bluespoke]

Interesting that people are getting hot under the collar about a report in a Sunday 'comic'.

Nobody else appears to have reported the event

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

And you said this because?

"We ought to go fetch them back, so they can point out landmines and such.

I hope we hurry up so those poor guys can get some hot chow!"

Who is we? Your suggestion and the way most insinuations seem to come across on this thread is that the troops are surrendering based on US efforts.

The headlines should have read, "British troops put fear into Iraqi's without even firing a shot on a war footing"

or

"Iraqi's surrender ahead of time knowing British troops are on the march"

If they were US troops it would read, "Iraqi's dig in knowing US forces like to hide up in the sky out of reach"

or

"US forces capture surrendering Iraqi troops, take them to their interogation camp in Cuba and beat them to death"

or how about "Iraqi's surrender to US troops and are mowed down by gung-ho Redneck from Texas."

 

[Rooster]

Premature capitulation?

LOL

 

[Lost Cause]

The report...

I've been surfing the boobtube, and have heard the report on three radio stations, and two national/international channels so far.

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

False report.

But Bush/Blair need to get their numbers up for supporting the invasion. Nice little tactic. Sending them back was a no no. Makes people think the liberation statement was a crock of shit.

It's okay though. Americans believe everything they read, hear and see. It is within your nature. That's why when you are wrong, you all spend considerable time arguing to prove you are right. Even if the majority of the world says this invasion is wrong, you have to fucking well carry on to justify it as being right, so to appease yourselves and not back down and look embarassed.

If Bush doesn't go in, he gets laughed at by Saddam and ends up like his father. If he does, the rest of the world shake their head and look upon him as a mass murderer of innocent women and children and no different than the person he is trying to oust.

The WORLD is against this invasion, as are many of the people in the countries that are planning to go in.

Surely some of you aren't believing what the Bush administration are telling you?

Why did three American TV networks suddenly cancel interviews with a British MP who wanted to spill the beans on a document he came into possession of meant for 10 Downing Street. It clearly states the benefits for those who support this invasion, and what parts of Iraq the British can control once they acheive victory?

Think about it. Corrupt fucking cunts everywhere.

 

[fgarvb1]

Are you sure they weren't French?

 

[pop_54]

Yo all

Calm down folks, they'll surrender again as soon as the para's stop firing blank rounds.

Simple fact in case it had escaped everyones notice, no war has yet been declared, *No war* so *No prisoners of war allowed by international law*.
The British military always abide by international law, any Iraqi's that chose to surrender now are officially refugee's not prisoners and must be handed over to the Kuwaiti authorities.

I would imagine the para's commander decided that as the Kuwaiti's don't really like the Iraqi military very much, Ahem, the poor dishevled souls would be better off back in Iraq for the time being.

As for half a dozen conscripts having any information useful to anyone regarding minefields etc, I very much doubt it.

But as I say at the end of the day it would have been against all international law to keep them and ask for any information.

That was a very mean statement about the French by the way busybody just because they are famous for trying to fuck the world up and then throwing up their hands before a shot is fired in anger, ie: WWII well 75percent of them did anyway after dragging us into it. Vietnam was a French problem as well to start with wasn't it, if I remember rightly.


pops..................

 

[Kuntmode]

n/a

Well based on Pops theory, if indeed this incident did happen and they were told to go back based on the British having to honour 'international law', then I guess the British will be packing up their equipment and coming home then. Correct?

Afterall, without the UN authorising the use of force, then if war still goes ahead and the British are apart of it, then that would mean they are violating international law and any soldier killed from this possible illegal invasion, would be a war crime.

Are we to see George Bush, Tony Blair and John Howard sitting alongside Milosevic in the hague sometime down the track? Will Iraq call upon the UN to mobilise a force to protect them from being invaded by a larger force, like Kuwait did?

Makes the whole situation border on the verge of complete madness.