Thursday, July 24

2+2=

Okay, I don't get it. Maybe the news reports were just incomplete. But just how were four (yes, 4) people able to hold off 200 US Marines, complete with attack helicopters and tanks, for 3.5 hours? Looks like the Hussein brothers were eventually killed by 10 Humvee-mounted TOW missiles (according to a BBC report).

Maybe they were advised by those wily Canadians, hell-bent on world domination?

I doubt the Sons of Saddam took a page from the Vietnamese, who had massive tunnel complexes underground, leading here, there and everywhere. Such tunnels (such as those rumoured under the Korean DMZ) would have allowed them to escape.

This does not explain why the Marines encountered "stiff resistance" yet only came away with 4 bodies (Uday and Qusay Hussein, their bodyguard and Qusay's 14-year-old son). The Iraqi gent who turned them in will soon be $30M richer and living in Boise, no doubt.

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