Scott MacEachern wrote in
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On 22 May 2004 22:59:32 GMT, (Dav1936531) wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/2qklu
Dave

"Kimmitt said troops did not find anything -- such as a wedding tent,
gifts, musical instruments, decorations or leftover food -- that would
indicate a wedding had been held."

Funny. I wonder what those ripped-up speakers and the microphone
stands (not musical instruments, I guess...) in the NYT pictures from
the site were doing there, then?

Note as well that Kimmitt is now admitting that (a) there were women
killed there and (b) there may have been some sort of celebration
going on. And, shamelessly quoting from another post of mine...

Having spent some time working in border areas in Central/West Africa
-- Nigeria-Cameroon-Niger and latterly Cameroon-Chad-CAR -- there are
smugglers all over the place, and they haul all kinds of good with
them. Finding large amounts of clothing, bedding and so on wouldn't be
surprising at all in such cases -- think of it as capitalism at work.
I'd be very surprised if that wasn't how most of the consumer goods in
Baghdad made their way there.

Scott

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

an excerpt;

What was found, he said, indicated the building was used as a way station
for foreign fighters crossing into Iraq from Syria to battle the coalition.

"The building seemed to be somewhat of a dormitory," Kimmitt said. "You
had over 300 sets of bedding gear in it. You had a tremendous number of
pre-packaged clothing -- apparently about a hundred sets of pre-packaged
clothing.

"[It is] expected that when foreign fighters come in from other countries,
they come to this location, they change their clothes into typical Iraqi
clothing sets."

At Saturday's briefing for reporters in Baghdad, Kimmitt showed photos of
what he said were binoculars designed for adjusting artillery fire, battery
packs suitable for makeshift bombs, several terrorist training manuals,
medical gear,fake ID cards and ID card-making machines, passports and
telephone numbers to other countries, including Afghanistan and Sudan.

None of the men killed in the raid carried ID cards or wallets, he said.


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