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April 14, 2003

SASR nabs suspected Iraqi officials

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A busload of men intercepted by Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) troops in the west of Iraq included suspected senior Baath Party officials, the commander of Australian forces said. Brigadier Maurie McNarn said the bus was stopped by SASR troops en route out of Iraq on Friday.

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Posted By Oskar van Rijswijk at April 14, 2003 05:00 PM | TrackBack

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Why, those bastards!

:-)

Posted by: Jonathan at April 14, 2003 05:04 PM

Better late than never. Sure took us a long, long, long time to get around to screening those roads out of Iraq.

Posted by: Chiguy at April 14, 2003 05:07 PM

I hope we kept the money !!

Posted by: gmorin at April 14, 2003 05:13 PM

Put the money in the troops coffee fund. Good work, to the boys from Oz.

Posted by: TerryP at April 14, 2003 05:20 PM

TerryP
No. Use it to pay the cops in Baghdad.

Posted by: jrm at April 14, 2003 05:25 PM

a round of warm beer for the mates

Posted by: Foster brewing at April 14, 2003 05:26 PM

Hahhah the Irakis have SARS I bet they kant breeth now.

Thay shoodn't have hunged out with the Red Chineese.

Posted by: El Stupido at April 14, 2003 05:27 PM

I think the Aussies have been hanging out in the desert West of Baghdad for quite awhile. There was a story here early on in the War about them. I think they had an Al Jazerra embed with them.

Found it:
http://www.command-post.org/archives/002734.html

Posted by: Grace OMalley at April 14, 2003 05:47 PM

Grace : I'm told they taste a bit like snake.

Chiguy : They've been doing it for at least 2 weeks now. Look at this post from March 31, or this one from March 30. The only things "late" are the ones who tried to make a run for it after being stopped.
You might also want to look at the link posted by Jonathan.

Posted by: Alan E Brain at April 14, 2003 11:59 PM

There's also a report dated March 31 from Slate.

Posted by: Alan E Brain at April 15, 2003 12:09 AM