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    Wedding Party" Details
    Email from LTC. Bill Mullen, USMC, with some briefing points on the bogus "wedding party" in Iraq that the media insists we attacked.
    Just reviewed a classified brief on the supposed wedding - no way it was. Here are some unclass details I can provide (brief had lots of pictures to back up the details):

    - Weddings traditionally held on Thursdays in Iraq to take advantage of Friday as a day of rest - raid took place on Tuesday night.

    - Only permanent dwelling at the site held large stocks of food, bedding, medical supplies (lots of these - was the wedding going to be a cage match of some sort or were the caterers just bad cooks?), ammunition and weapons, as well as an apparent document forging set up.

    - Meat was still frozen solid, not prepared for a wedding feast and there were no stocks of dishes, plates, etc.

    - Contrary to media reports, no "Nuptial Tent" was found and a 1KM area around the site was searched - any further away than that would just be too far for the catering staff to walk carrying all those huge platters of food.

    - No evidence of any means of support for the house (like sheep farming which is most common in that area). All evidence pointed to a smuggler way station - fit perfectly the description of several other found in the past.

    - "Wedding guests" (deceased of course) were almost all men of military age, only a couple of women, no elders at all and only one child (wounded) noted. All dressed as city dwellers, not Bedouins who would hold a wedding at such a location. All of the deceased were sterilized, as in none had any form of ID on them at all. Only ID's found were in a nice neat stack inside the house - and then quite a few less of those than there were people at the site.

    - Weapons were varied and included RPG's (they really suck when you fire them up in the air for celebration), there were also military binoculars (when they separate the men and women they have to look at each other with bino's I guess), and IED making material (party favors?).

    - Lots of clothing prepackaged in pants and shirt sets (guerranimals for guerrilla's).

    - There were also no gifts, no decorations, no food set out or left over, and the good bit of money recovered was all in the pockets of the "guests" (maybe they were just cheap guests).

    I strongly suspect that after their Foreign Fighter way station got whacked, they tried to set it up to look like what happened in Afghanistan when a wedding was actually hit due to celebratory firing being taken for ground fire by orbiting aircraft. I also would not put it past the scum bags to sweep a local village for appropriately aged "guests" to kill and display for the TV cameras. Our BDA assessment was made by people on the site just after the schwacking and they took their time to count and exploit the site. This is just speculation on my part.

    Bottom line assessment: Good hit - no wedding. These were foreign fighters that had just crossed into Iraq and got an early trip to paradise and the martyrdom hall of fame.

    Thought it was important to get this word out as much as possible as you won't see any of this on CNN.

    Take care,

    Lt. Col. Bill Mullen, USMC
    Executive Assistant
    J-3, Deputy Director for Regional Operations
    The Pentagon
    www.jenmartinez.com/mt/ar...php#000944

  • #2
    Originally posted by M21Sniper
    guerranimals for guerrillas
    :)
    No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
    I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
    even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
    He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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    • #3
      Another thing, would the Iraqis who support the guerillas really admit that it was a base and not a wedding party? I dont think so

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      • #4
        I know we're prone to make mistakes here and there, but I don't think this was one of them. This confirms my beliefs.

        I've seen the video going around of the Apache taking out 3 Iraqi militants by the farm. They really took their time to assess the situation before they opened fire.

        I just don't picture our military blazing in with no intel or information blowing things away.

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        • #5
          It's happened before unfortunately...but fortunately it's not SOP. We'll leave that for others, like the very terrorists that need to be hunted down and exterminated.
          “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Se7eN
            I know we're prone to make mistakes here and there, but I don't think this was one of them. This confirms my beliefs.

            I've seen the video going around of the Apache taking out 3 Iraqi militants by the farm. They really took their time to assess the situation before they opened fire.

            I just don't picture our military blazing in with no intel or information blowing things away.

            I saw that video, what happened to ROE? I know we have strict ROE we HAVE to follow or Disapline action will most likely be taken, taking into consideration the details of the incident. Why did they do it when there was a video taken of the incident? some people have no brains.

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