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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Ripsnort on June 11, 2007, 01:50:44 PM
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My oldest nephew is in Iraq, he is in Army Intelligence division, and interrogates a lot of "Detainees" (most of whom are not residents of Iraq, but of satellite countries around Iraq, surprise surprise! Not!)
Here is a recent email I'd thought I'd share, it was rather humorous and very telling of the intelligence level that we're dealing with in that part of the world….
Had somthing happen the other day that i just couldn't stop thinking about. You see, we deal with alot of Iraqi detainees over here and sometimes they just do some things that are just so memorable you just have to share them...like the guy who threw up in the middle of the holding area or the guy who did a pretty damn good Bruce Lee impersonation.
Well, the one i want to tell you about is about a guy (just a couple of days ago) who was detained for having hand grenades in his car, which would be no problem if they weren't illegal.
Naturally we questioned him at our holding area back on the base and begin to question him as to the reason for posessing these grenades. His first response was that the grenades belonged to his sons (Typical answer... trying to place blame eleswhere) Then he told us that his son had many weapons in this car and that he told him to remove them before he went to town with the car and i guess he forgot the hand grenades. After further questioning him, he admitted they were his, however he only used them for protection. Intrigued we asked him "Protection from what?" He said he was a sheep herder and that many bad people were trying to steal his sheep and the only way to keep them safe was with these hand grenades (We couldn't help to think that these were magic grenades and they wouldn't blow him or his sheep up...) well after deciding this man was still going jail (leaving his sheep unguarded against the rampant gang of sheep theives) we continued to question him further.
During this extensive interrogation, he asked one of our interpreters where the interpreter was from, and for his own protection, the interpreter lied and said he was from Syria. The detainee responded "That's okay, because you are with the Americans and I like Americans because Americans are from the moon". We paused upon the tranlated sentence, and looked at our interpreter..."Did he just say that Americans are from the moon?" The interpreter asked him again and the detainee again responded. " I understand that not all Americans are born on the moon like the poorer ones however most americans are from the moon."
We realized after the statement that in his world, magic grenades protected his sheep from wild sheep bandits and that all Americans are from the moon.
This guy did some other weird stuff but nothing as mind boggling as that particlular Moon statement and I just could not let that one go without telling anyone.
Take care and i'll see you all in hopefully 7 months.
SPC. J. T.
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Yep, they do some strange things over there. When I was younger my hair was white and was living in North Africa, the locals were always wanting to touch my hair for good luck.
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Maybe if rip coulda touched your hair way back when, he'd still have his :D
Hey Rip, long time. I wish your nephew a safe return :aok
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Originally posted by AcId
Maybe if rip coulda touched your hair way back when, he'd still have his :D
Hey Rip, long time. I wish your nephew a safe return :aok
Hiya Acid! Thanks, will pass it along.
Still offroading these days?
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Send along a snappy as well :)
Nah...haven't done that in a long while. I finally got tired of my monthly fuel bill being more than the payment itself and got me one of these instead:
(http://i14.tinypic.com/61w00wk.jpg)
Nothin like great mpg and power/speed at the same time. Like havin my cake and eatin it to.
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LOL good read. Someone needs to warn Nomde to be ware of the Holy Hand Grenades!.
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Very nice Acid!
I went the opposite way, sold the BMW and bought an offroad rig (http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/14955132/242276445.jpg) :lol Fuel's not bad though, getting about 21 mpg commuting to work, and about 18 mpg running the kids around.
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I thought about an FJ myself......just couldn't do it......I'd never forgive myself, and I'd never here the end of it. Parents are retired American autoworkers whom I respect more than anybody else on this planet. :D
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" I understand that not all Americans are born on the moon like the poorer ones however most americans are from the moon."
When troops come down from flying machines in Darth Vader costumes and laser rangefinders, and unseen flying machines zap you with missiles and bombs and gunfire, where else would Americans come from except the moon? It's easily the most straight line connection. :confused:
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I haven't heard of Magic Grenades since playing Worms Armageddon!
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Originally posted by AcId
Send along a snappy as well :)
Nah...haven't done that in a long while. I finally got tired of my monthly fuel bill being more than the payment itself and got me one of these instead:
(http://i14.tinypic.com/61w00wk.jpg)
Nothin like great mpg and power/speed at the same time. Like havin my cake and eatin it to.
Been doing that with my Mercedes E320cdi for years already ;)
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Very nice Acid!
I went the opposite way, sold the BMW and bought an offroad rig (http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/14955132/242276445.jpg) :lol Fuel's not bad though, getting about 21 mpg commuting to work, and about 18 mpg running the kids around.
The American Dream.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Very nice Acid!
I went the opposite way, sold the BMW and bought an offroad rig (http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/14955132/242276445.jpg) :lol Fuel's not bad though, getting about 21 mpg commuting to work, and about 18 mpg running the kids around.
What?! You ditched the Bimmer for that big ugly rice-burner?! :huh
You guys MUST be from the Moon ... or further out!
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Originally posted by Viking
What?! You ditched the Bimmer for that big ugly rice-burner?! :huh
You guys MUST be from the Moon ... or further out!
Well, to buy a car actually put together IN America these days, you almost have to buy Japanese brands.
As to the original post, it's not all that surprising. Although there are a lot of well educated Iraqis (mostly who have left for more stable countries in the region over the last 4 years), the peasants are very much into conspiracy theories and the like. Trash rags in Europe and America headlining "My Space Alien Love Child" and "Bigfoot Vacationing in Aspen" stories would do very well among the common Iraqis.
It is very bizarre.
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Originally posted by tedrbr
Well, to buy a car actually put together IN America these days, you almost have to buy Japanese brands.
His old Bimmer was probably put together in South Carolina. ;)
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The Bimmer was manufactured and assembled in Germany. The FJ in Japan. Can't complain about the quality from either one.
My last two vehicles have been axis vehicles. :eek:
Mandingo, this is not my first offroad vehicle...so its a re-occuring dream. ;)