Iraqi Forces Arrest 200 Insurgents

[ECH1969]

Iraqi forces searching for four American security contractors and an Austrian who were kidnapped in southern Iraq detained about 200 suspected insurgents, police said Sunday.

Police carrying machine guns and wearing fatigues and black face masks showed off their suspects Sunday by inviting the media to a police station where their prisoners were blindfolded and forced to sit on the ground outside.

One of the men was in a wheelchair, having lost both legs at the knee.

Police Maj. Gen. Ali al-Moussawi said the men were detained Saturday night by Iraqi soldiers who raided several areas north of Basra, the city 340 miles southeast of Baghdad where most of the 7,200 British soldiers in Iraq are based. Al-Moussawi said none of the hostages was found.

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=nation_world&id=4776824

"One of the men was in a wheelchair, having lost both legs at the knee."

[whistle]

1. An insurgent in a wheelchair, having lost both legs at the knee?

...Are these the terrorists who have been holding the most powerful military in history in a 3 1/2 year stalemate?:wtf:

[0rganism]

2. "Police carrying machine guns and wearing fatigues and black face masks"

What kind of "police" is this? How do we tell the police apart from the terrorists and insurgents? :crazy:

[Sadie5]

3. What about his son

Didn't I read that McCains son is in the Marines? send him to the front lines.

[951-Riverside]

4. The same guys who did kidnapping are probably the same ones who are making these arrests

:eyes:

[Eugene]

5. AP: Coalition in Iraq Search for Hostages (Monday)

Coalition in Iraq Search for Hostages


Monday November 20, 2006 11:46 AM

AP Photo BAG118

BASRA, Iraq (AP) - British and Iraqi forces raided homes in southern Iraq
on Monday and arrested four suspects in the kidnapping of four American
security guards and their Austrian co-worker, an official said.

The raid, which began late Sunday and ended early Monday morning, took
place in Zubair, a mostly Sunni-Arab enclave about 20 miles south of Basra,
Capt. Tane Dunlop, the British military spokesman, told The Associated Press.
Most of Britain's 7,200 soldiers in Iraq are based in the city.

On Sunday, Iraqi police showed the media 200 suspected insurgents they
had arrested the night before while raiding several areas north of Basra,
which is 340 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Both raids failed to find any of the hostages in southern Iraq, a mostly
Shiite region.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6227858,00.html