John Corn
04-01-03, 04:56 AM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58747-2003Mar31.html
Hundreds of Iraqis shouting "Welcome to Iraq" greeted U.S. Marines who entered the town of Shatra on Monday after storming it with planes, tanks and helicopter gunships.
They trampled over the ruins of a local headquarters of Saddam's Baath party.
And the Shi'ites pointed out Ba'ath party members that had been witholding food from the populace in Basra. They were afraid but spoke up, and the Brits arrested them.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-630679,00.html
One by one, doors were smashed down before soldiers with fixed bayonets burst into the rooms. Once inside the sprawling HQ, the opulent lifestyle enjoyed by Saddam’s henchmen — in stark relief to the poverty just yards away — became clear.
While local Iraqis are short of even the most basic items, the Baath party HQ was crammed with enormous humanitarian aid relief sacks of rice and grain.
Captain Cartwright said that villagers had pointed out a number of men who were considerably better dressed and groomed than the locals and who appeared to be agitated by what they saw.
“One villager, having warned us that there were ‘eyes and ears everywhere’, said: ‘These are the men who disappear when you turn up and come back to frighten us when you go.’
Like some of us have been saying.
Hundreds of Iraqis shouting "Welcome to Iraq" greeted U.S. Marines who entered the town of Shatra on Monday after storming it with planes, tanks and helicopter gunships.
They trampled over the ruins of a local headquarters of Saddam's Baath party.
And the Shi'ites pointed out Ba'ath party members that had been witholding food from the populace in Basra. They were afraid but spoke up, and the Brits arrested them.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-630679,00.html
One by one, doors were smashed down before soldiers with fixed bayonets burst into the rooms. Once inside the sprawling HQ, the opulent lifestyle enjoyed by Saddam’s henchmen — in stark relief to the poverty just yards away — became clear.
While local Iraqis are short of even the most basic items, the Baath party HQ was crammed with enormous humanitarian aid relief sacks of rice and grain.
Captain Cartwright said that villagers had pointed out a number of men who were considerably better dressed and groomed than the locals and who appeared to be agitated by what they saw.
“One villager, having warned us that there were ‘eyes and ears everywhere’, said: ‘These are the men who disappear when you turn up and come back to frighten us when you go.’
Like some of us have been saying.