[link|http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030125/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_compound_incident_12|Naked complicity]

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two men \ufffd one carrying three knives, the other a notebook and shouting "Save me!" \ufffd tried to enter the U.N. inspectors' Baghdad compound in separate incidents Saturday morning but were apprehended and turned over to Iraqi authorities, U.N. officials said...

As he waved his arms frantically, the first two vehicles swerved around him, but the third stopped, journalists said. "Save me!" he shouted in Arabic and English, after which he was allowed to enter the vehicle. He was carrying a copybook, witnesses said.

Appearing agitated and frightened, the young man, with a closely trimmed beard and mustache, sat inside the white U.N.-marked utility vehicle for 10 minutes. At first, an inspection team leader sought help from nearby Iraqi soldiers, but the man refused to leave the vehicle as the uniformed men pulled on his sleeve and collar.

"I am unjustly treated!" he shouted.

Then U.N. security men arrived, and they and Iraqi police carried the man by his feet and arms into the fenced compound, the journalists said. Ueki said the man was turned over to Iraqi authorities at a government office adjacent to the compound. The spokesman said the man's notebook was empty, but he had no further comment on his identity or purpose.

I say:

Okay, UN apologists. What have you to say now regarding this?

He made it perfectly clear he was seeking asylum. And he had to be armed to even get that far alive. Saddam's Iraq is not the sort of place where a dissident can go about unarmed.

You really think it's plausible that there are pro-Saddam suicide bombers to be found in Iraq?

I've already addressed the question of al Qaeda in Iraq, though it does serve your agenda to pretend otherwise. Your failure to answer - or even to acknowledge - this amounts to an admission that they really aren't going to be able to withstand us outdoors, any better than they did in Afghanistan, not even if Saddam gives them VX canisters. (For the benefit of onlookers, I reiterate and expand: As before, we'll be moving too fast for them. They won't be able to find our troop concentrations while they're still concentrated. They won't be able to find our base camps before they've moved on. They'll be lucky to take out the patrols that are taking them out. Also, no caves this time, and no backstabbing French, ergo no Shar-i-Kot repeat.)

Everybody knows what your game is. We know what planet you're broadcasting from, and it ain't Earth.

Hell, for all we know you could be fantasizing about having been in the Army, pathetic as such a fantasy would be. And your failure to make it better by claiming to have gone to war - or anything else the slightest bit courageous - can be attributed to a poverty of imagination. Or maybe you were [link|http://www.theonion.com/onion3502/very_special_forces.html|part of this outfit].

Cuckoo cuckoo cuckoo yourself. You're pathetic. Go back to your crib.