"One could say, yes, it is true that out in the desert you need to have a rifle to protect yourself against Ali Baba but the necessity for rocket-propelled launchers, rocket launchers in the bottom, special machine guns may be a little much for Ali Baba out there."
AP Exclusive: Video film of wedding party captures revelers dancing, singing
SCHEHEREZADE FARAMARZI, Associated Press Writer
Monday, May 24, 2004
A videotape obtained by Associated Press Television News captures a wedding party that survivors say U.S. planes later attacked, killing up to 45 people. On Monday, the U.S. military showed photographs to support its own case that the target was a safehouse for foreign fighters...
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The APTN videotape, obtained Sunday, shows a dozen white pickup trucks speeding through the desert, escorting a bridal car decorated with colorful ribbons. The bride wears a Western-style white bridal dress and veil. The camera captures her stepping out of the car but does not show a close-up...
...Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt showed photographs of rifles, machine guns, foreign passports, bedding, syringes possibly for illegal drugs as well as other items that he said suggested the site was used by foreigners infiltrating from Syria. He U.S. troops took the photos.
"These are pictures that are somewhat inconsistent in my mind with a wedding party," Kimmitt said. "One could say, yes, it is true that out in the desert you need to have a rifle to protect yourself against Ali Baba but the necessity for rocket-propelled launchers, rocket launchers in the bottom, special machine guns may be a little much for Ali Baba out there."...
Leonardo says
So Kimmit uses "Ali Baba and the Forty Theives" (http://www.2020site.org/robbinhood/alibaba.html) from a book first compiled in 10th century Iraq ( http://www.al-bab.com/arab/literature/nights.htm) ; as his reference to understand the current Iraqi situation, what a lying rat bastard he is.
Original: Gen Kimmit confirms he is a rat bastard