Re: John and Imre....was: weapons
From: Ryan Gill <rmgill@m...>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 07:41:01 -0500
Subject: Re: John and Imre....was: weapons
At 4:30 AM -0800 11/20/03, John Atkinson wrote:
>
>Not really. Fedayeen is general descriptive term for
>all things Iraqi, perjorative. IE, when the power
>goes out, it's "Goddam Fedayeen Power". Shukran is
>Thank You, which we you all-purpose to mean a variety
>of things to include "We're done with the vehicle
>search, get out of our checkpoint." And in my squad
>we got a guy who's picking up a lot of Arabic, but
>he's Makmood Tikriti (Brother of Tikrit, or something
>to that effect), real popular with the native levies,
>errr, ICDC. He was involved in training 'em.
So you're not calling them the 4th ID's Own Sepoys or anything. ;-)
Have you followed 'Where's Raed' at all?
Someone with some literary ability really needs
to write a set of prose in the tradition of
Kipling.
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