Victory
17-07-03, 14:49
U.S. CHICKEN GIVEAWAY DOESN'T FLY IN FALLOUJA:
David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times, 7/15/03
FALLOUJA, Iraq - Sgt. Jason McGinn's Humvee convoy pulled up in front of
the Saud ibn abi Wakas mosque with a load of frozen chickens Monday.
The chickens, rapidly defrosting in the midday sun, were meant for the
needy families of Fallouja. McGinn's psychological operations unit was
making the delivery as part of its efforts to win over clerics and
civilians alike in this city west of Baghdad that has been a center of
Sunni Muslim resistance to the U.S. military occupation.
The imam, a slender, bearded young man, stared hard at McGinn and shook his
head indignantly.
"We would rather eat rocks than eat chickens from Americans," he spat out.
"Even the poorest person in Fallouja doesn't want chickens from you."
McGinn's unit was brusquely turned away at three of the four mosques it
visited. The brushoff was yet another reminder for U.S. soldiers that
hostility to the occupation runs deep in many quarters, and that it will
take a lot more than frozen chickens to pacify Iraq...
Los Angeles Times
:haha:
David Zucchino, Los Angeles Times, 7/15/03
FALLOUJA, Iraq - Sgt. Jason McGinn's Humvee convoy pulled up in front of
the Saud ibn abi Wakas mosque with a load of frozen chickens Monday.
The chickens, rapidly defrosting in the midday sun, were meant for the
needy families of Fallouja. McGinn's psychological operations unit was
making the delivery as part of its efforts to win over clerics and
civilians alike in this city west of Baghdad that has been a center of
Sunni Muslim resistance to the U.S. military occupation.
The imam, a slender, bearded young man, stared hard at McGinn and shook his
head indignantly.
"We would rather eat rocks than eat chickens from Americans," he spat out.
"Even the poorest person in Fallouja doesn't want chickens from you."
McGinn's unit was brusquely turned away at three of the four mosques it
visited. The brushoff was yet another reminder for U.S. soldiers that
hostility to the occupation runs deep in many quarters, and that it will
take a lot more than frozen chickens to pacify Iraq...
Los Angeles Times
:haha: