Insurgents control raided 'Qaeda-Baath' training camp in Iraq (story a lie

About 30 to 40 fighters were seen at the lakeside training camp attacked by US and Iraqi forces the day before, claiming they had never left, an AFP correspondent who visited the site said.

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One of the fighters, who called himself Mohammed Amer and claimed to belong to the Secret Islamic Army, said they had never left the base.

He also said only 11 of his comrades were killed in airstrikes on the site.

Iraqi commanders have said 85 suspected insurgents were killed in an assault by Iraqi troops and US aircraft on the camp Tuesday, adding that no one was captured and others had fled by boat.

Asked about the presence of rebels at the camp late Wednesday, a member of the Iraqi police commandos that took part in the operation said Iraqi and US troops withdrew from the area at about 6:30 pm (1530 GMT) Tuesday.

Local hospitals told AFP they had received no casualties from the battle.

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This whole story was a tissue of lies.

update: above link is intermittent. Try this one:

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First one is twitchy. AFP problem?

So AFP got this second story? I guess the army didn't expect AFP to go there.

incompetent? Whether or not the story is true or not, how could the US control a country for two years and allow a training camp for "terrorists?"

Oh, I forgot, we bombed ourselves on 9/11.

:)

that are fictional