The Iraqi wedding party

Last month, the US bombed a terrorist safe house on the border of Syria which, according to the "un-biased" news media, was actually an Iraqi wedding pary. This post from the StrategyPage refutes those claims with hard facts and evidence. After the bombing, an American assessment team went to the site to gather information and they found some very interesting things. Since StrategyPage posts disappear quickly, I will include the what was found below:

- The only permanent buildings at the site contained large stocks of food (the meat was still frozen solid), bedding, medical supplies, ammunition and weapons, as well a document forging operation.

- The site was not prepared for a wedding feast, and there were no stocks of dishes,
plates, etc. and, most importantly, no "Nuptial Tent," which is a standard feature of an Arab wedding.

- There was no evidence of any means of support for the house. The most common livelihood in the area is sheep raising, and there was no evidence of that at the site. All evidence pointed to a smuggler way station, similar to others found along the Syrian border in the past.

- The deceased "wedding guests" were almost all men of military age, only a couple of women, no elders at all. There was only one child, who was wounded. All the deceased were dressed as city dwellers, not as the local Arabs who would hold a wedding at such a location. All of the deceased lacked any form of ID on them. The only ID's found were stacked up inside the house, and these were fewer in number than those bodies found at the site.

- Weapons and equipment found there included RPG's, military binoculars, and bomb making materials.

- There was lots of clothing found, prepackaged in pants and shirt sets.

- Weddings are traditionally held on Thursdays in Iraq to take advantage of Friday as a day of rest. The bombing raid took place on Tuesday night.

- There were also no gifts, no decorations, no food set out or left over, and the good bit of money recovered was all in the pockets of the bodies found at the site.

After the assessment team left, the terrorists, who had fled the site after the bombing, returned, re-arranged the site to make it look like a wedding had taken place and then invited their "useful idiots" in the press to report on the "atrocity" and of course, the Blame America First crowd just ate this up. So, when you hear bad news coming from Iraq, remember that the people who are reporting, although they are "Americans", aren't above lying to spin the story in the worse way possible for the US.