From: Christian Weisgerber (naddy@mips.inka.de)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 02:45:32 MST
John K Clark <jonkc@att.net> wrote:
> > According to the Russians, that surrender is a complete propaganda
> > fabrication. Whom are we to believe?
>
> The Iraq 51's division was stationed at the Kuwait Iraq border 7 days ago,
> today the American army is about 250 miles past that point on the outskirts
> of Baghdad, so I say the Russians must be full of shit and the 51'st no
> longer exists.
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news073.htm:
"So far there was no success in trying to clarify the reports about the
capture or surrender of the 51st Infantry Division. According to
intercepted radio communications, this division was fighting as a part
of the 3rd Army Corp (Al-Nasiriya). It's brigades took up defensive
positions along the northwestern approaches to Basra and participated in
combat since the first day of fighting, which makes their voluntary
surrender unlikely. Analysts believe that the anglo-american coalition
reports refer to a surrender by a capture of one of the destroyed units
or to a successful operation by their special forces."
http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news074.htm:
"The US command reports about the supposed surrender of the entire Iraqi
51st Infantry Division turned out to be a complete fabrication.
According to our sources the 51st Division continues to fight on the
approaches to Basra and we can only talk about individual cases of Iraqi
soldiers being captured in combat."
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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