CNN Breaking...12 fully equiped Humvees stolen in Iraq.... no link yet...

[henslee]

This is serious. (on edit) Fully equipped. Soldiers uniforms missing too. Ramifications... great. One can slip through any checkpoint with a humvee...

[JoFerret]

1. Serious?

...why?

[Cush]

3. trojan horse

[Renew Deal]

6. Yep

This sort of thing has been done for thousands of years. I bet it can work now like it has forever.

[DS1]

35. They wouldn't need to do a Trojan Horse attack

All they'd have to do was mow down a couple crowds at markets from a distance, and have the population do the work for them.

[codegreen]

4. well, i guess it's sorta serious if all stolen by one group

that could use them in a single massive attack at a fortified post, or could use them to pose as US personnel and get to more secured areas than before... i'd say it's fairly serious militarily.

(edit) plus they could study one for weaknesses. i dunno.

[UpInArms]

10. 12 "perfect"

car bombs?

:nuke:

sounds like bad trouble to me :(

[Ouabache]

26. Not sure how good a car bomb they would make

considering the armor that is on them, wouldn't that keep an explosion INSIDE it more than a normal car, assuming the bombs were packed inside it?

Oh that's right, a lot of the humvees we sent over were INADEQUATELY armored, at least the first ones going over.

Maybe they used 12 of them for parts, and for some reason would rather report them stolen.

[Sterling]

28. Seeing as how they don't keep the explosion "outside" as it is I doubt it.

Will keep the explosion inside. The myth of the Humvee is killing our troops.

[ezee]

2. reported live from Iraq on NEwsNIght with Arron Brown n/t

[RamboLiberal]

9. Reporter did say they weren't all stolen at once

and was kinda vague if any with GPS had been recovered.

But as reported with uniforms this sure would make it easier to penetrate a US base.

Scary.

[papau]

16. Has anyone checked EBAY?

:-)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

32. or LoJack?

[Fleshdancer]

5. this sounds like a cheesy sitcom

I can't believe this is happening. sad.

[Sabriel]

8. What are we, the Nazis on "Hogan's Heroes"?

Can't we even protect some goddamned trucks from theft over there?

[Fleshdancer]

15. That would explain Bush and his "crazy antics!"

He chokes on a pretzel and ends up with a black eye.

He poses with a fake turkey.

Crazy stuff comes out of his mouth like OBGYN love with women.

He falls off a segway.

Yep. This is definately a sitcom. Hogan's Heroes sounds right to me.

BTW, I love that bumpersticker!

[ILeft]

34. Brings to mind the great television show, "That's My Bush"

http://www.comedycentral.com/tv_shows/tmb/episode_main.jhtml

...they had Rove nailed. The execution scene is a classic.

[Newsjock]

7. Wait ...

... didn't they already try the "missing uniforms" lie?

[olddad56]

11. I'd look for them in California

Arnold probably stole them for his collection. But I think he'll need to have the pants shortened on the uniforms.

[henslee]

12. I was thinking Haliburton nicked them. They nicked a portable power plant

that was missing, then found in their possession.

[Swede]

13. They could drive up to sleeping or eating quarters and blow the damn thing

Killing many more soldiers,rather than picking off one or two. After this happens be prepared for a lot of friendly fire deaths. This is a terrorists dream and a soldiers nightmare.

[daleo]

14. It seems odd that they would let the world know about this.

I wonder if we will hear about this again.

[Aidoneus]

17. US Army deserters or Iraqi Resistance?

have any more details become known?

neither would surprise me.

[JoFerret]

18. Thanks for all the speculations on why folks, now.....

....how?

[henslee]

19. Q: how do you keep an idiot in suspense? A: I'll tell you tommorrow.

[JoFerret]

20. Got that link yet?

.

[henslee]

27. Not yet. But I watched the CNN reporter say it, live from Iraq. So did

DUer Ezee (see post #2). Wish I had more.

[Ohio rules]

21. LOL, and don't forget the link !

[Nevernose]

25. Military vehicles don't have keys

I'm assuming that that's a major portion of "how." Offer the guard in the lot a joint or a hooker, no one's looking...

[JoFerret]

29. I just thought that as we wait for the confirmation

...people could have the chance to exercise their imaginations. It's a pretty dramatic story and hard for those who have not been there to imagine.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

22. Is there a link yet?

If this is true, this IS pretty serious. So says Mr. Moonbeam, veteran of 12 years active duty Army, 1st Cav, 101st Airborne, 2nd Armored Division, 3rd Armored Division, 29th Infantry Regiment.

He said if they have been stolen from MPs, an infantry unit, combat engineers, or some such unit it is even more serious. They tend to keep more dangerous things on board, if you know what I mean. Support units don't carry as heavy of loads of weapons.

He doubts it would be armored.

Anywho. Wish there was more info or a link.

On edit: are there also servicemembers missing?

[shraby]

23. What better way for the enemy to get

into the green zone. I spect if the story is true, that's what they'll try to do with the equipment.

[Ducks In A Row]

24. well they're not armed

so it will be easy to blow them up.

[ugarte]

30. This may upset Bush more than the 1000 dead

A Humvee, that's almost like a pickup truck.

[TahitiNut]

31. "fully equipped" and no LoJack?

Why not just stencil "Steal Me" on both sides? :eyes:

[yelladawg]

33. 12 new car bombs

it sounds like 12 new car bombs to me.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

36. big deal. The neo-cons stole our whole damn country. 'Professional Fascist

I love that TV caption under * which was where? Greenland?

Ahnuld wanting his owm civilian humvee after Bush War I went a long way towards militarizing our highways and the SUV craze. True story.
Even a shrink advised Detroit on how to do it.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0712-01.htm
(Trading On Fear)

[burrowowl]

37. Now why would the uprisers

want those humvee death traps?

[Princess Turandot]

38. It was reported on the Aaron Brown show, but it did not sound as if..

the thefts had occurred at the same time. Brown asked the reporter in Iraq that, and he said they had not. He was making the point that the insurgents have the equipment & vehicles to pass thru US checkpoints w/o trouble, more so than reporting on an event which had just occurred. But the fact that they have the stuff is bad enough.

[Moderator]

39. No link

Someone can repost if there is ever a link to this story