crankymessiah wrote:
] ] The minister also said that coalition forces were
] ] throwing booby traps in the form of pens and pencils into
] ] Iraqi villages and townships.
] ]
] ] "The authority of the civil defense ... issued a warning
] ] to the civilian population not to pick up any of those
] ] pencils because they are booby traps," he said, adding
] ] that the British and American forces were "immoral
] ] mercenaries" and "war criminals" for such behavior.
] ]
] ] "I am not talking about the American people and the
] ] British people," he said. "I am talking about those
] ] mercenaries. ... They have started throwing those
] ] pencils, but they are not pencils, they are booby traps
] ] to kill the children."
]
] I didn't quote the main parts of this article. I just wanted
] to quote this to see if anyone else thinks this is the most
] insanely bizarre bit of propoganda yet.

Booby trapped pencils.. Yes.. That is very strange.

RE: CNN.com - Iraqi official: U.S. lying about progress - Apr. 2, 2003