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IRAQ’S BEST AND BRAVEST
Colonel Muhammad Faiq Raouf and Captain Hady Alzuhary, rescuers of kidnapped Australian Douglas Wood, tell their story:
During the search of the houses, Capt Hady Alzuhary became suspicious when he saw a bullet-riddled car parked outside one home.
He knocked on the door and no one answered, but inside he saw movement. Over the radio Col. Muhammad told him to kick the door down.
When Capt Hady kicked down the door, a bullet flew over his head and he charged the shooter.
After a blazing gunfight, the soldiers found another locked room. The gunman said he had only shot because he thought he was being robbed and said his sickly father was in the locked room.
Racing to get there, Col. Muhammad radioed Capt Hady to kick that door in, too.
There inside was an elderly Iraqi man—and Mr Wood.
Col. Muhammad has received some recognition from Australia, but not nearly enough:
On Monday, Col. Muhammad got a ‘Thank you’ letter from the Australian Government ...
“We like to see Mr Wood now,” he said.
“I like to go visit Australia and see. We need to say hello and need to see his health.”
Let’s get him out here. The man’s a hero, and not just for saving an Australian:
Since Saddam Hussein was ousted from power, Col. Muhammad has become one of his country’s greatest soldiers. He tracks down terrorists and, if he doesn’t shoot them dead first, he brings them to justice.
Same thing, really. Here’s to the Colonel, cleaning up Baghdad street by street.
Sounds like the makings of a good movie. But wait, first Hollywood has to finish the one about this scumbag…er, hero.
During the search of the houses, Capt Hady Alzuhary became suspicious when he saw a bullet-riddled car parked outside one home.
The old bullet-riddled car, always a tip off that.
And yeah, lets fly them out here, take it out of some lefty art grant.
Posted by Aging Gamer on 2005 07 13 at 01:23 PM • permalinkWhat manner of men are these that run towards gunfire? That rescue strangers in their midst?
They are the men that you build a nation on. My fullest admiration for Captain Alzuhary. May he live a long and fullfilling life.
Posted by Half Canadian on 2005 07 13 at 04:41 PM • permalinkSlightly o/t but tangentially about Iraq: a few days ago I posted about regular radio comentator David Wright-Neville and his fatuous anti-Bush comments on Neil Mitchell’s program on 3AW. To be fair to Mitchell he ended the segment quickly as soon as Neville had proffered his silly opinion.
It seems Neville really is a prat; an ‘anti-terrorism expert’ who sees issues only through the prism of his Bush-hatred. Here is Gerard Henderson in today’s SMH:
On the Sunday program at the weekend, academic David Wright-Neville spoke of the need for Western nations to develop a “management strategy for terrorism”. This would involve “getting serious about the root causes of terrorism” including the “sorts of inequities of opportunity and wealth and political aspiration that exists around the world”. He spoke of the need to do “something about the demagogue’s ability to recruit fresh waves of young people into the network”.
Wright-Neville overlooks that jihadists are interested in neither equality nor wealth. They want to suppress women and ensure the renunciation of worldly pleasures by enforcing Sharia law - as interpreted by them. That’s why they want to destroy Western and Muslim societies.
I love Henderson’s jibe - ‘academic’.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 07 13 at 08:10 PM • permalinkSurely we can’t have the Colonel out here. It would be an outrage and really would forfeit any remaining sympathy we had for him if he accepted airtickets and free accomodation. What would Andrew Jaspan have to say? Imagine the furore on the ABC!
No, we cannot let it happen. Afterall, as the NYT body count proves, Iraqui’s do not in fact exist. As any good Democrat knows, they do not in fact have an army in this war. Therefore the Colonel cannot even exist. It follows that the mufti was right all along, he did it, unaided, from Egypt.
Heck, I’ll throw in a couple of bucks to get these heroes down to Oz
Of course I’d love to go back to Oz for a visit, but I think these fine men are a little more deserving right now :)
Posted by Secret Agent X-9 on 2005 07 14 at 02:07 AM • permalinkThey “kicked the door down”?
But ...but….didn’t Sheik Al Hillbilly arrange for Doug Wood’s release?
Why kick the door down?*wanders off, scratching head*
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2005 07 14 at 06:50 AM • permalink
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t his arseholiness, the mufted one, say there were no shots fired?