Special security task

Tuesday, 8:14 am

By Kate

Sep

20

2005

Well, imagine this: Two British Marines go out into central Basra (Iraq) on a ‘special security task’ in full Arabic dress and open fire on a crowd of civilians, wounding several, including a traffic police officer. Then they flee on foot. Soon, they are captured by Iraqi police and detained in a Basra jail. Not long after that a detail of British in tanks come to the rescue and one wall of the jail ends up in a pile of rubble with the two undercover Marines sprung.

How does that work, anyway? Marines in full Arabic dress shooting up a crowd of civilians? Undercover Marines? Special security task?

Do the insurgents/resistance need some help or something?

This sounds a little strange, doesn’t it? My imagination is struggling here. What’s this all about?