I smell a movie script being written... >Wrong number: Interpreter answers cell phone, dupes insurgents >By Jeff Schogol, Stars and Stripes >Mideast edition, Saturday, April 22, 2006 > >BRAHIM AL MARKHUR, Iraq ? One misplaced cell phone and one savvy >interpreter equaled one dead insurgent, several pieces of intelligence >and a whole lot of captured weapons. > >On a routine patrol, U.S. troops with 1st Battalion, 68th Armor came >upon a house in the midst of dense greenery and at the end of a dusty >country road. > >Staff Sgt. Matthew Nicodemus, 33, said he immediately noticed that no >Iraqi men were around. > >Suddenly, a cell phone inside the home rang, said Nicodemus, of Altoona, Pa. > >"The interpreter went in and answered the phone, and on the other end >of the phone the person said, in Arabic, 'Hey, coalition forces are >here, go ahead and run away,' > >http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=36642
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