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2017-10-03 Iraq

Captured ISIS Fighters’ Refrain: ‘I Was Only a Cook’

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Posted by Fred 2017-10-03 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top
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#1 Let's make a deal. If you can cook me a great meal I will let you go. If you can't, I shoot you between the eyes.

Posted by gorb 2017-10-03 00:57|| 2017-10-03 00:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, we meet Red Reddington's 'SoupMaker'.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-03 10:07|| 2017-10-03 10:07|| Front Page Top

#3 And I am a little suburban housewife and former soccer mom... with a carefully chosen recipe collection suitable for a variety of occasions and dietary requirements. I could describe myself as a cook, too, if the term is interestingly defined, as one does when practicing kitman.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-10-03 11:05|| 2017-10-03 11:05|| Front Page Top

#4 kitmān (lit. "action of covering, dissimulation"), has a more specific meaning of dissimulation by silence or omission.

Posted by Skidmark 2017-10-03 12:02|| 2017-10-03 12:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Now gorb, we're talking (a sort of) army cook.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-10-03 13:12|| 2017-10-03 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Precisely, Skidmark. :-)

Posted by trailing wife 2017-10-03 19:32|| 2017-10-03 19:32|| Front Page Top

#7 Now gorb, we're talking (a sort of) army cook.

Do you think such a cook should live?

Posted by gorb 2017-10-03 20:53|| 2017-10-03 20:53|| Front Page Top

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