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AIRBORNE GETS DROP ON SADDAM
New York Post ^
| 3/27/03
| NILES LATHEM
Posted on 03/27/2003 2:18:06 AM PST by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:12:50 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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March 27, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - More than 1,000 American paratroopers dropped into northern Iraq last night to open up a new front, while a column of fierce Republican Guards desperately rushed south from Baghdad, aiming for a violent showdown with American ground forces.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airdrop; northernfront; roadtobaghdad
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:18:06 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
We're hunting big time and they'll wish they hadn't taken on us in the first place.
To: goldstategop
As far as the Iraqi column heading south. First you hear there was, there you hear there wasn't, then you hear there was....which is it?
To: NeonKnight
It points up the fundamental dictum of wartime reporting: the first reports are almost always invariably wrong.
To: All
The airport's 6,700-foot runway can handle the military transport planes Does this include the C-130 that carries the MOAB?
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:32:06 AM PST
by
Flyer
(We Own The Streets!!)
To: Flyer
Does this include the C-130 that carries the MOAB? Yes, easily.
To: NeonKnight
Reminds me of that song.
(First there is a mountain,
Then there is no mountain,
Then there is.)
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posted on
03/27/2003 2:43:23 AM PST
by
cavador
To: kattracks
A sharp right hand salute to the 173rd.
In God We Trust…..Semper Fi
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