Posted on 06/05/2003 8:58:25 PM PDT by null and void
Good Morning.
Welcome to the daily thread of Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room.
It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. Im addition to the ongoing conversations related to terrorism and our place in it's ultimate defete, this thread is a clearinghouse of links to War On Terrorism threads. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information and mutual support.
June 6, 2003 is the 59th anniversary of our successful D-Day invasion of Normandy that started Patton's victorious liberation of Paris and conquest of Germany.Worthy of note is that the U.S. landed 6 Army divisions on two beaches that day. They were opposed not only by Hitler's famed "Atlantic Wall" defenses, but also by 44 full-strength Wehrmacht Army divisions.
It's easy to teach your children about the battle by reminding them of the date: June, 1944 reads as 6/44; 6 U.S. divisions versus 44 German divisions.
Needless to say, our offensive was successful and we never looked back.
But as in the Great War before it, the Germans and various Europeans repeatedly claimed that the U.S. Army was soldier for soldier INFERIOR to the NAZIs.
Just something to keep in mind as you hear the arrogant prattling from across the pond repeating tired old anti-American nonsense...
It was almost the thread topper for this thread
WASHINGTON - Prosecutors doctored interrogation statements from an al-Qaida leader and submitted them to a court after mixing, matching and reorganizing the material, lawyers for terrorism suspect Zacarias Moussaoui contend.
Moussaoui's trial judge rejected the submission as a proposed substitute for a court-approved interview of the captive leader by Moussaoui. The lawyers called the submission a concocted script that patched together separate statements from suspected Sept. 11 coordinator Ramzi Binalshibh.
"To make the substitute flow the government added in its own transitional phrasing," according to the written brief filed last month and kept secret until released in an edited form Wednesday by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Va.
Moussaoui does not cooperate with his court-appointed defense team, which remains in the case even though the lone U.S. defendant from the Sept. 11 attacks is representing himself before the trial court.
DENVER - Homeland security and the costs of providing it are most deeply felt in the nation's cities, and mayors need help to meet those demands, the U.S. Conference of Mayors president said in advance of a weeklong meeting of city leaders.
"When the bells started ringing after September 11th, they didn't ring in the statehouse, they rang in the cities," Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said.
More than 225 of the nation's mayors are expected at the five-day U.S. Conference of Mayors meeting that begins Thursday. The International Conference of Mayors, which includes 25 mayors from 19 nations and five continents, is also meeting in Denver.
With his meeting Wednesday with the Palestinian and Israeli prime ministers, President Bush put his personal prestige behind the first real U.S. attempt to mediate a peace agreement in three years. But real progress will depend on fulfilling a tradeoff set forth by the United Nations Security Council 36 years ago: Israeli withdrawal from much of the West Bank and Gaza in return for Palestinians ending attacks on Israelis.
At the meeting in Aqaba, Jordan, Bush praised Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's pledges to permit creation of a Palestinian state, but the two may have very different visions of how that state would look.
PHOENIX - A federal indictment alleges a grenade attack that injured a Marine in Kuwait was carried out by a fellow Marine plotting with the man's wife and trying to disguise the crime as a terrorist act.
Chief Warrant Officer Larry A. Framness, 36, and Wendy Glass, 33, both of Yuma, are charged with murder conspiracy in the May 14 attack on Chief Warrant Officer James H. Glass.
Wendy Glass, who allegedly had an affair with Framness, was arrested Thursday in Yuma, and is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in federal court in Phoenix.
WASHINGTON - In a shift that will affect the lifestyles of thousands of sailors, the Navy is throwing overboard a decades-old approach to rotating its ships and crews on sea duty.
Instead of sticking to a schedule that sends ships to sea for six months — rarely for even one day longer — followed by 18 months at home preparing for the next deployment, the Navy will speed up parts of the preparation cycle so more ships are available for duty.
It is abandoning predictability in favor of flexibility that Adm. Vern Clark, the chief of naval operations, said Thursday will give the president more options in a national crisis.
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