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To: blackie
Still waiting for updates from CENTCOM, but we have Greg Palkot, back in Iraq (hoo ah)! (^:

Greg Palkot from Iskandarya, Iraq:
 
24th MEU, Iraqi Security Forces - + - conducting Operation Phantom Fury...northern Iraq, Babil province...day and night raids - latest numbers, 50 suspected insurgents captured, a rebel training camp located / closed, key bridge that links Fallujah to Baghdad temporarily shut down...reports other bridges along the Euphrates being hit, car bombs going off - Iraqis have been killed, a convoy from the base narrowly missed being hit by a large IED. Greg will be back with a report from the swift boats - Iraqi "Riverine" expedition, looking for bad guys up and down the Euphrates river.

6 posted on 10/07/2004 7:45:13 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat -- it is to prevail."- Pres. Bush, CinC, 9/21)
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To: blackie
Iskandarya = Iskandariyah

(hoo ah! SBCT = ooh rah! 24th MEU) *g*

7 posted on 10/07/2004 7:50:25 AM PDT by Ragtime Cowgirl ("The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat -- it is to prevail."- Pres. Bush, CinC, 9/21)
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl

That is good news ~ thanks!


9 posted on 10/07/2004 8:10:10 AM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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