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Iraq Republican Guard Reportedly Withdraws from Kirkuk
Geostrategy Direct.com ^ | Week of March 25, 2003 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 03/19/2003 3:16:12 PM PST by ewing

that is all in the headline index


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: endgameapproaches; geostrategy; iraq; kirkuk; saddam
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1 posted on 03/19/2003 3:16:13 PM PST by ewing
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To: ewing
Expecting a Kurdish rising?
2 posted on 03/19/2003 3:19:57 PM PST by aristeides
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To: ewing
Guess they saw the Kurds had teamed with the United States and are getting out ahead of any operation! Sounds like Saddam is pulling the Republican Guard all back to Baghdad!
3 posted on 03/19/2003 3:22:05 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: aristeides
Could be or just saving all the forces for a last stand in Baghdad
4 posted on 03/19/2003 3:22:26 PM PST by ewing
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To: ewing
Road trip! Guess they would rather die on the road than in Kirkuk. That's about the limit of their choices.
5 posted on 03/19/2003 3:22:42 PM PST by Arkie2 (TSA ="Thousands standing around")
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To: ewing
All your Kurds are belong to us.
6 posted on 03/19/2003 3:22:44 PM PST by skeeter (Fac ut vivas)
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To: aristeides
Or getting out before they hit the place with Chem weapons themselves...
7 posted on 03/19/2003 3:23:05 PM PST by linear
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To: PhiKapMom
Yep. All 120,000 strong who will surrender in unison at the sight of the first MOAB outside the city..
8 posted on 03/19/2003 3:23:21 PM PST by ewing
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To: PhiKapMom
If it's a military column and it's moving on an Iraqi road it's dead.
9 posted on 03/19/2003 3:23:40 PM PST by Arkie2 (TSA ="Thousands standing around")
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To: linear
Man, that is a scary thought...
10 posted on 03/19/2003 3:24:06 PM PST by ewing
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To: ewing
MOAB, when you care to send the very best (short of nukes, that is).
11 posted on 03/19/2003 3:24:10 PM PST by tomahawk
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To: Arkie2
If it's a military column and it's moving on an Iraqi road it's dead.

Unless its commanders have already made an arrangement with the U.S. military.

12 posted on 03/19/2003 3:24:53 PM PST by aristeides
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To: ewing
Let 'em keep Baghdad. We'll keep the oilfields.
13 posted on 03/19/2003 3:25:02 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/terroristcorecard/index.html)
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To: Arkie2
Unless General 'Chemical Ali' is leaving something behind for our boys to deal with..
14 posted on 03/19/2003 3:25:34 PM PST by ewing
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To: aristeides
I don't think we want to take any chances. If they're headed to Baghdad, they need to be targeted.
15 posted on 03/19/2003 3:25:47 PM PST by tomahawk
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To: ewing
Good post. What... does everybody just think all of his troops are going to surrender. I very seroiusly doubt that.
16 posted on 03/19/2003 3:25:50 PM PST by FloridaBoy
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To: ewing
LOL!!!! Got that right!
17 posted on 03/19/2003 3:25:52 PM PST by PhiKapMom (Get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US)
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To: ewing
My understanding is that there HASN'T been a RG presence in Kirkuk for a long time; about a billion stories 1-2 weeks ago that the one division withdrew to Tikrit.
18 posted on 03/19/2003 3:26:04 PM PST by John H K
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To: Straight Vermonter
I think the oilfields are safely in our possession.
19 posted on 03/19/2003 3:26:33 PM PST by ewing
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To: FloridaBoy
A few will fight but most will lay down their arms.
20 posted on 03/19/2003 3:26:52 PM PST by Arkie2 (TSA ="Thousands standing around")
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