GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 03/20/03 Part 2-Baghdad,Kuwait,Royal Navy

The Usual Suspects | 3/20/03 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

[Diogenesis]

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/20/03 - Part 2
Baghdad,Kuwait, USS Bunker Hill, USS Donald Cook, USS Kitty Hawk

BREAKING: Baghdad burns is surgical strikes
BREAKING: Kuwait, Incoming missiles which Blix said Iraq did not have
BREAKING: USS Bunker Hill, USS Donald Cook, USS Kitty Hawk, Black Knights, Royal Navy
BREAKING: Heroes everywhere

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=========== Royal Navy fires Tomahawk Land Attack Missile ===========

A Royal Navy Tomahawk Land Attack Missile is launched at a target in Iraq,
as seen through the periscope of the firing submarine,

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========= USS Bunker Hill =========

On the USS Bunker Hill, Tomahawks leaves the deck.

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========= USS Donald Cook =========

On the USS Donald Cook, Tomahawks leaves the deck.

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========= USS Kitty Hawk =========

On the USS Kitty Hawk, Black Knights.

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========= Oil Wells - New Crime by Iraqis =========

From space, ~520 miles, oil well fires visible, and indicated by arrow.

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========= Baghdad =========

In Baghdad, the presidential palace.

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========= Baghdad =========

In Baghdad, Iraq, a fire burns behind a bridge probably from Iraqi guns.

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In Baghdad, near Saddam's palaces and intelligence headquarters.

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In Baghdad, at the Iraqi (ex)-planning ministry.

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========= Kuwait =========

In Kuwait, heroes wait in their suits for Iraqi Scuds which Blix said did not exist,
were intercepted, or off course.

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In Kuwait, heroes of the British Royal Air Force wait for the incoming.

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In Kuwait City, foreign journalists scramble as civil alert sirens ring out.

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========= On the Road to Baghdad - Day 2=========

Somewhere near Iraq, heroes of the Royal Air Force on their Harrier GR7s.

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Near Iraq, with the 3 Commandoes.

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Heroes of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

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In Kuwait, with the Royal Air Force, Top Gun heroes return.

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Heroes of the 'Raiders'.

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More heroes in NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) outfits.

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US marine heroes move towards Iraq at dawn

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========= UPDATE =========

Missing? Dead? Incapacitated? Doubled dead, too? S

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=========== The Cessna ===========

The Cessna single engine plane that crashed after it flew across the border from Iraq.

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=========== Amman ===========

In Amman, Jordan, Jordanians pray for Saddam at the al-Husseini mosque.

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========= White House =========

At the White House, in the Oval Office, adults are in charge at last.

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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/20/03 .......... K

[Diogenesis]

May the US Forces fly like the wind and hit like an Eagle.

[HiJinx]

Hey, son, is that one of your Cessnas?

[HiJinx]

Goddess, installment #2 is up and awaiting your Ping Prowess!

[dinok]

Cool pics...

[HiJinx]

Drinking from a canteen through your protective mask...

Good grief, some things never change. I hated the taste of water coming through that dinky little rubber hose...

Thanks for doing what you do so well, Diogenesis!

[piasa]

Cessna looks like it is in pretty good shape- any word on whether it was remotely pilotted or if there was a pilot?

[MEG33]

Another great post. Go team!

[Brett66]

They look pretty relaxed in those holes. Maybe that's what my nephew's doing right now. He's in the 3rd Infantry division, he drives a Bradley.

[Diogenesis]

BUMP FOR LIBERTY, JUSTICE, FREEDOM AND THE AMERICAN WAY

[TomGuy]

This image brought to mind:

"It's been a hard days' night, I should be sleeping like a log..." ---the Beatles

[LibKill]

Holy-Moly! What the heck is that!

[facedown]

Thanks bunp.

[NautiNurse]

Great stuff! Thanks!

[facedown]

oops, bunp = bump

[teancumspirit]

And when the EAGLE gets him in its claws, let it crush him with all its might and put an end to his reign of evil!

[eureka!]

Fires of freedom have begun burning in Bagdad.

Continuing thanks Dio. Your pics make my day. May the Heavens look over and protect our brave soldiers, our allies and the innocents....

[Moose4]

That's the rocket booster firing a Tomhawk cruise missile out of its launch tube on a Royal Navy submarine. A rocket motor fires it out of the water and up into the air, where the wings unfold and its internal jet engine takes over.

That weapon is one of the best things to come out of the American defense establishment in the last thirty years. And as we've seen in both Gulf Wars, it's tailor made for situations like this. Don't want to send in a pilot? No problem. Just program the coordinates in our little jet-powered robotic kamikaze friend, and off he goes. :)

}:-)4

[Diogenesis]

"May the Heavens look over and protect our brave soldiers, our allies and the innocents."

And then some.

[blam]

Bump.

[HiJinx]

Ok, the registration numbers are N814HA. Go to google and check that string to find a registration history, and voila!

Pilot James Laverack has logged 7 flights in this Cessna C-172.

Click here to see the logbook entries for this craft that he flew in and around Naples, Florida as (looks like) a student pilot. Each flight has a different Captain noted. All flights were in May of 2001.