To: floriduh voter

AP via MSNBC - Shock and Awe is being tempoarily scaled back while surrender talks continue. If talks are not successful in a matter of hours, Shock and Awe "Uncut" will happen.

2,461 posted on 03/21/2003 9:53:51 AM PST by steveegg (The French have removed 1 leg from the UN; it is now LN (League of Nations).)

To: Oldeconomybuyer

The two REpublican Guard (RG) units that are going to fight are to the west and south of the city of Baghdad.

2,462 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:05 AM PST by Cboldt

just lost msnbc. colored bars

2,463 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:23 AM PST by retrokitten

NBC - Yes, Arnett said there likely are RG units to the west of BAG.

2,464 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:33 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)

NBC - Yes, Arnett said there likely are RG units to the west of BAG.

2,465 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:36 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)

Fox reporting that the 101st (not sure?) steaming towards Baghdad at a rate never seen in history.

2,466 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:52 AM PST by abnegation (They're not just anti-Bush, they are just plain anti-American.)

E-bomb - can knock out all electronics for a mile in diameter.

2,467 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:53 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/869837/posts: YES, "in your name": USNR educates peaceniks.)

happebned twice to me already. I am back on now though!

2,468 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:58 AM PST by eyespysomething (Pray for our troops, our President, our country.)

I have a feeling there'll be plenty of light in Baghdad tonight......even without the moon!

2,469 posted on 03/21/2003 9:54:59 AM PST by Otta B Sleepin

Australian soldiers kill Iraqi troops in firefights
March 22 2003, 2:59 AM

Doha, Qatar: Australian Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) soldiers are deep inside Iraq and have engaged in firefights with Iraqi troops, shooting and killing some, the commander of the Australian contingent revealed today.

Brigadier Maurie McNarn said the SASR soldiers had also stopped to treat other Iraqi soldiers wounded in contacts.

No Australians had been injured or killed.

Brigadier McNarn said the SASR had been in Iraq for a couple of days but suggestions they went in earlier were nonsense.

"They are deep inside Iraq," he told reporters in a media briefing.

"Their primary role is strategic reconnaissance, although in some cases where there are comand and control nodes which are used for communications for controlling WMD (weapons of mass destruction), we will in some cases have taken direct action against those.

"They are probably in as far or more so than anyone else at the moment doing that strategic reconnaissance role. They are the best in the world at that role.

"There have been a number of contacts. They have in some cases killed Iraqi military. "In one case where they had a contact going in, they wounded a number. The rest either dropped their weapons or ran away. They stopped. Their medics treated the wounded Iraqis. We moved on."

Brigadier McNarn said the SASR were not looking for a fight but they were more than capable of handling themselves as they had shown in the last couple of days.

He said other elements of the Australian military contingent in the Gulf had assisted in the invasion of Iraq, with HMAS ANZAC using its main gun to shell Iraqi defensive positions as British Royal Marines landed on the Al Faw Peninsular.

That was the first occasion since the Vietnam war that an Australian warship had used naval gunfire support.

"It was highly accurate, a skill not a lot of navies have kept up. Last night the Royal Marines were very glad we had," he said.

RAAF F/A-18 Hornets had continued to fly combat air patrols over southern Iraq, protecting United States airborne early warning aircraft and refuelers and U2 reconnaissance aircraft.

Brigadier McNarn said the Hornets' deterrent value had been pretty good because no-one had been keen to come up against them.

"The Hornets have not dropped any ordnance at this stage. They have the ability, if we get a time sensitive in terms of say a missile that is going to threaten a troop concentration, to do so," he said.

"In the areas they have been in, there has been triple-A anti-aircraft fire. There have been some missiles fired."

Brigadier McNarn said an Australian officer aboard HMAS KANIMBLA was commanding a group of seven or eight Australian British and American warships in the Persian Gulf.

He said Australia was also commanding a mixed coalition group of 20 rigid-hulled inflatable boats under overall Australian command which intercepted an Iraqi tugboat carrying about 60 sea-mines as it emerged from the Khawr Abd 'Allah waterway into the Persian Gulf.

"That was a real good save in terms of the coalition," he said.

Brigadier McNarn said there had been no casualties so far, but special forces remained in a high-risk business.

"This is a large scale conventional war. It is high risk. There is a quarter of a million people manoeuvring out there on our side alone," he said.

AAP

2,470 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:02 AM PST by ONA-ASIS (Aussies kick ass and take names!)

To: Oldeconomybuyer

CNN: Large explosions in Kirkuk, Mosul

2,471 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:16 AM PST by TonyInOhio (Now begins the Pax Americana)

Was car delivering to bakeries? Lord, who knows? If it were I, that car w/a white flag on the hood would be driving 100mph toward our troops.

2,472 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:29 AM PST by Carolinamom

Here's a link to the Shock & Awe thread.

2,473 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:29 AM PST by P.O.E. (God Bless and keep safe our troops.)

To: Ragtime Cowgirl; GeorgiaYankee

The warthogs, A-10s, the teeth remind me of shark's teeth. And, if you've ever touched shark's skin, it's very tough. I've noticed that FR at least at my low tech pc is starting to slow down. I am going to lurk for awhile so I don't crash out. Stay safe, friends. God Bless America.

2,474 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:43 AM PST by floriduh voter ("Pound that Rock" John Gruden, Super Bowl Night 2003)

CNN reports that the 101st Air Assault is on the move.

If I were a betting man, I'd say the 101 is moving out to take advantage of liberated airfields to set up forward bases for the Apaches and Blackhawks.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

2,475 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:45 AM PST by section9 (You will all be shot unless you download the Saddam screensaver...)

To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yes - switching around. Taping and praying. Poor civilians - don't know what they're going to go through. Poor troops - such responsibility and so dangerous even though little resistance - so sorry it's come to this. Had so hoped yesterday it wouldn't.

2,476 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:55 AM PST by Peach

They are getting clobbered right now from the looks of the AAA fire..

2,477 posted on 03/21/2003 9:55:57 AM PST by Dog (On my command, UNLEASH HELL!)

Fox: Coalition sorties increased fourfold in the past few hours.

2,478 posted on 03/21/2003 9:56:01 AM PST by abnegation (They're not just anti-Bush, they are just plain anti-American.)

To: floriduh voter

They are working their way in to baghdad, they have not arrived there yet, when they get to Baghdad you'll know

2,479 posted on 03/21/2003 9:56:07 AM PST by The Wizard (Demonrats are enemies of America)

To: P.O.E.; Admin Moderator

Suggest a single live SnA thread ...

2,480 posted on 03/21/2003 9:56:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)

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