Posted on 03/22/2003 4:38:06 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/22/03 - Umm Qasr taken, Basra battles, Safwan - Iraqis cheer US liberators,
Al Faw taken, Baghdad - Evil becomes dust, Mosul and Kirkuk - explosions, Convoy
Chamchamal, Kuwait City - Incomings Analyzed, Amazing surrender @ DMZ, STRIKE VIDEO
BREAKING: Umm Qasr taken BREAKING: Basra battles BREAKING: Safwan - Iraqis cheer US liberators BREAKING: Al Faw taken BREAKING: Baghdad - Evil becomes dust BREAKING: Mosul and Kirkuk - explosions BREAKING: Convoy BREAKING: Chamchamal BREAKING: Kuwait City - Incomings Analyzed BREAKING: Amazing surrender @ DMZ BREAKING: STRIKE VIDEO BREAKING: Pictures you won't see on TV
========= Umm Qasr (aka Um Qasser) =========
In Umm Qasr, Marines replaces the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Iraq's main port.
In Umm Qasr, heroes AND Iraqis remove portraits of Saddam.
In Umm Qasr, Marines 'Raiders' during the early stage of taking Umm Qasr.
Marine hero takes injured off of the battlefield. All ok.
========= Az Bayer, Iraq =========
Heroes engage Iraqi soldiers in gunfire at the headquarters of the Iraqi 51st and 32nd mechanized infantry divisions.
More Iraqi officers and soldiers surrender..
========= Basra =========
Near Basra, Iraqi men wave white flags as they surrender. Battle ongoing now.
========= Safwan =========
BREAKING: Pictures you won't see on TV
US hero shares candy with Iraqi boys.
Locals, freed by the USA, cheered and kissed the US Marines and the US Allies
who liberated them.
Iraqi children, freed by the USA, today play in the Mesopotamia marshes.
Heroes guard surrendered Iraqi soldiers.
========= Rmeileh, south in the Gulf port of Basra =========
In Rmeileh, ~650 klicks south of Baghdad.
========= Al Faw =========
British Royal Marines, 40 Commando, help secure the al-Faw oil field
and help the injurded.
Near Al Faw, HMAS ANZAC fires Mk 45 gun as forces take the Al Faw peninsula.
More Iraqi prisoners.
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, buildings of evil where thousands were raped, murdered, tortured,
become dust in the light of Truth, Justice and the American Way.
In Baghdad, Iraq, bridge over Tigris and (ex-) Ministry of Info.
Before:
========= Mosul =========
In Mosul and Kirkuk, explosions.
========= Pictures of the Convoy (Yesterday; no info today to protect our troops - Got that, Peter Jennings? )=========
From Kuwait to Baghdad, hundreds of thousands of heroes in convoy moving to free Iraq.
========= Chamchamal=========
In Chamchamal, Iraqi Kurds are ready to back the USA (unlike the Turks)
as their heroes prepare..
========= Kurdistan =========
Kurdish girls dance around burning tires near the Turkish- Iraqi border.
According to the Kurdish tradition people burn tires against evil spirits
to celebrate the Kurdish New Year (Now Ruz) which began Friday.
========= Ruweished refugee camp =========
At the Ruweished refugee camp near the Jordan-Iraq border.
Humanitarian aid planned by the USA.
The Jordanian Red Crescent runs this and this site may be used to let
Saddam's criminals escape (as the Red Cross did with US money in Afghanistan).
========= Kuwait City =========
In Kuwait City, a piece of a missile that was intercepted by Patriot batteries in Jahra.
Blix lied. Iraq lied. Annan lied. What else is new?
========= Amazing surrender - DMZ =========
Surrendering Iraqi soldiers, waving white flag, surrender to passing journalists.
========= White House =========
At the White House, war council.
THE STRIKE VIDEO
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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/22/03 
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(Ed Murray/ The Star-Ledger) 
Richard D'Emilio, a decorated World War II veteran, fights back tears while comparing his experience to that of the troops in the Persian Gulf.
(William Perlman/The Star-Ledger)
New York police officers armed with rifles guard the area outside the New York Stock Exchange yesterday.
(Matt Rainey/ The Star-Ledger)
''The day he's gone, I go back,'' said Jabbar Alroumi, referring to Saddam Hussein. Alrouimi joined several other Iraqi men watching Al Jazeera broadcasts at the Jerusalem Cafe in Paterson.
(Tony Kurdzuk/ The Star-Ledger)
Lisa Vereen, a member of the 744th MP Battalion based in Bethlehem, Pa., prays in the chapel at Fort Dix, a major center for Army Reserve and National Guard units. She is shipping out soon to the Persian Gulf.
Listen to "The Same Man" by Rachel Loy HERE.
The Dragunov SVD fires the Soviet 7.62x54R cartridge.
In Baghdad, Iraq, Presidential palace
(Tony Kurdzuk/ The Star-Ledger)
Viewed through a mask of the same type, Edison firefighter Mike Pellegrino displays an air mask like those used by his and many other fire departments. New grant money has become available to help first response departments like Edison acquire gas masks to protect against biological and chemical agents.
(Robert Sciarrino/ The Star-Ledger)
Picatinny Arsenal employee Dave Burkhardt looks through a ''bunker defeat munition'' which mounts on the soldier's shoulder and fires a small rocket 300 to 1,500 feet. The projectile can punch holes in brick walls.
Impt UPDATE:
Iraqi antiaircraft guns on the damaged Pres. palace.
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