***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 5 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 23 Mar 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD.

It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

Please have mercy on us dial up limited FReepers! Limit the big graphics, post links instead. A breif description of what the graphic is would help:

To all who helped this get started, thank you!

Special thanks to An.American.Expatriate for staring the daily threads, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, and, of course, Belly Girl...

[Jackie-O]

Hey cabin!!! Ping!
Here is the Belly shirt girl I was telling you about. Enjoy!

[AppyPappy]

Since November of 1997

[Miss Marple]

Russians supplied GPS scramblers and night vision goggles to Iraq. Confirmed by Powell in an interview today.

Two Apache flyers shot down and in enemy hands...shown on Iraqi TV.

Tarik Aziz not dead yet, showed up for a press conference.

Press whining that we are in a quagmire, etc.

That's all I can remember now.

[7 x 77]

Will somebody sum up the day for me? Thanks.

[Anomaly in Illinois]

Thanks. :)

[austex]

whats the scoop on saddam - I read this morning he put out another press 'tape'....any news on that?

[ChadGore]

Re:hey kids - any significant news occurances - I've been too busy to catch up

3rd ID is within appx 60 miles of Baghdad and are probing the RP positions. One apache lost in the initial probe, crew MIA, Air power "softening and shaping" the RP positions now.

Can anyone add to this summary ?

[Miss Marple]

See my post 3684.

[AppyPappy]

Basically, nothing happened.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

ABC chooses to listen to JTVL rather than Gen. Franks - who vigorously denied a Chinese reporter's question about farmers shooting down 2 copters at today's CENTCOM briefing.

JTVL = Joe the Village Liar (courtesy Rummy).

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Also here's the Belly Girl thread...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/871873/posts

[spodefly]

1997-11-28.

[Carolina]

That's all I can remember now.

Don't forget "humanitarian disaster."

[ztiworoh]

Pentagon says it has 67 awkward cuts and splices in it, like they were putting together different clips to make it match recent events

[Fitzcarraldo]

Where are you, Oceanside?

[AppyPappy]

For instance, my original number was 5869 and I came here in June of 98. I may have an older number but I couldn't remember the password.

[Miss Marple]

Tape is Saddam, but has 57 edits in it. Also contains reference praising the 51st Division, which was the first to surrender. DoD conclusion is that tape was made before war started.