Posted on 03/24/2003 4:16:36 PM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/25/03 - Tikrit, Baghdad, Fayda,Al Faw,Najaf,Nasiriyah,
HMAS Kinimbla,captured mines, Basra, Az Bayr, Az Zubayara, Umm Qasr
BREAKING
Tikrit - Mailbox for the Baath Party
Baghdad - Mutisystem Organ Failure for Saddam? Tense and Post-surrender Errors in Speech
Fayda, north of Mosul - new attacks on Iraq
Southern Iraq - oil wells burn
Southern Iraq - Iraqis freed by the USA
Southern Iraq - headquarters of the 51st Iraqi Mechanized Infantry Division
Al Faw -British Royal Marines bring justice to the Baath party
Najaf - Weapons hot
Nasiriyah - Battle at the Euphrates River
HMAS Kinimbla - captured mines
Basra, - Ongoing battle, Iraqi patrol vessel
Az Bayr - American heroes treat surrendered Iraqi soldiers
Az Zubayara - Iraqi Naval
Umm Qasr - Critical Site
Polish heroes with U.S. special forces
Rumayla Oilfields - burning oil wells
Rumayla Oilfields - Iraqi soldiers surrender
Kuwait - Scud attack
Camp New Jersey, Doha, Shalamcheh
DOD Map
DEBKA Map
========= Tikrit =========
WALKING DEAD
In Tikrit, Iraq, Saddam's terrorist guards.
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqi Republican Guard looks up as sirens peel.
In Baghdad, Iraq, at the news conference, Iraqis show their map.
Saddam on IRAQI TV. We think he is either dead
or so injured as to be in multisystem organ failure at this point.
Proof: His speech was canned and praised a General who defected to the USA.
Also he used the wrong tense about the taking of Basra; he used the future tense.
Iraqi Republican Guards
In Baghdad, Iraq.
In Baghdad, a French employee from the "French interests section"
and her Iraqi connecton. Perhaps a fractal view of France's role in terrorism worldwide.
At the Tigris river, Iraqi soldiers attack a purported SF champion.
In the end, one frog lost a leg but got away.
In Baghdad, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf
has taken over since Saddam was crippled or killed.
========= Mosul =========
Near the Iraqi controlled town of Fayda, north of Mosul, new attacks on
Iraqi forward positions in the north.
========= Southern Iraq =========
In southern Iraq, oil wells burn.
In southern Iraq, British heroes focus on enemy positions.
In southern Iraq, a British Royal Air Force Harrier GR7 targeting and destroying a surface to surface missile.
Near southern Iraq, Army heroes rush another for medical evacuation to Camp Udairi in Kuwait(.
In Basra, patrols and treating Iraqi POWs with respect (unlike the evil Iraqis)..
In southern Iraq, Iraqis are freed by the USA.
In the desert, American valiant heroes share their MREs (meals ready to eat) with Iraqis
even as Iraqis were executing American POWs and torturing the rest.
At the headquarters of the 51st Iraqi Mechanized Infantry Division.
========= Al Faw =========
In Al Faw, British Royal Marines bring justice to the Baath party.
In Al Faw, Commando fire into an Iraqi position.
========= Najaf =========
In Najaf, central Iraq, US Army engineer champions move on
as Apaches and A-10s pass, and Iraqi weapons are collected after heavy gunfire.
========= Nasiriyah =========
In Nasiriyah, southern Iraq, US heroes advance to the Euphrates river.
========= Nasiriyah, Iraq =========
At the Euphrates River, near Nasiriyah, Iraq, heroes of the 2nd Battalion
conduct house by house searches.
========= Safwan =========
In Safwan.
In Safwan, Iraqi soldiers surrender to British troops. Could this be another Iraq rouse where
they murder patriots after showing the "white flag"?
MINE LAYERS CAUGHT
========= HMAS Kinimbla =========
From the HMAS Kinimbla, an Australian naval ship, heroes captured mines
on an Iraqi tug, the Jumhuriyah, sneaking into the Gulf .
An Iraqi T15 Minelayer caught with mines now clearly visible.
========= Basra =========
In Basra, paladins of British Royal Air Force attack an Iraqi patrol vessel.
========= Az Bayr =========
In Az Bayr, Iraq, Marines heroes of the 3rd Batt. treat surrendered Iraqi soldiers
humanely unlike the evil Iraqis.
========= Az Zubayara =========
In Az Zubayara, champions of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
patrol and rest where possible.
In Az Zubayara, at the Iraqi Naval base.
========= Umm Qasr =========
In Umm Qasr, Scots Dragoon guards.
In Umm Qasr, an all-American hero Marine helps an injured Iraqi prisoner of war,
even as Iraqis shot American POWs in the head to "motivate" other POWs.
Near Umm Qasr, heroes in Chinook helicopters place a mobile bridge
on the banks of the Shat Al Basra.
In Umm Qasr, Marine fighters for freedom fire Javelins, shoulder-launched anti-tank weapon,
tanks and air fire to take several hundred Republican Guards..
In Umm Qasr, Iraq, the NEW EUROPE: Polish heroes with U.S. special forces
capture Iraqis terrorists and their boat.
========= Rumayla Oilfields =========
Near the Rumayla Oilfields, burning oil wells.
Near the Rumayla Oilfields,Iraqi soldiers surrender to U.S. troops.
Iraqis played atrocities as predicted on FreeRepublic several days ago
as they wore uniforms under civilian clothes, thereby feigning "surrender".
In Kuwait, gallant British Royal Air Force personnel wait
in full biological and chemical protective suits
in a bunker after a warning of a Scud attack,
which Blix promissed did not exist.
========= Camp New Jersey =========
Near Camp New Jersey, Kuwait.
========= Doha =========
In Doha, Qatar, America stands tall.
========= Iran, Shalamcheh,Khuzestan province =========
In Shalamcheh, Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, Iranian soldiers
see the Iraqi border. Basra can be located by the black smoke.
In the waters of the Shatt al-Arab estuary separating Iran and Iraq, Iranian soliders
on their control towers.
========= USS Cape St. George =========
Aboard USS Cape St. George, a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is launched.
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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/25/03 .......... K
In return, the Iraqis have conducted war crimes.
Wow! I didn't know Michael Moore had a cousin in Iraq!
Saddam keeps them well fed....
Heroes of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit
giving water to a dehydrated Iraqi. Would they do the same?.
Americans are humane to POWs unlike the Evil Iraqis.
After a weekend of angst and anger, this pic brought it all back in perspective. We are facing an evil that rivals anything known before, but we will not let our anger guide our actions. I am so proud of our troops.
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