***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 8 - LIVE THREAD***

Various | 3/27/2003 | Me

[Centurion2000]

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:

Special thanks to null and void for keeping these running over the weekend and Monday, to all of you for keeping these threads alive, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, and, of course, Belly Girl...

[sissyjane]

Don't know how to link, but just read on Drudge that a Christian Science Monitor reporter who was freelancing was escorted to the Kuwait border -(by the Marines)- after he reported on CNN exact locations etc. of the unit he was with. Sorry if this is a repeat.

[Fledermaus]

Hear ya go:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0328/p06s02-woiq.html

[Dog]

Muffled explosions in BAG...

[ican'tbelieveit]

Worst incident, I was trying to get a shipment rerouted... did everything I was supposed to do, and they didn't do it. So I called in, got hung up on by one rep, finally got a supervisor. She patched me thru to the local UPS office, but stayed on the line. The local UPS rep proceeded to tell me to shut up or they wouldn't do anything for me. When she hung up, the supervisor gasped. Needless to say, she called the corporate office, and I had an apology later that day as well as a promise that woman would be on the street before the end of the day (not that I believe that, but it was still nice.)

OK, sorry, no more off topic.

[Fledermaus]

oops, hugh mistake...I meant "here"

[ican'tbelieveit]

Booms.

[Dog]

Explosions in Bag....

[nwpatriot]

OPSEC...it starts with YOU!

(Drilled into our brains when I was an Army guy.)

The guy screwed up, he pays the price.

[Otta B Sleepin]

Sounds more like Bagdad, Florida

Kentucky.

[Grenada]

On MSNBC cam? I did not hear them. Never mind...just heard one as I was typing. Very low.

[Jackie-O]

What network?

[GOPyouth]

AAA or a bomb just hit in Baghdad.

[ican'tbelieveit]

Multiple booms.

[Dog]

Bigger booms and getting closer to the webcam....

AAA going off...

[Howlin]

MSNBC just said a B52 dropped a 5000 pound bunker buster tonight in Baghdad.

I bet that's what we heard.

[GOPyouth]

I'm not hearing bombs yet, but quite a bit of AAA going on.

[GOPyouth]

THAT was a bomb.

[Dog]

Yes...

[ican'tbelieveit]

msnbc, lots of small muffled ones, and a few medium ones. Nothing like earlier... yet...

oh nevermind, there it was.

[GOPyouth]

Big explosion in Baghdad again