Posted on 03/27/2003 6:26:42 AM PST by Colorado Doug
Associated Press Correspondent Denis Gray reported the first American aircraft, a C-130 cargo plane, landed Thursday at Iraq's second largest airport, Tallil airbase, just outside Nasariyah. Tallil is expected to be a major resupply base for American forces.
Tallil is the second largest airport in Iraq after Saddam International Airport at Baghdad. It was covered by the U.S.-British enforced no-fly zones and has not been used since the 1991 Gulf War. The no-fly zones were set up to protect Iraq's majority Shiite Muslims in the south of the country and the Kurds in the north.
Several American units already are operating at Tallil, where troops put up a sign saying ``Bush International Airport.''
(Excerpt) Read more at austin360.com ...
I promise you, the fifth column liberals reporting this war will waste no time explaining how capturing the airfield has "bogged colition forces down" or some other brainfree defeatist rot.
It's excerpted from the article, about half way down.
I think you have hit on the makings of a new thread. "New Names For Places in Iraq"
How about we name the area where the Republican Guard are now massed: "Kofi Crater"
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