Posted on 03/28/2003 10:04:26 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/29/03 - Arbil, Chamchamal, Kirkuk, Baghdad
BREAKING: Saddam Surrounded BREAKING: Arbil- American paratroopers In Force BREAKING: Chamchamal - Kurds Take Iraqi Position BREAKING: Near Kirkuk - Retreating Iraqis BREAKING: Baath telecommunications centers taken out BREAKING: Baath government centers taken out BREAKING: Baghdad-Tikrit Regime elects to continue its terror and WMD BREAKING: Fedayeen and Republican Guard - Decimation In progress
========= Map of northern Iraq =========
Map of northern Iraq showing the major battles [per AFP FWIW].
========= Harir airfield =========
At the Harir airfield, somewhere near the Kurdish city of Arbil [231 miles north of Baghdad],
paladin American paratroopers of the US Army 173rd Airborne Brigade prepare.
========= Chamchamal ~70 klicks west of Sulaymania =========
BREAKING:
Near Chamchamal, Kurds monitor their crossing the line
into what was Iraqi government-controlled territory.
========= Irbil =========
In Irbil, controlled by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP),
231 miles north of Baghdad, a Kurd hero carries an artillery shell
that exploded in a vacant lot. These shells have TNT and smoke bombs,
and in the past also chemical weapons. The huge white plume of smoke
made everyone nervous that it was a chemical attack, because the Iraqis
do this to use up chemical weapon defense suits.
========= Kirkuk =========
BREAKING:
Near Kirkuk, at the abandoned Iraqi checkpost,
after Iraqis feld from Iraqi Kurd fighters who here stands guard.
Near Chamchamal, near hills parolled by Iraq.
An oil refinery in northern Iraq.
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad more warnings by the Coalition to DISARM.
At the Tigris River, in Baghdad, Iraq.
Abu Dhabi TV shows smoke billowing behind a bridge.
In Baghdad, at the presidential compound and other Baath centers.
ULTRA-ACCURATE AND ULTRAPRECISE TARGETING
Iraqi television and communications facility, before and after coalition bombing.
Iraqi missile support facility before and after coalition bombing.
SADDAM'S WAR CRIME
Baghdad from space. See the oil-filled trenches and thick smoke.
In Baghdad, Iraq, Iraqis at one of their last soccer games
under the Dictator and murderer Saddam, as smoke rises from Saddams oil fires.
In Baghdad, the Baath telecommunications center taken out.
Ozymandius indeed.
In Baghdad, Iraq, at the Baath government bulding.
In Baghdad, the Red Cross is busy again helping the Axis of Evil,
as unfortunately has been their way from Afghanistan through Israel.
Republican Guards control Baghdad. Will "Saddam" (read the Ministries and Feyadeen)
harden their hearts and minds again -- or disarm?
In Baghdad, at the news conference, Iraq's Defense Minister Sultan Hashim Ahmed.
This little Piggy is about to get voted off of the island with prejudice.
BREAKING: SUBMERGING MISSED TARGET ALERT
In Baghdad, at the news conference, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al Sahaf
arrives for a news conference.
DEAD MEN WALKING
The Baghdad-Tikrit Regime yesterday elected to continue its terror and orders
Iraqi Republican Guard to head for the frontlines south of Baghdad to kill Coalition troops.
BREAKING:
Behind enemy lines - NOT REPORTED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA
With the Fedayeen and Republican Guard supporters in Baghdad after
their troops were destroyed south of Baghdad.
If they do not give up now, they have just begun to feel the terrible swift sword of Justice at their door.
========= Black Sea =========
Somewhere between Iraq, England and the Black Sea,
champions on an Air Force B-52 bomber pilot its return from a mission
over Iraq, as heroes on a KC-10 plane refuel our "fathers' airplane".
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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/29/03 .......... K
Leni
....Thanks and God Bless You!
Somewhere, a B-2 Spirit returning from its mission
over Iraq - involving 4,600-pound 'bunker-busters'.
Could it be they are headed to BUSH INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT?
A masked US Marine with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, plays cards at an undisclosed desert base in southern Iraq, Friday, March 28, 2003.
I'll bet the embedded reporter is whining BIG TIME from having to hump his own crap with these guys. (Or else he's in the HMMV like a little girl with a skinned knee.)
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