Crowds Greet US Marines Who Stormed Town In The Search For 'Chemical Ali'

Independent (UK) ^ | 4-1-2003 | Donald Macintyre/Sean Maguire

[Burkeman1]

A happy and encouraging story. Onward to Baghdad.

[kellynla]

Watch your back, Marines! As Ronald Reagan use to say "trust but verify." Semper Fi

[EternalVigilance]

After a report like this, I hope to God our people provide this town with airtight security. The Saddamites very well could try to launch reprisal attacks on this village for acting like civilazed human beings. Just isn't allowed, you know.

[Spruce]

[oceanview]

Chemical Ali? If he is alive, Saddam is also alive. He was supposedly in the bunker with Saddam and his sons.

[JasonC]

The fears of downtown evaporate. When news of that spreads, the serious crumbling begins.

[TomB]

This should start happening more often as the populace sees that we are sticking around and not pulling a Clinton on them.

[PISANO]

Does anyone know if this was TAPED or shown live to the networks? We should be able to use this as contrarian propaganda against Al J!

[Dog]

MSNBC had footage of this ....their embedd reporter Dr. Bob Arnott reported this and was amazed by it.

Try to catch it again when they show it....

[Polybius]

The key is to kill the Fedayeen thugs who terrorize the locals in each village or city. Then and only then can the Iraqis feel safe that they will not be murdered the next day for welcoming liberation.

In another article posted by MadIvan, a village elder of a village outside of Basrha welcomed British troops with the following words:

"My village is open to you but you must promise me one thing...That you will stay and not leave us."

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[Republican Wildcat]

Wonderful!

[thatdewd]

Most awesomely excellent. BTTT.

[crobnson]

I have heard from a number of journalists who have been in some areas of Iraq that they have had whispered to them, I am happy you are here or something else to that affect. But, right now I can't say it out loud.

I believe that there is alot of that there and it will come out in time.

[thatdewd]

I believe that there is alot of that there and it will come out in time.

Without a doubt. As we round up the Ba'athist "enforcers" and kill off the fedayen, the people will be able to express themselves without fear. Once the "parades of thanks" start, our leftist media will quit showing video from inside Free Iraq...except for FOXnews, of course.

[not-an-ostrich]

But first they collected the body of the American soldier either hanging in the town square or tossed on the ground there since last week. Uplifting story none the less.

[aristeides]

I don't think Fisk's paper would report this unless it were true.

[crobnson]

Did you read this article that was posted. No doubt there is alot of this also.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/881052/posts

[blam]

Here is Fisk's latest.