***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 13 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April1, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

Good Morning.

Welcome to the Situation Room 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.

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Mhking's links:

Updated links (Null and Void alphabetized them and found a few other interesting ones):

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Abu Dhabi TV (Real - Arabic)
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Please have mercy on us dial up limited FReepers! Limit the big graphics, post links instead. A brief description of what the graphic is would help:

To all who helped this get started, thank you! Special thanks to null and void for keeping these threads running on the weekends, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, and, of course,...

[rolling_stone]

One famous quote about dogs..the only thing bad about them is they don't live long enough....sad but true....condolences...

[Tree of Liberty]

What channel?

[melodie]

fox news

[DollyCali]

golly, you didn't seem critical at all. I don't have a clue myself, that is why I asked last week. in fact I was so removed from information, I thought it was maybe a walled city.. (hmm.. wrong millenium)

[melodie]

its on now

[commish]

CBS BAgCam .. Boom Boom Airplane Sound Boom Boom Boom sounded distant.

[gop212]

This is going to be a pointless press conference. No new info will be gained.

[ztiworoh]

agreed

[Diddle E. Squat]

But the story is the RESCUE.

We already knew that there were dead there, having seen the video. But we didn't know if they had any live POW's besides the ones we had seen on TV. Most assumed that Jessica was dead. The military discovered that she was still alive, where she was being held, and mounted a difficult but successful rescue.

The good news is:

1) One was alive that was thought to be likely dead.
2) That soldier was rescued.
3) The soldier is free and will live.

All unknown until a few hours ago. That is good news, and combined it is much bigger news than the confirmation that those who we had seen dead in a video and some others that were missing and likely dead were actually dead.

[Cboldt]

Maybe we should wait for a response from CENTCOM before we start calling it BS spin

I'll restrain myself. But candor and truthfulness work in the favor of any administration. If we recovered one living service person and 9 deceased, and this press conference only mentioned the living one, then in my mind, there was an absence of candor. Maybe justified, and I'll shut up on the subject.

[DollyCali]

Is this John Warner the senator that was married to Liz Taylor?

[melodie]

omg...journalist just asked if they were gonna try to find anymore pows or mias....sheer stupidity

[ztiworoh]

yeah

from Virginia

[Fledermaus]

Uh huh!

[spectr17]

yes

[The Wizard]

are we to assume that she was the only one left alive?

[commish]

I know this is a little inappropriate, but your post made me think ... "Ahh but he is only mostly dead, which is better than all dead" LOL

[DouglasKC]

Ollie thwarted Congress and was doing nothing illegal. He thought on his feet and did this country proud defeating Commie thugs in Central America.

Watching Ollie North in the Iran-Contra hearings was one of the first things that made me realize that liberals (which I thought I was) thought differently than me. I watched it and totally believed he was being honest, forthright and telling the truth. I couldn't understand why so many others thought he was lying.

[merrin]

From Jed Babbin on NRO:

"Four leaders of the Kurdish Shiite terror group Ansar al-Islam surrendered today. Among them was their link to Iraqi intelligence, himself a former Iraqi intelligence officer."

!

[Timeout]

Also occurs to me, this is just another violation of the GC by Iraq. They were holding a POW without notification. Good thing we got her when we did.

And then there's this good news: Egypt has expelled a senior Iraqi diplomat. Hmmmm. Maybe Cairo's deciding it's time to jump on the winning side.