[Thebaddog]

Killing Ground. Good God, Almighty. This thing is going to happen.

[wideawake]

The objective of coalition commanders is to destroy these RG divisions where they stand, rather than let them fall back into Baghdad to stiffen the city's defenses. Once inside the city, where they can take cover from coalition air power, they could be a much more difficult to tackle than they are now on the relatively open ground south of Baghdad.

I assume this means JDAMs behind their lines while marines and soldiers assault them from the front.

This could be a new chapter in warfare entirely.

[Wright is right!]

One thing to watch is SadMan's reinforcements coming in from the North. They can't get to Dadhbag under cover - the trip requires them to be in the open. Guess what. If any of them make it AT ALL I'll be very surprised.

Michael

[VOA]

bump

[aegiscg47]

The Republican Guard has won the toss and elected to receive!

[Grampa Dave]

I'm sure that we have set up killing zones around Baghdad like we set up in DSI in Iraq.

Our pilots, eyes in the skies and spec ops are working each killing zone 24/7. Whenever a RG tank or groups tries to move, they are history.

It is appears that who ever is left in charge of Iraq in Baghdad does not want the Republican Guard to retreat back into Baghdad. If the RG's find out that Soddamn has been dead since the first night, they just might take out what is left of the Iraqi leadership.

As Major Bob said about the RG's, we must kill everyone of them now or be forced to hunt them down one by one when Baghdad falls.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

You mean this 'elite' force won't last a week?

Who 'da thunkit?

[shotgun]

"They are outmatched by the U.S. M1-A1 Abrams tanks, which can pick them off at a distance while remaining out of rage of the T-72 guns -- if the visibility is clear enough."

This "reporter" doesn't know that our tanks also have and would rather use thermal imaging.

[colorado tanker]

Looks like the Iraqis left the back door open just as the Big Red One is landing in the north. Oops.

[johnb838]

THE EUPHRATES AND THE TIGRIS SHALL RUN RED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOSE THAT OPPOSED THE FORCES OF THE GREAT JWHW!!!! LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-!!!!!

[Kozak]

They left out "Elite" from the title.

[Poohbah]

What do Saddam Hussein and George Armstrong Custer have in common?

Neither one had any idea where the fatal Tomahawk came from :o)

[Richard Axtell]

So far, all the maps I have seen on television and online, show the 82nd Airborne still largely in Kuwait. What if they are secretly in the Western Desert of Iraq, and will be part of the northern force that will come down and drive through the weakened Iraqi defenses, to take Baghdad while the bulk of the RG divisions have deployed to the south, in repsonse to the 101, and the Marines? This may be another "Hail Mary" kind of operation, that we will only fully perceive after the fact?

[ChadGore]

A good read.

[Redbob]

"...Red Zone around Baghdad, where local commanders may have authority to use chemical weapons..."

Seems like we should be making it clear that any Iraqi unit using chemical weapons WILL NOT BE PERMITTED to surrender!

That might give the occasional rational person something to think about...

[Mark17]

a sixth RG Division, the al-Adnan, is also reported moving south from Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit to join them.

I wonder how they are getting there, without being blasted from the air? Who knows, maybe they are being blasted.

[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

Amazing. All of this without Spooky, Spectre, Daisy Cutter, and MOAB coming out to play.

[aristeides]

I hear on Imus that CENTCOM is claiming that the Baghdad Division of the Republican Guards has been "destroyed" near Al-Kut.