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GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 4/2/03-Rescues,Najaf,Nasiriyah,Arbil,Umm Qasr
DOD, IraqiTV, Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 4/3/03 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

Posted on 04/02/2003 10:25:42 AM PST by Diogenesis

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 4/3/03 - Rescues, Najaf, Nasiriyah, Arbil, Umm Qasr

BREAKING: Freed behind Enemy Lines - POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch
BREAKING: Freed in Az Zubaya - Black Watch
BREAKING: Baghdad - Republican Guard palace +
BREAKING: Najaf - cache of Iraqi weapons from Saddam's military school
BREAKING: Nasiriyah - Battle lines
BREAKING: Nasiriyah - captured Iraqi military base
BREAKING: Nasiriyah - WMD-suits, masks and ammunition which were found at military installation
BREAKING: Nasiriyah - freed Iraqi bedouins
BREAKING: Arbil - Atropine injectors left by retreating Iraqis
BREAKING: Halabja - New sheriff in town
BREAKING: Mosul - Kurdish Peshmerga inspect wreckage
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - Iraqi training compound with more chemical and biological equipment
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - acoustic influence mine seized
BREAKING: al-Faw- gas masks and weapons found
BREAKING: Amman, Jordan - thousands of temporary passports


========= Freed from Behind Enemy Lines =========

Heroes rescued POW Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Three Cheers.


In Palestine, W.Va., family and friends celebrate at the home of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch's parents.


========= Freed in Az Zubaya =========

BINGO : D NOTICE SALUTE

In Az Zubaya, heroes of the Black Watch with
freed hostages, originally from Kenya. Until saved, these truck drivers were kidnapped 10 days ago,
but rescued by the British gallant champions.


BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF ARMS CACHE

In Az Zubaya, an arms cache found at the "school".


========= Baghdad =========

In Baghdad, at the coalition air strike. Increasing shock and awe.


In Baghdad, the soon-to-be-ex-Republican Guard palace.


In Baghdad, from space.


IRAQI MISSILES IN BAGHDAD -


In Baghdad, on the trail of Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf,
who has been moving to share or take power since Saddam assumed room temperature.


Just south of Baghdad, doomed enemy Iraqi troops wait for the US to advance.
FReepers, can you tell where their gear comes from?


========= Najaf =========

BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF WMD

In Najaf, heroes of the 101st Airborne Division, took a cache of
Iraqi weapons from Saddam's military school.


=========== central Iraq ===========

Army multiple rocket launcher lights up the desert
for freedom - American style.


In central Iraq, heroes and inspectors of the 101st Airborne Division,
secure an Iraqi truck full of missiles or shells.


========= Karbala =========

Near Karbala, Iraq, heroes of the 3rd Infantry division,
use American technology on the Iraqi Republican Guard.


========= Nasiriyah =========

In Nasiriyah, the enemy Iraqis.


In Nasiriyah, Marines heroes of the 1st Battalion.


In Nasiriyah, Marines heroes of the 2nd Battalion, and champions everywhere.


Near Nasiriyahr, heroes of the 15th U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit
took an Iraqi military base.


In Nasiriyah, the military installation taken from the Iraqi militia and Republican Guard.


BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF WMD

In Nasiriyah, the WMD-suits, masks and ammunition which were found at the military installation.


In Nasiriyah, an Iraqi arms cache goes up during controlled explosion.


In Nasiriyah, heroes of the 15th U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit round up Iraqi prisioners.


In Nasiriyah, the 15th U.S. Marine Expeditionary Unit
cleans up the signs of terrorism.


In Nasiriyah, Marines and sailors from the 4th Civil Affairs Group
hand out food and medical aid.


In Nasiriyah, freed Iraqi bedouins cheer Coalition forces.


========= Somewhere between Southern Iraq and Baghdad =========

British heroes fire sidewinder missile at an Iraqi bunker.


British commandos fire at Iraqi positions


========= Arbil =========

BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF WMD

In Arbil, Kurd Peshmerga holds an atropine injector left by retreating Iraqis.
Atropine is a drug used in combating the effects of some chemical or biological agents.
See "The Rock".


Somewhere north of Arbil, paratroopers from the US Army 173rd Airborne Brigade
convoy past Kurd Peshmerga fighters.


========= Halabja =========

BINGO : IRAQI TARGET OF WMD FREED

In Halabja, ~238 miles northeast of Baghdad, Kurds are now almost free of
Saddam and his WMD which murdered so many thousands of them.
Today there is a new sheriff in town in Halabja.


========= Mosul =========

GROUNDTRUTHING ALERT AND MORE IRAQI WITHDRAWAL

In Mosul, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters inspect the wreckage
after the US airstrike on what was the once enemy-occupied village of Shamamer.


========= Umm Qasr =========

In Umm Qasr, arms seized from local homes .


BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF WMD

In Umm Qasr, gas masks, Geiger counters, nerve gas simulators, and protective suits
were found at the captured Iraqi training facility. Look at the posters.
Bandito reported that on one wall was scribbled in Bic pen, "H. Blix was here".


In Umm Qasr, at the UN headquarters where there was support of terrorism
but where Iraqis are now FREE because of the USA, and slowly realizing it.


In Umm Qasr, another massive arms cache abandoned by Iraqi soldiers.
They were blowed up good.


In Umm Qasr, at the rail crossing.


BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF WMD

In Umm Qasr, another Iraqi training compound with more
chemical and biological equipment, which were ignored by the UN and Koffi's Klowns.


BINGO : IRAQI CAPTURE

Weapons cache left by the Iraqi army,
secured by the Coalition Maritime Interdiction Operation (MIO)
and Vessel Board Search and Seizure (VBSS) teams,
Note the acoustic influence mine and other mines camouflaged
inside a shipping barge or as oil barrels on deck.


In Umm Qasr, the metal scrapyard.


BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT

Somewhere south of Basra, British heroes lay explosives to detonate more munitions
than many in the Coalition carry.


BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF WMD

Near the al-Faw peninsular in southern Iraq,
more gas masks and weapons found in an Iraqi trench.


========= Amman =========

BAD MOON OVER JORDAN

In Amman, Jordan, at the Iraqi embassy, thousands of temporary passports are prepared.



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To: FreeAtlanta
Any of you notice the "crop signs" at the top of this image?

Those crazy Special Forces guys are at it again. They know that they are just supposed to be marking targets down there and here they are, foolin around again.

41 posted on 04/02/2003 11:47:52 AM PST by Colorado Doug
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To: Diogenesis
In Nasiriyah, the enemy Iraqis.

LOL!That guy in the front looks like he's wearing a Storm Troopers helmet from Star Wars!!

42 posted on 04/02/2003 12:00:50 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Diogenesis
Thank you for your time and efforts in putting this together Diogenesis.
43 posted on 04/02/2003 12:03:55 PM PST by Radix
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To: Diogenesis
Bumping...
44 posted on 04/02/2003 12:11:52 PM PST by tubebender (?)
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To: TADSLOS; Diogenesis
Ok, I'm jealous. It takes me about ten minutes of comparing pictures to find the right name for the weapons. I have a photographic mind for stuff that I actually own but I can't tell one machine gun from another. I still can't figure out exactly what a SAW really looks like and they hang so many electronic sights and stuff on them, they're buried with the stuff.

The machine gun is a Russian PK - 7.62 X 54R It was the first general purpose machine gun introduced into service so it's an old design. I think I also noticed the belt enters on the right side instead of the left.
45 posted on 04/02/2003 12:15:29 PM PST by Shooter 2.5 (Don't punch holes in the lifeboat)
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To: Diogenesis

WOW! What was that?

46 posted on 04/02/2003 12:51:21 PM PST by alexandria ((Shpeling Opshunal))
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To: Diogenesis
OUTSTANDING as always!
47 posted on 04/02/2003 12:51:25 PM PST by wndycndy (Beagles For Bush!)
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To: BraveMan; All
Thank you.
All praise goes to our valiant troops tearing into the head of terrorism.


UPDATE:


STRIKE VIDEO:

Strike Videos from the DoD News Briefing, Wednesday, 02 Apr 2003

A surface to air missile facility is struck

A surface to air missile facility is struck - Download mpg file here




48 posted on 04/02/2003 1:00:48 PM PST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
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To: Diogenesis
Low tech:

An Iraqi Kurd peshmerga fighter looks at an Iraqi distance guide for heavy artillery with the name of his village marked in territory newly acquired by Kurds after a defensive retreat by Iraqi government forces south west of Arbil, northern Iraq, April 2, 2003. U.S. Marines bombarded Kut, a key city on the Tigris river, on Wednesday, in what appeared to be a renewed advance toward the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

49 posted on 04/02/2003 1:16:33 PM PST by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: alexandria
The finger of God.
50 posted on 04/02/2003 1:18:20 PM PST by Xphantasos
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To: sciencediet

A US Marine with the 15th Expeditionary Unit, holds a baby as the baby's mother attempts to pass through a checkpoint at the Saddam Hospital in the city of An Nasiriyah, southern Iraq on Wednesday, April. 2, 2003.

51 posted on 04/02/2003 1:18:30 PM PST by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: sciencediet

A local girl waits patiently with her mother for food to begin to be distributed.

52 posted on 04/02/2003 1:22:44 PM PST by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: Diogenesis

Staff Sgt. Larry W. Trimmer, civil affairs NCO from Williamstown, N.J. with the 4th Civil Affairs Group hands out lentils to women in this image release by Central Command Wednesday April 2, 2003. Since the war began food and water has become scarce. Water has become extremely precious, as electricity is needed to get the water to the townships. With the electrical supply down many families are forced to drink rainwater, which can lead to medical problems such as dysentery.

53 posted on 04/02/2003 1:26:42 PM PST by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: SLB
I believe that is a "Swingfire". Brits mount it on a modified Scorpian light tank chassis.
54 posted on 04/02/2003 1:35:11 PM PST by Lee Enfield ( Doing it in your name anyway.)
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To: Diogenesis
Thank you for the ping and the pictures.
56 posted on 04/02/2003 1:46:30 PM PST by dixie sass (GOD bless America)
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To: Kryptonite; Diogenesis
PFC Lynch looks alot better than I expected her to.
Especially with the Iraqi regime's ideas about humane prisoner treatment.
At leats she's alive.
Though I'm worried about the fact they stretchered her out of there.
57 posted on 04/02/2003 1:47:03 PM PST by Darksheare (Nox aeternus en pax.)
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To: Minty
Now Russia is saying that USA plans to plant WOMD. I say we are close to hit the jackpot.

Gee, wonder why they ever thought to say such a thing. What could have given them that idea? Hmmm...

58 posted on 04/02/2003 1:53:45 PM PST by texasbluebell
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To: Diogenesis
Bless you, Dio, for these threads. You have a way of pulling photos together to tell a larger, more true picture.

I see the Iraqi citizens greeting the Allied heroes know the Victory sign! This sort of Victory truly means peace.

59 posted on 04/02/2003 1:55:28 PM PST by WaterDragon (Playing possum doesn't work against nukes.)
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To: janee
I say call for Hans Blix to be on the front line and show him what he was looking for. Possibly the skeptics will believe Blix when he shows and tells!

I wonder if Hansel has any sense of shame. Do you think he sleeps well at night? I'd love to know how he can even get through the day knowing what he helped to continue for so long.

60 posted on 04/02/2003 1:56:04 PM PST by texasbluebell
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