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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END OF TRANSMISSION 04/03/03 .......... K
It's not a TOW, most likely a Swingfire being fired from a Striker AFV. A varient of the Scorpian AFV design. See drawing at lower left on page linked.
You really keep us well-informed.
Big bump for him, our military, and our allies.
God bless America.
I should have been less specific in my answer: I used "TOW" as a description of how it is guided (TOW is Tube-Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Command). I didn't mean to identify it as the specific US system that operates that way.
From what I've been able to find about the Swingfire, it's certainly Tube-launched and Wire Command. Is it Optically tracked?
030330-M-2176J-128 Umm Qasr, Iraq (Mar. 30, 2003) -- Two Iraqi boys wave at the passing Coalition Forces after receiving food and water . The Coalition forces conducting missions and Humanitarian Relief in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multinational coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraqi's weapons of mass destruction and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew R. Jones. (RELEASED)
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