Posted on 04/02/2003 9:01:29 PM PST by An.American.Expatriate
Edited on 04/03/2003 5:51:13 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo |
Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo |
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Back for evening duty. Lots of bombs in Baghdad. Noticeable lack of reports right now. I wonder what's going on...
Shep trying to clear up the Airport ownership. Sounds like we have Part of the Airport...
Quick somebody, splice into the feed and run the scene of Nicholson as a Marine saying "You can't handle the truth!"
Barking Cars?
Hmmm, would "Barking Cars" be a good name for a Rock Band?
Meanwhile...
Kurds, With U.S. Help, Hold Onto Bridge ^ |
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AP | 4/03/03 | JONATHAN EWING Kurds, With U.S. Help, Hold Onto Bridge By JONATHAN EWING .c The Associated Press BARDARASH, Iraq (AP) - Kurdish fighters and U.S. forces rang up another significant victory Thursday night, as American airstrikes helped Kurds retake a strategically located bridge that the Kurds won two nights earlier. About 100 Iraqi soldiers engaged Kurdish ``peshmergas'' with small arms fire just after dark. U.S. special forces called in air support while about 150 Kurds fought from their positions around the bridge near Bardarash, 12 miles northeast of Mosul. The U.S. forces estimated 50 Iraqis were killed, but there were no casualties among among the Kurds or Americans. The other Iraqi soldiers fled. ... |
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