[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Here's SG's excellent recap:

It was a live phone report with Arnot, and it was crazy. He was in the middle of a firefight for the bridge in El Kut (sp) and you could hear the hellfire, hear him yelling jesus christ, oh my god, etc, he said he saw an RD soldier get his head blown up, and then a civilian family (I think it was 8 people all togehter) got rescued from the middle of the firing, there were kids and a 3 year old baby girl wearing a french language t-shirt. The woman was crying and petrified, wouldn't let go of Arnot, he got food for them and the Colonel in charge came over to check on them, in the middle of crying the woman laughed because Arnot asked her if she wanted a choice of chicken or beef to eat. Then the firing came over to where Arnot and the family were and they had to move, you could hear the baby screaming and crying....it was insane
then the bridge was secured and the troops pulled back to await further orders.
You could also hear the translator yelling to the Iraqi's "Surrender now and live, why fight and die, you will lose, look around all your comrades are dead"
The Marines also would not fire unless fired upon first, they were being very cautious of harming civilians.
It was honestly so scary to be listening to.

1216 posted on 04/03/2003 8:11 AM EST by SoldiersGirl

[sissyjane]

I watched this live last night--awesome-scary-just wished the dumb reporterette would have shut up.She was asking inane questions--"Bob-are you okay? Bob are they shooting?""
Total moron!

[AFPhys]

The only thing SG left out of her recap was that after the col. offering MRE with "chicken or beef", the mother started laughing in the middle of this terrifying episode.

[eyespysomething]

yikes, see I don't need to sleep! I need TIVO.

I was up until 3 in the a.m. one night because the Sky News guy was covering a firefight on Fox. My hubby got mad because I didn't wake him up.

I for one, who have always had an appreciation for our military, have a different perspective, a better one, and undersstanding of what goes on. People complain it is like a video game to the TV watchers, but it really brings the war to a new light.