CNN: Iraqi leaders urging airport residents to charge the airport to confront coaltion forces

CNN | 04/03/03 | Nic Robertson

[BaghdadBarney]

Just overheard a CNN reporter (Nic Robertson?)reporting that folks inside Baghdad tell him that Iraqi government officials are driving around near the airport, using loudspeakers to urge civlians to leave their houses and go toward the airport to fight the infidels. According to Robertson's sources, people are acutually heading out there...

[nicmarlo]

the Iraqi Information Minister stated, "The U.S. forces are no closer than 1000 miles from Baghdad, so how can they be at the airport?"

dis-Info. Minister: "It's all an illusion...what they say is an illusion....the enemy is not at the airport....they are not outside our City....."

[SolutionsOnly]

I can see the survivors limping home now saying, "Boy, that was a pretty stupid idea!"

[nicmarlo]

ROFLMAO!!!!

[VOA]

Maybe they all just want to be on the first flights out of Rummy International!

Like the Iraqi lady (with her family) that was at a US field hospital that I saw
on TV last night (CBS Sixty Minutes II?).

Sadly, her husband had been killed in a crossfire.
Now her wish is to get to live with a relative in Philadelpia, PA.
(Heck, the warmth of moving in with loving family members AND Philly Cheesesteaks?
Can't blame her!)

[PhiKapMom]

MSNBC reporting we do not control the airport -- we have special ops on the airport grounds and our military on the outskirts of the airport are encountering fighting.

CENTCOM saying we do not have the airport in our control YET!

CENTCOM says that the electrical grid is not on any map of theirs for bombing. Saddam could be targeting some of the assets in Baghdad and blame it on the Americans.

[gdzla]

Iraqi commander: "fix bayonets"; Coalition commander: "Enter GPS coordinates"...
Saddam:"Push the button Max."

[steveo]

Classic!

[NYC Republican]

It's all US propoganda. There's no way we're within 100 miles of Baghdad. Our troops are in the Kuwaiti desert, PRETENDING to be in Iraq. We're too afraid of their superior forces to enter Iraq at all.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

The Iraqis are sure they're winning. After all, they've already seen Geraldo retreating.

[William McKinley]

Now her wish is to get to live ...in Philadelpia, PA.

From one war zone to another, I guess.

[Starboard]

There's no way we're within 100 miles of Baghdad.

Yes, there's no way that we could have dispatched the elite Republican Guards by now. And then there were those vulnerable lengthy supply lines, and the sand storms, and the fierce resistance, and the defensive rings around Baghdad, and the problems with Turkey and the Kurds. Didn't the media "inform" us that we were in an operational pause?

[NYC Republican]

"... LaGuardia"

The absolute WORST airport in the free (non-3rd) world!

[APBaer]

"lol....like anyone with a brain capable of anything other than motor functions would charge a M1A1, unarmed."

[stands2reason]

HEHEHE I love it!

[lavrenti]

I am most concerned about the Absolutely Fabulous Special Republican Guard divisions, the army Saddam organized during a Puce moment.

[Kadric]

This could work to our advantage. If they have to cross the river to get to the airport. Once they have crossed take out the bridges, and pull back our people they should get tired of walking in a couple days.. It would remove some of those we would be worried about in house to house fighting from the scene. Also more than likely their supplies are in the residential areas of the city.