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...

[XEHRpa]

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

I love how article titles can be [mis]read so many ways. I was thinking that Saddam's regime was finally catching on to some free-market economic principles, and charging the coalition a fee for landing rights at the airport, or something to that effect.

[sonofatpatcher2]

"So far as the reports of threats to the Iraqi Public,
here we have one of Saddam's Special Republican Guards
broadcasting to Iraqi men that if they do not go to
the airport and die fighting the Americans Infidels,
she will personaly come to their house and screw them to death."

[lewislynn]

Aren't they all cab drivers anyway?

Well the ones who don't work at 7-11 are.

[JSteff]

I keep thinking about how many C5 trips it took to bring along all the Darwin awards. Geez