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...

[William McKinley]

If I was in their shoes?

I would head towards the tank, hands in the air. And do whatever the nice marines tell me to do.

[mitchbert]

I'm thinking the same thing. While I wouldn't call the advance on BAG easy (there's nothing easy about what the Coalition forces have done in the past 2 weeks) the Iraqi monster isn't quite dead yet. There's still likely several thousand fanatical troops with years of blood on their hands in there, and I can't see them rolling over by choice. Face it, the regime doesn't care one iota about the lives of its' citizens, and if they know they're going down what would motivate them to resist trying to inflict as much damage and death as they can.

I sense the next few days could be very ugly. If they aren't, there will probably be no time in my life I'll be so happy to be wrong.

[Iwentsouth]

Human wave attacks really do not work well against the US military.

The political fallout in the arab world I could care less about.

we are destroying the Iraq army with one hand tied behind our back.

I say the more radcals we kill the better. Nothign is going to make the radicals love us.

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? I thought phone service was out ...? Maybe it was a cell phone ...??

[GeorgiaYankee]

"They are not even 100 miles (away from Baghdad). They are not anywhere. They are like a snake moving in the desert. They have no foothold in Iraq."

[paul51]

Iraqi government officials are driving around near the airport, using loudspeakers ........

Very short life expectancy

[Florida_Freeper]

"Looks like I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue"

somebody had to say it!

[BunnySlippers]

If anyone woke me up in the middle of the night and told me to walk to LAX I know what I'd tell them ...

[P.O.E.]

Awfully nice of CNN to spread the word on behalf of the Iraqi leadership.

[finnman69]

[johniegrad]

CNN can't spread it. The Iraqi's don't have any electricity. That's why they're driving around town with loudspeakers on their Toyotas.

[BaghdadBarney]

Yes,,, they will.

[ez]

Just like the wacky Iraqis to urge everyone else to fight the infidels instead of fighting the infidels themselves.

[Cachelot]

Baghdad airport is impenetrable. I just tested it by butting my head against the tarmac.

[Gasshog]

God's judgment

They are destroying their own.

[ASA Vet]

And do whatever the nice marines

Two small problems with your solution.

Those are Army troops at the airport, not marines. They might object to being referred to as marines.

Second, even if they were marines, referring to them as "nice," would upset set those marines. ;-)

[William McKinley]

Boy, you are now into a whole lotta 'ifs' that are totally beyond what is being reported.

[MineralMan]

"In the International terminal of Orly Airport, Paris, there lives an Iranian man who arrived in 1982 without a passport, and has been denied entrance by French authorities."

You know, I thought that was an urban legend, but I looked it up at http://www.snopes.com by searching for "man living airport" and you're right. The date was 1988, though, and the last news story they had was 1999.

[William McKinley]

I concede all of your points!