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CNN: Iraqi leaders urging airport residents to charge the airport to confront coaltion forces
CNN
| 04/03/03
| Nic Robertson
Posted on 04/03/2003 12:56:27 PM PST by 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...
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airport; baghdad; baghdaddefense; battleforbaghdad; iraq; iraqicivilians; iraqifreedom; viceisclosing
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To: seamole
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.
81
posted on
04/03/2003 1:23:11 PM PST
by
William McKinley
(You're so vain, you probably think this tagline's about you)
To: WVNan
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.
82
posted on
04/03/2003 1:23:47 PM PST
by
mitchbert
(Facts are Stubborn Things)
To: seamole
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.
To: codder too
Hmmmm? I thought phone service was out ...? Maybe it was a cell phone ...??
84
posted on
04/03/2003 1:25:10 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
To: Poohbah
"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."
To: BaghdadBarney
Iraqi government officials are driving around near the airport, using loudspeakers ........Very short life expectancy
86
posted on
04/03/2003 1:26:45 PM PST
by
paul51
To: seamole
"Looks like I picked a bad day to quit sniffing glue"
somebody had to say it!
Comment #88 Removed by Moderator
To: BaghdadBarney
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 ...
To: BaghdadBarney
Awfully nice of CNN to spread the word on behalf of the Iraqi leadership.
90
posted on
04/03/2003 1:28:24 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
(God Bless and keep safe our troops.)
To: BaghdadBarney
To: P.O.E.
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.
To: tomahawk
Yes,,, they will.
To: BaghdadBarney
Just like the wacky Iraqis to urge everyone else to fight the infidels instead of fighting the infidels themselves.
94
posted on
04/03/2003 1:29:44 PM PST
by
ez
(...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.)
To: Badabing Badaboom
Baghdad airport is impenetrable. I just tested it by butting my head against the tarmac.
95
posted on
04/03/2003 1:30:46 PM PST
by
Cachelot
(~ In waters near you ~)
To: tomahawk
God's judgment
They are destroying their own.
96
posted on
04/03/2003 1:31:36 PM PST
by
Gasshog
(eyes open, mouth too! tough!)
To: William McKinley
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. ;-)
97
posted on
04/03/2003 1:32:07 PM PST
by
ASA Vet
("Those who know, don't talk. Those who talk, don't know." (I'm in the 2nd group.))
To: seamole
Boy, you are now into a whole lotta 'ifs' that are totally beyond what is being reported.
98
posted on
04/03/2003 1:33:55 PM PST
by
William McKinley
(You're so vain, you probably think this tagline's about you)
To: seamole
"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.
To: ASA Vet
I concede all of your points!
100
posted on
04/03/2003 1:34:22 PM PST
by
William McKinley
(You're so vain, you probably think this tagline's about you)
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