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***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 17 - LIVE THREAD***
EVERYWHERE!!! | 5 APR 03 | An.American.Expatriate

Posted on 04/04/2003 9:04:16 PM PST by null and void

In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked their lives to rescue her!



Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo
Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo


Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD.

It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

Please have mercy on us dial up limited FReepers! Limit the big graphics, post links instead. A breif description of what the graphic is would help:

To all who helped this get started and keep it running, thank you!

Special thanks to An.American.Expatriate for staring the daily threads, Mo1 for the screamer, the AdminMods for their tolerance, mhking for the video links, Ragtime Cowgirl for her Exclusive Live Transcription Service™, and, of course, Belly Girl...


Links to the older threads:
Operation Iraqi Freedom - Day 1 - LIVE THREAD ... 4557 posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 2-LIVE THREAD*** ... 5704 posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 3-LIVE THREAD*** ... 4751 posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 4 - LIVE THREAD*** ... 6045 posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 5 - LIVE THREAD*** ... 4869 posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 6 - LIVE THREAD*** ... 5126 posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 7 - LIVE THREAD*** ... 4110 posts
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***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 14 - LIVE THREAD*** ... 2918 posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 15 - LIVE THREAD***... posts
***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 16 - LIVE THREAD***.... posts

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: baghdad; freedom; iraq; saddam
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To: scab4faa
claiming she's been around the city (doesn't see anything.) is she related to baghdad bob?
1,941 posted on 04/05/2003 4:12:28 AM PST by debg
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To: CasearianDaoist
GSW=Gun Shot Wound

SGW=Shot Gun Wound

1,942 posted on 04/05/2003 4:12:35 AM PST by Tree of Liberty (my cat's breath smells of Cheeto's and marshmallows)
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To: Green
LOST connection.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
1,943 posted on 04/05/2003 4:12:37 AM PST by scab4faa (Perfection is my direction! *Looks at a map* I think I'm going the wrong way...)
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To: Mo1
SHe has to wait for the wind to die down .. must be messing up her already bad hair ... FOFL

Isn't that why God made rubber bands?

1,944 posted on 04/05/2003 4:13:03 AM PST by Unknown Freeper (Remember: when the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.)
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To: bonfire
You mean "flame thrower in a can"?
1,945 posted on 04/05/2003 4:13:14 AM PST by Tree of Liberty (my cat's breath smells of Cheeto's and marshmallows)
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To: johnb838
Hey! Lay off Renuart.

CNN's crawl this minute says "Baghdad: No US troops in city"
1,946 posted on 04/05/2003 4:13:16 AM PST by Timeout (...an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm--GWB inaugural address)
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To: Mo1
Which feed is that?
1,947 posted on 04/05/2003 4:13:21 AM PST by AppyPappy (Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
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To: All
CentCom...

The plan goes on, on (its) time line...

Erm, do I sense a "neener neener neener"?
1,948 posted on 04/05/2003 4:13:34 AM PST by najida (Ignorance is temporary, but stupidity is forever.)
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To: scab4faa
She got pre-empted for CENTCOM...ohhh the horrors
1,949 posted on 04/05/2003 4:13:53 AM PST by Green
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To: bonfire
Can't wait til she finds out she's "on the air"!!!

FOFL ... I think she'd be really cursing then ...

Oh No .. the lights went off on her .. now she is really getting mad

She hears jets in the sky as she speaks? ..

1,950 posted on 04/05/2003 4:14:16 AM PST by Mo1 (Can I ask the media stupid questions?)
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To: najida
EIGHT BODIED ID'ED AS U.S. SOLDIERS

by David Crary, c. Associated Press

WASHINGTON (April 5) - Eight dead soldiers found during the rescue of an American POW in Iraq this week were in her ambushed convoy, the Pentagon announced Saturday.

The eight soldiers identified Saturday were with Pfc. Jessica Lynch when their convoy was ambushed near Nasiriyah on March 23. Seven were members of Lynch's unit, the 507th Maintenance Company. Two other members of the unit had been listed as killed in action, and five are listed as prisoners of war.

Those five, who appeared on Iraqi television being questioned by their captors, were not among the bodies found during Lynch's rescue.

The dead included the first American woman soldier killed in the Iraq war, Pfc. Lori Ann Piestewa, 23, of Tuba City, Ariz. Piestewa, a Hopi who was one of the few American Indian women in the military, was the mother of a 4-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl.

The U.S. commandos who freed Lynch from a hospital in Nasiriyah this week also found 11 bodies, nine of which were believed to be those of Americans. The nine bodies were returned to a forensics center at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware for identification and investigation of how they died.

The Pentagon issued a statement early Saturday morning saying the status of the eight soldiers had been changed from missing to killed.

Besides Piestewa the other dead were identified as:

Sgt. George E. Buggs, 31, of Barnwell, S.C.

Master Sgt. Robert J. Dowdy, 38, of Cleveland.

Pvt. Ruben Estrella-Soto, 18, of El Paso, Texas.

Spc. James M. Kiehl, 22, of Comfort, Texas.

Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Villareal Mata, 35, of Amarillo, Texas.

Pvt. Brandon U. Sloan, 19, of Cleveland.

Sgt. Donald R. Walters, 33, of Kansas City, Mo.

All but Buggs were members of the 507th Maintenance, an army unit based at Fort Bliss, Texas. Buggs was a member of the 3rd Division Support Battalion of Fort Stewart, Ga., another Army unit that was in the same convoy.

The ninth body taken to Dover had not been identified.

Five members of the unit remain listed as prisoners of war. Shortly after the unit's ambush, the five were shown on Iraqi state-run television being questioned by their captors.

Iraqi television also showed footage of at least five bodies. After viewing that footage, Pentagon officials accused Iraq of executing prisoners of war.

There was no immediate word from the Pentagon Saturday on whether the soldiers were killed in the ambush or afterward.

Walters was a veteran of the 1991 Persian Gulf War who had followed the example of his father, Norman, a trombonist in the Air Force Band.

"He was a patriotic guy. He felt it was his duty to serve his country,'' Norman Walters said.

04/05/03 05:32 EST

1,951 posted on 04/05/2003 4:14:39 AM PST by Catspaw
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To: Tree of Liberty
lol! WIsh we could see her!

oh sheesh, here she goes again!
1,952 posted on 04/05/2003 4:14:58 AM PST by bonfire
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To: Unknown Freeper
CentCom briefing - Two well fires yet to be put out. Majority of oil pool fires are out.
1,953 posted on 04/05/2003 4:15:02 AM PST by Tree of Liberty (my cat's breath smells of Cheeto's and marshmallows)
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To: debg
claiming she's been around the city (doesn't see anything.)

THe hell she has been .. she has been on the roof complaining about her bad hair day

1,954 posted on 04/05/2003 4:15:36 AM PST by Mo1 (Can I ask the media stupid questions?)
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To: Mo1
CENTCOM briefer is doing a "wrap up" type presentation....like the war's over.
1,955 posted on 04/05/2003 4:16:22 AM PST by Timeout (...an angel still rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm--GWB inaugural address)
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To: AppyPappy
rtsp://193.159.246.23:554/farm/*/encoder/ntv/livecam_300_new.rm
1,956 posted on 04/05/2003 4:16:32 AM PST by Mo1 (Can I ask the media stupid questions?)
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To: Mo1
SHe gets more dramatic by the minute
1,957 posted on 04/05/2003 4:16:57 AM PST by bonfire
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To: Mo1
oh, she's going back out to the city to look for hairspray now. /sarcasm
1,958 posted on 04/05/2003 4:16:58 AM PST by debg
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To: Mo1
Dammit woman,
Jest put on a hat!
1,959 posted on 04/05/2003 4:17:07 AM PST by najida (Ignorance is temporary, but stupidity is forever.)
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To: Tree of Liberty
EMS poetry:

Med control on scene with a single Gsw who is now ADD. (all done dancing).
1,960 posted on 04/05/2003 4:17:33 AM PST by Kozak
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