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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

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[Green]

thanks..couldn't remember : )

[mtbopfuyn]

Update of war against the invading infidels according to Beret Boy, "We're winning. We control airport and the murdering infidels are no where near Baghdad. Ignore the rumbling sounds and shaking camera."

[cebadams]

Status of POWs:

POWs: Patrick Miller, Joseph Hudson, Edgar Hernandez, James Riley, and Shoshana Johnson from the 507th; David Williams and Ronald Young from the Apache helicopter.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/885559/posts
They're still holding five more POW's from the 507th Maintenance Company. They were not found with Pfc. Lynch and they were not found among the bodies buried in the shallow grave near the hospital.

[Mo1]

Can't wait to see that same thing happen to the statue on the bagcam.

That will be great ..

[The Wizard]

I like these photos from Basra today. Another one bites the dust!

someone should tell the Yanks to start doing the same thing

[Dolphy]

Thank you so much, it was torture listening to the BBC last night, but it's the only station (with regular war reporting) that my little battery operated radio could get.
Their Baghdad reporter kept saying that the US has a habit of overestimating their postion. This was said over and over and over. Finally they had on air argument with another reporter who said that the US doesn't say anything about where they are or what they are doing, total media blackout.

Anyway thanks for the update.

[CasearianDaoist]

Tank units are organized in platoons and companies (or troops) much like infantry would be. The company commander happens to have his own tank.

[MEG33]

Baghdad Bob called those sound bombs a ruse..to fool people.

[don-o]

Lynch family will be flying on HJ Heinz company plane.

Is Ketchup Boy involved with this?

[melodie]

you mean kerry? i sure hope not

[prairiebreeze]

To add to Green's post (thanks Green, I hadn't heard about the elementary school):

MSNBC has this footage they've been showing about a HUGE armory that's been found SW (Ithink) of Baghdad. They are astounded at the amount of munition there.

The most compelling part of this story though, was discovering munitions that have had plugs put into the ends of them, supposedly for refilling them with things other than the standard explosive usually applied

AND a cannister that had Russian markings and THREE plugs in the end along with a hose nozzle attachment. David Kay, prior UN inspector says although he hasn't seen anything quite like it before, its' obviously for instilling binary components and the nozzle for spray distribution of such agents.

Pretty incredible

Prairie

[knak]

Cool, look at his head in the bottom pic! That's great.

Mornin' freepers!

[A. Morgan]

http://dailymail.com/news/News/2003040518/

[Green]

Fox News had Greg Kelly on live on and off throughout their drive into Baghdad. It was exciting to listen to. Then later on they played the video. Video been playing all day and other stations are very down in mouth that Fox got the scoop.

[brydic1]

I sure hope this young lady leads a campaign for someone against KKK Bob Byrd, the disgusting anti-US Senator. She could win in a landslide but unfortunately she would have to wait 11 years to qualify for age 30 which senators must reach. I believe West Virginia has the record for the highest per capita enrollments in our military services.

[debg]

HJ Heinz company...nice. Now, where's the generous hand of Sen Robert Byrd?

[ztiworoh]

Haha Tony Snow saying how he looked too young in his FNC bio pic

Weren't we discussign that yesterday?

[glock rocks]

it's a pretty pretty pretty pretty jet.

[prairiebreeze]

hi Knak.

Prairie

[Dolphy]

I was wondering the same thing. But it would be so like him, he's quite the opportunist. If it is him, it won't be long until he's telling the world.