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'ELITE' FOES CUT AND RUN FROM HQ
New York Post ^
| 4/06/03
| BRAD HUNTER
Posted on 04/06/2003 3:09:27 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:13:14 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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April 6, 2003 -- GIs delivered another humiliating blow to Saddam Hussein's rotting regime when they captured the headquarters of the Republican Guard's Medina Division southwest of Baghdad yesterday.
Two tank companies and an infantry company of the 3rd Infantry Division waltzed into the vipers' nest of the vaunted Medinas utterly unopposed.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdad; embeddedreport; hq; iraqideserters; iraqifreedom; medina; republicanguard
Hundreds of young men in civilian clothes lingered on the road's edge waving to the passing GIs = "Elite" Republican Guards.
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posted on
04/06/2003 3:09:27 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Elite has changed its meaning in this war coverage. I have seen it used less the last day or two.
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posted on
04/06/2003 3:12:36 AM PDT
by
MEG33
To: kattracks
GIs delivered another humiliating blow to Saddam Hussein's rotting regime...Very nicely phrased.
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posted on
04/06/2003 3:16:16 AM PDT
by
TN4Liberty
(Lord, Protect the troops...)
To: kattracks
This is the "ring of steel" that reporters like Fisk and Arnett said we would be unable to penetrate.
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posted on
04/06/2003 3:44:07 AM PDT
by
KeyWest
To: kattracks
Soldiers also found chemical protection suits, gas masks and nerve-agent antidotes. Saddam's campaign promise during the last election (which he won with nearly 100% of the vote): "A chem suit, gas mask, and vial of atropine in every home!"
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posted on
04/06/2003 4:25:39 AM PDT
by
laz17
(Socialism is the religion of the atheist.)
To: kattracks
Those people don't want to fight. A few of them do, but not many.
To: kattracks
Wait. I thought we were hundreds of miles away?
</sarcasm>
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