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First U.S. plane lands at Baghdad airport
Reuters
| 4/06/03
Posted on 04/06/2003 10:38:22 AM PDT by kattracks
First U.S. plane lands at Baghdad airport
BAGHDAD AIRPORT, April 6 (Reuters) - The first U.S. military aircraft landed at Baghdad airport on Sunday, a U.S. military source told Reuters.
"At least one aircraft has landed at the airport," said the senior source in the U.S. 3rd Infantry Division's aviation brigade, who was at the airport.
He said a C-130 military transporter landed at about 8 p.m. local time (1600 GMT), about an hour after dark, on the western, military side of the airport. He gave no details of whether it was carrying a load.
U.S. forces seized the airport, some 20 km (12 miles) southwest of the city centre, on Friday. They said on Sunday they controlled practically all road access to the city too.
04/06/03 13:15 ET
TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdad; bia; c130; supplylines; viceisclosing
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:38:22 AM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
Baghdad Bob says that we don't control the airport. How can this be?
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:39:25 AM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
To: kattracks
".....no details of whether it was carrying a load."
Like their going to land an empty plane?? Geez!
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:40:22 AM PDT
by
hoosiermama
(Prayers for all)
To: Bogey78O
Guess that C-130 won't be part of Bob's tour for the press. "Other than that, we control the whoooole of the airport."
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:43:23 AM PDT
by
scottinoc
To: kattracks
What time was the press expected to arrive? Tonight (our time) sometime?
The Iraqis were supposed to take them out there to see that the Coalition wasn't there...
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:43:33 AM PDT
by
2Jedismom
('The commitment of our fathers is now the calling of our time')
To: kattracks
Too bad it wasn't one of these:
To: hoosiermama
>> ".....no details of whether it was carrying a load."
> Like they're going to land an empty plane??
When you make up a list of high-priority time-critical items,
there are things that need to move in both directions.
But it's more likely something inbound than outbound, such
as portable navaids for future arrivals, or a temporary TV
transmitter for the new DesertFOX channel.
I wonder if that '130 was spraying IR countermeasures on
final approach. There must still be copious anti-air
hazards in the area.
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:45:59 AM PDT
by
Boundless
To: Leroy S. Mort
"Too bad it wasn't one of these:" I'm betting that it was. (call it 'bait.')
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:47:41 AM PDT
by
blam
To: Leroy S. Mort
Soon, soon. The flood has just started....
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:48:07 AM PDT
by
Mr.Clark
(From the darkness....I shall come)
To: kattracks
The first U.S. military aircraft landed at Baghdad airport on Sunday, a U.S. military source told Reuters.Gee, I wish they would end this lul in the war and start getting things done! /sarcasm
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:48:41 AM PDT
by
EGPWS
To: 2Jedismom
The Iraqis were supposed to take them out there to see that the Coalition wasn't there...According to a German reporter calling in to FNC, the Iraqis didn't take them to the airport, but to a battle scene where they supposedly took out a U.S. tank. According to the reporter (who's been surprisingly uncensored), the tank was disabled and abandoned, and taken out by a coalition bomb before the reporters got there.
It's at the point when you have to wonder how the non-Arab reporters are going to get out of there. This German guy hinted last night that they might not be free to leave.
To: Bogey78O
Didn't you know? The whole airport thing is being faked on the same soundstage we used to fake the Apollo moon landings.
To: Squantos; harpseal; Travis McGee; sneakypete; Jeff Head; Poohbah
I have a friend (a home schooling dad) flying C-130's in the area. I wonder? We get email reports from him or his wife every few days.
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:51:04 AM PDT
by
SLB
To: EGPWS
Is it a lull or a quagmire? I need to know!
To: Bogey78O
Baghdad Bob says that we don't control the airport. How can this be?
** WE don't control it! BB will be telling the people that the plane is not REALLY the US's. rather it is Iraq's undercover secret weapon against our "pathetic" troops.
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:52:50 AM PDT
by
ShootMeIfHillaryRuns
("People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.")
To: EGPWS
Gee, I wish they would end this lul in the war and start getting things done! /sarcasm You mean the "operational pause?" (snicker!)
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:55:00 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(The liberal media would be funny..if they weren't so pathetic.....)
To: kattracks
Anybody know which way the runways are pointed? North to south or east to west? I kinda hate to think of taking off or landing over enemy held areas.
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:55:56 AM PDT
by
crz
To: crz
Well it'll be enemy held for only a few more days or a few weeks.
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posted on
04/06/2003 10:57:19 AM PDT
by
Bogey78O
(check it out... http://freepers.zill.net/users/bogey78o_fr/puppet.swf)
To: kattracks
Someone needs to tell our good friend, Tony Snow, that the C-130 is NOT "a large jet". :)
To: browardchad
According to the reporter (who's been surprisingly uncensored), the tank was disabled and abandoned, and taken out by a coalition bomb before the reporters got there. The tank was on fire and I saw someone, perhaps the tank commander throw a grenade into the open turret, so they may not have bombed it. I did not see a crater when they showed the burnt out hulk.
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posted on
04/06/2003 11:01:11 AM PDT
by
F-117A
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