***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 20 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 8, 2003 | Various

[Tree of Liberty]

G'nite

[An.American.Expatriate]

	NEWS RELEASE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND 7115 South Boundary Boulevard MacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101 Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894
	April 8, 2003 Release Number: 03-04-84 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE INITIAL RELEASE: REPORTS OF ATTACK ON AL JAZEERA CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar – US Central Command is investigating reports that an Al Jazeera news team may have been injured during hostilities in Baghdad. Additional information will be released as it becomes available. Central Command has repeatedly warned media representatives that Baghdad would be a dangerous place to be if the Coalition engaged the Iraqi regime in combat. Coalition forces target only legitimate military targets and go to great lengths to minimize civilian casualties and damage to civilian facilities. -30-

[this_ol_patriot]

The hotel is the background building??

[dsmtoday]

What's that link to the really good JPG map and PDF map of Baghdad?

[An.American.Expatriate]

RPG = Role Playing Game
RPG = Rocket Propelled Grenade

[Prince Charles]

"Ashamed to be a journalist" when he saw reporters crowding around the bloody wounded people being carried out, trying to get pictures.

Bingo. Most of the non-allied press is only there to try to win a Pulitzer by taking snaps of kids with their flesh on fire, for example.

[Tree of Liberty]

Rocket Propelled Grenade

[BagCamAddict]

Did car alarms go off after the explosion?

If so, then we did it.

If not, then they did it.

We're the only ones with munitions powerful to cause car alarms to go off.

HUMOR !!

[Mo1]

Is that the Palestine Hotel in the background?

[Fitzcarraldo]

R

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P

ropelled

G

renade

[Tree of Liberty]

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/iraq.html#iraq_city.html

[umbagi]

Just to add to the other responses, it's primarily an anti-tank weapon (shaped-charge warhead), but is used for just about anything where you want a "boom" on the other end...

[Timesink]

David Chater, the Sky News reporter stated clearly in his live interview that the Western Jouralists at the Palestine are STILL under the control of the Hussein Government. Anything he and other Western Reporters are now saying must contine to be questioned as to real facts, especially since their Iraqi Minders are desparate and armed.

You absolutely sure he said that? Cause if he did, he could have been tryng to send a message back to us that he's got a gun to his head, literally or figuratively.

[InfraRed]

I'm not positive, but I believe so. I need to dig through this stuff some more...

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

Look at Chater now, he was getting pressured it seemed, looked like he was almost in tears.

Chater said he and all the journalists were still under the control of the Iraqi Government. He also said that he saw the U.S. tanks specifically target Western Jouralists. I don't believe, Chater really thinks the Western reporters are really targets, he just said that in his interview in front of the minders for the Hussein regime.

[dsmtoday]

Yep, I heard car alarms go off after the big boom on the webcam. However, they seem to go off when it is too windy as well.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Plenty of rumbling on the Baghdad cam now. Car alarm again.

[MeekOneGOP]

I predict today is the day we see the dancing in the streets.

On a wide scale. Indeed. It is long overdue.

I've seen some dancing in Iraq, but each time they stop, look around to see if Saddam is breathin' down their back and go back in their homes . . .

But after yesterday's civilian uprisings in Baghdad and Basrah, I bet today's the day too !