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GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 4/9/03-Baghdad,Counterattack,Palaces,Basra
DOD, various TV sources, Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 4/9/03 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

Posted on 04/08/2003 8:00:05 AM PDT by Diogenesis

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 4/9/03 - Baghdad, Counterattack, 3 palaces taken, Basra, STRIKE VIDEOS


BREAKING: Al Monsour, Baghdad - More shock and awe after humint
BREAKING: Baghdad - captured two al-Samoud 2 missiles
BREAKING: Baghdad - Saddam's airport palace
BREAKING: Baghdad - Saddam's central palace
BREAKING: Counterattack - A-10 Warthog and tanks return fire
BREAKING: Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes
BREAKING: Iraqis turning on the Ba'aath party
BREAKING: Basra - British heroes take the center
BREAKING: Basra - Ba'ath Party headquarters captured
BREAKING: Basra Presidential palace Captured
BREAKING: Basra - revenge and looting
BREAKING: Basra - Iraqis are FREE


========= Al Monsour, Baghdad =========

INCOMING BASED UPON HUMINT

In Al Monsour, Baghdad, the crater left by last nights shock and awe
focused on decapitating what is left of so-called Iraqi intelligence.


=========== Republican Guard bunker ===========

The Iraqi Republican Guard bunker explodes.


In Baghdad, Marines of the 3rd Battalion clear and capture the Iraqi bunker.



=========== Blix and Annan are Documented Idiots ===========

In Baghdad, Iraq, Marines captured two al-Samoud 2 missiles.
Most Americans now agree that Blix and Annan [and France] should be indicted for War Crimes against the Planet Earth.


========= Baghdad - More on the Saddam's Airport Bedroom =========

In Baghdad, at the airport presidential palace.
The red phone was the late-Saddam's.


========= Baghdad - More on the Presidential Thunder Run =========

In Baghdad, at Saddam's central palace.

Entering the Baghdad Saddam palace.


========= BEHIND ENEMY LINES + COUNTERATTACK =========

========= Terrorist-held Baghdad =========

In Baghdad, Iraq, Iraq's Ba ath party members and militia.


In Baghdad, Iraq, Iraq's Ba ath party members became crazed and fired in the air
from the Al-Rashid hotel to the Palestine Hotel for a counterattack.
The US Military showed up and delivered some mail.


The US Military showed up and delivered some mail. Duck and run, Mr. Terrorist.


For the counterattack the terrorists used snipers hiding behind reporters

An A-10 Warthog visited, dropped flares as it flies, and said hello.


Here the hero has the plane upside down.
The plane was lost, the hero was reportedly retrieved.


More heroes arrive to help and to say hello to the terrorists
holed up in the Palestine hotel and nearby


Captured Iraqis.
Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes with hidden weapons.


Marine lifts up the arm of an Iraqi soldier in civilian clothes to reveal
his military tattoo. Was he in your local paper today without his military tatoo?


In Baghdad, Iraq, freed by US Marines, Iraqis began attacking and turning on the Ba'aath party.
Looters were everywhere taking back property from Saddam and his henchmen.


Iraq's Most Wanted (and Increasingly Likely Dead)


========= Health of Children courtesy of the Coalition =========

Children in Iraq are vaccinated not because of Saddam, but because of the USA.


STRIKE VIDEOS

The strike on the home of "Chemical" Ali

Strike on the home of "Chemical" Ali - Download mpg file here



M-1A1 tanks sit in defense north of a highway

M-1A1 tanks sit in defense north of a highway - Download mpg file here



Iraqi troops and their vehicle hiding in an orchard are struck

Iraqi troops and their vehicle hiding in an orchard are struck- Download mpg file here



A MiG-21 parked in a revetment is struck

A MiG-21 parked in a revetment is struck - Download mpg file here



A MiG-21 parked in a revetment is struck

A MiG-21 parked in a revetment is struck - Download mpg file here



========= Basra =========

In Basra, British heroes took the center of Basra.


In Basra, Iraq, some cars did not stop at the checkpoint.


In Basra, the Ba'ath Party headquarters - upstairs.


In Basra, the Ba'ath Party headquarters - the torture chamber.


========= Basra Presidential Capture =========

In Basra, Saddam's Basra presidential palace.


In Basra, some loot.


In Basra, looters turn on the Sheraton hotel.


In Basra, looters empty Basra University.


In Basra, British heroes and Coaltion forces have made Basra free.

Signs of tyranny are going fast.


In Basra, Iraqis are now FREE courtesy of the USA and the United Kingdom, and Poland and Australia.


DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH WAITING TO SEE THESE ELSEWHERE

In Basra, Iraqis are FREE.
They are happy and dancing - except where the European and American media
are pushing antiAmerican comments and then taping it - and skipping some of these pics.


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Please spend a few hours today helping for success in the War for Enduring Freedom,
or/and post your thought, missive, picture, thread, analysis, greetings to those serving overseas,
venting, update, correction, observation, or anything else of interest.


END OF TRANSMISSION 4/9/03 .......... K


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KEYWORDS: baghdad; basra; counterattack; palaces
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To: TomGuy
What a muscular ass!



An Iraqi man pushes furniture with a donkey cart after looting houses in the center of Basra, southern Iraq, Monday April 7, 2003.

41 posted on 04/08/2003 9:19:52 AM PDT by Lady Jag (Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
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To: coloradan
Maybe that's the MiG 21 in a revetment, come to think of it.
42 posted on 04/08/2003 9:22:36 AM PDT by coloradan
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To: Paradox
speaking of which--here's the "Clinton room" in Saddam's palace:


43 posted on 04/08/2003 9:37:55 AM PDT by freelight
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To: TomGuy
hmmmm. This photo would say the war is over.
44 posted on 04/08/2003 9:39:36 AM PDT by swheats
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To: Diogenesis
Thanks for everything Dio - "you A number 1!".
45 posted on 04/08/2003 9:40:36 AM PDT by 11B3 (.308 holes make invisible souls. Belt fed liberal eraser.)
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To: Diogenesis
"OLD MEDIA"

LOL! I love it!

Absolutely beautiful photo essay! Thanks!

46 posted on 04/08/2003 9:47:57 AM PDT by dixiechick2000
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To: Diogenesis; LindaSOG

Pfc. Todd Shaw cares for a puppy that local children threw over a wall into the 3rd Battalion, 2nd
Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)’s temporary headquarters compound inside
Karbala, Iraq on Monday.


48 posted on 04/08/2003 9:56:47 AM PDT by ppaul
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To: Diogenesis
Great job as always, Dio. Thanks for all your work!!!
49 posted on 04/08/2003 9:58:15 AM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (This tagline has no nutritional value.)
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To: LindaSOG
BTTT!!!!!!
50 posted on 04/08/2003 10:07:06 AM PDT by E.G.C.
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To: Diogenesis; LindaSOG
Thank you Diogenesis for this report.

Thank you Linda for the ping.
51 posted on 04/08/2003 10:07:52 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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To: Diogenesis
Great photo album.

Thanks for all your threads.

52 posted on 04/08/2003 10:08:31 AM PDT by Spunky
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To: Diogenesis
Ironic that some of old Sad Asses Pictures were framed in the Star of David shaped frames...........:O)

Stay Safe D !

53 posted on 04/08/2003 10:35:00 AM PDT by Squantos (Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt.)
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To: Diogenesis
A FANTASTIC Bump.

Thank you!

Fregards,
54 posted on 04/08/2003 10:40:48 AM PDT by citabria (zoom, zoom, boom. boom)
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To: Diogenesis
Awesome!
55 posted on 04/08/2003 10:53:16 AM PDT by manna
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To: sparkomatic
These looting photos look like what we saw in Los Angeles during the Rodney King trial aftermath rioting.... same smiling faces, different town...
56 posted on 04/08/2003 11:05:27 AM PDT by CarmelValleyite
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To: Diogenesis
Magnificent!

Surrender Dorothy!


57 posted on 04/08/2003 11:10:52 AM PDT by NautiNurse
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To: MeeknMing
you're right, I did like these, meekie. Thanks for the ping.
58 posted on 04/08/2003 11:11:23 AM PDT by nicmarlo
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To: Diogenesis

I heard Bill Clinton really liked these missiles....he says they remind him of Madonna.

59 posted on 04/08/2003 11:15:31 AM PDT by lsee
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To: CarmelValleyite
my boss just came over and said "those Iraqis are a bunch of looters, aren't they?"

I said "so are the folks in East Los Angeles!"

60 posted on 04/08/2003 11:16:27 AM PDT by bc2
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