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5th Marines enter Baghdad suburbs (More on liberation of imprisoned Iraqi children)
United Press International ^
| April 8, 2003
| Richard Tomkins
Posted on 04/08/2003 10:51:23 AM PDT by HAL9000
WITH THE FIFTH MARINES, Iraq, April 8 (UPI) -- U.S. Marines rolled into northeastern suburbs of Baghdad Tuesday where thousands of cheering Iraqis yelled, "America, America, America," and "Bush, Bush, Bush." The Marines, led by Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, entered the area after fording a tributary of the Tigris River.
Iraqis held up children, waved white flags and showed no hostile intent. The sincerity of their emotions was unquestionable.
The crescendo of welcome increased as an Iraqi woman led the Marines to a children's prison where than more than 160 youngsters were freed.
"It was really something, the children just streamed out of the gates and their parents just started to embrace us," said Lt. Col. Fred Padilla, commander of the 1st Battalion.
Further into the suburb, at a large Baath Party headquarters, the Marines had to push people back who wanted to welcome them. The crowd had been busy looting the headquarters of everything that wasn't nailed down.
At a nearby agricultural research factory and facility, scenes of people tearing away things was repeated. Again, there were cheers for the Marines.
"I feel really good today," said 1st Sgt. Bill Leuthe of Bravo Company. "I think we all do."
The suburb is definitely a poor section of the city with open sewers and garbage strewn everywhere.
Later a patrol of Marines went deeper into the suburb without incident. More such patrols were planned.
There was an incident that marred the entrance. At a village on the approach to the suburb, a man in civilian clothes jumped a wall and a ran toward the lead vehicle, nicknamed the "Pork Chop Express." Three Marines in another vehicle gunned him down when he put a rocket-propelled grenade launcher to his shoulder, preparing to fire.
The arrival in the suburb culminates a long journey for the 1st Battalion from the Kuwaiti border that began March 20 and further tightens the noose around Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party lieutenants.
Copyright © 2001-2003 United Press International
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: children; embeddedreport; iraq; marines; prison; saddamhussein; warlist; welcome
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:51:23 AM PDT
by
HAL9000
To: HAL9000
and Scott Ritter should be held on charges of crimes againsts humanity...
Question:
You've spoke about having seen the children's prisons in Iraq. Can you describe what you saw there?
Scott Ritter:
The prison in question is at the General Security Services headquarters, which was inspected by my team in Jan. 1998. It appeared to be a prison for children toddlers up to pre-adolescents whose only crime was to be the offspring of those who have spoken out politically against the regime of Saddam Hussein. It was a horrific scene. Actually I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,351165,00.html
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:55:15 AM PDT
by
TLBSHOW
To: HAL9000
Fifth Marines "humpin' is our business and business is very good" Semper Fi
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:55:15 AM PDT
by
kellynla
( "C" 1/5 1st Mar Div '69 & '70 An Hoa, Viet Nam Semper Fi)
To: HAL9000
And the response from all those who "care about the children" so much?
(Must have killed UPI to report this!)
4
posted on
04/08/2003 10:55:50 AM PDT
by
talleyman
(The Left is Sa-damanated by hatred for America)
To: All
5
posted on
04/08/2003 10:57:58 AM PDT
by
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To: talleyman
Iraqis held up children, waved white flags and showed no hostile intent. The sincerity of their emotions was unquestionable. The crescendo of welcome increased as an Iraqi woman led the Marines to a children's prison where than more than 160 youngsters were freed.
"It was really something, the children just streamed out of the gates and their parents just started to embrace us," said Lt. Col. Fred Padilla, commander of the 1st Battalion.
Bump and a prayer for Lt. Col. Fred Padilla
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:58:11 AM PDT
by
CFW
To: Carolina; Howlin
I will ping you for a "good news" report also. (And can't leave Howlin out!)
To: HAL9000
Troops in the field aren't getting the news and seeing video like we are...
I'm sure the Marines will be amused seeing that the Army was taking Saddam's palaces and sitting on his couches while they were slogging through the sewage-strewn slums of Baghdad :-)
8
posted on
04/08/2003 11:00:19 AM PDT
by
John H K
To: HAL9000
These children prison stories are hard to read on one hand however......a chill goes up my spine when I read about them being freed by the soldiers....
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:01:48 AM PDT
by
BossLady
To: HAL9000
I suspect there will many things revealed in Iraqi that most of us would rather have not considered.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:01:51 AM PDT
by
zeaal
To: TLBSHOW
You mean to say that the UN and all those miserable people sitting in all those councils and children's aide projects knew about this?
That Jack Chirac and Jack Cretin, Shroder and Annan knew about this outrage and would have sat back and done nothing!! All because they wanted the oil money and the contracts Saddam gave them for France and Germany??
My God. I'm ready to throw all these bums out of the US. Why don't they go to North Korea or China. I'm sure they would appreciate the blind eyes.
My grammar fails in the face of outrage, Sorry...
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:03:01 AM PDT
by
OpusatFR
(How can war protesters support Saddam when he is killing his own people! What sort of evil are you?)
To: anotherGerman
ping
To: HAL9000
"America, America, America," and "Bush, Bush, Bush."
Obviously they were too frightened of weapons and too hungry to have actually meant it. {/sarcasm}
13
posted on
04/08/2003 11:03:58 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(So..... This is Virginia..... where are all the virgins?)
To: TLBSHOW
Scott Ritter - another target of opportunity.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:04:47 AM PDT
by
Noumenon
(You can evade reality, but you cannot evade the consequences of evading reality - Ayn Rand)
To: TLBSHOW
Thank you for recalling that!
To: TLBSHOW
You have to realize that Ritter probably found those prisons to be easier pickings that Burger Kings.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:05:06 AM PDT
by
Celtjew Libertarian
(No more will we pretend that our desire/For liberty is number-cold and has no fire.)
To: HAL9000
"There was an incident that marred the entrance"
Given the result, I don't think it marred it very much.
17
posted on
04/08/2003 11:05:32 AM PDT
by
Bahbah
(Pray for our Troops)
To: kellynla
Please accept my United States Marine Corps, Fifth Regiment, HAND, SALUTE.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:05:58 AM PDT
by
Iris7
(Sufficient for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing.)
To: TLBSHOW
"I'm not going to describe what I saw there because what I saw was so horrible that it can be used by those who would want to promote war with Iraq, and right now I'm waging peace. -Scott Ritter"
It seems the Iraqi people have had your "peace" waged upon them quite enough.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:06:42 AM PDT
by
DannyTN
(Note left on my door by a pack of neighborhood dogs.)
To: kellynla
"That" comes in about two weeks...LOL
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:07:38 AM PDT
by
ken5050
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