Posted on 04/10/2003 1:13:49 AM PDT by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 4/10/03 - Baghdad, Battle and Freedom, Terrorist Lawyers
BREAKING: Baghdad - Weapons hot at Fedayeen HQ BREAKING: Baghdad - Saddam's forces attack American troops from behind a mosque BREAKING: Baghdad - captured Republican Guards Baath compound after overnight battle BREAKING: Baghdad - More recovered Iraqi missiles missed by the stupid UN BREAKING: Baghdad - The Information Minister did not come done for breakfast BREAKING: Baghdad - Freed Iraqis cheer heroes of the USA and Coalition BREAKING: Cairo, Egypt - Terrorists at Egyptian Lawyers Union BREAKING: Damascus, Syria - Terrorists at Syrian Law University
========= Baghdad =========
This morning, in Baghdad, Marine heroes are taking out the headquarters of the Baghdad Fedayeen.
In Baghdad, Iraq, this morning, gutless cowardly Saddam's forces attacked American troops
from behind a mosque. Fire was returned.
In Baghdad, Iraq, the captured Republican Guard/Baath compound, taken after an overnight battle near
Baghdad International airport. Cool missile photo.
In Baghdad, Iraq, more recovered Iraqi missiles, missed by the blind, criminal or stupid UN.
In Baghdad, Iraq, Marines have occupied Saddam's seat of power.
In Saddam's palace, wealth was hidden and kept from the Iraqi people.
At the Euphrates River, freedom as seen from space.
In Baghdad, the now-burning Ministry of Transport and Communication.
In Baghdad, Iraq, the present Information ministry.
In Baghdad, US Army medics treat an injured Iraqi shot by Saddam's own forces.
In Baghdad, US Marines captured Iraqi soldiers disguised in civilian clothes (again).
In Baghdad, Iraq, the huge statue of Saddam, now become as Ozymandius.
Freed in Baghdad and elsewhere, freed Iraqis remove the signs of Saddam's tyranny.
In Baghdad, looters even took arms from the police station.
In Baghdad, looters tooks furniture from the local office of the Baath Party.
Freed in Baghdad, freed Christian Iraqis, in the al-Karrada neighborhood,
cheer heroes of the USA and Coalition.
Freed in Baghdad, Iraqis loudly cheer heroes of the USA and Coalition.
Behind Enemy Lines
In Baghdad, Iraq, fleeing the city are families of Baath party officials
on their way to Syria and Russia.
In Baghdad, Saddam's Martyrs Brigade.
In Baghdad, at the Palestine Hotel, the shattered window in the Reuters TV office
on the 15th floor of Baghdad's Palestine Hotel.
It appears to have been an explosion by the Iraqis, planned to blame on the USA.
Can the distribution of glass herald a possible explosion within the room?
========= Cairo =========
In Cairo, Egypt, who is arranging for Egyptians and Palestinians to kill Americans?
Who arranged to have terrorists fill out visa application forms to travel to Iraq and murder Americans?
Answer: the Egyptian Lawyers Union.
========= Damascus =========
In Damascus, Syria, who is arranging for Syrians and Palestinians to kill Americans?
Answer: the Syrian Law University.
In Syria, on his way back to Russia with Iraqi information to be kept for America, this Russian diplomat
feigned an attack to cover his sequestration of critical info.
His head is bandaged but there is no blood. There is no trauma, no bruising, no contusion,
and his friend has what appears to be a military tattoo on his arm where he also feigns injury. But, there is no
laceration, no bruise, no swelling, no bleeding, etc.
Perhaps most telling about the tale is the Russian's smile on the ambulance, when caught offguard.
========= THE WAR FOR ENDURING FREEDOM =========
THEN:
NOW:
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END OF TRANSMISSION 4/10/03 .......... K
According to FNC last night, Saddamn added the Arabic lettering for "Allah Achbar" or "God is Good", in an attempt to rally his support from the Islamic World - despite his alleged flagrant disregard for the laws or standards of mainstream Islam.
The plain 3-starred banner is the pre-'91 version which seems to have become symbolic of "Free Iraq".
We have observed another version of the Iraqi Flag on several news images; that with a central golden "sunburst" device and no green stars.
Would anyone familiar with this distinction care to comment and enlighten us?
We do not know, but rather suspect, that posession, much less display, of any of these pre-91 flags under the Saddamned Regime was a capital offense for any hapless subject caught with one.
Perhaps one of our Iraqi-in-Exile friends could comment on that.
That picture of the Iraqi Patriot on the boom of the M-88 shows a flag that seems to have been jammed tightly into some secret niche somewhere and hidden away at it's keeper's great peril for a long time while politicians wangled and blood money changed hands, awaiting hopefully for just such an occasion.
I hope that in some Museum in Baghdad for Centuries to come, that same flag might be prominently and proudly displayed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2936603.stm
Scorched and bomb-blasted, it is one of the last pathetic defiant symbols of Saddam Hussein's sunken regime.
The Iraqi tyrant's massive presidential yacht is still afloat, and drifting aimlessly with the tide on the Shatt-al-Arab waterway beside Basra's dockyards.
But no matter how hard the coalition tried, they still couldn't sink it.
Nonetheless, the invaders' psychological point was well made, and the great floating hulk of twisted metal is now of use to nobody.
We persuaded local fishermen in a small dhow to take us out to the ship yesterday to take a look around.
Ironically, Saddam Hussein had christened it al-Mansur, which means in Arabic, The Victor.
When it was launched in 1982, it was one of the largest and most impressive private yachts in the world.
Built by a Finnish firm, the eight-deck-tall yacht was for a long time the largest vessel in the Iraqi Navy despite having no military use.
It was designed to Saddam's personal specifications and sumptuously decorated all over in marble, exotic woods, and with silver and gold fittings.
Measuring 350ft long, the boat weighed 7,359 tons and looked more like a smart cross-Channel ferry than a private yacht.
In the yacht's middle was a broad glass atrium, under which as many as 200 guests could be seated for dinner.
Enormous bomb
But it contained just five expansive state cabins for Saddam and his family's personal use, and a secret escape route that descended down from the tyrant's own room into an underwater submarine launch pod.
The entire central section has all but disappeared where an enormous bomb tore straight through it a week ago.
A series of subsequent fires has also left much of the lesser damaged parts of the ship covered in a thick layer of black soot.
Well-polished mahogany railings lined the ship's exterior and internal passages.
And the very few panes of glass still left in the yacht's windows were all bullet-proofed.
We found a bathroom, again coated in soot, along with a bidet and a large Jacuzzi bath and rows of beauty lights surrounding a large mirror, all decorated in the style of a plush Arab hotel.
And through the last door we could open along the lop-sided middle deck corridor was the remains of what looked to be Saddam's private operating theatre.
Modern-looking surgical equipment, electronic scanners, packets of medicines and plastic gloves were scattered around a black leather operating table.
While the rest of Iraq suffered from a chronic shortage of medical supplies since the Gulf War in 1991, Saddam's personal on-board supplies appeared to have been unused for years.
The boat was permanently staffed by 120 military crew pulled from the ranks of Saddam's personal bodyguard force, the Special Republican Guard, who worked 24-hour standby shifts in case the leader himself decided to pay a visit.
Saddam's love for al-Mansur was proved just five days before the war began.
Despite all the other urgent war preparations, he had ordered the yacht to be moved under a full naval guard from its normal berth in the far southern port of Umm Qasr to Basra's inner harbour in a vain attempt to offer it better protection.
But the plan didn't work and no-one will use it now.
By pool reporter Tom Newton Dunn of the Daily Mirror in Basra
"BAGHDAD BLUTO"
The Hammer of Iraq
But after I wrote a poem in his honor (by the desecration of an 1888 Poem, "Casey At The Bat"), I can't find it.
Did I lose it, or was it pulled, or what?
Would it be OK if I posted it here?
2J... check out the pics of the dark black smoke cloud... Some intense shots! Thanks Diogenesis.
I think you're refering to the flag they were waving in the North. This is the Kurds flag, maybe it's a little like state flags, hopefully.
FReepers, this "lady" in the middle of these Saddamites
going to Syria and Russia appears to be no lady.
The real women wear flats, and look normal, and dont carry a weapon.
What do you think?
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