Posted on 04/11/2003 8:24:40 AM PDT by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 4/12/03 - Mosul, Jabal Maqlub, Ghazel, Khaneqin, Arbil,
Kalak, Kifry, Hadithah dam, Shamamer, Halabja,
Chamchamal, Kirkuk, Altun Kupri, Tuz Khurmatu, Dohuk
BREAKING: Mosul - Iraqis surrender BREAKING: Jabal Maqlub - SF special contributions BREAKING: Ghazel - Bridge destroyed by Iraqis, but captured BREAKING: Khaneqin - liberated from Saddam BREAKING: Arbil - freedom with the help of the USA BREAKING: Arbil - More Iraqi atropine injectors captured BREAKING: Kalak - freedom after airstrikes BREAKING: Kifry - freedom after Iraqi rockets BREAKING: Hadithah dam - champion US Special Forces secured it BREAKING: Shamamer - freedom BREAKING: Halabja - freedom by US SF and local Kurds who savaged Iraqi al Qaeda BREAKING: Chamchamal - More Iraqi chemical protection kits BREAKING: Kirkuk - almost bloodless rout BREAKING: Altun Kupri - children cheer US soldiers BREAKING: Tuz Khurmatu - freed children by the USA BREAKING: Dohuk - removed Iraqi mines BREAKING: Dohuk - freedom thanks to the USA and America's brave allies
========= Mosul =========
In Mosul, Iraqis surrender.
In Mosul, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters inspect the wreckage
after the US airstrike on what was once the Iraqi enemy.
========= Mosul =========
In Mosul, at the local bank, redistribution of income? return of stolen assets? looting?
In Mosul, the provincial government headquarters.
In Mosul, Peshmerga fighters take POW Iraqi soldiers.
Near Jabal Maqlub, a strategic mountain and once-Iraqi military base 12 klicks east of Mosul.
Somewhere around Baghdad and the North, a US SF hero calls in an emerging target.
Generally unsung champions are freedom, SF are 110% all-American hero fighters.
========= Ghazel =========
In Ghazel, ~30 kms east of Mosul, Peshmerga take
a bridge destroyed by Iraqis before they fled in retreat.
========= Khaneqin =========
In Khaneqin, northern Iraq, liberated from Saddam.
========= Faida =========
In Faida, northern Iraq.
========= Arbil =========
In Arbil, freedom for Kurds with the help of the USA.
Kurdish fighters sit on anti-aircraft guns seized from Iraqis.
BINGO : IRAQI RETREAT AND EVIDENCE OF WMD
Kurd Peshmerga holds another discovered atropine injector left by retreating Iraqis.
Atropine is a drug used in combating the effects of some chemical or biological agents.
[See "The Rock".]
========= Kalar =========
In Kalar, ~165 klicks northeast of Baghdad, the Iraqi Communist Party
is featured by mural at the party's headquarters.
========= Kalak =========
In Kalak, ~40 kilometers from Mosul, on what was the front line of battle
with the Kurd Peshmerga fighters. The remnants of Iraqis retreated.
Equipment captured is taken back home by motorcycle.
========= Kifry =========
In Kifry, ~110 klicks from Baghdad, southeast of Kirkuk, Kurdis watch
coalition planes bombing Iraqi troops.
In Kifry, one of many Kurd homes damaged by Iraqi rockets.
[ Did you hear about Iraqi rockets in your media? ]
========= Hadithah =========
At Hadithah dam, northwest of Baghdad, these champion US Special Forces captured and secured it.
No flooding in this war (unlike so many wars previously in Iraqi history)
========= Shamamer =========
In Shamamer, Iraq, Kurd Peshmerga fighters
pose next to an Iraqi anti-aircraft gun seized from an abandoned checkpoint.
========= Halabja =========
In Halabja, ~238 miles northeast of Baghdad, Kurds are finally free of
Saddam and his WMD which odiously murdered so many many innocent thousands of them.
In Halabja,today, there is a new sheriff in town. This is a FREE Halabja.
US SF and the local Kurds severely crippled or destroyed the local Iraqi al Qaeda
called Ansar al-Islam, which was located in northern Iraq.
Three cheers for paladins of freedom who came from the USA to free so many.
========= Chamchamal =========
BINGO :
In Chamchamal, another captured Iraqi chemical protection kit.
========= Kirkuk =========
In Perdeh, near Kirkuk, with the Iraqi POWs.
They are better off than under Saddam.
In Kirkuk, Kurd heroes and Coalition forces scored their biggest success of the Iraq war
by capturing the key northern oil city of Kirkuk in a rout.
The battle:
The freedom:
In Altun Kupri, ~20 klicks northeast of Kirkuk, children cheer the vlaiant US soldiers
who freed them from the tyrant Saddam.
In Tuz Khurmatu, south of Kirkuk, freed children,
liberated by the USA.
========= Dohuk =========
FLASHBACK - Near Dohuk
The US military arrives.
NOW:
In Dohuk, heroes remove Iraqi mines planted by the evil Saddam.
In Dohuk, Iraqi POWs taken.
In Dohuk, freedom for so many courtesy of Pres. Bush and America's brave and valiant allies.
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END OF TRANSMISSION 4/12/03 .......... K
Let me add as well: Thanks to the Heroes of the Liberation! Simply thanks Dio!
U.S. Brigadier General Vincent Brooks holds up a pack of playing cards with pictures on each of Iraqis most wanted by the U.S., April 11, 2003. The deck will be issued to troops to help them remember the faces of personalities they can 'pursue, capture or kill.'
A portrait of Imam Hussein, the inspiration behind Shi'ite Islam, hangs for the first time in decades in the Kazimain district of Baghdad April 11, 2004. During the more than 20-year rule of Saddam Hussein, hanging a picture other than the Iraqi leader in public was forbidden.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
-- C.S. Lewis
Looks like there's 52 jokers in that deck.
PRETTY DAMN KWIK!
Bay, bay for now.....
Leni
Wow! Check out the equipment on these guys. They look straight out of the movie Aliens! Are those video cameras on their helmets? Sweet!
I love this picture of the guy getting his hair parted by a machine gun. Do you suppose this got his attention?
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