***Operation Infinite Freedom - Situation Room - 7 MAY 03/Day 49 - LIVE THREAD***

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Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Infinite Freedom, formerly Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - LIVE THREAD.

It is designed for general conversation about the ongoing war on terror, and the related events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information.

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The war on terror is not over, yet it is not endless. We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide. - George W. Bush

[GOPrincess]

Hello, thank you for putting this thread up each day! I always check it even if I'm not able to post.

Loved seeing the USS LINCOLN dock in WA today. What a beautiful sight! :)

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Ping!

[TexKat]

Thanks nully.

Australian Paper Says May Have New Saddam Tape

SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian newspaper said on Wednesday it had been handed an audiotape in Baghdad of a message possibly from ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein calling on his people to wage a "secret" war against U.S. forces.

The Sydney Morning Herald said it was handed the tape on Monday after the people in possession of it failed to pass it on to Arabic cable news network al-Jazeera. It said it would make the tape available to U.S. authorities on Wednesday.

[bart99]

So where is our Belly Girl? *L*

I also enjoy this thread, although I don't post much in it.

Thanks for keeping it going!!

[TexKat]

<a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20030507/wl_nm/korea_north_dc'>N.Korea Told US It Will Export Nuclear Arms -Report</a>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea threatened during talks in Beijing to export nuclear arms and to add to its arsenal, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday. <P> Citing U.S. officials familiar with the talks, the newspaper's report said North Korea's negotiator, Li Gun, made the threat during a side meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly.

[TexKat]

Well I messed that one up, lets try it again.

N.Korea Told US It Will Export Nuclear Arms -Report

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea threatened during talks in Beijing to export nuclear arms and to add to its arsenal, The Washington Times reported on Wednesday.

Citing U.S. officials familiar with the talks, the newspaper's report said North Korea's negotiator, Li Gun, made the threat during a side meeting with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly.

[cyncooper]

I was reading the thread on Dennis Miller's appearance, so hope you don't mind, sheik, if I move your post from the end of the last thread to over here. It sounds great! Leno hasn't aired here yet and I was going to go to bed soon...will see if I catch it.


To: TexKat

I just got done watching Jay Leno and Dennis Miller was on. He did a great job talking about the Democrats. He said they need to knock it off about the WMD because most of America does not care. They are just happy to see the children of Iraq walking the streets safely. He said Bush stays on message and our military just may go through Syria, Iran, take out the nuclear reactor in N. Korea and the swing over to Berkeley, California. Leno asked him if he wasn't worrried talking the way he does. He said no. How big of a house does he need if he can't live with himself!


284 posted on 05/06/2003 9:43 PM PDT by sheikdetailfeather

[sheikdetailfeather]

Glad you moved my post because Dennis Miller said a lot more than I could possibly type although I taped it. Wait until you hear what he says about Kennedy and nit picking. Jay Leno had to put his head down and was almost in tears. Have fun!

[cyncooper]

Well, Opinion Journal asked Dennis Miller to write an op-ed in response to Norman Mailer's bizarre recent column. Miller states it is the first such column he's written:

'Why Are We in Iraq?' Meet Norman Mailer, Third Cousin of the Rational Op-Ed.

Ironically, Mr. Mailer seems to see everything in the world in terms of black and white, except of course, good and evil.

[MEG33]

Norman Mailer needs an asylum.I've been on an opus thread that turned into 300 posts of silliness and no opus..just a cool down!

[GOPrincess]

I gotta say, I've sure changed my opinion of Dennis Miller in recent months, LOL. Thanks for sharing those great comments :).

[TexKat]

Oil scandal billionaire tells French court of bribes

An Iraqi-born British billionaire told a French court yesterday how he had paid millions of pounds in kickbacks to French oil executives.

Nadhmi Auchi, 65, reputedly Britain's seventh-richest man, is one of 37 company administrators and business partners accused of being involved in France's biggest postwar financial scandal in which the oil firm, now TotalFinaElf, allegedly paid out huge sums in bribes and backhanders to expand its empire.

[Grampa Dave]

There is a very interesting thread up on Free Republic about how the French provided French/EU passports to the top mass murderers/rapists and torturers in Saddam's regime.

So most of the scumbags are probably out of the middle east and in Europe, Canada, Cuba or Mexico south.

Here is the link:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/906846/posts

France helped Iraqis escape Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Published May 6, 2003

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The French government secretly supplied fleeing Iraqi officials with passports in Syria that allowed them to escape to Europe, The Washington Times has learned.

An unknown number of Iraqis who worked for Saddam Hussein's government were given passports by French officials in Syria, U.S. intelligence officials said.

The passports are regarded as documents of the European Union, because of France's membership in the union, and have helped the Iraqis avoid capture, said officials familiar with intelligence reports.

The French support, which was revealed through sensitive intelligence-gathering means, angered Pentagon, State Department and intelligence officials in Washington because it undermined the search for senior aides to Saddam, who fled Iraq in large numbers after the fall of Baghdad on April 9.

"It made it very difficult to track these people," one official said.



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/906846/posts

[TexKat]

Hollywood stars rally to help injured, orphaned Iraqi boy

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Hollywood has launched a drive to bring a limbless Iraqi orphan who became the symbol of civilian suffering in the US-led war to the United States for medical treatment.

A constellation of Tinseltown stars -- including Arnold Schwarznegger, Angelina Jolie, Mariah Carey, Ashanti and Justin Timberlake -- have already signed on for the effort to bring 12-year-old Ali Ismail Abbas to Los Angeles.

[Grampa Dave]

(The French government secretly supplied fleeing Iraqi officials with passports in Syria that allowed them to escape to Europe, The Washington Times has learned. Link to this story!)

[TexKat]

Iraqi Children seen through the glass of a vehicle cheer as they stand around an armored vehicle of the Scottish Desert Rats platoon soldiers heading out to a night patrol, policing the streets of a predominantly shiite slum in Basra, Iraq Monday May 5, 2003. Law and order is slowly returning to the city after it had descended into chaos following the weeks of the British takeover in Basra.

British Forces Try to Keep Safe in Basra

BASRA, Iraq - Hayyaniyah, a crowded maze of open sewers and trash-strewn walkways, was such a notorious slum in Basra that even Saddam Hussein's police left it alone.

But for British forces charged with securing a city unsettled by crime and violence, no area is off limits. As dusk fell one evening this week, six Black Watch soldiers started a five-hour night patrol through the neighborhood.

[TexKat]

Patriot Batteries Focus of Military Probe

WASHINGTON - Pentagon investigators suspect U.S. Patriot anti-missile batteries may have shot down two coalition jets over Iraq because the systems mistook the planes for Iraqi missiles.

Investigations of the incidents — responsible for three of the war's five aircraft shootdown fatalities — are focusing on a system touted by the Army as a reliable missile-killer but one which has been repeatedly plagued by problems hitting its targets.

[sheikdetailfeather]

I am dying here as I read Dennis Miller's response to Mailer. My brother told me he has his own show on HBO late at night and he is hilarious. He is sharp as a tack and is not afraid to leave out the tact when confronting idiocy. He said tonight that Baghdad Bob should make Employee of The Month for staying on message even though the bombs were dropping all around him as he spoke. I thought it was funny when he said after the Saddam statue fell, the pigeons'regular stomping grounds were gone and all they could do was fly around and hold it in. hahaha! Oh yeah..and when he said the whiners never stop and he pointed out that we were so good we were killing suicide bombers.."when all a guy wants to do is kill himself and we are so quick we beat him to it!" hahahaha!

[TexKat]

Artifacts are seen on a table at the Iraqi National Museum in Baghdad, Tuesday May 6, 2003, after they were recovered. Work has begun on recovering some of civilization's earliest artifacts, items of incalculable value that disappeared in the orgy of looting that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein.

Looted Iraqi Treasures Recovered Slowly