GOTTA SEE THIS-War Endur.Freedom 12/11/02-Al-Tariq,Tuwaitha,al Qa'im,Ukashat,Kuwait

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[Diogenesis]

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 12/11/02 - Al-Tariq, Qaim Ukashat, Tuwaitha, al Qa'im, Baghdad, Geneva, Kuwait

BREAKING: Al-Tariq Inspection
BREAKING: Qaim Ukashat, Inspection
BREAKING: Tuwaitha Inspection
BREAKING: al Qa'im, Ukashat Inspection
BREAKING: Fallouja-3 Inspection
BREAKING: Geneva
BREAKING: Kuwait
BREAKING: From Baghdad, Iraq - Table of Contents

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=========== Al-Furat Chemical Industries ===========

At Al-Furat Chemical Industries, ~41 miles south of Baghdad.

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========= Al-Tariq =========

At Al-Tariq, ~56 miles northwest of Baghdad.

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========= Fallujah =========

In Fallujah, ~50 miles northwest of Baghdad, at the Fallouja-3 pesticides plant.

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========= Qaim Ukashat =========

On the road to Qaim Ukasha.

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At Qaim Ukashat, a phosphate complex ~300 kms west of Baghdad near Syria.

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========= Tuwaitha =========

At Tuwaitha, ~16 miles southeast of Baghdad.

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========= al Qa'im =========

In al Qa'im, Ukashat, ~430 klicks northwest of Baghdad.

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========= Baghdad =========

In Baghdad, Iraq, the 'Iraq Peace Team' from Voice in the Wilderness.

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========= Geneva =========

RED CROSS TO HAVE SUPPLIES READY FOR THE AXIS OF EVIL (again)

In Geneva, with the Red Cross. Although there may not
be 100% full accountability of the money given to the Red Cross
after the 911 Atrocities, President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Jakob Kellenberger promises to 100% behind Iraq with supplies and places to hide
as he has done in Afghanistan for the Taliban and in Israel for Hamas, Fatah, PLO, PA, ... etc.

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===== From Baghdad =========

From Baghdad, with lies.
FYI the table of contents of Iraq's arms declaration.

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========= Kuwait =========

In Kuwait, heroes light the sky with live fire exercises, and patrol,
as other heroes enjoy well earned mail call and breakfast.

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========= Qatar =========

In Qatar, at Sayliyah military base.

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========= Pentagon =========

President George H.W. Bush looks over
a small model of a new aircraft carrier with his name,
scheduled for 2009, the last of 10 Nimitz-class carriers.

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========= Intergalactic Pipeline between NGC 1410 and 1409 =========

NGC 1410 and 1409 the Intergalactic Pipeline between them
The "pipeline" is ~20,000 light-years long and 500 light-years wide.
Located 300 million light-years away in the constellation of Taurus.

(click for more info)

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Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion.

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END OF TRANSMISSION 12/11/02 .......... K

[EternalVigilance]

Surrounded by bodyguards, Berlin mayor Klaus Wowereit (L) and Israel President Moshe Katsav (R) gesture during their visit the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, 10 December 2002.

[EternalVigilance]

Looking up in the outback

Tourists watch a solar eclipse Dec. 4 in the Australian outback town of Lyndhurst, about 700 kilometers (435 miles) north of Adelaide. The town was one of only four in Australia where the total eclipse could be seen.

[EternalVigilance]

Be careful Mohammed---
You never know which Americans might turn out to be warriors!

[Victoria Delsoul]

Thanks for the ping, Diogenesis.

Bump.

[PhilDragoo]

The "Inspectors" are led blindfolded through scrapyards while Iraqi soldiers snicker and pee on them from catwalks above.

That's inspection the wrong way.

Inspection the right way is a B-2 visit from Santa to three dozen "palaces", followed by SEAL teams inserted under the watchful eye of AC-130 gunships.

When we end the current farce, drop the hundred Hollywood letter writers and Jimmah Benedict Cahtuh on Baghdad, each duct-taped to a BLU-118 thermobaric Hall Mark Greeting Card.

Smiley Two-Moles in the portraits is the gasser of thousands--wrap him in bacon and bring him back to the Crawford ranch for bar-be-que.

[CENTVRIO EQVITVM]

Actually, that is a Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), M249 Light Machine Gun
Primary function: Hand-held combat machine gun
Manufacturer: Fabrique Nationale Manufacturing, Inc.
Length: 40.87 inches (103.81 centimeters)
Weight:
With bipod and tools: 15.16 pounds (6.88 kilograms)
200-round box magazine: 6.92 pounds (3.14 kilograms)
30-round magazine: 1.07 pounds (.49 kilograms)
Bore diameter: 5.56mm (.233 inches)
Maximum effective range: 3281 feet (1000 meters) for an area target
Maximum range: 2.23 miles (3.6 kilometers)
Rates of fire:
Cyclic: 725 rounds per minute
Sustained: 85 rounds per minute
Unit Replacement Cost: $4,087

Features: The Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW), or 5.56mm M249 is an individually portable, gas operated, magazine or disintegrating metallic link-belt fed, light machine gun with fixed headspace, integral bipod and quick change barrel feature. The M249 engages point targets out to 800 meters, firing the improved NATO standard 5.56mm cartridge.
The SAW forms the basis of firepower for the fire team. The gunner has the option of using 30-round M16 magazines or linked ammunition from pre-loaded 200-round plastic magazines. The gunner's basic load is 600 rounds of linked ammunition.

Background: The SAW was developed through an initially Army-led research and development effort and eventually a Joint NDO program in the late 1970s/early 1980s to restore sustained and accurate automatic weapons fire to the fire team and squad. When actually fielded in the mid-1980s, the SAW was issued as a one-for-one replacement for the designated "automatic rifle" (M16A1) in the Fire Team. In this regard, the SAW filled the void created by the retirement of the Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR) during the 1950s because interim automatic weapons (e.g. M-14E2/M16A1) had failed as viable "base of fire" weapons. Early in the SAW's fielding, the Army identified the need for a Product Improvement Program (PIP) to enhance the weapon. This effort resulted in a "PIP kit" which modifies the barrel, handguard, stock, pistol grip, buffer, and sights.
That young 3rd COSCOM soldier may well be female. I also wish her well, and hope she bags her limit.

[Uncle Jaque]

Now here's a very frightening combination of acronyms:

PMS...
and
SAW ("Squad Automatic Weapon")!!!

Be AFRAID, Jihaddists;
Be VERY afraid!

I wonder what the eternal fate of one of these Jihad "martyrs" is supposed to consist of if he gets whacked back to Allah by a Woman!?

I don't see this Heroine (if I may be permitted the use of such an archaic term) donning a burqua any time soon.

Seriously though; I speculate that the situation for a female combattant might be similar to that of a Union "Soldier of Color" fighting in the American Civil War;
Should things go sour for their Unit, "surrender" is NOT an option they would even want to consider.

In one of the oft-rerun video clips of AlQuida in training, we notice their distinctive black flag. Now at one time, the "Black Flag" was tacticly significant; It meant, on no uncertain terms, that "No Quarter" or option of live capture would be granted the Enemy - and by the same token, none expected should their enemy prevail.

For hundreds, if not thousands of years of Military tradition, the appearance of a black flag on a battlefield signalled the onset of an extremely ferocious and bloody engagement, in which no prisoners were taken. The term "Massacre" is frequently used by later Historians to describe them.
The only options for those engaged were Victory or death - or possibly escape for a few very lucky non-winners.

One Military Historian who studies the history of the British Empire and it's escapades in the Middle East writes us (and perhaps someone here could verify or expand on this) that during the First Afghan War a British expiditionary Force of about 15,000 men found things going badly for them, and began a retreat from Kabul South towards their base in India.

Only ONE (1) bedraggled Redcoat apparently managed to make it back to India alive. I'll bet that HE had some PTSD to deal with!

The same Historian speculates that those 1853 Enfield Rifle-Muskets shown in the last edition being sold in Afghanistan may well be some of the few remnants of that British Unit - those and some well bleached bones out in the desert somewhere.

Those Iraqi "soldiers" (and here I DO use the term between quotation points loosely, Bob - hope you don't mind) during DS where not the "black flag" crowd; when and if our Troops should ever meet the latter in Battle, I would hope that they take the color of their flag very seriously... for I have little doubt but what the bearers of said black standard WILL.

[Uncle Jaque]

Waaaay COOL, Mate!

All together, now:

"READDDDYYY...."

"*Click*"

(Do tanks do that when you cock them? I wouldn't know; I was an MP...)

"AIIIIIMM..."

http://www.netwurx.net/~lehfam/saddam_headshot.jpg

"O.K., Mr. Commander-In-Chief Bush; What comes NEXT???"

[Uncle Jaque]

Downright ELEGANT!

Now isn't it grand to have a Couple like this who really seem to be WORTHY of their surroundings... unlike the previous tennants?

Gosh; I wouldn't mind having a poster of this shot up in our home this Christmas season!

Thanks for sharing it, Notforprophet!

Blessings of the Season to ye all!

Uncle Jaque in Maine

[Uncle Jaque]

Re: Human Bomb "Protesters" in Manilla:

"CALLING MR. DAISY-CUTTER!!! IS MR. DAISY-CUTTER IN THE HOUSE???"

Would someone please start calling in the grid coordinates of these creeps?!

[Uncle Jaque]

" Do you think Clinton is jealous at not having a carrier named after him?

How about the 'USS YELLOW STREAK'"

Yeah! I think you're on to something here, Mate!

Here's the deal; we take that North Korean tramp steamer the Spanish Navy recently delayed for us, and after we get all of the Scuds etc. off of it (see related thread on that - very interesting!), we convert it into a floating SEPTIC TANK.

Hey; all of our Warships out there in the Persian Gulf etc. have to pump the bilges somewhere, eh; and we wouldn't want to go polluting the pristene ocean waters thereabouts, would we? What would the Environmentalists say?
Just pump the old tub right up to the gunwhales with Allied crap and send it wallowing off to... oh, I dunno... Yemen?

And paint the name in big, bright yellow letters on both sides of the bow, high up where we can still read it when she's full;

"WILLIAM J. CLINTON"

Now as to registration... I'd hate to see a U.S. flag on the bloody thing; how about France? Just a thought.
Any other ideas?

Keep those creative juices flowing, fellow Freepers; I love it!

[cavador]

OH MY GOD! Is that Hambali on the right hand side?If it is then why hasn't this general got him in a headlock and calling for assistance?(Instead he's shaking his goddam hand!)

[Stultis]

Amazing (and disgusting) picture.