Operation Iraqi Freedom - Day 1 - LIVE THREAD

20 March 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

[An.American.Expatriate]

This is a thread to collect all the breaking stories regarding the Libration of Iraq

[steveegg]

My eyes are going, so I'll nod off for a while.

[Julliardsux]

Airraid sirens in Kuwait city?? on Foxnews.com right now - banner

[Peach]

My mind zipped to Clinton and vanity-salmonella scare after the anthrax post 9-11.

Now that makes sense.

[GeorgiaYankee]

Anyone notice who Fox Military analyst Col David Hunt sounds like? Close your eyes and listen.....

omg, it's fez from 'that 70s show' ;)

Actually I was going for someone else.
Hint: "Do ya think I'm funny, funny like a clown?"

[Tree of Liberty]

The way I understood the story, the vials were empty except for trace amounts of ricin.

[Wavyhill]

If Clinton was running it, he'd be asking the UN if he could provide tank support...as he did in Somalia.

[Fledermaus]

If Clinton was running it, he'd be asking the UN if he could provide tank support...as he did in Somalia.

Or he'd be taking polls!

[Dog]

Wait until you read who we got in that missile strike last night....

Here!

According to UPI, the Palestine Liberation Front said Thursday one of its guerrillas was killed during the U.S. missile strikes on Iraq. A PFL statement released in the southern city of Sidon (Syrian-occupied Lebanon) identified the slain guerrilla as 1st Lieutenant Ahmed Walid Raguib al-Baz who was killed early Thursday "while confronting the treacherous U.S. air bombardment on Iraq."

I don't know anything about the late Mr. Al-Baz, but I know all too much about the PLF and its evil leader, Abu Abbas. This was the group that organized the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro back in the mid-1980s. They segregated the American passengers from the rest, and then courageously pushed an American Jewish paraplegic in his wheelchair, Leon Klinghoffer, into the Mediterranean. We tried to have Abu Abbas arrested in Italy, but he escaped through Yugoslavia to Yemen.

The PLF has long been one of the most lethal Palestinian terrorist groups, and achieved notoriety for its high-tech killings. Recently, Abu Abbas had come to live in the Palestinian Authority, but when Israel moved against the terrorists there he ran away — to Baghdad. The PLF has been one of the main conduits for Iraqi money to Palestinian suicide bombers.

[justshe]

I heard a person on Fox News say that Ridge did say that.

But we've been hearing not "if" but "when" for quite awhile.

[Michael81Dus]

Correct, I´ve heard that with the bunker system, too.
I believe he has three doubles, it will be difficult to get him, dead or alive.

I´m not sure wether it was a Scud Missile or not. Think, it was in Kuwait - even his other missiles may reach Kuwait. If he still has some (and I´m sure he has), he´ll fire them on Israel, and not on Kuwait.

European reports said that it´s possible that the US propaganda faked the Iraqi attack on Kuwait. Tssss

[retrokitten]

The way I understood the story, the vials were empty except for trace amounts of ricin.

If they are empty now they used to be full, so where did the ricin go?

[finnman69]

Sky reporting Scud came down in Kuwait city near the Hilton on the beach.

[Kadric]

Yeap they shot it down then it got right back up and carried on. If the ones that shot it saw the whole thing they are more than likely changing their shorts while running every which way.

[Dog]

We killed a known terrorist in that missile strike...

Daschle will really be sad now......LOL!

[Fledermaus]

Sky reporting Scud came down in Kuwait city near the Hilton on the beach.

That's going to lose them an AAA Diamond!

[Peach]

I had just typed this would kill Daschle and then hit "back" key because I didn't want you getting mad at me again if I introduced politics into the war! LOL

[PhiKapMom]

I can imagine they freaked out.

MSNBC reporter saying that Tomahawk missiles just went in overhead toward Baghdad.

[steveegg]

One last update:

National Review Online - More Bad News for Daschle (seems the Palestine Liberation Front is saying that we got one of theirs last night)

[E Rocc]

Has anyone checked to see if the DU'ers are still alive?

Try their mirror site.

-Eric

[uncitizen]

Yes we've been hearing that for awhile, but i somehow got the feeling they weren't 100% sure and wasn't too concerned. Whereas, in this case it sounded much more imminent and 100% certain.