Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Uprising By Shiites in Basra Underway; British Pouring Artillery into City
Sky News Live Feed ^ | 03/25/03 | TonyInOhio

Posted on 03/25/2003 9:14:57 AM PST by TonyInOhio

Just monitored on Sky News: embedded reporter says Shiites in Basra have begun, in his words, a "popular uprising" against the Saddam forces still in the city. British Army units are "pouring" artillery into the city (likely isolated areas) preparing to move in.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: antisaddam; basra; embeddedreport; iraq; roadtobaghdad; shiites; uprising; war; warlist
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 221-240241-260261-280 ... 801-807 next last
To: nicmarlo
Coming up on CNN: Military Strategy for Taking Basra. They haven't even touched on this development....
241 posted on 03/25/2003 9:45:29 AM PST by stands2reason
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 52 | View Replies]

To: Steve_Seattle
Sky News reporter....Brits have just bombed the ruling Ba'ath Party HQ......won't enter city....until morning.......ugh!!!!!!

Can't chance a ambush...

242 posted on 03/25/2003 9:45:29 AM PST by Dog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 225 | View Replies]

To: goldstategop

This is key.

I believe that the S.A.S. have probably been engaged in a program of assassinations and urban warfare. They have been in Basrah since before the war. They have waited until the proper moment. Now it has arrived.

Time for the Brits to take advantage of this. I understand that they are going in at first light.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

243 posted on 03/25/2003 9:45:46 AM PST by section9 (You will all be shot unless you download the Saddam screensaver...)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 191 | View Replies]

To: San Jacinto
Sky News says Iraqi troops launching mortars on citizens from a location in the city center. British troops are trying to lay artillery fire on source of mortars.
244 posted on 03/25/2003 9:45:59 AM PST by Dog Gone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 240 | View Replies]

To: Poohbah
So they are plentiful in both populations?

Interesting.

So what are the chances the Iraqi Shi'ites will help the Iranian Shi'ites rise up and toss out their evil?
245 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:07 AM PST by mabelkitty
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 119 | View Replies]

To: TonyInOhio
Laughing, laughing, laughing! Good ol' Brits. Stirring up the Shiite and here comes the long awaited bloodbaath against the tyrants! LET's ROLL!!!
246 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:08 AM PST by Enterprise
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TonyInOhio
THE REVOLUTION HAS STARTED....YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
247 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:09 AM PST by AmericanMade1776
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JasonC
Prayers for the people of Basra fighting for their FREEDOM!! Prayers for the Brits (The Royal Artillery) and the Americans risking it all to help them.



248 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:27 AM PST by Vets_Husband_and_Wife (A closed mind is like a parachute that won't open...... dangerous and fatal.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 193 | View Replies]

To: SodiumWarthog
Sky News reporter back on (he's with Scottish Dragoon Guards). Gives confirmation of first reports.

Coalition aircraft just now bombed the Ba'athist Party headquarters; thinks it was an American JDAM.

British forces preparing to move into Basra at first light.

249 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:34 AM PST by TonyInOhio (Now begins the Pax Americana)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 236 | View Replies]

To: MeeknMing
Thanks for the ping, MnM. I hope we do what needs to be done here. Oh, and let the media whining begin.
250 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:37 AM PST by Bahbah (Pray for our Troops)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 103 | View Replies]

To: Dog
reporter said that American jdam may have dropped it on the Bath (sp?) party HQ"S
251 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:45 AM PST by CELTICGAEL (Celt) (To the Iraqi People...Help is on it's way! To saddam...BOHICA!!!!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 242 | View Replies]

To: cardinal4; Illbay
Re: Shia Muslims;

I just had my hair cut by a woman who is a Shia Muslim, from Iran. Her family is still in Tehran. If she is at all representitive of the rest of them, we have nothing to worry about.

According to her, Shia' want freedom from both the ayatollah, and freedom for Iraq.

FRegards
252 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:45 AM PST by FBD
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 182 | View Replies]

To: areafiftyone
I don't know But I am spiking Right now! I am practically jumping up and down in my cubie!! Finally the Iraqis are realizing that we mean it this time!! I guess they are feeling that little thing called Freedom creep up on them!

Now if they can only keep the whole thing from going in the toilet post-war. Turkey is the only predominantly Islamic country that has done it so far, and that's only because they don't allow the government to be run by mullahs. Will the Iraqi Muslims turn on us if we try to set it up on terms parallel to that of Turkey?

253 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:46 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (VRRR)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 142 | View Replies]

To: JohnHuang2
Iraq is imploding:

BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 25 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urged tribesmen to take the initiative and attack the U.S. and British forces without waiting for orders.

"Don't wait until you receive the order from the authorities you are used to receive directions from," Saddam said in an appeal to the tribes leaders broadcast on Iraqi TV on Tuesday.

LINK

254 posted on 03/25/2003 9:46:48 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 224 | View Replies]

To: stands2reason
Heavy fire going into the city....reporter saw 12 rockets enter the city....he heard what sounds like 2 large explosions.....speculating it was a J-Dam...
255 posted on 03/25/2003 9:47:01 AM PST by Dog
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 241 | View Replies]

To: Alberta's Child
Recent U.S. history tells me that the more likely scenario is that we don't have a clue about what we are doing in the long term.

Yeah, the U.S. is such a failure in that department - I mean, other than defeating Nazism, facism, Tojoism, communism, Saddam in the Gulf War, the Taliban and the Al Qaeda structure, we're just a bunch of clueless dolts.

256 posted on 03/25/2003 9:47:01 AM PST by dirtboy (Rally For America - Steps of PA State Capitol, Harrisburg - March 29 at high noon)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 201 | View Replies]

To: areafiftyone
I was reading about those little children learning to do the surrender thing from our leaflets and the soldiers were throwing food and water down to them! Those little Iraqi children have my heart already!!

How wonderful for them to learn what it will mean to speak their minds and breath in liberty!!

257 posted on 03/25/2003 9:47:11 AM PST by nicmarlo
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 188 | View Replies]

To: Dog
CNN has not even touched this - Paula Zahn still despondent over the fact that our troops haven't been whisked up "Wizard of OZ style" by the sandstorms.... she's just awful.
258 posted on 03/25/2003 9:47:32 AM PST by rocky88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 231 | View Replies]

To: TonyInOhio
Just announced that Iraqi troops dropping mortars on protesters in Basra.

British artillery determining source of mortar fire and returning fire.

Large explosion from a bomb has occurred in/around Ba'ath party headquarters in Basra.

259 posted on 03/25/2003 9:47:35 AM PST by Fury
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Petronski
Overheard on DUh:

mclam: Does not compute.... Why are they firing on their own people? Am I reading this wrong? Propaganda? What's going on?

donsu: hard to believe Iraqis firing on own people

buddhamama: rising up against whom? the UK soldiers or the Iraqi soldiers that are firing on them?

Not the brightest lot, are they?

260 posted on 03/25/2003 9:47:38 AM PST by Charles Martel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 185 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20 ... 221-240241-260261-280 ... 801-807 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson