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CNN reports that Iraqi column of vehicles leaving Basra have been mostly destroyed.
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Posted on 03/26/2003 11:57:31 AM PST by jacksonstate
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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cas; dontmesswithtexas; highwayofdeath; turkeyshoot
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To: jacksonstate
Highway of Death, Part Deux
To: Cagey
Communique from "Brag-dad:"
Infidel ammunition cache destroyed by Iraqi armored column south of Basra. Minor casualties and equipment damage sustained.
To: Cagey
but Coalition Forces expend more rounds than planned.
They always have to leave it with a negative, don't they?
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:19:16 PM PST
by
eyespysomething
(Pray for our troops, our President, our country.)
To: Dog Gone
"Maybe the guy at the head of the column got his directions screwed up as they were leaving town."
Maybe they bought GPS receivers and compasses from Russia.
To: Shermy
Ah yes, the copter and the "golden b-b scenario!" very good for mythology. I wonder what they really used, to make it crash? We destroyed it, of course, and can only hope the pilots will be rescued, so they can tell us what happened.
To: Yankee
Earlier this morning, MSNBC insisted that the arriving column was "yet another setback" for the coalition. How can anybody take that Playskool network seriously?
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Highway of Death, Part DeuxNo French please.
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:20:27 PM PST
by
Yankee
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Actually it didn't "crash". It set down. Whether due to mechanical failure or hits from, say, a 20 mm, I don't know.
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:20:37 PM PST
by
Shermy
To: Goldsters
Politically, wouldn't this look worse for Saddam's forces, than for us?
To: Shermy
You're correct, my mistake.
To: Pan_Yans Wife
The press would spin it so that it's worse for us.
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:21:26 PM PST
by
Darksheare
(Nox aeternus en pax.)
To: lormand
Iraqi column hit hard by British troups
British Trouper.
The Iraqis are just lucky they didn't call out the Royal Scottish Mimes.
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:21:29 PM PST
by
r9etb
To: Badabing Badaboom
Chemical Weapons = Area Denial....
Chemical Suits Found
Atropine (sp?) Found
Wasn't there fires set around Baghdad?
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:21:37 PM PST
by
Calpernia
(http://www.politicsandprotest.org/attack.swf)
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Maybe they were trying to surrender this time??
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:21:43 PM PST
by
SCR1
To: XJarhead
The sandstorm gave some of our troops a breather, I hope.
To: jacksonstate
Maybe a half hour ago, Mike Tobin of FNC, who is at Centcom in Qatar, said that the Brits let this force go out of Basrah so they could be hit from the air.
Looks like that happened. Repeatedly.
To: Pan_Yans Wife
I would think so - don't these sandstorms whip around in various directions?
One of the reasons why the Germans in WWI stopped using poison gas on the battlefield was the fact that their own troops would sustain significant casualties when they were used.
Not that the Iraqis would never use them - but I think it would be a last resort because they want to avoid the blowback.
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:22:07 PM PST
by
wideawake
(Support our troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
To: Badabing Badaboom
Maybe the Iraqis are poor tacticians but nobody's that dumb. These are the same people who are attacking tanks and Bradleys with AK-47's and pink pickup trucks. Yes, they're that dumb.
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:22:29 PM PST
by
AHerald
To: LdSentinal
Said Daschle, "I am deeply Saddammed that this Iraqi column was destroyed."
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Does the sandstorm also inhibit their use of chemical weapons? You better believe it does. High winds would dissipate the agents. Really high winds will disintegrate the cloud before it gets near the ground.
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posted on
03/26/2003 12:22:51 PM PST
by
Cyber Liberty
(© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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