***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 9 - LIVE THREAD*** ^

Multiple | 28 March 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

Good Morning.

This is the Daily Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD.

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[spectr17]

FNC,

mil analysts says the runway 173rd seized last night can take C-141s and C-5s.

That blows what I heard of 6,500 foot runway out of the water. C-5 needs much more than 6,500 foot runway.

[texxie]

nite MrC sleep tight:)

[hmmmmm]

Good night :)

[Mo1]

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Smoke billows from burning oil trenches around Baghdad(AFP/Patrick Baz)

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A missile strikes the palace of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) during an air strike in Baghdad March 27, 2003. President Bush (news - web sites) warned Americans not to expect a swift end to the war against Iraq (news - web sites) and Baghdad came under intense bombing early on March 28. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)


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Iraq (news - web sites) says it shot down a US Army Apache attack helicopter in the mid-Euphrates region between the cities of Nasiriyah and Kerbala, but the Pentagon (news - web sites) said the aircraft lost was an unmanned drone(AFP/Jim Watson)


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Marines from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment prepare to enter a hospital used for military purposes by Iraqi forces in the outskirts of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, where allied troops have found resistance in their northbound advance torwards Baghdad(AFP/File/Cris Bouroncle)


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Private First Class Joshua Joh of the U.S. Army 4th Infantry Division passes out American flags to school children during a deployment ceremony at Fort Hood, Texas, March 27, 2003. The 4th Infantry will deploy into Iraq (news - web sites). REUTERS/Jeff Mitchell

[spectr17]

nite

[Armed Civilian]

Alright we kinda know how to vote, Broward.

[texxie]

heard it was 12k feet

[Tree of Liberty]

Fox has been reporting the past few hours that we've recently (in the past day, I presume) used carbon-filament bombs. Those are the kind we used in Kosovo to, essentially, short out their electrical grid. That might have something to do with Iraqi TV's new broadcasting difficulties.

[texxie]

yes you do I used to live north of there a little north of daytona beach

[hmmmmm]

And now we have a new table in front of the bag cam and the cleaner guy has decided to take his break while watching the smoke on the horizon. It really must be the oil trenches on fire this time, it's so much closer in than the smoke has been before.

[lorrainer]

;o)

[spectr17]

12k would work for C-5.

I heard two miles earlier but never saw it mentioned again.

[Tree of Liberty]

Later Mr. C. Have a good one.

[Armed Civilian]

MOAB, MOAB, MOAB....

[hmmmmm]

Is a C-5 comparable in size to some commercial plane?

[texxie]

supposedly they can land anything we fly there

[Mr.Crimson]

thanks, you too!

[spectr17]

After looking at all those sat pics the map and street atlas guy in Baghdad gonna be busy with updates.

Lots of holes to add in.

[texxie]

will do:) thx

[hmmmmm]

Great pics!