***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 11 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 30 Mar 2003 | An.American.Expatriate

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Good Morning.

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

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[Sacajaweau]

Blix is a UN employee with no loyalty to the US. It will take a little time, but we'll find his MAJOR FLAW in the days ahead and he will be named an arrogant liar.

[Green]

Is that old video footage on fox or is that fire still burning in Baghdad?

[Dog]

Marines just captured another Iraqi General in fighting...its over on breaking news...

[umbagi]

There's sounds of someone nailing something up on the CBS bag cam.

Last night, before the CNN WMP BagCam went down, I watched them building something that looked like a back-yard storage shed, about 12' X 12', on the roof between the cam and the intersection. It was just a frame then, but it sounds like they're covering it now; I've heard both sawing and nailing.

I haven't been able to get back onto either CNN camera today, though; just MSNBC -- I can hear them working, but can't see anything.

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[Consort]

"I'm _S deeply _S saddened _SSS."

[Green]

Ollie reporting helicopter down and 3 marines killed, unknown number injured

[Dog]

Chopper crash near Ollie.....3 marines dead.....several injured..

[Timeout]

New Jed Babbin comments at NRO.

Whatever the number [of Arabs flowing into Iraq to fight], we know that it doesn't include the 900 Ansar al-Islam terrorists who tried to get into Iraq this morning, and ran into some real soldiers. Ansar al-Islam is a Kurdish Sunni Islamic extremist group which is part of the al Qaeda organization. But they aren't too smart. When they got caught, they broke the first rule in the terrorist playbook: they got into a real fight with real soldiers, not the unarmed civilians they're used to killing. Those who survived fled back into Iran. Others, like the one who ran a pickup truck into a group of American soldiers this morning in Kuwait, won't be that dumb. (*snip*)

The Brits--who have learned a thing or two there--attacked a terrorist position before dawn today southeast of Basra. The Royal Marine Commandos--some of the best there are--captured an Iraqi colonel and a large cache of weapons including about two dozen SAMs. Very well done, gents. Intelligence makes all the difference. Which is why the Brits' push is part of what they call "Operation James." As in Bond, James Bond.

Where DOES this guy get such good sources??? I hadn't heard anything before about that battle with Ansar al-Islam terrorists this morning.

[Green]

I didn't hear him say what sort of mission they were on, did you?

[pitinkie]

Thats German on the CBS Cam.

[ChadGore]

Re: It was just a frame then, but it sounds like they're covering it now; I've heard both sawing and nailing.

that's exactly what I'm hearing now.

Now this guy is talking clearly right now, and it's German. This guy on the CBS bagcam is speaking German right now.

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Yup!

[ChadGore]

Re: Thats German on the CBS Cam.

You hear that too ? There's no mistaking the "niiiiine" part when you hear it, it definitly was not arabic.

[Dog]

Who can get us a screen grab ....when Fox shows the Iragi Info guy's press briefing.......they show Saddams bodyguard standing behind them...

Someone grab it and post it please..

[pitinkie]

then English about "20 seconds for pictures"

[Outraged At FLA]

Pardon me for going off topic here, I was wondering if anyone knows how many two term Republican Presidents there have been versus two term Democrat Presidents? Or even a place to find that info?

[ChadGore]

I wish I wasn't monolingual :/

[pitinkie]

Sounds like bombs away in distance.

[ChadGore]

Off the top of my head . . 2 term Dem = FDR, 2 term GOP = Reagan

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Do you also like to watch the odometer turn over?

Big time. Really annoys the kids...