***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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[two23]

They'll just send him over to CNN

[Fledermaus]

It was a rerun

[Dog]

Whoa!!!!!

Huge Flames!!!!!!

[TomGuy]

Intense blaze now in Bagdad...

[StriperSniper]

Strike on Ministry of Info.

Maybe it did get Peter!

[johnnyd]

Get A Rope!!!!!

[pitinkie]

repeat

[POGIFFMOO]

Ya mean that's Achmed's barbecue we're watching. Hope he's got ADT....speakin of which, ain't seen any fire engines racing through Bagland.

[merrin]

Nah, CNN was already forced to fire him over anti-American lies. Their ratings aren't high enough to take the chance on hiring him back.

I think his next stop may be al-Jazeera.

Start your Arabic lessons now, Petie.

[steveegg]

I think we can resurrect Lord Haw-Haw.

[Dog]

Something is under that Ministry of Info .....something we keep trying to take out.

[Daniel Ramsey]

Wasn't the big bonfire started about 4 hours ago? I saw it before the Texas 500, and its still burning? must have been an ammo dump for sure.

[Fledermaus]

Iraqi firefighters just showed up.

[pitinkie]

arnett...............

[BulletBobCo]

Fox is showing Peter Arnett giving a interview to Iraqi TV......He claims the war plan has failed....claims the Iraqis have succeeded in stopping our forces..

So he knows what the war plan is does he.

[Dog]

This is a new bombing..

[POGIFFMOO]

I stand corrected, they've got fire hoses on that fire....but I bet it doesn't work on pyrotechnics. I bet that's munitions...though I once had a steak go up like that.

[Daniel Ramsey]

NOW they are hosing it down with water, must have been a munitions fire, they had to wait for the rounds to cook off, my guess.

[Cboldt]

I saw the same Arnett peice, and posted it before 5 PM EST, back at post 1543

CNN Candy Crowley just showed a snippet of an interview that Peter Arnett granted to Iraq teevee. Arnett said that what he is doing is sending pictures of civilian casualties back to the US, to help anti-war protesters compose argumehnts against administartion policy. Arnett also said that the coalition's first war plan was thwarted by Iraq resistance, forcing the coalition to develop a new plan. Crowley said the transcript is available at CNN web-site, but I haven't found it after a brief serach.

Arnett is trolling for favors with the Iraqi regime, so he can get better stories than his peers.

[TechJunkYard]

Interesting way of trying to knock down the flames, by shooting water over the fire... ;-)