CENTCOM Briefing in 15 minutes

Brit Hume Special Report FNC | 4/1/03 | Yankee

[Yankee]

Hume just announced a briefing in 15 minutes

[valleygal]

How do you know...just asking, not being critical?

[Willie Green]

Man, that was good news but kind of a letdown...so short!

Yeah, I know what you mean.
With a 1300 reply thread invested in this, I think we've been cheated.

But thank goodness for the rescue!

[Petronski]

RESCUED FROM AN NASYRIAH

[TheLion]

"I would think it's the OTHER families who need notifying. :( Imagine their hopes being dashed...."

They might not have considered that....good point.

[RepublicanArmy]

Seeing as it took an hour & a half for them to rlease the info I believe there is something else going on & thats why they will release more information later.

Could be there is more yet to come as in other rescues.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Yes, how do you know that?

[yonif]

MSNBC reports.

[PISANO]

Announced with very little fanfare....noticably there was no gasps or shouts of happiness.....very blah and very telling, the media at Centcom doesn't like GOOD news.

[Maeve]

Praise God! Praise God! Praise God!

[Indy Pendance]

idiot.

[Aerohawk]

I hope not. But if those a$$holes were going to keep one alive, it's obvious why they chose her.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Okay...lesson learned. *Sigh*

[aristeides]

RESCUED FROM AN NASYRIAH

I wonder if that means the others are being held there.

[PhiKapMom]

General Brooks is the very highly thought of, very well qualified, and he only says what he is told to say!

[amused]

I'm beginning to wonder how Brooks got this job, uhhh, could this be affirmative action at work?

Shame on you. That the man is not great on TV has little to do with his military career.

[Bahbah]

Brooks is great. So there.

[Howlin]

Nothing, but the press implied there was more to the story.

[kcvl]

Posted on Tue, Apr. 01, 2003

American POW rescued, U.S. official says
Associated Press

WASHINGTON - An American prisoner of war has been rescued in Iraq, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said U.S. Central Command was announcing the rescue in Qatar later Tuesday.

The Pentagon has listed seven Americans as captured by Iraq since the outbreak of the war.

The officials said the rescue involved one of the seven.

The development came as American ground troops battled Republican Guard troops around Karbala, a holy Shiite Muslim city about 50 miles south of Baghdad. It was unknown whether the fighting was related to the POW situation.

Two U.S. Army pilots were captured March 24 by Iraqi forces after their Apache helicopter was forced down during heavy fighting in central Iraq. A day earlier, five U.S. Army soldiers had been captured near Nasiriyah, a crossing point over the Euphrates River.

The POWs were displayed on television by the Iraqis in separate broadcasts.

In addition to the POWs, the Pentagon's official tally of the number of Americans missing is 16.

[Dead Dog]

IF they know where on is, the other's are probably in the works. If it were my family, I would be pretty optimistic about any of them being rescued.

[Gracey]

Congrats that you got back one of your citizens. Wonderful!