*** Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 16 - Live Thread ***

Multiple ^ | April 4th 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

In honor of our Freed and the men and women who risked thier lives to rescue her!

Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Army Photo	Freed POW PFC Jessica Lynch - Private Photo

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[thedugal]

some AA missiles too

[AppyPappy]

Fawn Hall

[Dog]

Listen to how quiet it got on the BagCam...

[Redcloak]

Away. The Saddam Baghdad International Airport is to the southwest. That large finger of land in the river points almost directly at it.

[mhking]

Whaddaya mean "unable to shut down Iraqi TV"? They aren't broadcasting on analog - just go to the satellite company and have the transponder yanked! Sheesh!

[VRWC_minion]

Blast from the past...Hillary Clinton, Lafarge, and Kennametal by J. Orlin Grabbe

What was Hillary Clinton doing on the board of directors of a cement company? Over a year ago, in August 1995, I pointed out that:

"Hillary Clinton, while one of the chief litigators of the Rose law firm and wife of Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton, was a director of Lafarge corporation, whose Marblehead, Ohio subsidiary Standard Lafarge is said to have been utilized in the transport network to ferret machine tools and nose cones out of Pittsburgh and into Canada for shipment to Iraq." (Part 19: Allegations Regarding Vince Foster, the NSA, and Banking Transactions Spying.)

Now the Nov. 1996 issue of The American Spectator amplifies this assertion, quoting the words of Marianne Gasior, a lawyer who worked for Kennametal Inc., a machine-tools manufacturer located in Latrobe, Pennsylvania: "Hillary Rodham Clinton was directly linked to the network that was involved in a clandestine CIA arms export ring."

"Marianne Gasior maintains that the Lafarge Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of a French multinational chemicals concern, provided key services for the covert arms export network that supplied Saddam Hussein. To prevent exposure of that secret supply line, and collateral damage to Hillary Clinton—who joined the Lafarge board in 1990, just as the pipeline was being shut down— Gasior alleges that the Justice Department was told to bury the investigation

[Redcloak]

Here's a cool map of the city...

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/baghdad_nima_2003.jpg

[Socratic]

Yeah, but where is that prominent palm tree located?

[PrivateIdaho]

Is the camera pointed toward the airport?

I think the airport is south of the city... camera seems to be pointed due west.

[Redcloak]

In the ground.

:)

[adaven]

The guy running the CNN BagCam is doing a great job... he's pointing the cam at where the action is.

[SkunkPunk]

Just in case you never noticed, your screen name is posted automatically every time you post...no need to add it at the bottom of your comments.

[ChewedGum]

Actually the airport is south-west of the city center.

Gum

[ChewedGum]

Maybe even a little more west than south.

Gum

[hawkaw]

Is BagCam following a missile or plane?

[SkunkPunk]

Just in case you never noticed, your screen name is posted automatically every time you post...no need to add it at the bottom of your comments.

[Dog]

Look at that was that a SCUD...

[PrivateIdaho]

The guy running the CNN BagCam is doing a great job...

Yep... what is it he's tracking now... cruise missle?

[Redcloak]

Looks like someone is baiting the AAA.

[retrokitten]

Daily Tear Jerker:
Iraqi City Warms to Marines: "Are We Free Yet?"

I won't spoil it, but the last line is the best.