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

Multiple ^ | April 4th 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

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[MEG33]

Suicide bombing at a checkpoint 3 of ours dead

[Catspaw]

MSNBC is reporting another car bombing at a checkpoint in Iraqi (unknown as to where it is). Three of our armed forces dead, a pregnant woman dead, the car bomber dead.

[Catspaw]

Near the _____ (starts with D) dam. The pregnant woman stepped out of the car, screaming with fear & the bomb went off.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fri Apr 4, 4:16 AM ET

Map of the Baghdad area locating the US assault on Sadam International Airport, as of Friday 0500 GMT(AFP)

[mhking]

G'Mornin....Looks like I sent the updated list to the wrong person! [g]

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[Carolina]

Great find on Gen. Brooks. He comes from a fine family.

Gen. Leo Brooks Sr., who lives in Alexandria with his wife and attended the city's now-shuttered Parker-Gray High School, declined to be interviewed and Vincent Brooks' sister, Marquita K. Brooks, a D.C. lawyer with the firm Humphries and Brooks, did not return phone calls.
     Likewise, his uncle, Leo Sr.'s younger brother, state Rep. Francis Brooks, Vermont Democrat, declined to discuss his nephew.
     But in an e-mail statement, Leo Brooks Sr. said that "my son is no hero."
     "Those kids getting shot at and killed are. I will not exploit the hunger for knowledge, nor slip into a gloat for my son or my family, while other families weep. When the war is over, I will speak."

I am impressed.

[Quilla]

I was way off with respect to location. From AP:

CAMP AS SAYLIYAH, Qatar (AP) - A car exploded near a coalition checkpoint in western Iraq, killing three coalition soldiers, a pregnant woman and the car's driver, U.S. Central Command said Friday.

A Central Command spokesman said it appeared to be a suicide attack and occurred 80 miles east of the Syrian border and northwest of Baghdad.

In a statement, Central Command said the incident occurred Thursday evening about 11 miles southwest of the Haditha Dam, when a civilian vehicle approached a coalition checkpoint.

``A pregnant female stepped out of the vehicle and began screaming in fear,'' a statement said. ``At this point the civilian vehicle exploded, killing three coalition force members who were approaching the vehicle and wounding two others.''

It said the woman and the driver also were killed.

Jim Wilkinson, spokesman at U.S. Central Command, said the incident showed the Iraqi leadership was using desperate measures to remain in power.

Earlier this week U.S. officials have said a man posing as a taxi driver staged a suicide attack that killed four soldiers at an Army checkpoint.

``The more desperate the regime gets, the more desperate their tactics become,'' Wilkinson said. ``This is just the latest tragic example.''

[this_ol_patriot]

BREAKING FNC:

WHITE POWDER found along with instructions and atropine from France. Powder in vials.

[this_ol_patriot]

South of Baghdad. Kirian Chetry reported

[Mustang]

FNC via AP reports US military finds 1000's of boxes/viles of "white powder" south of Baghdad. Breaking...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Chem suits also found. They said there were thousands of boxes of the powder.

[Carolina]

Mornin', Quilla.

Per Sky AP is reporting that US Officer claims "sispicious site" found near Baghdad. Boxes of white powder were found at the site along with CW documents.

[pitinkie]

thanks for your answer!

[Green]

I saw that report! they said thousands of boxes that had 3 vials in each box. Vials contained some kind of white powder and instructins written in arabic about how to conduce chemical warfare

[pitinkie]

Thanks!

[Carolina]

``A pregnant female stepped out of the vehicle and began screaming in fear,'' a statement said. ``At this point the civilian vehicle exploded, killing three coalition force members who were approaching the vehicle and wounding two others.''

It said the woman and the driver also were killed.

That is so evil. Grrrrrr.

[pitinkie]

Great pic..I am going ot "steal" it!!!

[TomGuy]

You might want to add this link for Iraqi TV to your list. It is kind of funny to watch:

Iraqi TV
http://www.live.nu/3.ram

[Catspaw]

``A pregnant female stepped out of the vehicle and began screaming in fear,'' a statement said. ``At this point the civilian vehicle exploded, killing three coalition force members who were approaching the vehicle and wounding two others.''

B*stards.

(And I only heard the D in Haditha.)

[Cboldt]

I haven't heard anyone make note of the fact that if we have a fight for the city it will be extremely helicopter intensive.

Mornin' Vermonter. Quiet night on the fronts, based on the posting count.

Indeed, you are right about the uninformed discussion of getting control of the city. The plan for any given building would be to start from the top, so the bad guys can be flushed out "into the street" instead of cornered. I think Baghdad will take some time, and that our actions will be methodical, not overwhelmingly crushing. As for the bigger picture, I like the idea of declaring victory, and setting up an interim government outside of Baghdad.