*** 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!

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[don-o]

Are the lights back on in Baghdad?

Dude in fatigues reading the newspaper.

[Carolina]

Here's Gen. Brooks' new word: integration.

Basra efforts are effective...led to seizure of 54 SSMs...significant removal of threat to our operations...

[Right_in_Virginia]

Do we know for sure who turned off the lights?

[Carolina]

God bless our Special Ops.! They've been fighting this war (without embeds) for months.

Hear, hear!!

[Green]

don't know...wonder if it is too much to hope that some reporter will ask Gen Brooks

[Carolina]

UK Ministry of Defense claims that Saddamn's guys did it.

Ha, ha, new name for the airport: Baghdad International Airport!

[don-o]

I have not heard.

[Green]

I read earlier on this thread where someone posted that Ollie said we did it during some bombing that occured during the night...but haven't seen or heard that repeated..so I have no idea

[section9]

Mornin' everybody.

Nice to see that we finally control almost all of Saddam International. That was some hard fighting last night.

Looks like some Fedayeen or Pallies got us at a checkpoint out west on the Baghdad-Amman highway.

Renamed the Airport to "Baghdad International". Bummer. I wanted them to rename it in honor of Robert Fisk. My understanding is that we are going to basically slice up Baghdad neighborhood by neighborhood with light infantry. We're going in slow, apparently.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[Carolina]

Gen. Brooks: US has control of roads between B-dad and Tikrit (SH's birthplace).

Weapons cache found in north bank of river...showing video of find....

[An.American.Expatriate]

a1!

[Carolina]

Gen. Brooks just confirmed that it's been renamed.

[TomGuy]

Do we know for sure who turned off the lights?

Last nite, all the mil/gov spokespersons were saying we didn't have anything to do with blackout. However, when Ollie North did a live report after most of the airport was taken, he said the coalition "took down the power grid."

[hoosiermama]

Gottarun BUMP

[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Right_in_Virginia]

Ah...the fog of war.

[prairiebreeze]

Oh geeze. It was a pregnant suicide bomber. Animals.

Prairie

[Right_in_Virginia]

What's an NBC Training School?

[Carolina]

Question about car bombing and the suspicious finds.

A: Vehicle appeared with pregnant woman. Woman killed when car detonated along with some of our own. Suspicious powder will report when we know more. Bottles found (showing video), testing is ongoing. This was a training school.

[don-o]

coalition "took down the power grid."

But, I have Iraq TV streaming. Maybe from some place other than Baghdad?