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

Welcome to the Situation Room of Operation Iraqi Freedom - LIVE THREAD.

To: eyespysomething

Of course they do, it was just that they were the first terrorists to come into my head. It's like a mecca for every Red-Orientated Organisation in the world.

801 posted on 04/04/2003 6:35:00 AM PST by Big Bad Bob (Britain, America and Israel - United we Stand)

Yes, Ted's practicing his lines for a later report.

802 posted on 04/04/2003 6:35:03 AM PST by weatherFrEaK

Re your post #3.......just another one of those low down American cowboys, huh!

Bless this man and keep him safe.

803 posted on 04/04/2003 6:35:18 AM PST by OldFriend (without the brave, there would be no land of the free)

from another thread. (don't know how to do link)

Reporter Michael Kelly, killed in conflict taking Baghdad Itl airport

solid conservative known to skewer wrongdoers from all sides with his unapologetic wit. Once a week.

Michael Kelly's weekly column often surprises, always informs and never hews to conventional thinking.

On topics as far-ranging as Bosnia, politics, infanticide and affirmative action, Kelly brings a fresh, iconoclastic view to newspaper editorial pages. He is based in his native Washington but his column is distinctly outside the Beltway.

"Writing within the boundaries of conventional political thinking is deeply unsatisfying to readers right now, because the arguments are almost archaic," says Kelly. "The columns I like to read are the ones in which you don't know where the writer is coming from, and you're not quite sure where the writer is going to end up.

In my column, I make my own argument, independent of conventional ideology."

During his award-winning journalism career, Kelly has covered politics, social issues, wars, spot news and has conducted investigations. During the Gulf War, he was one of the few reporters in Baghdad during the first 24 hours of the bombing and was in the first group to reach Kuwait City within hours of its liberation.

Kelly, born in Washington in 1957, grew up in the neighborhood around Capitol Hill. He is the son of former newspaper columnist Thomas Kelly and Marguerite Kelly, who writes the syndicated column, "Family Almanac." After attending District of Columbia schools and graduating from the University of New Hampshire, he landed a job in 1979 with ABC's "Good Morning America," first as a researcher, then as a news booker and associate producer.

He left ABC after four years for his first newspaper job, at The Cincinnati Post, where he worked as a general assignment reporter, a political reporter and an investigative reporter. His work won numerous awards from the Associated Press, Sigma Delta Chi, United Press International, and others.

In 1986, he joined the Baltimore Sun and soon became a Washington correspondent, where he covered the Iran-contra affair and the presidential campaigns of Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis.

Kelly left the Sun to move to Chicago in 1989 and worked as the Midwest stringer for The Boston Globe and wrote articles for GQ magazine, Esquire and Playboy. He covered the Gulf War as a free-lancer for the Globe, GQ and The New Republic in 1990 and 1991.

In the immediate aftermath, he journeyed by foot from Iran into northern Iraq and traveled for nine days through territory held by Kurdish rebels against Iraqi forces to report the Iraq-Kurdish conflict. He also returned to Baghdad to report on life there after defeat.

His dispatches on these subjects for The New Republic won a 1992 National Magazine Award and the 1991 Ed Cunningham Memorial Award from the Overseas Press Club. He expanded on his war reporting in a book, "Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War" (Random House, 1992). "Martyrs' Day" was awarded the 1992 Martha Allbrand award for nonfiction by PEN and was selected by The New York Times as a Notable Book of the year.

Kelly went to work for The New York Times in 1992 as a Washington correspondent and covered the presidential campaigns of Ross Perot and Bill Clinton. The following year he became a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, where he wrote cover stories on President Clinton, Hillary Clinton and David Gergen. He spent the summer of 1994 in the Gaza Strip for a cover story on Yasser Arafat's regime.

He joined The New Yorker in late 1994 as Washington editor and author of the "Letter From Washington" column. He spent the summer of 1995 in Bosnia and Croatia reporting on the fighting there and the following year covered the presidential campaign for the magazine. Just after the election, he became editor of The New Republic and writer of its TRB column. In the fall of 1997 he joined National Journal as a senior writer and started his weekly column for The Washington Post. He is now editor in chief of National Journal and editor of The Atlantic Monthly.

Kelly lives in Boston with his wife Madelyn and two sons, Tom and Jack

804 posted on 04/04/2003 6:35:21 AM PST by DollyCali (Authenticity: To have Arrived !)

Ted trying (over and over) to make a report about destroyed plane. (your flight has been permanently delayed). Back to Baghdad cam.

805 posted on 04/04/2003 6:35:24 AM PST by Poser

Methinks he is in La-LA land.

806 posted on 04/04/2003 6:35:35 AM PST by pitinkie

To: Wyatt's Torch

Great article by Hanson, I hope that we have the guts to pull it off and not let these people off the hook.

In other words, no "new tone" after the fighting stops, President Bush. And, feel free to go after the Axis of Internal Evil (Daschle/Pelosi/Edwards/Byrd...) at the conclusion of this as well.

807 posted on 04/04/2003 6:35:52 AM PST by RobFromGa (Real Americans Support our Troops 100%)

Agggh! Now showing Ted Koppel....

808 posted on 04/04/2003 6:36:04 AM PST by Carolina

OOps my bad .. that was Teddy hairdo not Blather .. stupid Commish bad boy no soup for you!

809 posted on 04/04/2003 6:36:23 AM PST by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)

so I'll do a shot for you when I get home from work tonight.

LOL .. what a trooper

810 posted on 04/04/2003 6:36:37 AM PST by Mo1 (Can I ask the media stupid questions?)

Considering their disinformation minister just said yesterday that the Coalition isn't even within 100 miles of Baghdad, you're right... no wonder the civilians don't believe it.

And didn't SpecOps have a little Field Trip to Chemical Ali's house several days ago? Supposedly his house was empty when they got there. (Or was it empty when they left, I can't remember. ;-) But that might explain why Ali is MIA.

(And how do you all keep up with this thread? It's very slow to post and then scroll back to find where I left off. Is there a trick?)

811 posted on 04/04/2003 6:36:38 AM PST by BagCamAddict

To: reformed_democrat

The dolphin went to get a tattoo.........oh wonderful..lol

812 posted on 04/04/2003 6:36:53 AM PST by OldFriend (without the brave, there would be no land of the free)

If we confirm the WMD existence, they have no more reason to delay using WMD.

Not necessarily. Discovery of WMD will confirm that the regime was lying about it. Other than that, though, I'm not sure that it matters to the Iraqis themselves. But the actual use of WMD's will implicate everyone in that chain of command and make them war criminals. There's a big difference between being a general busted for possessing WMD, and being a general busted for actually using them.

813 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:02 AM PST by XJarhead

Yeah, Rummy warned them again yesterday. Maybe they (US Gov't) know where the WMD's have gone.
Hint: Starts with a S, ends with an A, has a YRI in the middle.

814 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:18 AM PST by eyespysomething (Ummm, well, ummmm)

I agree with you. It's over for Kerry. It was not only the wrong words, I'm wondering if it is a crime??

Wish I could agree, but the press is already giving Mr. Theresa Heinz a pass on this. CBS and CNN already covering for him... ridiculous liberal clymer Bob Schieffer on Larry King last night brushed aside the entire Kerry statement as normal discourse in a political campaign. Unless you raise Hell with every Democratic office holder in your state, Kerry will survive this.

815 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:20 AM PST by mwl1

NTV still has Mad Monica Beret Boy.

816 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:24 AM PST by pitinkie

Britain, America and Israel - United we Stand

You forgot about Australia (which a lot of people tend to do) We've got 2000 troops fighting with your guys.

817 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:38 AM PST by ONA-ASIS (Aussies kick ass and take names!)

To: BagCamAddict

right click and hit refresh...the screen should stay where you were and it will add the new posts...

818 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:50 AM PST by Solson (Terrorists of the world: IGNITE!)

To: BagCamAddict

Getting Dark on the Bagcam .. looks like the lights are still out.

819 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:51 AM PST by commish (Freedom Tastes Sweetest to Those Who Have Fought to Preserve It)

Goodness, were do you live? and I was complaining about Cleveland's weather

820 posted on 04/04/2003 6:37:57 AM PST by DollyCali (Authenticity: To have Arrived !)

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