***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 19 - LIVE THREAD***

Multiple ^ | April 7, 2003 | Various

[An.American.Expatriate]

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

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

Good Morning.

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[BagCamAddict]

These guys are good.... another side-step of the question of WMD, specifically the question about the guys who had to be decontaminated.

Brooks said "I don't have any knowledge of that report."

So the behind-the-scenes guys know what to tell him and what not to tell him... so that he can answer truthfully by saying "I" don't have any knowledge of that.

Good job General Brooks. Keep it up. :-)

[InShanghai]

I can't believe this! BBC is showing the gold faucets in Saddams loo! I wonder how many Marines took a shower... Ha ha!

[Sacajaweau]

Chemical Ali is dead according to the reports I'm seeing??

Can someone else verify that??

[Cold Heat]

Looks like they have everything but DNA.

[Cboldt]

Chemical Ali is dead -- multiple independent reports, many hours old by now.

[mware]

Did you just hear that git reporter. Since they did not use WMD, doesnt that show they didnt have them?

[Carolina]

USA Today (she stands again for the 3rd day in a row): Can you tell us about what you found in the warehouse? Nerve gas?

A: knows nothing specific about this case....(talking about stuff they have to monitor--Vince deflecting here)

Question about flying members of the IRaqi National Congress into Iraqi--what's the future?

A: our gov't has done work with the INC...I don't want to characterize what's been done with INC...suffice it to say that there are a number of Iraqis who are working for a free Iraq.

Question from Rammesh lookalike: Checkpoints around Baghdad, please comment.

A: Ongoing actions so cannot say exact locations. We want to deny freedom of action just as we have in other parts of Iraq so we know who's moving in and out. We have areas of high degree of control, others just surveillance. Ultimate objective is control over movement in and out of B-dad.

Miami reporter: If they haven't used the WMD now, isn't it reasonable to conclude that they don't have them? *groan*

[Cboldt]

Mpls Post Reporter: The regime hasn't used any Chem/Bio yet. Wouldn't a reasonable person therefore conclude that there are none?

A: Negative.

[Carolina]

I can't believe this! BBC is showing the gold faucets in Saddams loo! I wonder how many Marines took a shower... Ha ha!

I read that a bunch of them used the loo and rifled through stuff taking souvenirs (ashtrays, etc.).

[Carolina]

Question: how is the regime still functioning, what organized resistance?

A: Still areas under regime control (Saddamn City--suburb of Baghdad)...we see where regime can exercise control over military capabilities...these are low level decisions (aha!)...

[Carolina]

Sky News has cut away to Westerners going shopping in the markets...David Chater reporting by phone.

[mware]

This just in on Chemical ALI.

As Coroner I must aver,

I thoroughly examined him.

And he's not only merely dead,

he's really most sincerely dead.

[dsmtoday]

MSNBC website says, "Chemical Ali found dead", as if he slipped in the shower or had a heart attack or something...

[StriperSniper]

taking souvenirs (ashtrays, etc.).

I can't wait to see what shows up on EBAY. ;-)

[dsmtoday]

Just saw a shot from Basra -- a British marine was driving around on a motorcycle!

[An.American.Expatriate]

German Weasles Getting Louder

[mware]

Fox now reporting chemical experts suspect they found sarin gas.

Paging Han Blix, Paging Hans Blix

[Mad Dawgg]

Reports of Possible Serin (sp?) Gas found at storage site as per FOX!

[Carolina]

Question about what was found in palaces? Comment about additional forces arriving?

A: found papers, didn't turn up individuals but information. As to the build up of forces, it was always part of the plan...won't go into where they will be placed...it's not just US forces arriving...

Beeb reporter: Expand on finding leaders, also on SCUDS in the west.

A: Been finding leaders in their homes...sometimes we see them going back to their homes, some to other places...we continue to monitor...we found missile assemblies, we've found missiles...al-Samoud missiles...all are capable of carrying CW...our operations continue...