***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

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[Cboldt]

Does anyone have a serious idea how long it takes for the military to inform next of kin of any injuries?

I'd be guessing. Days I would imagine. You, your family and your son are all in my prayers, for well-being, comfort, and faith.

[Carolina]

*hears some weird chants over the CBS cam* that the end of morning prayers?

We've noticed that the chants precede booms and explosions.

[AppyPappy]

I have Bible Study at 7AM so I have to hit the hay early. I miss all the good stuff.

[eastforker]

This happened about 6 and a half hours ago,I guess the more time that passess the less likely we know.

[Nam Vet]

'Mornin'! We'll do fine I think. Our Father is with us in this for sure. I've been reading comments from the "arab street" and they are a real HOOT! Those idiots have no idea how much El Jazz and the rest of their so-called 'media' lies to them. WMD confirmed found also. CUT THE WORLD OF IDIOTS OFF AT THE KNEES! Gotta love it.

Nam Vet

[InShanghai]

That was filmed at the same studio where we faked the moon landings.

LOL! I also heard the Mars rover was filmed there :)

[AFPhys]

It depends on the situation. It can be as fast as a day or two. On the other hand, special circumstances or difficulty in locating the family can stretch out notification of next of kin for many days at times.

[ztiworoh]

Hey, all, Im checking in today, what's gone on throughout the night, can I get an update???

[Nam Vet]

Welcome home Bro'. You take good care. This has GOT to be good medicine for you.

Nam Vet

[Carolina]

Our guys blowed up a Saddamn statue real good. And they're taking showers in Saddamn's palaces.

[militarypolicetom]

Bear with me I'm learning..... see if the picture is here now

	F14 Tomcat

[A. Morgan]

Tanks .. the tanks are very good :))

[prairiebreeze]

Good mooooorning Situation Room! Wow, over 2000+ posts already! Must have been a busy night!

I've heard we're rolling around Baghdad, they think they have found Chem Ali's body and are waiting for confirmation and something about barrels of bad stuff found and verified at the school. Tremendous air support around Bahgdad too.

Anything else pertinent? I'll try to find the CentCom recap, busy morning in line for me with work today.

Prairie

[AFPhys]

You two, also, would be interested in Howlin's special map at post #1890 I refer to again in post 2582 above.

[glock rocks]

MONDAY April 07, 2003

KIRBY: Iraqi Info Minister a Crackup

By Robert Kirby

Salt Lake Tribune Columnist

    In times like these it is important to remember a bit of advice from George Bernard Shaw: "Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."

    Good thing, because lately I have been getting nearly all my grins from Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. The guy is a scream.

    Every day or so Sahhaf, the Joseph Goebbels of Iraq, appears on television and scoffs at the idea of coalition forces posing any real danger to his country.

    Tidy, eloquent and with just the right amount of patrician outrage, Sahhaf seems entirely believable, though admittedly his cool may have a lot to do with spending most of his day 12 stories below ground.

    "The mercenaries and criminals are nowhere to be found in Iraq," Sahhaf more or less says. "We are defeating them and they are retreating with many, many losses."

    Yet even as CNN carries Sahhaf saying this, a smaller screen shot beside his image shows Bradley fighting vehicles drag racing on the tarmac at Baghdad International Airport.

    "The gangsters are far from Baghdad," Sahhaf vows. "They are somewhere defeated in the vicinity of New York. Curses upon their heads."

    To prove Iraqi invincibility, Sahhaf claims that a villager armed only with a cowbell and a sacred bone relic destroyed dozens of coalition tanks and helicopters.

    If such a battle occurred, it does leave one wondering how it went unnoticed by thousands of free world journalists so desperate for news they will interview an MRE.

    To bolster Sahhaf's claim, Saddam puts in an appearance on "Good Grief, Iraq" and calls on his former subjects to rise up and "strike them with your hands and for your honor."

    Reading from a prepared statement, Saddam says unequivocally that the Republican Guard will prevail and that the Utah Jazz will go on to win the Super Bowl.

    As the coalition grinds into Baghdad, news analysts say Iraqi news broadcasts may become increasingly more delusional, eventually being carried live on Comedy Central.

    Not that war coverage by the rest of the world's media is without its laughs. On Thursday, I watched a CNN reporter carrying a microphone walk up behind a U.S. soldier in the middle of a firefight, tap him on the shoulder, and ask how things were going.

    Then there was Geraldo "Blood & Guts" Rivera sketching out the U.S. war plan in the sand so the rest of us -- including Saddam -- could see what was going on.

    On Friday, military planners hinted that they might just surround Saddam and let him continue to ramble while they go about the business of rebuilding Iraq.

    I really hope so. Left to his own devices, Saddam could end up with his own television series such as "UnReal TV" or "World's Most Dangerous Republican Guard Chases."

    Stranger things have happened. But until then, we will have to settle for a bloated dictator becoming desperate. You can almost envision the end.

    "Strike them, I say. In the name of jihad, pay no attention to American gangsters breaking into the room behind me. They are not really there."

   

[RippleFire]

Last week they had started using recorded chants as air raid alerts.

[Catspaw]

prairie, go back to around 1400--you'll see some funny stuff about Baghdad Bob giving a press conference & Greg Kelly's remarks.

[Cboldt]

Im checking in today, what's gone on throughout the night, can I get an update???

Yessir, because you are speeecial (smile).

• We (3 ID elements) took two presidential palaces in Baghdad
• 3 ID, 2nd Brigade Com unit hit by enemy fire, 2 coalition and 2 reporters dead (early reports)
• Marines are moving west through Baghdad, toward city center
• 3 ID has the Ministry of Information Building
• The statue of Saddam on a horse was blown up by coalition forces
• More credible reports of Chem agents found west of Baghdad
• Basra is "over the hump"

[prairiebreeze]

Oh , I also heard that an enemy missil did strike a coalition communication center of the 3rd ID (Ithink).

Any updates on that story? Casualties?

Prairie

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

thank you!