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

Multiple ^ | April 7, 2003 | Various

[dogbyte12]

there are people still walking around the circle on NTV cam. Casually. Amazing.

[KansasCanadian]

Greg Kelly--HUGE Psy Ops BUMP!

[kcvl]

HILLARY BOOK PAST DUE, PUBLISHER'S ANGST OVER NO MANUSCRIPT, NO TITLE; SENATOR TOOK LARGEST ADVANCE IN HISTORY

http://www.drudgereport.com/hbook.htm

[mrsalty]

BIG BOOMS

[Queen of Excelsior]

Wow that was close!!!!

[Mustang]

FNC..Greg Kelly.. 3rd ID inside down town Baghdad SaddSack Palace.

[commish]

THose last shots were close!

[AlextheWise1]

they must have no antitank capability left. those bradleys are exposed on a riverbank. they shoul dhave been toast 20 minutes ago

[dogbyte12]

the next two were even closer.

[amom]

Did ya hear that sound like a zippo click? Ouch, a little more big stuff and BOOM BOOM!

[SoldiersGirl]

ohhh close and loud
ahmed has to have dirty drawers on now

[mrsalty]

CBS CAMS SUCK

[knak]

Holy Kamoly

[Mo1]

WOW! ... LOUD BOOMS ON BAGCAM

[MEG33]

Greg at the Palace then another to secure. Control of governmental places..and something boomed on cam!

[fellowpatriot]

They must have paid these people to loop around the web cams!

I thought so too, but now I wonder if they were ordered to do it to make it appear as if nothing unusual was happening in the city.

[Dolphy]

Black smoke due to Iraqis lit a new oil fire a little bit ago

I didn't know that, I am listening to two BBC reports, they have said the smoke is rolling at them from the Presidential compound. BBC blathering on how the great a resistance the Iraqi's have mounted...right after they said they were jumping in the river.

[Keith]

am I the only one with a purple CBS web cam picture?

[lavrenti]

Looks like we're going to park our tanks and dare them to fight us.

This is what shock and awe is all about.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

22:14 PST (AP) -- Across the river on the southern tip of the old palace presidential compound on the west bank of the Tigris, fire raged in what used to be an army camp.

There was no sign of any Iraqi troops after a group was seen running northward. Two Iraqi tanks sat motionless as heavy machine gun and light arms fire continued.

Groups of U.S. soldiers moved in the direction where the Iraqi soldiers fled. Members of Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitary fighters prevented journalists from leaving their hotel.

Iraqi troops did not use any mortars or artillery against the American forces.

F-16 fighter jets flew ahead of the U.S. armored column, bombing any tanks or armored personnel carriers along the way.

U.S. troops also fired mortars on key intersections before passing through. Tanks took up positions around key intersections.

Black smoke clogged the air and covered the city.

The stepped-up assault on Baghdad followed a weekend of incursions by U.S. forces in tanks and armored personnel carriers. Troops rolled through streets of the capital "destroying all of the enemy vehicles and personnel with whom they've come in contact," Gen. Peter Pace, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told CNN on Sunday.

"One of the points is to destroy the enemy that we found, and the last two raids have been very, very successful at doing that," he said.