***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 23 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 11 APR 03 | An.American.Expatriate

[mware]

This segment was particularly egerious from CNN.

Then there were the events that were not unreported but that nonetheless still haunt me. A 31-year-old Kuwaiti woman, Asrar Qabandi, was captured by Iraqi secret police occupying her country in 1990 for "crimes," one of which included speaking with CNN on the phone. They beat her daily for two months, forcing her father to watch. In January 1991, on the eve of the American-led offensive, they smashed her skull and tore her body apart limb by limb. A plastic bag containing her body parts was left on the doorstep of her family's home

[piasa]

I think the folks on Fox and friends are confused- the tale that there were UN seals on it was made up by people who aren't even there trying to explain away what the Marines found and saw. Since they know the IAEA left some sealed low grade stuff- not plutonium of course- around way back when, the naysayers are trying to say that what was found was the same stuff, but as far as is known, no one but the soldiers and reporter on site know what was found and everything else is speculation. The IAEA didn't even know there was a big underground facility there- they heard rumors but that's it. So obviously anything that was in storage below they wouldn't know about or be able to seal.

[Carolina]

Wasn't David Kay the US choice to be Chief Inspector but he got nixed by Russia's, China's and France's choice--Hans Blix? He's the one who said yesterday that they didn't find an underground facility there.

[LouisianaJoanof Arc]

How do you do that? Page by page?

[piasa]

Bogd Khan?

[Carolina]

Arrrrggghhh! BBC complaining now about anarchy and why aren't Bush and Blair helping. Beeb Dweeb in Baghdad saying our troops aren't THAT busy, so they really ought to stop the looting.

[The Wizard]

Boos for bill: sounds like legacy to me.....

[TomGuy]

Bagdad Bob's Greatest Quotes website

[TomGuy]

so they really ought to stop the looting

They aren't looting; they are taking the stuff for save keeping to keep someone else from looting it. lol.

[piasa]

I don't know. I wouldn't doubt it.

[Air Force Born]

These are the things, in many cases, that they should have had in the first place, but only the government workers were allowed to have.

[MEG33]

Did you hear Santorum say he and (Gasp) Barbara Boxer are preparing a Syrian accountability bill to hold their feet to the fire over terrorism?

[BagCamAddict]

Sounds like we have a new journalist on the hotel roof. He just drove in from Jordan, passing several US military checkpoints. I didn't hear most of it because some other guy was talking in the foreground. But he mentioned that people are standing on street corners in civilian clothes with RPGs... and that it looked to him like ordinary civilians trying to protect their property from the looters. Then he said "It's like Neighborhood Watch to the X power." LOL

[BagCamAddict]

Sounds like we have a new journalist on the hotel roof. He just drove in from Jordan, passing several US military checkpoints. I didn't hear most of it because some other guy was talking in the foreground. But he mentioned that people are standing on street corners in civilian clothes with RPGs... and that it looked to him like ordinary civilians trying to protect their property from the looters. Then he said "It's like Neighborhood Watch to the X power." LOL

[Lauratealeaf]

The IAEA didn't even know there was a big underground facility there- they heard rumors but that's it. So obviously anything that was in storage below they wouldn't know about or be able to seal.

That is also my take on it. Need coffee to think. Thanks for expressing it so well.

[Lauratealeaf]

That's Steve Carrigan from Fox News Channel.

[mewzilla]

...anything that was in storage below they wouldn't know about or be able to seal.

There are two other choices you know. They knew damn good and well and said nothing. Or they didn't want to know. My money's on either or both of those two choices.

[Lauratealeaf]

Arrrrggghhh! BBC complaining now about anarchy and why aren't Bush and Blair helping. Beeb Dweeb in Baghdad saying our troops aren't THAT busy, so they really ought to stop the looting.

Yes, our troops aren't that busy. Like, give me a break BBC!

[MEG33]

Did not want to know is a given.

[wolf6656]

Turkey is on the slightly side, of the Coaltion of the Willing. They are allowing flyovers and refueling. They have a vested interest in what's going on. My only question in this is as follows. Are the Kurds going to get screwed?
They have maintained relative peace on Iraqs northern borders for 12 years, and prospered on their 13% cut of Oil For Food. They are an ethnic group with a long history. Many Kurds live in Turkey and Iran. They deserve something out of this. The US has played both sides against the middle here, but trouble is coming there.. I doubt the Kurds will sit still without an independant state. Either Turkey or the Kurds will get screwed over this.
Where will we stand on this?