***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 25 - LIVE THREAD***

Everywhere! | 13 APR 03 - Palm Sunday | An.American.Expatriate

[GOPyouth]

looks like things are dead tonight.

[null and void]

Moving On To Next Thread ... ***Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - Day 26 - LIVE THREAD***

[Cboldt]

Event and Link Collection : April 13, 2003

Times are Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

• The Beeb's news at a glance <-- Link (daily summaries here)
• CENTCOM's News Releases <-- Link (daily summaries here too)
• Marines find 6 or 7 POW's north of Samarrah (south of Tikrit) <-- Link
  NBC reporting 5 are from the 107th, two are helo pilots (8:01 AM)
  3rd light Armored Battalion (from Twenty-Nine Palms, California) rescued the missing/POWs
  Families of recovered POWs notified (Reuters 10:29 AM) <-- Link
• Troops find body of missing soldier, in suburb of Baghdad (Knox News Sentinal 9:59 AM) <-- Link
• Saddam's half-brother captured (5 spades - NBC 9:35 AM)
  Kurds capture Saddam's half brother, trying to flee into Syria (FN 9:45 AM)
  Different from 04/11/2003 11:16 PM EDT by Hillarys Gate Cult <-- Link
  
• Four Marines hurt in firefight in southern Baghdad (Reuters 10:36) <-- Link
• France warns US off Syria (Reuters 10:07 AM) <-- Link
• Marines secure files kept by Iraq secret police (CBS 11:58 AM) <-- Link
• Marines engaged in battle in Tikrit (Reuters 12:23 PM) <-- Link
• Remarks from President Bush upon return from Camp David (12:53 PM) <-- Link
• Breaking News ... Jafar Dhira Jafar (nuke chief) in custody (MSNBC 2:20 PM)
• Sniper action near Firdos Square (near Palestine Hotel - Baghdad : FoxNews 5:30 PM) <-- Link
• Battle at Tikrit (Times - UK 5:36 PM) <-- Link

Good Reads

Summary of War : March 20 to Baghdad (Wash Post)
War of mind games and Spec Ops (Newsweek)
Diogenesis' collection of recent pictures

POW and MIA

PRISONERS OF WAR

(+ indicates recovery confirmed)

March 24:

Apache pilots, captured after helicopter downed during a mission:
+ Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 Ronald D. Young, Jr., 26, of Lithia Springs, Ga.
+ Army Chief Warrant Officer 2 David S. Williams, 30, of Orlando, Fla.

March 23:

Members of the 507th Maintenance Company stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas, captured after Iraqi forces ambushed an Army supply convoy around Nasiriyah:
+ Army Spc. Edgar Hernandez, 21, of Mission, Texas,
+ Army Spc. Joseph Hudson, 23, of Alamogordo, N.M.,
+ Army Spc. Shoshana Johnson, 30, of Fort Bliss, Texas,
+ Army Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, of Park City, Kan.,
+ Army Sgt. James Riley, 31, of Pennsauken, N.J.,

DUTY STATUS WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN

March 23:

Missing after his convoy was ambushed in Iraq.
Assigned to the 3rd Combat Support Battalion out of Fort Stewart, Ga.
- Army Sgt. Edward J. Anguiano, 24, of Brownsville, Texas.

Marines missing after being engaged in operations in the outskirts of Nasiriyah in Iraq:
Assigned to the 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade, Camp Lejeune, N.C.
- Marine Sgt. Brendon Reiss, 23, of Casper, Wyo.
- Marine Pfc. Tamario D. Burkett, 21, of Buffalo, N.Y.
- Marine Cpl. Kemaphoom A. Chanawongse, 22, of Waterford, Conn.
- Marine Lance Cpl. Donald J. Cline, Jr., 21, of Washoe, Nev.
o Marine Pvt. Jonathan L. Gifford, 30, of Decatur, Ill. (confirmed dead 11 PM Friday)
- Marine Pvt. Nolen R. Hutchings, 19, of Boiling Springs, S.C.

[prairiebreeze]

Good mooooorning Situation Room! I was out most of the weekend. What blessed news about the recovery of the POW's!! Yippeeee!

Prairie

[mrebel2k]

I need some information. I just saw on the banner across the bottom on CNN - Scott Speicher may have been found..
this is the ONLY thing I've seen... any links ? any info ?

[prairiebreeze]

I need some information. I just saw on the banner across the bottom on CNN - Scott Speicher may have been found.. this is the ONLY thing I've seen... any links ? any info

NO! I haven't seen anything ! Just saw your post, sorry I missed it earlier. Anybody??

Prairie

[mrebel2k]

I know that it will appear that I mis-read or something-there is Nothing on any channels re: this. My mom called to tell me that they had found 18 pow's -kuwaiti maybe.. and that one of them may have been Scott Speicher. These 18 had been missing since the Gulf War. I turned on the tv - all the channels- Nothing. Then I saw it go across the bottom on CNN - one time, no more. It say May have found Scott Speicher. My mom said he heard it several times then they stopped reporting it. That's what I have.

[July 4th]

Pentagon briefing on now. More obscene clothing on Torie Clarke.

[mrebel2k]

Pentagon briefing is on - maybe at the end one of the reporters will ask ? There must be a reason that they have quit reporting on this. Maybe they have been restricted, until he is positively identified. Cause even if he says he is him, it still has to be proven, I would think. Even how weird that sounds. My mom said he was found alive. btw.

[mrebel2k]

banner just said - white house continues to hope scott speicher may be found... very different from where I started. I still have no confirmation about these 18 pow's found either.. the kuwaiti's or iraqi's. I think it's one of those confusing news stories and may not be what I thought.

[mrebel2k]

I am so mad.. I really thought it was going to be another celebratory day. I read too much into it. Or maybe the news lead it that way - you know that happens sometimes with sensationalism. Now we're on to the Syria issue.

[mrebel2k]

I was just reading all of this again.. wow, some good stuff. We made some brilliant observations.. :-)

[amom]

I’ll have to give it a look in a new unit of time. Thanks for the ping. 8D