BREAKING: Looking for Saddam and the remaining Baathists Posted on 10/07/2003 1:15:58 PM PDT by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS-War for Enduring Freedom 10/8/03- Baghdad, Enemy,Freedom +
BREAKING: Looking for Saddam and the remaining Baathists
QUAGMIRE FREE NEWS
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Blackhawks over Baghdad - Looking for Saddam and the remaining Baathists
In Baghdad, at the Central Bank.
At the Tigris River, near downtown Baghdad.
BREAKING:FREEDOM ALERT
In Baghdad, freed by the USA, girls and boys begin
a new education. The girls no longer worry about rape by
Saddam's sons and their toadies.
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FREEDOM ALERT
In Al-Radwaniya, on the periphery of Baghdad, Iraqi girls
no longer aftraid of Baathist terror attend school.
In Baghdad, at a book sale,
In Baghdad, working buses and telecommunications
prove American Media is simply reading off the page of the inaccurate DNC-Quagmire Handbook.
Monday, mobile telephone contracts have been awarded to AsiaCell, Orascom,
and AtherTel for two years [35 companies submitted more than 100 bids.]
In Baghdad, leaving the whiners, terrorists (and American media) behind,
the real contenders and winners rewire, by hand, the telephone system.
In Baghdad, US heroes in Baghdad's Olympic swimming pool,
In Baghdad,new Iraqi dinar banknotes.
In Baghdad, Iraqi women collect salt from a river bed.
In Baghdad, at the al-Doura power plant.
BREAKING:ENEMY ALERT
In Baghdad, the face of some of Saddam' and alQaeda terrorists and others.
In Baghdad, perps taken by US heroes after gunfight.
Freedom restored c/o the USA. Can the Iraqis keep it?
FREEDOM ALERT
In Baghdad, at the Kadhimiya shrine, Iraqi Shiite muslim women
freed by the USA can pray as they want. They used to have to pay Saddam to pray.
at some of their holy sites.
In Baghdad, Iraqi children --freed by the USA and Coalition--
hurl stones at a mural bearing the defaced image of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein
hero of the Baathists and Katie Couric. [We hope he did NOT get to Syria.]
BREAKING: QUISLING (AND WORSE) ALERT
In Baghdad, an abandoned Russian-made SA-2 surface-to-air missile.
This evil puppy was in a Baghdad suburb..
In Baghdad, abandoned missiles and other technology buried.
Were these from France, Russia, China or Germany?
Inquiring American patriots want to know.
========= Logarithmic Spirals Isabel and M51 =========
MATHEMATICS - The Key to the Universe
Logarithmic Spirals Isabel and M51
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Post something about American and Coalition Heroes
Or about what the Media is NOT reporting.
Then spend a few hours today helping for success in the War for Enduring Freedom,
or/and post your thought, missive, picture, thread, analysis, greetings to those serving overseas,
venting, update, correction, observation, or anything else of interest.
END OF TRANSMISSION 10/8/03 
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Sgt. Adam Jensen, from Ft. Wayne, Ind., with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), gives an Iraqi child medicine for a fever Wednesday in Alibah. Medical and civil affairs teams are present to soothe nerves after soldiers conduct weapons searches in villages.
Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Sgt. Adam Jensen, from Ft. Wayne, Ind., with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), examines a shell found during a search operation in Alibah.
Rob Curtis / Military Times staff
Team leader Sgt. William Neal, from Belmont, N.H., watches the pipelines beneath him as a squad from Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment heads out from Qayyarah West Airfield in a UH60 Black Hawk for pipeline aerial patrol Tuesday.
mmmh..wonder what excuse Interpol is having?
From Newsmax April 2003
French Missiles in Iraq
The Pentagon restrictions came after U.S. Army and Australian special forces teams discovered advanced versions of a French-made surface-to-air missile system in Iraq. U.S. Air Force officials are certain that Iraqi French-made Roland missiles downed at least one A-10 "Warthog" attack jet and may have killed two USAF pilots in an F-15E Strike Eagle.
Australian special forces teams working in Iraq’s western desert uncovered 51 Iraqi MiG fighters hidden near an abandoned airfield. The Aussie soldiers also discovered a cache of Roland 2 missiles and a launcher near the hidden MiG jets.
The Australian special forces members were critical to the success in the Iraqi western desert against possible missile attack against Israel.
In addition, U.S. airborne troops from the 101st division recently stumbled onto a French-made Roland 3 missile system, complete with radar, computer and fire control electronics. The French army first deployed the Roland 3 advanced missile in 1995. The Roland 3 unit supplied to Iraq would be a clear violation of the U.N. arms embargo placed on Iraq after the first Gulf War.
French defense ministry officials recently denied that the Roland 3 was supplied to Iraq. However, French defense industry insiders speculated that Iraq might have acquired the Roland 3 unit illegally from "mafia" sources, suggesting that Paris has a problem with black market theft inside advanced military projects.
You, too? Lol! GottaSeeThis is heady stuff.
'Tis a very healthy addiction, imho. (^;
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The mail runners of Iraq
Army News Service | Oct. 7, 2003 | Staff Sgt. Nate Orme
... Eight to 14 truck loads averaging about 4,000 pounds of mail each are filled for delivery daily.
Each morning, drivers and their escorts assemble for a safety briefing before heading out. Briefings are not your typical garden variety. Instead, they are full of real-time warnings, life-saving checklists and harrowing stories of recent accidents and ambushes.
Sgt. 1st Class Charity Pope and 1st Lt. Andre Jones, both in the 547th Transportation Company, a Washington D.C. National Guard unit, plan the missions and brief them to the Army and civilian drivers.
Jones and Pope said the unit has driven over 70,000 miles on 34 missions since their unit took over convoy escort duties in July.
The civilian drivers work for Kellogg, Brown & Root. Most of them Roy Bartmess, are veterans themselves. They’re geared up in bullet-proof vests and Kevlar helmets before driving their commercial tractor-trailers. Each of their trucks are equipped with a satellite phone and e-mail terminal for quick emergency contact while on the road.
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Force protection is now provided by Army transportation units driving gun trucks -- 5-ton trucks modified with M-60 machine-gun mounts -- with a truck in the front, middle and rear of each convoy. Each truck has a driver, assistant driver and a gunner who must stand in the back of each truck on the lookout for trouble.
“I go out almost every day. This mission is highly interesting -- and highly dangerous,”said Sgt. John Flamer, a driver with the 547th.
Two drivers, Spc. Darryl Dent of the 547th and Fred Bryant, a civilian driver, have died since they started making the mail runs. Flamer said his truck was almost hit by an improvised explosive device two weeks ago.
“The road is long, and not a day goes by where I don’t say I’m damn tired. But we still have to forge on,” Spc. James Nielsen of the 515th Transportation Company from Mannheim, Germany, who has been riding for about a month. “I also think it is exciting. It keeps me awake. I’m trying to stay on this as long as possible.”
Bartmess said the civilian drivers and the military escort soldiers have developed a tight bond, even more so since the attacks.
“There were a few rough starts with the gun trucks, but it’s working out real well. They’re with us every day. I respect them a lot,” Bartmess said.
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177, right after the Nagant does fine work and gets slandered
by the FBI Chief and the President.
I don't get much opportunity to read during the week,
if I want to devour a book, it has to be on the weekend.
I didn't start this one 'till Sunday PM which is due to poor planning on your part. ;-)
I'm really liking this book!
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