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The FReeper Foxhole Remembers Operation Just Cause - Panama (Dec-1989) - Apr. 10th, 2003
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Posted on 04/10/2003 5:35:09 AM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: GailA
Afternoon GailA.
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posted on
04/10/2003 2:13:03 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(The French are depressed - They're not used to going this long without surrendering to someone)
To: SAMWolf; All
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Thakns for the link, Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
04/10/2003 5:00:06 PM PDT
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SAMWolf
(The French are depressed - They're not used to going this long without surrendering to someone)
To: SAMWolf; AntiJen; SpookBrat; All
Evening Samwolf and everybody! Nice thread.
To: Victoria Delsoul
Evening Victoria, love the Bush Quite. Afghanistan and Iraq learned he meant what he said.
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:03:29 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
(The French are depressed - They're not used to going this long without surrendering to someone)
To: feinswinesuksass; Michael121; cherry_bomb88; SCDogPapa; Mystix; GulfWar1Vet; armymarinemom; ...
FALL IN to the FReeper Foxhole!
To be removed from this list, please send me a blank private reply with "REMOVE" in the subject line! Thanks! Jen
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:24:50 PM PDT
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Jen
(The FReeper Foxhole - Can you dig it?)
To: Victoria Delsoul; SAMWolf
Hi Victoria and Sam, been in bed most of the day with a migraine. Sorry for the late ping.
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:25:07 PM PDT
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Jen
(The FReeper Foxhole - Can you dig it?)
To: SAMWolf
Hi Sam, I wonder what Saddam is thinking now. I guess, he never thought GW was serious.
To: AntiJen
Evening Jen.
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:33:16 PM PDT
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SAMWolf
( French report their casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Chirac got hurt jumping on our bandwagon)
To: SAMWolf
Does anyone know where I can find more detailed info about this campaign? I had an ROTC instructor who was in the 82nd during the invasion and he was put up on murder charges for supposedly killing unarmed PDF soldiers (there were extenuating circumstances, which is why he's not in jail). Does anyone know where I can find such info?
To: Victoria Delsoul
Hopefully he's thinking it's real real hot in hell.
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:35:10 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
( French report their casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Chirac got hurt jumping on our bandwagon)
To: Future Snake Eater
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:41:59 PM PDT
by
SAMWolf
( French report their casualty of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Chirac got hurt jumping on our bandwagon)
To: AntiJen
Remove
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posted on
04/10/2003 7:56:16 PM PDT
by
Sherlock
To: SAMWolf
In May of 1989, Noriega nullified the presidential elections after Guillermo Endara was elected President. This action further contributed to worsening internal conditions as well as international relations. This heightened unrest in the country signaled that a combat scenario might be required after all. Sure this wasn't 1988?
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posted on
04/10/2003 8:01:22 PM PDT
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TxBec
(Tag! You're it!)
nevermind. brain cramp.
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04/10/2003 8:05:55 PM PDT
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TxBec
(Tag! You're it!)
To: SAMWolf
Hopefully he's thinking it's real real hot in hell. That reminds me of John Locke's quote, "Hell is truth seen too late."
Since the war has started, I can't stop watching TV trying to catch up on the news.
To: Victoria Delsoul
At least we all got to see Yasser Arafat quivering in fear by candle light with his trolls from underworld a while back.....now he is irrelivant...but not dead. : (
Today saw Saddams luxury Yacht...burned to a hulk...which still did not deter the Iraqi's from a nautical trip to some extended looting.
You take nothing with you when you leave this world : )
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posted on
04/10/2003 8:23:16 PM PDT
by
Light Speed
(Breaking news.....IRS issues Fatwa's on Evildoers)
To: Sherlock
OK, done.
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posted on
04/10/2003 8:33:23 PM PDT
by
Jen
(The FReeper Foxhole - Can you dig it?)
To: Light Speed
Oh, I haven't seen his yacht yet.
You take nothing with you when you leave this world : )
For sure. Maybe he is dead, who knows.
To: SAMWolf
-Delta in Panama, Operation Just Cause-
The SEAL assault on Patilla Airfield
A U.S. Armored Personnel Carrier and concertina wire form one of several roadblocks set up near the Papal Nunciature, where Manuel Noriega took refuge before leaving to the United States to stand trial.
The first combat use (11 AH-64As) was in operation Just Cause, Panama, in December 1989. 20 Dec 89 AH-64 APACHES fired seven HELLFIRE missiles during Operation Just Cause in Panama. All were direct hits. This was the first combat use of the HELLFIRE Modular Missile System (HMMS).
When the United States invaded the country of Panama on December 20, 1989, Noriega eluded capture by the U.S. military for the next several weeks. Finally, Noriega surrendered to the DEA in Panama and was immediately taken to Miami to answer the indictment. Over the next 21 months, enforcement Group 9 in Miami interviewed hundreds of individuals and reviewed reams of seized papers in the United States and Panama. In September 1991, the drug "Trial of the Century" began.
During the next eight months, over 100 prosecution witnesses, including Carlos Lehder, ex-DEA Administrators Bensinger, Mullen, and Lawn, an ex-Panamanian Attorney General, cartel leader Pepe Cabrera, and others testified at the trial. In supporting the prosecution, the DEA had special agents deployed in 15 countries around the world, including Panama, Colombia, Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, France, and Cuba.
Finally, on April 9,1992, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on eight of the ten counts in the indictment. Noriega, who had become Panama's political leader in 1988 after President Eric Arturo Delvalle was ousted, was convicted on racketeering and cocaine-trafficking charges for protecting Colombian smugglers who had routed drugs through Panama. On July 9,1992, Manuel Noriega was sentenced to 40 years in federal prison.
On April 6, 1998, he failed to overturn his drug trafficking conviction and the 40-year prison sentence it drew. Noriega's appeal contended that the drug cartel had paid $1.25 million to a witness to testify falsely against him, and that the government must be held responsible for the alleged bribe. The U.S. Supreme Court, acting without comment, let stand a ruling that said Noriega received a fair trial. The Noriega case was the most notorious drug trial in U.S. history and demonstrated to the American public the global scope of corruption that accompanied international drug smuggling.
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posted on
04/10/2003 9:27:11 PM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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