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Uday & Qusay Permanently Recalled. Mosul, Iraq. By PsyOp Yesterday, American soldiers assigned the 101st Airborne division entered the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul to conduct a special recall election of Uday and Qusay Hussein, heirs apparent of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Just one year ago Saddam was re-elected by an overwhelming 99% majority of the Iraqi people. In that same election, his sons Uday and Qusay were elected to the Iraqi Senate and put in charge of much of the government’s bureaucracy. Since then, Iraqi citizen had come to regret the decision, if in fact they made...

Marines turn to sandlot ball for recreation Friday, April 18, 2003 BY WAYNE WOOLLEY Star-Ledger Staff AN NUMANIYAH, Iraq -- As the war wound down, Marines here played baseball. The diamond appeared on a hazy afternoon in a vast plot of sand that days earlier had been a scene of frantic effort to load trucks full of artillery shells for a siege on Baghdad that proved to be unnecessary. After nearly a month of running round-the-clock supply convoys to support the 1st Marine Division's push through Iraq, the men and women of the Transportation Support Group suddenly found themselves looking...

'We shoot them down like the morons they are': US general By Lindsay Murdoch Herald Correspondent south of Baghdad April 9 2003, 11:05 AM Hundreds of Muslim fighters, many of them non-Iraqis, were putting up a stronger fight for Baghdad than Iraq's Republican Guard or the regular army, a top United States military officer said yesterday."They stand, they fight, sometimes they run when we engage them," Brigadier-General John Kelly said."But often they run into our machine guns and we shoot them down like the morons they are."General Kelly, assistant commander of the about 20,000-strong 1st Marine Division, said US intelligence indicated...