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U.S. says special forces enter palace near Baghdad
Reuters
| 4/03/03
Posted on 04/03/2003 3:12:12 AM PST by kattracks
U.S. says special forces enter palace near Baghdad
AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, April 3 (Reuters) - U.S. special forces entered Iraqi installations near Baghdad overnight, including a palace, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday.
"We are getting the sense that the command and control capabilities continue to be significantly deteriorated," Captain Frank Thorp told CNN television at Central Command in Qatar.
"Just last night special forces in the vicinity of Baghdad were able to go into several important sites, one specifically a palace in the vicinity of Baghdad, where special forces were able to go, go in, take a look and come back out."
He gave no further details. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and other senior figures have many palace compounds in and around the sprawling Iraqi capital. U.S. armoured units were advancing close to the city limits on Thursday.
He added that special forces also succeeded in preventing Iraqi troops blowing up several bridges and a dam.
04/03/03 06:08 ET
TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: battleforbaghdad; iraqifreedom; palace; roadtobaghdad; specialforces; viceisclosing
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posted on
04/03/2003 3:12:12 AM PST
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
We're in a quagmire and we'll lose. <sarcasm
To: kattracks
All your country belong US!
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posted on
04/03/2003 3:15:58 AM PST
by
CaptSkip
To: goldstategop
It's called "the pause that refreshes." The next "quagmire" will be how to administrate Iraq. If GWB sticks to his guns and makes it a USA only problem then that won't be a quagmire either. If he lets the EU and UN in on the game it will be an endless maze of BS. Our victory over the liberal pundits is nearly as satisfying as our military successes.
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posted on
04/03/2003 3:29:39 AM PST
by
Movemout
To: kattracks
I am SO PROUD of the courage and skill of our special forces!
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posted on
04/03/2003 3:42:58 AM PST
by
Right_in_Virginia
(This war is just - and we fight with honor. May God bless our troops.)
To: Right_in_Virginia
You said it !
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posted on
04/03/2003 4:54:35 AM PST
by
happygrl
To: Right_in_Virginia
Especially fighting in this "quagmire".
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posted on
04/03/2003 4:56:31 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(Caesar si viveret, ad remum dareris.)
To: kattracks
The war plan is failinger and failinger. (/illiterate sarcasm)
To: goldstategop
This must be the fiasco of a war that they were discussing in my office.
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posted on
04/03/2003 5:03:23 AM PST
by
Hillary's Lovely Legs
(May all of Saddam's virgins look like Helen Thomas)
To: kattracks
Please tell me there's a good term in terms of disinformation why we're letting this info out. Please don't be the military engaging in the PR war of the day.
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posted on
04/03/2003 5:05:16 AM PST
by
bucephalus
(Info Minister is Possible Lunatic, No?)
To: goldstategop
We're in a quagmire and we'll lose. LOL! We're just having a hard time finding the quagmire, but we know it's there.
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