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[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Retired General Traynor just said on MSNBC the the 8th and 15th Republican Guard have been ordered into Baghdad.

[bootyist-monk]

Definitely something happening on CBS Cam. Sirens. Saw people running in the BG.

[overtaxed_canadian]

Wild raw footage from Reuters:

http://asia.reuters.com/videoJump.jhtml?videoHeadline=Large+Blasts+In+Baghdad+At+Dawn&linkURL=http://reuters.feedroom.com/index.jsp?fr_story=d52446e6aec634a07003a8a19172c0e1c40e3fa6

[Tree of Liberty]

What is this? Nascar?

[Chummy]

I think this may be Tahnir Square. Those revelers zipped to a street to the right, then were quickly back in the rotary. There's also a mosque on the southeast quad of that square.

Umm, why is a rotary called a square?

More deceipt from Saddam, that -- insert expletive worthy of Patton here.

[Mo1]

No .. listen to the sirens .. they go off into the distance .. it's a new group of cars .. take like a pack of 5/6 with them

[Tree of Liberty]

BG?

[Consort]

Traffic flows western style and counterclockwise in the roundabouts as opposed to European style.

[Cultural Jihad]

(background)

[umbagi]

Towed artillery piece, then another military truck just came in from lower left onto the circle. Theirs...

[Franking]

Looks like a "Technical" - pickup (actually looks like a Chevy Avalanche) with a machine gun mounted on the cab.

F

[Chummy]

I'll watch, Drago.

Now there goes a truck like they found with the al Samoud missiles hidden on it.

[atomic conspiracy]

Just spotted one of those arty trucks. Russian 130MM M46, very good weapon if properly used.

[Diddle E. Squat]

Though we haven't heard anything about it, I have a hunch that we are in position to intercept those RG before they can get into Baghdad.

[GOPyouth]

Paris looked like this.

[wolficatZ]

Baghadilly Circus. Send in the clowns.
Reuters feedroom has a closeup of that towed artillery that went by earlier,my guess it's a Soviet designed 85mm AT gun, but can't be sure without a reference.

[goldstategop]

I suspect it'll be taken out if hasn't been already...

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I just thought of something. They have deep trenches of burning oil and miles of underground tunnels. We can solve two problems at the same time.

[Tree of Liberty]

Ah, thank you.

[nicmarlo]

That is not a loop, is it?

No, I don't think so; first of all, I've seen Ahmed and whomever, a few times; the music in the background has gone off, there's a person walking now that I haven't seen before...etc. The clouds formations, i.e., smoke, don't repeat themselves, that I can tell...