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U.S. Marines advance unopposed through NE Baghdad
Reuters
| 4/08/03
Posted on 04/08/2003 10:33:45 PM PDT by kattracks
U.S. Marines advance unopposed through NE Baghdad
BAGHDAD, April 9 (Reuters) - Thousands of U.S. Marines moved block by block through Saddam City, a huge urban sprawl in northeast Baghdad, early on Wednesday, continuing to sqeeze out Iraqi resistance in the capital.
Reuters correspondent Sean Maguire, travelling with a unit of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said troops met very little resistance, getting a largely warm reception as they swept the low-income residential district.
Saddam City is home to two to three million Iraqis, mainly from the Shi'ite Muslim majority, who have traditionally been marginalised by the Sunni ruling elite, most lately by President Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated government.
The few local residents on the streets cheered and clapped the U.S. troops. Maguire said he did not hear a shot fired.
U.S. warplanes flew low overhead and Marines laid down a long barrage of U.S. artillery which appeared to be "prep" fire, aimed at clearing a space free of Iraqi soldiers or paramilitary fighters for the advancing American troops. One officer said the methodical pace to the assault was to "destroy remaining pockets of enemy resistance."
In one industrial compound, Marines found 500 rocket-propelled grenades. On Tuesday, the Marines had swept through other parts of east Baghdad, meeting only sporadic resistance from Iraqi fighters.
04/09/03 01:06 ET
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 1mef; baghdad; battleforbaghdad; embeddedreport; iraq; iraqifreedom; marines; saddamcity; usmc; viceisclosing; war; warlist
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:33:45 PM PDT
by
kattracks
To: kattracks
We're making friends as we go along. Quagmire indeed. :)
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:34:51 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(Lara Logan Doesn't Hold A Candle Next To BellyGirl :))
To: goldstategop
With the 1st Mar Div they better be smiling or die like the rest. Semper Fi
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:37:24 PM PDT
by
kellynla
( "C" 1/5 1st Mar Div '69 & '70 An Hoa, Viet Nam Semper Fi)
To: goldstategop
Good news.
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:42:35 PM PDT
by
Shermy
To: kattracks
I have enjoyed playing first person shooter games for a long time. In so many of them, you invade enemy territory and pick up caches of weapons to replenish your own supplies as you go. I always thought this was kind of unrealistic. Now I know that wasn't the half of it. Iraq is an ammo dump.
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posted on
04/08/2003 10:53:19 PM PDT
by
gcruse
(If they truly are God's laws, he can enforce them himself.)
To: kattracks
Saddam City is a primarily Shiite slum of people who moved to Baghdad from the countryside looking for work. Saddam's people are mostly Sunni and have oppressed the residents of that part of Baghdad mercilessly. It should be friendly territory.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:02:40 PM PDT
by
Hugin
To: goldstategop
It's just a terrible plan. Horrible. Ill-conciveed. Just ask Daschle, Kerry, Hitlery! (although THIS sly fox has been laying low lately).
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:19:48 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Open the pod bay door HAL.)
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:20:07 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(I'm a monthly Donor .. You can be one too!)
To: kattracks
troops met very little resistance, getting a largely warm reception as they swept the low-income residential district. Whee doggies! Welcome news, and things seem to truly be coming together as the Iraqi dissidents claimed. I believed them (having known a few in my life) but having the proof is a real treat.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:35:31 PM PDT
by
AFPhys
(((PRAYING for: President Bush & advisors, troops & families, Americans)))
To: gcruse
Ooh Rah !
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:37:10 PM PDT
by
SENTINEL
(Proud USMC Gulf War Grunt !)
To: kattracks; RaceBannon
I am an ex-Squid and historically we battle the jarheads,...
but when the defication hits the rotary occilator...
we all fight as one!
Here is a big bad Marine Green John Basilone bump!!
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:47:29 PM PDT
by
Nitro
To: kattracks; *war_list; W.O.T.
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posted on
04/08/2003 11:49:25 PM PDT
by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Where is Saddam? and where is Tom Daschle?)
To: SENTINEL
LOL Indeed, indeed!
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posted on
04/09/2003 10:16:16 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(If they truly are God's laws, he can enforce them himself.)
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