Posted on 03/22/2003 4:38:06 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/22/03 - Umm Qasr taken, Basra battles, Safwan - Iraqis cheer US liberators,
Al Faw taken, Baghdad - Evil becomes dust, Mosul and Kirkuk - explosions, Convoy
Chamchamal, Kuwait City - Incomings Analyzed, Amazing surrender @ DMZ, STRIKE VIDEO
BREAKING: Umm Qasr taken BREAKING: Basra battles BREAKING: Safwan - Iraqis cheer US liberators BREAKING: Al Faw taken BREAKING: Baghdad - Evil becomes dust BREAKING: Mosul and Kirkuk - explosions BREAKING: Convoy BREAKING: Chamchamal BREAKING: Kuwait City - Incomings Analyzed BREAKING: Amazing surrender @ DMZ BREAKING: STRIKE VIDEO BREAKING: Pictures you won't see on TV
========= Umm Qasr (aka Um Qasser) =========
In Umm Qasr, Marines replaces the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Iraq's main port.
In Umm Qasr, heroes AND Iraqis remove portraits of Saddam.
In Umm Qasr, Marines 'Raiders' during the early stage of taking Umm Qasr.
Marine hero takes injured off of the battlefield. All ok.
========= Az Bayer, Iraq =========
Heroes engage Iraqi soldiers in gunfire at the headquarters of the Iraqi 51st and 32nd mechanized infantry divisions.
More Iraqi officers and soldiers surrender..
========= Basra =========
Near Basra, Iraqi men wave white flags as they surrender. Battle ongoing now.
========= Safwan =========
BREAKING: Pictures you won't see on TV
US hero shares candy with Iraqi boys.
Locals, freed by the USA, cheered and kissed the US Marines and the US Allies
who liberated them.
Iraqi children, freed by the USA, today play in the Mesopotamia marshes.
Heroes guard surrendered Iraqi soldiers.
========= Rmeileh, south in the Gulf port of Basra =========
In Rmeileh, ~650 klicks south of Baghdad.
========= Al Faw =========
British Royal Marines, 40 Commando, help secure the al-Faw oil field
and help the injurded.
Near Al Faw, HMAS ANZAC fires Mk 45 gun as forces take the Al Faw peninsula.
More Iraqi prisoners.
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, buildings of evil where thousands were raped, murdered, tortured,
become dust in the light of Truth, Justice and the American Way.
In Baghdad, Iraq, bridge over Tigris and (ex-) Ministry of Info.
Before:
========= Mosul =========
In Mosul and Kirkuk, explosions.
========= Pictures of the Convoy (Yesterday; no info today to protect our troops - Got that, Peter Jennings? )=========
From Kuwait to Baghdad, hundreds of thousands of heroes in convoy moving to free Iraq.
========= Chamchamal=========
In Chamchamal, Iraqi Kurds are ready to back the USA (unlike the Turks)
as their heroes prepare..
========= Kurdistan =========
Kurdish girls dance around burning tires near the Turkish- Iraqi border.
According to the Kurdish tradition people burn tires against evil spirits
to celebrate the Kurdish New Year (Now Ruz) which began Friday.
========= Ruweished refugee camp =========
At the Ruweished refugee camp near the Jordan-Iraq border.
Humanitarian aid planned by the USA.
The Jordanian Red Crescent runs this and this site may be used to let
Saddam's criminals escape (as the Red Cross did with US money in Afghanistan).
========= Kuwait City =========
In Kuwait City, a piece of a missile that was intercepted by Patriot batteries in Jahra.
Blix lied. Iraq lied. Annan lied. What else is new?
========= Amazing surrender - DMZ =========
Surrendering Iraqi soldiers, waving white flag, surrender to passing journalists.
========= White House =========
At the White House, war council.
THE STRIKE VIDEO
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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/22/03 
.......... K
Ya just gotta love a pretty gal sporting a Dragunov.
BREAKING: CALLING HANS BLIX - NEW, EVEN LARGER, IRAQI MISSILES SEEN IN BAGHDAD
With the right ammo, capable of 1000 meter center of mass man-sized shots. Even with broken-up machine gun ammo, capable of well-placed center of mass hits at 400 meters plus. Still in production in the former USSR and China.
With the right ammo, capable of 1000 meter center of mass man-sized shots. Even with broken-up machine gun ammo, capable of well-placed center of mass hits at 400 meters plus. Still in production in the former USSR and China.
Thanks for the info. I've shot the 30-06 at 500 yards, target was bigger than human COM, but that was with peep sights. 1000 yards would be wonderful. I don't think the AK's 7.62X39 can reach that far accurately. If I recall reading something by Cooper years ago, the effective accurate range of the 7.62X39 was more on the order of 300-400 yards while that same article gave both the .308 and the 30-06 about an 800 yard effective range. I don't recall what the effective range of the .223 was, but I have seen them at 600 yard matches. They were accurate, though I'm not sure how much zip the projectile has at that point. I'm pulling this from my old, weak memory so use the appropriate grain of salt. :)
A U.S. Air Force F-16 is about to be refueled March 22 over Saudi Arabia from a KC-10 Extender tanker plane by Master Sgt. Joe Fenick of Union Beach, N.J. The tanker belongs to the 409th U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Group, based in Burgas, Bulgaria.
Shell casings fall from a U.S. AH-1W Super Cobra helicopter as it fires on Iraqi positions in Umm Qasr, in southern Iraq, on March 22.
British soldiers survey damage at an Iraqi position March 22 as the bodies of two Iraqi soldiers lay in a trench next to a white flag after the British assault on the Al-Faw peninsula in southern Iraq.
A convoy of trucks and amored vehicles of the 101st Airborne Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team prepares to cross into Iraq on Friday.
A U.S. fighter plane takes off Friday night from the USS Harry S. Truman en route to a strike against Iraq.
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