Posted on 04/04/2003 1:26:26 AM PST by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 4/4/03 -Raids on Baghdad, Palaces, Airport, STRIKE VIDEOS
BREAKING: Baghdad - Blackout - and crescendo shock and awe BREAKING: Saddam's Presidential Palace - raid BREAKING: Tharthar Palace - raid BREAKING: Chemical Ali''s House - taken BREAKING: Saddam Jessica Lynch International Airport - weapons hot BREAKING: STRIKE VIDEOS :
Apache helicopters, Iraqi tanks, anti-aircraft missile launchers,
meeting complex, An Najaf, artillery launcher, Karbala, communication facility, Ar Rutbah, bunker, Mosul,
armored personnel carrier, trucks and other vehicles, Al Amarah,
surface to air missile facility, fuel tank, radar
========= the ex-Saddam International Airport =========
Coalition forces enter the future Jessica Lynch International Airport.
At Saddam International Airport, the Iraqi Regime Command and Control Facility before and after air strikes.
At Saddam International Airport, the enemy side.
Saddam International Airport by Space Imaging's IKONOS satellite.
========= Just outside Baghdad =========
On the outskirts of Baghdad, the enemy Iraqi Republican Guard.
========= Baghdad =========
In Baghdad, Iraq, except for lights from a hotel generator, there is total darkness.
In Baghdad, more crecendo shock and awe for terrorists who don't get it.
In Baghdad, Iraq, at the Baghdad "International Terrorist Fair"
curiously guards spend a lot of energy guarding what appears to be rubbish..
Near Baghdad, Iraq, at Saddam Hussein's Presidential Palace. US Special Forces raided it .
In Baghdad, Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri
said he doubted the Coalition would even pass Karbala.
The other ruling regime spokeperson also agreed. (yada yada yada).
========= Baghdad burning fuel trenches =========
At the burning fuel trenches, Saddam's evil war crime continues to smoke..
Satellite images of Baghdad show plumes of black oil smoke.
========= Tharthar Palace =========
U.S. special forcesraided Iraq's Tharthar Palace, ~56 miles from Baghdad,
west of Saddam's hometown Tikrit.
========= `Chemical Ali''s House =========
Near Basra, Iraq, at the residence of Saddam Hussain's cousin, Ali Hassan al Majid al Tikriti,
known to his enemies as "Chemical Ali".
IRAQI FREEDOM
GROUND CONTROL MAP
AIR CONTROL MAP
STRIKE VIDEOS :
BREAKING: Strike Videos from DoD
DOWNLOAD THIS: CLOSEUP Apache helicopters striking Iraqi tanks and anti-aircraft missile launchers
Apache helicopters striking Iraqi tanks and anti-aircraft missile launchers - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: CLOSEUP Apache helicopters striking Iraqi tanks and anti-aircraft missile launchers
Apache helicopters striking Iraqi tanks and anti-aircraft missile launchers - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: CLOSEUP Apache helicopters striking Iraqi tanks and anti-aircraft missile launchers
Apache helicopters striking Iraqi tanks and anti-aircraft missile launchers - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: CLOSEUP
an attack on an anti-aircraft artillery position
an attack on an anti-aircraft artillery position - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: CLOSEUP an attack on a meeting complex near An Najaf
an attack on a meeting complex near An Najaf - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: IT BLEW UP REAL GOOD AWARD
an artillery launcher near Karbala is struck
an artillery launcher near Karbala is struck - Download mpg file here
a communication facility near Ar Rutbah
a communication facility near Ar Rutbah - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: IT BLEW UP REAL GOOD AWARD
a bunker near Al Amarah is struck
a bunker near Al Amarah is struck - Download mpg file here
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an armored personnel carrier near Mosul is struck
an armored personnel carrier near Mosul is struck - Download mpg file here
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trucks and other vehicles are struck southeast of Al Amarah
trucks and other vehicles are struck southeast of Al Amarah - Download mpg file here
surface to air missile facility is struck
surface to air missile facility is struck - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: IT BLEW UP REAL GOOD AWARD
A surface to air missile facility is struck
A surface to air missile facility is struck - Download mpg file here
A fuel tank in a revetment is struck
fuel tank in a revetment - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: IT BLEW UP REAL GOOD AWARD
radar site in western Iraq is struck
radar site in western Iraq - Download mpg file here
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END OF TRANSMISSION 4/4/03 .......... K
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Great blowups -- and today closeups, too.
RE: #7These ill-equipped "elite" forces don't even have helmets.
The dude is wearing a helmet liner!
The Republican Guardsman set his helmet liner down to use to collect eggs in the chicken coop just before the air-raid sirens started.
As he hastily picked up and put the helmet liner back on, it picked up a picked up a piece of chickenshit and some feathers.
Enterprising US Marines dub the "elite" Iraqi forces as "The Chickenshit Brigade".
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Saddam's "elite" Chickenshit Brigade
U.S. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Fox Company Gunnery Sergeant Gy
Sgt. Mike Siironen 'The Gunny,' from Duluth, Minnesota, flashes the v-sign as he
walks by an Iraqi mural at a military installation south of Nassiriya, March 31, 2003.
Navy Corpsman Romualdo Humarang, right, assigned to India Co., 3rd Battalion,
7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, talks with Iraqi civilians while on patrol in
Numaniyah, southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 3, 2003.
Medics Kyle Norris of San Clemente, CA, center, and Rashon Kyle of
Oceanside, CA, right, of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit's, Echo company,
treat an Iraqi boy in the city of An Nasiriyah, southern Iraq on Thursday, April. 3,
2003 who suffered from burns 2 months ago.
Kurdish children hold packets of crackers and other items from American MRE'S,
(meals-ready-to-eat) or army rations, they collected at a piece of wasteland where
the garbage of U.S. soldiers with the 173rd Airborne out of Vicenza, Italy,
stationed on the nearby Harir airstrip was dumped Tuesday April 1, 2003.
I was wondering the same thing.
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