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GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 03/23/03-Baghdad,trenches,Umm Qasr,Basra,Khormal
DOID, Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 3/23/03 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of Evil

Posted on 03/23/2003 8:06 AM EST by Diogenesis

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/23/03 - Baghdad, burning trenches, Umm Qasr,Basra,Khormal

BREAKING: IRAQI MISSILES SEEN IN BAGHDAD -- Iraqi war crime
BREAKING: Baghdad, Saddam burns trenches- Iraqi war crime
BREAKING: Baghdad, Saddam centers "orphanage" in military complex- Iraqi war crime
BREAKING: Battle of Umm Qasr, 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU)
BREAKING: Umm Qasr - Iraqis, freed by the USA
BREAKING: Battle for Basra, 3/4 Lima company
BREAKING: Basra, Freed Iraqis, welcome the British 2nd Royal Tank Regiment
BREAKING: al Nasiriyah - Battle by US 3rd Army
BREAKING: Safwan -freed Iraqis
BREAKING: al-Ratka oilfield - Iraqi war crime
BREAKING: North Ramala oilfield - Royal16 Air Assault Brigade
BREAKING: Scots Dragoon guards,
BREAKING: 101st Airborne Aviation Brigade,
BREAKING: War in southern Iraq, 3rd Infantry Division.
BREAKING: Chamchamal,
BREAKING: USS Bunker Hill,
BREAKING: USS Harry S. Truman,
BREAKING: USS Kitty Hawk,
BREAKING: USS Milius,
BREAKING: USS Shiloh,
BREAKING: Khormal on the frontline with Iraqi al Qaeda
BREAKING: KC-135 Stratotankers

========= Baghdad =========

BREAKING: WAR CRIME ALERT

CALLING HANS BLIX - IRAQI MISSILES SEEN IN BAGHDAD -

Baghdad, America stands tall to threats from the evil Saddam.

Groundtruthing Update.

Information ministry.

Presidential Compund..

BREAKING: WAR CRIME ALERT

At the presidential palace, a vast area with no ordinary people, a terrorist of
Iraq's ruling Baath party enters an orphanage deliberately kept inside the presidential palace.

BREAKING: WAR CRIME ALERT

SMOKE OVER BAGHDAD from burning oil in trenches.

In Baghdad, Iraqi soldiers hear air traffic. Try to point to Allied aircraft..

========= Tikrit =========

In Tikrit, Baath party officials groundtruth.

In Tikrit, the Fedayin, Saddam's paramilitary volunteer force,
led by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's eldest son Uday.

========= Battle of Umm Qasr =========

In Umm Qasr, heroes attack with Cobras and in the US 15 Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU).

PICTURES YOU MAY NOT SEE ON TV

In Umm Qasr, the Iraqis, freed by the USA, cheer

In Umm Qasr, Marines patrol.

========= Basra =========

The Battle for Basra succeeding.

Near Basra, heroes of the 3/4 Lima company secure a farming area.

PICTURES YOU MAY NOT SEE ON TV

In Basra, Iraq, Iraqis, adults and children welcome the British 2nd Royal Tank Regiment.

In Basra, Iraq, confiscated machine guns.

In Basra, burning Iraqi armored personnel carriers and abandonned Iraqi artillery.

========= al Nasiriyah =========

Near al Nasiriyah, US 3rd Army fire rockets.

========= Safwan =========

In Safwan, southern Iraq, freed Iraqis tear down images of Saddam.

========= southern Iraq =========

Allied forces display weapons seized from Iraqi prisoners of war .

In southern Iraq, heroes everywhere.

In southern Iraq, at the al-Ratka oilfield, at the burning oil wells,
another war crime of the (?dead) Saddam.

From space, satellite image. Strong northeast winds blowing smoke from oil fields
burning from Saddams war crimes.

========= North Ramala oilfield =========

At the North Ramala oilfield, the British Army's 16 Air Assault Brigade keeps watch.

========= Southern Iraq =========

Scots Dragoon guards move into southern Iraq.

In southern Iraq, US troops take control.

In southern Iraq, with the 101st Airborne Aviation Brigade, a group of freed Bedouins.

In southern Iraq, with the 3rd Infantry Division.

========= Khormal =========

In Khormal, northern Iraq, Iraqi soldiers cover up the body of Australian freelance cameraman
Paul Moran, 39, who was murdered in an Islamic attack or premature/inadvertant detonation.
Journalists had gone to the checkpoint to interview refugees, but one of the cars
coming out with the refugees exploded.

In Khormal, an Iraqi Kurd Peshmerga fighter faces the Ansar al-Islam and Islamic Komala
on the frontline with Iraqi al Qaeda..

========= Chamchamal =========

In Chamchamal ~70 klicks west of Sulaymania.

========= Kuwait City =========

North of Kuwait City, Patriot missile batteries protect the Ali al-Salem airbase.
The USA could use SDI instead of whining bleating appeasers..

PICTURES YOU MAY NOT SEE ON TV

In Kuwaiti , a citizen shouts 'Bush is a real man! God save him, his father liberated Kuwait,
and now his son Bush is liberating Iraq.'. Bandito reports that the media walked away from
him to find some ranting Islamic terrorist to interview.

========= Paris =========

In Paris, at Iraq's Interest Section where WMD/ricin etc. are kept
protected by the proterrorist French regime..

========= Gloucestershire =========

In Gloucestershire, England, a. B52 bomber take off hours ago.

========= Fort Bliss =========

In Fort Bliss, Texas, the simulator for the Patriot missile system.

====== TOMAHAWKS =========

A salvo of Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from four U.S. warships and two submarines.

========= USS Bunker Hill =========

On the USS Bunker Hill, the very first Tomahawk missile to be fired into Iraq
from the Gulf at 0525 local time (9:25 p.m. EST, 0225 GMT).

========= USS Harry S. Truman =========

On the USS Harry S. Truman, 2,000-lbs GBU-31 JDAM ordnance and F-14B Tomcat.

========= USS Kitty Hawk =========

On the USS Kitty Hawk, GBU-24 'Bunker Buster' Hard Target Penatrator 2,000 lb bomb
and F/A-18C Hornet.

========= USS Milius =========

On the USS Milius, a Tomahawk Land Attack Missile.

========= USS Shiloh =========

Aboard USS Shiloh, launch of a Tomahawk cruise missile.

========= KC-135 Stratotankers from the 28th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron =========

Somewhere below the magentosphere, KC-135 Stratotankers from the 28th Expeditionary
Air Refueling Squadron, refuel a B-2 stealth bomber, forward deployed with the 40th Air Expeditionary Wing
in the first ever deployment of B-2 bombers. Go Operation Iraqi Freedom.

========= US Patriots in Raleigh =========

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END OF TRANSMISSION 03/23/03 .......... K

The USA and the Armies of Good are freeing the Iraqis. But what does the "media" cover?

1 posted on 03/23/2003 8:06 AM EST by Diogenesis

Let's hear it for America, Freedom, and the Troops.

2 posted on 03/23/2003 8:07 AM EST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
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Love your posts!!!! Great job! Is there anyway I could get on a ping list for all of your "Gotta See This-" threads.

3 posted on 03/23/2003 8:07 AM EST by RussellStevens
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BUMP FOR AMERICA

4 posted on 03/23/2003 8:08 AM EST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.)
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5 posted on 03/23/2003 8:17 AM EST by csvset
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V

6 posted on 03/23/2003 8:28 AM EST by Smile-n-Win
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Thank you, Diogenes! Tia

7 posted on 03/23/2003 8:30 AM EST by tiamat ("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
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***** CONFIRMED *****

IRAQI WOMEN & CHILDREN BEING USED AS HUMAN SHIELDS !!!!!!!!

THE LOWEST OF THE LOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

***** CONFIRMED *****

8 posted on 03/23/2003 8:35 AM EST by LiveFreeOrDie2001 (Justice will be served, and the battle will rage, this BIG DOG will fight when you rattle it's cage.)
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Great work! Definitely need more than a dial up for today's thread!

9 posted on 03/23/2003 8:35 AM EST by bvw
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God bless you, Dio, for all your hard work with these threads.

Have been reading up on the friendly fire incident with the British jet, and also the betrayal grenade attack last night. Intercessors, it's time to step up our prayers for the war.

10 posted on 03/23/2003 8:37 AM EST by ovrtaxt (Mc Carthy was right!)
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Best set of photos and Information I have seen.

11 posted on 03/23/2003 8:39 AM EST by crz
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Bump for FREEDOM!!

I love the pic of the Iraqi guy beating the Saddam mural with his shoe. In middle eastern cultures, gesturing with your shoe bottom is a high insult. You're telling that person that they aren't worth the dirt (and whatever else) on the bottom of your shoes. This guy is making a statement about Saddam that he would have been tortured and executed for just days ago.

12 posted on 03/23/2003 8:39 AM EST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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13 posted on 03/23/2003 8:41 AM EST by 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub (God Bless and Protect our military and our allies military.)
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PING!!!

14 posted on 03/23/2003 8:41 AM EST by InShanghai (I was born on the crest of a wave, and rocked in the cradle of the deep.)
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The photo of the laughing children is simply amazing! They look ecstatic! I'll bet the troops were happy to see that!

On that big bomb photo -- there's a 'warranty' that expired in "94"? Criminy!

As always, I love best the photos of our troops. These are what I look forward to every day. These photos make the war much more comprehensible to me. Thanks, Dio.

15 posted on 03/23/2003 8:47 AM EST by WaterDragon (Playing possum doesn't work against nukes.)
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Thanks. The pictures say it all...bookmarked for permanent reminder.

16 posted on 03/23/2003 8:50 AM EST by Dutchgirl
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An owl, bottom right, sits on a drainage pipe on the USS John S. McCain, as operations specialist Phil Rosas from Colorado Springs, CO, looks out to sea, Sunday March 23, 2003. The flag saying 'Big Bad John' is the ships flag. The U.S. -led coalition continues war missions Sunday, with American forces progressing 150 miles (240 kilometers) into Iraq, halfway to Baghdad. (AP Photo/Adam Butler)

A U.S. Marine from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit throws out a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein after removing it from the command office of the Iraqi Naval base in Az Zubayar, in southern Iraq's desert, Sunday, March 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Royal Marines from 42 Commando wait outside their base in northern Kuwait to be helicoptered to the Al Faw peninsula, southern Iraq, Friday, March 21, 2003. Allied forces had pushed halfway to Baghdad on Sunday, March 23, 2003, unimpeded in their advance by pockets of resistance in the southern cities of Basra and Umm Qasr. (AP Photo/Jon Mills, pool)

Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan holds a news conference at the information ministry in Baghdad Sunday, March 23, 2003. Ramadan lashed out at U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan for withdrawing U.N. peacekeepers between Kuwait andIraq and weapon inspectors. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)   he don't look so good do he now? sucks being you don't it taha!

Iraqi vice president Taha Yassin Ramadan, right, leaves the press office at the ministry of information after adressing a news conference, in Baghdad, Sunday, March 23, 2003. Ramadan lashed out at U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan for withdrawing U.N. peacekeepers between Kuwait andIraq and weapon inspectors. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

U.S. Marines from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit remove a portrait of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from the wall at the Iraqi Naval base in Az Zubayar, in southern Iraq's desert, Sunday, March 23, 2003. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Men from the British Royal Marines 40 Commando check weapons they seized in Al Faw, Southern Iraq, in this Saturday March 22 photo made available Sunday March 23, 2003. The U.S. -led coalition continues war missions Sunday, with American forces progressing 150 miles (240 kilometers) into Iraq, halfway to Baghdad. (AP Photo/Terry Richards/POOL)

17 posted on 03/23/2003 8:50 AM EST by LindaSOG (The issue is not war and peace, rather, how best to preserve our freedom. - Gen. Russell E Dougherty)
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Thank you Diogenesis.

Seeing the smiles on the faces of the (much to thin) children has me thanking GOD that we have finally taken this step.

18 posted on 03/23/2003 8:52 AM EST by Dustbunny
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Beautiful! Waiting patiently for that ridiculously large statue of Saddam to fall.

Reminder: originally from armymarinemom last week, passed on to me by Ragtime Cowgirl:

"I got a phone call from the sand box this morning. My son said that news of rallies to support our troops has reached Kuwait. He asked that I thank everyone involved because support from home means the world to our troops."

19 posted on 03/23/2003 9:04 AM EST by NautiNurse (Usama bin Laden has produced more tapes than Steely Dan)
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US Army special forces sit on top of their Humvees as they secure important ground in the south of the city of Najaf in central Iraq, March 23, 2003. US infantry and engineers secured the ground after heavy gun fires with Iraqi soldiers during the night. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach REUTERS

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Hundreds of protesters turned out for a rally to show support for American troops at Cathedral Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 22,. 2003. The rally included patriotic songs, prayer, speeches, and a color guard. REUTERS/Allen Fredrickson

20 posted on 03/23/2003 9:07 AM EST by InShanghai (I was born on the crest of a wave, and rocked in the cradle of the deep.)
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BTTT!!!!!!!!

21 posted on 03/23/2003 9:11 AM EST by E.G.C.
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Thanks Dio

Bump for our Heroes

22 posted on 03/23/2003 9:23 AM EST by Rightly Biased (<><)
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Wow fantastic report, Thank you!!!

23 posted on 03/23/2003 9:25 AM EST by bentfeather
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A British army soldier shows thumbs-up from the top of a
Challenger tank, as a big convoy of armored vehicle rolls
toward the southern Iraqi town of Basra, March 22, 2003.
U.S. Marines have defeated Iraqi forces in a battle on the
outskirts of Basra on Saturday, taking many prisoners, a
Marine captain said. REUTERS/Oleg Popov THANKS! D

24 posted on 03/23/2003 9:31 AM EST by Magoo (Go Franks!)
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My modem's sizzling - excellent pix. BTTT!

25 posted on 03/23/2003 9:31 AM EST by bwteim
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The picture of the untouched mosque provides a taste of the artistic beauty of Islamic architecture.

It is fashionable on FR to bash Arabic things, but some are quite beautiful and the fact they remain can only be appreciated by the Iraquis..

26 posted on 03/23/2003 9:44 AM EST by bert (Don't Panic !)
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A U.S. soldier was detained Sunday on suspicion of throwing grenades into three tents at a 101st Airborne command center in Kuwait, killing one fellow serviceman and wounding 13, three of them seriously.

27 posted on 03/23/2003 10:18 AM EST by GummyIII
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Awesome, absolutely awesome. Where should everyone go to get great war coverage? Right here at FR by our famous Diogenesis.

The word "Thanks" just doesn't express the gratitude for the great service you provide here. But, thanks!

28 posted on 03/23/2003 10:20 AM EST by gramho12 (God bless our troops)
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Video after grenade attack in Kuwait

29 posted on 03/23/2003 10:23 AM EST by GummyIII
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PICTURES YOU MAY NOT SEE ON TV

In Kuwaiti , a citizen shouts 'Bush is a real man! God save him, his father liberated Kuwait,
and now his son Bush is liberating Iraq.'. Bandito reports that the media walked away from
him to find some ranting Islamic terrorist to interview.

The lame-stream media makes me sick. Thank heaven for the FreeRepublic and Fox. God bless our troops and our President, and thank you, Dio, for all you do!!

30 posted on 03/23/2003 10:24 AM EST by TenthAmendmentChampion
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