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GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom
09/18/03-Baghdad,Tikrit,Damascus
Yahoo, AP, Reuters,
and the usual suspects | 9/18/03 | The Armies of Good against the Axis of
Evil
Posted on 09/17/2003 12:47 PM EDT by Diogenesis
GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 09/18/03 - Baghdad, Tikrit, Abu Gharib, Al-Taji, Beirut, Damascus
BREAKING:
Baghdad, BREAKING:
Abu Gharib BREAKING:
Al-Taji BREAKING:
Beirut BREAKING:
Mosul BREAKING:
Syria BREAKING:
Tikrit
QFN [QUAMIRE-FREE NEWS]
========= Tikrit =========
BREAKING:
In Tikrit, Iraq, AMERICAN HEROES deliver medical care
to FREED Iraqis. The
Bedouin children have never seen a doctor.
Iraqi orphans, FREED by the USA.
========= Mosul =========
In Mosul, at the market
BREAKING:
In Mosul, Iraqi policeman qualify then receive a salary.
=========== Al Arabiya ===========
BREAKING:
Arabic television channel Al Arabiya aired an old audio tape
of Saddam. It
convinced noone in Iraq.
========= Abu Gharib prison =========
In Abu Gharib prison, "God Help Me" in Arabic written on a prison door
outside
a chamber of torture used prior to execution by Saddam.
In Abu Gharib prison, one of the gallows for Saddam's inmates.
========= Al-Taji =========
BREAKING:
In Al-Taji, ~18 miles north of Baghdad, US heroes give first aid
to
victims of a small Baathist bomb attack on the highway. The Baathists are
losing.
========= Baghdad =========
FREED IRAQIS
In Baghdad, Iraq, freed Iraqis help deliver relief goods provided by the US.
In Baghdad, freed Iraqis develop capitalism.
In Baghdad, US Commander in Iraq, Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez.
========= Lebanon =========
Hezbollah soldiers observing Israeli forces.
========= Beirut =========
BREAKING: NEW
TERRORIST RELEASE PROPOSED
In Beirut, Hezbollah terrorist Hassan Nasrallah proposes an
exchange of
prisoners between Israel and Hezbollah
which he hopes will also involve
Lebanese, Syrian, Jordanian and Palestinian terrorists
currently held by
Israel.
========= Ein el-Hilweh =========
In Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon, near Sidon, Palestinian terrorists take a break.
========= Lebanon =========
In Lebanon, UN huddle with its ally, the Hezbollah,
near the south
Lebanon town of Naqura.
========= Damascus =========
BREAKING:
In Damascus, Syria, Foreign Minister Faruq al-Shara said
getting rid of
WMD and terrorist activities, including allowing terrorists
to attack US
forces in Iraq, is not a proposal that is "logical and realistic".
In Damascus, President Bashar Assad meets with the
European Commissioner
for External Relations [perhaps
seeking new sites for Iraqi2Syrian WMD?].
In Damascus, Syria, for 30 years students needed military outfits
for
school from the age of twelve years old. Now, consistent with hiding
Iraqi
WMD, the military uniforms are only for home and extracurricular
events.
These are the new PC uniforms for school.
========= Mardin =========
In Mardin, near the border between Turkey and Syria,
next week should
bring removal of mines from the 360-mile border.
========= Pentagon =========
BREAKING:
At the Pentagon, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reported
six
"Americans" and two "British" were taken in their attacks on coalition forces.
<
========= Star swallowing 3 Planets =========
Star swallowing 3 Planets, 20 kiloLY away.
Please spend a few hours today helping for success in the War for Enduring
Freedom,
or/and post your thought, missive, picture, thread, analysis,
greetings to those serving overseas,
venting, update, correction,
observation, or anything else of interest.
END OF TRANSMISSION 09/18/03 .......... K
1 posted on 09/17/2003 12:47 PM EDT by Diogenesis
HEROES AT WORK.
need I say more?
2 posted on 09/17/2003 12:48 PM EDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess
with all of us)
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The master has returned!
Thanks to you and all the folks here at FR
who put these threads together to give us the news. And thanks to the
photographers that go out there in dangerous places to get the pictures.
}:-)4
3 posted on 09/17/2003 12:50 PM EDT by Moose4 (I'm Southern. We've been refighting the
Civil War for 138 years, you think we'll forget 9/11?)
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That should be: Quagmire free News.
Apologies for the spelling error(s).
4 posted on 09/17/2003 12:50 PM EDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess
with all of us)
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That's one tough looking customer. I'd hate to meet her on the wrong side of
an argument.
5 posted on 09/17/2003 12:53 PM EDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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Great work, as usual.
Thanks
6 posted on 09/17/2003 12:56 PM EDT by G.Mason (Lessons of life need not be fatal)
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Cool pictures. Thanks!
7 posted on 09/17/2003 12:57 PM EDT by Prodigal Son
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thanks.
8 posted on 09/17/2003 1:00 PM EDT by Rusty
Shackelford
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Quagmire Free News
BUMP FOR
TRUTH!
9 posted on 09/17/2003 1:00 PM EDT by visualops (Support independent musicians - boycott
the RIAA label! visualops.com)
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Thank you, sir! bump.
10 posted on 09/17/2003 1:01 PM EDT by FreedomPoster (this space intentionally blank)
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Awesome!
Good to see you, man.
11 posted on 09/17/2003 1:01 PM EDT by EternalVigilance
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'Come any closer, and I will shoot this dog poop on your shoes.'
12 posted on 09/17/2003 1:02 PM EDT by SGCOS (LoyalAmerican is a first class clymer.)
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Note the pistol -- stage prop, or does he figure he oughtta be packing?
13 posted on 09/17/2003 1:02 PM EDT by r9etb
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Do you think that particular sidearm looks HUGE on the man? Is he a tiny
fella, or what?
14 posted on 09/17/2003 1:04 PM EDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never
lose a feather!)
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Thanks for the ping.
Is it me, or does Nasrallah loook like he's doing a
hocus pocus trick?
15 posted on 09/17/2003 1:06 PM EDT by Darksheare (Ever try surfing FR while sitting
upside down? Not for the soft of head, sorry DUers.)
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*Bump* for our brave troops doing good work in Iraq. God bless them and the
people of Iraq.
16 posted on 09/17/2003 1:09 PM EDT by Yardstick
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General Sanchez is roughly my height and build.
That would be 5'5" and
lightly built.
The Beretta 92 takes up alot of real estate on someone like
us.
17 posted on 09/17/2003 1:11 PM EDT by Darksheare (Ever try surfing FR while sitting
upside down? Not for the soft of head, sorry DUers.)
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That's what i was thinking - either he's of small stature, or he's carrying
something like a Desert Eagle. I'm sub-average height, myself. 5'-8", but with
big hands and feet.
18 posted on 09/17/2003 1:15 PM EDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never
lose a feather!)
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Grip looks like the grip of a Beretta, so he's roughly shorter than you, more
towards my altitudinal view of the world.
But his hands aren't as small as
mine, so he could use the VHS cassette thick Beretta and get away with it.
I
do hope he kept it well maintained.
In my old unit, we had two that were
rather worn and pretty much fell apart when fired.
19 posted on 09/17/2003 1:27 PM EDT by Darksheare (Ever try surfing FR while sitting
upside down? Not for the soft of head, sorry DUers.)
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You know, it looks like he doesn't have a magazine loaded in that weapon.
Could be a trick of the shadows but it really looks like he doesn't.
20 posted on 09/17/2003 1:30 PM EDT by Prodigal Son
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For those of us who live at the back of beyond...with dial up...the pictures took some time to download..oh, but well worth the wait. I get furious with the alphabet news not reporting the real story from Iraq. Grrrrr. Thank God for the internet to give us the real picture...pun intended. Thanks for sharing the real story.
Red
21 posted on 09/17/2003 1:30 PM EDT by Conservative4Ever (Wm. Wallace did not cry
'diversity' while being disemboweled.)
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Looks like the place that supplied Alladins lamp.
22 posted on 09/17/2003 1:31 PM EDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution
into anything.. Or so they think.)
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Thanks for the post, Dio! It's great to have you back giving us the news our
press censors out!
23 posted on 09/17/2003 1:35 PM EDT by colorado tanker (USA - taking out the world's
trash since 1776)
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That should be: Quagmire free News.
That is too funny, please use it in the future.
Right now, our heroes in Iraq and Afghanistan are breaking all EPA regulations, by draining the swamps and eliminating quagmires. In the process, they are also bringing an endangered species (the lesser bearded jihadist) that much closer to extinction.
The wetlands, the wetlands...............
24 posted on 09/17/2003 1:35 PM EDT by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in groups or whole
armies.....we don't care how we getcha, but we will)
| To 4 |
General Sanchez is roughly my height and build. That would be 5'5" and lightly built. The Beretta 92 takes up alot of real estate on someone like us.
LOL! Me too. I always felt a little bigger, however, with a main battle tank
wrapped around me.
25 posted on 09/17/2003 1:37 PM EDT by colorado tanker (USA - taking out the world's
trash since 1776)
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thanx for bringing the post back.
26 posted on 09/17/2003 1:41 PM EDT by Fyscat
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Note the pistol -- stage prop, or does he figure he oughtta be packing?
You never know. Maybe he just walked up to the podium and announced:
"I am Ricardo Sanchez and I have the fastest 9 Mill in Baghdad!"(in the background we hear that Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone spaghetti western music...)
27 posted on 09/17/2003 1:41 PM EDT by Prodigal Son
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You know, it looks like he doesn't have a magazine loaded in that weapon.
I do believe you are correct. I copied the image and adjusted the "gamma" to
allow seeing pretty well into that shadow, and it still didn't look like there
was a mag in the well. But then the Army tends not to trust the troops with
loaded weapons outside of combat zones, which this is, being Turkey, not Iraq or
Afghanistan. Hopefully he's carrying a few loaded magazines.
28 posted on 09/17/2003 1:42 PM EDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution
into anything.. Or so they think.)
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I think that this is the first time I've ever seen these cowards without
their stocking caps on.
29 posted on 09/17/2003 1:44 PM EDT by A
Horse called War (u gonna meet ur maker soon he b comin 2 town u
hear the horse a comin mercy on ur soul when ur found)
| To 1 |
Note the pistol -- stage prop, or does he figure he oughtta be packing?
I suspect it's standing orders for all personell in the area to be armed, and
he's just setting a good example for the other troops.
30 posted on 09/17/2003 1:45 PM EDT by El Gato (Federal Judges can twist the Constitution
into anything.. Or so they think.)
| To 13 |
That's Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, Commander of the 800th Military
Police Brigade. She was in charge of the media day event held at Abu Ghraib
prison a couple of days ago. That event is what led to the AP story yesterday
about 8 prisoners claiming to be Americans and Brits.
31 posted on 09/17/2003 1:47 PM EDT by HiJinx (The Right person, in the Right place, at
the Right time...)
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which this is, being Turkey, not Iraq
Aye, you're right. I didn't even think about that.
32 posted on 09/17/2003 1:51 PM EDT by Prodigal Son
| To 28 |
Continued prayers for our brave heroes.
Great work Diogenesis!
33 posted on 09/17/2003 1:52 PM EDT by paws_and_whiskers
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If it weren't for the guns, I'd say this is a group if illegals waiting for day jobs on just one of any street corner in America...
34 posted on 09/17/2003 1:52 PM EDT by HiJinx (The Right person, in the Right place, at
the Right time...)
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Who's watching who? Talk about sitting ducks.
35 posted on 09/17/2003 1:57 PM EDT by swheats (Bush....4 more years!)
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My old M119A1 howitzer made up for my lack of height.
"Everything's
better, after a fire mission."
I think I was the fourth shortest in all of
artillery, but I was the shortest I my unit.
36 posted on 09/17/2003 1:59 PM EDT by Darksheare (Ever try surfing FR while sitting
upside down? Not for the soft of head, sorry DUers.)
| To 25 |
I my unit =in my unit.
Changing thoughts mid sentence gets one
no-where.
Ugh!!
37 posted on 09/17/2003 2:00 PM EDT by Darksheare (Ever try surfing FR while sitting
upside down? Not for the soft of head, sorry DUers.)
| To 36 |
Wonder if they are listening to Madonna, Britney, or the Dixie Chicks on that
boom box
38 posted on 09/17/2003 2:00 PM EDT by Quick Shot
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Thanks for the quagmire free news.
It looks like it took you a while
to do, but may I say this is very much appreciated.
39 posted on 09/17/2003 2:01 PM EDT by snooker
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Thank you!
40 posted on 09/17/2003 2:13 PM EDT by Pan_Yans Wife ("Life isn't fair. It's fairer than
death, is all.")
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U.S. troops examine a Humvee vehicle destroyed in a fatal blast near the restive central Iraq (news - web sites) town of Fallujah, September 14, 2003. Sheikh Khaled Saleh, a fiery Iraqi Sunni Muslim cleric, says the young angry men battling U.S. troops in Fallujah are holy warriors who look to Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) as their mentor. 'Although unorganized and without leadership, the Iraqi resistance is a ball of fire in America's face that will bring its end in Iraq,' said the 53-year-old cleric, whose sermons draw thousands in the main Badawi mosque, one of over 70 mosques in the center of Fallujah. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters
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Up to 2,000 foreign fighters bent on harming Americans and other coalition soldiers in Iraq (news - web sites) may have flocked to the Middle East country following its invasion by the United States and Britain
Dr. Rice - "I guess our troop will have 2,000 more targets to take out."
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A U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructor demonstrates how to search suspects in a bomb loaded vehicle during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf.
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Two U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructors demonstrate how to search suspects for weapons during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf.
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Two U.S.-trained Iraqi police instructors demonstrate how things can go wrong when searching for car bombs during a training course for a U.S.-backed, 400-strong police force set up to protect an important Shiite Muslim shrine in Najaf, Iraq (news - web sites) Wednesday Sept. 17, 2003. The building of the force, officially called the 'Shrine Police Force,' was accelerated after the assassination on Aug. 29 of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim outside the shrine of Imam Ali in Najaf
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New Iraqi soldiers listen to an Iraqi instructor during a course at a military camp in Mosul, 400 kms, 250 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites), Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2003
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Joshua Legaspi, 4, of Ewa Beach on Oahu whispers to his father Ryan Legaspi,
27, as his mother Rowena looks on at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay,
Hawaii, September 16, 2003 . Legaspi and 22 other Marines from 4th Force
Reconnaissance Company were activated to serve during the war, along with 28
Marines from 3rd Radio Battalion who all returned after being deployed for more
than seven months in Iraq
41 posted on 09/17/2003 2:19 PM EDT by OXENinFLA
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"Everything's better, after a fire mission."
LOL! Fer shure. We got a lot of respect from the infantry, eh? I'll never
forget one dark night we were on maneuvers and doing a passage of lines through
a dismounted infantry unit. They were supposed to point filtered flashlights at
us so we wouldn't run 'em over. As we rumbled up to the front lines, I never so
so many lights in my life. They had everything turned on.
42 posted on 09/17/2003 2:22 PM EDT by colorado tanker (USA - taking out the world's
trash since 1776)
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