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GOTTA SEE THIS-WarEndur.Freedom 4/4/03-Raids on
Baghdad,Airport,Palaces, STRIKE VIDEOS
DOD, IraqiTV,
Yahoo, AP, Reuters, and the usual suspects | 4/4/03 | The Armies of Good
against the Axis of Evil
Posted on 04/04/2003 4:26 AM EST 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
Special Forces troops rescue American POW
========= 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
DOWNLOAD THIS: CLOSEUP
an armored personnel carrier near Mosul is struck
an armored personnel carrier near Mosul is struck - Download mpg file here
DOWNLOAD THIS: CLOSEUP
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
Praise President Bush and the valiant troops here.
1 posted on 04/04/2003 4:26 AM EST by Diogenesis
DO NOT MISS THESE VIDEOS
Like the pics GRAB THEM, FReepers.
Great blowups -- and today closeups,
too.
2 posted on 04/04/2003 4:28 AM EST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess
with all of us.)
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Night or day, you're the best, my friend!
3 posted on 04/04/2003 4:33 AM EST by EternalVigilance
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Top of the morning to you.
Great pics you posted this week. Thanks
again.
4 posted on 04/04/2003 4:35 AM EST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess
with all of us.)
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Excellent stuff Dio - thanks - I'm off to do some downloads. Please keep up
the unsurpassed job you're doing, those of us who don't watch TV appreciate the
images greatly.
5 posted on 04/04/2003 4:36 AM EST by 11B3 (.308 holes make invisible souls. Belt fed
liberal eraser.)
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These are the "elite" RG troops? They look like ragbag POS losers to me.
6 posted on 04/04/2003 4:39 AM EST by 11B3 (.308 holes make invisible souls. Belt fed
liberal eraser.)
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Forgot to mark the helmet for the FReeper Goofy Iraqi Helmet Collection.
7 posted on 04/04/2003 4:41 AM EST by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess
with all of us.)
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BRAVO...TO ALL THE WORK PUT INTO THIS THREAD!!!!!! AWESOME!
8 posted on 04/04/2003 4:50 AM EST by Lucas1
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9 posted on 04/04/2003 5:17 AM EST by Cindy
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great job....lurk at them, all of them..
10 posted on 04/04/2003 5:39 AM EST by runningbear (Lurkers beware, Freeping is public
opinions based on facts, theories, and news online.......)
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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".
11 posted on 04/04/2003 5:52 AM EST by ppaul
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Oh, wow. You know, I never realized how incredibly POWERFUL our military is.
No wonder Russia, France and Germany are gnashing their teeth and screaming
'stop!' They hate having the world see this display of American resolve and
power.
Each individual in the American military is the absolute best in
the world, BAR NONE.
Say, Diogenesis, why would a regime photographer
take a photo of an Iraqi soldier wearing a helmet with a bullet hole in it, a
tuft of hair blowing through? LOL Did a specops take that photo, do you think?
I worry about our troops. They've been going relentlessly, must be
tired. We must pray for them, each of them.
12 posted on 04/04/2003 5:54 AM EST by WaterDragon (Playing possum doesn't work against
nukes.)
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Another bargain from Sam's Surplus! I really like the one you posted yesterday:
13 posted on 04/04/2003 5:56 AM EST by RippleFire
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CLICK ON THE PIC:
Saddam's "elite" Chickenshit Brigade
14 posted on 04/04/2003 5:58 AM EST by ppaul
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You can what tell from the gun camera footage what type of Special Forces helicopter was used on the Presidential Palace attack. This was the MH-60L. The second image is from an MH-60L attack on a Iraqi SCUD during 1991.
15 posted on 04/04/2003 6:09 AM EST by Tommyjo
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U.S.
Army medics with the 4th Battalion 64th Armored Regiment treat an
Iraqi
prisoner of war suffering from gunshot and shelling wounds on the
outskirts of
Baghdad Thursday, April 3, 2003. The 4-64 crossed the Euphrates
River
Thursday and engaged Iraqi forces near the Iraqi capital.
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.
16 posted on 04/04/2003 6:40 AM EST by BraveMan
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17 posted on 04/04/2003 6:56 AM EST by csvset
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What I'd like to know is who took these photos of the enemy soldiers?
18 posted on 04/04/2003 7:07 AM EST by lsee
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19 posted on 04/04/2003 7:25 AM EST by Oldeconomybuyer (Let's Roll)
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What I'd like to know is who took these photos of the enemy soldiers?
I was wondering the same thing.
20 posted on 04/04/2003 7:27 AM EST by cantfindagoodscreenname (You're unique--just like
everyone else.)
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========= the ex-Saddam International Airport =========
Coalition forces enter the future Jessica Lynch International Airport.
Yes!
Awesome Idea Diogenesis!
Thank you for all your efforts!
21 posted on 04/04/2003 7:43 AM EST by LindaSOG
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Thank you.
22 posted on 04/04/2003 8:04 AM EST by bentfeather
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BTTT!!!!!!!
23 posted on 04/04/2003 8:05 AM EST by E.G.C.
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Wonderful, as always. You're the best, Dio.
24 posted on 04/04/2003 8:09 AM EST by TenthAmendmentChampion (The Coalition forces are
in BadGhag!!)
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Maybe I'm just half-blind, but that looks like a hole in that helmet with the
guy's hair sticking through, not a piece of chicken poo. It almost looks like he
must've gotten that helmet off a buddy that took a piece of shrapnel in his
dome. Yikes.
}:-)4
25 posted on 04/04/2003 8:15 AM EST by Moose4 (Mew havoc, and let loose the kittens of
ZOT!)
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Quagmire 
$;-)
26 posted on 04/04/2003 8:18 AM EST by Joe
Brower (http://www.joebrower.com/)
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Superb! Great job on the videos and pix!Keep 'em coming! Thanks for all your
great efforts to keep the war in focus on FR.
27 posted on 04/04/2003 8:20 AM EST by texson66 (Have YOU thanked a Veteran today? Do it
NOW!)
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Thanks for the ping!
Excellent job as always, Diogenesis ! Thanks !
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping
list!. . .don't be shy. 
28 posted on 04/04/2003 8:21 AM EST by MeeknMing (Bu-bye Saddam! / Check out my Freeper
site !: http://home.attbi.com/~freeper/wsb/index.html)
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I
want to see a strike video on this aircraft.
29 posted on 04/04/2003 8:23 AM EST by Bars4Bill
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self ping...
30 posted on 04/04/2003 8:38 AM EST by TheBattman
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WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!!!!
31 posted on 04/04/2003 8:46 AM EST by happygrl
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These are the "elite?"
32 posted on 04/04/2003 8:50 AM EST by Tennessee_Bob (Dieses sieht wie ein Job nach
Nothosen aus!)
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33 posted on 04/04/2003 8:53 AM EST by 68-69TonkinGulfYatchClub (Have you said Thank You
to a service man or woman today?)
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Does this quagmire have gravitas yet?
34 posted on 04/04/2003 8:57 AM EST by bvw
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Wow, as per usual. The precision of the missiles of the Good is simply
amazing. Thank you D. You and yours have a great weekend....
35 posted on 04/04/2003 9:18 AM EST by eureka! (Bless our Troops and Allies.........)
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And thanks to you too EV for your contributions...
36 posted on 04/04/2003 9:19 AM EST by eureka! (Bless our Troops and Allies.........)
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Excellent, thanks for the ping!!
37 posted on 04/04/2003 9:25 AM EST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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"I want to see a strike video on this aircraft." Would you also like to see a "strike video" on this aircraft?
38 posted on 04/04/2003 9:29 AM EST by Tommyjo
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Iraqi men smiling and waving to the incoming American troops. The Iraqi military has been encouraging the civilians to take up arms and fight American soldiers. The Iraqi civilians are not responding to the crumbling Iraqi government's call to arms.
Staff Sgt. Todd
Morton, 27, of Cohoes, N.Y., looks through documents and maps found after 2nd
platoon, Bravo Company, 3rd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division (Air
Assault) occupy a hastily abandoned residence in An Najaf, Iraq. The unit
searched several buildings turning up uniforms, communication equipment and gas
masks, vehicles , dozens of small and large caliber weapons, rocket-propelled
grenades, U.S. style uniforms and other personal items, as well as uncovering at
least two Russian-made BM21 rocket-launch systems.
Soldiers from the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment hold a position on a
highway leading into Baghdad.
39 posted on 04/04/2003 9:34 AM EST by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
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If that's a UN U2, yes.
40 posted on 04/04/2003 9:35 AM EST by Bars4Bill
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