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Lord Merciless
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Decisive battle looming? With courtesy of CNN, the current situation.
It seems a hell of a battle is drawing up.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:27
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Reuters :
83 soldiers and civilians were killed and 120 injured in an attack on the village Forat(sp?) near the Baghdad Airport.
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Ned
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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:27
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The 7th Cav did have a major battle with the Medina division:
"3rd Squadron 7th Cavalry
The 7th Cavalry Regiment some 12 miles from Baghdad has come under heavy fire this morning, the squadron continues to be the spearhead of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division. It has been reported that Iraqi slodiers were wearing gas masks.
Front Line News
The 7th Cavalry's "Apache troop", some 25 miles from Baghdad, came across an Iraqi anti-aircraft unit. There were three or four guns, 20 millimeter, of Soviet vintage. The 7th Cavalry opened up with tank fire and mortars, took them out and killed probably 20 Iraqis.
North of Karbala and about 50 miles south of Baghdad, units from 7th Cavalry Regiment of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division were engaged in a "knock-down, drag-out" battle with elements of the Republican Guard's Medina Division, a Pentagon official said. The clash began as a "probing action" of Iraqi defenses, and grew into "an all-out battle."
Full Story: CNN
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Apache troop, 7th Cavalry has been inching closer and closer to Baghdad. We can hear shooting all about us, particularly the 25 mm cannon aboard the Bradley fighting vehicles. The 7th Cavalry, along with its parent unit, the 3rd Infantry Division, crossed the Euphrates River. They are not encountering large Republican Guard units.
The Iraqi soldiers would dig small foxholes and small bunkers at intersections on backcountry roads, and firing at the convoys. They are no match for the heavy armored columns. The Iraqis we see are generally driving pickup trucks, or they are riding about in old Soviet Union vintage armored vehicles, which are no match for the armor-piercing shells that the tanks are firing.
This armored column has been under almost constant fire. When first crossing the Euphrates River, it was pretty barren in terms of not much of a civilian population. As we pushed closer to Baghdad, we began to see that the Iraqi population was indeed welcoming the U.S. Army convoy and welcoming them northward.
To the southwest, units from the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division thrust northwards after encircling the Shia shrine city of Karbala, crossing to the eastern bank of the Euphrates and advancing to the outskirts of Baghdad. "
http://www.us7thcavalry.com/ActiveUnits/
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Ned
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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:27
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Clinton's CIA director, Woosley, says we are now fighting WW IV:
"He said the new war is actually against three enemies: the religious rulers of Iran, the "fascists" of Iraq and Syria, and Islamic extremists like al Qaeda."
"As we move toward a new Middle East," Woolsey said, "over the years and, I think, over the decades to come ... we will make a lot of people very nervous."
It will be America's backing of democratic movements throughout the Middle East that will bring about this sense of unease, he said.
"Our response should be, 'good!'" Woolsey said.
Singling out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, he said, "We want you nervous. We want you to realize now, for the fourth time in a hundred years, this country and its allies are on the march and that we are on the side of those whom you -- the Mubaraks, the Saudi Royal family -- most fear: We're on the side of your own people."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/03/sp....war/index.html
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The Mad Monk
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of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:27
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Baghdadis Flee Airport Area After 'Night of Hell'
quote:
Reuters
Friday, April 4, 2003; 3:16 AM
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Residents were fleeing suburbs near Baghdad airport into the city center on Friday, running from what one called a "night of hell" as U.S. forces moved in.
Reuters correspondent Samia Nakhoul watched cars loaded with blankets and possessions on the roof race at high speed up the main highway from the airport toward the city center. In the city center, however, the streets were all but deserted.
"There is a feeling that the war has arrived in Baghdad, everything is deserted," Nakhoul said.
There was little sign of new military preparations, aside from groups of green-uniformed militiamen armed with automatic rifles manning barricades throughout the city.
Most shops were shut and people largely stayed indoors, confused by rumors, not carried on state media, that U.S. troops had seized Saddam International Airport.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...9-2003Apr4.html
edit: what happened to our 'other feeds'?
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The Mad Monk
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of Ice Cream
Mar 2000
time: 23:27
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Al-Sistani Denies Fatwa Not To Resist Invasion
By Abdul Raheem Ali, IOL Staff
CAIRO, April 4 (IslamOnline.net) - Iraq's most senior religious leader denied a Fatwa Thursday, allegedly issued in his name, urging the country's Shia community not to hinder the U.S. and British invading armies.
According to a London-based charity organization – whose board chairman accompanied the British troops in Iraq - Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani – the foremost Shia authority in Iraq – called on Muslims to keep calm, stay at home, not put themselves in danger and not to fight.
However, n a statement signed by the grand Shia cleric, al-Sistani’s office in Najef categorically denied the “alleged Fatwa”.
The Ayatollah, who is 73, has been under house imprisonment at his home in the holy city of Najaf by Saddam Hussein's secret police for almost a decade. He was freed two days ago when his guards fled as U.S. forces advanced on the city.
Al-Khoiy Organization in London, headed by Mohamed al-Khoiy – son of one of the founders of Religious Center in Najef – has claimed that al-Sistani issued a Fatwa urging Iraqi Shia not to resist the U.S.-British forces.
Mohamed Bahr el-Uloum, a Shia cleric explained that the alleged Fatwa could have been issued “to protect the Shia shrines in Najef from being shelled and destroyed by the invasion forces”.
http://www.islam-online.net/English...article02.shtml
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:27
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Reuters :
3 American soldiers and one Iraqi pregnant woman were killed when a suicide car bomb exploded in a road block near Baghdad.
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