Small arms fire reported in Baghdad: men are running up and down the riverbank, police cars driving around. Reporter speculates that Iraqis are searching for downed pilots.
Baghdad reporter notes that Iraqis are making very exaggerated claims about causality reports in Baghdad.
More on enormous amount of missles at Basrah in about 40 bunkers. Cruise missles, rockets, anti-shipping mines, warheads. Info comes from AFN embedded reporter with British troops.
It has been reported that Turkey has expelled foriegn journalists from its borders and territory it controls.
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/breaking_3.html
Troops in Baghdad are still firing machine weapons into the water under the bridge over the Tigris, ostensibly at a downed pilot (if I had to guess, I would say that Special Forces were operating within the city already, and perhaps had used the river to move.
More on the deaths of the ITN Journalists
http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24100
Report on conditions in Iraqi town Safwan
http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030323.wsafwan220303/BNStory/Front
Bush, from his weekend in Camp David, reports that the launch site of the SCUDS is almost 100% secure. No word on what he’s talking about, and this contradicts the more recent report from Qatar that no evidence of SCUDS has been found so far.
Not necessarily. Bush could mean the SCUD sites from the last war, which Saddam would need if he was going to try and launch attacks against Israel again.
Right: I believe the general noted this as well, without implying that they had found SCUDS (since the question was whether or not they had).
I got a stupid question. Forgive me for jacking the thread. Don’t we have GPS tracking systems? Why don’t they make soldiers have one of these put under the skin? I am not a fan of these things, but I can see where it would be a good thing in this case.
I don’t think we have any which can do the kind of tracking we need in this situation. AFAIK, the only implantible chips we have are passive devices good for someone flying overhead and checking for the device when it’s out in the open. They’re mainly used for tracking cattle and pets. There’s been some talk of implanting them in people (soldiers and children), but privacy advocates have had the screaming fits when this is brought up. After this and the Elizabeth Smart case, that may change, however. IAC, the units wouldn’t be of much help in this kind of situation. It’d be almost impossible to get a signal through the walls of a building (I know sat phones don’t work inside buildings for the most part, though something like a tent or being near a window will allow you to get a signal through.) so we’d have trouble pinpointing their exact location and if the bad guys knew we were using such technology, they could take steps to prevent the signals from being transmitted (say by transporting the guys in a shielded vehicle or worse, cutting the chips out of the troops).
Perhaps the first evidence troops have discovered of illegal chemical weapons plants?
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/PrinterFull&cid=1048389497622
U.S. Troops Withdraw From Turkish Base
He converted to Islam and did it allegedly because he “rejected to the killing of muslims.” :rolleyes:
[hijack]Sometime between 9/11 and the early stages of the Afghanistan war Time magazine had an essay on colonialism’s scar on the middle eastern people. [/hijack]
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=574&e=1&u=/nm/20030324/wl_nm/iraq_saddam_dc_1
This next story you’ll want to read:
Huge Iraqi Chemical Weapons Factory Found -Fox News
Correction: The suspect converted to Islam and did “it” (perform the grenade attack on fellow US soldiers) because he “rejected to the killing of Muslims.” :rolleyes:
Hussein just gave a speech. We’re trapped and they’re heroes. Yeah, right, asshole.
MSNBC
Iraqi ex-patriot believes that most recent tape was recorded earlier. Points out that two of the generals whom Saddam mentioned by name and thanked for their bravery had surrendered to coalition forces yesterday. Says that Saddam mentioned Umm Qasr simply because any invasion force would of necessity take that city.
CNN
Embedded reporter says that 3-7th Calvary are encountering elite Iraqi troops who are using civilians as human shields. The tactic of firing from behind hostages has slowed progress through the area.
Thanks, Lib. I was reading too fast.
Fox News
Advanced coalition forces are engaged in combat on the outskirts of Baghdad. Genarl who surrendered near Al Najaf was in charge of bio-chem facility and is providing infromation. Iraqi television has shown video of what it calls peasants who say they shot down an American Apache helicopter. Many of the peasants were dressed at least partially in military uniforms. Iraqi Vice-President says that pilots were captured and that Iraqis “might show them on TV and we might not.”
MSNBC
Expert says that video of the helicopter is “suspicious”. There is no sign of damage from ordnance. He suspects that chopper set down after mechanical failure. Russian companies have sold night vision goggles and GPS jamming equipment to Iraqi military, in violation of UN rules and resolutions. Embedded reporter says that today’s mission for his division is expected to encounter “extremely heavy resistance”, but will not divulge either the location or the nature of the mission.
The US military have confirmed that a chopper has been downed about 100km south of Baghdad. Other Apaches have been damaged, including one which lost an engine to a RPG.
-Oli
Fox News
Centcom confirms that one Apache has been lost. More than 2,000 sorties were flown yesterday. Wounded American soldiers, including the 14 injured in the grenade attack at 101st, have arrived at Ramstein Airforce Base in Germany. Iraqi Defense Minister promises that prisoners of war will not be harmed.