Textbook
The mural:
http://www.newsday.com/media/photo/2003-03/7156056.jpg
(Just for perspective - those are real US Marines in front of it)
I’ve not seen it on any March 27 front pages - though as I type this CNN is showing it again.
The New York Times headline is:
1,000 Paratroopers Open Northern Front
That photo is The New York Posts cover
http://www.nypost.com/images/front032703.gif
(also: my apologies to all for a couple dumbass posts)
Odd thing about that photo is that whoever painted it really has no sense of what a… uh, really large building is. It’s a picture of a mildly small apartment building.
Chem warheads possibly found.
Another take on the mural from CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/26/sprj.irq.mural/index.html
I don’t find this corroborated anywhere outside of CBN right now. Has anyone seen a second source?
Oh man - now all of them look so fake.
Like Beastie Boys:
Yeah, that picture is a hoax methinks.
Nope. Like the “wounded in market” story, I expect it to hit major markets about eight-twelve hours after the embedded reporter, and we’ll see. Frankly, there is no other reporter on the scene. So we have to wait for it to go up and downchannel.
Reports of Iraqi children firing at our troops.
http://newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/story/2379455p-2217701c.html
I wouldn’t exactly call it “newspeak”, as I don’t think there’s any Orwellian misdirection involved. Reporters probably like “firefight” because it’s evocative. It’s really just the post-Vietnam equivalent of “skirmish”. It would be properly applied to a brief, though possibly intense, engagement, where the commitment of forces is lopsided, or light on both sides. If either side commits reinforcements to an engagement, it probably shouldn’t be called a firefight. Obviously, though, there are a lot of potential shades of gray.
I’ve similarly heard the term “collateral damage” referred to as newspeak – a euphemism for “civilian deaths”. While it can be used that way, the term is much broader – referring to anything that you damage other than what you were aiming at. It can even be desirable (for example, destroying a bridge that happens to have enemy troops on it).
A Civil War aficionado described a skirmish as “they shot at each other and ran away”.
CNN’s reporting that there was just a huge explosion in Baghdad. No information as to what the target was, nor what caused the explosion.
Massive Explosions Rock Central Baghdad
Israel on High Alert Against Iraq Strike
U.S. to Add 100,000 Troops to Iraq Force-Officials
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030327/ts_nm/iraq_usa_force_dc&cid=564&ncid=1473
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030327/pl_nm/iraq_usa_dc&cid=615&ncid=1478
Congress Grills Rumsfeld on War Spending
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030327/pl_nm/iraq_usa_cost_dc&cid=615&ncid=1478
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/iraq_un_blix_dc&cid=564&ncid=1478
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/war_battlefield&cid=540&ncid=1478
Iraq Using Urban Strategy for Defense
Iraqi Sees U.S. Encircling Baghdad in 5-10 Days
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030327/wl_nm/iraq_minister_dc&cid=574&ncid=1473
U.S. Force Plans Taking Kirkuk Oil Fields
Top U.S. official: Iraq has executed some POWs
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/27/sprj.irq.pows.executed/index.html
U.S.: Iraqis, not coalition, may have hit market
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/27/sprj.irq.marketplace.bombing/index.html
N.Y. antiwar protesters stage ‘die-in’
http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/27/sprj.irq.antiwar/index.html
An additional 120,000 troops have been called up in the US. The 1st Armoured Division (based in Germany), the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Armoured Cavalry Regiment and the 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment have all been mobilised. The 4th Infantry Division is already en route to the area.
This is a massive deployment. By my reckoning, it will more than double the land firepower currently engaged.
The UK is also likely to send 6,000 more troops, probably based on a battalion or two and supporting arms.
Watching CNN right now, three “middle eastern” men have been arrested in NYC. They were watched crossing the Williamsburg Bridge each with a package. They climbed the superstructure and when they re-emerged, they did not have the packages. Authorities have shut down the bridge in order to find the packages and are currently checking other bridges in NYC as well.
From the AP wire:
That’s what that was, thanks. I hadn’t heard a peep about that.
Good to hear. Did they ever explain what the packages were? Or were they sacks of empties?
From what I hear it sounds like they were a bunch of intoxicated schmucks.
From CNN -
Rumsfeld is calling on Syria and Iran to stop shipping nightvision goggles to Iraq and that if they refuse to do so, their forces who are bringing these supplies into Iraq will be considered military targets.