IRAQ WAR NEWS - opinion "free"

[Craptacular]

MSNBC: The DoD just released the names of 8 soliders who have been moved from the MIA / POW list to "deceased". Either 7 or all 8 were from the maintenance company Jessica Lynch is in. They didn't say it, but I'm guessing their bodies were among the ones found at that hospital.

[tucker342]

Two U.S. task forces stage lightning raid into the heart of Baghdad before withdrawing, U.S. sources say

CNN

[tucker342]

KUWAIT CITY (AP) -- British forces in southern Iraq have found hundreds of boxes containing human remains in a warehouse near Zubayr and are investigating how they got there, military officials said Saturday.

CNN

[tucker342]

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Casting a vastly different picture than the U.S. military, Iraq's Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf Saturday denied reports that U.S. Army and Marine forces were in the Iraqi capital, saying the Americans were playing tricks.

[mrskippy]

Reuters: 10-12 possibly killed in possible friendly fire incident in Northern Iraq. Report was possibly bomb dropped from plane onto convoy. Injured or killed could include Kurd fighters, including a senior leader.

Chemical Ali's home also bombed. Search of the rubble turned up his bodyguard, who is dead.

Coaltion bombers now using "concrete bombs."

[mrskippy]

Originally posted by mrskippy
Reuters: 10-12 possibly killed in possible friendly fire incident in Northern Iraq. Report was possibly bomb dropped from plane onto convoy. Injured or killed could include Kurd fighters, including a senior leader.

17 or 18 Kurds, fighting with the Coalition, were killed in this apparent friendly fire incident/attack.

[tucker342]

CNN Puts the deathtoll at 18 in the friendly fire incident...

also- Convoy of Russian diplomats leaving Baghdad attacked, U.S., Russia confirm

[Ben E Lou]

-- Material found at paramilitary camp in Hindiyah, Iraq, tests positive for chemical-warfare agents in preliminary testing, Pentagon sources tell CNN. Samples being flown to U.S. for confirmation.

[Craptacular]

Posted by SackAttack in smoking gun thread, but I figured I'd add it here:

Troops show symptoms of exposure to nerve agents

[tucker342]

U.S. targets Saddam

• U.S. drops "large amount of ordnance" on neighborhood where Saddam and sons may have been meeting
• U.S. officials don't know who they might have killed in strike, but believe the intelligence was very good
• Attack based in part on "human" intelligence
• Military: B-1 bomber dropped four 2,000-pound GBU 31/32 bombs
• Sources: Blast killed 9 people, wounded 13

CNN

[tucker342]

Coalition planes hit Baath Party HQ, Information Ministry in Baghdad with satellite-guided bombs

CNN

[Craptacular]

Iraqis and U.S troops take down statue of Saddam in downtown "old" Baghdad.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/...ain/index.html

[JonInMiddleGA]

Wednesday afternoon, 330pm or so, Iraqi ambassador to the U.N. tells reporters "The game is over". Prodded for elaboration he said the he meant the war is over.

[tucker342]

• U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld: U.S. forces enter Mosul, 3rd largest Iraqi city, and are "welcomed by the people"
• Warplanes pound Saddam's hometown of Tikrit
• Saddam half-brother's home bombarded by coalition forces
• Oil-rich Kirkut in Kurdish, U.S. control
• Fierce skirmishes continue in Baghdad

CNN

[Ben E Lou]

Marines say would-be suicide bomber thwarted in Baghdad, CNN's Walter Rodgers reports. Details to come.

[Ben E Lou]

Saddam's top scientific advisor, one of the 55 guys on the playing cards, is now in coalition hands. (FOX)

[Ben E Lou]

Coalition weapons experts were called in after preliminary tests indicated traces of nerve agent on warhead found at air base near Kirkuk (CNN)

[RonnieDobbs]

CNNTV - No defense of Tikrit. They appear to be driving around with no problem at all.

[mrskippy]

CNN -- They're going in right now.

[RonnieDobbs]

CNN - CNN convoy fired upon at close range in Tikrit. Everyone appears OK. Amazing stuff. Switch to CNN if you read this this late.

[mrskippy]

CNN - Situation still fluid. Reporter says not out of trouble yet. Another vehicle following that not part of convoy.

[Ben E Lou]

Six U.S. prisoners of war found alive by the U.S. Marines near Tikrit, a military source tells a reporter embedded with the U.S. Army.

[NoMyths]

Originally posted by SkyDog
Coalition weapons experts were called in after preliminary tests indicated traces of nerve agent on warhead found at air base near Kirkuk (CNN)

Second tests are negative for presence of nerve agents: Story Here

[NoMyths]

Seven POWs released by Iraqis to U.S. forces: Story Here

[tucker342]

• Troops flown to Kuwait; Two suffered gunshot wounds
• Battle of Tikrit begins. U.S. forces engage Iraqi troops in the city, according to reporter from National Post of Canada

CNN

[JonInMiddleGA]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Abul Abbas, the leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner Achille Lauro in 1985, has been captured in Baghdad, U.S. officials said Tuesday.

Abbas was taken by American special operations forces during a raid Monday night on the outskirts of the capital city, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20030415/D7QE8D700.html

[Coder]

BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/...og/default.stm

Centcom, Qatar :: Dominic Hughes :: 0540GMT

Abu Abbas was captured in a raid by coalition forces in southern Baghdad on Monday evening.

Abbas is described as the leader of the Palestine Liberation Front, the group that carried out the hijack of the Italian cruise ship the Achille Lauro in 1985 during which a disabled American passenger, Leon Klinghoffer, was shot and his body pushed overboard. US central command says his capture represents another victory in the war against terrorism.

The plans for Abbas are not yet clear. A spokesman merely said that justice will be done. Abbas has been living in Iraq for the last seventeen years, but he's also travelled in the Middle East and the Israeli authorities did allow him to visit Gaza several times in the late 1990s after their security committee concluded he'd renounced violence.

The United States also dropped a warrant for his arrest several years ago but his capture in Iraq is now likely to be used as evidence that Saddam Hussein was supporting terror groups.

[AgPete]

I was listening to the news on the radio on the way back from work and they reported that health clinics had been looted and samples of AIDS, polio and other diseases were now missing. They were broadcasting an anti-American rally in Iraq in which people were claiming the U.S. was only in Iraq for the oil because it was the only thing they had protected from looters, the Iraqi army, etc. They even had a quote from one protestor yelling that now (post Saddam) he would become a suicide bomber if the U.S. didn't leave.

[Ben E Lou]

Time to un-sticky this sucker.

[Anthony]

Time to leave this board, sucker.

[Anthony]

i can't help myself. skydog just lays 'em up and i knock 'em down.