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Bee · 03-25-2003, 02:31 PM

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Originally posted by Bee
CBS: US using trained dolphins to find (and in some cases destroy) underwater explosives.

Note: not sure if this includes former dolphins like Dan Marino or not.

EagleFan · 03-25-2003, 03:24 PM

Iraqi republican guard dressing as American soldiers, accepting the surrender of Iraqi soldiers and then executing them. That is reportedly going on in and near Basrah (sp?). This has not been confirmed yet, but is being reported.

bosshogg23 · 03-25-2003, 05:12 PM

Pentagon says ongoing fighting near Narjaf might have killed 300 to 500 Iraqi troops, could be largest battle so far.

CNN.com

henry296 · 03-25-2003, 11:20 PM

MSNBC and the AP report that a second soldier has died after the grenade attack on the 101st Airborne at Camp Pendleton in Kuwait.

Todd

astralhaze · 03-26-2003, 02:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by EagleFan
Iraqi republican guard dressing as American soldiers, accepting the surrender of Iraqi soldiers and then executing them. That is reportedly going on in and near Basrah (sp?). This has not been confirmed yet, but is being reported.

British press confirming.

Coder · 03-26-2003, 05:55 AM

U.S. bombs take out a broadcasting tower and shuts off Iraqi TV for 20 minutes before it's up again.

Sky News says up to 15 civilans killed when bomb hits marketplace in Baghdad.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/home/

Ben E Lou · 03-26-2003, 06:43 AM

CNN: Pentagon looking seriously at report that seven U.S. soldiers in an ambushed convoy were killed by Iraqis on Sunday as they got out of their trucks with their hands up, surrendering.

CamEdwards · 03-26-2003, 06:55 AM

Iraqi information ministers say 14 civilians killed in Baghdad market when cruise missiles hit area. US Central Command investigating, not confirming. Reporters say there are two large craters in the area, and a lot of damage.

Republican guard unit with 1000 vehicles said to be headed for Marines in central Iraq.

And in An Nasiriyah, coalition forces took a hospital that was being used as a staging ground for paramilitary forces. They found 3,000 chemical suits, ammo, military uniforms, and a T-55 tank.

Fritz · 03-26-2003, 02:22 PM

NEAR BASRA, Iraq — British forces engaged a column of Iraqi armored vehicles -- tanks and armored personnel carriers -- that filed out of the southern city of Basra late Wednesday, a British military source said.

The source said coalition aircraft as well as ground units were hitting the column, which he estimated at about 120 vehicles.

KWhit · 03-26-2003, 03:39 PM

There is about to be a huge battle south of Baghdad. The Iraqi Republican Guard are sending about 1000 armored vehicles down to meet the US troops.

Fritz · 03-26-2003, 04:34 PM

On Radio:

CBN reports 3ID finds russian made chemical munitions.

Fritz · 03-26-2003, 05:03 PM

173rd Airborne BDE in northern Iraq.

[edit]By paradrop![/edit]

Fritz · 03-26-2003, 10:00 PM

MSNBC says DoD confims two captured rockets are being investigated for possible chem.

Bee · 03-27-2003, 06:38 AM

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Originally posted by KWhit
There is about to be a huge battle south of Baghdad. The Iraqi Republican Guard are sending about 1000 armored vehicles down to meet the US troops.

Some reports are indicating this might just be repositioning under cover of the sandstorms.

Ben E Lou · 03-27-2003, 06:55 AM

CNN: Coalition officials said that Iraqi forces in Najaf and Basra have threatened Iraqis with death if they don't pick up arms against U.S.-led forces. "Iraqi paramilitaries are rounding up children and others from their homes, saying males must fight for the regime or be executed," said Jim Wilkinson, assistant to CentCom leader Tommy Franks. Burridge, the British commander, said the ruling Baath Party militia in Basra is pressuring remnants of the Iraqi army's 51st Division to reoccupy their equipment after intimidating them and by executing some soldiers' families in some instances.

Fritz · 03-27-2003, 08:31 AM

Top U.S. official: Iraq has executed some POWs

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/27/sprj.irq.pows.executed/index.html

Fritz · 03-27-2003, 09:04 AM

Women as shields; Children Fighting

http://newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/story/2379455p-2217701c.html

AgPete · 03-27-2003, 02:32 PM

According to ABC & AP, 11 Marines missing in south Iraq as well as 14 injured.

NoMyths · 03-27-2003, 04:48 PM

First Woman Soldier Lost

Pvt. Jessica Lynch, 19

Excerpt:
"A PRETTY 19-year-old country girl who joined the US Army to escape unemployment was feared to be the first woman soldier to die yesterday.

Supply clerk Jessica was feared dead after five survivors from the ambush were paraded before Iraqi TV cameras in sickening footage beamed around the world on Sunday.

Also shown were the bodies of the other seven members of the 507th Maintenance Co convoy, but Jessica’s parents could not identify her among them.

Her father Greg Lynch said: “The only thing they can tell us is she’s missing."

BishopMVP · 03-27-2003, 08:31 PM

Figured I would post this site here: http://command-post.org It seems to have fairly comprehensive blogging/compiling of articles.

bosshogg23 · 03-27-2003, 09:52 PM

CNN.com says 120,000 more troops headed to war. Doesnt specify as coalition troops or American troops.

mrskippy · 03-28-2003, 12:40 AM

Fox: Iraqi troops seen in chemical suits and gas masks unloading chemical drums from trucks.

CHEMICAL SOLDIER · 03-28-2003, 01:24 PM

Donald Rumsfeld :
Syria and Iran warned of pending mil. actions due to shipping Night Vision Goggles to Iraq during conflict .

CHEMICAL SOLDIER · 03-28-2003, 01:26 PM

NY Times : Today's NY times articles states that Marines almost overun by ''Organized '' Iraqi attack on position .

GrantDawg · 03-28-2003, 10:01 PM

Silkworm missile hits Kuwait city mall. No one is killed.

GrantDawg · 03-28-2003, 11:01 PM

Reuters: Coalition commanders ordering a 4-6 day pause to the advance on Baghdad.

bosshogg23 · 03-28-2003, 11:36 PM

"New York Times reports some Kuwaiti officials said they believed it was an errant American cruise missile that had been fired from the Persian Gulf toward Iraq." In reference to the missile that landed in the Kuwaiti mall.

NY Times quote via CBS News.com

GrantDawg · 03-29-2003, 12:01 AM

Missile was a Chinese "Searsucker" missile, much like a silkworm.

GrantDawg · 03-29-2003, 12:04 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bosshogg23
"New York Times reports some Kuwaiti officials said they believed it was an errant American cruise missile that had been fired from the Persian Gulf toward Iraq." In reference to the missile that landed in the Kuwaiti mall.

NY Times quote via CBS News.com

They found the tail section. It was not a cruise missile.

bosshogg23 · 03-29-2003, 12:05 AM

Glad to hear that GrantDawg.

"Supply lines, under continued assault from Iraqi guerillas, appear to be under duress, with troops running low on food, water and fuel. With some U.S. troops reportedly down to one meal a day, soldiers are calling the 250-mile-long supply lines — a network of roads toward U.S. troops south of Baghdad — "ambush alley."

ABC News

tucker342 · 04-01-2003, 06:43 PM

U.S. POW rescued

MSNBC

tucker342 · 04-01-2003, 06:44 PM

http://www.msnbc.com/news/893911.asp

April 1 — Two Newsday journalists and two freelance photographers who were imprisoned for more than a week in Iraq sent word Tuesday that they had been released unharmed and had left the country. Although they were not physically threatened during their captivity, they were subjected to psychological duress, including death threats by their Iraqi guards.

tucker342 · 04-01-2003, 06:48 PM

The POW is named Jessica Lynch, she was 507th maintenance division that was captured last week. She was unharmed

MSNBC

GrantDawg · 04-01-2003, 09:45 PM

They are reporting that bodies were also found in the same compound with Jessica Lynch.

tucker342 · 04-01-2003, 11:34 PM

U.S. forces start major ground offensive against at least two Republican Guard divisions south of Baghdad

CNN

GrantDawg · 04-01-2003, 11:41 PM

Marines have crossed the Tigris and will be attacking from the East.

tucker342 · 04-02-2003, 07:27 PM

Coalition forces have pummeled Iraq's Republican Guard, leaving two of six divisions ineffective, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, even as they warned that some of the fiercest fighting lies ahead

CNN

Easy Mac · 04-03-2003, 07:20 AM

Blackhawk went down Wednesday, 6 dead, 4 wounded

FoxNews

Also:
German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Wednesday he hoped Saddam Hussein's government would collapse quickly, marking a stark turnaround from Germany's previous opposition to regime change as a goal of the U.S.-led war.

"We hope the regime will collapse as soon as possible and we'll have no further loss of life -- civilians or soldiers," Fischer said before a meeting with his British counterpart, Jack Straw, at a hotel in Berlin's Grunewald suburb.

mrskippy · 04-03-2003, 10:41 AM

Fox News: Islamic clerics in Iraq to issue religious edicts supporting Coalition forces.

mrskippy · 04-03-2003, 10:46 AM

Fox News: Some coaltiion forces now with Baghdad city limits.

mrskippy · 04-03-2003, 11:07 AM

Fox News: Power is completely out in Baghdad.

Fritz · 04-03-2003, 01:56 PM

CNN reports: U.S. attacks Baghdad airport

Bee · 04-03-2003, 03:22 PM

Skynews reporter just reported on CBS that the US has taken control of the Baghdad airport.

Ksyrup · 04-03-2003, 04:20 PM

CNN reports (in breaking news headline) that US intelligence has concluded that tapes of Saddam (presumably all of them) were made before the war started.

tucker342 · 04-03-2003, 07:45 PM

PALESTINE, West Virginia (CNN) -- Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch, rescued early Wednesday from an Iraqi hospital where she was being held prisoner, underwent a successful surgery Thursday on a fractured disc in her back at a hospital in Germany, her parents said.

tucker342 · 04-03-2003, 10:40 PM

Rumsfeld: Several outlying areas of Baghdad captured

CNN

Ben E Lou · 04-04-2003, 05:50 AM

AP: An American officer is saying that the coalition forces have found "thousands of containers, some containing white powder" at an Industrial sight south of Baghdad.

Ben E Lou · 04-04-2003, 06:01 AM

CNN: U.S. officer says American troops find thousands of boxes of unknown white power, nerve gas antidote, and chemical warfare documents at complex south of Baghdad, according to The Associated Press. CNN is working to confirm.

CamEdwards · 04-04-2003, 06:33 AM

AP also reporting 2500 Republican Guards have surrendered between Kut and Baghdad. No confirmation from Central Command yet.

tucker342 · 04-04-2003, 08:05 PM

• Witnesses tell CNN Republican Guard units moving toward Baghdad airport, which U.S. secured Friday
• U.S. says it's bolstering strength defending airport by hundreds of troops

CNN

03-25-2003, 03:24 PM	#202
EagleFan Hall Of Famer Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Mays Landing, NJ USA	Iraqi republican guard dressing as American soldiers, accepting the surrender of Iraqi soldiers and then executing them. That is reportedly going on in and near Basrah (sp?). This has not been confirmed yet, but is being reported. __________________ The EagleFan YouTube Channel - Reactions Soarin' & Scratchin' YouTube Channel - We react to music, videos, TV, we talk, we are planning some field trips Soarin' & Soothin' - Meditation, Relaxation, and Sleep Aid; mental health is important

03-25-2003, 11:20 PM	#204
henry296 College Starter Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Pittsburgh, PA	MSNBC and the AP report that a second soldier has died after the grenade attack on the 101st Airborne at Camp Pendleton in Kuwait. Todd __________________ "It's a great day for hockey" - "Badger" Bob Johnson

03-26-2003, 06:43 AM	#207
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	CNN: Pentagon looking seriously at report that seven U.S. soldiers in an ambushed convoy were killed by Iraqis on Sunday as they got out of their trucks with their hands up, surrendering. __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

03-26-2003, 06:55 AM	#208
CamEdwards Stadium Announcer Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Burke, VA	Iraqi information ministers say 14 civilians killed in Baghdad market when cruise missiles hit area. US Central Command investigating, not confirming. Reporters say there are two large craters in the area, and a lot of damage. Republican guard unit with 1000 vehicles said to be headed for Marines in central Iraq. And in An Nasiriyah, coalition forces took a hospital that was being used as a staging ground for paramilitary forces. They found 3,000 chemical suits, ammo, military uniforms, and a T-55 tank. __________________ I don't want the world. I just want your half.

03-26-2003, 02:22 PM	#209
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	NEAR BASRA, Iraq — British forces engaged a column of Iraqi armored vehicles -- tanks and armored personnel carriers -- that filed out of the southern city of Basra late Wednesday, a British military source said. The source said coalition aircraft as well as ground units were hitting the column, which he estimated at about 120 vehicles. __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

03-25-2003, 05:12 PM	#203
bosshogg23 College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Philly	Pentagon says ongoing fighting near Narjaf might have killed 300 to 500 Iraqi troops, could be largest battle so far. CNN.com

03-26-2003, 05:55 AM	#206
Coder College Prospect Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Gothenburg, Sweden	U.S. bombs take out a broadcasting tower and shuts off Iraqi TV for 20 minutes before it's up again. Sky News says up to 15 civilans killed when bomb hits marketplace in Baghdad. http://www.sky.com/skynews/home/

03-26-2003, 03:39 PM	#210
KWhit Coordinator Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Conyers GA	There is about to be a huge battle south of Baghdad. The Iraqi Republican Guard are sending about 1000 armored vehicles down to meet the US troops. Last edited by KWhit : 03-26-2003 at 03:40 PM.

03-26-2003, 04:34 PM	#211
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	On Radio: CBN reports 3ID finds russian made chemical munitions. __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

03-26-2003, 05:03 PM	#212
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	173rd Airborne BDE in northern Iraq. [edit]By paradrop![/edit] __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster Last edited by Fritz : 03-26-2003 at 05:04 PM.

03-26-2003, 10:00 PM	#213
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	MSNBC says DoD confims two captured rockets are being investigated for possible chem. __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

03-27-2003, 06:55 AM	#215
Ben E Lou Morgado's Favorite Forum Fascist Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC	CNN: Coalition officials said that Iraqi forces in Najaf and Basra have threatened Iraqis with death if they don't pick up arms against U.S.-led forces. "Iraqi paramilitaries are rounding up children and others from their homes, saying males must fight for the regime or be executed," said Jim Wilkinson, assistant to CentCom leader Tommy Franks. Burridge, the British commander, said the ruling Baath Party militia in Basra is pressuring remnants of the Iraqi army's 51st Division to reoccupy their equipment after intimidating them and by executing some soldiers' families in some instances. __________________ The media don't understand the kinds of problems and pressures 54 million come wit'!

03-27-2003, 08:31 AM	#216
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	Top U.S. official: Iraq has executed some POWs http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/27/sprj.irq.pows.executed/index.html __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

03-27-2003, 09:04 AM	#217
Fritz Lethargic Hooligan Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: hello kitty found my wallet at a big tent revival and returned it with all the cash missing	Women as shields; Children Fighting http://newsobserver.com/nc24hour/ncnews/story/2379455p-2217701c.html __________________ donkey, donkey, walk a little faster

03-27-2003, 02:32 PM	#218
AgPete College Prospect Join Date: Jan 2001	According to ABC & AP, 11 Marines missing in south Iraq as well as 14 injured. __________________ Click here for the FOF2004 World Football League Dynasty (WFL) - Football Goes Global! OOTP5 Psychology Experiment (Incomplete but fun read for MLB fans.) The FOFC All-Time NFL Team - Voted on by FOFC members.

03-27-2003, 04:48 PM	#219
NoMyths Poet in Residence Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Charleston, SC	First Woman Soldier Lost Pvt. Jessica Lynch, 19 Excerpt: "A PRETTY 19-year-old country girl who joined the US Army to escape unemployment was feared to be the first woman soldier to die yesterday. Supply clerk Jessica was feared dead after five survivors from the ambush were paraded before Iraqi TV cameras in sickening footage beamed around the world on Sunday. Also shown were the bodies of the other seven members of the 507th Maintenance Co convoy, but Jessica’s parents could not identify her among them. Her father Greg Lynch said: “The only thing they can tell us is she’s missing." Last edited by NoMyths : 03-27-2003 at 04:50 PM.

03-27-2003, 08:31 PM	#220
BishopMVP Coordinator Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Concord, MA/UMass	Figured I would post this site here: http://command-post.org It seems to have fairly comprehensive blogging/compiling of articles.

03-27-2003, 09:52 PM	#221
bosshogg23 College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Philly	CNN.com says 120,000 more troops headed to war. Doesnt specify as coalition troops or American troops.

03-28-2003, 12:40 AM	#222
mrskippy Banned Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: California	Fox: Iraqi troops seen in chemical suits and gas masks unloading chemical drums from trucks.

03-28-2003, 01:24 PM	#223
CHEMICAL SOLDIER College Starter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Henderson, Nevada	Donald Rumsfeld : Syria and Iran warned of pending mil. actions due to shipping Night Vision Goggles to Iraq during conflict . __________________ Toujour Pret

03-28-2003, 01:26 PM	#224
CHEMICAL SOLDIER College Starter Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Henderson, Nevada	NY Times : Today's NY times articles states that Marines almost overun by ''Organized '' Iraqi attack on position . __________________ Toujour Pret

03-28-2003, 10:01 PM	#225
GrantDawg World Champion Mis-speller Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Covington, Ga.	Silkworm missile hits Kuwait city mall. No one is killed.

03-28-2003, 11:01 PM	#226
GrantDawg World Champion Mis-speller Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Covington, Ga.	Reuters: Coalition commanders ordering a 4-6 day pause to the advance on Baghdad.

03-28-2003, 11:36 PM	#227
bosshogg23 College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Philly	"New York Times reports some Kuwaiti officials said they believed it was an errant American cruise missile that had been fired from the Persian Gulf toward Iraq." In reference to the missile that landed in the Kuwaiti mall. NY Times quote via CBS News.com

03-29-2003, 12:01 AM	#228
GrantDawg World Champion Mis-speller Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Covington, Ga.	Missile was a Chinese "Searsucker" missile, much like a silkworm.

03-29-2003, 12:05 AM	#230
bosshogg23 College Benchwarmer Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Philly	Glad to hear that GrantDawg. "Supply lines, under continued assault from Iraqi guerillas, appear to be under duress, with troops running low on food, water and fuel. With some U.S. troops reportedly down to one meal a day, soldiers are calling the 250-mile-long supply lines — a network of roads toward U.S. troops south of Baghdad — "ambush alley." ABC News

04-01-2003, 06:43 PM	#231
tucker342 Pro Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Iowa City, IA	U.S. POW rescued MSNBC

04-01-2003, 06:44 PM	#232
tucker342 Pro Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Iowa City, IA	http://www.msnbc.com/news/893911.asp April 1 — Two Newsday journalists and two freelance photographers who were imprisoned for more than a week in Iraq sent word Tuesday that they had been released unharmed and had left the country. Although they were not physically threatened during their captivity, they were subjected to psychological duress, including death threats by their Iraqi guards.

04-01-2003, 06:48 PM	#233
tucker342 Pro Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Iowa City, IA	The POW is named Jessica Lynch, she was 507th maintenance division that was captured last week. She was unharmed MSNBC

04-01-2003, 09:45 PM	#234
GrantDawg World Champion Mis-speller Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Covington, Ga.	They are reporting that bodies were also found in the same compound with Jessica Lynch.

04-01-2003, 11:34 PM	#235
tucker342 Pro Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Iowa City, IA	U.S. forces start major ground offensive against at least two Republican Guard divisions south of Baghdad CNN

04-01-2003, 11:41 PM	#236
GrantDawg World Champion Mis-speller Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Covington, Ga.	Marines have crossed the Tigris and will be attacking from the East.

04-02-2003, 07:27 PM	#237
tucker342 Pro Starter Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Iowa City, IA	Coalition forces have pummeled Iraq's Republican Guard, leaving two of six divisions ineffective, Pentagon officials said Wednesday, even as they warned that some of the fiercest fighting lies ahead CNN

04-03-2003, 07:20 AM	#238
Easy Mac Registered User Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Here	Blackhawk went down Wednesday, 6 dead, 4 wounded FoxNews Also: German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said Wednesday he hoped Saddam Hussein's government would collapse quickly, marking a stark turnaround from Germany's previous opposition to regime change as a goal of the U.S.-led war. "We hope the regime will collapse as soon as possible and we'll have no further loss of life -- civilians or soldiers," Fischer said before a meeting with his British counterpart, Jack Straw, at a hotel in Berlin's Grunewald suburb.

04-03-2003, 10:41 AM	#239
mrskippy Banned Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: California	Fox News: Islamic clerics in Iraq to issue religious edicts supporting Coalition forces.