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Post by **Vympel** » 2003-04-01 04:38am

Peter Arnett has been promptly hired by the UK Daily Mirror after being fired by MSNBC.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-04-01 06:18am

Vympel wrote:Peter Arnett has been promptly hired by the UK Daily Mirror after being fired by MSNBC.

Ah, stupid companies think alike.

Anyway, Joint Helicopter Command just wasted a load of armour, several bunkers and two key command vehicles with Lynx gunships from the Army Air Corp.

A Spartan IFV from the Queen's Dragoon Guards got hit by an RPG and the drive taken out, was probably a sniper in a nearby building which then got hit with enough ammo to make the building the world's biggest sieve.

Source: Daily Express.

Kelly Antilles · Post by **Kelly Antilles** » 2003-04-01 12:10pm

US Bombs Kill Iraqi Children; Arab Anger Rises

It says 9 of 11 citizens killed in the bombings last night were children.

Fixed URL
-Everyone's favorite Rampant AI

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2003-04-01 12:54pm

purges continue

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2003-04-01 01:44pm

French PM pleads for calm as protesters deface British and American war cemetery:

BBC story

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-04-01 02:17pm

Dead Marine had been hanged in town..http://www.news.com.au/common/story_pag ... 78,00.html

Lord Sander · Post by **Lord Sander** » 2003-04-01 03:37pm

"Cease fire!" [Captain] Johnson yelled over the radio. Then, as he peered into his binoculars from the intersection on Highway 9, he roared at the platoon leader, "You just [expletive] killed a family because you didn't fire a warning shot soon enough!"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Mar31.html

Post by **Coyote** » 2003-04-01 04:15pm

Internat'l Herald Tribune--

get a load of this. Seems the French are beginning to slip into apathy about the war, and some are increasingly disturbed at how many of the anti-war rallies have also come to be fervently anti-Semitic in tone.

The French Arabs are also saying that nothing has been done to alleviate the prejudice they suffer under in France despite everything going on... and at the end of the article, they pine about the glorious day when Paris is once again the "capital of the world"?

"Got Arrogance"?

http://www.iht.com/articles/91630.html

Sigh... other people's kids....

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-04-01 06:03pm

CentCom statement on Karbala night action in a few minutes!
(No quotes yet.)
There's something going around Karbala.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2003-04-01 07:19pm

One of the POW's held by Iraq has been rescued! This coming live from a CENTCOM briefing about one minute ago.

Alex Moon · Post by **Alex Moon** » 2003-04-01 07:33pm

pfc. Jessica Lynch was rescued in Nasariyah

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-04-01 07:34pm

Damn! Skimmer got here first! Argh!

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-04-01 08:12pm

Who hoo! Thats a fucking big GO USA for us! Rescuing a prisoner is a major morale booster.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2003-04-01 10:02pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:Who hoo! Thats a fucking big GO USA for us! Rescuing a prisoner is a major morale booster.

It wasn't really anything much. She was in a hospital, so it wasn't like the Iraqi's could take her with them.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2003-04-01 10:26pm

Fox News is reporting that 9 other bodies were found in the compound along with
Pvt. Lynch, and that she sustained gunshot wounds during her rescue...

Seggybop · Post by **Seggybop** » 2003-04-01 10:31pm

CNN intercepted a transmission and claims that there were two other unidentified dead people recovered.

TrailerParkJawa · Post by **TrailerParkJawa** » 2003-04-01 10:31pm

Ted wrote:
TrailerParkJawa wrote:Who hoo! Thats a fucking big GO USA for us! Rescuing a prisoner is a major morale booster.
It wasn't really anything much. She was in a hospital, so it wasn't like the Iraqi's could take her with them.

Does not matter if she was milking cows. They got her back. Its a morale boost none the less.

The only thing I would worry about is if the Iraqi's shoot the rest of the prisoners simply to deny us the chance to get anymore.

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-04-01 10:51pm

TrailerParkJawa wrote:
The only thing I would worry about is if the Iraqi's shoot the rest of the prisoners simply to deny us the chance to get anymore.

The US already lost 17 more men when they tried a rescue op earlier- 8 dead, 9 missing. It's an incredibly stupid risk to take- better to leave the POWs out of harms way till the war's over.

The only reason this one was rescued was because she was in a hospital.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2003-04-02 02:01am

Has anyone mentioned that the U.S. Apache blown to bits a car with civilians, with 15 dead?

Warspite · Post by **Warspite** » 2003-04-02 07:28am

Your average Iraqi jail...

Well, sort off, this oned could be more important than others.

Post by **K. A. Pital** » 2003-04-02 08:56am

Red Halfmoon hospital bombed, Reuters says.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2003-04-02 11:06am

The BBC Reports

Remember a while back when we kind of joked that everytime a country refused to support the US in somekind of military mission, that country's embassy or diplomatic mission somehow seemed to get 'accidently bombed'? Refer; Chinese embassy during Blakans bombing, and French on strike in Lybia...

...Well it seems that now it's Russia's turn! Although the US hasn't actually hit their embassy, they are getting pretty damn close!

This is kinda funny, it's like the bully at school pushing another bully for ratting him in or something.

Tsyroc · Post by **Tsyroc** » 2003-04-02 12:47pm

Just heard on the radio that Hugh Hefner is sending 70

Playboy Playmates to Iraq

That ought to convince the Republican guard to stop fighting.

theski · Post by **theski** » 2003-04-02 01:17pm

Polish special forces

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA7LLWL1ED.html

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-04-02 01:24pm

theski wrote:Polish special forces http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA7LLWL1ED.html

*shaking violently* must resist urge.....Polish jokes fighting way to the surface....