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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RealMuLan who wrote (8136)	4/5/2003 4:38:43 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 21614

God, you are gullible. Iraq says they've driven American troops out of the Baghdad airport and have killed hundreds of American troops. And you feel obligated to believe them. Or is that eager to believe them. Here's your Reuters link: Iraq Says All 'OK' in Baghdad, Airport Retaken Sat April 5, 2003 07:05 AM ET By Hassan Hafidh BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's information minister said on Saturday Baghdad was firmly under Iraqi control and denied U.S. reports that troops had reached the center of the capital. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf also said Iraqi forces had recaptured Baghdad's international airport, seized by U.S. troops on Friday. The U.S. military dismissed his claim as "groundless." Asked about U.S. reports that troops were in the heart of the capital, Sahaf told a news conference: "You can go and visit those places. Nothing there, nothing there at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints. Everything is okay." Reuters correspondent Khaled Yacoub Oweis said he toured central and southern Baghdad on Saturday but saw no U.S. troops. "I went to the southern outskirts, south east, south west, the presidential palaces, the main security buildings," Oweis said after driving around the city. "I saw no American troops." Earlier, a U.S. military spokesman said U.S. forces had thrust into the heart of Baghdad and said the push was "more than a patrol that goes in and comes back out." At Central Command headquarters in Qatar, senior U.S. spokesman Captain Frank Thorp told CNN that Iraq's claim to have retaken the airport was "quite frankly groundless." "We still do have troops on the ground at the airport. There's sporadic fighting," Thorp added. Earlier, U.S. military sources said their forces came under heavy Iraqi artillery fire from north of the airport. The Iraqi military said in a statement that "hundreds" of U.S. troops had been killed in the battle for Baghdad airport. "The enemy was forced to retreat suffering hundreds of casualties and Saddam International Airport has been changed to a graveyard for the invaders," it said in a statement. U.S. equipment was destroyed by Iraqi artillery, it added. "WICKED ASSAULT" In a separate statement, the Iraqi military said it had also foiled an attack on central Baghdad by the invading troops. "The enemy tried to attack Baghdad and our brave forces were able to foil the attack," he said. "The enemy has gained nothing by his wicked assault." A convoy of Iraqi policemen and civilians passed near a hotel where many journalists were staying in central Baghdad, cheering and shooting guns into the air to celebrate the alleged recapture of the airport by Iraqi forces, witnesses said. Sahaf said U.S. forces had bombed the capital and tried to make airborne landings to divert attention from a battle for Baghdad's airport. He also said that Iraqi forces had shot down a plane over Iraq and destroyed seven tanks in the southern city of Basra in the past 24 hours. "Now the entire direction is in our favor and we will annihilate what is left of the forces that attacked the airport," Sahaf said. "We have defeated them, crushed them in Saddam International Airport. We have pushed them outside the whole area. They couldn't establish a gain, we are surrounding them." asia.reuters.com

To: RealMuLan who wrote (8136)	4/5/2003 4:40:21 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Mr Zhang ...i really would suggest you try and get another news source than that one ...are you well? could you please confirm this headline story from that same news site you just posted from : "Russians Confirm 40 + US Casulaties At Saddam International Iraq Withdraws From Najaf; Marine Colonel Replaced Over Nasiriyah; Three Marines Court Martialed For Gang Rape As Reports Of US Troops Looting Spread overthrow.com I notice also that it advertises a Nazi link to the top right ? It did on the page I visited... If you want real news , try google for a simple start: news.google.com

To: RealMuLan who wrote (8136)	4/5/2003 5:06:39 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

YZ, are you really that stupid? get another source of data

To: RealMuLan who wrote (8136)	4/5/2003 6:01:08 PM
From: Machaon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

<< It appears to be a decisive Iraqi victory. >> A couple more "decisive" Iraqi victories, and there won't be ONE member of Iraqi's military still standing! <g> The next "true" Iraqi victory will be when Saddam is swinging from the end of a rope in downtown Baghdad.