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

To: eims2000 who wrote (8975)	4/7/2003 2:28:45 AM
From: Techplayer	Respond to of 21614

02:09 AM EDT/10:09 AM Iraq: CENTCOM : It's a Raid CENTCOM is now describing the current battles as an Incursion rather than an attempt to take and hold ground. "It's to show we can go anywhere we want, any time we want." 01:55 AM EDT/9:55 AM Iraq: BBC - Interviews local "I asked a Baghdad resident in my broken Arabic, is this bad or good?" "He gave a thumbs up, 'Americans good!'" 01:54 AM EDT/9:54 AM Iraq: US Attack Helos over Baghdad BBC World TV showed shots of pairs of US attack helos flying over Baghdad. Civilians looking on in some trepidation and surprise. 01:48 AM EDT/9:48 AM Iraq: Cease fire, cease fire, it's a civilian The officer just talking on FoxNews made the point that there've been "very few" civilian casualties, that even today during the fire fight you'd hear "cease fire, cease fire, it's a civilian!" That's the message the world needs to take home. UPDATE: The officer speaking is Colonel David Perkins, 2nd Brigade Commander, 3rd Infantry Division. 01:45 AM EDT/9:45 AM Iraq: BBC World shows Iraqis Fleeing 2 Bradley AFVs involved in low-intensity firefight with some Iraqi positions . Some 25mm fire. BBC showed US troops disembarking into bushland alongside. Some 20-30 Iraqis in dark uniforms, though one in underclothes, seen running from the vicinity about 300m away NOT repeat NOT with any weapons. Others still occupying trenches. UPDATE : BBC military analyst now making explicit comparisons with Nazi Volksturm in WW2, old men and boys with Panzerfausts (primitive RPGs) faced with overwhelming force. Others are starting to say "this is the tipping point". 01:42 AM EDT/9:42 AM Iraq: We own it Live report on Fox Saddam says he owns it, wrong, we own it. We own his houses, we own his doentown, we own his hotels, we own his monuments. We're not here to raise flags, we're here to free the Iraqi people. Now, I'm going to take a shower in Saddam's bathroom.... And that wasn't a battle flag - it was a University of Georgia Flag! 01:19 AM EDT/9:19 AM Iraq: So How's the Iraqi Information Minister going to explain this one? "The infidels DID NOT broadcast from Saddam's Front Yard!" 01:17 AM EDT/9:17 AM Iraq: Car Alarms BBC livecam still shows almost normality, but the crump of artillery is interspersed with the crack of direct fire. It's close enough and loud enough now to set off car alarms, so within 1km. 01:17 AM EDT/9:17 AM Iraq: Brigade in Baghdad Live with Greg Kelly from a Presidential palace.......interviewing a 3rd ID Col. They have an entire brigade in the center of Baghdad securing key points. 01:16 AM EDT/9:16 AM Iraq: FOX - Greg Kelly reporting from main Palace in Baghdad Live on Fox - reports other units securing other sites. Room to room searches. Reports walking around inside the palace, and its damaged. Light resistance getting into the Palace. 14 July monument, taking the bridge over the Tigris to the Peninsula. Reporting control of the center of the city. Interviewing COL David Perkins, commanding the task force. 01:15 AM EDT/9:15 AM Iraq: At Saddam's main palace FoxNews reporter Greg Kelly is reporting right now standing in front of Saddam's main palace in Baghdad, which coalition soldiers have surrounded. They've taken a number of other important or symbolic sites as well. He's interviewing an officer who says they've "taken the heart of Baghdad". 216.134.209.67 "Some Arab channels are not showing the good, they do not show when the Americans bring help to the Iraqi people. They show just one side," says Balqis Aziz, who joined up to 2,000 other Kuwaitis at an open air meeting to reaffirm their support for the efforts to unseat Saddam Hussein. newsvote.bbc.co.uk

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