Post Latest news here

[Serb]

Originally posted by Dissident
Unfortunately only U.S. friendly fire is capable of shooting things down.

I hear the same crap everytime when USAF lost one of its planes. The same was with F-117 in Yougoslavia.
I will not buy it.

[Dis]

explosion in CentCom in Qatar

it is now being called an accident, not an attack.

yes the enemy does get lucky once in a while. with all that ancient AA fire, eventually they will hit an enemy aircraft. I just doubt it has happened yet.

[GRU]

Serb,
US says never the Stealth in Yugo was downed by friendly fire. Check your words please and do not post rumors :-(

To US posters
It is normal international practice when third party's militaries are providing reconnaisance operations during war or even military exercises. FYI, Russia has several military intelligence centers very close to theatr who are working in absolutely legal way. The www.irakwar.ru site claims they publish updates coming from Russian military sources. Mention they've published infos about accidents of MH-53 and 2 UK choppers before it had been announced by coalition military.

I stop this discussion. If you want more explanation, tell me another thread where I can give it.

[Serb]

Originally posted by GRU
Serb,
US says never the Stealth in Yugo was downed by friendly fire. Check your words please and do not post rumors :-(

Rumors?
IIRC, first they said that plane was lost due technical problems and only after months Pentagon officialy confirmed that plane was shot down. That's what I was talking about.

Could you translate this article http://www.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_arti...?articleId=512 about USAF losses during last four days?

[GRU]

And now - the Iraqi point of view. Abstract of Ar-Rawi today's speach, who is the Iraqi Army spokesman.
Sources - numerous including BBC :-)

Totally, 5 coalition planes and 2 helicopters have been shot down by defending troops. Number of coalition casualties is considerable.

US/UK mass media are spreading false information about war. As an example, the commander of 51st division is not surrendered; even more, Mr. Ar-Raui has spoke to him by phone just before briefing.

77 civilians are dead and 366 are injured in Basra as a result of colaition bombing. 4 are dead and 4 are injured in Tikrit, native city of Saddam Hussein.

[Serb]

ITAR-TASS again:

Iraq air defence downs five US planes two helicopters

23.03.2003


By Dmitry Zelenin

DOHA, March 23 (Itar-Tass) - The Iraqi air defence downed five U.S. warplanes and two helicopter gunships over the four days of war, said on Sunday in Baghdad the Iraqi army spokesman Hazem al-Raui. According to the spokesman, "the aggressor's troops are suffering substantial losses".

The spokesman accused the U.S. and British mass media "of promoting the psychological war against Iraq". He instanced as an example a report on "the surrender of the 51st mechanised division near Basra". The general specified that he called, before the news conference, the division commander who refuted the reported.

Information Minister Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf, opening the news conference, quoted data on casualties during air raids on Basra. According to the minister, raids killed 77 civilians and 366 people were wounded. Four people died in Tikrit, the native town of Saddam Hussein, and four were hospitalised with wounds after an air raid.

http://www.itar-tass.ru/english/allnews/242505.html

GRU, thanks for translation, but I've found original on English.

[GRU]

Summary of Iraqi military claims done by AFP

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030323/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_resist_1

[GRU]

BBC and Al-Jazeera report that Iraqi soldiers are searching banks of Tigris river in Baghdad looking for coalition pilot who reportedly ejected over city.

[Gangerolf]

the iraqis have taken pows and will show them on tv soon, according to vice-president Taha Yassin.

the soldiers were captured in Souq al-Shuyukh, south east of Nassiriya

[Gangerolf]

BBC and Al-Jazeera report that Iraqi soldiers are searching banks of Tigris river in Baghdad looking for coalition pilot who reportedly ejected over city.

they've been found now, according to al-jazeera. doesn't say if they're dead or alive thouh

[GRU]

Al-Jazeera:
citizens of Ribia town near Syrian border fight the coalition paratroopers.

[Eli]

The Iraqi FM : "Israel takes part in the attack on Iraq... we found an Israeli missile in Baghdad".

And just to clarify, what they found wasnt a missile but a flight computer.

[GRU]

The United States believes "some" US troops have gone missing in Iraq and could be held as prisoners of war by the Iraqi military, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld revealed.

"We believe there are some American soldiers missing," he said Sunday.

Asked whether they were being held as prisoners of war, Rumsfeld replied: "They could be."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030323/wl_afp/iraq_war_us_prisoners_1

[August Borms]

Marines are said to have suffered at least 50 casualties in fighting in Nassiriya

http://news.bbc.co.uk

[Eli]

Marines are said to have suffered at least 50 casualties in fighting in Nassiriya

50 injured, NBC says that some are dead.

Rumsfeld confirms - 11 POWs. (Israeli Channel 10 TV)