Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part II

[DanS]

IRNA reports sporadic, small uprisings in Baghdad...

http://www.irna.com/en/head/030329135356.ehe.shtml

[Dinner]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
Iraqi Oil Explosions Paralyze U.S. War Tactics: Expert
TUNISIA, March 29 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The tactic of setting oil-filled trenches ablaze around the Iraqi areas since the beginning of invasion has sent all missiles, aircraft and electronically-guided military equipment of the U.S-led invasion forces into full blindness by misleading their hit targets, a Tunisian expert said Saturday, March 29
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http://www.islam-online.net/english/...rticle16.shtml

The "journalist" (I use the term losely) who wrote this doesn't know very much about precision guided munitions. Smoke screens will stop laser guided munitions but most American bombs and missiles being used in Iraq are GPS guided just so they can over come this sort of obstical.

[Dinner]

CNN is reporting a captured Iraqi compound had the bodies of POWs as well as torture equipment which the Iraqis used to torture POWs to death. Iraqis continue to dress themselves up as civilians and then attack soldiers who are showing them mercy.

• U.S. troops find bloodied uniforms thought to belong to MIAs at hospital in Nasiriya
• Name tags and U.S. flag patches ripped off
• Also found: An apparent torture device made of a metal cot and a car battery
• Suicide bombing kills 4 U.S. soldiers near Najaf

[CrONoS]

Columnist Criticizes Iraq Coverage
Solomon emphasized that he's no fan of Hussein. He said, for instance, that Hussein has been brutal against the Kurds in Iraq -- but adds that U.S. newspapers rarely mention that the Kurds also have a difficult time in Turkey (an American ally). Readers are being told "who to cry for and who to ignore," said Solomon. "We're being manipulated."
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ep/20030326/en_bpiep/columnist_criticizes_iraq_coverage&cid=90&ncid=1501

[CrONoS]

From today's Pentagon briefing:
Some US forces passed by a woman who waved at the soldiers. When they returned to the spot later, they found woman hanged.

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Pentagon, in PR Assault, Uses Graphic Video Images
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Faced with opposition in the Arab world and elsewhere to the war in Iraq, the Pentagon launched a graphic public relations offensive on Saturday aimed at illustrating the "brutality of the Iraqi regime."

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2471984

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Oerdin: www.islam-online.com is one of the most liberal islam website, created by an egyptian woman. The website are guided/enlighted by Dr. Yusuf Qardawi.( we cannot give opinion on this thread... but I just wanted you to know this is one of the best/credible Islam website)

[CrONoS]

Analysis: Shooting from the hip with Syria
What did U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld achieve by publicly scolding Syria and almost adding it to President George W. Bush's "axis of evil?"
Syria, even before the war and more so since its eruption, has turned into the main and most vociferous focus of Arab resistance.
Last week, Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri was very warmly received by his Syrian colleague Farouk A-Shara. The border between Syria and Iraq is the only Arab border left open and last week Haaretz reported a movement of volunteers across the Syrian border to Iraq.
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/278207.html

[CrONoS]

Russian military intel update: War in Iraq, March 29
30.03.2003 [10:30]
....During the past day the situation on the US-Iraqi front remained largely unchanged. The US is continuing reinforcing the attack group near Karabela for a thrust toward Baghdad. By the morning of March 29 up to 20,000 coalition troops were massed in the area of Karabela. This forces includes up to 200 tanks, 150 artillery systems and more than 250 helicopters. The order for the attack will be given by the coalition?commander Gen. Tommy Franks, who, according to intercepted radio communications, will personally inspect the troops during the next several hours...

A report was obtained, prepared by the Al-Kuwait-based coalition Psychological Operations Tactical Group for the coalition Special Ground Forces Command. The report analyzed the effectiveness of the information and propaganda war. According to the report, analysis of the television broadcasts, intercepted radio communications, interrogations of Iraqi POWs show that psychologically the Iraqi are now "more stable and confident" that they were during the last days before the war. This, according to the report, is due primarily to the coalition's numerous military failures.
...Coalition analysts believe that if this attitude of the Iraqi is not changed within the next 7 days, a "resistance ideology" may take over the Iraqi minds, making the final coalition victory even more difficult. In response to this report the US Army Psychological Operations command decided to combine all Iraqi POWs into large groups and to distribute the resulting video footage to the world media. A more active use of the Iraqi opposition was suggested for propaganda work in the occupied villages. The same opposition members will be used to create video footage of the "repented" Iraqi POWs and footage of the local Iraqi population "opposing Saddam."
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Radio communications intercepted during the last five days suggest that the coalition is using Israeli?airfield for conducting night air strikes against Iraq. Combat aircraft are taking off regularly from the Israeli Hatzerim and the Navatim airbases do not return to the same bases but fly toward the border with Jordan while maintaining complete radio silence.

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http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=1069&sesid=2

[Chemical Ollie]

About 8000 children in the age 10-15 years have been trained to become soldiers to defend Badhdad. They have been politically indoctrinated and learned how to use small firearms and infantry tactics, similar to Hitlerjugend. US marines have already killed such kids in Nasiriyya.

There is also a story on how a soldier reacts mentally when facing kid soldiers. In an interview, former Swedish UN soldier Gert Gustavsson told that the nightmares from when he killed some Baluba kids in self defense at close range in Kongo 1962 have haunted him for all his life.

Source: Swedish paper Expressen.

http://www.expressen.se/expressen/jsp/polopoly.jsp?a=23877

[MichaeltheGreat]

From CNN:

Royal Marine Commandos capture two high ranking paramilitary forces leaders, also destroy close to two dozen T-55s and other equipment.

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Of course, since the Russians are using a website to advertise their ability to intercept nearly every US communication and decrypt every US code, the British effort is in vain, since we're clearly losing the war.

[lightblue]

Suicide bombing in Netanya, injuring at least 20 people

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2900185.stm

[uh Clem]

We're Not Making This Up Dept.

US soldiers in Iraq asked to pray for Bush

[Chemical Ollie]

A suicidal attack was carried out when a car smashed into a group of coalition soldiers waiting outside a store at the Udairi base in Kuwait. Rifle fire and ambulance sirens have been heard by witnesses, but no details yet.

Sky News/Reuters/Aftonbladet

[GRU]

Photo of CH-47D hard-landed in Iraq

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/news/Iraq/Chinook_plus_RPG.jpg

Some details about accident are here

http://www.chinook-helicopter.com/news/Iraq/Iraq_Operations_4.html

P.S. This site has a number of nice pictures of Chinooks in Iraq.

[GRU]

NTV Russian TV channel shows a film from Iraqi TV where fallen coaltion helicopter is shown. Now it is not the same Apache because it is Cobra ;-)
Coalition denied report any helicopter was downed.

Iraq claims again that one more Apache was downed and two pilots were killed. Their bodies are now in one of Iraqi cementaries.

[GRU]

http://www.strana.ru/stories/03/03/19/3302/176050.html (Russian link)

15 US servicemen injured in Kuwait in terrorist attack. It is the same attack, which has been already reported in this thread.