Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part III

[Kramerman]

*crosses fingers*

as to refrain from discussion, would someone mind posting the article in another thread, if it turns out to be true, or at least half true?

[Ned]

More: The strike took place at 2 pm Iraqi time. The bombs were 2000 pounders, not 5000 pounders.

[spiritof1202]

I started a thread

[Aro]

US and Iraqi troops inside Saddam Hussein's presidential palace compound exchange heavy artillery and tank fire, as US tanks try to move north.

Link:
BBC

[Ned]

Aro, live right now on FOX, Greg Kelly reports that US forces are firing mortars from inside the presidential palace. There is no incoming fire. The 2nd Brigade will move soon to "extend" its influence in downtown Baghdad.

[Aro]

Damn... I don't have Fox... I have CNN and BBC. I saw airplanes bombing the palace's vicinity, on CNN. A-10?

[Ned]

Aro, Yeah I saw that too, dropping flares. They are assaulting the ministry of information and the al rashid hotel.

[red_mustard]

Taped pictures from Abu Dahbi on FOX. Iraqi attempted counterattack across the tigris with tanks appears to be a dismal failure A-10's destroyed 7 tanks near the bridge.

[DAVOUT]

2nd Brigade 1ID : a day of fight in Bagdad

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A51476-2003Apr7.html

[The Rusty Gamer]

WARNING to Allied Troops - Baghdad is boobytrapped!

An "inside" source tells me that Baghdad is boobytrapped. These boobytraps will be triggered by remote control, I suppose at a time when it is calculated to do as much damage to the allied troops as possible, perhaps after they all come piling into the city. Saddam doesn't care about his own people and how many of them get hurt in the process - all he cares about is destroying the enemy which he hates.

Doesn't it strike you as suspicious how most the Iraqi troops withdrew and put up very little resistance, why it's been just a little too easy to move into the airport and the capital city?

What happened to all the so-called suicide attacks?

If anyone know how to contact the pentagon with this information please do so.

The war is not over yet...

[Daz]

Inside source? Who, Uday or Saddam?
Great info, here's the address:

****@pentagoon.mil ...or...
donald@pentagoon.mil

Good luck!!!

Anyway:

A facility near Baghdad that a US officer had said might finally be "smoking gun" evidence of Iraqi chemical weapons production turned out to contain pesticide, not sarin gas as feared.


A military intelligence officer for the US 101st Airborne Division's aviation brigade, Captain Adam Mastrianni, told AFP that comprehensive tests determined the presence of the pesticide compounds.


Initial tests had reportedly detected traces of sarin -- a powerful toxin that quickly affects the nervous system -- after US soldiers guarding the facility near Hindiyah, 100 kilometres (60 miles) south of Baghdad, fell ill.


Mastrianni said: "They thought it was a nerve agent. That's what it tested. But it is pesticide."


He said a "theatre-level chemical testing team" made up of biologists and chemists had finally disproved the preliminary field tests results and established that pesticide was the substance involved.


Mastrianni added that sick soldiers, who had become nauseous, dizzy and developed skin blotches, had all recovered.


The turnaround was an embarrassment for the US forces in the region, which had been quick to say that they thought they had finally found the proof they have been actively looking for that Iraq (news - web sites) was hiding weapons of mass destruction.


A spokesman for the US army's 3rd Infantry Division, Major Ross Coffman, had told journalists at Baghdad's airport that the site "could be a smoking gun".


"We are talking about finding a site of possible weapons of mass destruction," he added.


The fact that the coalition forces have come up with no clear evidence of WMD after capturing much of Iraq in 19 days of fighting has raised questions over the war's justification.

[The Mad Monk]

Report: U.S. Finds Missiles with Chemical Weapons


Reuters
Monday, April 7, 2003; 10:25 AM



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces near Baghdad found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons, the U.S. news station National Public Radio reported on Monday.

NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."

It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport.

U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar had no immediate comment.

The United States and Britain launched the war against Iraq to rid the country of weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies having such weapons.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47645-2003Apr7.html

[The Mad Monk]

I love doing that.

[Daz]

Clarification

I just went through reuters.com and tried to find this article of yours. Cannot find it anywhere!

It must have been unconfirmed old news that at this particular moment sounds great.

It is definately NOT a current Reuters story!

Sorry to dissapoint you.....

[The Mad Monk]

...and yet, the Washington Post found it.