BAGHDAD back to "NORMAL"

NBC NEWS AND NEWS SERVICES

BAGHDAD, April 13 — Looting eased in Baghdad on Sunday, and signs the capital’s convulsions may be dying out could be seen in a return of the little headaches of everyday life — traffic jams and domestic spats. People felt secure enough to come out of their homes and drive around, causing the late morning traffic jams so common to Baghdad life. Buses started running in the center of town.... anarchy appeared to be petering out.

U.S. Army troops enforced a curfew, guarded banks, hospitals, a main water utility and a major hospital. Children ventured out to play soccer. Shops began to open and street vendors hawked vegetables loaded onto donkey carts.

 

[radiofreecostarica]

yeah right.

U.S. Marines Exchange Heavy Fire in Central Baghdad
Reuters

Saturday 12 April 2003

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces came under heavy automatic fire on the west bank of the Tigris river in central Baghdad on Saturday evening, and said they had killed up to 20 "enemy."

Reuters correspondents on the eastern side of the river, around the central Palestine Hotel, said they heard heavy machinegun and tank fire by U.S. forces across the river.

The exchange lasted around 20 minutes, they said.

U.S. Marine Sergeant Daniel Finn told Reuters that enemy fire had opened up on U.S. troops from six bunkers on the western river bank.

"We're not sure how many of them there were, but they opened fire and now they're dead," he said adding that he guessed there were 15-20 Iraqis or other nationals involved.

Separately, one U.S. Marine was killed when a gunman dressed in civilian clothes opened fire on Marines guarding a hospital near the Palestine Hotel.

"We lost a Marine," U.S. Marine Major Michael Purcell told Reuters.

He said a group of Marines was guarding the hospital when a gunman mixed in with civilians, moved close to the Marines and opened fire at close quarters.

"The guman was wounded or killed," Purcell added.

(In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.)

 

The San Diego, Ca. police had a "firefight" last night...

You liberals have lost this "war" debate - Y'all need to move on.

 

[PatPatriot]

radio the firefight is an attempt to disrupt a free Iraq.syria, jordan and iran seem to be trying to colonize a free Iraq with their aggression on a free people.

 

[radiofreecostarica]

"ya'll" are poor representatives of what it means to be conservative. Patriot, no self-respecting "patriot" would allow his nation to invade another in the name of "national security".

the best national security is to demand that pragmatism and intelligence guide the ship.

 

[PatPatriot]

FF, Can you imagine the city of Detroit would be like if all of a sudden there was no cops and stuff around, or Philly and LA or the Bronx NY?

Fxckin people haven't seen looting.

 

[PatPatriot]

radio those options have been exhausted.Time for talking is over.

Did I miss somthing about WW2?

 

[radiofreecostarica]

please...

stop gabbing like a pro-wrestler then we'll talk...

"the time for talking is over..."

 

[radiofreecostarica]

 

[radiofreecostarica]

here's a better explanation taken from the same site:

"April 6th: Iraqi National Congress founder, Ahmed Chalabi is flown into the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah by the Pentagon. Chalabi, along with 700 fighters of his "Free Iraqi Forces" are airlifted aboard four massive C17 military transport planes. Chalabi and the INC are Washington favorites to head the new Iraqi government. A photograph is taken of Chalabi and members of his Free Iraqi Forces militia as they arrive in Nasiriyah.

April 9th: One of the "most memorable images of the war" is created when U.S. troops pull down the statue of Saddam Hussein in Fardus Square. Oddly enough... a photograph is taken of a man who bears an uncanny resemblance to one of Chalabi's militia members... he is near Fardus Square to greet the Marines. How many members of the pro-American Free Iraqi Forces were in and around Fardus Square as the statue of Saddam came tumbling down?

The up close action video of the statue being destroyed is broadcast around the world as proof of a massive uprising. Still photos grabbed off of Reuters show a long-shot view of Fardus Square... it's empty save for the U.S. Marines, the International Press, and a small handful of Iraqis. There are no more than 200 people in the square at best. The Marines have the square sealed off and guarded by tanks. A U.S. mechanized vehicle is used to pull the statue of Saddam from it's base. The entire event is being hailed as an equivalent of the Berlin Wall falling... but even a quick glance of the long-shot photo shows something more akin to a carefully constructed media event tailored for the television cameras."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2842.htm

 

>FF, Can you imagine

Yes I can... Just look at what happens when there is a natural disaster like an earthquake or hurricane in the USA... Looting and lawlessness is rampant.

 

[kayaman+]

"You liberals have lost this "war" debate - Y'all need to move on."

Um hello!
Iraq is not stable and no government has been put into place.
There is talk of conflict with Syria which would basically just be an extention of this war.
Only time will tell how bad the repercussions we fear remain to be seen.
This is hardly over.

 

>This is hardly over.

Yes, we all know you would like to see more people killed...

 

[radiofreecostarica]

Frank,

be rational. No one wants more Iraqies to die.

 

So you want Bush's plan to work ? 'cause for it not to work then more folks will die.

 

[kayaman+]

Hey fatfrank!

Back the phuck up. That was out of line.
I don't believe that I've ever posted wishing death on anyone.
However I've seen plenty of blood thirsty post from you righties.
I simply said it as it is.

You righties and your spin spin talk, that was one of the sickest spins I've seen yet.

You by the way wanted war, war = death, you have desired death. I have not.

 

[radiofreecostarica]

'cause for it not to work then more folks will die.

Yeah. okay.

http://64.176.94.191/article2261.htm

"Few of us," Arthur Miller once wrote, "can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the State has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied."

Keep living in your dream.

 

>Back the phuck up

Chill...

 

[radiofreecostarica]

Frank,

Weren't you the one calling for us to bomb, bomb bomb.

Does bombing not imply that many will die?

 

[kayaman+]

Chill???

I am a pacifist. I value all life. I am opposed to capital punishment. I believe that if you did not give a life you have no right to take it, I apply that all life forms, and live with the moral dilemas that I do kill insects, and that I am not a vegetarian.
And yes, I do take offense at you insinuating I desire bloodshed.