phongn wrote:[Washington Post] The ICRC is attempting to restore the Wafa al-Qaed water treatment to operational status to restore freshwater supplies to Basra.
Supply ships have been attempting to get into the city, but the water has been mined by Iraqis.
Slightly related Umm Qasr port is open, ships are expected to start using it within 48hrs
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with, until you understand whose in f***ing command here!" Jayne : Firefly
"The officers can stay in the admin building and read the latest Tom Clancy novel thinking up new OOBs based on it." Coyote
HAB Tankspotter - like trainspotting but with the thrill of 125mm retaliation if they spot you back
Fox News said they're getting reports that the Iraqi hardline group (forget their names -- "something Saddam" ) are dressing like US troops within Basra and accepting surrenders from regular army Iraqi troops ... and then executing them.
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jegs2 wrote:Fox News said they're getting reports that the Iraqi hardline group (forget their names -- "something Saddam" ) are dressing like US troops within Basra and accepting surrenders from regular army Iraqi troops ... and then executing them.
Saddam Fedayeen.
They're Uday Hussain's militia/goon squad.
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The Americans claim to have seized a phony hospital that was being used to stage assaults on their positions. According to them, hundreds of small arms were found inside along with more than 3000 chemical suits with gas masks.
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The USAF has destroyed six of the controversial Russian-built GPS jammers. An excerpt:
CBC wrote:Speaking at a news briefing at Central Command headquarters in Qatar, U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart said the jamming devices had been found and destroyed.
"We have noticed some attempts by the Iraqis to use a GPS jamming system that they procured from another nation," Renuart said. "Actually, we have located those devices and we have destroyed all six of those jammers in the past two nights' airstrikes.
"I'm pleased to say they had no effect on us. In fact, we destroyed one of the GPS jammers with a GPS bomb."
I guess they weren't as much of an equalizer as the Iraqis had hoped.
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Globe and Mail wrote:Chemical plant benign, military says
U.S. military investigators have found no evidence that weapons have been made in recent years at a suspected chemical plant secured by U.S. troops in southern Iraq, a senior defence official said Tuesday. Before the war, American intelligence agencies had identified the site in the town of Najaf as a possible part of Iraq's alleged chemical weapons program, the official said, speaking on condition he not be identified. Indications then were that the plant had not been used for banned weapons activities since 1998, the official said.
Good. Hopefully Saddam won't be able to replace the propaganda, and more Iraqis will give up without a fight.
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As for the Iraqi people? I don't think it's Hussein's propaganda but a mix of:
(1) The Americans and British are replacing one Iraqi dictator with another - but on teir terms.
(2) The Americans and British told us to rise up once before. We got creamed later. And that's not counting the Fedyaheen on my doorstep demanding I stand and fight.
(3) Well, I should hope my country is always right. It's not. But it's still my country. Damn the invaders, whoever they are.
It's a fucking war! People die in war! Unless you plan on weeping for the dozens of dead and injured Iraqi women and children (and the 40-odd thousand childred that died as a result of US-imposed sanctions on Iraq BEFORE the war) then I suggest you grow a pair and keep in mind that WE'RE the ones invading THEM, not the other way around.
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Iraqi partisans knock out a pair of M1A1 tanks by firing ATGMs from the back of pick-up trucks.
The four mile range MUST be an error. There is currently no wire-guided anti-tank missile anywhere in the world with a range of 6.5km.
Most likely, they meant 4km- in which case it could've been the Russian Konkurs (AT-5 SPANDREL)- which Iraq is not listed as having, or the French/ German HOT, which Iraq does have.
EDIT: read an Army Times report- where the troops were unsure what it was that took out their two Abrams- but thought it was an anti-tank gun mounted on a truck. Regardless, the ATGM story seems to be more positive, and doesn't have the "weren't sure, yet to be determined" tone of the Army Times piece. A Bradley was also destroyed in this engagement, and a third M1A1 collapsed a bridge and fell into a gulch (what the hell's a gulch?)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ar ... Mar25.html
