*IRAQ: latest news and developments

[Jingo Daigoji]

Retired General Jay (James) Gardner, fully paid up and active member of JINSA is to be Governor General of Iraq, although to begin with he is supposed to be assisting General Franks! Gardner and his team have already taken up positions in Qatar.

This situation akin to appointing a KKK garn wizard charged with running an African country, with a view to setting up of the next leg of the Operation “US will annex the world”, with the angle on $$$$TAYYRRRRORRRISM$$$$!

Can anyone find “Perel’s Plunder Blunder” (could be in New York Times)?

 

[Barking_Mad]

Reports say "50 US soldiers" injured or killed during fighting in Nasiriya. (BBC)

 

[joe dick]

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/082/nation/Names_of_U_S_troops_killed_dur:.shtml

 

[joe dick]

american POW on al-jazeera.

 

[Tromaville]

American PoW now on Sky News (Al Jezzera video) 1525Z...

One at least of which is very injured.

Trom

 

[bruise]

joe, your Boston Daily link doesn't work.

Jingo, what does JINSA mean?

 

[joe dick]

Originally posted by bruise
joe, your Boston Daily link doesn't work.

Jingo, what does JINSA mean?

in response to broken link - if this offends or they find it ghoulish- anyone i apologise.


Names of U.S. troops killed during military action in the war against Iraq
By Associated Press, 3/23/2003 09:56
U.S. Marines killed Friday in helicopter crash in Kuwait:

Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre, 30, of Bloomington, Ill.

Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy, 25, of Houston.

Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Waters-Bey, 29, of Baltimore.

Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin, 36, of Waterville, Maine.

U.S. Marines killed in action in Iraq:

2nd Lt. Therrel S. Childers, 30, of Harrison County, Miss., killed Friday.

Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez, 22, of Los Angeles, killed Friday.

Navy officer killed Saturday in collision of two British helicopters:

Lt. Thomas Mullen Adams, 27, of La Mesa, Calif.

 

[Jingo Daigoji]

The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs

 

[joe dick]

Iraq shows dead and captured U.S. soldiers

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi television has shown film of at least four bodies, said to be U.S. soldiers, and five prisoners who say they are American.


Two of the prisoners, including a woman, appeared to be wounded. One was lying on the floor on a rug.


They were the first U.S. prisoners known to have been taken by Iraq. The prisoners were questioned on air and gave their names, military identification numbers and home towns.

 

[joe dick]

welcome back to cold war

U.S. protests against Russian arms sales to Iraq
Reuters, 03.23.03, 10:37 AM ET
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/03/23/rtr915533.html

 

[joe dick]

AFX-Focus) 2003-03-23 16:18 GMT: IRAQ WAR Commander of Iraqi division reported surrendered vows to fight on
DOHA (AFX) - An Iraqi commander near the southern city of Basra said that his division, which Washington earlier said had surrendered, will continue to resist US and British forces.
"I am with my men in Basra, we continue to defend the people and riches" of the town, Colonel Khaled al-Hashemi, commander of the 51st Mechanized Division, told the satellite television channel Al-Jazeera.

 

[Idris2002]

BBC website is giving reports on the ticker of outbreaks of fighting around Irbil in northern Iraq.

US general says fewer than 10 US troops are missing in Iraq.

 

[Sore_Head]

Tornado shot down by US missile...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2877349.stm

Not again.

 

[magic.d]

sorry but i hope it's in the right thread.
over the day i had problems to get access to newssites in the usa (broadband, location germany).
no problems with english sites, tough.
just read on an german newssite that reporters from countries wich do not support the war are excluded, or only get little information from the us and british forces.

question: can you get in england easy access to cnn & co?

 

[keefor]

Seems like Rumsfield isn't keen on the home population seeing captured pows.http://www.turnto10.com/news/2058301/detail.html

 

[Sore_Head]

Originally posted by magic.d
sorry but i hope it's in the right thread.
over the day i had problems to get access to newssites in the usa (broadband, location germany).
no problems with english sites, tough.
just read on an german newssite that reporters from countries wich do not support the war are excluded, or only get little information from the us and british forces.

question: can you get in england easy access to cnn & co?

No problem in the UK, I imagine all the news sites are pretty busy though.

 

[bruise]

Defense Secretary Donald reminded Iraq about the Geneva Convention, which deals with treatment of prisoners of war. He said, "It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners."

(from keefor's link)

So it's ok to show Iraqi POWs, but not US ones? Stunning hypocrisy.

 

[the scouser]

Terry Lloyd, a veteran war reporter dead

Missing ITN reporter Terry Lloyd is now thought to be dead, the news station has said.

bbc souce

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2878777.stm

 

[kittenpoo]

Yep on Sky he's been reported dead and his body is reported to be in Baghdad

 

[Barking_Mad]

Body in Basra not Baghdad.

 

[joe dick]

U.S. troops apparently captured in Iraq -officials

The officials said there was no direct confirmation of the capture, apparently involving as many as 10 U.S. troops from an American Army maintenance unit, but that notifications were being made to families based on the tape.
http://www.forbes.com/technology/newswire/2003/03/23/rtr915545.html

 

[joe dick]

IRAQ WAR Iran military will 'react' to fresh airspace violations - minister



TEHRAN (AFX) - Iran warned that its army will "react" if there are any further violations of its airspace by US and British warplanes, the IRNA official news agency reported.

http://news.nasdaq.com/news/newsSto...CQCOM200303231233AFXNEWS_EN_COM_F_0822_23.htm

 

[joe dick]

Iraq drops claims coalition pilots captured in baghdad
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s814261.htm

 

[Tromaville]

Reports Iraq Tv (1750Z) that US Forces abandoned dead comrades after a battle in Nassariyah..

Claims of 10 tanks destroyed (no confirmation on either count)

Trom

 

[joe dick]

FACTBOX-Military action by 1700 GMT on day four of Iraq war

http://www.borsaitalia.it/fwa-cgi-b... four of Iraq war&type=internazionali&ling=IT

 

[kittenpoo]

Body in Basra not Baghdad.

EEk sorry!

 

[whiterose]

Just received this in an email - anyone know anything else about it?

*The sinister report is that the US-UK forces have cut off the water and
power supply to Basra although their troops have bypassed it. Hospitals and
emergency services have been without power or water for 48h. The power
station and water pumping system are behind US-UK lines. The International
Red Cross have engineers in Basra whom they would like to send out to make
repairs if the cut off is 'inadvertent'. If it was planned it is a breach
of the conventions. *

 

[whiterose]

[Defense Secretary Donald reminded Iraq about the Geneva Convention, which deals with treatment of prisoners of war. He said, "It's illegal to do things to POWs that are humiliating to those prisoners."]

*Rumsfeld's tactics to torture & kill prisoners of war has been widely reported in the world's news media, specifically the 2 prisoners that were murdered by US while in a prisoner camp.

Doesn't this now present a reason for no other country to follow GENEVA Convention for treatment of POWs since the US under Bush/Rumsfeld has tortured POWs to death?

Bush & Rumsfeld actions have now directly made any US soldier taken prisoner more subject to death while captured, DOES IT NOT ?*

 

[joe dick]

centcom holding bs fest

'iraqis pretending to surrender - then opening fire'




U.S. Says Iraq Troops Used 'Ruses' to Kill Troops

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2432181

 

[joe dick]

Rumsfeld says Iraq ready to use banned weapons
Iraqi military commanders appear to have received discretion to use chemical and biological weapons but US troops have not yet found any such weapons, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-24mar2003-12.htm