There was a distinct feeling of deja vu from 1994 in the air this week. Backthen, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak saved the international community fromembarrassment by physically forcing Yasser Arafat to sign the Gaza-Jerichoagreement on live television. This week, Mubarak sent the commander of his intelligence service to repeat the performance. General Omar Sulieman came... [ Read entire Post ]
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April 2003 Archives
April 25, 2003 at 7:35 PM
Abbas's burden of proof
April 16, 2003 at 7:26 PM
America's gift for Pessah
After three weeks of intense fighting, the American military offensiveagainst Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq more or less ended last Saturday.The military operation can be compared to smashing down pieces on a chessboard by a violent hand and rearranging them according to a new guidinglogic. The manner in which the pieces of the Iraqi regime... [ Read entire Post ]
April 11, 2003 at 7:09 PM
The rewards of vigilance
BAGHDAD - At first glance, the smiling faces of the Iraqi throngs who mobbedthe streets of Baghdad throughout Wednesday were cause for unadulteratedjubilation.US and British forces, after 12 years, have finally arrived to liberate themfrom the terror regime of Saddam Hussein.The smiles on the faces of the pillaging mobs making off with every piece ofgovernment... [ Read entire Post ]
April 10, 2003 at 7:00 PM
'Go Bush, yes America,' Iraqis cheer
BAGHDAD - A smiling burka-clad Shi'ite woman gave a big thumbs-up to the USforces she passed as she walked along the road in southern Baghdad, dragginga bathtub she had just looted.'Go Bush! Yes America!' she called out.Thousands upon thousands of Iraqi civilians took to the streets of Baghdadyesterday, smiling and waving at US forces as... [ Read entire Post ]
April 8, 2003 at 6:51 PM
Baghdad battle pits US against Syrians, Palestinians, Jordanians
HIGHWAY 8, SOUTH BAGHDAD - At nightfall Monday US forces had taken overfootholds in large swaths of Baghdad.The 3rd Infantry Division's Second Brigade was located at the center of thecity. The 3rd Brigade was located in northwest Baghdad and the Marines werelocated in the city's northeast. The 1st brigade was still securing theairport, with the... [ Read entire Post ]
April 7, 2003 at 6:47 PM
US forces tighten grip on Baghdad
SADDAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - US forces continued Sunday to destroy IraqiRepublican Guard Units in and around Baghdad in their bid to overthrowSaddam Hussein's regime. By the afternoon, 3rd Infantry Division and MarineCorps units had enveloped some 90 percent of Baghdad.The 3rd Infantry Division's 3rd Brigade destroyed a Republican Guard tankbattalion on Sunday. In the fight,... [ Read entire Post ]
April 6, 2003 at 6:38 PM
Holding the airport
BAGHDAD AIRPORT - A call came over the radio at 2:30 p.m. Saturday: Twotruckloads of Iraqi civilians, displaced when the US Army took over theSaddam Hussein International Airport in Baghdad late Thursday night, wouldbe moving through the lines escorted on either side by Army vehicles.The call was a warning not to shoot; the civilians had... [ Read entire Post ]
How US forces captured Saddam International Airport
BAGHDAD AIRPORT - 'We are on an offensive-oriented mission. Our job is todestroy the enemy. We defend the airfield by destroying the enemy aroundus,' explained Lt. Col. Scott Rutter, commander of the 2-7 MechanizedInfantry Battalion, at a command briefing to his officers Saturdayafternoon.The 2-7 Battalion, together with the 3-69 Battalion from the 3rd InfantryDivision First... [ Read entire Post ]
April 4, 2003 at 6:19 PM
Combat Diary
I just finished my first 'Ranger pudding.' Sitting in the back of theBradley fighting vehicle, I followed the recipe instructions I received afew days ago from one of the guys in the battalion: 'You take the cocoapowder pouch in the MREs [combat rations], add a pouch of instant coffee,fill the cocoa pouch with water, and... [ Read entire Post ]
'We're going to destroy these bastards'
About 30 minutes after a suicide bomber killed four soldiers from the 2-7 Mechanized Infantry Battalion, Operations Officer Maj. Rod Coffey stood before the maps lying on the table of the battalion operation tent absentmindedly but violently smashing his plastic water bottle on the table.Coffey managed the front-rear coordination of the operation to secure the... [ Read entire Post ]
April 3, 2003 at 6:08 PM
US forces within 50 km. of Baghdad
SOUTH OF BAGHDAD - The much awaited ground offensive toward Baghdad began at 2 a.m. Wednesday. By sundown, the US forces had decimated the Republican GuardMedina Division's 14th Brigade and moved within 50 kilometers of the Iraqicapital and into the 'red zone' defensive cordon, US military officialssaid.US forces from the 3rd Infantry Division were stationed... [ Read entire Post ]
April 1, 2003 at 5:59 PM
Air attacks target Iraqi artillery near capital
Air attacks target Iraqi artillery near capitalSOUTH OF BAGHDAD - As I sat with US Air Force Master Sgt. J.B. Bruening inthe shade of his humvee, the voice of a special forces operative came overhis satellite radio calling in F-14 air strikes against a weapons cache andartillery pieces in Karbala.Bruening, 36, a 16-year veteran who... [ Read entire Post ]
