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Wednesday 2 April 2003
	Colonel Roman Polko, head commander of the Polish élite commando GROM speaks at a press conference in Warsaw today. Polko returned from Iraq here he was coördinating actions of his soldiers taking part in the U.S.-led war against Iraq. Some 56 GROM soldiers are in Iraq and another group is in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz) A Kurdish fighter passes a mural depicting an Iraqui soldier with Arabic text reading 'God, Country, and Leader' at a command post used by Iraqi military near the village of Lajan, now Kurdish-held northern Iraq, at some 15 kilometers (10 miles) southeast of Irbil, today, after Iraqi troops withdrew from the area following a night of heavy bombing by American-led coälition forces. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) US Marines with the 15th Expeditionaly Unit remove the Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's portrait from a wall in the city of An Nassiriyah, southern Iraq, today. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)
Tuesday 1 April 2003
	This satellite image of Baghdad was collected by DigitalGlobe's QuickBird satellite today. U.S. warplanes bombed a presidential compound in Baghdad on April 2 where President Saddam Hussein's son Qusay has his headquarters, a Reuters witness said. (DigitalGlobe via Reuters) The Washington Post reported Tuesday that Bush ordered the war's first strikes after two Iraqi officials close to Saddam told the CIA that the Iraqi leader would be at the targeted bunker. After two F-117 "stealth" bombers dropped 2,000-pound precision-guided bombs on the underground facility and cruise missiles rained down on its external structures, Saddam was carried off in a stretcher, blue in the face and taking oxygen, according the CIA's Iraqi sources. The two Iraqi officers have since safely fled Iraq, the Post said. Has anyone seen this man? It's surprising to me that Saddam Hussein wouldn't make any obviously live telecasts if he weren't a casulty of the decapitation stroke with which this war started. I presume he's dead. It would have been interesting to see how he would have handled the endgame, but perhaps "interesting" is too mild a word if he would have ordered any scorched earth tactics... Pvt. Nicholas Henderson of Lawrence, Kansas, from the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division, directs Iraqi men waiting to get searched at a checkpoint in Najaf in central Iraq today. The 101st Division is pushing to control An Najaf. (AP Photo/Jan-Marc Bouju)
Monday 31 March 2003
	From somename named Vu, at a website named Who Woulda Thunk It?, and now making the email rounds: With all of this talk of war, many of us will encounter "Peace Activists" who will try and convince us that we must refrain from retaliating against the ones who terrorized us all on September 11, 2001, and those who support terror. These activists may be alone or in a gathering...most of us don't know how to react to them. When you come upon one of these people, or one of their rallies, here are the proper rules of étiquette: 1. Listen politely while this person explains their views. Strike up a conversation if necessary and look very interested in their ideas. They will tell you how revenge is immoral, and that by attacking the people who did this to us, we will only bring on more violence. They will probably use many arguments, ranging from political to religious to humanitarian. 2. In the middle of their remarks, without any warning, punch them in the nose. 3. When the person gets up off of the ground, they will be very angry and they may try to hit you, so be careful. 4. Very quickly and calmly remind the person that violence only brings about more violence and remind them of their stand on this matter. Tell them if they are really committed to a nonviolent approach to undeserved attacks, they will turn the other cheek and negotiate a solution. Tell them they must lead by example if they really believe what they are saying. 5. Most of them will think for a moment and then agree that you are correct. 6. As soon as they do that, hit them again. Only this time hit them much harder. Square in the nose. 7. Repeat steps 2-5 until the desired results are obtained and the idiot realizes how stupid of an argument he/she is making. 8. There is no difference in an individual attacking an unsuspecting victim or a group of terrorists attacking a nation of people. It is unacceptable and must be dealt with. Perhaps at a high cost. We owe our military a huge debt for what they are about to do for us and our children. We must support them and our leaders at times like these. We have no choice. We either strike back, VERY HARD, or we will keep getting hit in the nose. Lesson over, class dismissed. A senior U.S. commander at coalition headquarters in Qatar has issued a stern warning to the Iraqi air force, saying if it tries to dispute U.S. dominance of the skies, it will be destroyed. The Iraqi air force has stayed on the ground since the war in Iraq began 12 days ago. Iraq has kept its air force grounded since the U.S.-led coalition launched its war against the Saddam Hussein regime. Asked why the Iraqi Air Force has not flown, General Vincent Brooks, the deputy head of operations for the Central Command, told reporters in Qatar that the reason is simple. "If they fly, they die. It is as simple as that. If they come up, we will destroy them, and if we find them, we will destroy them," General Brooks said. American television network NBC said today it had severed its relations with veteran reporter Peter Arnett after he told Iraqi television that the U.S. war plan against Saddam Hussein had failed. 'Peter Arnett will no longer be reporting for NBC News and MSNBC,' NBC said in a joint statement with National Geographic, for whom the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter was also working. Arnett is seen in this March 26 video still. (Reuters) Arnett, 68, is one of the few TV journalists in Baghdad. He was the first Western journalist to interview Osama bin Laden and the last to interview Saddam Hussein. He gained much of his prominence for reporting the last conflict with Iraq for CNN. His Pulitzer Prize came for reporting in Vietnam in 1966 for the Associated Press. His firing was a cowardly act by his corporate masters. Had they just let his apology stand they would have kept a respected voice. Instead, they've lost a great reporter (to the Daily Mirror, which saw a good thing and jumped to acquire it) and much respect. Good job of standing by an employee. Discarded Iraqi gas masks lie just as they were found by British forces in Basra today. The net was closing on Saddam loyalists in the city of Basra Monday in the wake of the biggest offensive so far in Iraq by Royal Marine commandos. By nightfall Sunday, around 600 Royal Marines from 40 Commando had taken up a consolidation position in a suburb (AP Photo/Tony Nicoletti, Pool) U.S. Army soldiers from A Company 3rd Battalion 7th Infantry Regiment approach an injured woman who was caught in the crossfire with Iraqi forces over the Euphrates River when the U.S. Army siezed a bridge in Al Hindiyah, Iraq today. The Army's Task Force 4-64, part of the 3rd Infantry Division, took the strategic bridge in its move north towards Baghdad. The woman, who was near a dead civilian man, was bleeding and apparently shot in the buttock. (AP Photo/John Moore) British Royal Marine commandos hang their laundry among ruins near Basra today in the wake of the biggest offensive so far in Iraq by Royal Marine commandos. By nightfall Sunday, around 600 Royal Marines from 40 Commando had taken up a consolidation position in the southern suburb of Abu al Khasib after a 15-hour assault designed to encourage Saddam Hussein's opponents in Basra to rise up against his regime. (AP Photo/Tony Nicoletti/Daily Record, Pool) Cpl. Stewart Robson, left, and Lance Cpl. Gavin Dodds of the Black Watch with stand freed hostages Jacob Maina Kamau, second left, and David Mukuria today in southern Iraq. The two Kenyan truck drivers who are said to have been kidnapped 10 days ago outside the town of Az Zubayr in southern Iraq, were rescued Monday by British troops, British military officials said. ( AP Photo/ Nick Parker, Pool)