Saddam International Airport is under new management / chemical warfare training facility found outside Baghdad
Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
April 4, 2003
Renamed Airport Gateway to Iraq's Future
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2003/n04042003_200304041.html
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Excerpts:
WASHINGTON, April 4, 2003 -- Saddam International Airport
is under new management and has been renamed Baghdad
International Airport, U.S. Central Command officials said today.
Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, during a news conference in
Qatar, said Army 5th Corps forces took the airport after heavy
fighting. He said the airport will now be the "gateway to the
future of Iraq."
... Brooks said coalition forces found a chemical warfare train-
ing facility outside Baghdad. They also found a warehouse with
containers filled with a suspicious substance. He said experts
have taken samples and are testing them. ...
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> April 4, 2003
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> Renamed Airport Gateway to Iraq's Future
> http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2003/n04042003_200304041.html
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afterwards your fascist nightmare will start. It's early days in the
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Iraq first, Iran and China next
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The National Security Strategy of the United States of America
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Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
April 4, 2003
Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Iraq: How Is The Campaign To Seize
Baghdad Likely To Take Shape?
http://tinyurl.com/8tzh
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Excerpt:
Now that coalition forces have seized Baghdad's interna-
tional airport, where do the troops go from here, and how
is the campaign to seize the Iraqi capital likely to take
shape?
RFE/RL gets the views of two defense analysts.
Prague, 4 April 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Military experts agree
that the coalition's seizure of Baghdad's international airport,
just 20 kilometers from the center of Iraq's capital, is a major
prize in the two-week-old battle for control of the country.
Saddam International Airport's fall into U.S. hands has im-
mediate symbolic significance and could soon be of military
use to U.S. and British forces if the area around the facility
can be made safe.
That's according to Colonel Christopher Langton, head of
defense analysis as the London-based Institute of Interna-
tional and Strategic Studies. "It is definitely symbolic," he
said. "However, it has strategic significance for the coming
days, once the area is secure and supplies, including hu-
manitarian supplies, can be flown into what is actually a well-
constructed and workable airport."
The big question is: What happens next? How are coalition
forces likely to deal with the task of capturing Baghdad, now
that they are at the city's doorstep? ...
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April 4, 2003
U.S. Forces Find Iraqi Chemical Warfare Training Center
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/4/4/141154.shtml
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Excerpts:
U.S. forces have discovered a complex that may have
been used by the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to
develop and construct chemical weapons, and another
complex that is believed to be a nuclear, biological and
chemical warfare training school, a U.S. Central Com-
mand briefing officer says.
U.S. Army Special Forces found a site in western Iraq
near Mudaysis that probably was used as a nuclear,
biological, and chemical (NBC) warfare training center
for the Iraqi Army ...
... During the briefing, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks
showed an image of an array of brown-tinted bottles with
yellow labels that are similar to the containers in which
chemicals are customarily stored, and one was clearly
marked "Tabun," a known chemical warfare agent.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) identifies
"Tabun" as a man-made chemical warfare agent classi-
fied as a nerve agent. Nerve agents are the most toxic
and rapidly acting of the known chemical warfare agents,
a CDC fact sheet says. Tabun was originally developed
as a pesticide in Germany in 1936, and it is a clear,
colorless, tasteless liquid with a faint fruity odor, the
CDC says.
"We know that the Iraqis have conducted chemical train-
ing," Brooks said. "We've seen it in a number of places
we've gone throughout the country." ...
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maff
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> April 4, 2003
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> Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
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> Iraq: How Is The Campaign To Seize
> Baghdad Likely To Take Shape?
> http://tinyurl.com/8tzh
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Pro-Humanist FREELOVER
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Life After Saddam
http://tinyurl.com/8uxu
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Friday's mission for the soldiers of the U.S.
3rd Infantry Division, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry:
Secure Saddam International Airport. A major
complex just 12 miles from downtown Baghdad,
troops went in prepared for heavy resistance.
http://tinyurl.com/8uw7
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What Will It Take To Win?
http://tinyurl.com/8uxm
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Staff Sgt Jack Coughlin from Boston,
Mass., of the 3rd Battalion, 4th Marines
Regiment, jokes with Iraqi villagers
http://tinyurl.com/8uri
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Dust-covered U.S. Marines from the 2nd
Battalion, 8th Regiment travel north near
Diwaniyah in central Iraq
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David Toughill, a soldier with Britain's Desert Rats,
plays with a local girl in Zubayr, southern Iraq
http://tinyurl.com/8umi
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U.S. Army Bradley fighting vehicles from A
Company 3rd Battalion 7th Regiment continue
on their way after destroying an Iraqi military
vehicle on the outskirts of Baghdad
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US army soldiers secure an area close
to the Shiite Muslim holy city of Karbala
following a battle with Iraqi forces
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British soldier guarding ammunition left at
an abandoned Iraqi base west of Basra
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Medical battallion Chief Hospital Corpsman David
Jones from New York ... holds a newborn Iraqi baby
... Doctors supporting U.S. Marine combat operations
in Iraq had to brush up their child delivery skills when
a young Iraqi woman, Jamila Katham, was brought to
their base and gave birth to a six-pound baby girl ... The
baby, Katham's first child, has been named Rogenia.
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Members of Britain's 3 Parachute Regiment
Mortar Platoon firing in the desert west of Basra
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A view of strikes by U.S. warplanes in the Domis
area between Dohuk and Mosul in northern Iraq
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Royal Marines use hovercraft to patrol
in the Shatt al Basra, south of Basra
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U.S. Marine Cpl. Joseph Ellis of Hickory, N.C.,
and Task Force Tarawa places sandbags on
his Humvee as parakeets used to detect
chemical weapons sit on the hood
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An Iraqi man in a cart pulled by donkeys crosses
through a British checkpoint near Basra
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U.S. Marines from Lima Company, a part of the
7th regiment, secure a bridge over Tigris river
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Just nineteen ... Private Jessica Lynch, from
Palestine, West Virginia, captured by the
Iraqis and saved by Navy Seals and Army
Rangers in a rescue operation
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Units from the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division fire
missiles at the Iraqi Republican Guard near Karbala
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US Army armament crew specialist Michael Mayo,
from Florida, loads the rocket pod of an an Apache
AH-64D attack helicopter in the central Iraqi desert
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US Navy boatswain's mate guides British Army
light armored vehicle into position on the
amphibious landing ship USS Rushmore
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Smoke bellows from a building hit during
a coalition forces air raid in Baghdad
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A U.S. Marine with the 15th Expeditionary Unit holds
a baby as the baby's mother attempts to pass through
a checkpoint at the Saddam Hospital in An Nasiriyah
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A portrait of Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein lies
amongst the debris of an Iraqi base in southern Iraq
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British troops unload a truck full of supplies
for the village of Imam Anas, outside Basra,
where a ration card system has been used
to ensure food is distributed fairly
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Scimitar of the Queens Dragoon Guards (right)
looks on as a striker vehicle fires a sidewinder
missile at an Iraqi bunker in southern Iraq
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Chief Warrant Officer Chris Roop ... tries to cover
his gear with a poncho near an A2C2S Black Hawk
as a ferocious sandstorm hits the ... 101st Airborne
Division's fleet of more than 270 attack helicopters
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An Iraqi child receives humanitarian
aid from British Royal Marines on
the streets of Umm Qasr
http://tinyurl.com/8gi8
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U.S. Marines read magazines whilst wearing
respirators during a gas attack alert in an
undisclosed location in the Iraqi desert
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British Royal Marine Eric Walderman dons the
kevlar helmet which saved his life after it was
hit by four bullets during a firefight in the assault
on the southern Iraq port of Umm Qsar
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Two F/A-18 Hornets take off for a strike against
Iraq from the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman
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Smoke billows from an explosion in
the presidential compound in Baghdad
following a US-British air raid
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British Challenger 2 tanks fire on enemy
vehicles on the front line just outside Basra
http://tinyurl.com/8gjj
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Chemical warfare specialist Lance Cpl. Thomas
Conroy ... of the U.S. Marines 3rd Batallion, 4th
Regiment, takes care of his pigeon while Cpl. Buck
Flowers ... looks on in central Iraq ... The pigeon,
called "Devil Bird," is used to detect chemical attacks.
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British Royal Marine Roger Green gives
out sweets to Iraqi children as British
Troops bring the first humanitarian aid
to Umm Qasr, Southern Iraq
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K-Dog R , a bottle-nose dolphin belonging to
Commander Task Unit CTU-55.4.3 and trained
to seek out mines, leaps out of the water
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Smokescreen decoys burn around
Baghdad as the Iraqi regime set fire to
oil filled trenches surrounding the city
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Members of the Desert Rats - Zulu Company,
British Royal Fusiliers, drive their Warrior tank
into a portrait of Saddam Hussein
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Smoke billows during a US strike on
a presidential palace in Baghdad
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Smoke covers the presidential palace
compound in Baghdad during a massive
US-led air raid on the Iraqi capital
http://tinyurl.com/8gm8
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British Royal Artillary troops from 29 Commando
Regiment fire their 105mm light guns from a
position in the Kuwait desert at targets in Southern
Iraq during the first night of the allied campaign
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Gulf War II
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Bound For Baghdad
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Donald Rumsfeld's Blueprint For War
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Do You Want This War?
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US "embedded" reporters need caveat when they speak
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