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Private First Class Lynch & the 3/7 Cavalry & the Battle of Baghdad Airport April 3-8, 2003
Writing on April 13 for the Danger Room blog at Wired, Hambling says that from the description al-Rawi gives in the Al Jazeera interview of a series of explosions that killed the occupants of buildings without destroying the structures, “Interestingly, there is a weapon in the U.S. arsenal designed to do exactly that. ... The AGM-114N.”
Hambling continues, “On May 15th, 2003, just a few weeks after the action at Baghdad airport, Donald Rumsfeld praised the new weapon. ... Although officially described as ‘metal augmented’ or even ‘hyperbaric,’ the new warhead is not distinguishable from thermobaric weapons which produce the same sort of enhanced blast with a lower overpressure and longer duration for more destructive effects. Like many thermobarics, the AGM-114N used finely powdered aluminum. The military are generally quiet about thermobarics because they have received such bad press. Human Rights Watch criticized them because they ‘kill and injure in a particularly brutal manner over a wide area.’ “
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david bloom 3/7 cavalry
The Rescue of Private First Class Lynch
On the evening of 1 April 2003, SOF, supported by marines, assaulted the hospital in which Private Jessica Lynch was being treated.
Although there have been news stories subsequently suggesting that the assault was unnecessary since Iraqi troops had left the day before, one fact is clear--the SOF troops brought Lynch out.
Her capture, her captivity, even her return home stimulated speculation and enormous media attention
Staff Sergeant Joe Todd,
.Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Twitty, commander of TF 3-15 IN, knew Bloom better than any other soldier in the task force. They had first met 12 years earlier when Bloom, as a young up-and-coming journalist, covered the 24th Infantry Division during Operation DESERT STORM. Twitty was then a captain, serving as aide de camp for then-Major General Barry McCaffrey, commander of the 24th Infantry Division.211
As for the Ramsaj reports ceasing, that was not a surprise. They were too good. They were bound to be stopped sooner or later.
In an interview published by the Crawford, Texas, Lone Star Iconoclast (lonestaricon.com), May says, “The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter was that it was simply too bloody an event to report.
“The bogus rescue of Private Lynch was merely a distraction from the truth,” said May. “And the staged photo-op of the pulling down of Saddam Hussein’s statue was nothing more than a way to cement into people’s minds that it was an easy victory.”
Congressional hearings on April 24 heard testimony on “the histories of Pfc. Jessica D. Lynch and Cpl. Pat Tillman ... as egregious examples of officials’ twisting the truth for public relations in wartime.” (“Government Challenged on Lynch and Tillman,” New York Times, April 24)
Captain May says, “I think the Battle of Baghdad was emblematic of the whole misadventure in the Middle East. There is nothing that I thought then that I don’t think now has been validated by time. The American public still doesn’t know that there was a Battle of Baghdad because the media-military apparatus constructed the Private Jessica Lynch mess to hold attention.”
May continues: “The best evidence that I have from international sources, scientific sources, is that our position was becoming untenable at the Baghdad airport and we used a neutron warhead, at least one. That is the big secret of Baghdad airport.
Three hours later, the city shook from more multiple explosions, and antiaircraft fire shot into the sky.
American armored divisions launched the assault on the airport, 12 miles from the center of the Iraqi capital, as U.S.-led coalition troops advanced on the city.
CM: I had just come back from teaching a martial arts class on Friday, April 4, 2003. That would have been the morning of April 5 in Baghdad. Immediately, what I saw on CNN, about 9 p.m. Central time, was that Baghdad had been surrounded. We had dedicated the military forces to enveloping and making it succumb piece-by-piece, maybe sending in the 101st Airborne.
Then, all of a sudden, there was a report of explosions and CNN started to act like they were all rattled and didn’t know it was coming. Given that I was a prior service and intelligence public affairs officer, I knew very well that meant unexpected contact. Pretty soon, they were saying there were huge explosions from the airport, and the next thing you know, they’re casting over to imbed Walter Rogers from CNN. As he’s broadcasting from Baghdad Airport, you can hear artillery hitting around his Humvee and you can hear small arms fire hitting it: a distinct ping, ping, ping. That pretty much told me they were getting fired up bad.
That was when it was still pre-dawn in Baghdad. By dawn, Lt. Col. Terry Ferrell, the 3/7 Cavalry Group commander appeared on TV during CNN evening coverage and he broke down into tears when he trying to say everything was okay at Baghdad Airport. That made it clear to me that the 3/7, the scout unit, the cavalry squadron that attended the 3rd Infantry Division, the U.S. Army division that had surrounded Baghdad, had wound up in a close fight in the Baghdad Airport. That’s what I picked up at the time.
By the next day, CNN was saying there was substantial contradiction in facts from various media reports. Arab media were putting out 200 U.S. dead at the airport. Russian Intel put out that dozens were dead and a real fight had developed. U.S. media were putting out that Jessica Lynch had been rescued.
JA: How do you account for foreign media reporting about a bloody battle and U.S. media being silent about the airport while highlighting the rescue of Jessica Lynch?
CM: To me, at this point, it was a done deal. The Battle of Baghdad was essentially blocked out from April 5 all the way through April 8. On April 9, you had the pull-down of the Saddam statue which represents a pretty efficient ending of the Battle of Baghdad. But, it really was a propaganda ending. The pull-down was a staged event and I’ve heard that the few Iraqis there were not even Iraqis.
JA: Why have you taken such passion about the Battle of Baghdad?
Stranger than fiction Order Now
CM: The propaganda cover-up of the Battle of Baghdad, what we call BOBCUP (Battle of Baghdad Cover-up) was so conspicuously against the United States principles of information, which is what we follow in the Department of Defense Public Affairs operations, was so egregiously out of line, it was then that I self-mobilized my mission of conscience because, basically, it was apparent to me at that point, that we were under dictatorship. Suppressing the events of an entire battle and keeping it suppressed long after the battle was over … you know, you could have said, "Well, we didn’t want to tell the Iraqis where our troops were," or something else. But, you can’t say that months and months and months and years after the event.
JA: How do you account for foreign media reporting about a bloody battle and U.S. media being silent about the airport while highlighting the rescue of Jessica Lynch?
Of course there was a fierce fight for BIAP. Saddam's hunting lodge and palace are on the same compound. Hate to break this to you...The Battle of Baghdad was on the US News. Check out some of Ollie North's reports. The embeds did a good job. You do realize seizing Baghad happened 4 months ahead of schedule. And Jessica Lynch was rescued on 1 April not 4 or 5 April. 3ID and 101st were moving so fast and busting up what remained of the Iraqi disruption zones, one unit ran out of ammo, picked up Iraqi weapons and started fighting.
Heal me, O Lord, and I shall be healed; Save me, and I shall be saved, For You are my praise. Jeremiah 17:14
And while I'mm waiting for sdources from my padded cell....
LMFAO....8D
A little history:
Think back now the "crazy" claim by the Iraqi Information Minister, whom our media labeled a ridiculous "Baghdad Bob." On April 5, 2003, he made the claim from Baghdad that there was a fierce fight going on between US and Iraqi forces at the Baghdad International Airport and that the Iraqis were inflicting heavy casualties on our soldiers and Marines. That's about the last thing you will remember about the battle, because that's when Bush told the media to pull the plug on the truth and start lying. Within hours the media began to feed us a story about! Private Jessica Lynch as a distraction, and stopped reporting the US attempt to take Baghdad, clearly the biggest story of the war. They didn't return the cameras to Baghdad until April 9, after the fighting was over, when they broadcast the US Army pulling down the statue of Saddam Hussein.
The biggest story of the war became a non-event when the truth of the matter is that it was simply too bloody an event to report. If we had known that things were getting tough, we might have had second thoughts - and the Bush media is not going to let us think for ourselves. They haven't cared about the Constitution or journalistic ethics from the beginning; what they have cared about is boosting the war for their big bosses and Bush, public be damned!
And Jessica Lynch was rescued on 1 April not 4 or 5 April. 3ID and 101st were moving so fast and busting up what remained of the Iraqi disruption zones, one unit ran out of ammo, picked up Iraqi weapons and started fighting.
You continue to try to ignore 600 years of judicial precedent.
Now why did you happen to pick 600 years ago and then post 1942 and 1871 US Verdicts?
That approx 600 years ago was the start of American genocide by the conquering Europeans, still honoring same today in the US?
No. That's not it.
That there is Still to this day no DC Memorial to the Slavery that built Congress and the White House?
Not that either.
Must be the Magna Carta. The Beginning of Habeus Corpus that the USSA HAS overthrown.
"You continue to try to ignore 600 years of judicial precedent."
When every attempt to peaceably overthrow the yoke that the Top 400 continue to try to throw over the head of ALL the Bottom 99%.
When the Treason of December 14, 2000 (AND every POTUS that has opposed the Central Bank has been shot annd shot at),
AND we get the Treason of 9/11 months after...
which then hurls us into a STATE OF EMERGENCY renewed EVERY year by the sitting POTUS....
the Rule of Law is the Rule of Kleptocracy. A Plutarchy.
And pretending the Bottom 99% have some say, when the POTUS has claimed and PERFORMED the right to kill any American at any time for any reason is to be part of the problem.
" Generally, the term is said to be the notion that America has a unique historic mission, values and ideals, that are either endowed by God or enshrined in the Constitution that make it exceptional in the world. Holy f**k, this is shaping up to be one long, miserable campaign. If you want to know why there is absolutely no hope that America will be able to change course before we manage to destroy ourselves, look no further than this happy horseshit. It was this dumbass idea that somehow America is exceptional, and therefore not bound by the limitations that bog down other mere mortal nations, that was a huge factor in getting us into such a huge f**king mess in the first place. This bulls**t all started with Ronald Reagan, of course. Jimmy Carter tried in his own bumbling and inept manner to warn Americans that there were limits not only to our military power but to the energy resources that fueled our very way of life. During the 1980 presidential campaign, Reagan and his minions took Carter's warnings and won big by beating him over the head with them. Then Reagan won re-election by using the same American exceptionalism club to wallop Walter Mondale..."
And I KNEW from DAY 1 of Reagan's Election that Democracy was dead in the US. And have been fighting the evil fu cks every day since.
35 years....that's about how long successful guerrilla wars take to prosecute successfully.
CM: The propaganda cover-up of the Battle of Baghdad, what we call BOBCUP (Battle of Baghdad Cover-up) was so conspicuously against the United States principles of information...
Thanks Jim. I hate to ask - who is CM?
Did you read about the Arkansas football coach Petrino? What a stud!
While we're waiting, a little somethin' soemthin'....'}
What you wanna bet that these students will STILL be held liable for these 'loans':
" What's worse than graduating college with a beaucoup load of student loans? Having your college close abruptly leaving you with nothing to show for a beaucoup load of student loans. Here is InsideNOVA.com with the details:
Dreams were broken and students were left with crushing debt and nothing to show for it after ACT College abruptly closed its doors Tuesday.-billhicksisdead
Apr 18, 2011 – US Foreign Policy (Dr. El-Najjar's Articles) · www.aljazeerah.info. 3/7 Cavalry, Tragedy and Travesty. By Captain Eric H May, Ghost Troop CO ...
May 14, 2011 – Commanded by Captain Eric H. May, Ghost Troop consists of current and past high-level military .... So that became Ghost Troop, 3/7 Cavalry.
I knew the instant the Iranians released the hostages during Raygun's Inauguration that the fix was in.
They knew Carter was a chump. They were afraid of Reagan.
You didn't "know" anything. You just had one of those famous hunches of yours. You know like the real off base hunch that Florida would have to be evacuated.
According to some accounts, the US soldiers were targeted after they left their base to explore the town’s municipal park. Other reports, however, indicated that the bomber’s target was a meeting of Afghan officials taking place nearby.
The Taliban claimed credit for the attack and quoted residents as saying that after the bombing US soldiers opened fire on civilians, killing one and wounding several.
Reuters quoted Faryab’s provincial police chief, Abdul Khaliq Aqsai, as saying that the American soldiers were taking photographs in the park when they were attacked. "We warned them not to roam around the city," Aqsai told the news agency.
The police chief said witnesses reported that the bomber walked right up to the troops, shouted "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest) and detonated his explosives.
The only good thing about Reagan was Volker and bush/Greenspan put an end to him right quick. And then bush41 takes over.
Gawd, how many times did Reagan say 'I don't know' about IranContra until at the End he actually got Alzheimers and truly did not know...;}
He was the most ignorant of the inner workings of his own administration of any president in my lifetime.
And what now seems typical of a 2 term Republican president, created a nationwide financial meltdown.
Almost every country in the Middle East is awash in oil, and we have to side with the one that has nothing but joos. Goddamn, that was good thinkin'. Esso posted on 2012-01-13 7:37:56 ET
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While it has for the most part disappeared from mainstream view, the Fukushima nuclear disaster is anything but over. In fact, the situation in Japan has gone from bad to worse.
Bottom line: There is no way to contain the radiation.
And Tokio should be evac'ed now because the story is a limited hangout.
Why?
The SFP(MOX) of Reactor 3 has already been blown away...
"Even more alarming is that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and other agencies have warned that the nuclear storage pools (the containment units that are being used to cool the nuclear fuel) have been damaged and may collapse under their own weight.
Such an event would cause widespread nuclear fallout throughout the region and force the government to evacuate the nearly 10 million (and that's 36 million;) residents of Tokyo and surrounding areas, a scenario which government emergency planners are now taking into serious consideration.
Leading Japanese newspaper The Mainichi Daily News reports:
