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| Iraq continues sending reinforcements to Basra |
| 2003-03-24 |
| The mobilization of Iraqi troops to the southern port city of Basra continued on Monday as a convoy comprising six Iraqi armored vehicles was reported to be moving on the Faw-Basra road. IRNA correspondent in the southwestern border island of Minoo has reported that the convoy was moving toward Basra at 03:25 pm local time, adding that the vehicles kept pulling over and forming arrangement to counter air raids at the sound of approaching hostile planes. The US-British planes had bombarded the Faw-Basra road for several times earlier in the day. Hope somebody noticed and delivered the delicacies of the season... By air mail. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #5 Daisy cutter time!!!!!!! |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-03-24 22:01:55 |
| #4 correct liberalhawk, but you missed one critical strategy: " the vehicles kept pulling over and forming arrangement to counter air raids at the sound of approaching hostile planes" the dreaded Tikrit version of a Chinese Fire Drill |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-03-24 18:08:12 |
| #3 uh, geography, people :) Theyre moving TOWARDS Basra on the Fao-Basra road. IE they're heading north. IE they're retreating. |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-03-24 15:34:40 |
| #2 Six armored vehicles. Six? [enable sarcasam] A mighty Arab armada! The Black Watch are now doubt quaking in their kilts, contemplating this furious six-vehicle Blitzkrieg. [disable sarcasm] In all honesty, what sort of militarily significant counterattack is a reinforced platoon of six vehicles going to mount against a couple of divisions, assuming they even get there alive? |
| Posted by: Mike 2003-03-24 15:22:41 |
| #1 Forming arrangmeents to counter air raids? If this is true they are just making themselves easier targets. This report is bogus, unless those six armored vehicles are heading to Basra to surrender, and they've contacted the coalition troops, they're dead men driving. |
| Posted by: Yank 2003-03-24 14:23:12 |