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| Iraq |
| More for the Meat Grinder outside Baghdad |
| 2003-04-01 |
| 4:38 EST The Iraqi military has brought in reinforcements to bolster Republican Guard Al Medina Division units that have been battered by days of air strikes, artillery attacks and assaults from tank-busting Apache helicopters. Reinforcements reportedly include a few Republican Guard divisions and elite troops backed by heavy armor. (You keep sending them and we'll keep chewing them!) FOLLOWUP, from MSNBC: At the Pentagon, NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski reported that U.S. intelligence indicated a full armored brigade from the Adnan division of the Republican Guard had been destroyed as it made its way from Tikrit, north of Baghdad, to defensive positions south of the capital. |
| Posted by:Tadderly |
| #9 Fox says 3ID's in a big brawl in Karbala. Says this is the start of the push to Baghdad. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-01 22:52:50 |
| #8 Granted there is the RG and SRG, but unit cohesiveness has taken quite a beating with 24x7 air strikes and artillery barrages. If anyone has CW and BW weapons it will be SRG or one of Saddam's special intelligence units. It could either way: They collapse and give up, or they figure they have nothing to lose launch the bad stuff. |
| Posted by: Doug De Bono 2003-04-01 21:05:28 |
| #7 Well, there's the Republican Guard, and then there's the Special Republican Guard. No joke. |
| Posted by: John Thacker 2003-04-01 17:31:47 |
| #6 The plan suggested 2 centers of gravity: Saddam and the RG. We may have missed the Dirt Bag, but he's got a nice used tank lot of slightly used and abuse Soviet armor south of Baghdad. |
| Posted by: Doug De Bono 2003-04-01 17:25:31 |
| #5 the more I see 'the plan' in action, the more beautiful it looks. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-04-01 16:46:56 |
| #4 Looks like they're giving up the north and committing to the south in a BIG attempt to give us a bloody nose down there and try to make us quit. Trouble is, when they move, they die. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-04-01 16:44:36 |
| #3 Iraq seems to have an awful lot of "Elite" troops. |
| Posted by: Yosemite Sam 2003-04-01 16:33:24 |
| #2 Holy Crap!!! Republican Guard and elite troops? How will the (other than elite?) US military ever make it? |
| Posted by: Rawsnacks 2003-04-01 15:58:56 |
| #1 Parenthetical statement is mine - i can't figure out the friggin' hi-lite. Sorry. |
| Posted by: Tadderly 2003-04-01 15:56:02 |