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| Iraq |
| Nasiriyah on verge of collapse |
| 2003-04-03 |
| Fierce battles continued in the streets of Nassiriya, which has have been besieged by coalition forces over the past two weeks. According to reliable sources, both warring sides suffered heavy casualties in the course of the battles to gain control of the southeastern Iraqi city. US forces bombarded a maternity hospital in Nassiriya on Wednesday which was believed to have been used for military purposes. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #6 Stories like liberalhawk's make me proud of the coalition's armed forces. Thanks for posting it! |
| Posted by: Former Russian Major 2003-04-03 20:51:27 |
| #5 could I get a link to that, Liberalhawk? Beautiful! Ain't it wonderful how an army of lies flees in the face of a footsoldier of truth? |
| Posted by: Ptah 2003-04-03 18:00:48 |
| #4 More from Nassiriyah (this is either AP or Reuters) 'Cpl. Nicholas Beitia, 22, of Elko, Nev., survived a shootout on his first day in Iraq (news - web sites), and experienced the death of a fellow soldier. He was spooked by the chance of an ambush or a false surrender by Iraqi troops. "At first I hated these people," acknowledged Beitia, a member of the 1st Platoon, Echo Company of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit. But his attitude changed Wednesday during his first house-to-house search, when he was greeted like a long-lost relative. In one Iraqi home, he was treated to "the best tea I've ever tasted." The civilians seemed terrified in the first house he searched. Beitia assumed they expected the Americans to murder the men, rape the women and plunder the home. "Then I got down on my knee and gave their little girl a piece of chewing gum," he related. "The father was ecstatic. It was like I was saying I was not better than them. When I got I got down on my knee, they almost started to cry. "They brought us tea. There was a daughter in the house who could speak some English, and they gave us some fresh pita bread." He spoke of the tea and bread almost wistfully, since these Marines had lived exclusively on field rations for months. And he recalled how his hosts raced to neighbors' homes, telling them to allow the Americans to conduct their search and leave. ' |
| Posted by: liberalhawk 2003-04-03 15:32:08 |
| #3 However the British Red Cross denied an earlier report that a Red Crescent maternity hospital had been bombed and at least three doctors and nurses had been wounded. He said: "A missile struck the building opposite and the blast was so strong that the windows and roof of the hospital were damaged. But no one inside the hospital was injured - the building was evacuated three days ago http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,928210,00.html |
| Posted by: growler 2003-04-03 13:21:38 |
| #2 Not to mention that ... we're after their baby milk again! "Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh accused coalition forces of breaking into Iraqi warehouses and stealing children's milk and supplies." http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Baghdad.html?pagewanted=print&position=top |
| Posted by: Alicia 2003-04-03 12:49:32 |
| #1 Not just a hospital... a maternity hospital. |
| Posted by: Rawsnacks 2003-04-03 12:34:52 |