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Previous Entry | Main | Next Entry March 23, 2003 Flash XXXVIII 5:53 CST By the way, I think I mentioned earlier that the US Embassy in Pakistan had been closed. Not good. 5:43 CST Ten oil wells continue to burn in southern Iraq. The 173 Airborne Brigade from the 82nd Airborne Division have been deployed to an airfield north of Kirkuk. B-52 bombers again are departing RAF Fairford at 2344 GMT. Two already have taken to the skies for what is assumed to be another bombing run on Baghdad. 5:38 CST Al Arabiya satellite TV reports that 103 U.S. soldiers have been killed near an Nasiriyah. A Patriot missile has intercepted an Iraqi missile over Kuwait, the country's foreign minister said early March 24 local time. U.S. officials said there is no evidence that the missile was a Scud. 5:36 CST CNN is reporting about the Russian diplomatic issue. Employees of Russian company in Baghdad helping Iraqis to learn about GPS jamming equipment, anti-tank missiles and night vision goggles. State Department will lodge a formal protest as it is a violation of UN sanctions. 5:30 CST Eric comments on 'War Journalism.' 5:26 CST Dr. DeLong comments on economics and war. 5:04 CST Aerial photography of Baghdad shows the words "human shields" written on several buildings in the city, MSNBC reports, but U.S. military officials say the words have no effect on their bombing strategy. Saudi Arabia's Consultative Council called March 23 for an immediate halt to the war in Iraq, saying the United States and Britain are undermining international law by attacking Iraq without a U.N. mandate. "The lives of millions of brothers in Iraq are in danger," according to a statement carried by the official SPA news agency. The Consultative Council, or Majlis Al-Shoura, is a 120-member appointed body that comments on proposed laws and governmental policies. Iraqi state TV has reported that President Saddam Hussein met March 23 with his leading army commanders. Daily appearances of Hussein on TV in Iraq are being used to dispel rumors that he was killed or injured during U.S. airstrikes. Iranian Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi Lari said March 23 that a missile that landed in the western region of Sardasht apparently was fired by Iraqi, not U.S., forces The Pentagon has identified the soldier killed duing an attack at Camp Pennsylvania in Kuwait as Army Capt. Christopher Scott Seifert of the the 101st Airborne Division. Fifteen other soldiers were wounded in the grenade attack, which military officials believe was the act of a Muslim sergeant from an engineering unit who opposed the war. Both water and electricity have been cut off in Basra since March 21, and electricity cables powering the major Wafa al-Quaid water station -- which supplies 2 million people and is the biggest source in the region -- have been destroyed, the Red Cross said March 23. A spokesman for the British Ministry of Defense says Iraq holds no British prisoners of war. The spokesman said that a total of 16 British soldiers and airmen are either presumed or confirmed dead following two helicopter crashes and the accidental shooting of an RAF Tornado by a U.S. Patriot missile over the last three days. Australian commandos operating deep in Iraq called in coalition fighters to destroy an Iraqi ballistic missile site, British military officials said March 23. British defense officials have officially declared the deaths of two RAF crew whose Tornado bomber was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile near the Kuwait-Iraq border. Posted by Sean-Paul @ 03/23/2003 06:02 PM | TrackBackComments: Australian commandos operating deep in Iraq called in coalition fighters to destroy an Iraqi ballistic missile site, British military officials said March 23. Ballistic? These things go a little more than 150km. Posted by: Charles M on March 23, 2003 06:26 PMWarning: Another question here: I heard on the radio this afternoon that we have taken An Nasiriyah...is this the case? Posted by: Cheez Whiz on March 23, 2003 06:30 PMA note on the footage of the US POWs; I've seen them on Euronews and the 2 largest norwegian channels. It doesn't seem newsdesks in other countries than the US & UK think they constitute war crimes. Thumbs up for the agonists for letting our US & UK friends access the same info as the rest of the world Posted by: Incy on March 23, 2003 06:33 PMWhatever came of the Iraqi search in the reeds along the Euphrates? Posted by: Peter Shriner on March 23, 2003 06:34 PMWow Sean, that was a fast reply. My family and I are Christian missionary's here just outside of Managua Nicaragua and your web-site is the best I've found for keeping up-to-date with the continued war against Saddam Insane. We don't have access to cable or Direct TV, so this is a real blessing. I guess that's what you'd call it. Like one of your other readers said, you are addicting. Great Job! Halle Posted by: Halle on March 23, 2003 06:38 PMBallistic just has to do with the trajectory of the missile, it has nothing to do with the range of the missile. Pictures not for the fainthearted. Actually these are fairly standard for al Jazeera. Their coverage of Afghanistan and of the Palestinian situation is full of really gorey images. Gives you an idea of how different are the views the Arab world gets of these events. (Note: I am not saying that they are wrong. Just that it ain't your home town newspaper.) Some of the puzzling attiudes other parts of the world evince may come from the differences in the news they see. Posted by: Fred1 on March 23, 2003 06:45 PMCheese Whiz, Here is a link to an Ananova article that indicates that we did. Eric Does al-jazeera have any reporters reporting directly from the Iraqi side? I mean, as we see images of coalition troops fighting, is al-jazeera airing anything from the Iraqi side showing them fighting coalition troops? Are their reporters "embedded" with the Iraqis? I saw what looked like an al-jazeera interview this morning with the Iraqi VP, but I'm curious if, say, there are any reporters sitting with the Republican Guards in Baghdad or Basra, watching the coalition advance? Posted by: Illicit Taxonomy on March 23, 2003 06:53 PMAny news on that Fox report earliar that troops had found chem weapons? This site is unbelievable. Great job. I'm addicted. Just wish the subject wasn't war we were all following... Posted by: d-ball on March 23, 2003 06:55 PM On economics and the war - I found a couple of thoughtful analyses that go further than the simple look at the fiscal costs. Both are pretty long for real-time perusal by Sean-Paul, but their point of views that don't get much coverage in the literature of the Left: Any news on that Fox report earliar that troops had found chem weapons? This site is unbelievable. Great job. I'm addicted. Just wish the subject wasn't war we were all following... Posted by: d-ball on March 23, 2003 06:57 PM Any news on that Fox report earliar that troops had found chem weapons? This site is unbelievable. Great job. I'm addicted. Just wish the subject wasn't war we were all following... Posted by: d-ball on March 23, 2003 06:58 PM Correcting that second link: Richard Heinberg: The US and Eurasia: "reporters sitting with the Republican Guards in Baghdad or Basra, watching the coalition advance?" I don't know. My knowledge of al Jazeera comes mostly from a daily look at the pictures on their web site. I started doing that after 9-11, because it gave me some direct idea of how tha Arab world was reacting. I keep it up because it is very interesting. I Wish I could read the text. Yes, ballistic.. they're free-flight rockets, not guided missiles.. nothing to do with their range at all. Posted by: Darryl on March 23, 2003 07:01 PMWhat's funny about the Saudi complaint is that they proposed ruling over Iraq (i.e. controlling the oil but under the same terms as CNN: Fresh explosions in Baghdad Posted by: update on March 23, 2003 07:08 PMNo, it's GOOD that Pakistan's streets have erupted in violence, leading to the closing of the Embassy. In our ever-shifting world of alliances, that military dictatorship with Al-Qaeda fellow travelers would have eventually turned on us. It's better we know now so that we can start massing forces to stage a pre-emptive attack in Unocalistan. Oh, they have nukes? Nevermind. Signed, Paul Wolfowitz. Posted by: Norbizness on March 23, 2003 07:12 PMRegarding the al-jazeera civilian casualty photos -- it appears in the first series that some one scooped the brains out of the damaged cranium of the first victim, allowed at least several hours to go by for bleeding and oozing to stop, and then laid them on the blanket for the photo. I can see that the blanket might be part of ritual or non ritual preparation for the dead, but scooping out the brains is odd -- maybe done to maximize the already obvious deformity for the photo. Posted by: Michael Hutchens, M.D. on March 23, 2003 07:15 PMThanks much to Darryl 0658 PM for Richard Heinberg's Museletter. Post a Comment: |