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DUreader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 06:09 AM
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Floating Bomb Raid on Bridge (North of Baghdad)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1007685,00.html


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In what is believed to be the first such attack,
guerrillas floated a bomb down a river on a palm
log north of Baghdad and detonated it under a
bridge. US engineers were repairing the river
crossing, a link over the Diala river, which carries
traffic between Ba'aqubah and Tikrit, both
hotbeds of resistance.

The military had constructed a pontoon crossing
downriver for use by civilian traffic, but that was
closed as a result of the attack.


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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 06:19 AM
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1. "Floating Palm Bomb" !?! Yikes. Reminds me of the Viet Cong!?
:mad: Now ,if we could only replace our Boys & Girls with Members (any will do) of Congress and the Administration:dunce: THEN,this wouldn't be so crushingly sad!
Each day as another Member of Congress/Adim was killed we could get his/her political history,etc. FAUX would eat it up! And:puke:it out to us!
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 06:26 AM
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2. Everything but nationalists
<"We have to understand that we have a multiple faceted conflict going on here in Iraq. We've got terrorist activity, we've got former regime leadership, we have criminals, and we have some hired assassins that are attacking our soldiers on a daily basis.">

Maybe the Americans need to understand that there are people who will fight invaders and occupiers of their country. You know people who fight for independence from colonialism. Does that sound familiar to anyone in our regime?
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-29-03 07:33 AM
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3. With Saddam's Son's dead, it is safe to fight US - no danger of
bringing Saddam regime back.

Sort of like Nixon picking Spiro Agnew as VP - no one would impeach if the result was Spiro became Pres - but once Spiro was gone - there was no real reason to not follow the investigation to wherever it went.
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