[centraal] De oorlog is begonnen -deel 2-

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:27 schreef Sidekick het volgende:

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[centraal] Video streams

Ik bedoel dan ook hier de verdere ontwikkelingen rapporteren en bediscussiėren

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:25 schreef -Mk- het volgende:
Zijn er nog ergens livestreams?

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:34 schreef addie het volgende:
lijkt er wel op, alsof iemand wat wil zeggen ja

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Pooltje maken over wie de toespraak gaat doen? ik denk de vice president...

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:38 schreef sp3c het volgende:
dan zal de grote aanval wel begonnen zijn

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:38 schreef sp3c het volgende:
dan zal de grote aanval wel begonnen zijn

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Op dat bordje staat 'United States Senate'. Wie zou er dan mogelijk kunnen toespreken?

[Dit bericht is gewijzigd door Spooky4u op 20-03-2003 15:43]

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:42 schreef Nyrem het volgende:
Is de eerste DVD al ergens te koop?

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:42 schreef Spooky4u het volgende:
OP CNN was te lezen dat een journalist een paar honderd vliegtuigen van de schepen zag vertrekken....
Dus het lijkt erop dat het begonnen is....
Jeeezus, een paar honderd x weet ik hoeveel bommen...
Suc6 daar voor degene die er niets mee te maken willen hebben.

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:45 schreef Disorder het volgende:

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10 AM, Daschle... Dat hoor ik nu op mms://lv-msnbc.msnbc.com/msnbc7
Waar heb je dat gelezen dan? Op de CNN Website?

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:46 schreef Spooky4u het volgende:

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Jep, ik zal ff het hele bericht opzoeken.

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As morning dawned in Baghdad, U.S. warships in the Red Sea and Persian Gulf fired about 40 satellite-guided Tomahawk cruise missiles, military officials said. F-117 stealth fighters, which each carry two 2,000-pound "bunker buster" bombs, also were involved in the strikes.

U.S. government officials said a private home outside Baghdad had been targeted after intelligence indicated "some optimism" about the location of top Iraqi leadership -- including Saddam.

The Red Cross reported that one person was killed and 14 people were injured in the strikes.

Iraq responded to the attack by firing at least four missiles into northern Kuwait, two of which were intercepted by U.S. Patriot missiles, U.S. military officials said. (Full story)

President Bush announced the start of the military campaign against Iraq in a televised address Wednesday night from the White House.

"American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger," Bush said. (Full story) (Transcript)

Wearing a military uniform, a defiant Saddam delivered a taped message on Iraqi television to denounce the U.S.-led military campaign as "criminal" and to say his countrymen would be victorious. He gave Thursday's date, March 20, as evidence his message was recorded after the coalition attack. He ended by saying, "Long live jihad and long live Palestine." (Full story)

U.S. intelligence officials said they believed the tape was genuine, but expressed "guarded optimism" that the attack may have killed several senior Iraqi leaders.

British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon called the strikes a "warning shot" to Saddam's regime, not the actual opening of the war. (Full story)

U.S. forces sounded numerous alerts in the hours after the strikes, sending troops at several bases scrambling for their chemical protection gear and running for bunkers.

The United States and Great Britain have massed nearly 300,000 troops in the Persian Gulf region. (U.S. and coalition Forces)

Other developments
Officials now confirm that U.S. Special Forces are performing reconnaissance missions in southern Iraq, CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr reported Thursday morning. "They call it preparing the battlefield," Starr said. A Special Forces helicopter crashed in the southern no-fly zone, late Wednesday -- before the attacks began. No one on board was injured, and all were evacuated, CNN has learned.

Two missiles landed near Camp Iwo Jima, a key U.S. logistics center in the Kuwaiti desert, the U.S. military said. CNN's Sanjay Gupta, who is with the Marines at the camp, said troops were ordered into bunkers and told to put on gas masks, followed by the announcement "missiles inbound." The Marines who got the best look at a "missile-like" object said it was self-propelled and green with yellow stripes, Gupta said.

CNN Correspondent Nic Robertson reported that the streets of Baghdad were quiet, except for a few government vehicles, taxis and vehicles belonging to television news agencies. Robertson said he did not see any Iraqi soldiers from his vantage point. (Full story)

Shortly after the U.S.-led strikes began, CNN's Kyra Phillips reported from the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Persian Gulf: "I can tell you we may be able to see more than 100 aircraft in the air depending how the tempo of the operation progresses. We're all surprised this happened so quickly and is happening in a manner that none of us really expected. Even the squadrons here are learning by the minute how this campaign is unfolding. I can tell you U.S. strike fighter pilots are looking out for Iraqi SAMs -- surface-to-air missiles." (Full story)

A U.S. Marine with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit wearing a gas mask drinks water in the Kuwaiti desert near the Iraqi border.
A mortar round fired from the Iraqi front lines landed in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq Thursday, CNN's Kevin Sites reported. Black smoke was seen rising from the town of Chamchamal, but it was not known if there were any injuries. The town's mayor said the town had been mostly evacuated.

Chaos at the Kuwait City International Airport early Thursday led officials there to close roads into the airport and allow in only employees and ticket holders, officials said. They also said they would not let anyone else in until the situation calmed down. Video footage of the airport terminal showed it packed, with crowds pushed up against ticket counters.

World reaction to the U.S. strike was split, with some nations criticizing it as a "tragic mistake" and others calling it necessary. (Full story)

Across the United States, word of the beginning of war was met with a mixture of sadness and support. (Full story)

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Op donderdag 20 maart 2003 15:49 schreef Skimmer het volgende:
Die dude zit lekker noodels te eten... komt er zo een ventje hem vertellen dat de show binnen 10 minuten begint... en dat ie dus ff door moet eten...

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