Veryknowing
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I found the following on the internet last night, and it's damn unclear where it all comes from, but I'm putting it up here anyway for comment. Don't bother slamming me about it, as 1) I'm just asking how legit it is, and 2) I probably won't even be online again for a few days anyway on account of the craziness happening in Sydney at the moment.
If you don't like this, or disagree with it, just ignore the thread and it will soon drop-down and disappear from prominence anyway.
Here's what I came across;
KUWAIT (Reuters) - British military officials said on Tuesday they had no information on any popular uprising in Iraq's second city of Basra.
There is no popular uprising in Basra except against the Coalition forces. The US Military have become so frustrated by the Iraqi 51st Mechanized Division (which has continued to fight despite US claims that they surrendered), and civil militia in the city coming-out and hitting their supply lines that they've decided to deliberately "carpet-bomb" the city.
Then I came across this on Google;
Positional warfare continues near Basra. The Coalition forces in this area are clearly insufficient for continuing the attack and the main emphasis is being placed on artillery and aviation.
The city is under constant bombardment ...but so far this had little impact on the combat readiness of the Iraqi units. On the night of the 24th March an Iraqi battalion reinforced with tanks swung around the coalition positions in the area of Basra airport and attacked the coalition forces in the flanks. As the result of this attack the US forces were pushed-back 1.5-2 kilometers leaving the airport and the nearby structures in the hands of the Iraqis. Two APCs and one tank were destroyed in this encounter, and two Coalition soldiers were killed, and six wounded (US media only reported that 3 were “slightly” wounded in the incident (which is BS), and nothing at all about losing control of the airfield).
A particular point of concern for the US command is the huge overuse of precision-guided munitions and cruise missiles. Already the supply of heavy cruise missiles like the “Tomahawk” has been reduced by a third and, at the current rate of use, in three weeks the US will be left only with the untouchable strategic supply of these missiles. A similar situation exists with other types of precision-guided munitions. Since the cruise-missiles guidance systems have been failing due to Iraqi jamming and other causes, resulting in only 5% hitting their designated targets is only exacerbating the US military’s exasperation.
A decision was made yesterday morning at an online US command meeting to change the way aviation is used in this war; the use of precision-guided munitions will be scaled down and these weapons will be reserved for attacking only known, confirmed targets. There will be an increase in the use of conventional high-yield aviation bombs, volume- detonation bombs and incendiary munitions. The USAF command is ordered to deliver to airbases used against Iraq a two-week supply of aviation bombs of 1- ton caliber and higher as well as volume-detonation and incendiary bombs. This means that the US military has decided to resort to “scorched earth” tactics and a “carpet-bombing” campaign.
So are they going to carpet-bomb the city or not? It seems a bit crazy to bomb the place flat (saying the city now a military target) if the city might be falling any moment to an anti-Saddam revolt.
If you don't like this, or disagree with it, just ignore the thread and it will soon drop-down and disappear from prominence anyway.
Here's what I came across;
KUWAIT (Reuters) - British military officials said on Tuesday they had no information on any popular uprising in Iraq's second city of Basra.
There is no popular uprising in Basra except against the Coalition forces. The US Military have become so frustrated by the Iraqi 51st Mechanized Division (which has continued to fight despite US claims that they surrendered), and civil militia in the city coming-out and hitting their supply lines that they've decided to deliberately "carpet-bomb" the city.
Then I came across this on Google;
Positional warfare continues near Basra. The Coalition forces in this area are clearly insufficient for continuing the attack and the main emphasis is being placed on artillery and aviation.
The city is under constant bombardment ...but so far this had little impact on the combat readiness of the Iraqi units. On the night of the 24th March an Iraqi battalion reinforced with tanks swung around the coalition positions in the area of Basra airport and attacked the coalition forces in the flanks. As the result of this attack the US forces were pushed-back 1.5-2 kilometers leaving the airport and the nearby structures in the hands of the Iraqis. Two APCs and one tank were destroyed in this encounter, and two Coalition soldiers were killed, and six wounded (US media only reported that 3 were “slightly” wounded in the incident (which is BS), and nothing at all about losing control of the airfield).
A particular point of concern for the US command is the huge overuse of precision-guided munitions and cruise missiles. Already the supply of heavy cruise missiles like the “Tomahawk” has been reduced by a third and, at the current rate of use, in three weeks the US will be left only with the untouchable strategic supply of these missiles. A similar situation exists with other types of precision-guided munitions. Since the cruise-missiles guidance systems have been failing due to Iraqi jamming and other causes, resulting in only 5% hitting their designated targets is only exacerbating the US military’s exasperation.
A decision was made yesterday morning at an online US command meeting to change the way aviation is used in this war; the use of precision-guided munitions will be scaled down and these weapons will be reserved for attacking only known, confirmed targets. There will be an increase in the use of conventional high-yield aviation bombs, volume- detonation bombs and incendiary munitions. The USAF command is ordered to deliver to airbases used against Iraq a two-week supply of aviation bombs of 1- ton caliber and higher as well as volume-detonation and incendiary bombs. This means that the US military has decided to resort to “scorched earth” tactics and a “carpet-bombing” campaign.
So are they going to carpet-bomb the city or not? It seems a bit crazy to bomb the place flat (saying the city now a military target) if the city might be falling any moment to an anti-Saddam revolt.
