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boeingav8r

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Massive Airway/Route Closures effective Saturday, March 15th in Persian Gulf Area.
Just got an e-mail from someone who operates over these routes regularly. The same notams were issued a few days prior to Desert Storm's kickoff. The notams coming out of the Persian Gulf region are increasing at an exponential rate. Airspace is closing down effective this coming Saturday, March 15th. This means all the air carrier flights coming from Australia, lower Asia and the Indian sub continent will be re-routed over the Iran/Turkey routes around an expected conflict zone.
 
Good! Get it over-with so the economy has a chance to rebound. I support Bush, but it's time to stop dragging this out and act.
 
I hear you!! Lets finish this thing quickly and thoroughly; hopefully the casualties will be low. While we're at it, we should take control of all the oil in the Middle East just because we can. :D
Hopefully after the war, consumer confidence will go up and the demand for air travel will rise.

God be with our troops.
 
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What phase is the moon in right now? I'd bet that any attack will come on a "moonless" night.

IMBB
 
What phase is the moon in right now? I'd bet that any attack will come on a "moonless" night

I don't know. Looks like a full moon to me on the 16th. Moonrise is 1557 local with moonset 0508 over Baghdad.
 
The ground fighting won't be on the sixteenth. There will be quite a few tomahawks, eagles and falcons over the skies of Persia on the sixteenth.

The ground assault will be two to seven nights later.

When our troops are equipped and trained with gear about 100 years more technologically advanced than Iraq's, it only makes sense to go in under the cover of darkness, when they can't see us coming.

Shooting fish in a barrel with night vision.

Really the only tricky part will be finding and frying Saddam himself. He's got so many hiding places and so many body doubles, it could take some time.
 
....and exactly what base of expertise are you basing that on....what happened last time?

Don't be suprised if you see the ground troops going in *with* the start of the air campaign. Educated guess on my part.

Chunk
 
I think we are about 7 to 10 days away still. The 17th was always a bogus date designed to allow for up to a week further delay for 1. evacuation of UN and reporters 2. further efforts to pass a UN resoultion. The last quarter of the moon is March 25th and starting a war around that date would allow for 2 weeks of fighting under nearly dark skies as the phase goes to new moon and then first quarter. I think next Saturday or Sunday (23rd or 24th) is likely. ABC News and their folks think sooner but we'll see.

Ground war will likely start the same exact day as the air war. 75% of the country will likely be occupied within less than a week. Hopefully the Iraqis view us as liberators and string up their current goverment. We'll see.

Godspeed our good men and women in the armed forces, say a prayer for the tough choices ahead for our President and military leaders, and God Bless America.
 
mackinhoes said:
The ground fighting won't be on the sixteenth. There will be quite a few tomahawks, eagles and falcons over the skies of Persia on the sixteenth.

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So you think we will be attacking Iran too?
 
Actually, we've had special forces on the ground for several months, according to www.debka.com which is a commercial intelligence vendor made up of former Mossad types. They say that we, the Brits, the Turks, and, oddly enough, the Iranians, have had the country broken down into 16 sectors, with certain countries responsible for each sector.

Sounded pretty fantastic, at first, but then, little by little, it starts appearing in mainstream press:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/w...&node=&contentId=A331-2003Feb12&notFound=true

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/05/1041566310159.html
 

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