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The Seattle Times
Wednesday, January 23, 1991
U.S., Iraqi Troops Clash -- First Border Skirmish With Injuries, Captives
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CUTLINE: AP: LEFT, RESCUE WORKERS EVACUATE A WOUNDED ISRAELI WOMAN FROM THE SITE OF AN IRAQI SCUD MISSILE EXPLOSION YESTERDAY IN A TEL AVIV NEIGHBORHOOD. ABOVE, A BOY INJURED IN THE BLAST IS CARRIED TO A HOSPITAL BY HIS FATHER. AT LEAST 67 PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED AND THREE DIED AS A RESULT OF THE ATTACK. (IST EDITION PHOTO).
U.S. troops engaged an Iraqi patrol in Saudi Arabia, and six Iraqi soldiers were captured and two U.S. soldiers slightly injured, a U.S. military official said today.
The skirmish last night along the Iraqi-Saudi border involved elements of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, said Air Force Lt. Col. Mike Scott.
It was the first reported ground confrontation in Saudi territory in which U.S. troops were hurt and Iraqis were seized, although there have been sporadic skirmishes and artillery duels since Operation Desert Storm began. The wounded Americans were treated and returned to duty, he said.
Asked specifically about reports that U.S. soldiers were captured in a skirmish with Iraqi troops, Scott said, ``I have no information on that.''
His comments came after Iran's official news agency said Iraq had claimed its ground forces attacked allied forces in Saudi Arabia early today and captured allied soldiers. There was no independent confirmation of the Iranian report.
Meanwhile, Israeli officials announced that a U.S. Patriot missile had struck an incoming Scud yesterday but failed to bring the Iraqi missile down. The Scud missile exploded in a residential neighborhood in Tel Aviv, injuring at least 67 people, causing three fatal heart attacks and damaging 21 buildings, authorities said.
``For reasons that we still don't know, the target wasn't destroyed completely and the warhead came down. . . . The reason is under investigation,'' said Brig. Gen. Uri Ram, commander of Israel's air defenses.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir called an emergen-
cy meeting of key Cabinet ministers today to discuss yesterday's attack, the most damaging to date. Iraqi missiles hit Tel Aviv Friday and Saturday, causing some damage but no deaths.
The Cabinet issued no statement after the meeting.
Israelis had rejoiced when the Patriots were deployed over the weekend, but the army said the Iraqi rockets had eluded the sophisticated U.S. missile interceptors.
Israel now has suffered more than 100 casualties in three Iraqi barrages, and the success of the latest attack increased pressure on the government to retaliate against the wishes of the United States.
President Bush today condemned Iraq's continuing attacks on Israel, and his administration said it would give ``full consideration'' to an Israeli request for $13 billion in additional economic aid.
At the White House, spokesman Marlin Fitzwater cautioned that U.S. television reports from Baghdad play ``into the hands of Saddam Hussein'' and should be treated with skepticism.
``We must point out once again that any reports coming out of Baghdad are in fact coming out of the Iraqi government,'' Fitzwater said.
He specifically referred to a report by Cable News Network correspondent Peter Arnett that Iraqi officials had taken him on a tour of the bombed-out ruins of an infant-formula factory that CNN had toured in August.
Fitzwater categorically denied allied forces had hit an infant-formula factory and said the facility was a biological-weapons plant that ``has been heavily guarded and has barbed wire.''
CNN had no immediate comment on Fitzwater's remarks.
Gen. Colin Powell, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed satisfaction today with the results of the first week of the war but said Iraq is ``an enemy that is ingenious'' whose air force may yet ``choose to come out and challenge us.''
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Los Angeles Times
'Saddam Line' Falls Easily to Marines
February 25, 1991 BOB DROGIN TIMES STAFF WRITER
EASTERN SAUDI ARABIA — Thoughout the desert night, the screaming jets hammered the enemy, some of them raining down fuel-air bombs that turned the skies a grisly orange. Loudspeakers blared, exhorting unseen Iraqi soldiers in Arabic to "surrender before it is too late." The artillery thundered, firing salvo after salvo.
Then, dressed in protective suits against chemicals, thousands of U.S. Marines launched the long-awaited allied attack into Kuwait on Sunday.
"G-Day," as the troops dubbed it, had the potential to be a nightmarish spectacle, filled with flaming oil ditches and deadly mists of biological and chemical gas. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had repeatedly threatened that this was to be "the mother of all battles," with thousands of casualties.
It did not happen that way, as even the weather cooperated with the allies on Sunday. Unexpectedly this weekend, the wind shifted. Rain fell. The noxious smoke from burning Kuwaiti oil fields that had filled the sky for days, blotting out the sun and blackening the horizon, dispersed on G-Day.
And for the Marines--some of whom had crept across the border on foot on Saturday and used simple plastic pokers to probe for mines on their hands and knees in the dark--the largest U.S. military campaign since World War II started off easily.
Perhaps too easy.
"It's gone too smoothly," said the worried Marine commander, Lt. Gen. Walter E. Boomer, about six hours after the first waves of Marines had stormed over the Saudi border at 4 a.m Sunday and quickly breached Iraqi front lines. "Any commander gets concerned in that situation."
The rain-drenched Marines met only sporadic resistance as they quickly cleared lanes through Iraqi minefields and raced northward throughout the day.
Indeed, the biggest problem by nightfall Sunday was finding enough buses and trucks to ferry the many prisoners they were taking--most of whom surrendered without a fight.
Earlier in the day, as cold rain soaked the desert, and under the protection of heavy artillery fire, an armored and mechanized infantry, the 1st Marine Division task force (called "Ripper"), raced overland. By 6:45 a.m., the troops broke through Iraq's first line of defense, the "Saddam Line," 12 miles from the L-shaped heel of Kuwait's southwest border with Saudi Arabia.
Other Marine task forces, code named "Grizzly" and "Poppa Bear," launched simultaneous attacks and feints along the border to confuse the Iraqi defenders and mask the major thrust.
The 2nd Division Marines surged across the border at 5:30 a.m. to attack Iraqi positions northwest of the giant Wafra oil fields. They punched holes through the first minefields and defense lines within two hours, according to the division commander, Maj. Gen. William Keys.
The Marines faced scattered artillery and machine-gun fire and detected a "wee little bit" of chemical gas about 10 miles inside Kuwait, Keys said. The gas apparently was released by buried mines, rather than Iraqi artillery, he said.
The initial assault was aimed at a double line of Iraqi fortifications, called the obstacle belts. The first was more than half a mile wide, with multiple rows of antipersonnel and antitank minefields, rolls of razor wire, dug-in infantry positions and pretargeted artillery "kill zones." A second, similar belt is about five miles farther east.
The 2nd Division roared across the muddy desert flats in six columns of tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, armored personnel carriers and infantry. Special mine-clearing plows and explosive line charges helped blast lanes through the deadly sands of the first line as Marine AV-8B Harriers, A-6 and F/A-18 Hornet attack planes and Cobra helicopter gunships roared overhead for protection.
Moving to the northeast, two columns reported that they had reached the second defensive line inside occupied Kuwait by 7:50 a.m. Two other columns bogged down midway between the two barriers because of an oil pipeline and a heavy concentration of mines.
"On the other side of the barrier, they are putting up stiff resistance," said Lt. Col. Jan Huly. "They're offering resistance. They're fighting."
Gen. Boomer said he expects heavier fighting, particularly from entrenched Iraqi forces deeper in Kuwait. "The farther we move, the harder the fight will become," he said.
But by 4:30 p.m., according to one officer, Marine units were halfway to Kuwait city.
The strategy was simple: Keep moving. Advance columns fought only when they had to, bypassing concentrations of Iraqi troops to cut them off or leave them to surrender to follow-up units.
Otherwise, the Marines raced for a series of preplanned targets, said Col. Carl Fulford.
The troops' mobility also reduced the threat of powerful Iraqi artillery, he added. Without an air force, and little forward ground reconnaissance, Iraqi gunners were forced to fire blind, rendering them largely ineffective against the fast-moving attackers.
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NCIS (New)
102 KREMDT: Tuesday, February 24 8:00 PM [ Tuesday 8 PM 24 February 2015 ]
Crime drama, Action, Adventure, Mystery
Blast From the Past
A murder victim turns out to have been living under an alias created for one of Gibbs' undercover cases from 20 years ago.
Cast: Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherly, David McCallum, Pauley Perrette, Sean Murray, Rocky Carroll, Brian Dietzen, Emily Wickersham Director(s): Dennis Smith Executive Producer(s): Gary Glasberg, Chas. Floyd Johnson, Mark Horowitz, Mark Harmon, Shane Brennan, Donald P. Bellisario
Original Air Date: Feb 24, 2015
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
McCOY: There aren't going to be any damn permits! How can you get a permit to do a damn illegal thing? Look, price you name, money I got.
ALIEN: Place you name, money I name. Otherwise, bargain, no.
McCOY: All right, dammit. It's Genesis. The name of the place we're going is Genesis.
ALIEN: Genesis!
McCOY: Yes, Genesis! How can you be deaf with ears like that?
ALIEN: Genesis allowed is not. ...It's planet forbidden.
McCOY: Look, my backwards friend! Genesis may be 'planet forbidden' but I'm damn well...
CIVILIAN AGENT: Sir, ...I'm sorry, but your voice is carrying. I don't think you want to be discussing this subject in public.
McCOY: I'll discuss what I like, and who the hell are you?
CIVILIAN AGENT: Could I offer you a ride home, Doctor McCoy?
McCOY: Where's the logic in offering me a ride home, you idiot! If I wanted a ride home, would I be trying to charter a space flight?
ALIEN: Aarrgh!
McCOY: How the hell do you know who I am?
CIVILIAN AGENT: Federation Security, sir.
(McCoy tries the Vulcan nerve pinch on the agent unsuccessfully)
CIVILIAN AGENT: You're going to get a nice, long rest, Doctor.
From 12/7/1998 ( my first day working at Microsoft Corporation as the known official Chief Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and the active duty United States Marine Corps lieutenant colonel circa 1998 ) To 8/27/2004 is 2090 days
2090 = 1045 + 1045
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 9/12/1968 ( premiere US TV movie "Certain Honorable Men" ) is 1045 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/06/you-got-time-rostov.html ]
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/27/politics/27CND-INTE.html
The New York Times
Bush Signs Order Bolstering C.I.A. Director's Power
By DOUGLAS JEHL and DAVID E. SANGER
Published: August 27, 2004
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 — President Bush issued a new order today enhancing the powers of the director of central intelligence
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Spider-Man (2002)
Quotes
Mary Jane: You know, you're taller than you look.
Peter Parker: I hunch.
From 3/3/1959 ( the birthdate in Hawaii of my biological brother Thomas Reagan ) To 11/21/1987 ( premiere US TV series episode "Mr. President"::"The President's Brother" ) is 10490 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official Deputy United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 7/23/1994 is 10490 days
[ See also: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2014/07/cia.html ]
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=50540
The American Presidency Project
William J. Clinton
XLII President of the United States: 1993 - 2001
Exchange With Reporters in Hot Springs
July 23, 1994
President's High School Reunion
Q. What are your thoughts as you return to the State, Mr. President?
The President. I'm very happy to be—I'm gratified that I can be here. So many of my classmates and I have survived these last 30 years in reasonably good shape. We're here together; we're having a wonderful time. We just did a lot of reminiscing. I got to go through the high school and see some of the wonderful new things that are being done at the technology center here. But mostly it's just a time for getting together with family and friends.
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: Posted by H.V.O.M at 6:10 PM Thursday, December 30, 2010
My return in 1998 was different though. I returned but I am a composite version of Tom Reagan and Kerry Burgess. I am not as tall as Tom Reagan and I am as tall as Kerry Burgess
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- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 10:18 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Tuesday 24 February 2015
