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| Israeli monitor intercepts order: War starting on March 18 |
| 2003-03-11 |
| TEL AVIV — The U.S. military has been ordered to launch a war against Iraq on March 18, an Israeli official said in a televised report. Israeli government monitor, Michael Gurdus, reported on late Tuesday that the order was relayed by U.S. Central Command to all American forces in the Persian Gulf. Gurdus told Israel's Channel 2 television that he heard the order being relayed to U.S. fighter-jet pilots and others over U.S. military radio communications he intercepted. Gurdus is regarded as the leading communications monitor in the Middle East and works for Israel radio and television. He has broken numerous stories because of his ability to intercept and understand foreign-language civilian and radio broadcasts and communications. He said the U.S. military, in its radio communications, refers to Iraq as "bad cows" and "kabab", Middle East Newsline reported. On Monday, Israel's media reported that the United States had demanded that senior Israeli officials stop issuing predictions of when the war would erupt. Israeli defense officials have concluded that the United States plans to strike Iraq after March 17, the deadline set for Iraq to answer questions regarding its missile and weapons of mass destruction programs. |
| Posted by:Anonymous |
| #9 East wind. Rain. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-03-11 21:50:41 |
| #8 East wind. Rain. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2003-03-11 21:49:44 |
| #7 Climb Mt. Nataka (sp) worked before, didn't it? |
| Posted by: Anonymous 2003-03-11 20:31:07 |
| #6 Sure it wasn't "mad cows" and "kaboom!"? |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-03-11 18:52:53 |
| #5 "Bad cows" and "Kabob"? Sounds more like a big barbeque is scheduled for March 18th... which means the war starts, say, on the 17th and it's burgers and bratwursts in Baghdad the day after? |
| Posted by: Just John 2003-03-11 18:45:12 |
| #4 Bet they were talking about dinner? |
| Posted by: tcc 2003-03-11 18:44:36 |
| #3 Riiiight--Why wait 'til the pilots land and tell them in a briefing? Let's broadcast it to them now in the clear! Talk about bogus. |
| Posted by: Dar Steckelberg 2003-03-11 18:15:18 |
| #2 "he heard the order being relayed to U.S. fighter-jet pilots and others over U.S. military radio communications" He must've been laughing when he said that. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2003-03-11 18:01:39 |
| #1 I seriously question that such an order exists. The order will be given on very short notice, certainly not a week ahead. |
| Posted by: tcc 2003-03-11 17:57:41 |