Excerpt from a longer CNN.com article:
Meanwhile, waves of B-52 bombers pounded a convoy of Iraqi military vehicles overnight before they could reach the lead elements of the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division in Najaf, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, CNN's Walter Rodgers reported Thursday. Air traffic controllers with the U.S. Air Force told Rodgers, embedded with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry of the 3rd Infantry, that the bombers pounded the convoy "almost into oblivion." The column was believed to have been made up of elite Republican Guard troops. In a briefing from U.S. Central Command headquarters in Qatar, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said that "most of" the force was destroyed.
That's gotta be doing a job on Saddam's morale, assuming a) that he's alive and b) that anyone had the courage to tell him
However, Pentagon officials in Washington said they were aware only of "defensive repositioning" of Republican Guard units near Baghdad and had no information on any large columns or convoys of Iraqi vehicles and troops moving toward U.S. forces.
OK, now this confuses me. All day yesterday we heard about the 1,000-vehicle convoy heading south from Baghdad to engage I MEF. Then the lace-panties brigade in DeeCee started telling everyone that there was no such formation. Now we hear that they've been flattened, except that it never happened. What would be the value to our team to pretending that this never happened? |