FORT AL-RAMADI, Ramadi, Iraq—Made it here last night after a couple of chopper rides from the Green Zone. Chinooks and CH-46 Sea Knights (the Army and Marine heavy-lifting chopper, respectively) are frickin' loud. But all went well. We should be going out later today, although I'm not yet sure where we're destined.
More later as time permits.
Good luck in in your reporting from Ramadi, Iraq Chris.
They still have that $25 million bounty on “The Jordanian” don’t they ?
Wasn’t he last reported being treated at a Ramadi hospital by a doctor ?
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Good luck!
I wish I were there cameras in hand.
And on an unrelated note, I think your email list was hacked - I’m getting spam from archived B2I posts. The “notification@back-to-iraq.com” domain.
Chris:
SSG Henderson Russell E. (Retired thank God)
Hello Chris,
How are you?
Well… My name is Cybele Washington, Juluana’s sister, I’m from Brazil. I send you a interview a couple of weeks ago, and I was wondering if you’d receive it.
Anyway, Good Luck with your reporting from Ramadi!
Have a nice week,
Cybele Washington.
French reject European Union constitution. Bravo France! Oil the wheels of the tumbrils and give the New World Order bourgeoisie the finger. Democracy not entirely dead after all. Chirac’s attempt to engineer consent and pull the wool over the eyes of the masses a total failure. Thank God. Perhaps Americans will wake up in time and salvage what is left of their own fast disappearing democratic ideals from this cynical, manipulative bunch of vipers.
My husband is currently in Mosul, Iraq with the Army. Is it still very dangerous there, or relatively calm?
Chrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisssssssssssssssssss,
thanxxxxx sooooo much for the interview, sorry about the delay, but things around here are going crazy, this university is driving me craz!!! But, again, thank you sooo much!
I loved your answers, thanx to be so nice! Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!Thank you!
And once again… THANK YOU SOOO MUCH!Thanx for the help again!
Best wishes and GOOD LUCK,
Cybele Washington
Cybele Washington,
You really need to do something about that speech impediment. Of course, most universities do tend to affect people in strange ways. My advice dear, is to keep taking the medication.
Nice to see the Dutch following the French lead in rejecting the EU Constitution. The people in the street obviously know where their best interests lie.
Been following your postings with great interest Chris. The great, democratic thing about the web is receiving views that are not edited by the White House or Rupert Murdoch. Would like to hear from you more often but appreciate the fact that you are operating in an exceedingly hostile enviroment. Your own security must ALWAYS be paramount. Never forget, that as a journalist, you continue to be an inviting target. (Possibly to both sides.) So good luck. Stay on the ball and stay safe.
Jimbo said…
“Been following your postings with great interest Chris. The great, democratic thing about the web is receiving views that are not edited by the White House or Rupert Murdoch.”
AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA. Good one! Funny!
Please, Jimbo. NY Times, W Post, Newsweek, CBS, Keith Olberman, Bill Maher, Molly Ivins, etc., have got the liberal viewpoint well represented in the press. There truly is a marketplace of ideas out there.
Chris, thanks as always for doing the heavy lifting and getting the story. stay safe!
Jimbo said…
“Been following your postings with great interest Chris. The great, democratic thing about the web is receiving views that are not edited by the White House or Rupert Murdoch.”
AH HA HA HA HA HA (cough, sputter) HA HAAAAA. Good one! Funny!
Please, Jimbo. NY Times, W Post, Newsweek, CBS, Keith Olberman, Bill Maher, Molly Ivins, etc., have got the liberal viewpoint well represented in the press. There truly is a marketplace of ideas out there.
Chris, thanks as always for doing the heavy lifting and getting the story. stay safe!
Mike: Cybele is the sister of a friend of mine and she doesn’t speak english well.
Chris: I think you meant that for Jimbo.
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Mike,
Nominated you for a Pulitzer Prize for those shrewd observations. You will note however that my criticism was intended for the Rupert Murdoch media, especially Fox News. Murdoch’s strategy is to always support the government line in ANY country in which he is operating. So in the US expect White House press releases to be dished up as “news” on Fox. In China he will take an anti-American stance. Bet on it. He is only interested in money and power. I seem to recall him stating that the main benefit of this current war would be $20 a barrel oil! Hmm.
Murdoch is Australian born and his father Sir Keith Murdoch’s war correspondence despatches (in defiance of censorship) from Gallipoli during WWI , led to the downfall of the British Commander in Chief Sir Ian Hamilton. Sort of the W. Mark Felt of the Gallipoli campaign. Could do with a Deep Throat in this present Administration.
My heart is bleeding for the poor old Brits. They would dearly loved to have been the ones who put the skids under the EU constitution but now find themselves in the impossible dilema of having to agree with the French. Condy of course couldn’t resist lecturing the Europeans about introspection
Chris,
Cybelle has obviously mastered two words of the language. Just had me wondering how her term paper must look .
But that George Soros guy is all about the little guy ?
GMAB !
MSM is always about the money.
They all get their news on the cheap and pump adverisers for profits.
The newspaper media industry is going the way of Samual Morse and his telegraph.
ANd the major news networks are going the way of the NY Post, La Times ect….
Chris is the better source of info.
As are the new source of bloggers who paint things without looking over their shoulder and
“thinking about the welfare of the sponsers or RATH of the advertisers “.
MSM fears bloggers.
They should as fewer people are falling for their propaganda….
Oh, except for Soros,
is always thinking of how he can help the little man !!
Mike: Oops! I did indeed. My apologies.
Christopher: You lasted posted after being airlifted to somewhere away from Baghdad. Jimbo..I’m in agreement: the Cynical vipers are still running everything.
So Chris, what is going on…anything different than what the BBC reports?
Or Aljazeera? While they are uncovering underground bunkers (complete with kitchens! People do have to eat, even while their country is being destroyed!) —
their counterparts here are making a killing in real estate. Everything is For Sale! They would like to also take the foothills, the views, the farmland, and everything else! From Palestine, to Baghdad to California—this incredible stealing of anything valuable: natural resources, oil, protected species land…and on and on. Glad the French are wising up.
How long will it take for everyone else to
get it!
Will be looking forward to your report.
Cecilia (Northern California)
www.fromheretoiraq.
Anonymous,
Noticed you spitting the dummy about George Soros. As Shakespeare was wont to say…..
“Money flows uphill
Shit flows down.”
Er, maybe Tony Soprano said that.
Soros is just your typical billionaire speculator. Owns everything.
Destroys foreign currencies. He got it right when he took a position against the British Pound but lost money backing Kerry against Bush. At the moment he is speculating against the US dollar. Considering the escalation of US foreign debt there must surely come a time when foreign reservse banks decide to dump the dollar giving George another windfall profit. Clinton got it right when he said “It’s the economy stupid.”
Cybelle,
Nice to see that you are over the stutters. The French and the Dutch ordinary folks know that Brussels doesn’t have their best interests at heart. Political Union and enlargement would only see their countries overrun with poor East Europeans bringing down their own living standards. As if unemployment isn’t high enough already with capitalism shipping manufacturing jobs overseas to the Third World.
Watch out for those camels while you are in country Chris. They spit!
I am also anxiously awaiting a new post . Rumers abound as to how rough things are in Ramadi and with a son stationed there I would like to hear as many perspectives on the situation as possible.
with appreciation,
Christopher,
Glad you’re back at the blog. Always inspiring. You’re entitled to do things your way, or differently after your hiatus, if you have the urge. If you need a change, your fans and readership are with you. Stay well over there. Peace,
Marty (Princeton U)