Your claim of superior knowledge is demonstrably false since you cannot even discuss the common problem parameters convincingly or even explain what you cannot negate. The Iraq convoy routes follow the road and rail routes, yes? The ports are at the SE end of the country's roadnet, yes? The paved roadnet that can sustain burden traffic  is 36,000 miles and concentrated around Baghdad yes? You have bridges as choke points along the main routes yes? You have SINGLE main routes southeast and west.  Etc. etc. etc.   

 

Why do you always try nonsense (I'm  here and i have security clearance" when you are finally cornered by facts I CAN EASILY DIG UP OR KNOW by means that either never occurred to you or that YOU don't know about? WHY?

 

 

http://www.gearthhacks.com/showimage.php?image=112807/991988hundreds_of_trucks.jpg" width="1" height="1" /> 

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That is al Basrah by the way.

 

Herald

Good.

 

That is the exact result I wanted.

 

Herald

Rather than being incoherent, actually it's plainly obvious what Darth doesn't want to say, and why he doesn't want to say it.  I've never been there so I can't be accused of giving away any operational security sort of issues (not that I think this counts anyway as it's just obvious common sense), but clearly the road route used from Kuwait and whatever other points south must not go through Basra, but rather bypasses the city (I'd presume around it to the west, the only real option).  Considering 3ID and 1MEF pushed north into Iraq during OIF but both by-passed Basra by circling around it to the west (as I recall), then there obviously must be some amount of road network that does this, and this is what we use.  Hence, our LOC doesn't go through Basra.  Of course, it does pass close around it, so unless you want to discuss something specific to the exact roads in question, it seems to me that saying it passes "through" Basra is probably a reasonable approximation if you're just sketching it out in general terms.

 

Quite true, there is a road from Kuwait City that runs right by al Basrah, through Safwan and further roads west, but the point is that Darth knows a bit about by now how I work and what I can access. . You can watch the traffic patterns moving if you know where and with what to look.http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/middle_east_and_asia/kuwait_pol96.jpg" width="1060" height="1218" />

Kuwait overheads on GOOGLE for example.

 

There are also French services that I use.

 

It isn't hard, WP.

 

It really isn't.

 

Herald