Post Latest news here

[PLATO]

Post latest news here.


This thread is not for discussion. It is just for posting links to the latest news as it comes in. With the varied international community on Poly, I think that this is the best way to keep us all abreast of world reactions and latest developments. Please save discussions for the appropriate threads.

I'll start with this one

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81607,00.html

[spartak]

Latest news now

Done!

[PLATO]

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/20/sprj.irq.war.saddam/index.html

Saddam gives date in speech...apparently alive

[Urban Ranger]

Please don't just post the links, please also quote some important bits (like the first paragraph).

[PLATO]

ON THE IRAQ-KUWAIT BORDER — American troops in northern Kuwait have been ordered to be combat ready within the hour, as allied forces edge closer to a major assault on Iraq.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81671,00.html

[Richelieu]

Reuters : US says Irak may have started to set fire to oil fields.

http://www.reuters.com/

edit : the other link didn't work. It's at the top of the main page anyways...

[DanS]

@ 8:26 AM Eastern US Time

A senior Bush administration official today questioned the authenticity of a videotape showing Saddam Hussein speaking a few hours after the cruise missile strikes that opened the war in Iraq.

"We reach no conclusions about who that was or when it was taped or anything like that," the administration official said. "It does not lend itself to immediate conclusions."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60695-2003Mar20.html

[Edan]

Originally posted by Richelieu
Reuters : US says Irak may have started to set fire to oil fields.

http://www.reuters.com/

edit : the other link didn't work. It's at the top of the main page anyways...

Here's a direct link to an article by AP:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&e=2&u=/ap/20030320/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_iraq_fire

[PLATO]

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's parliament on Thursday voted to allow the U.S. military to use Turkish airspace for a war in Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported. The decision took on added urgency now that U.S. bombers have begun striking Iraq.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81672,00.html

[PLATO]

A patrol of light armored vehicles from the Marine First Division encountered two Iraqi armored personnel carriers south of the border with Iraq.

http://www.nytimes.com

[CrONoS]

British and American troops were involved in fierce fighting near Iraq's main port today as the war to topple Saddam Hussein began. The firefight broke out near Basra as men of the Special Boat Service targeted the strategically vital city and the oilfields in southern Iraq.

http://www.jihadunspun.net/index-side_internal.php?article=48304&list=/home.php&

[CrONoS]

CAMP AS-SALIYAH, Qatar, March 20 (IsmaoNline.net & News Agencies) - Marking the first of its anticipated looses in the war of aggression on Iraq, a U.S. Air Force helicopter crashed in southern Iraq early Thursday, March 20.

http://www.islam-online.net/english/News/2003-03/20/article13.shtml

[CrONoS]

18:19 Les Américains font feu au canon de 105 mm près de la frontière koweito-irakienne en direction du territoire irakien (AFP)
18:09 Les forces américaines lancent une attaque d'artillerie près de la frontière Irak-Koweit (Reuters)

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American open fire with cannon of 105mm near the koweito-irak border.

http://www.tf1.fr/news/

[CrONoS]

U.S. Launches Artillery Barrage Near Iraq Border http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=JA5HA5HOVW1HCCRBAEOCFFA?type=focusIraq News&storyID=2417351

[GRU]

A civilian taxi driver from Jordan has been killed by American missile today morning in 260 km from Baghdad.

Abu-Dabi TV reported that an American UAV has been crashed near Iraqi-Kuwait border.

http://www.strana.ru/news/174472.html

http://www.strana.ru/news/174480.html

(links in Russian)