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[PLATO]

U.S. Battles Calls for Emergency UN Session on Iraq

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2424816

[Ming]

CNN showing Baghdad under heavy fire. Many ground targets hit.

[CrONoS]

oh **** look at CNN... Al-Jazeera...

[Edan]

Iraqi's surrendering to journalists

One group of Iraq soldiers alongside a road waved a white flag and their raised hands, trying to flag down a group of journalists so they could surrender.

In the town of Safwan, Iraqi civilians eagerly greeted the 1st Marine Division.

One little boy, who had chocolate melted all over his face after a soldier gave him some treats from his ration kit, kept pointing at the sky, saying ``Ameriki, Ameriki.''

[Boris Godunov]

CNN correspondents have been ordered out of Baghdad by the Iraqi government.

[Chilean President™]

TVN NEWS FLASH Palestine Hotel was hit by air strike. That hotel was the hotel of the international correspondants.

edit: not the hotel, but the near government building.

[Chilean President™]

TVN NEWS Correspondant Reports: The city of Mossul under heavy air strike.

Baghdad: Hundreds of missiles have hit the Capital City. The Minister of Defense was hit by 8 missiles. The Minister of Foreign Relations was hit by an undetermined number of missiles.

24horas.cl

[Chilean President™]

Emol.com: Heavy air strike over Baghdad. Ministry of Defense hit by a huge number of missiles. The First Presidencial Palace was also hit by almost 100 missiles.

https://www.emol.com

Edit: B-52 drop the bombs over the Presidential Palace.

Edit2: More than 20 buildings of the government hit by air strike.


Edit3: Iraqi police arrest 3 journalist in the Palestine Hotel. It is not allow the live broadcast from Baghdad.
www.24horas.cl Live broadcast from Palestine Hotel.

[PLATO]

Saddam Hussein's presidential palace is reported to be ablaze after witnesses reported seeing about a dozen missiles slam into the sprawling residence. Some news reports say about 25 buildings already have been destroyed.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81791,00.html

[Chilean President™]

UC-TV: Turkey has allow the American army to cross the country and penetrate north Iraq.

TVN: Confirmed. 12 oil wells on fire.

EDIT: TVN Correspondant in US: Unconfirmed News. La Guardia Airport closed due to a terrorist threat. (if someone have information about this, please post it).

[SlowwHand]

Someone needs to start a thread noting the great amount of historical artifacts in Iraq.

I would, but 2 a day is the limit; and I wasted one of mine arguing with Guyney over Texas executions.

This is a worthy topic. The artifacts, I mean.

[GRU]

Deputy leader of pro-Iranian Iraqi opposition group - Supreme Concuil of Iraqi Islamic Revolution - declared that his group is ready to start a military operation against government of Saddam Hussein.

Leader of this Shia group has recently met a British ambasaddor in Tehran. They have discussed the current situation in Iraq.

http://iran.rusmet.ru/news_iran.php?act=news_by_id&news_id=10971

(Link in Russian)

[PLATO]

BRUSSELS, Belgium — French President Jacques Chirac said Friday that France would not go along with a new United Nations resolution allowing the United States and Britain to administer postwar Iraq.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81787,00.html

[GRU]

Unknown missile hit oil refinery in Abadan (Iran). Two workers are injured.

Source: Iranian radio.

[TheBirdMan]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Someone needs to start a thread noting the great amount of historical artifacts in Iraq.

I would, but 2 a day is the limit; and I wasted one of mine arguing with Guyney over Texas executions.

This is a worthy topic. The artifacts, I mean.

You have it here: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=81354