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[faded glory]

Originally posted by Chilean President
21:32 Chile / 01:32 GMT
Meganoticias: Air raid sirens over Baghdad.

Emol.com: Confirmed. Allies missiles hit residential zone on Baghdad and Mosul. More than 80 deads and a unknown number of injuried.

Iraqi TV + Al Jazeera: Fierce battles on Al-Nasiriyah and An-Nukhayb (don´t know the english name of those cities). The ally caravan has been stoped by a huge iraqi force that includes hundreds of T-72 tanks and artillery equipment.
TVN Chile correspondants reports of combats since 3 hours ago in the city of Tikrit between iraqi forces and a unknow enemy (Kurds? Turcs? Americans?)

Fox confirmed a few tanks were engaged, but no US casualties and forces were only delayed an hour.


Pentagon: 15% of Iraqi army is out of commission (dead or POW)

[Chilean President™]

Chilean President: What UC-TV????

I'm sorry I was just given url's and I didn't give you a short description of the medias.

TVN: National Television of Chile. State TV, number 1 in Chile. Url: TVN.cl and the news department is 24horas.cl This network have 4 correspondant in Baghdad (Palestine Hotel) and 2 in Mosul, others correspondant in the iraqi border with Kuwait, Jordan and Turkey (very reliable information).

UC-TV: Number 2 in Chile. Universidad Católica de Chile TV (Catholic University of Chile TV), channel 13. www.canal13.cl Their have 2 correspondants in Baghdad and the rest in the iraqi borders.

Emol.com : Web site of El Mercurio, the biggest newspaper of Chile. Yesterday the correspondants in Baghdad from El Mercurio were dismissed by the iraqi police (no reason given). Other correspondants in Jordan, Israel, Palestine, Iran and Turkey. www.emol.com

Other news source I use is Le Monde (France), CNN (USA), BBC (UK), El País (Spain), Al Jazeera International Service and CHV (Chilevision TV).

[CrONoS]

U.S. probes Iranian missile claims
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The United States is investigating Iranian claims that three Tomahawk cruise missiles fired by the United States might have missed their intended target Friday and landed in southwestern Iran.
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/22/sprj.irq.iran.missiles/index.html

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If 3 Tomahawk fall in Iran... how many can miss his target after all?
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Thanks Chilean President

[DarthVeda]

Yeah... massing forces of tanks isn't very smart for the Iraqis....

[Agathon]

Here's a pretty good counter to the optimistic US media.

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=275682

I'm not saying I endorse everything they say, but it is a refreshing read.

[Chilean President™]

CNN: Now showing via Videphone the Camp Pennsylvania.

[CrONoS]

No Sign of Scuds or Banned Arms in Iraq Yet -U.S.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. forces in Iraq have yet to find any evidence of the suspected chemical or biological weapons that prompted the invasion, a U.S. general said on Saturday.

http://www.reuters.com/news.jhtml

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[Serb]

March 22, 2002, 1300hrs MSK (GMT +3), Moscow - Additional information about the situation in the primary combat areas in southern Iraq became available by 1300hrs (Moscow time, GMT +3). The US command reports about the supposed surrender of the entire Iraqi 51st Infantry Division turned out to be a complete fabrication. According to our sources the 51st Division continues to fight on the approaches to Basra and we can only talk about individual cases of Iraqi soldiers being captured in combat.

Elements of the US 3rd Infantry Division and the 1st Marine Infantry Division ended up in an exceptionally difficult situation. While attempting to encircle Basra from the north and to block An-Nasiriya? elements the 3rd and 1st infantry divisions found themselves wedged between the defending Iraqi forces. The Iraqi command used this situation and delivered a decisive counterattack with up to 80 tanks in the open flank of the US forces, slicing through their combat orders. As the result of this counterattack these US units are now at risk of being separated from the main coalition forces and being surrounded.

By 1100hrs MSK Iraqi units advanced into the US attack front by 10-15 kilometers and Gen. Tommy Franks, the commander of the coalition forces, ordered his troops to switch entirely to defensive operations. At the same time he issued orders to the forward-deployed coalition tank units to halt their reconnaissance operations in the directions of Es-Samaba? and An-Najaf? and to move immediately to support the defending US forces. However, the situation is complicated by the fact that a part of the coalition tanks are currently disabled due to the lack of fuel and are awaiting the arrival of fuel convoys. Thus the tanks are able to gradually rejoin combat in small numbers as the fuel becomes available.

Currently the US and the Iraqi tank forces are engaged in mobile head-on combat approximately 70-90 kilometers to the south of An-Nasiriya?. Combat orders have been received by the carrier borne aviation in the Persian Gulf, which until now did not take part in this battle. At the same time orders were issued to all available coalition strike aircraft in Qatar to scramble in support of the defending coalition forces.

Intercepted radio communications indicate that during the morning period of March 22 the US forces lost 10-15 tanks destroyed or disabled and up to 30 other armored vehicles. Medevac helicopters flew more than 30 search-and-rescue missions, which suggests heavy coalition losses.

Our sources report that during the early morning hours in southwestern Iraq in the vicinity of Akashat the Iraqi forces have engaged and surrounded a tactical paratroop unit of the 101st Airborne Division. Some of the surrounded paratroopers were able to break out into the desert, where they request air support and finally lost their Iraqi pursuers. However, up to 30 US troops were killed or captured in this engagement. Additionally, Russian radio intercept units report that one the US attack helicopters providing close air support was shot down.

The top US military command is planning to enhance the coalition command. During the Joint Chief of Staff meeting its Chairman Gen. Richard Mayers expressed strong criticism of the actions by the coalition commander Gen. Franks and proposed to strengthen his headquarters with several other senior military commanders. Gen. Franks is required to do everything he can to change the current situation on the front. Analysts believe that, if during the next 3-5 days Gen. Franks fails to achieve any significant results, than it is entirely possible that he will be replaced as the commander of the coalition forces.

http://www.irakwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=454

[Chilean President™]

Originally posted by Serb
March 22, 2002, 1300hrs MSK (GMT +3), Moscow - Additional information about the situation in the primary combat areas in southern Iraq became available by 1300hrs (Moscow time, GMT +3). The US command reports about the supposed surrender of the entire Iraqi 51st Infantry Division turned out to be a complete fabrication. According to our sources the 51st Division continues to fight on the approaches to Basra and we can only talk about individual cases of Iraqi soldiers being captured in combat.

WHAT????

Someone else can confirm this?? If it is true is just uncredible!!

[CrONoS]

Serb
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http://www.irakwar.ru/

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What is this?

[GePap]

Serb.... that site seems to be very misinformed, to put it as an understatement.

[CrONoS]

I've translate the site http://www.irakwar.ru/ with BabelFish(altavista)
Look at that, if I read well, it says Iran think to create nuclear weapon???
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The council of the national security of Iran came forward with the idea of creation in the country of the nuclear weapons The council of the national security of Iran came forward with the idea of creation in the country of the nuclear of oruzhiya.Kak it stated the secretary of the Security Council of Iran Khasan Rovkhani, coming forward at the session of the assembly of experts, to the creation of their nuclear weapon the country it pushes slightly the international political situation, when all countries of world shut eyes to the military crimes of the United States.

[Chilean President™]

Iran with Nukes?? too much... is too much

Well the report of Serb tells about combats in an area called An-Nasiriya. TVN News correspondants have said the same thing a few hours ago.
Rafael Cavada, news correspondant from that network have said at 21:00 Chile (01:00GMT): "They're unconfirmed reports of huge fights between the coalition and iraqi forces in the region of An-Nasiriya and An-Nukhyab. Theres is no information about deads or injured, but the ally caravan had to stop the two sector advance".

[CrONoS]

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

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Babelfish doing a very good job to translate site web in other language, but if anybody have a tool to translate ARABIC to ENGLISH,, this can be real coool!
I will love to read web page of Al-Jazeera

[Serb]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
I've translate the site http://www.irakwar.ru/ with BabelFish(altavista)
Look at that, if I read well, it says Iran think to create nuclear weapon???
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I'll try to translate it:
The council of the national security of Iran came forward with the idea of creation of nuclear weapons in the countruy. The concil's secretary Hasan Rovhany said during assembly of experts that ineternational political situation when all countries of the world just "closed their eyes" on military crimes of USA push our country to creation of nuclear weapons. Also, to provide national security Hasan Rovhany recomended to boost diplomatic activity and find new allies for country. (Guess who? )
It's believed that disscussions about those proposals in the Iran's assembly of experts would take aproximately two months, after this time recomendations will be given to leadership of the country.