Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part II

[GRU]

Iranian radio:

Fresh Iraqi troops are coming toward Basra to help the sieged garrison.
City is under heavy bombing.
Coaltion aircrafts have to fly high due to smokes from burning wells.

[TheStinger]

BBC say UK 7th armoured brigade has had to withdraw form Bassra

[Luk]

It is a strong scandal in Polish massmedia, why Polish commander of our best special forces unit GROM (Thunder in English) was spoted with American Flag in his hands. Polish Minister of National Defence said that next time he must be with Polish flag, if not - he will be dismissed

[Fidel]

i do not know if this is supposed to be reported in this thread, but iraqwar.ru reports massive online attacks from se asia and usa. they are a clearly anti-usa site and occassionally provide in-depth coverage and analysis of war operations in iraq. their intelligence connections have so far been rather accurate (GRU, anything on this?)

[GRU]

LaRusso,

Yes, you are right.

I hate to report this but www.irakwar.ru like some other Russian news sites are under heaviest attack starting from this morning (I mean Moscow time). Many of attacks are coming from USA.

[GRU]

RIA Novosti referring to UNICEF

http://www.strana.ru/news/175144.html

Basra is third day without water supply. Tens thousands of people shall use water from river. It may cause disease and epidimea.

At least 100,000 children under age 5 are in the hazardous zone now.

[GRU]

Britain Suffers First Combat Casualty

The Associated Press

LONDON (AP) - A British soldier was killed in combat in southern Iraq on Monday, the first British combat death since the war began, the Ministry of Defense said.

The soldier, whose name was not made public, was killed near Az Zubayr in southern Iraq, the ministry said. A spokeswoman declined to provide further details, but said the soldier's family had been notified.

[CrONoS]

http://www.jihadunspun.net/home.php

http://www.aljazeera.net/

and some others arabia website receive net attack from the world last night and this morning.
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Maybe the same thing than www.irakwar.ru

[CrONoS]

Buses of Syrian volunteers reportedly set off to fight alongside Iraqi forces.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[Edan]

Iran, which has reported several violations of its airspace by US and British jets attacking Iraq, said on Monday it might fire on aircraft which enter its skies.

But it played down the significance of apparently errant missiles landing on its territory and said such incidents were the natural consequence of living next door to a war zone.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s815232.htm

[Chilean President™]

Emol.com: The government of Inacio Da Silva has has offer exile to the iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his family. Brazilian officials have said that president Da Silva was willing to accept Mr. Hussein in Brazil to stop the war inmediately.

http://diario.elmercurio.com/internacional/internacional/noticias/2003/3/24/313356.htm?id=313356

TVN: Two AH-64 helicopters (Apache) were shooted down by iraqi forces in the south of that country this morning. The aircrafts were shooted down by iraqi militia not the regular army.
Iraqi officials have said that 4 american pilots were captured.

http://www.24horas.cl/detalle.asp?IDSec=1&IDCont=84066

EDIT: I'm a little late with the Apache news

[CrONoS]

21:11(+2:00GMT) Officials: Massive explosion heard in vicinity of U.S. Navy 5th Fleet base in Bahrain (AP)

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

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20:14(+1:00GMT) Bahrain: explosion close to the base of the 5th American fleet

https://www.tf1.fr/news

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Anybody got news about that?

[JCG]

BBC also reports on a large explosion near the U.S. Navy 5th Combat Headquarters...nothing further yet.

EDIT: The correspondent says that it may be a "dustbin" that exploded for unknown reasons...

[CrONoS]

Huge blast reported near US navy base in Bahrain.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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Nothing in CNN or FoxNews

[CrONoS]

MANAMA, 24 mars (AFP) - Une forte explosion d'origine indéterminée a été entendue lundi soir près de la base de Joufair (est de Manama), où est situé le siège de la Vème flotte américaine, ont indiqué des témoins.

MANAMA, March 24 (AFP) - a strong explosion of unspecified origin was heard Monday evening close to the base of Joufair (is of Manama), where the seat of the 5th American fleet is located, indicated witnesses.
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http://www.lefigaro.fr/perm/afp/francais/specialinfo/urgent/030324190600.fcwsrc16.html

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