Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part II

[Shi Huangdi]

Guardian: Australian Forces killing elite Iraqi troops

Australians 'kill elite Iraqi troops'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,921035,00.html

The 500-strong Australian Special Forces Task Group today said that it had taken out two of President Saddam's command and control centres, killing some of the Iraqi leader's elite soldiers. Reports would only say the centres were "deep inside Iraq".

Two Iraqi command and control centres for ballistic missile systems and anti-special forces operations were reportedly destroyed.

[Shi Huangdi]

More from The Guardian: Domestic support for Tony Blair rises

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,920884,00.html

In six days, the number of people who think Britain and the US are right to take military action against Iraq has risen from 50% on March 18 to 56% on March 24.

Trust in the prime minister to make the right decisions regarding the war has also jumped from 55% to 65% in the same time frame.

[Shi Huangdi]

BBC: Tony Blair says war going along as planned

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/2879105.stm

[Thoth]

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/03/24/warcost030324

Bush wants $75 billion to pay for first month of Iraq war
Last Updated Mon, 24 Mar 2003 19:00:49
WASHINGTON - An anxious White House is trying to change expectations for an easy and quick war just as U.S. President George W. Bush made his first formal request to Congress for the funds to fight it

[monkspider]

Saddam warns the USA that they are facing a "quagmire".

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_25-3-2003_pg1_2

[Edan]

Meanwhile, CBS News Correspondent Phil Ittner reports that Army doctors who treated some Iraqi prisoners of war, believed to be some high-ranking Iraqi officials, found Cipro pills among the Iraqis personal possessions.
Cipro is meant to ward off the effects of a biological attack from several toxic agents, foremost among them, anthrax.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/24/earlyshow/main545738.shtml

[CrONoS]

03:50 NYSE bans al-Jazeera reporter indefinitely, saying station was restricting access to `responsible` networks
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

[Chilean President™]

Cronos you've become my personal news source

[CrONoS]

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Allies Risk 3000 Casualties in Baghdad - Ex-General
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led force in Iraq (news - web sites) risks as many as 3,000 casualties in the battle for Baghdad and Washington has underestimated the number of troops needed, a top former commander from the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites) said on Monday.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030325/ts_nm/iraq_mccaffrey_dc&cid=564&ncid=1478

[CrONoS]

Old news, but with some detail
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U.S. Believes Russians in Baghdad Are Aiding Iraq
Mon March 24, 2003 06:20 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States believes Russian private sector technicians are in Baghdad helping train Iraqis to use electronic jamming systems that could endanger U.S. forces fighting Iraq, U.S. officials said on Monday.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=2440111;
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If someone got news about what are doing the Turkish Army post here the link plz!!!(maybe someone who read Arabic).

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
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Allies Risk 3000 Casualties in Baghdad - Ex-General
LONDON (Reuters) - The U.S.-led force in Iraq (news - web sites) risks as many as 3,000 casualties in the battle for Baghdad and Washington has underestimated the number of troops needed, a top former commander from the 1991 Gulf War (news - web sites) said on Monday.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...=564&ncid=1478

An important note to add to that is it's Gen. Barry McCaffrey, former commander of the 24 ID in GW I, which was the most agressive, best performing division in the war, and the primary force that shredded IRG Tawakalna outside of Basra. McCaffrey has a lot of credibility as a soldier's soldier and all around solid ass-kicker.

[DanS]

The Washington Post reported before the beginning of the war that the Powerpoint presentation given to the officer corps detailed estimated casualties. When they were detailed, the officer corps was said to have been sobered.

I guess there's a speed/casualties tradeoff or something.

[CrONoS]

06:02 Total of 20 U.S., 17 British soldiers killed in Iraq
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

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I dont know if it's only in battle or with all the crash and others...
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Analysis: How allies are winning on ground,
Iraqis on TV
After four days of fighting, the Iraqis have chalked up successes on the propaganda front, while the coalition has made achievements on the ground: A corps with a fleet of
helicopters is approaching Baghdad, and its hold on western Iraq is deepening. For the first time since the war's outset, the fleet has begun air attacks on one of the Republican Guard divisions.
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/276384.html

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American television stations CNN, NBC and CBS reported Monday that U.S. officials said the Iraqi leadership has drawn "a red line" around the map of Baghdad and that once American troops cross it, Iraqi Republican Guards have been authorized to use chemical weapons, Reuters reported.

While a senior Pentagon source said he could not confirm
the reports, NBC said its information was coming from intelligence officials who based it on intercepts of Iraqi communications.
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/275903.html

[CrONoS]

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Three comments on the situation
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. "I have a dream: When it's all over, let's take all the broadcasters and news program hosts, with their idiotic questions and their interviews - with that professor from Haifa who practically lives in Saddam's brain, with that school chum of his, with their psychologists and psychiatrists and self-professed experts and anyone who has a mouthpiece on the face of this earth - and shut them up in a sealed room for a week. Let's make them listen nonstop to everything they've pumped into our heads: the contradictory reports and the hellish scenarios plunging us into despair. Let them hear themselves 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If any of them survive that torture, at least they'll know what life looks like on the other side of the microphone."
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=276422&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y

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[CrONoS]

Sporadic, distant explosions heard in Baghdad - reports. More soon.
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Hundreds of UK marines deployed in southern Iraq near Iranian border. More soon.
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030325/wl_nm/iraq_baghdad_explosions_dc&cid=574&ncid=1478

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/middle_east/2002/conflict_with_iraq/default.stm

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