Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part II

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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=578&ncid=578&e=18&u=/nm/20030326/ts_nm/iraq_journalists_dc

Top Stories - Reuters
Group: Iraq TV Raid May Break Geneva Convention
Wed Mar 26, 6:49 AM ET


BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The head of the world's biggest journalists' organization said a U.S. bomb and missile attack on Iraqi television on Wednesday was an attempt at censorship and may have breached the Geneva Conventions.

[GRU]

Kyle, shall I repeat the reference?

It was today's speach of Iranian Majlis deputy from suffered region.
This news was aired yesterday but he is first Iranian official who confirms it.

And you are right they claim that Iraq hits them by some missiles too.

[CrONoS]

Iraqi armoured column of 70-120 vehicles seen leaving Basra.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2889635.stm

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SEVERAL U.S. TANKS DESTROYED: REUTERS
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Iraq TV Takes Frontline Role in Saddam War Effort
Wed March 26, 2003 11:31 AM ET

By Khaled Yacoub Oweis
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The operator at Iraqi Television calmly picked up the telephone minutes after several U.S. missiles struck the complex in the early minutes of Wednesday and cut transmission.
"We have a technical glitch, we will back on air shortly," the operator said.
Sure enough, programming resumed half an hour later. State television, which monopolizes Iraqi airwaves, then
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2453060

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19:36 German human rights group: Iraqi army killing officers who refuse to fight in northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk
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[GRU]

A US delegation arrived in Amman in its way to Baghdad for ceasefire negotiations

Abu Dhabi, Alittihad Daily, 3/26/2003 -- The UAE leading semi-official daily newspaper, Alittihad, reported today that a US government delegation has arrived in Amman, Jordan, yesterday in its way to Baghdad for negotiations with the Iraqi government about an immediate ceasefire

A diplomatic source told Alittihad that the US government delegation included four leading members of Congress as well as Elizabeth Cheney, the daughter of the US Vice President **** Cheney, representing the US Department of State, where she works as an Assistant to the Deputy of the Secretary of State for Middle Eastern Affairs.

[CrONoS]

RUMSFELD UNDER FIRE
Wesley Clark said Mr Rumsfeld's insistence on a smaller invasion force had left troops vulnerable and the 300-mile oil supply line between Kuwait and Basra open to guerilla attack.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70146-12275965,00.html

[Eli]

CNN Breaking News :

U.S. intelligence indicates "major column" of Iraqi Republican Guard troops with 1,000 vehicles heading south from Baghdad toward U.S. forces near Najaf, sources tell CNN's Walter Rodgers, embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division. Full story soon.

Those CNN guys are too slow.

[CrONoS]

Apolython News Channel are more fast.
Reported by ANC -- Full Story Soon

[DanS]

Some really nice slideshows from the Army Times...

http://www.armytimes.com/channel.php?GQID=show

[CrONoS]

20:22(+3:00GMT) Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix criticizes fact that inspectors had to pull out of Iraq prematurely
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http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

[GRU]

BBC is not sure if the movement of Iraqi armours from Basra is a counter-attack to recapture ground lost over the last two or three days, or possibly a tactical retreat from Basra because of the possibility of an uprising in the north of the city.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2889635.stm

I shall add that today the IRNA - Iranian news agency - reported that Iraqis counter-attack coalition troops in that region and broken the siege lines.

[GRU]

Urgent, Iranian radio:

Basra is under heaviest bombing. Citizen of neighbouring Iranian city Khorremshahr left their houses being sure an earthquake happens.

[GRU]

http://www.strana.ru/news/175511.html (link in Russian)

Armours from Basra are going toward Al-Faw.

[GRU]

Sky-News:

A British man fighting for Saddam Hussein has surrendered to the Desert Rats in Iraq.

The man, in his mid-20s, told the Irish Guards he was from Manchester and wanted to return home - to claim benefits, the Guards claimed.

Born in Iraq, the unidentified prisoner, who speaks in a Mancunian accent, is currently being held in a prisoner of war camp in the south of the country.

A source within the Irish Guards said: "He told us he wanted to fight for the Iraqis because he didn't agree with what Britain and American are doing.

[Ned]

4th ID and [possibly] 1st Cav (originally part of the aborted Turkey front) are deploying now to ME. Their equipment is there already.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-1085241,00.html

I had heard on the radio last night details about the port where their equipment was offloaded. I think it is somewhere different from Kuwait. Does anyone have any news on this?

[GRU]

Ned,

AFAIK Kuwait. Let's wait till confirmation.