Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part II

[CrONoS]

In South Iraq, Some Say Saddam Loyalists Stir Fear
Wed March 26, 2003 02:30 PM ET
By Esmat Salaheddin
In South Iraq, Some Say Saddam Loyalists Stir Fear
Wed March 26, 2003 02:30 PM ET
By Esmat Salaheddin
SAFWAN, Iraq (Reuters) - Scores of Iraqis chanted slogans praising President Saddam Hussein as soon as reporters got off buses accompanying a convoy of Kuwaiti aid trucks to the southern town of Safwan on Wednesday.
"We sacrifice our souls, our blood for you...Saddam," the residents sang. "Saddam will not fall, Baghdad will not fall," said one Iraqi, giving his name only as Haidar.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...toryID=2454064;

[CrONoS]

Iraqi column leaves Baghdad, aims for US force-CNN.
CNN said the Republican Guard were moving under cover of a sandstorm which has buffeted Iraq for the past day. It said U.S. troops were preparing for a possible confrontation within hours.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26100082.htm

....
====
Bread "à la française" banished of One Air Force
The journalists accompanying Wednesday the president to the headquarters of the central Command of the American army discovered that the menu of One Air Force proposed from now on "freedom toast" with soft white cheese instead of "french toast".
====

https://www.cyberpresse.com

[CrONoS]

21:55 Syria`s Grand Mufti calls on Muslims to resist U.S.-led war on Iraq by all means, `including martyrdom operations`

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/

[CrONoS]

Ned: Maybe it's Jordania... I've see a news about 2-3 days ago, to open a western front with Jordania, since Turkey refused.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by 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?

CNN reported last week that they would not be fully operational in the field until 4/15. Can't find a link...just from memory.

[Eli]

The Pentagon says that the coalition is not responsible for the explosion that killed 15 civilians in the Baghdad market.

[Bosh]

They said that they weren't aiming for it, they didn't definatively say that they didn't hit it.

[Shi Huangdi]

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1707971.php

3rd infantry division prevails, destroy a Republican Guard force

[Koyaanisqatsi]

CNN: Over 1000 members of the 173rd Airborne fly in from Europe and parachute into an airbase in northern Iraq, capturing it.

[Ned]

Originally posted by dv8ed
CNN: Over 1000 members of the 173rd Airborne fly in from Europe and parachute into an airbase in northern Iraq, capturing it.

Didn't they also say that they would begin bringing in the 1st Armored division from Germany?

[Koyaanisqatsi]

They mentioned that the first objective would be to fly in their equipment to reinforce the 173rd position, and that it was likely that this airport would be used to bring in more forces later. I don't remember them naming a specific unit, but that doesn't mean much.

[Ned]

Bad Intel, Turkey, combine to create a war plan that will not work. Significant reinforcements are needed to win.

http://216.26.163.62/2003/ss_iraq_03_25.html

[CrONoS]

Now the real thing:
==
US raid 'may have caused deaths'
Iraq's information minister shows what he says are the remains of a coalition missile
A bombing raid in Baghdad may have resulted in civilian casualties, coalition Central Command has acknowledged.

A statement issued by the Qatar-based HQ said the Iraqi missiles were hidden in a residential area less than 100 metres (300 feet) from homes.

Iraqi officials say at least 14 people were killed and 30 injured in explosions in the busy Shaab district of northern Baghdad during an air raid.
But the situation is still confused - with a later Pentagon briefing saying it is still not clear what caused the blasts in Shaab.
=====

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2890015.stm

or here:

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=XBKJ1C01DNHAYCRBAELCFFA?type=topNews&storyID=2454683

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70146-12275844,00.html

[CrONoS]

Al-Jazeera Calls on U.S. to Ensure Free Press
LONDON (Reuters) - Banned on Wall Street and wiped off the Internet, Arab news channel al-Jazeera defended its controversial coverage of the Iraq war on Wednesday and demanded the United States come to its aid in the name of a free press.Al-Jazeera's new English-language Web site (http:english.aljazeera.net), which went live on Monday, and its Arabic-language site (www.aljazeera.net) were downed by a hacker attack on Tuesday and Wednesday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=3WQNBJZGDWCWYCRBAELCFFA?type=focusIraq News&storyID=2454990

[Bosh]

update: bomb in market is definately not US it appear, the crater's too small to be from anything we're lobbing at them.