Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part II

[Chilean President™]

Le Monde: Very intense air raids shook certain suburbs of Baghdad little after 7 standard times (5 hours in Paris), going until shaking the buildings of the center of the Iraqi capital so much they were violent one. In the night, the seat of the ministry for information was the target of shootings of cruise missiles, and its principal building was strongly damaged.

http://www.lemonde.fr/article/0,5987,3462--313400-,00.html

Translated by Altavista's Babel Fish

[Chilean President™]

00:35. - LONDON. A British soldier die and other four were injured this Saturday by "friendly fire" of the forces of the coalition near Basora (South of Iraq), indicated to El Mercurio a spokesman of the British ministry of Defense.

00:56. - UNITED NATIONS. The chief of inspectors of arms of the UN, Hans Blix, said Friday that will resign in June, disappointed because they did not grant him more months to his task of disarming pacifically Iraq and avoiding a war.

Emol.com El Mercurio OnLine http://www.emol.com/noticias/interna...noticia=108309

Translated by Altavista's Babel Fish

(Chile's time. GMT-4)

[Chilean President™]

News Update on the Raid Attack over Baghdad (Friday night / Saturday morning)


latercera.cl: (La Tercera Newspaper on line)

Allied missile hits against a market in Baghdad: tens of men and children between the victims.
A iraqi official in charge of the Ministry of Information, assured that a great number of civilians still are disappear under the rubbish.

At least 53 died and 50 hurt left in hours of the morning in the market of 'Suq Nasser', at the northwest of Baghdad, a rocket attack, assure arab press.

The envoy of the qatarí network Al Jazeera said that the market is near a place of Shiite's oration, habitually very frequented Fridays, day of rest for the Muslims.

The television network transmitted images of corpses, including those of children, in the mentioned market, in the district of Al Choola. Later, they were at a downtown hospital where numerous corpses had been taken.

Meanwhile, nine people died and nearly thirty were wounded because of impact of one or more missiles sent by the Anglo-American coalition to an accommodated residential zone of Baghdad, located in the western shore of the Tigris. At the time of the attack, that left three buildings totally destroyed, the victims were making the Muslim oration of the noon of Friday.

A tower of communications located in the borders of the Tigris river, in the center of Bagdad was also hit. Also a central telephone office of seven floors was destroyed in the area of Al-Alwya and left covered with iron rod, pieces of concrete and twisted metal the streets. Husein Moeini, director of communications of the capital, informed that several people were trapped under the rubbish. But the journalists who arrived at the site of the bombing than three hours after the attack said that they did not see any developing rescue operation, besides they heard screams from the destroyed building.

The aerial attacks also went against positions of the Republican Guard, the better trained division that has been unfolded around Bagdad. The attack to these positions is part of the softening of the Iraqian resistance before the final load by the control of the capital.

According to the information of the correspondents of La Tercera, the fire in the center of the Iraqian capital has become uncontrollable to the local firemen.

http://www.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,4293,3255_5702_26363711,00.html

[Ned]

Tonight's news on all major channels reported supply problems at the front. The slowness in getting supplies to the front was attributed in part to delays caused by Iraqi's, but also by the recent sandstorm.

[CrONoS]

Friendly fire 'kills fifth UK soldier'


An A-10 Thunderbolt is reported to have fired on two armoured vehicles
A UK soldier is reported to have been killed and others injured in a "friendly fire" incident in southern Iraq.
The soldier would be the fifth member of the UK forces killed by coalition colleagues since the start of the war in Iraq.

Reports say he died after an American A-10 Thunderbolt attack aircraft targeted two armoured vehicles near Basra on Friday.

But the Ministry of Defence would only confirm that an incident was being investigated and that a soldier was missing, presumed dead.

A spokesman in London said the unit involved was a group of British light armoured vehicles belonging to D Squadron of the Blues and Royals Household Light Cavalry Regiment.

"One British soldier is missing believed dead, four others are injured," the spokesman said.

"There is a suggestion that this was a 'blue on blue' [friendly fire] incident but we are unable to confirm this before all the facts are known.

"The next of kin have been informed and the relatives of the injured are in the process of being informed."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2897701.stm

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Remember yesterday I've write this: http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...66#post1865166

Wow.... GRU(Russian Information service was one day before everyone.. And I was suspicious about the text... this is the second times where GRU told news before every other mass medi.

[CrONoS]

Eyewitness: Basra 'besieged'
The people of Basra wonder what will happen next
A Western journalist who managed to get inside the southern Iraqi city of Basra says earlier claims of a popular uprising appear to be incorrect.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2897143.stm

[CrONoS]

Huge Explosion Rocks Kuwait City
The explosion has now been attributed by Kuwaiti officials to a "silkworm" missle that was most likely fired by Iraqi forces in Basra.

http://www.jihadunspun.net/intheatre_internal.php?article=49451&list=/home.php&

[CrONoS]

KIDNAPPING REPORTS
Reports are reaching Sky News that four or five British soldiers have been kidnapped in Basra.
A British officer said the soldiers may have been kidnapped overnight.
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70146-1085544,00.html

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SEVEN ITALIAN JOURNALISTS MISSING IN SOUTHERN IRAQ

http://www.islam-online.net/english/index.shtml

[CrONoS]

RUSSIAN INTEL UPDATE
According to the latest intercepted radio communications, the command of the coalition?sesid=1 group of forces near Karabela requested at least 12 more hours to get ready to storm the town. This delay is due to the much heavier losses sustained by the coalition?sesid=1 troops during the sand storms then was originally believed.

...Leaders of the largest Kurdish workers party categorically denied participation of their troops.

First conclusions can be drawn from the war

The first week of the war surprised a number of military analysts and experts. The war in Iraq uncovered a range of problems previously left without a serious discussion and disproved several resilient myths
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http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=954&sesid=2

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www.iraqwar.ru made a english version of the site web... go see!

[CrONoS]

Al-Jazira found Saturday eight journalists missing in Iraq DOHA, March 29 (AFP)
The correspondent of the satellite chain qatariote Al-Jazira in Bassorah, in the south of Iraq, affirmed Saturday to have seen in the morning seven Italian journalists and a caméraman of the chain, reported missing since the day before.

[CrONoS]

0455: Reuters news agency reports unnamed US military officers suggesting there will be a four-to-six day pause in the advance on Baghdad. Pentagon and US Central Command in Qatar refuse to comment on the reports.

[CrONoS]

'The Whole World Cries'

http://www1.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=992&sesid=2

[GRU]

Fog of war...

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20030328-064604-9442r.htm

A large explosion rocked downtown Kuwait City at 2 a.m. local time Saturday and some Kuwaitis believe the cruise missile that hit near a movie theater was an American Tomahawk that went astray, The New York Times reported.

The Times said some Kuwaiti officials read some English words on pieces of the missile wreckage, near a sea wall it apparently hit when coming in low over water. The missile strike, they said, was a mistake.

A Pentagon spokesman told United Press International that there was no information yet available about the missile strike...

[Chemical Ollie]

9.00 GMT +1 A building in Basra where about 200 suspected militia members had gathered were bombed by the coalition. No survivors have been seen to leave the ruins. Source: Swedish TV news

[GRU]

http://www.strana.ru/news/175938.html (Russian link)

7 more bodies of US Marines are found in En-Nassiriya.
Amont them, 5 - in burned armoured vehicle and 2 given back by local residents.

The links claims this story was reported by CNN.