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标 题: Key Developments Concerning Iraq
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月22日16:15:06 星期六), 站内信件
Key Developments Concerning Iraq
Saturday March 22, 2003 7:50 AM
Latest developments in the Iraq crisis:
- The United States escalated the war by launching its long-awaited massive
campaign from the air, and ground troops pushed one-third of the way to Bagh
dad. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Saddam Hussein and his lieutenan
ts are ``starting to lose control of their country.''
- A huge explosion shook the center of Iraq's capital before dawn Saturday.
- U.S. and British tanks and armored vehicles rolled within 9 miles of Basra
, Iraq's second largest city, a day after an entire Iraqi division, the 51st
Infantry, surrendered to coalition troops.
- Two British Navy helicopters collided over the Persian Gulf, and seven cre
w members were presumed killed. The accident did not result from enemy fire,
British officials said. A day earlier, eight British and four U.S. Marines
died when their helicopter crashed south of Umm Qasr.
- Ground troops pushed one-third of the way to Baghdad, and Defense Secretar
y Donald Rumsfeld said Saddam Hussein and his lieutenants are ``starting to
lose control of their country.''
- Saddam and his leaders presented a united front in the face of Rumsfeld's
claims, insisting the surrendering troops were not Iraqi soldiers. Saddam re
portedly met with military leaders, while Information Minister Mohammed Saee
d al-Sahhaf denounced Rumsfeld as ``this criminal dog.''
- Two U.S. Marines died in combat in southern Iraq. One was battling Iraqi i
nfantry to secure an oil pumping station. The second was fighting near the s
trategic port of Umm Qasr, which the Marines eventually controlled.
- U.S. and British troops captured many key facilities in Iraq's southern oi
l fields, saving them from possible sabotage and ensuring their use for the
country's postwar reconstruction.
- Turkey, despite U.S. opposition, sent 1,000 troops into northern Iraq to b
olster its military presence and prevent Iraqi Kurds from creating an indepe
ndent state, a Turkish military official said.
- At the United Nations, Iraqi ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri accused Secretar
y General Kofi Annan of aiding the U.S. and British attack by withdrawing U.
N. peacekeepers and weapons inspectors.
- Iraqi soldiers, including an entire division of 8,000 men and some 200 tan
ks, have surrendered to coalition forces in southern Iraq.
- Iraq fired its sixth missile into Kuwait, but it was shot down by Patriot
missiles. The Kuwaiti military identified the latest as an al-Fatah missile,
among the banned weaponry U.N. inspectors were hunting for.
- Police clashed with anti-war demonstrators outside the U.S. Embassy in Yem
en, triggering an exchange of gunfire that killed three people and injured d
ozens as outrage over the war erupted in cities around the world.
- San Francisco anti-war protest toned down Friday, with 150 arrests compare
d to 1,600 a day earlier.
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