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标 题: Key Developments Concerning Iraq Invasion
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月23日12:38:11 星期天), 站内信件
Key Developments Concerning Iraq Invasion
Sunday March 23, 2003 4:10 AM
- Coalition forces pounded Baghdad with impunity in the first daylight air r
aids of the war. American forces have progressed 150 miles into Iraq, halfwa
y to Baghdad, and American ships and warplanes have launched 500 cruise miss
iles and several hundred precision weapons on Iraq over the past day, the Pe
ntagon said Saturday.
- U.S. and British forces tightened the noose around Iraq's second-largest c
ity, Basra, taking its airport and a bridge. Saddam Hussein's security force
s resisted with artillery and heavy machine guns. Military leaders intend no
t to storm and destroy the city but to force Iraqis to surrender and avoid a
bloody urban conflict.
- A command tent of the 101st Airborne Division was attacked with grenades a
t a camp in northern Kuwait, wounding 14 soldiers, four seriously. An Americ
an soldier in the division was suspected in the attack, and the motive appea
red to be resentment, an Army spokesman said.
- Gen. Tommy Franks, running the war from Qatar, promised the campaign would
be ``unlike any other in history.'' In his first comments since the war sta
rted, Franks acknowledged resistance from Iraqi forces, and said he had ``no
idea'' where Saddam was - or if he was alive.
- State-run Iraqi television reported that Saddam held two meetings Saturday
with senior government members and Qusai Hussein, who had been regarded as
his father's likely successor.
- The Turkish military denied reports that 1,000 Turkish commandos had cross
ed into northern Iraq. A military official said earlier that soldiers had ro
lled into northeastern Iraq near where the borders of Turkey, Iraq and Iran
converge to reinforce Turkish troops already in Iraq.
- West of Baghdad, along the Euphrates River, another of Saddam's palaces wa
s destroyed in a strike by warplanes from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, accord
ing to a commander aboard the carrier in the Mediterranean.
- In far-north Iraq, U.S. forces fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at suspected
positions of the Ansar al Islam guerrillas, which the United States accuses
of ties to al-Qaida terrorists.
- An apparent car bomb killed at least five people, including an Australian
cameraman, at a road checkpoint in northeastern Iraq near the Ansar al-Islam
camp. At least eight people were injured.
- Coinciding with the bombardment of Baghdad, air strikes hammered targets a
round the country, including Mosul and Kirkuk in the north and Basra and Nas
siriyah in the south.
- Two British Navy helicopters collided over the Persian Gulf, and seven on
board were killed, including a U.S. Navy officer. The accident did not resul
t 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.
- 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.
- Anti-war demonstrators held rallies in cities including New York, Chicago,
Washington and San Francisco.
- A CBS-New York Times tracking poll suggested that almost two-thirds, 62 pe
rcent, say the war will be quick and successful, and 33 percent thought it w
ould take a long time and be costly. In early March, only four in 10 said th
ey thought the war would be quick.
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To fly we must embrace each other.
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