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标 题: Key Developments in the War Against Iraq
发信站: 哈工大紫丁香 (2003年03月27日15:50:33 星期四), 站内信件
Key Developments in the War Against Iraq
Wednesday March 26, 2003 3:40 PM
Key recent developments in the war:
- A large contingent of Iraq's elite Republican Guard headed south in a 1,00
0-vehicle convoy Wednesday toward U.S. Marines in central Iraq - an area tha
t already has seen the heaviest fighting of the war. In Baghdad, Iraqi offic
ials said two cruise missiles hit a residential area, killing 14.
- British forces battled more than 1,000 die-hard Iraqi loyalists for contro
l of Basra on Wednesday, coming to the defense of inhabitants who rose up ag
ainst Saddam Hussein in the streets of the country's second-largest city.
- The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division drew to within 50 miles of Baghdad,
west of where the Republican Guard was advancing. Other American forces were
expected to join soon in squeezing the capital from several directions.
- The first sizable relief convoy rolled into Iraq in a sandstorm Wednesday.
Seven large, battered tractor-trailers entered Umm Qasr carrying food and w
ater donated by Kuwaitis.
- A U.S. general said Wednesday the discovery of 3,000 chemical suits in a h
ospital in central Iraq that had been used as an Iraqi base raised concern t
hat Saddam Hussein's regime was prepared to use chemical weapons.
- President Bush traveled to the headquarters of Central Command on Wednesda
y in Tampa, Fla. The Command's top general, Tommy Franks, is running the war
against Iraq from a forward headquarters in Qatar. Bush was getting a pair
of briefings from Central Command brass and having lunch with troops.
- A military source said the U.S. Central Command in Qatar now had evidence
that the Iraqi regime had wired many of the bridges around Baghdad for destr
uction.
- Turkey's military chief of staff pledged Wednesday to coordinate with the
United States before sending troops into northern Iraq and said there would
be no deployment unless a refugee crisis erupted or Turkey's security was th
reatened.
- En route to Baghdad, units from the 7th Cavalry Regiment fought a fierce r
unning battle with Iraqi forces near the central city of Najaf. According to
preliminary reports from American military officials, U.S troops killed up
to 500 Iraqi fighters, suffering the loss of two tanks but no casualties.
- Using missiles and warplanes, allied forces struck Iraqi state-run televis
ion early Wednesday. The station's international satellite signal was knocke
d off the air, but regular broadcast resumed on schedule after daybreak.
- A second serviceman died from wounds suffered in a grenade attack in Kuwai
t blamed on an Army sergeant, the military said. Air Force Maj. Gregory Ston
e, 40, based in Boise, Idaho was pronounced dead at an Army field hospital.
- U.S. officials reported signs of renewed control by Baghdad of military an
d security forces around Iraq, but said they don't know whether that leaders
hip is provided by Saddam Hussein or by his senior chiefs.
-Thousands of protesters in Sydney, Australia, pelted police with bottles an
d chairs grabbed from street-side cafes Wednesday in Australia's most violen
t demonstration yet against the Iraq war. In South Korea, demonstrators were
arrested when they tried to barge into the U.S. Embassy.
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To fly we must embrace each other.
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