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DanS
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Kickball Capital of the World
Jan 1970
time: 00:27
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An Najaf reported to be partially taken. Iraqi irregulars retreat. Troops welcomed!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...7-2003Apr1.html
This and Karbala are the linchpins to Shiite Iraq. It would be great news if it holds!
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Daz
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of the wasteland.
Jan 2003
time: 05:27
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Not aljazeera...
quote:
At least 11 civilians, nine of them children, were killed in Hilla in central Iraq yesterday, according to reporters in the town who said they appeared to be the victims of bombing. Reporters from the Reuters news agency said they counted the bodies of 11 civilians and two Iraqi fighters in the Babylon suburb, 50 miles south of Baghdad. Nine of the dead were children, one a baby. Hospital workers said as many as 33 civilians were killed. |
Also...
President Hosni Mubarak warned today that a protracted U.S.-led war in Iraq will lead to a dangerous rise in Islamic militancy across the Arab world.
"If there is one [Osama] bin Laden now, there will be 100 bin Ladens afterward," Mubarak said in a televised speech to army commanders in the city of Suez, 80 miles east of the capital, Cairo.
In the same speech, he defended Egypt's decision to grant the United States the right to use the Suez Canal to transport troops and materials.
"Crossing of ships of the Suez Canal is a right for all countries and is an international commitment that cannot be trampled with," Mubarak said.
Mubarak's speech reflected concern among U.S. allies in the Arab world that the lengthening timetable for the war would bring more protests and a rise in extremism that could damage their governments. But it also revealed the need to criticize the war while at the same time maintaining good relations with the United States.
The Egyptian president has condemned the war repeatedly, but he also blames Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for his failure to cooperate with the international community
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Daz
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of the wasteland.
Jan 2003
time: 05:27
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I heard the dates were in French, so they couldnt decipher it right away...
Sorry MTG, coment deserves comment.
Anyway...
A Russian navy squadron is set to depart for the Indian Ocean next week in the largest naval deployment since the Soviet times, a news agency reported.
When the Russian navy ships reach the Indian Ocean, they plan to take part in joint maneuvers with the Indian navy, the Interfax-Military News Agency reported, quoting an unidentified official at the General Staff of the Russian armed forces.
Participating in the voyage are the Black Sea Fleet's flagship missile cruiser Moskva, escort ships Pytlivy and Smetlivy, landing ship Cesar Kunikov and several supply ships. The Pacific Fleet is sending anti-submarine ships Marshal Shaposhnikov and Admiral Panteleyev and a tanker, the agency reported.
It said the ships were scheduled to set out to sea from next Tuesday.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov has said repeatedly that the naval deployment was unrelated to Iraq
In an interview published Tuesday, he reaffirmed that the Russian navy ships weren't going to the Persian Gulf. The deployment "isn't aggressive or directed against nations of the region," Ivanov told the daily Komsomolskaya Pravda.
Ivanov said joint maneuvers with the Indian navy was a possibility, but didn't give any further details of the deployment.
The Russian navy's presence in world oceans has been slightly reduced since the Soviet collapse. Most warships have languished berthside due to a lack of fuel and spares.
"The navy was staying dockside for many years, the seamen were losing their skills and people abroad stopped recognizing our ... flag," Ivanov said in the interview. "Why don't we correct this defect?"
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Messer Niccolò
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of the Sarzaneers
Oct 2001
time: 06:27
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NEWS - DAY 14 OF THE WAR
* Vanguard of U.S. forces 30 km (19 miles) from south edge of Baghdad, sources say; some over "red line" where risk chemical attack
* U.S. says Baghdad Division of Republican Guard "destroyed" near Kut, southeast of capital
* U.S. air raid hits Baghdad maternity hospital, trade fair
and motorists; several killed and at least 25 wounded, hospital sources and witnesses say
* Colin Powell says has agreed measures with Turkey to ship military supplies to U.S. troops in northern Iraq
* Iraqi TV says Saddam chairs meeting of top officials
including two sons; no footage of meeting shown
REUTERS WAR POLL
* Defence experts say U.S. troops likely to need four to
eight weeks to take Baghdad, but say predictions difficult
* Fund managers see average six more weeks of war, taking conflict into middle of May
* Fund managers expect S&P 500 to gain five to six percent in next three months, but see little to strengthen dollar (  )
CASUALTIES
* U.S. - 53 killed, 11 missing
* Britain - 27 killed
* Iraqi military - no confirmed figures
* Iraqi civilians (Iraqi estimates) - at least 677 killed, 5,036 injured
MILITARY ACTION
BAGHDAD: U.S. advance towards Baghdad on two fronts against Republican Guard; reaching to within 30 km (19 miles) of city
Iraq says U.S. warplanes hit Red Crescent maternity hospital and city's trade fair in morning bombing, killing several
B-52s drop cluster bombs on Iraqi tank column guarding city
CENTRAL IRAQ: U.S. says American troops destroy the Baghdad division of Republican Guard near Kut, southeast of capital;
Iraq denies that U.S. Marines secured a key bridge over Tigris
Units with U.S. 3rd Infantry cross Euhprates north of
Kerbala, secure territory on east bank
Euphrates dam seized by U.S. troops northwest of Baghdad
SOUTHERN IRAQ: U.S. Marines rescue female PoW from
Nassiriya.
NORTHERN IRAQ: B52s pound Iraqi front line between Mosul and Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq; Turkish-registered trucks with U.S. escort head towards Iraqi front line
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edited minor changes
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Adam Smith
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Maryland, USA
Jan 1970
time: 00:27
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...6-2003Apr1.html
From Strife-Torn South, Reports of Fear, Isolation
By Anthony Shadid
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, April 2, 2003; Page A01
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BAHDAD, April 1 -- At the Karkh bus station today, near the Ibn Buniyya Mosque, drivers loaded their ramshackle green buses with pilgrims, soldiers and families. The road is open, the drivers said, but two weeks into the war, travelers describe the cities of southern Iraq as besieged and beleaguered.
In conversations with bus drivers, families traveling to and from Baghdad and relatives who have stayed in contact by telephone, stories are recounted of isolated and fearful residents, dependent on dwindling government rations, terrified by relentless U.S. air assaults. In more candid moments, they complain of being trapped in the middle -- between a U.S. attack they fear will lead to an occupation and a brutal, unpopular government flashing an iron fist in the traditionally restive south.
Without exception, they insisted that the ruling Baath Party remains in unyielding control -- "at least 90 percent," in the words of one -- with thousands of cadres deployed with green uniforms and Kalashnikovs block by block, intersection by intersection to prevent the fall of cities such as Basra, Nasiriyah, Hilla and the sacred Shiite Muslim town of Karbala.
"If you take your shoe off and throw it outside, it will land on one of the Baath Party guys," one relative told a traveler here.
The conversations shed light on the loyalty of Shiites in southern Iraq to President Saddam Hussein. They provided insights, too, into the fragility of their fealty. Residents say the Baath Party's numbers in the southern cities burgeoned in the 1990s -- the $15 a month members received was one of the few sources of income in the miserably poor region. Their ranks have, in part, allowed the government to saturate the streets with an almost blanket control that has yet to show any fissures. For how long remains a question.
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SlowwHand
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:27
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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...ia_030402203416
BBC cameraman killed in landmine blast in northern Iraq
1 hour, 14 minutes ago
LONDON (AFP) - A BBC cameraman was killed in northern Iraq when he stepped on a landmine as he climbed out of his car, the corporation said.
Kaveh Golestan, 52, an Iranian freelance cameraman, was part of a four-man team filming at Kifri, the BBC said in a statement.
Producer Stuart Hughes, also caught in the blast, was taken to the American Military hospital in Sulaymaniya for treatment on an injured foot. Correspondent Jim Muir and their local translator were unhurt.
"Kaveh Golestan was an outstanding photojournalist who had worked in support of freedom of expression in his native Iran and elsewhere and was well known to many western news organisations," said BBC news director Richard Sambrook.
"He had worked with the BBC for many years. Our deepest sympathy goes to his family and friends," he said.
"This once again underlines the dangers faced by news teams covering the war in Iraq," he said.
Golestan, a Pulitzer prize-winning photographer, leaves a wife and a 19-year-old son.
The Iranian is the third journalist working for the British media to die in Iraq in the current conflict which began on March 20.
Gaby Rado, 48, fell from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulyamaniya, a major town in a Kurdish-controlled area, according to a statement from the independent ITN network, which produces news programmes for Channel 4.
ITN has already lost one journalist in the Iraq war, veteran television news correspondent Terry Lloyd who is suspected to have been killed by fire from allied forces near the southern city of Basra.
Lloyd's French cameraman Fred Nerac and Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman are still missing.
Paul Moran, an Australian cameraman, was killed in an apparent car bombing in northeast Iraq on March 22.
Moran, who worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, was among five people who died in the incident at a checkpoint in Khurmal.
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