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Jul 2000
time: 07:27
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CNN breaking news :
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U.S. officer says American troops find thousands of boxes of unknown white power, nerve gas antidote, and chemical warfare documents at complex south of Baghdad, according to The Associated Press. CNN is working to confirm. |
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of the Sarzaneers
Oct 2001
time: 06:27
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NEWS - DAY 16 OF THE WAR
* U.S. says three coalition soldiers killed, two injured when vehicle exploded at checkpoint northwest of Baghdad; blast also killed Iraqi driver and pregnant woman
* Senior U.S. officer says Baghdad airport under U.S. control; residents living near airport stream into city centre
* U.S. spokesman says 2,500 Republican Guards surrendered and U.S Marines closing in on Baghdad from the southeast
* Saddam urges Iraqis to turn land beneath invaders' feet into "hell", in statement read out on Iraqi TV
* U.S. advance drives oil futures down $1
QUOTES
Blair quoted in letter: "As soon as Saddam Hussein's regime falls, the work to build a new, free and united Iraq will begin. A peaceful, prosperous Iraq which will be run by and for the Iraqi people, not by America, not by Britain, not by the U.N.
U.S. Air Force General Richard Myers: "Nobody should be euphoric that now that we are on the edge of Baghdad this thing is just about over. That's not true."
Saddam statement on TV: "Let every family in Baghdad be assured... our faithful men will confront the enemy."
CASUALTIES
* U.S. - 57 killed, 12 missing; up to seven more possibly killed in helicopter crash
* Britain - 27 killed
* Iraqi military - U.S. says 320 Iraqi soldiers killed in battle for Baghdad airport. Iraqi authorities give no figures for military losses in war
* Iraqi civilians (Iraqi estimates) - 1,250 killed, 5,103 injured
MILITARY ACTION
BAGHDAD: U.S. forces seize Baghdad airport and fight off counterattack. Bombers pound Iraqi air force headquarters and presidential palace.
CENTRAL IRAQ: U.S. Marines tighten grip on Nassiriya, appear to control bridges over Euphrates; U.S. troops move into centre of Najaf to tackle paramilitaries; U.S. Marines push up towards Baghdad from Tigris river city of Kut.
SOUTHERN IRAQ: British troops edge into Basra, capture a key resistance area, kill eight militiamen.
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U.S. Troops Say Find Second Site with Vials, Powder
Fri April 4, 2003 08:23 AM ET
NEAR BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. troops said on Friday they had found a second site near Baghdad containing vials of unidentified liquid and white powder.
A U.S. officer told Reuters the site was close to another plant, near Latifiya, where soldiers had found boxes of vials and chemical warfare manuals earlier in the day.
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http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....storyID=2508834
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Someone didn't waste any time. This is from the summary page on the BBC website.
1217: The US military say Saddam International Airport in Baghdad has been renamed Baghdad International Airport, although the base is not yet believed to be secured.
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Eli
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Israel
Jul 2000
time: 07:27
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http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/...1086327,00.html
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IRAQ'S WARNING TO FORCES
Iraqi forces may take non-conventional action against US troops at Baghdad International Airport tonight.
The information minister said: "Tonight we will carry out something that is non-conventional against them, not military. It will be a great example to them."
It was not clear what Mohammed Said al-Sahhaf meant by "non-conventional".
Asked if Iraq would use weapons of mass destruction, he said: "No, not at all. But we will conduct a kind of martyrdom operations."
US-led forces have been on alert for possible Iraqi use of biological or chemical weapons, which Baghdad denies it possesses.
Iraq's main spokesman warned that US forces are isolated at Baghdad International Airport.
"Unless they surrender quickly, I don't think there's any chance that they will survive," he said.
"We consider it an isolated island. They are completely surrounded."
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My guess is that a huge march of thousands of unarmed civilians will try to reconquer the airport. I hope the US has enough crowd control measures there, otherwise it's retreat or massacre.
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breaking news on MSNBC: Cyanide, Mustard agents found in Euphrates river
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British bid to land troops near Mosul foiled
Zeina Khodr
Iraq said on Tuesday that its forces had foiled a landing by British troops near the northern city of Mosul.
“The British forces which were dropped there have been eliminated mostly on the battlefield, except for those who fled,” Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference in Baghdad.
He said the British landing took place in the Baaj district southwest of Mosul. He did not say when it happened, and there has been no confirmation from British sources.
Al Jazeera Television reported late Monday that the operation was aborted by Iraqi tribesman and military units who killed 10 British servicemen.
“The British troops consisted of dozens of men and 20 military machinery,” Mohamed Khair Bourini , the Al Jazeera correspondent reported. “Iraqi forces, tribesmen and citizens surrounded the unit when they landed and engaged in combat. Ten British soldiers were killed.”
The television channel showed footage of what Bourini said were local tribesmen driving a captured Land Rover around the streets of Baaj. “They seized most of the British paratroopers' equipment and destroyed 14 tanks and other vehicles.”
A British spokesman at the Central Command headquarters in Qatar said he knew nothing of British forces attempting to land in northern Iraq.
Asked if Britain had troops in the area, a spokesman for the Ministry of Defence in London said, "not that I'm aware of". He also said he had not heard anything about British casualties in northern Iraq.
Last Thursday, about 1,000 U.S. paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade landed in the Kurdish-run north to open up a northern front in the U.S.-led war to oust President Saddam Hussein. --- Al Jazeera
http://english.aljazeera.net/topics...7&parent_id=258
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of Aptos, CA
Oct 1999
time: 21:27
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From BRIAN FLYNN
in Washington
A COURAGEOUS Iraqi risked his life to save wounded American soldier Jessica Lynch, it was revealed yesterday.
The man — identified only as a lawyer called Mohammed — said he had been appalled after seeing the 19-year-old private beaten by a militia thug.
He decided he must end her torment and walked SIX MILES into the desert to tell US troops where she was.
Then he SPIED for them in TWO perilous missions to a hospital where she was held.
The information he gathered enabled them to launch the rescue operation that amazed the world this week.
The astonishing story began thanks to a stroke of luck.
Mohammed, 32, had gone to Saddam Hospital in Nasiriyah to see his wife Iman, who worked there as a nurse.
He saw Fedayeen paramilitaries at the doors and asked a doctor pal what they were doing there.
The medic sneaked him to a first-floor emergency wing where Mohammed peered through a window and saw Jessica in bed, bandaged and covered in a white blanket.
He watched in horror as a burly colonel, clad entirely in black, slapped the badly injured teenager with his open palm — then again with the back of his hand.
Mohammed set off immediately on foot to find US soldiers outside the city.
He came across Marines six miles away and approached with his hands in the air.
One wary soldier challenged: “What do you want?”
Mohammed, whose account was published by the Washington Post, replied: “I have important information about woman soldier in hospital.”
He was ushered in to be quizzed by officers.
Mohammed told them all he knew then contacted his wife Iman and instructed her to take their six-year-old daughter and stay with relatives.
It was a wise precaution. That night, friends told him later, the Fedayeen ransacked his house in a bid to find something. It was not clear what they were looking for.
The Americans asked Mohammed to return to the hospital twice in the next two days to gather vital information about the layout of the building and the deployment of Fedayeen.
On the first occasion he sneaked into Jessica’s room to tell her help was on the way.
She mistook him for a doctor but he reassured her: “Don’t worry, don’t worry.”
Mohammed, who counted 41 armed guards, traced routes through the corridors that commandos could use.
He discovered the Iraqis were talking about amputating one of Jessica’s broken legs but he managed to persuade his doctor friend to stall the operation.
After returning to the Marine base, he sketched five maps and Iman drew another.
Commandos used them when they stormed the six-storey hospital on Tuesday night and were able to trace Jessica within minutes.
She was flown to safety in a Black Hawk helicopter and was last night recovering from surgery at a US military hospital in Germany.
The heroic lawyer said of the moment he saw Jessica being hit: “My heart was cut.
“I decided to go to the Americans and tell them.”
Although he and his family have had to flee their home he had no regrets.
He said simply: “She would not have lived. It was very important. A person, no matter his nationality, is a human being.”
And he added in broken English: “I am afraid not for me. I am afraid about my daughter and my wife, because I love much.
“In the future, when Saddam Hussein is down, I will go back to Nasiriyah.” Mohammed told the Washington Post his hatred for Saddam was fuelled by atrocities he saw committed by the Fedayeen.
He described seeing the brutes drag a dead woman through the streets of Nasiriyah soon after the war began.
She had been executed because she waved at an American helicopter.
Mohammed, a Shi’ite Muslim from the holy city Najaf, said of the Fedayeen: “Very, very, very, very bad. There’s no kindness in my heart for them.”
His family was flown to a Marines base then transferred south to a refugee camp at Umm Qasr. The grateful Americans gave them new clothes — including an MTV shirt for Iman and an oversized military T-shirt for her daughter.
When Mohammed said he would love an American flag the Marines got one for him.
Lieut Col Rick Long, who hosted a meal for them, said: “Mohammed is sort of an inspiration to all of us.”
Jessica’s dad Greg, a trucker, said: “I am truly grateful for what he’s done.
“I realise he risked his life. The man’s an angel and a god in his own way.”
Jessica was captured when a convoy from the US Army’s 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company was ambushed on March 23.
She and four male comrades were paraded on Iraqi TV. Seven others are still listed as missing in action.
But the Pentagon confirmed yesterday that nine of 11 bodies in a shallow grave outside the Nasiriyah hospital were American soldiers.
Jessica, from the town of Palestine, West Virginia, had surgery yesterday to repair a spine fracture that was pinching a nerve.
Both her legs and her right arm are broken.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2003152444,00.html
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/mi...ast/2919249.stm
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Tornadoes to drop 'concrete bombs'
Tornado jets are poised to use yet another different weapon in the war against Iraq ... concrete bombs.
The jets have already used high-tech weaponry such as the "bunker busting" cruise missile Storm Shadow, which cost £750,000 apiece and can pierce several feet of concrete.
But now the crews operating over Iraq from the Ali Al Salem airbase in northern Kuwait are about to go to the opposite extreme and use "inert bombs".
These are basically blocks of concrete shaped as bombs and painted blue to identify them as non-explosive if they are discovered still intact after the war.
But they will be laser-guided 1,000lb blocks of concrete, capable of destroying a tank or artillery piece, but without causing a devastating explosion that would put civilians at risk and shatter surrounding buildings.
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Battle Creek, Michigan
Jan 2002
time: 00:27
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April 4, 2003
U.S. Super Cobra Helicopter Crash Kills 2
By THE ASSOCIATED
Filed at 11:25 p.m. ET
CAMP AS SALIYAH, Qatar (AP) -- A U.S. Super Cobra attack helicopter crashed early Saturday in central Iraq, killing two Marine pilots, the Central Command said.
The cause of the crash of the AH-1W gunship was under investigation, but it did not appear to have gone down as a result of hostile fire, the command said.
Names of the two Marines were withheld pending notification of relatives.
The Super Cobra is primarily used for fire support and security for forward and rear-area forces. It is usually used to escort other assault helicopters and their forces. It is capable of both land- or sea-based operations.
Built by Bell Helicopter Textron, of Forth Worth, Texas, the AH-1W can defend against tanks, helicopters and personnel. Each AH-1W costs $10.7 million.
In the 1991 Persian Gulf War, Super Cobras destroyed Iraqi 97 tanks, 104 armored personnel carriers and vehicles, 16 bunkers and two anti-aircraft artillery sites; none crashed or were shot down, the Marines said.
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