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To: mph who wrote (58)	3/21/2003 11:14:11 AM
From: Sir Auric Goldfinger	Respond to of 214

Yes I Do. U.S., U.K. Seize Oilfields, Head Toward Baghdad (Update3) (Adds analyst comment in 13th through 15th paragraphs.) Baghdad, March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Two columns of U.S. and U.K. troops pushed into southern Iraq, one heading for Baghdad and the other securing oilfields and moving toward Basra, the largest city in the south. As many as 30 oil wells were ablaze. Hundreds of Iraq soldiers surrendered in southern Iraq and others fled, Cable News Network reported as the war to topple Saddam Hussein moved through a second day. The war ``appears to be going well,'' U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair told reporters in Brussels after a European summit. ``We are making progress,'' President George W. Bush said in Washington. ``We will stay on task until we achieve our objective, which is to free the Iraqi people.'' One U.S. Marine was killed, the first allied combat death, said Ensign David Luckett at Central Command in Qatar. Eight Royal Marines and four U.S. airmen died in a helicopter crash in Kuwait. ``So far, there's been very little resistance to our troops in the south,'' U.K. Foreign Secretary Jack Straw told the BBC.