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To: Techplayer who wrote (10052)	3/24/2003 1:45:13 AM
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this sounds risky: Race to Baghdad is 'fastest ever' By Oliver Poole with the US 3rd Brigade combat team, central Iraq (Filed: 24/03/2003) The American army continued its headlong advance on Baghdad yesterday, its soldiers exhausted after what Washington has hailed as the fastest and farthest armoured advance in history. British forces on the road to Baghdad Many had barely slept in three days. Soldiers riding in Bradley armoured vehicles slept sitting upright in the cramped area at the rear. Radio operators were having to be awakened at their posts as they were overcome by exhaustion. The men of the US 3rd Infantry are now thought to have covered about 250 miles since leaving their bases in Kuwait on Friday morning. Some reports suggested that leading units could be only 60 miles from Baghdad, between the towns of Karbala and Najaf, a shrine revered by Shias across the world. They have stopped only to face mortar fire and counter-attacks and to refuel. Tanks with an armoured unit of the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division came under what their commander described as "almost suicide attacks" yesterday, in which Iraqi soldiers fired on them in the middle of the afternoon. The rest of the 3rd Brigade, which had just completed its mission to secure important bridgeheads over the Euphrates, was attacked by mortars. Two vehicles were damaged and two soldiers wounded. The unit targeted by "suicide" squads adopted a defensive position near the town of Samawah. Enemy soldiers were said to be active in the surrounding fields. Earlier in the day the unit captured a motorcycle and sidecar in which four Iraqis in civilian clothes were using a military radio to relay the Americans' position. The dash across the desert on the first day left many non-tracked vehicles trapped in the sand. All vehicles in the advance are carrying as much fuel, food and water as they can, but the 1st Battalion's logistics officer said the speed and success of the invasion meant that it was in danger of out-running its supplies.