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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (5218)	3/29/2003 1:26:08 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

6 Basra tank column On Wednesday evening, news broke of one of the biggest tank battles involving British forces since the second world war. A convoy of up to 120 Iraqi armoured vehicles had been spotted breaking out of the southern city of Basra in broad daylight, heading south towards the British-held Faw peninsula in what commanders described as an "offensive posture". TV news reports on Wednesday evening and newspapers on Thursday were filled with gripping accounts of the battle between British tanks and the Iraqi armour."British artillery and jets launched a fierce attack last night on a convoy of up to 120 Iraqi tanks and armoured personnel carriers seen pouring out of the city of Basra," the Guardian's front page story said. The story had come from correspondents with the British forces, who had been given accounts of the battle by commanders. It was not until yesterday's MoD press briefing that the truth emerged: rather than 120 Iraqi vehicles, there had been only three. A contrite military admitted that the error had stemmed from an "erroneous signal" from the coalition's electronic moving target indicators. US Brigadier General Vince Brooks described it as a "classic example of the fog of war". media.guardian.co.uk