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

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (7482)	4/4/2003 9:13:28 AM
From: Mike M	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Apparently WMD's have been found outside of Baghdad: story.news.yahoo.com <<Key Developments in the War Against Iraq 18 minutes ago By The Associated Press Key developments in the war in Iraq (news - web sites): Latest news: _ U.S. officer says troops south of Baghdad found a "suspicious site" with thousands of boxes of white powder, chemical warfare documents and nerve agent antidote. _ American soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division seized Saddam International Airport, nine miles from downtown Baghdad, and renamed it Baghdad International Airport. _ U.S. Central Command said that Marines reported that about 2,500 Iraqi Republican Guards surrendered between Kut and Baghdad. _ U.S. military officials said a car exploded near a coalition checkpoint in western Iraq about 80 miles east of the Syrian border, killing three coalition soldiers, a pregnant woman and the car's driver. _ "A vise is closing on the regime," President Bush (news - web sites) told Marines at Camp LeJeune, N.C., where he shed tears with families of Marines killed in Iraq. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Saddam had lost control of 45 percent of Iraq's territory. _ Myers indicated there may not be an all-out battle for Baghdad but that members of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime might be isolated and replaced with a "interim administration." _ Electricity and water remained cut in Baghdad on Friday morning after the city's first blackout of the war overnight. Coalition airstrikes hit the Air Force headquarters in the city. _ In a statement attributed to Saddam, Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahhaf said U.S. forces would be crushed at the gates of Baghdad. _ The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit reported looting in Nasiriyah, where people were grabbing propane gas bottles and bed springs, among other things. _ Military officials said nine of 11 bodies discovered in the same raid that freed Pfc. Jessica Lynch are believed to be those of American soldiers. The remains will be sent to the United States for further analysis. _ Marines fought in close combat in Kut, and at one point mowed down a small group of Iraqis carrying AK-47s who tried a suicide charge against a tank. The Marines estimated that about 80 Iraqi fighters died. The military said two Marines were killed and one wounded in the close-quarters fighting in Kut. Another Marine was killed near Kut when his automatic weapon went off while he was sleeping, firing one round into his chest. And an Army soldier investigating a destroyed tank in central Iraq was killed by friendly fire when he was mistaken for an Iraqi. _ In southern Iraq, British forces penetrated closer to the center of Basra, a city of 1.3 million where Iraqi defenders have held since the war began. Warplanes dropped 500-pound and 1,000-pound laser-guided bombs on an Iraqi intelligence complex. _ In the north, U.S. warplanes pounded front lines after Iraqi troops retreated from strategic hilltop positions. _ Defense Department officials were investigating whether a Navy Hornet jet that crashed Wednesday was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile. The pilot is missing. _ In Washington, Congress voted overwhelmingly to give President Bush about $80 billion for initial costs of the war and for anti-terrorism initiatives.