Topic: W A R - on April 8, 2003 at 6:18:16 PM CEST
Greeting card company creates a line of cards specifically for troops in Iraq
On the cover of the card is a departing military ship with the caption, ''I miss you.'' Inside, the message reads: ''Kick Saddam's butt and get yours back here!''
In an industry that prides itself on a message for every occasion, American Greetings has produced a line of patriotic cards intended to boost morale of U.S. troops in Iraq.
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Topic: W A R - on April 5, 2003 at 1:26:35 PM CEST
Iraq says "everything okay" in Baghdad
Iraq's information minister says Baghdad is firmly under Iraqi control and denies U.S. reports that troops are reaching the centre of the capital.
Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf also reiterated that Iraqi troops had defeated U.S. forces at Baghdad airport overnight. U.S. officers say they are in control.
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Topic: W A R - on April 5, 2003 at 1:19:14 PM CEST
US TANKS ENTER BAGHDAD
US tanks and armoured vehicles have entered Baghdad and are approaching the city centre, military sources say.
The incursion came as Marines and infantry fought to impose a 'choke hold' on the Iraqi capital. It is now thought to be almost completely surrounded.
Iraq's Information Minister has said everything is "okay" in the city and the war is swinging back in his country's favour.
A column of around 20 Abrams battle tanks and 10 Bradley fighting vehicles swept into Baghdad from the southern outskirts this morning.
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Topic: W A R - on April 5, 2003 at 1:11:48 PM CEST
U.S. Forces Approach 'Heart of Baghdad'
U.S. armored forces rolled into parts of Baghdad on Saturday, smashing through Iraq's Republican Guard to reach the ultimate destination of their two-week surge across southern Iraq. In one skirmish, Marines with bayonets battled Arab fighters from abroad in a marsh on Baghdad's outskirts.
While Iraqi television played patriotic music and soldiers and militiamen loyal to President Saddam Hussein vowed to keep fighting, resistance to the American onslaught seemed tenuous. The U.S. sweep left burning tanks and bodies of Iraqi fighters behind.
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Topic: W A R - on April 4, 2003 at 3:50:56 PM CEST
The Battle Plan for Baghdad?
A secret Pentagon report sketches seven scenarios
As three U.S. combat divisions and assorted forces bear down on Baghdad, the big question of the war now is, how will U.S. troops take the Iraqi capital? This is a matter U.S. war planners pondered long before President Bush launched the war. Last summer, a secret team of high-level military officers and senior civilian Pentagon officials designed a tactical playbook for presentation to the Joint Chiefs of Staff "war-fighting group," a Pentagon outfit that oversees war plans. Titled "Joint Urban Operations," the report was developed by the team to study and enhance U.S. combat abilities in an urban environment.
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Topic: W A R - on April 4, 2003 at 3:16:54 PM CEST
Iraq warns of "non-conventional" act on U.S. forces
Iraq said that it might take "non-conventional" action on Friday night against U.S.-led forces who have seized Baghdad airport.
"We will commit a non-conventional act on them, not necessarily military," Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf told a news conference, adding the act might be tonight. "We will do something that will be a great example for these mercenaries."
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Topic: W A R - on April 4, 2003 at 1:14:42 PM CEST
Belgium's VTM television signs up Peter Arnett
Belgian commercial television station VTM said on Friday it had signed up veteran U.S. reporter Peter Arnett to provide daily coverage on the war in Iraq from the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Pulitzer-prize winner Arnett was sacked by American TV network NBC after he told Iraqi television the U.S. war plan against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had failed.
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Topic: W A R - on April 4, 2003 at 12:52:26 PM CEST
Iraqi man risked all for U.S. POW - Not the CIA
Mohammed, a gregarious 32-year-old Iraqi lawyer, went by the hospital in Nasiriyah one day last week to visit his wife, who worked there as a nurse, when he noticed the ominous presence of security agents. CURIOUS, HE asked around, and a doctor friend told him an American soldier was being held there. Something made him want to go see. The doctor took him to a first-floor emergency wing where he pointed out the soldier through a glass interior window — a young woman lying in a bed, bandaged and covered in a white blanket.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 8:01:37 PM CEST
U.S. Puts Secretive Special Forces in Spotlight
Dramatic footage of U.S. special forces raiding an Iraqi presidential palace and dam has turned the spotlight on secretive elite units who usually stay in the shadows.
The U.S. military on Thursday showed reporters grainy black and green video footage it had shot of two recent night raids by the heavily armed troops.
In one film, combining aerial and ground shots, an aircraft shoots at enemy positions on the ground as a helicopter drops troops near the turreted wall of what military officials said was one of President Saddam Hussein's residences.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 11:33:41 AM CEST
From high above Baghdad
SATELLITE IMAGERY OF BAGHDAD
More than 400 miles above the Iraqi capital, the Ikonos satellite brings new glimpses of the war: Today the company behind Ikonos, Colorado-based Space Imaging, provides before and after views of Baghdad’s Republican Palace, as well as before and after views of the Dawrah area on the city’s outskirts, site of a controversial biological laboratory that had been visited by U.N. weapons inspectors.
Overview of City with Smoke Plumes - 4-meter resolution (4MB)
Republican Palace - 1-meter resolution (1.4MB)
Dawrah area - 1-meter resolution (1.6MB)
Area South of Shaab Stadium - 1-meter resolution (2.7MB)
Abu Ghurayb Palace - 1-meter resolution (2.6MB)
North Baghdad - 1-meter resolution (1 MB)
Saddam International Airport - 1-meter resolution (3 MB)
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 10:55:59 AM CEST
Photographer dismissed after altering Iraq photo
The Los Angeles Times said Wednesday it fired a photographer for altering a front page photo of a British soldier and a group of Iraqi civilians.
In an editor's note in Wednesday editions, the Times said photographer Brian Walski acknowledged in a phone call from Iraq that he had used a computer to combine elements of two photos to improve the composition.
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Editor's Note On Monday, March 31, the Los Angeles Times published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 10:20:30 AM CEST
80 days that changed the world
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