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Saturday, March 5th, 2003
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Baghdad Surgeons Amputating Without Anesthetics
AMMAN, Jordan  — Baghdad's hard-pressed surgeons, flooded with war-wounded, are amputating the limbs of children and adults with too few anesthetics to block the pain and too few antibiotics to protect the patients, a Greek doctor newly arrived from Iraq reported Saturday.[Fox News' Simon Marks reported Saturday that many aid organizations in Amman had been trying to get medical supplies into Iraq, but had been turned away by Iraqi authorities.]
UK Strips Radical Muslim Cleric of Citizenship

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain has revoked the citizenship of a radical Muslim cleric who applauded the September 11 attacks and was banned from preaching at a London mosque, Home Secretary David Blunkett said on Saturday.
Wednesday  April 2, 2003 UPDATES
Report: Iraq torture chamber found
Wednesday, April 2, 2003 Posted: 8:10 PM EST
ABU AL KHASIB, Iraq (CNN) -- A torture chamber equipped with hooks hanging from ceilings and an on-site electrocution room has been found in the basement of an Iraqi police station, an embedded reporter with the BBC reports...
Iraqi official: U.S. lying about progress
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Coalition forces are not making the progress they tout and have lost more troops and equipment than they admit, Iraq's information minister said Wednesday.
*Iraqis welcome U.S. troops in Najaf
*Cheers and Smiles for U.S. Troops in a Captured City

NAJAF, Iraq (news - web sites), April 2    Two questions dominated a crowd that gathered outside a former ammunition center for the Baath Party. "Will you stay?" asked Kase, a civil engineer who would not give his last name. Another man, Heider, said, "Can you tell me what time Saddam is finished?"

American POW Rescued, Bodies Found in Midnight Raid

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multiple bullett wounds,two broken legs and one broken arm, but was stable and in good condition.
Witnesses Say U.S. Raid Strikes Iraqi Hospital An Iraqi woman sits crying in front of her destroyed house following an air strike on the outskirts of Baghdad April 2, 2003. U.S. aircraft hit a Red Crescent maternity hospital in Baghdad,
South Korea Approves Dispatch of Non-Combat Troops to Iraq
SEOUL, South Korean lawmakers on Wednesday authorized the dispatch of non-combat troops to support the U.S.-led war on Iraq.
Saddam Releases Statement on Iraqi Television BAGHDAD, Iraq - Declaring that "victory is at hand," President Saddam Hussein issued a new statement urging Iraqis to fight on and defend their towns according to a broadcast Wednesday on Iraqi satellite television.
Monday, March 31, 2003 U.S. troops search for chemical, biological weapons At the U.S. Central Command briefing in Qatar, Gen. Tommy Franks said coalition forces "have attacked and destroyed a massive terrorist facility in the last 48 hours in northern Iraq, and ground forces, as we speak...
Iraq files complaint with United Nations
Strike on market 'a violation of all united laws and principles' Monday, March 31, 2003 "These raids are a pure violation of all U.N. principles that prohibited everyone from attacking civilians and spreading terror among them," the letter said. *The letter was addressed to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. A U.N. spokesman said Sunday that Annan had not received the letter,..
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Friday April 11, 2003
*ICRC Still Seeking Access to American POWs

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U.S. to Convene Iraq Meeting in Nassiriya Tuesday
*U.N. Iraq Adviser Invited to Briefings

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Northern Iraq Falls, U.S. Seeks Opposition Meeting  By Khaled Yacoub Oweis  BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Amid fears of anarchy and violence in the post-Saddam Hussein power vacuum, Washington scrambled to make good on a promise to host a broad-based conference of Iraqi opposition leaders early next week that will lay the foundation for a transitional government.
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Iraqi U.N. ambassador leaves New York
Friday, April 11, 2003 Posted: 10:00 PM EDT (0200 GMT)
Saying that Saddam was "no more in the government," Aldouri said he looked forward to "free government" in Iraq... He said he had not heard from his family since the beginning of the war and that "this is the most important reason" for his return to the region. ...

Rumsfeld on looting in Iraq: 'Stuff happens' Administration asking countries for help with security By Sean Loughlin CNN Washington Bureau Friday, April 11, 2003  "Very often the pictures are pictures of people going into the symbols of the regime, into the palaces, into the boats and into the Baath Party headquarters and into the places that have been part of that repression," Rumsfeld said. "And while no one condones looting, on the other hand one can understand the pent-up feelings that may result from decades of repression and people who've had members of their family killed by that regime, for them to be taking their feelings out on that regime."
Saturday April 5th
Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties | Forces: POW/MIA
• Missing or captured: Seven U.S. troops are being held as POWs, and eight are listed as missing in action. Coalition POWs/MIAs
• Iraqi POWs: About 6,500 Iraqi soldiers, including some who surrendered without a fight, are in coalition custody, U.S. Central Command said Saturday.
Iraqi Army toll a mystery because no count is kept -John M. Broder/NYT The New York Times  Wednesday, April 2, 2003  But how many Iraqi soldiers have died? They say it is not a statistic that in terests them.
Walter Rodgers: Iraqi officials fleeing Baghdad
U.S. Tanks Make Foray Into Baghdad, Attack Kerbala

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - American tanks made a foray into Iraq's battered capital for the first time on Saturday in what U.S. officials dubbed a demonstration of their ability to operate in President Saddam Hussein's power base.
Marines Dig at Suspected Iraq Chemical Arms Site
Based on information from a local Iraqi who described himself as a former special forces member, the Marines descended on the courtyard of the girls' school in central Iraq  and began hacking through a plate of concrete with pickaxes and shovels...
U.S. Says Troops Can Move Into Baghdad Freely
AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar (Reuters) "The message...really is to in a way put a bit of an exclamation point on the fact that coalition troops are in the vicinity of Baghdad...and demonstrate to the Iraqi leadership that they do not have control in the way they continue to say on their television," he said.
Saddam Message Urges Army, People to Fight
it was from Saddam, and dated Saturday.  "You must inflict more wounds on this enemy and fight it and deprive it of the victories it has achieved... you must rattle their joints and terrify them and speedily defeat them in and around Baghdad.
Bush Says Iraqi Fighters Facing Their 'Final Days'
By Adam Entous   WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "These are war criminals, and they'll be treated as war criminals," Bush said.  "The people of Iraq have my pledge: Our fighting forces will press on until their oppressors are gone and their whole country is free,"...
U.S. to Start Installing Postwar Iraq Administration
By Mona Megalli    DUBAI (Reuters) - "It is a fair assessment to say that this is the first step to set up a civil administration in Iraq," the official said.
Sahaf: Iraq still controls airport
Sahaf denied that report, saying the Republican Guard has control of Saddam International Airport, following a fierce battle...
British Forces Discover Boxes of Human Remains
There was no immediate indication of the nationalities of the dead, and it appeared they had died some time ago...
Rescued POW Jessica Lynch
A semi-trailer truck full of ammunition is exploded by the Marines of the Second Tank Battalion during an advance on the outskirts of Baghdad
Officers of U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 69th Regiment Armor Task Force 3-69, sit atop the commanding officer's tank, talking over operational status as the task force continued the taking of the Saddam Hussein International Airport early Friday morning, April 4, 2003. The fighting for the airport began when Charlie Company/2-7 Infantry found a hole in the perimeter wall and entered the airfield.
U.S. Army medics with the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, treat an Iraqi army captain who was wounded and taken prisoner of war near Baghdad. The officer was later reported to have died.
An engineer from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment places an explosive charge on a bomblet found in the desert near the battalion's base in the southern Iraqi oilfields, Friday, April 4, 2003. The region is littered with unexploded ordnance, including anti-tank and anti-personnel mines which are detonated in place for safety.
Fires from secondary explosions of an Iraqi SA-6 surface-to-air missile burn on the outskirts of Karbala, Iraq. Missiles on board the SA-6 "cooked off" and ignited, causing a large explosion which threw debris in every direction.
A bombed-out plane shows the aftermath of overnight fighting for control of Saddam International Airport early Friday, April 4, 2003, in Baghdad, Iraq.
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Smoke billowing from oil-burning trenches over Baghdad's al-Fardous street (AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)  Saturday, March 5th, 2003
Rows of US Army M1 Abrams tanks are parked outside a hangar at Baghdad's international airport 05 April 2003, after US Army troops from the 3rd Infantry Division battled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's Republican Guards close to the Iraqi capital. US military officials said they have taken over and secured the airport and a key highway intersection in the outskirts of Baghdad. AFP PHOTO/Romeo GACAD(AFP/ROMEO GACAD)
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An Iraqi woman, a refugee from Baghdad, walks next to a U.S. Marine from Lima Company, a part of the 7th Marine Regiment, on the road southeast of the Iraqi capital, April 5, 2003. A U.S. Marine commander said on Saturday American troops would use overwhelming force to crush any resistance if ordered to storm Baghdad and that the battle would cost many civilian lives. REUTERS/Oleg Popov
An Iraqi soldier holds a U.S. army uniform which the Iraqi information ministry said belongs to a captured U.S. soldier, in Baghdad April 5, 2003. U.S. troops staged a foray into Baghdad for the first time on Saturday, taking the 17-day-old war to topple Saddam Hussein right into his battered capital. REUTERS/Faleh Kheiber
An image from Iraqi television shows what it says is President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) visiting a residential area of Baghdad, April 4, 2003. Saddam, dressed in military uniform, was mobbed by cheering, chanting Iraqis. There was no way of verifying when the film was made. Saddam has a number of doubles. The clip was shown on a day when U.S. troops said they had taken control of Saddam International Airport. (Irasqi TV/Reuters)
While enroute to a mobile surgical hospital on board a CH-46E Sea Knight helicopter, an Iraqi man holds the hand of his 5-year-old son who was wounded by shrapnel on his face Saturday, April 5, 2003, just south of Baghdad. The two were carried to the hospital by the HMH 364 Purple Foxes of the 3rd Marine Air Wing. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)
Iraqi Hafid Katham waits to be treated for severe burns to his face and hands at an open-air military hospital clinic set up by 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in the town of Nasiriya in central Iraq (news - web sites), April 5, 2003. Katham, an Iraqi civilian, 39, said he was in his home and was burned in U.S. air-strikes that killed eleven of his relatives thirteen days ago and decided to show up for treatment of his burns on Saturday. REUTERS/Desmond Boylan
A Palestinian girl looks out of a window in the Palestinian quarter in Baghdad, April 5, 2003. The top Palestinian religious authority banned Muslims from aiding the U.S.-led war in Iraq. (Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)
Iraqi Gen. Ali Hassan al-Majid, a cousin of President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites), is seen in this Jan. 17, 2003 file photo. Coalition aircraft on Saturday, April 5, 2003, struck the villa of al-Majid, an Iraqi general known as 'Chemical Ali' for ordering a poison gas attack that killed thousands of Kurds in 1988. Allied officials said the general was believed to be home at the time, but it was not known whether he was killed or wounded. (AP Photo/Bassem Tellawi)