| Update: March 26, 2003 U.S. Identifies Three More Soldiers Killed in Iraq WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department on Wednesday identified two Marines and one soldier killed in Iraq over the past several days, bringing the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq to 22. The Pentagon said Army Spc. Gregory Sanders, 19, of Indiana, was killed in action on March 24. Sanders was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor, based at Fort Stewart, Georgia. It said Marines Corps Lance Cpl. Brian Buesing, 20, of Cedar Key, Florida, and Cpl. Randal Rosacker, 21, of San Diego, California, were killed on March 23 in the vicinity of Nassiriya, the site of heavy fighting over the past days. In addition, the Pentagon confirmed that a second U.S. soldier died in Kuwait on Tuesday from wounds suffered when a fellow soldier allegedly lobbed grenades into three tents on March 23. Air Force Maj. Gregory Stone, 40, of Boise, Idaho, died at an Army field hospital in Kuwait, defense officials said. *********************** *A Kashmiri Hindu weeps in the village of Nadimarg, south of Srinagar March 25, 2003. India's Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani and the leader of India's main opposition Congress Party Sonia Gandhi visited the village where Hindus said on Tuesday they wanted to leave the Muslim majority region after twenty-four people, including women and children, were shot dead by suspected Muslim rebels. (Fayaz Kabli/Reuters) *Young students of a primary school wear protective masks offered by teachers to protect themselves from catching the killer pneumonia-like virus during a lesson in Hong Kong, March 25, 2003. Workers disinfected a handful of schools after children were taken ill with the disease and began cleaning about 2,000 more schools in the territory. The Education Secretary has ordered about 180 children with infected family members to stop attending classes for a week. (Bobby Yip/Reuters) *An Iraqi girl collects water handed out by U.S. soldiers in the southern Iraqi town of Umm Qasr, March 24, 2003. A British ship carrying vital humanitarian aid for southern Iraq will arrive on Wednesday at the port of Umm Qasr, where food and water have become dangerously scarce, British military officials said. (Jerry Lampen/Reuters) *Serbian police have arrested the suspected assassin of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic, a high-ranking member of a battle-hardened special police unit, the government said on March 25, 2003. The government identified the suspected killer as Zvezdan Jovanovic, an assistant commander of the Unit for Special Operations (JSO) that fought in the Balkan wars of the 1990s. Jovanovic is seen in these undated photos released on a Serbian government web site. (MUP/Reuters) ************************* *Numerous countries are expected to criticize the U.S.- and British-led invasion, and the session could extend into Thursday, Guinean Ambassador Mamady Traore, who holds the council's rotating presidency this month, said. The Arab League has called for an immediate and unconditional withdrawal of invading troops, saying the attack violates the U.N. charter. "Iraq is a member of the United Nations, and it is attacked and invaded by two permanent members who are supposed to be the defenders of the charter and international law," the Arab League's permanent U.N. representative Yahya Mahmassani said. "This is outrageous." ... "I think we all need to come together and see this as a humanitarian effort, which has nothing to do with any of the positions one might have taken or not taken on the second resolution or the earlier debates," Powell said. A predominantly U.S. and British force invaded Iraq last week to oust Saddam's government. The United States and Britain say Iraq has failed to give up its weapons of mass destruction, as required by U.N. resolutions ending the 1991 Persian Gulf War. *U.S.: Marines seize hospital hiding Iraqi soldiers Tuesday, March 25, 2003 Posted: 7:44 PM EST (0044 GMT) NASIRIYA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. Marines on Tuesday seized a hospital in Nasiriya and captured nearly 170 Iraqi soldiers who had been staging military operations from the facility, U.S. authorities said. No civilians were in the facility, which U.S. Central Command said was "clearly marked as a hospital by a flag with a Red Crescent." Marines confiscated more than 200 weapons, more than 3,000 chemical suits with masks and Iraqi military uniforms in the hospital, and found a T-55 tank in the hospital compound, Central Command said. |
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| Iraqis move through a British Army checkpoint on the Basra road in southern Iraq, March 24, 2003. Red Cross experts struggled on March 25 to get clean water flowing in Iraq's second city of Basra and avert a humanitarian crisis as aid agencies waited anxiously for access to the south of the country. (Pool via Reuters) Yahoo News |
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| A wounded member of the British forces is taken on a stretcher by 1 Close Support Medical Regiment to be flown out in a Puma helicopter near Basra, in southern Iraq, March 25, 2003. The British military said they believed citizens of Basra were rising up against the rule of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein |
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| CBS News (CBS) A series of explosions along with the sound of low flying aircraft was heard early Wednesday in Baghdad... Iraq's domestic television service was not broadcasting at the time, ... In heavy fighting Tuesday, the Pentagon said the U.S. Seventh Cavalry killed between 150 and 500 Iraqis after ... |
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| *U.S. troops found gas masks in abandoned Iraqi positions on the road to Nasiriya. War Zone • U.S. Forces: 3rd Infantry Division | USS Constellation • On the Scene: Sand and friendly fire | Quick decisions • POWs: Hernandez | Johnson | Riley | Miller | Hudson |
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| *Secretary of State Colin Powell, in an interview with France 3 television, cited speculation that "there is a box around Baghdad, that if we penetrate that box," Saddam would unleash a chemical attack. "If he did," Powell added, "it would not stop the [U.S.] assault." *U.S. forces are equipped with full-body chemical protection suits and gas masks. *Rumsfeld also said U.S. and allied forces have taken in "excess of 3,500 Iraqi prisoners." |
| Americans with more time to prepare might check out the government's guidelines on assembling a "disaster plan" taking other steps to protect people and property at nominal expense. Such a guide can be found at www.fema.gov. Top tips include: —Identify two meeting places: One near home and the second away from the neighborhood in case home cannot be approached. —Find out the emergency response plans of employers, school, daycare and other officials. To where would they evacuate workers and students? Write down the answers and keep a copy in your wallet. —Keep life, property, health and other insurance policies current, and know their terms. Store copies of these and other important documents — identification, deeds, wills, a small amount of cash — in a watertight container. —Have a plan for pets, since shelters do not allow them. —Assemble a "disaster supply kit" and keep it in a designated place where it is ready to "grab and go." It should include bottled water, food and emergency supplies, perhaps kept in backpacks or duffel bags. —With guidance from doctor or pharmacist, store prescription drugs and an extra set of prescription glasses. —First aid kit. |
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