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I notice that our wonderful news thread is being neglected...

It seems like we have been getting less and less new news lately, seems things have slowed down with supply lines stretched and Basra undersiege.
 
After a short break, Over Clocker Reporting is back on air!

For the 1st time, B1 and B2 Bombers have been operating deep inside Iraq.

5000 extra US troops are destined for Nassiriya.

Marines raided a camp and found tonnes of weapons, plus bio-chemical suites and gas masks.

British Forces have secured a stronghold one mile to the south of Basra. They also found near 1,000 anti tank shells and other artillery gunnery.

The Iraqi Information Ministry was under fire overnight, but Iraqi satelite broadcasting is now back on air from remote transmission sites.

US Troops have now completely surounded Najaf.
 
Iraqs defence minister says Britain are trying to colnonise Iraq. he claims that we are trying to capture Iraq just like we did in the past when we colonised countless other countires.

This made me laugh,.

Britain tring to re-astablish the empire. Would be sweet:D
 
Its another one I believe. As the guy who fell wasn't in his hotel room.

I didn't hear the story as I was watching CNN in the gym without headphones on. I saw the ticker at the bottom explaining what had happened while they ran the story... Im sure its constantly being repeated though.
 
Weather Forecast:
Scattered heavy clout in the region; light cloud over most of Iraq,
with some heavier formations in the west. There's a new system over the Suez right now; forecast for Iraq on monday shows partial cloud in the far west, with clear skies over the rest of the country. Rain over Qatar and the NE Iraq/Iran border; not likely enough to impede air ops.

US military officials reported "extremely heavy contact" on March 31 with Iraqi forces at Imam Aiyub, south of Hilla on the eastern or Baghdad side of the Euphrates River. However, most of the U.S. forces in the area between An Najaf and Kerbala appear to be still on the far western bank, including those fighting at Hindiya. U.S. units engaging Iraqi forces near Imam Aiyub include the 2nd Battalion 70th Armored Regiment and elements of the 101st Airborne Division.

Nine Marines killed Sunday in the battle for Nasiriyah may have been victims of friendly fire, not Iraqis pretending to surrender as originally believed. On Sunday, Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid said the Marines were killed during heavy fighting inside the city after a small group of Iraqi solders indicated they wanted to give themselves up. They then fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Marines' amphibious assault vehicle, according to what witnesses told journalists with the unit.

But a military source told The Washington Post that early indications suggest the nine may have been hit by an A-10 Thunderbolt II plane providing air support, whose pilot mistook them for Iraqi fighters.

The Arnett interview is just unreal. Alfonse D'Amato (Fmr. New York Senator) is on Fox News accusing Peter Arnett of "giving aid and comfort to the enemy."
Peter Arnett Interview
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The U.S. war plan has "failed," veteran war correspondent Peter Arnett told Iraqi TV in an interview that aired Sunday. Following is a transcript of that interview
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U.S. forces, in particular special forces, are denying freedom of movement throughout western Iraq, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, deputy commander of forces in the Gulf, said during the March 31 CENTCOM press briefing in Doha. This was in response to a question on the reported recruitment of 4,000 foreign suicide bombers and volunteers coming to Iraq.
 
American television channel NBC sacks veteran journalist Peter Arnett for criticising US war plans in an interview with Iraqi state-run television.

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BTW Arnett is the attributor of that now famous quote from Vietnam "We had to destroy the village to save it." Judge for yourself whether any American officer actually said it.]
 
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U.S. troops in south-central Iraq have been warned that an Iraqi chemical or biological attack is imminent and could be delivered by crop duster or some other light aircraft, according to a reporter embedded with the 101st Airborne near An Najaf

Sec Of State Mr Hoon in parliament:

We now hold 8000 POWs
 
Radio Free Europe
Hindiyah, Iraq; 31 March 2003 (RFE/RL) -- The U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division advanced to positions about 50 kilometers southwest of Baghdad today, battling troops from Iraq's Republican Guard at a bridge across the Euphrates River in the town of Hindiyah. Hindiyah is about 20 kilometers east of Karbala and brings U.S. artillery to within range of the Republican Guard tanks deployed to the southwest of Baghdad as part of a defensive ring around the Iraqi capital.
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Terrified of Saddam Hussein

Arab News

Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News War Correspondent

When we finally made it to Safwan, Iraq, what we saw was utter chaos. Iraqi men, women and children were playing it up for the TV cameras, chanting: “With our blood, with our souls, we will die for you Saddam.”

I took a young Iraqi man, 19, away from the cameras and asked him why they were all chanting that particular slogan, especially when humanitarian aid trucks marked with the insignia of the Kuwaiti Red Crescent Society, were distributing some much-needed food.

His answer shouldn’t have surprised me, but it did. He said: “There are people from Baath here reporting everything that goes on. There are cameras here recording our faces. If the Americans were to withdraw and everything were to return to the way it was before, we want to make sure that we survive the massacre that would follow as Baath go house to house killing anyone who voiced opposition to Saddam. In public, we always pledge our allegiance to Saddam, but in our hearts we feel something else.”

Different versions of that very quote, but with a common theme, I would come to hear several times over the next three days I spent in Iraq.

The people of Iraq are terrified of Saddam Hussein.
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Robin Cook signs book deal worth an estimated £1 million for his memoirs on life in New Labour.

My comment: Oh what a surprise, no publicity like bad publicity eh folks?
 
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