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At least two uprisings are occuring in different locations in Baghdad. Developing. - Fox News broadcast

Caversham, BBC Monitoring Unit :: Mike Baker :: 1555GMT
One of the more interesting is from an Iranian news agency reporting from the city - and it's normally a very reliable agency - saying there had been uprising in parts of the city. It also reports that some 35 people have been killed in those clashes. But we have no other confirmation of that information.
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Kuwait News Agency

KUN0055 4 GEN 0310 KUWAIT /KUNA-SBG3

POL-IRAQ-BAGHDAD-UPRISING

Uprising erupts in number of Baghdad areas killing many of Fedayeen Saddam

TEHRAN, April 7 (KUNA) -- A popular uprising has erupted against the Iraqi regime in several residential areas in Baghdad killing dozens of Fedayeen Saddam fighters loyal to the Iraqi president, KUNA sources inside the capital said Monday. The sources told KUNA over the phone today "major bloody confrontations are currently taking place between the residents of Baghdad and the regime's militia's killing dozens of Saddam's loyalists and forcing many of their leaders to leave their positions and change into civilian clothes." The clashes taking place in Al-Shu'ala, Al-Mansour and Al-Salhia areas in Baghdad have also claimed the lives of many of the people of those areas, the source said. "Many of Fedayeen Saddam were killed in Baghdad in ongoing fierce clashes_ that were induced by the advancement of coalition ground troops and the moral support provided by national Iraqi powers that have started organizing their fronts and have received new positions in a number of liberated governorates," the source said. Some of the regime's security elements abandoned their command centers and fled to populated areas on the outskirts of Baghdad to seek protection from the expected revenge by the people on one hand and the remaining regime fighters on the other. The sources expected the uprising to intensify in other areas in the capital especially since high-ranking Iraqi officials have abandoned their duties. "A number of Baghdad's residential areas have witnessed in the past months much harassment and arrests by security authorities and party intelligence officers, a matter that has infuriated the people of those areas and pushed them to take advantage of the moment to get rid of those elements," he said.

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However we've been down this road before so the possiblity of psych warfare shouldn't be discounted.
 
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shorley if saddam feels threatend when the army is going into bangdad he wouldend have any reason not to use chemical weapons ?
 
See Rumsfeld reply on exeutions of POWs?

Haven't seen the report on the returned US bodies. I didn't say US POWs have been executed. Iraq has executed POWs in past. Whether that is a retraction from previous assertations of executions I'm not sure. :confused: It may be not yet.
 
^Links bust

As far as I can tell there's at least one WMD find that turned out to be pesticides - drums at an agricultural site.

Theres the rockets with suspected chemical warheads - this seems to be passed onto expert for a definitive identification.

Also Lewisite mentioned on one report is an "improved" form of Mustard gas and wouldn't trigger the Nerve gas detectors like organophosphate pesticides do.
 
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NPR, which attributed the report to a top official with the 1st Marine Division, said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire." It quoted the source as saying new U.S. intelligence data showed the chemicals were "not just trace elements."

It said the cache was discovered by Marines with the 101st Airborne Division, which was following up behind the Army after it seized Baghdad's international airport.
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Iraq may have set up Russian convoy attack: senior US official

Yahoo News
An AFP report says that Iraq may have set up the weekend attack on a convoy of Russian diplomats fleeing Baghdad by instructing the drivers to take a different route than planned. [A U.S.] official, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said there were indications the Iraqis had tried to create an international incident by altering the route of the convoy to pass through a contested area west of Baghdad on Sunday. "It looks like it was a trap set by the Iraqis," the official said.
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Nine civilians killed in Baghdad blast


At least nine civilians are reported to have died when a bomb hit a residential neighbourhood in central Baghdad on Monday afternoon.
Witnesses quoted by several news agencies said at least three houses in the Mansour neighbourhood had been flattened in what they said was a US air raid. Some reports have put the death toll at 14.

Nine members of a family - including at least one child - were said to have been killed in the attack, which occurred at 1500 local time (1100 GMT).

The Iraqi capital has endured daily bombardment since the US-led coalition launched its war on Iraq nearly three weeks ago.

'Breaking point'

Neighbours and rescue workers were said to be searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings in the Mansour area for other possible victims.

The explosion left a crater eight metres deep and 15 metres wide, while the force of the blast broke windows and doors almost 275 metres away from the site

A heap of concrete, mangled iron rods, ruined furniture and clothes could be seen where buildings once stood.

The wounded were taken to the nearby Kindi hospital.

It is not known how many people have died in the latest air raids and fighting on the ground - but the BBC's Andrew Gilligan visited the Kindi hospital on Monday and said casualties were arriving every few minutes.

Most seemed to be from the fighting in the city, he said.

The Red Cross has warned that doctors at Kindi hospital are being stretched to breaking point.

The international body said so many casualties had been taken in that the hospital was running out of anaesthetics and other necessary drugs.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2926815.stm
 
Al Jazeera's Baghdad office has been bombed, one cameraman dead. Rival satellite station Abu Dhabi TV announced its Baghdad bureau had also been hit Tuesday in a live report showing a camera position under attack.

They also targetted Saddam & Sons on Monday with some bombing.

Meanwhile the other potential Chemical Weapons find (not the original pesticide one) has come back negative by the looks of it...

"NEAR KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - New U.S. tests indicate that substances found at sites in central Iraq (news - web sites) are not chemical weapons agents as first suspected, U.S. military sources said on Tuesday.

"The latest tests turned out negative," one source said.

U.S. military officers said on Monday that initial tests on substances found near the central Iraqi town of Hindiya suggested the presence of nerve agents sarin and tabun and the blister agent lewisite.

The military sources said it was not yet clear what the substances were. One officer had said on Monday that they might turn out to be simple pesticides. "
 
Sky News Broadcast

David (Bowden?) asked about the "humanitarian crisis" in Basra said there was nor crisis, he had neither seen or been told of by locals or by humanitarian staff present in Basra that there was a problem in Basra. The locals had enough food and water, the only problem was electrical distribution and the Army was getting the locals to return to work to fix the grid.
 
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Hotel Incident was US Tank Round

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Greg Kelly reports from 3ID across the river from the Palestinian Hotel. US forces operating in the area thought they received RPG fire from the top of the hotel, or indirect fires that were being directed from there. They did fire one round at the hotel, which confirms that the incident did involve a US tank. This action is within the ROE for tanks, although the hotel is on the prohibited target list for air. The tank ROE allows returning fire under all circumstances.
Iraqis using journalists as human shields

FoxNews saying above headline, which seems obvious from here, but apparently is not so obvious to the reporters at the hotel. The reporter for FoxNews sister network SkyNews said "What are we supposed to do? We're at the mercy of the Iraqi government, but I witnessed the US tank aiming at us."

Summary of updates:

1) Iraqis force all non-embedded reporters to stay at the Palestine Hotel.
2) Al-Jazeera & Abu Dhabi TV offices on east bank of Tigris River, in the middle of several Iraqi government facilites, hit by US forces returning fire at snipers across river bridge. Al-Jazeera reporter injured during fire dies at hospital.
3) Al-Jazeera & Abu Dhabi quickly react to reporter's death with broadcast statements that the US is specifically targeting Arabic journalists in an attempt to shut them up.
4) Iraqi snipers fire on US forces from Al-Rashid hotel (across river, devoid of reporters) a short time before Palestine Hotel incident.
5) Iraqi Disinformation Minister holds incredibly timely news conference at Palestine Hotel.
6) Iraqi sniper on roof of Palestine Hotel spotted by US tanks, appears to have RPG (possibly misidentified camera).
7) US tank fires at hotel under rules of engagement.
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BBC

Baghdad :: Andrew Gilligan :: 0906GMT

There is a possibility that someone could have been sniping from the top floor of this hotel, which has now been targeted. The side of the hotel looks out east and not over the river. I'm puzzled as to why the Americans would have targeted this. My initial speculation was that it might have been Iraqis who objected to Reuters people filming from the balcony. We are only supposed to film from our live positions.

Baghdad :: Rageh Omaar :: 0851GMT

The battle is still continuing. I can hear war planes overhead in the Iraqi capital. Tanks are crossing over the Jomhuriyah bridge and they're still there. There was a round that directly hit the Reuters office. I raced up there and it's a grim situation. Several colleagues have been quite badly wounded and one of them critically. I don't know if it was deliberate. I doubt it. The situation with Al-Jazeera, initially, looks suspect. Their office had given Washington specific satellite references. We were watching and filming the bombardment and its quite clearly a direct strike on the Al-Jazeera office. This was not just a stray round. It just seemed too specific.
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Al Jazeera's Baghdad office has been bombed, one cameraman dead. Rival satellite station Abu Dhabi TV announced its Baghdad bureau had also been hit Tuesday in a live report showing a camera position under attack.

They also targetted Saddam & Sons on Monday with some bombing.

Meanwhile the other potential Chemical Weapons find (not the original pesticide one) has come back negative by the looks of it...

"NEAR KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - New U.S. tests indicate that substances found at sites in central Iraq (news - web sites) are not chemical weapons agents as first suspected, U.S. military sources said on Tuesday.

"The latest tests turned out negative," one source said.

U.S. military officers said on Monday that initial tests on substances found near the central Iraqi town of Hindiya suggested the presence of nerve agents sarin and tabun and the blister agent lewisite.

The military sources said it was not yet clear what the substances were. One officer had said on Monday that they might turn out to be simple pesticides. "
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Sleepy
Is that some of suspected agents are not or that
all so far are not, or
all tested so far are not but continuing testing on those that think are chem weopons to confirm?
Are the missiles included in these reports?
 
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