IRAQ: IN SPITE OF CONTINUING MILITARY BOMBARDMENT FROM U.S. AND BRITISH BOMBERS LIFE CONTINUES AS NORMAL

Record ID: 358637

  • Title: IRAQ: IN SPITE OF CONTINUING MILITARY BOMBARDMENT FROM U.S. AND BRITISH BOMBERS LIFE CONTINUES AS NORMAL
  • Date: 25th March 2003
  • Summary: (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MARCH 23, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. MV /SLV TROOPS PATROLLING THE STREETS; SLV CARS DRIVING; SCU SOLDIERS' GUNS (8 SHOTS) 1.00 2. SLV CARS AND BUSES DRIVING 1.08 3. SCU ZOOM OUT RUDIMENTARY MILITARY BUNKER; MV SOLDIERS WITH RIFLES BEHIND SANDBAGS AND ON STREET (9 SHOTS) 2.02 4. MV ELDERLY IRAQIS LISTENING TO RADIO; SCU
  • Embargoed: 9th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA483W7BOR59NW1RU766B3I0LPW
  • Story Text: In spite of the continuing heavy military bombardment
    from U.S.-British bombers life in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad
    appears to be continuing as normal.

    Despite suffering a fourth day of sustained bombing the
    streets of Baghdad remained relatively calm on Sunday (March
    23, 2003).

    Market traders sold fruit on stalls in the Iraqi capital
    while the roads were busy. Iraqi troops, some behind sandbag
    compounds, kept a watchful eye on the streets.

    U.S. troops are edging on towards Baghdad but met some
    stubborn resistance on Sunday, while waves of bombs and
    missiles pounded President Saddam Hussein's capital for a
    fourth day.

    Iraq said 77 civilians had been killed in fighting at its
    second city of Basra in the far south, and reported deadly air
    raids on the Iraqi president's home town of Tikrit.

    After winning a fierce battle, an armoured U.S. column
    pushed on towards the central city of Najaf and came within
    180 km (110 miles) of the Iraqi capital, a Reuters reporter
    said.

    But correspondents with U.S. and British units in Iraq
    reported widespread clashes - near Umm Qasr, on Iraq's narrow
    south coast, Najaf, a holy city for Iraq's Shi'ite majority,
    and Nassiriya where the Euphrates river was crossed.

    Iraqi state television said Iraqi President Saddam Hussein
    chaired a meeting of his top officials on Saturday and
    declared he was satisfied with his forces' resistance on the
    ground.


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