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DAY FIVE: Stalemate: British Troops Forced to
Retreat: Basra Without Water,
Electricity
Unusual Iraqi Resistance Without Air Cover
[The following is a summary of the way the war
seemed to be going on Day 5.
It is based on
U.S.,
British, Iraqi and overseas
reports. We are open to
correction. -Ed]
1. Umm Qasr is still in Iraqi hands.
[CNN
March
24, 11 pm, EST, March 25 in
Iraq]. The saga of the defense of Umm Qasr is
becoming part of Islamic lore.
2. Saddam is almost definitely alive. His latest
speech referred to the
defense of Umm Qasr.
3. Heavy Fighting continued at Nasiriyah. The
Iraqis are holding the U.S.
forces there.
4. An American tank column has bypassed Iraqi
defenses and has approached
Kerbala, only 50 miles from Baghdad.
5. The air assault on Iraqi positions continued
along with still lingering
U.S. hopes that the Iraqis would surrender.
6. British troops RETREATED from Basra after
running into heavy Iraqi
resistance.
7. Water and electricity to Basra have been cut
off by the siege and the city
could soon face a serious situation.
8. POWs have become a serious issue in the U.S.
after Iraq showed two more
Americans (pilots) captured by the Iraqis. The
two airmen were from an Apache
helicopter downed by an Iraqi farmer named Ali
Ubaydi with a Kalashnikov
rifle.
9. Syria
is threatening to go to the world court
as it sees the U.S. attack
on a civilian bus carrying Syrians out of Iraq as
a war crime. [Five Syrian
laborers were killed and 10 injured in the attack
by a U.S. jet fighter.]
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2003-03-27 Thu 10:36ct