Author: DXO
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Two Iraqi Ministries Are Afire After U.S. Warplanes Strike
April 8, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS with JANE PERLEZ BAGHDAD, April 8 — United States forces launched an air and artillery assault on central Baghdad this morning, targeting government buildings in the heart of the city. The Planning Ministry and the Information Ministry were on fire after low flying American planes attacked the center,…
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BAGHDAD: Capital Has Look of a Battlefield
April 8, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS AGHDAD, Iraq, Tuesday, April 8 — Gunfire erupted on the grounds of the Republican Palace early this morning, almost 24 hours after an American tank column entered the compound, which has been repeatedly bombed by allied planes since the war began. The explosions shook awake residents of a…
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Sound of Guns Heralds Ground War in Baghdad
April 7, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 6 — After being subjected to two weeks of relentless bombing that has destroyed many of the power centers of President Saddam Hussein’s government, the Iraqi capital found itself today deep into the ground battle that promises to be the decisive phase of America’s war…
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Defiant Iraqis Say U.S. Advance Has Been Broken
April 5, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 5 — Senior Iraqi officials remained defiant today in the face of American military might, asserting that Iraqi soldiers and suicide bombers had “crushed” American troops at Baghdad’s international airport and broken the American advance on the capital into isolated pockets that were surrendering to…
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Defiant Iraqis Say U.S. Advance Has Been Broken
April 5, 2004 By JOHN F. BURNS AGHDAD, Iraq, April 5 – Senior Iraqi officials remained defiant today in the face of American military might, asserting that Iraqi soldiers and suicide bombers had “crushed” American troops at Baghdad’s international airport and broken the American advance on the capital into isolated pockets that were surrendering to…