Baghdad battle escalates as U S forces push toward airport
Iraqi defenses stiffen as tanks armored personnel carriers and artillery line the capital. U S troops move north into Baghdad, encircle western, southern and northern approaches, taking fire from Republican Guards. Explosions ring the city, oil fires blaze, and residents report loud shelling and drone aircraft overhead.
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Qusai
Baghdad
Lam
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Tigris
Salhiya
Forces raid Basra home amid Saddam inner circle links
Central Command says eight soldiers were recovered in the Jessica Lynch rescue as eight U.S. troops were found dead or missing. Pentagon reports show a warehouse near Zubayr holding hundreds of boxes of human remains, while Bush pledges a just cause in the war against Saddam Hussein.
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Iraq
Saddam Husseini
Ronnie McCourt
Doha
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Basra
Associated Press
Forces discover human remains in Iraqi warehouse
British forces in southern Iraq found hundreds of coffin sized boxes containing human remains in a warehouse near Zubayr. The bones appeared decomposed and not from ongoing fighting, with bags labeled and photographs of the dead found at the scene.
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Zubayr
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Soldier Buggs among missing in Nasiriyah ambush
The 507th Maintenance Company and other units were involved in the Nasiriyah ambush on March 23. Jessica Lynch was freed from a hospital as 11 bodies were recovered, nine believed American. One body remained unidentified at Dover Center with investigations ongoing. Gov. Sanford mourns, praising Sgt. Buggs and his family. Buggs, a Barnwell High School graduate, is remembered by his former teacher as funeral plans begin.
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