Posted on 03/21/2003 6:43:17 PM PST by Dont Mention the War
The United States launched missile strikes on "selected targets of military importance" in Iraq early today, making good on its threat to use force to oust Saddam Hussein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
US and British invasion forces ploughed through sand berms in southern Iraq and skirmished with Iraqi troops while more than two dozen tomahawk missiles slammed into Baghdad in a second wave of attacks to try to topple Saddam Hussein, says The Boston Globe.
Coalition forces could enter Baghdad within the next three or four days, a spokesman for British forces in the Persian Gulf said Friday, according to the the Detroit Free Press.
Top US officials think Saddam Hussein was "at least injured" in the fierce Allied missile barrage on his Baghdad compound that began the war, the New York Post reports.
The desert is strewn with broken hulks of tanks and trucks, half buried in sand, the detritus of the Persian Gulf war of 12 years ago. Now, not far inside Iraq, the destruction from the new war is already apparent, says the New York Times.
The Seattle Times reports, a wave of 60,000 US and British troops rolled into Iraq today as the Allied forces suffered their first casualties in the war to oust Saddam Hussein.
US and British ground forces punched into Iraq across a broad front tonight after a booming artillery barrage, seizing territory along the Kuwaiti border with only modest resistance and pushing on toward the key southern city of Basra, The Washington Post reports.
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Yes, here's tomorrow's. Certain Mods like to, yes, yank the front page threads from the frontpage category, even though other mods allow it and the precedent has been set. That's why you couldn't find it. Feel free to complain.
Yeah, I know about Newseum, but I really dislike their layout (hope you have 20/.0001 vision to pick out the right paper!), their slowness in posting the new day's papers, and the fact that the papers seem to be presented more or less at random (one day the paper you want is there, the next it isn't; no explanation). (And don't even get me started about the annoying PDFs.) Even worse, they're impermanent links. http://www.newseum.org/media/dfp/lg/il_ct.jpg will give you the Chicago Tribune's front page this morning, but tomorrow it'll give you TOMORROW's front page. That makes it useless for threads like these. :( It's great for random fun, though.
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