Saddam's top men caught (Rep. Guard)

sky news ^ | 4/1/03

[knak]

Dozens of Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard soldiers have been captured during fierce street-to-street fighting south of Baghdad, according to US forces.

At least 35 Iraqi troops were reported killed by US troops in Hindiyah, about 50 miles from the capital.

An American officer died in the fighting and another was wounded in the leg when a bullet ricocheted through the open door of his armoured vehicle.

Hindiyah is strategically important because it is a key Euphrates river crossing - a point emphasised by Saddam sending his best-trained and best-equipped troops to protect it.

Tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles from the 3rd Infantry Division, at the forefront of the advance on Baghdad, rolled into the town of 80,000.

They were met by small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades from Iraqis hiding behind hedges and brick walls.

Inside Hindiyah's Ba'ath Party headquarters, tens of thousands of rounds of small arms ammunition were found stockpiled, along with hundreds of mortars and dozens of heavy machine guns.

Behind the building were at least 20 mortar tubes, camouflaged with palm fronds.

[gorebegone]

Doesn't look like the marines have far to go to get to Bagdad!

...from 29 Palms Marine Base anyway.

[DakotaGator]

Business as usual.

Have you ever noticed that the "media" invariably refers to the Republican Guard as "elite" and "crack troops"?

How dare these simpering idiots of the press blithley bestow these superlatives on an armed bunch of thugs who aren't the equal of our normal soldiers?!

Just another example of how the socialist scriveners try to denigrate the finest fighting forces in the world.

[Billthedrill]

Hey, you know what? We haven't heard any of that "the Americans are cowards, they only bomb from the air" stuff lately. Wonder what happened?

[woofie]

I thought we were loosing...

[oyez]

Every time we reportedly catch some top brass then next day the story is discretited just like the chemweps discoveries.

Something smells.

[dufekin]

We are loosing. Loosing the entire might of the United States military against the enemy!

[cinFLA]

Have you ever noticed that the "media" invariably refers to the Republican Guard as "elite" and "crack troops"?

'cunning' Sacramento Bee

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