At noon, the ABC, CBS and NBC news channels here in Idaho all reported this as taking place and underway ... NBC said it was confirmed.
There was no talk of any kind of official UK denial.
We shall see. I hope it is taking place and believe it is probable. The Shi'ites have a history of rising up against Saddam ... and if they really believe we will help this time ... and if water and food are getting short ... I would say that it is probable.
See post #573 of this thread. All the reports seemed to reference the ONE from Sky news. However as someone else has posted to me, the "official" word often comes many hours later than realtime, so who knows.. I am stuck at work, unable to watch anything live, relying no FR for my updates.