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Explosions Shake Baghdad Throughout Day By HAMZA HENDAWI .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Intermittent explosions were heard throughout the day Saturday as workmen swept glass from the streets after two days of fierce bombardments that destroyed presidential palaces, government offices and military headquarters. But as the day wore on, Iraqis were back in the streets in greater numbers than they had been since the start of the war. Small shops and restaurants reopened. Toward evening Saturday two more explosions rattled the city and there was a dark plume of smoke rising southwest of the city center. A...

Fires Rock Baghdad After Aerial Assault By HAMZA HENDAWI .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The streets of Baghdad were silent and empty Friday night, with fires raging inside Saddam Hussein's Old Palace compound and a halo of smoke hanging in the sky, after the Iraqi capital endured the most ferocious attack of the war. The attack, punctuated by the blasts of Tomahawk missiles striking targets across Baghdad, launched just after 9 p.m. as the U.S.-led forces stepped up their aerial assault on the city. The squeal of the air raid sirens in the Iraqi capital preceded the...

Bush Heads to Camp David With Cabinet By RON FOURNIER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's first weekend at war was to be spent at his Camp David mountaintop retreat, where he was gathering his Cabinet after declaring Friday that U.S. troops were making progress in Iraq. Shortly after a massive aerial assault on Baghdad began, the president left the White House aboard his Marine One helicopter with his wife, Laura, and one of their daughters, Barbara. He told congressional leaders earlier the war was going well. ``We are making progress,'' he said as lawmakers gathered in...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/21/03 Pt2 - Road to Baghdad,Battle at Umm Qasr, Al-Faw Peninsula,Safwan,Az Bayer,Iraqis surrender Disguised BREAKING: Start of the Air War BREAKING: Road to Baghdad BREAKING: Battle at Umm Qasr BREAKING: Al-Faw Peninsula - Iraqis surrender BREAKING: Safwan - Iraqis surrender BREAKING: Az Bayer.- Iraqis surrender BREAKING: Iraqis surrender Disguised ========= Baghdad ========= In Baghdad, Saddam's complex in central Baghdad. ========= Kalak ========= At , Iraqi soldiers and their defense at the Great Zab river. ========= Kuwait-Iraq border On the Road to Baghdad ========= Heroes on a US Cobra fire at Iraqi positions....

Bush Heads to Camp David With Cabinet By RON FOURNIER .c The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush's first weekend at war was to be spent at his Camp David mountaintop retreat, where he was gathering his Cabinet after declaring Friday that U.S. troops were making progress in Iraq. Hours before the beginning of the aerial assault on Baghdad, Bush met with congressional leaders in the Oval Office. He told them, ``We will stay on task until we've achieved our objective, which is rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction and free the Iraqi people so they can live...

U.S. unleashes blitz on Baghdad, TV still on air BAGHDAD, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces unleashed a devastating blitz on Baghdad on Friday night, triggering giant fireballs and deafening explosions and sending huge mushroom clouds above the city centre. Missiles slammed into the main palace complex of President Saddam Hussein on the bank of the Tigris River, and key government buildings, in an onslaught that far exceeded strikes that launched the war on Thursday, Reuters correspondents said. At around the same time, Reuters witnesses reported seeing anti-aircraft fire and explosions over the northern towns of Mosul and Kirkut. "The...

U.S. unleashes blitz on Baghdad BAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S.-led forces unleashed a devastating blitz on Baghdad on Friday night, triggering giant fireballs, deafening explosions and huge, thick clouds above the city center . Missiles slammed into palaces of President Saddam Hussein, and key government buildings, in an onslaught that far exceeded strikes when war was launched Thursday, Reuters correspondents said. "The earth is literally shaking in Baghdad," Reuters correspondent Khaled Oweis said. Fires broke out in the wrecked buildings. Ambulances rushed around the city, sirens wailing. "The sky is totally lit," said Reuters correspondent Samia Nakhoul, adding that the strikes...

U.S. Begins Massive Air Assault on Iraq By HAMZA HENDAWI .c The Associated Press BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Huge explosions rocked Baghdad as a barrage of mighty bombs crashed down on the Iraqi capital on Friday, sending up huge clouds of smoke and flame. The U.S.-led aerial attack was heralded by the sound of air raid sirens and explosions, followed quickly by major detonations in the city of 5 million. Many buildings were ablaze in the heart of the city, with towering red, pink and brown clouds rising high into the night sky. In response, the Iraqis opened up with...

Good Morning. This is the continuation Thread of Operation Iraqi Freedom - Day 1- LIVE THREAD. It is designed for general conversation about the events of the day. In depth discussion of events should be left to individual threads - but links to the threads or other articles is highly encouraged. This allows us to stay abreast of the situation in general, while also providing a means of obtaining specific information. To all who helped this get started yesterday, thank you!

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Fox subtite just announces that the "Shock and Awe" has begun!

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W A S H I N G T O N, March 15 — U.S. military planners have begun circulating hypothetical dates for the start of air and ground offensives in Iraq, military sources told ABCNEWS. "A-Day," which would mark the start of an air war, and "G-Day," which would mark the start of a ground war, are marks on a calendar that the military is using as a theoretical timeline — so it can be combat ready if and when President Bush decides to go to war. The actual G-Day and A-Day planning dates are not being publicly disclosed. Logistics...