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FOOTAGE filmed by France 3 television of a strike on a hotel which killed two journalists in Baghdad today shows a US tank targeting the journalists' hotel and waiting at least two minutes before firing. The journalist and film editor who filmed the attack, Herve de Ploeg, who filmed the attack, said: "I did not hear any shots in the direction of the tank, which was stationed at the west entrance of the Al-Jumhuriya (Republic) bridge, 600 metres north-west of the hotel. The tank's turret is seen moving toward the Palestine Hotel, where foreign reporters have set up shop, and...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - A missile crashed into a residential neighborhood in central Baghdad on Monday, AFP correspondents said. A building collapsed and several others were damaged on Ramadan 14th, a main commercial artery in the al-Mansur area, they said. Shattered glass and stones covered the sidewalk along the road. There was no immediate word on casualties, but two ambulances were seen rushing out of the area with sirens wailing.

New intelligence suggests a series of Iraqi missiles have mis-fired and hit residential areas of Baghdad, Downing Street says. The Prime Minister's spokesman said information had been received which indicated Iraq's air defence commander has been sacked due to the poor performance of missile systems in Baghdad. He said: "A large number of surface-to-air missiles have been malfunctioning and many have failed to hit their targets and have fallen back onto Baghdad before exploding. "Civil defence workers have been instructed to remove Iraqi missile fragments which fell on residential areas before journalists arrive on the scene." The spokesman stopped short...

29 Mar 2003 12:28:16 GMT Turks shower U.S. soldiers with eggs, stones SILOPI, Turkey, March 29 (Reuters) - Turkish villagers showered U.S. soldiers with eggs and stones on Saturday when they arrived to recover pieces of a Tomahawk cruise missile which came down in eastern Turkey on Friday. Scores of people in Urfa province set upon four jeeps carrying some 10 American soldiers, breaking windows and shouting slogans against the U.S.-led war in neighbouring Iraq, Anatolian news agency reported. Turkish gendarmes later intervened to break up the demonstration. There were no initial reports of injuries. Sukru Kocatepe, governor of Urfa...

Blast near Baghdad information ministry - witness BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A huge explosion in the area of the Information Ministry in Baghdad early Saturday sent clouds of white smoke into the sky and shook windows in the city center, Reuters correspondents in the Iraqi capital said. "It was a huge explosion, it either hit the information ministry or was very close," correspondent Khaled Yacoub Oweis said, adding that the blast shook the windows of buildings on the opposite side of the Tigris river. ^

'50 DEAD IN AIR RAID' More than 50 Iraqi civilians are reported to have been killed in an explosion in Baghdad. Arabic-language TV stations said between 50 and 55 Iraqis died in the blast in a busy market place. Al-Jazeera TV said 51 people had been killed and 49 injured in the blast - an Iraqi doctor put the figure at 55. The claims have not been independently verified. 'Terrible scenes' But Sky's David Chater, who visited the hospital where the dead and injured where being treated, described horrific scenes. "There are terrible scenes in there. I've never seen so...

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Distraught Iraqis crowded into a hospital in a northern suburb of Baghdad on Friday, comforting or searching for scores of loved ones they say were killed or injured in an air raid on a busy market. Dr Osama Sakhari, speaking at Baghdad's Al Noor Hospital after a day of heavy raids across the capital, said he had counted 55 people killed and more than 47 wounded from the market in the city's Shula neighborhood. This Reuters correspondent personally counted five bodies in one of the hospital's morgue units, after an incident which could further undermine U.S. efforts...

21:27 Al-Jazeera correspondent: 51 Iraqis killed, 49 hurt in air raid on market in Shula neighborhood of Baghdad

<p>U.S. Central Command suspects an Iraqi missile is to blame for the deadly strike on a crowded Baghdad market that reportedly killed 14 people and sparked accusations the U.S was targeting civilians.</p> <p>As WorldNetDaily reported, an errant missile slammed into a row of buildings, which house shops on the ground floor and residential apartments above, in the northern neighborhood of Al-Shaab yesterday.</p> <p>Associated Press Television News footage showed a large crater in the street, a smoldering building, burned out cars and bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting in the back of a pickup truck.</p>

U.S says Iraqi missile may have hit Baghdad market AS SAYLIYA CAMP, Qatar, March 27 (Reuters) - Blasts in a Baghdad street that killed as many as 15 civilians may have been caused by a stray Iraqi missile or deliberate Iraqi sabotage, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday. Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks told a Central Command briefing in Qatar that U.S. forces had not aimed at targets in the area, and that the blasts could have been caused by Iraqi surface-to-air missiles falling back onto the city. "We won't have a final answer until we're in Baghdad ourselves," he said....