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ALARM - Iran requires the immediate withdrawal of forces GB of al Basra, in Iraq BEIRUT - the Iranian Minister for the Foreign Affairs, Manouchehr Mottaki, in visit in Beirut, took Friday the immediate withdrawal of the British forces of al Basra, in the south of Iraq.

Bush vows to strike US enemies first in terror war By Patricia Wilson CRAWFORD, Texas, May 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush proclaimed victory in Iraq on Saturday but said the war on terror was far from over and vowed to hunt down America's enemies before they could strike. He closely linked the U.S.-led invasion to oust Saddam Hussein to the campaign to stamp out terrorism launched after the Sept, 11, 2001, attacks despite the lack of a definitive connection between the two. "The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that still goes...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. and British navies have seized three Iraqi vessels carrying scores of mines in the Gulf, Fox News television reported on Friday. U.S. Navy vessels took control of one Iraqi vessel and two British ships intercepted two Iraqi tug boats in operations around the Faw peninsula in southern Iraq, Fox said quoting unnamed U.S. officials. Reuters earlier reported military officials saying U.S. and British forces had seized two boats carrying 68 mines off southern Iraq.

U.S. Marines say control Umm Qasr port By Adrian Croft UMM QASR, Iraq, March 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines said they won control of the strategic Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on Saturday despite pockets of resistance in residential areas of the town. The Marines also said that U.S. and British forces had taken between 400 and 450 Iraqi prisoners in fighting around Umm Qasr, Iraq's only deep-water port, and the nearby Faw peninsula which controls access from the Gulf to Iraq's tiny coast. "Both the new and the old ports are secure," Marine Captain Rick Crevier, one of the...

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....

<p>CNN's Christiane Amanpour spoke with British military spokesman Chris Vernon while that battle was underway. She joined CNN anchor Bill Hemmer with this report.</p> <p>HEMMER: One thing we learned today is about military jurisdiction between the U.S. and British forces and how they will divvy up jurisdiction and responsibility inside Iraq. We now know that the British will largely be responsible at some point soon for southeastern Iraq. This includes that port city [Umm Qasr] that sits on the Persian Gulf.</p>

The British forces took the control of the stations of pumping of FAO The British forces took the control of the stations of oil pumping of the peninsula of FAO in the south-east of Iraq, declared Friday an officer British with the American central command (Centcom) in Qatar. "Des elements of the third Brigade of Royal the Navy unloaded on the peninsula of FAO last night, established a head of bridge and the operations continue as envisaged. We met a light resistance. It there did not have losses on the British side ", declared with the press captain Al...