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American ground forces are using air power to destroy Iraqi positions in southern Iraq. Marines have been searching a bombed compound in the port city of Umm Qasr that had been sheltering about 120 Iraqi soldiers. They engaged in a heavy firefight, with the Iraqis using tanks that destroyed one building. A US Marines Harrier jump jet from a ship in the Persian Gulf flew over and dropped two 500-pound bombs on the target. The Marines were checking for survivors. Elsewhere, Marines, trying to take the city of Nasiriya, say they are facing a force of about 500 Iraqi troops...

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Live fire fight on FOX TV as Tanks Firing on Iraqi opposition in UMM Qasr

British troops are taking fire from a tree line in the Iraq port city of Umm Qasr, which was taken by Coalition Forces yesterday. A convoy is trying to get through the firefight.

Olga Craig watches Iraqis surrender after a fierce battle to secure Umm Qasr They came staggering and stumbling across the desert - a bedraggled band of shoeless soldiers from Saddam Hussein's 51st Mechanical Infantry Division, waving any piece of white clothing they could find. The night before, they had fought a fierce battle with United States marines for the deep-water port of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq. Now, ravenous, begging for water and terrified, they were ready to surrender - to anyone they thought could feed and clothe them. Only a mile away in the desert, a few miles outside...

(CBS) One French and two American journalists were killed after crossing the border with Iraq into Nasariyah, Central Command reported Saturday. No names and affiliations were given. A third American was injured. Centcom in Doha says a total of six journalists have been killed. Two British ITN reporters in Umm Qasr were killed by Iraqis after passing a checkpoint. An apparent car bomb killed an Australian cameraman and at least four other people Saturday at a checkpoint near a camp of a militant group linked to al Qaeda. Also Saturday, ITN television news reported that three members of one of...

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...

US marines say still Iraqi resistance in Umm Qasr By Adrian Croft UMM QASR, Iraq, March 22 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines faced pockets of Iraqi resistance in the strategic Iraqi port of Umm Qasr on Saturday, a day after Washington said it had won control. 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. "We did meet some resistance, it's probably not going as quick as we would...

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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....

At least 60 and as many at 250 Iraqis surrendered. Col. Steve Cox of the British Marines told the Reuters news agency that U.S. Marines under British command captured 250 Iraqis near Umm Qasr. Television images from other parts of Iraq also showed Iraqi prisoners, marching in single file with their hands behind their heads. Sahhaf, the Iraqi information minister, said the images were fabricated. "Those were not Iraqi soldiers at all," he said. "Where did they get them from?" As Rumsfeld stated again today, the United States has undertaken a major effort to persuade Iraqi troops to lay down...

Fri Mar 21, 8:58 AM ET A U.S. Marine replaces the Iraqi flag at the entrance to Iraq (news - web sites)'s main port of Umm Qasr on March 21, 2003 with the Stars and Stripes and the flag of the Marine Corps. Marines briefly raised the U.S. flag over Umm Qasr after facing tougher than expected resistance in and around the southern Iraq port. Some time later, the flag was removed. No reason was given for the decision, but Washington has consistently stressed that invading U.S. forces want to liberate Iraq, not occupy it. Photo by Desmond Boylan/Reuters...

Waving rifle, Iraqi minister says port won't fall BAGHDAD, March 21 (Reuters) - Wielding a rifle, Iraq's interior minister said on Friday that a vital Iraqi port on the Gulf would not fall to a U.S.-led invasion. "This is silly talk. Umm Qasr is an Iraqi port and is going to remain an Iraqi port," Interior Minister Mahmoud Diyab al-Ahmed told a news conference, raising a rifle above his shoulder and pointing at the ceiling. "It will be hard for them to take it." He also said that victory was guaranteed for Iraq. "We don't want to kill the people...

UK's Hoon says Umm Qasr to be controlled shortly LONDON, March 21 (Reuters) - British Defence Minister Geoff Hoon said on Friday fighting was continuing at the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr but he expected allied forces to take control of the port shortly. "Although action is continuing, we expect Umm Qasr to be fully under coalition control shortly," Hoon told parliament. He said that less than 24 hours since the attack began, operations "are making steady progress." Hoon confirmed that allied forces had taken the Al Faw peninsula in southeastern Iraq. Most of the oil infrastructure on that peninsula...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 03/21/03 -Convoy into southern Iraq, Oil fires, American and UK heroes (and other Allies) everywhere, Umm Qasr, surrendering Iraqis BREAKING: Convoy into southern Iraq BREAKING: Oil fires - New War Crimes of Saddam BREAKING: American and UK heroes (and other allies) everywhere BREAKING: Umm Qasr surrendering Iraqis ========= Kuwait-Iraq border ========= Heroes everywhere moving through the Kuwait-Iraq border. Heroes fly.Cobra helicopters through the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which separates Kuwait and Iraq. Marine heroes crossing the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Heroes of the 3rd Infantry Division advance into southern Iraq. Heroes of the US...

<p>INSIDE SOUTHERN IRAQ (CNN) -- British troops used a combined air and ground assault Friday to take control of Iraq's Persian Gulf coast, the Faw Peninsula, according to the commander of the Royal Marines landing force, and U.S. Marines held the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr.</p>

Over 250 Iraqis surrender at Umm Qasr -UK command ABOARD HMS ARK ROYAL, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines under British command took at least 250 Iraqi prisoners on Friday as they advanced into the outskirts of the important southern port of Umm Qasr, a British commander said. Colonel Steve Cox told Reuters on board the British flagship Ark Royal in the Gulf that the Iraqi troops had surrendered to the U.S. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit by noon (0900 GMT). Reuters correspondent Adrian Croft, who is with 15 MEU, said the marines raised the Stars and Stripes over Umm Qasr's...

UMM QASR, Iraq, March 21 (Reuters) - U.S. Marines raised the Stars and Stripes flag over the new port of Umm Qasr on Friday after taking the installation in the face of only light resistance, Reuters correspondent Adrian Croft reported. Croft, who is travelling with the Marines, said the U.S. aimed to use the modern port on the southern fringes of Iraq as an entry point for humanitarian aid into the country. After calling in British artillery support to break Iraqi resistance that pinned them down on the Kuwaiti border for two hours, the Marines made swift progress to...