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As Bagdad becomes surrounded, Saddam starts shooting his own people... ...What's up with that? |
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As Bagdad becomes surrounded, Saddam starts shooting his own people... ...What's up with that? |
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| That fire ball is almost as yellow as the line running down Saddam's backside... |
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| Soldiers of the British 1st Battalion Parachute Regiment look at a Chinook helicopter take off during operations in southern Iraq on Saturday, 29 March 2003. Some units in the field have been ordered to take an operational pause for a chance to resupply, while U.S. and British aircraft and missile strikes continue to try to wear down the fighters protecting the approaches to Baghdad: Saddam Hussein's Republican guard. |
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| In a photo released on Saturday, British Royal Marines from 40 Commando man a Milan anti-tank weapon system while an RAF HC Mark II Chinook helicopter passes overhead on the Al Faw peninsula in southern Iraq on 25 March 2003. Baghdad came under coalition attack again on Saturday, 29 March 2003 - one day after dozens of people were reportedly killed by a blast at a busy marketplace in the capital city. |
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| Soldiers of the 1st Battalion - The Parachute Regiment, protect themselves as a Chinook helicopter takes off during operations at their camp in southern Iraq on 29 March 2003. |
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| As Operation Iraqi Liberation continues, workers from Houston-based Boots & Coots International Well Control inspect a newly plugged oil well that was on fire earlier at the Rumeila oil field in southern Iraq as Chinook helicopters fly overhead on Saturday, 29 March 2003. Only two wells set on fire by Iraqi saboteurs are still burning at the field, one of Iraq's largest, bolstering hopes that oil exports can resume soon from Iraq. |
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| CAMP NEW JERSEY, KUWAIT, 1 April 2003: Above - Soldiers with the 101st Airborne Division begin boarding CH-47D Chinook helicopter 86-01651 on Tuesday that will take them into Iraq for their first time. The 101st Airborne is now operating almost entirely from Iraq and is conducting deep air assaults from its forward command posts. Below: A CH-47D Chinook helicopter flies through Iraqi airspace enroute to one of the 101st Airborne Division's forward command posts. The helicopter-heavy division continued conducting deep air assaults far into Iraq today. |
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Saddam Palace Outside Baghdad |
| AS-SALIYAH, Qatar, 3 April 2003 - US special forces raided a presidential palace outside Baghdad as American troops closed in on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his elite Republican Guard, officers said. |
| Grainy night-goggle footage of the raid showed the commandos taking fire from anti-aircraft positions around the palace, some 90 kilometers (60 miles) outside Baghdad, as they descended in Chinook helicopters under the cover of darkness. |
| "It is a known residence that is used by Saddam Hussein and his sons ... The raid did not yield any regime officials but documents were seized," Brigadier General Vincent Brooks explained in a briefing at US Central Command headquarters in Qatar. |
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