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Chronicle of the war in Iraq. 5th day (March 24)
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Grouping of troops of the USA, Great Britain and Iraq
Animated map of the theater of military operations
Combat losses
USA
March 20 - 4 died ;
March 21 - 2 died, 1 wounded ;
March 22 - 1 died during the helicopter disaster ,
4 were injured in battles in the south of Iraq ;
March 23 - 1 died, 13 people were injured as a result of the attack on the basis of the United States in Kuwait ,
1 who died in the south of Iraq ,
At least 4 killed near En-Nassiria (Al-Jazeera personnel),
2 wounded ( captured )
12 US troops went missing during the battle near En-Nassiria ;
1 marine of the US Army died, 3 were injured in Kuwait.
March 24 - two pilots of the downed Apache helicopter were captured .
Britannia
March 20 - 8 died ;
March 21 - Several military personnel were injured during the attack on the UMM -Kasr and Basra ;
March 22 - 6 British troops died in a collision of two helicopters over the Persian Gulf ;
March 23 - 2 pilots of the Tornado fighter -bomber, shot down by the American Air Defense Rocket Patriot, were killed .
The journalist of the British television channel Itn died ;
March 24 - 1 soldier died in a battle near the city of Ez -Zubair , two were captured by the Iraqis .
Iraq
military personnel:
March 20 - 4 killed, 6 wounded ;
March 23 - one of the leaders of the Baas party was killed
peaceful inhabitants:
March 20 - 2 killed, 14 wounded ;
March 21 - 36 wounded ;
March 22 - 3 dead , more than 200 wounded
March 23 - 77 dead and 336 wounded in Basra
March 24 - 62 civilians were killed, more than 400 were injured ,
5 people died as a result of Baghdad's bombing ;
6 members of the BAAS party died in battles with the Army of the Allies near En-Nassiria .
Kuwait
military personnel:
March 21 - 4 soldiers from the UAE were killed .
Iran
peaceful inhabitants:
March 21 - 2 people were injured as a result of a missile for an oil storage in the city of Abadan .
Australia
March 22 - as a result of the attack, Australian journalist died, another was wounded .
Syria
peaceful inhabitants :
March 23 - 5 died, 10 wounded
23:00 - In the battles with the Army of the Allies, En -Nassiria died six members of the BAAS party .
21:40 - Iraqi forces captured two British troops . According to the Air Force, their car was ambushed, which was arranged by Iraqi units defending the city of Ez-Zubair south of Basra.
21:00 - Putin held telephone conversations with Bush and Erdogan . The President of the Russian Federation warned the head of the US administration about a possible humanitarian catastrophe in the Persian Gulf.
20:20 - In Baghdad, the howls of sirens are again heard, warning about the possible air attack of the forces of the anti -Irac coalition to the Iraqi capital, the CNN television company reports.
20:00 -Australia Air Force pilot refused to bomb Iraq . The pilot, having received an indication of the target in the air, refused to fulfill the order, because he doubted the expediency of the missile and bomb. The commander of the Royal Australian Australian Australian Australia Houston supported the pilot’s decision.
19:30 - A British soldier died in a battle near the city of Ez -Zubair. The troops of the US-British coalition are 100 kilometers south of Baghdad. They managed to completely capture the two main bridges through the Euphrates.
19:20 - Syria expressed the official protest of the United States in connection with the death of its citizens as a result of an American missile entering a passenger bus in which the Syrians were located.
17:40 - Two crew members of the Apache helicopter shot down in Iraq are officially listed "missing", General Tommy Franks, head of the central command of the US Armed Forces (Catar), said on Monday at a briefing in Doha (Catar). According to him, from 30 to 40 American helicopters participated in the operation against Iraqi troops near Baghdad.
17:30 -AL-JAZEera television company correspondent and television operator, captured on Monday Kurds in northern Iraq, in the city of Jom-Jamal, are released . “Our journalists stayed captive for several hours, but now they have already begun to fulfill their duties,” said AL -JAZeera, chief of the Moscow Bureau, Akram Khazam. At the same time, he noted that "in captivity they did not treat them very well and beat."
17:15 - Units of American Marines continue to attack En -Nassiria . This fortified settlement is key from a strategic point of view. He blocks the way to the north, across the Euphrates River further to the Iraqi capital.
16:40 - Hussein and his son once again appeared in front of the Iraqis . Iraqi television for the second time in a day was shown by Saddam Hussein. This time, the moment of the meeting of Saddam and his son biting with the leader of the ruling Baat party from Basra are captured on the film. On the film, the group sits around the table, everyone is silent.
16:10 - Explosions are heard in Baghdad again .
15:15 - 5 people died in Baghdad as a result of bombing . Five people, including one woman, died as a result of a rocket in the house in the residential quarter of Baghdad. Earlier, the Minister of Information of Iraq said that over the past day, 194 people received injuries as a result of air raids on Baghdad.
15:10 - One marine of the US Army died, another 3 were injured in Kuwait . The incident, which occurred on Sunday morning, is still being investigated, but so far nothing indicates that the death of the marine infantryman was associated with the attack of Iraqi troops. Most likely, we are talking about an accident.
15:05 - a new bombardment of Baghdad began , sirens are heard. Six explosions thundered in the east and southeast of the city, five more explosions were heard south of the capital of Iraq. The city is still dragged by smoke. In addition, the confrontation between Basra continues.
14:50 - In the north of Iraq, two AL -JAZEera television companies were captured . The correspondent and television operator of the Qatari television company Al-Jazeera were captured on Monday in the north of Iraq.
14:20 - In the near future, the United States and the UK will begin to actively use ammunition in Iraq with the "depleted" uranium . Studies have shown that the "impoverished uranium" causes cancer and is reflected in the offspring. The US military command claims that there is no danger in such shells.
13:15 - American troops are advancing in the north and south of Iraq . In the morning, US aircraft inflicted powerful bombing on military targets both in the south and in the north of Iraq. The opening of the Northern Front was the main event of today.
13:00 - Over the past day , 62 civilians were killed in Iraq, more than 400 people were injured . In Baghdad, no one died, 194 people were injured. Most of the losses in the Basra: 14 dead. The losses of the coalition forces over the past day, according to the Iraqi side, are 30 killed and 14 wounded. 12 people went missing, 6 - captured. The Iraqis claim that for all the days of the war, three aircraft, five helicopters, six tanks and about ten armored vehicles of the coalition forces were destroyed by their troops.
12:00 - Iraqis captured the American Apache helicopter . It is reported that the peasants shot down two helicopters from the rifle. The United States still confirms the loss of one helicopter.
11:30 - Iraqi air defense forces shot down a plane of the anti -Irac coalition over Baghdad .
11:00 - Hussein made the next "epoch -making" to the nation . He praised the actions of the Iraqi army in the war with the occupation forces. "The victory is close, our army demonstrated heroism, and the actions of the enemies revealed their evil essence," said the Iraqi leader.
10:00 - A powerful explosion thundered in the vicinity of Baghdad . After the explosion, a large pillar of black smoke rose into the sky. It is not yet clear whether an explosion was caused by a bombardment.
09:45 - The British Ministry of Defense officially recognized 2 pilots of the Tornado fighter -bomber, which was shot down on Sunday by American air defense Patriot.
8:20 - US aircraft inflicted another powerful blow to the city of Mosul in the north of Iraq . The city was blocked on Sunday and on the night of Saturday. Massive bombing are part of the US military operation in the north of the country.
7:30 - US troops are 80 km from Baghdad . The advanced units of the 3rd Infantry Division of the United States came closest to the capital of Iraq, the column of which consisting of 70 tanks and 60 armored personnel carriers is now in various sources at a distance of 80 to 160 km from the capital of Iraq.
7:20 - Apachi helicopters of the US Air Force subjected to missile shelling the position of the Republican Guard of Iraq near the city of Karbela, located at a distance of about 100 km from Baghdad.
07:00 - American -British aviation inflicted on Monday morning new bomb blows to Mosul in the north of Iraq . Iraqi air defense did not notice the approximation of aircraft and opened fire after the first breaks were heard.
06:30 - the rocket launched along Baghdad got into the orphanage . It is reported by Iraqi television. There have been no exact data on victims and destruction. Over the past night, Baghdad survived a series of air raids.
05:30 - 2 British disappeared in the southern part of Iraq . "We can confirm that two soldiers disappeared in South Iraq as a result of an attack on a position where British combat vehicles were located," said a representative of the central command of the British forces.
04:20 - the US soldiers shown on the TV could execute . The representative of the US Department of Defense said that, judging by the wounds that were clearly visible on the heads of the dead military personnel, they were more executed than died in battle.
04:20 - The coalition missile exploded in Turkey . No one was injured. A funnel with a diameter of 4 meters was found at the scene of the explosion. According to experts, the rocket was supposed to fly through the territory of Turkey and hit the target in Iraq, but lost the course.
04:20 - the Americans found a chemical weapon production plant in Iraq . US Army units discovered a plant of 160 kilometers south of Baghdad.
04:00 - Aviation of the United States and Great Britain made 6,000 sorties . A variety of aircraft participate in the air operation - from strategic bombers and multi -purpose fighters to refueling tankers and scouts.
03:20 - a new raid on Baghdad began . Powerful explosions are heard again in the center of the Iraqi capital. According to eyewitnesses, the noise of combat aircraft is heard in the sky. Iraqi air defense systems are conducting sporadic fire on targets in the air.
02:40 - 4 US Navy ships in the Persian Gulf encountered floating mines and damaged . This was reported by the American CNN television company with reference to the Iraqi command. According to these data, the ships came across floating mines and were damaged off the coast of Iraq.
02:35 - The Americans announced the name of the paratrooper who threw the colleagues of his colleagues . The Sergeant of the American Army Asan Akbar is the main suspect in the death of one and the wound of 15 military personnel of the 101st airborne division of the United States, deployed in the north of Kuwait.
02:30 - Iraq announced his intention to observe the Geneva Convention regarding prisoners of war . "We will be dignified to prisoners - this is primarily dictated to us by our religion and our traditions, as well as the Geneva Convention, the provisions of which we will observe," said the head of the Iraq Ministry of Defense.
02:00 - Unknown people fired at the Russian Embassy in Baghdad. The incident occurred at 02:00 Moscow time. Firing from automatic weapons lasted about 5 minutes. None of the embassy employees were injured. At the moment, there are 25 Russian diplomats in Baghdad.
01:50 - Over the past day, the coalition inflicted 4 Baghdad's missile and bomb . According to the correspondent of the Rossiya television channel from the Iraqi capital, the last airline was applied on Sunday at about 22:00 Moscow time. In particular, a powerful explosion thundered near the residence of Saddam Hussein in the center of the Iraqi capital. Before that, blows were delivered day and evening.
01:10 - the population of Basra, left without water and electricity, is threatened with a humanitarian catastrophe , the representative of the International Red Cross Committee Florian Westfal warned on Sunday evening. The power supply of the Basra water intake station, supplying water for 2 million people, was violated.
00:50 - according to Iraq, the country's air defense forces shot down 5 aircraft and 2 enemy helicopters . According to the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of Iraq, Khazim Abdel Kader, 4 aircraft were shot down over Baghdad, and the fifth - over Basra. One of the coalition helicopters was shot down over Mosul, the second over the city of Simaya, he said.
00:00 - more than 50 people were killed and wounded as a result of the bombardment of the territory in the Biyar area in the north of Iraq, where the opposition to the Baghdad regime Party of the “Islamic movement” (Islamic movement) was based. According to the Iranian television channel, the United States launched dozens of Air-Earth missiles in this area.