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Chronicle of War in Iraq: Day 8 (March 27)
Grouping of troops of the USA, Great Britain and Iraq
Animated map of the theater of military operations
23:00 - a new bombardment of Baghdad . 10 powerful explosions thundered in the city center, reports Reuters.
22:20 - There is a battle between the 3rd mechanized division and the Iraq Guard. American troops are trying to block the approaches to the city in order to prevent Iraqi reinforcements. Fierce battles near the unfinished go for two days.
22:10 - The US delegation left the emergency meeting in Iraq, which was held at the UN Security Council . During the performance of the permanent representative of Iraq at the UN UN Mohammed al-Dauri, the American delegation, led by the ambassador, got up and defiantly left the meeting room.
22:00 - the transfer to Kuwait another American division begins . The Fort Gud base (Texas) began to arrive aircraft of military transport aircraft to transfer the first units from the 4th mechanized division of the US Army to Kuwait.
21:40 - The Minister of Defense of Iraq Sultan Hashim Ahmed believes that American troops can surround Baghdad within 5-10 days .
21:20 - Coalition aviation again bombing the central areas of Baghdad . According to incoming messages, the planes dropped several air bombs to the presidential palace of As-Salyam. Iraqi air defense forces lead a dense barrier plaque.
20:45 - The Republican Guard of Iraq holds positions around Baghdad and Tikrit . The most combat -ready divisions of the Iraq Republican Guard are occupied by positions around Baghdad and the hometown of Saddam Hussein Tikrit, said US Secretary of Defense Donald Ramsfeld.
20:30 - Al -Jazeera showed a unmanned aircraft shot down on Thursday above Iraq and a US Air Force helicopter . On a helicopter surrounded by waving rifles, Iraqis, you can consider military marking. The unmanned plane was also presented in all details. The fate of the helicopter crew is still unknown.
20:10 - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov called for an early end of the war in Iraq. “The faster we stop this war, the faster we sit down at the negotiating table at the UN Security Council, the faster we can solve the problems that bother Moscow, Washington, and the international community,” Ivanov said.
19:20 -George Bush and Tony Blair held a press conference at the Camp David . Bush said that Hussein "slowly but surely" loses "a" grip "over the country, and the war in Iraq will continue" as long as necessary, until a complete victory. " According to Blair, the coalition troops are 80 km from Baghdad, "surrounded the bassra" and took the UMM-Casr.
19:00 - Armed detachments of Iraqi Kurds entered the territory of Iraq . For the first time since the beginning of hostilities, the units of the fighters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan crossed the front line of the territory controlled by Baghdad and occupied the positions left by the Iraqi army near the city of Kirkuk in the north of the country.
18:50 - Special forces of the Saddam army changed into the form of the US Army . A few months before the start of the war, Saddam ordered to purchase for his special detachments Fedaine-E Hussein tens of thousands of uniforms of the US APMI. The last serious loss of the United States is the work of their hands.
18:35 - In Iraq on Friday it will get a little colder. Sand storms will subside . Forecasters promise that sand storms will subside somewhat, although a strong wind will still blow in many areas. The movement of the coalition troops for several days was difficult to strong sand storms.
18:20 - Saddam Hussein held a meeting with the military and ministers . The Iraqi President Saddam Hussein held a meeting with the nearest military associates and members of the office on Thursday.
18:10 - For targets in Baghdad , the dressed agents of the US intelligence services are brought to fire. Agents of American special services have long been in Baghdad. Their main task is to destroy the leaders of the Iraqi special services and the Republican Guard. In the event of a storming, they must eliminate the foci of resistance in city quarters, and for now, agents help to enlist strategic objects.
18:05 - Two prisoners of the British captured by the Iraqis - civilians . “They worked for hiring and distributed food to Iraqi prisoner of war,” said the representative of the British Ministry of Defense, speaking of two black men shown on Wednesday by Al -Jazeera .
17:50 - Two more aircraft flew to Kuwait with military personnel of the Ukrainian special battalion . Four military personnel from the Chemical Protection battalion refused to fly to Kuwait. The battalion has 532 military and 165 units of equipment. It was created in case of environmental and technogenic disasters.
17:20 - units of the 173rd Infantry Brigade of the United States, landing in the evening on Wednesday in the north of Iraq in the area of the city of Suleimania, were subjected to intense missile shelling from the Iraqi regular forces. This was announced on Thursday at a press conference in Baghdad, an official representative of the Iraqi army, General Khazim Ar-Avi. He did not specify whether there are losses from the American side.
16:40 - The command of the anti -Irac coalition is dissatisfied with the Al -Jazeera television channel . The British military command accuses the TV channel of allegedly turned into the "Rupor of Iraqi propaganda." The screening of the murdered military personnel of the coalition forces is subjected to special criticism.
15:30 - The landing of the coalition instead of the south of Iraq was mistakenly landed in Iran . Now they may not have time to take part in the assault on Basra. The inhabitants of the marshy area in the Iranian province of Khuzestan witnessed the confusion of the paratroopers of the coalition, who understood by landing that they "missed" not only with the district, but also with the land of landing.
14:50 - The US Ministry of Defense called the names of the dead and missing. 24 died, 28 wounded . In addition, 7 American soldiers are officially considered prisoners of war and 10 missing. The British list of losses of 22 people, including those who died and missed.
14:15 - The British knocked out 14 Iraqi tanks and 4 armored personnel carriers from Basra . According to the British command, they tried to leave the city. “It was a very fast, sharp attack. They were all destroyed,” the military said.
14:05 - The Coalition Air Force inflicted a third missile -bomb blow to Baghdad in a day . Explosions thundered around 13:50 Moscow time. Air Air Air Force aircraft are circulating over the city, air alarm has been announced in the capital of Iraq. Iraqi air defense opened fire.
13:30 - Iraq asked Russia for humanitarian aid . Baghdad turned to the Russian company "Mashinoimport" with a request to supply food in the amount of $ 25 million. If the UN Security Council permits, assistance will be delivered in 3 weeks. Meanwhile, the supply of humanitarian goods to Iraq through the port of the Umm-Casr was transferred for one day.
13:10 - According to Baghdad, up to 700 soldiers of the United States and Britain were killed during the week of the war in Iraq . “And this is not counting the wounded and prisoners of war,” the Ambassador of Iraq to Russia Abbas Galaf said. According to him, over the past day alone in the cities of Nezhef and Karbela, more than 500 coalition servicemen were killed.
12:30 - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia: the actions of the coalition in Iraq are a "military occupation." According to the deputy head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Yuri Fedotov, such a definition of the actions of Washington and London "meets international law." “This is really the fact of occupation by using force,” Fedotov said. At the same time, he recalled that "in the very word" occupation "there is nothing bad.
12:20 - UNDERSTANT OF THE COURSELF OF THE Council of Security of the UN condemned the war in Iraq. The vast majority of the Arab countries and representatives of the non -alignment movement spoke out for the termination of the war and the immediate withdrawal of foreign troops from there. Supported the war in Iraq 15 out of 45 speakers. The UN Secretary General has assigned the main responsibility for the well -being of the civilian population to the United States and Britain.
12:10 - 36 people were killed in Baghdad per day, 350 civilians were killed during the entire war . At the same time, according to Iraqi doctors, the total number of victims of the American-British aircraft ranges reached 1000. The wounded are placed in 33 Baghdad hospitals and its suburbs.
12:00 - Iraq fired at the capital of Kuwait - chemical anxiety was announced in the city . At least two powerful explosions thundered in residential areas in the north of El -Kuwait - the capital of Kuwait. The population and military are recommended to wear gas masks.
11:50 - Allies are building a secret camp for Iraqi prisoners of war . The diet of Iraqi prisoners includes two bottles of water, a large box of melted cheese, stuffed eggplants in jars, a bag of chocolate milk, sweet cakes, two cans of chicken ham, a package of orange juice, a can of tuna in sunflower oil and a honey jar.
10:50 - Iraqi television promised to show many killed and prisoners during the day . Iraq Ambassador to Moscow Abbas Halaf promised to publish the names, service seats and other accurate data of the captured. At the same time, the diplomat denied reports of prisoners of war allegedly carried out by the Iraqi army.
10:40 - The Iraqi opposition claims that the American missile exploding on Wednesday in the Baghdad market was aimed at the closed elite night club , owned by the youngest son of Saddam Hussein - Ode.
10:10 - The Pentagon confirms that the Iraqi column left Baghdad and moves south . At the same time, a representative of the US Ministry of Defense denied reports that the Iraqi column includes about 1000 military vehicles. According to him, the "several units" of technology are moving to the south of Iraq. According to observers, opponents are preparing for a decisive battle in the Karbela area 100 km south of Baghdad.
09:30 - the Americans mistakenly struck the column again . According to the Katar television channel Al-Jazeera, dozens were killed and wounded. This is the fifth incident, as a result of which the coalition forces die from their own fire. Until today, 11 soldiers of the coalition forces were killed from the strike of the Allies, 16 were injured.
09:30 - Britain found the Ministry of Education in the TV captured on the TV . According to the official representative of the British command in Qatar, Lieutenant Colonel El Lokwood, "an official investigation will be conducted for identification, however, most likely, these are two British soldiers who are currently listed as missing."
09:10 - Iraqi children shot US marines . The terrible details of the night attack on the American camp in Nasiria. The Iraqis hides women as a living shield and handed out weapons to children. The marines had to protect themselves and fired.
08:50 - In Iraq, 2 captured Lebanese journalist were released . Last Friday, the journalists were taken away by the Iraqis in a jeep in an unknown direction on the Fao Peninsula. This scene was photographed by the television journalists of other channels. However, five more foreign journalists were missing in Iraq.
07:40 - The official losses of the coalition: 42 people were killed, 14 were missing . The list of the dead includes 20 Americans and 22 Englishmen. At the same time, according to independent observers, there are more losses of allies. The list of missing people includes 14 US troops.
06:50 - As a result of the bombing, the bassra died and injured dozens of civilians , claims Al -Jazeera. At night, a 500-kilogram bomb was dropped at the city. Air strikes were delivered in the center and residential quarters of the second largest city of Iraq, which has been living in the conditions of a lack of water and electricity since March 21.
05:05 - Iraqis put to flight the 3rd Infantry Division of the United States near the unfinished . In a sandstorm, Iraqis attacked the US column using grenade launchers and anti -tank shells. The onslaught was so strong that the Americans threw several tanks and armored vehicles and fleeed.
04:30 - The third over the night of Baghdad's bombardment . In Baghdad, about ten new explosions occurred on Thursday night. According to the Pentagon, several blows to Baghdad and his environs were made at night. The objects of the Iraqi leadership and the Republican Guard again became their goals.
04:05 - The American newspaper NewsDay lost touch with its journalists in Baghdad . There is no connection with them from Monday. Shortly before this, the Iraqi authorities informed journalists that they would be expelled abroad with Jordan or Syria, along with 8 other journalists who have ended visas.
03:20 - Another 30 thousand troops go to the Persian Gulf from the United States . We are talking about the 4th Infantry Division, the 3rd mobile armored shelf from Fort Carson and a number of other formations that will be directed to the war zone, apparently already on the nearly Sunday.
03:00 At night, the allies inflicted a new blow to Baghdad . For 10 minutes, eight powerful explosions were heard on the outskirts of the city. The rumble of airplanes was heard.
01:40 - The forces of the coalition opened a new front in the north of the country . About 1 thousand American paratroopers landed in Northern Iraq and occupied the airfield on the control of the territory controlled.
00:50 - about 20 US troops were wounded on Wednesday evening during an unexpected missile attack by Iraqi forces in an American camp in a suburb of a strategically important city in Nasiria.
00:20 - Three Arab journalists disappeared in Iraq. The Arab television channel Al-Arabia announced on Wednesday evening that he had lost touch with three of his correspondents in Iraq. The television channel fears that with its journalists, illuminating the fighting, misfortune could have occurred.
00:10 - Humanitarian help begins to receive in Iraq . The column of about 40 trucks in the United States and Great Britain with a load of humanitarian aid for 60 thousand people crossed the Iraq-Kuyat border on Wednesday. Initially, the help will be sent to the Iraqi port city of Umm-Casr.
00:05 - Iran closed the border with Iraq until the end of the war . The Iranian authorities will not allow someone to cross the border to someone to conduct operations inside Iraq until the end of the war. This applies, first of all, the military units of the Navy, whose militants are ready to conduct combat operations in Iraq.
00:00 - A meeting of the UN Security Council began in New York . It passes at the request of the League of the Arab states and the non -alignment movements, which on March 24 turned to the chairman of the UN Security Council with relevant official requests.
Combat losses
USA: (Officially - 24 died, 28 wounded, 17 were missing or captured. Names )
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-Nasiria (Al-Jazeera’s personnel) , on March 25, the Pentagon officially recognized 7 military personnel, who was dead ,
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 - the Pentagon said that two marines died as a result of accidents in Iraq,
Two pilots of Apache's downed helicopter were captured .
March 26 - 20 people were injured during an unexpected missile attack by Iraqi forces in an American camp in a suburbs of a strategically important city in Nasiria.
Britain: (officially - 22 dead)
March 20 - 8 died ;
March 21 - Several military personnel were injured during the attack on the UMM -Kasr and Basra ;
March 22 - 7 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 - two military personnel died as a result of battles near the city of Ez -Zubair ,
Two were captured by the Iraqis ;
March 25 - British, who served in the Black Guard battalion, died near Basra.
Iraq
military personnel:
March 20 - 4 killed, 6 wounded ;
March 23 - one of the leaders of the BAAS party was killed ;
March 24 - 6 members of the BAAS party died in battles with the Army of the Allies near En -Nassiria ;
March 25 - 16 died, 95 were injured during the fighting with coalition and bombing forces,
The British special forces of the Rat of the Desert destroyed 20 associates of Hussein in Zubayra .
From the beginning of the Iraqi war, 4,000 Iraqis were captured .
civilians: (officially - 350 dead, 3650 wounded)
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 ;
March 25 - 8 people were killed, more than 60 were injured, of which seven children are difficult as a result of the night bombing of Baghdad, the ICKK claims.
March 26 - during the bombing of Baghdad, 36 people died over the past day .
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 rocket in the 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 were injured.
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