Chronicle of the War in Iraq: the day of the 10th (March 29)

Combat losses

The dead and missing journalists (2 died, 15 were missing)

Grouping of troops of the USA, Great Britain and Iraq

Chronicle of War (by day)

19:43 - According to the updated data, the Iraqi terrorist killed four Americans. Saddam awarded him posthumously. The fact of the death of American soldiers was confirmed at a meeting with journalists in Qatar, the representative of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces General Viktor Renoir.

19:25 - The Pentagon stopped launching cruise missiles through the Turkish airspace . This has been caused by the third in recent years by the fall of a cruise missile in southern Turkey. Türkiye requires the reason for their entering its territory.

17:56 - The bodies of the first ten military personnel who died in Iraq were delivered to the UK. After a mourning ceremony held by army chaplains, the coffins with bodies are placed in a temporary morgue in the territory of the Braise-Norton base, from where relatives and relatives will be taken for burial.

17:29 - The allies are again bombing Baghdad and try to take Nasiria. According to the Arab television channel Al-Arabia, Baghdad airlines practically did not stop throughout the day. Units of the American Marines on Saturday again attacked the city of Nasiria.

16:40 - The United States mistakenly inflicted a missile blow to Saudi Arabia . The United States admitted that several Tomahawk cruise missiles did not reach Iraq and fell on the territory of Saudi Arabia, which protested.

16:20 - Shirak expressed Blara's "Anxiety about the Development of War" in Iraq . The leaders of France and Great Britain emphasized "The importance of implementation by the UN Secretary General" adopted on Friday SB UN resolution on the resumption of the program "Oil in exchange for food" addressed to Iraq.

15:55 - The Pentagon is not yet ready to admit the blame for the bombardment of the market in Baghdad. “So far, we don’t have enough data to admit or reject our guilt,” said Major General Viktor Renoir, a representative of the US Central Military Command.

14:05 - According to the Iraq authorities, 68 people were killed last night in Baghdad, 107 were injured . 28 people were killed in the al-Anbar province and 48 were wounded, three were killed in the province of Babil and 22 wounded, six people were killed in the city of Karbela and 52 were injured, 35 and 22 were killed in the area of the city of Nezhef.

14:00 - Baghdad's daily bombing began. The forces of the air defense of Iraq are firing at the enemy. Puffs of smoke rise from different areas of the capital. Sirens of ambulance and fire engines are heard.

13:09 - As a result of a missile impact in the Ministry of Information Iraq, a connection is paralyzed. The blow was dealt at night at about 01:00 Moscow time. The US command confirmed that this was the Tomahawk winged missile. She hit the upper part of the 11-story building and destroyed all the satellite "plates".

12:52 - Iraqi terrorist -suicide bomber blew up a car in a nonsense. 5 Americans are killed. This was reported by representatives of the US Armed Forces. The kamikazde was in a car filled with explosives. The explosion thundered when the Americans approached the car.

11:55 - The Pentagon released a list of losses - 30 dead, 104 wounded . On Saturday, the Pentagon recognized the dead by another marine infantryman, who was previously listed as missing. 28-year-old sergeant Bradley Corthaus from the city of Scott, Iowa, went missing on March 24.

11:18 - Several British troops went missing under the bass . According to a representative of the British contingent of the anti -Irak coalition, "four or five soldiers disappeared near the city of Basra, perhaps they were captured."

11:02 - US Naval infantrymen found seven corpses of their soldiers in National. Five of the bodies mutilated beyond recognition were found in the armored vehicle burned out of last Sunday, and two more corpses were given by local residents along with documents and photographs found from them.

09:15 - According to reports coming from Baghdad, the aviation of the US -British coalition subjected to a massive bombardment of the outskirts of the city , but the sounds of bomb ruptures and missiles approach its center.

09:08 - The offensive on Baghdad is suspended for 4-6 days . This was announced on Saturday by the Catar television channel Al-Jazeera, referring to sources in the command of the Western coalition.

06:45 - Two F -A18 Hornet strikers from the Airon Roosevelt aircraft carrier destroyed two air defense radars in the north of the country . When raid, HARM -type missiles equipped with satellite guidance instruments based on the GPS global navigation system were used.

06:01 - Two American attack aircraft F -15e on Saturday night destroyed a building in the South Iraki city of Basra, in which there were allegedly near representatives of the irregular military formations of the government of Saddam Hussein.

04:00 -according to CNN, the American helicopters of the 101st Airborne Division struck the positions of the Iraqi Division "Medina" southwest of Baghdad, destroying several infantry armored vehicles.

02:30 - The British command reported the death of three troops in the south of Iraq .

02:00 - an Iraqi rocket hit the shopping and entertainment center in the capital of Kuwait. Iraq attacked the capital of Kuwait's missile Earth-Earth class . It could be a Rocket type "SKAD" or a Chinese -made Silkworm missile. No one was injured, but significant damage was caused to the building.

01:30 - a new blow to Baghdad. Aviation struck the building of the Ministry of Information in the Iraqi capital . The fire began.

00:15 - Coalition aviation is again bombing Baghdad and Mosul . On Friday late in the evening, powerful explosions thundered in the city of Mosul in the north of Iraq. At the same time, the explosions were heard on the southern outskirts of Baghdad. Before that, a siren of air anxiety howled in the city.

00:00 - Iraq opened the dam by Basra to complicate the advance of the Americans . According to the Kuwaitsky agency Kuna, the water flooded large areas near Basra. The soil, mixing with water, turned into sticky dirt, which makes it difficult to advance tanks and military vehicles.

Combat losses

USA: (officially - 30 died, 104 wounded, 17 went missing, 7 were 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 died in the south of Iraq ,
4 killed near En-Nassiria (Al-Jazeera personnel) ;
12 US troops went missing during the battle near En-Nassiria ;
March 24 - 1 marine of the US Army died, 3 were injured in Kuwait ;
March 25 - the Pentagon officially recognized the dead of 7 military personnel ;
2 wounded captured ;
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.
March 27 - the Pentagon said that 12 naval infantrymen were missing in a battle under Nasia , their searches are underway. Another 14 marines were injured;
March 28 - 2 US soldiers were crushed by the American BMP near Nasiria, 1 more died in battle .
The central command announced the missing during the fighting of four naval infantrymen.
March 29 - Four American soldiers died as a result of an explosion arranged by an Iraqi suicide bomb.
US marine infantrymen discovered seven corpses of their soldiers in National.