Chronicle of War in Iraq: 23rd Day (April 11)

Combat losses

The dead and missing journalists (11 died, 10 were missing)

Grouping of troops of the USA, Great Britain and Iraq

Chronicle of War (by day)

22:30 - Russia is ready to write off debts of Iraq . This was stated by Vladimir Putin at the end of the tripartite summit in St. Petersburg in Iraq with the participation of Gerhard Schroeder and Jacques Shirak.

21:45 - The allies began television broadcasting in Baghdad in Arabic . This measure will have a limited effect so far, since a significant part of the city is de -energized. Broadcasting is carried out by coalition forces throughout the republic around the clock, seven days a week and often at five frequencies.

21:00 - Putin and Schroeder at a meeting in St. Petersburg summed up the preliminary results of the war in Iraq . The President of the Russian Federation emphasized that he and Chancellor Germany Gerhard Schroeder are convinced of the "futility of a military decision" of the Iraqi crisis and are united in understanding the primacy of international law.

20:30 - In Baghdad, Shiites replaced the portrait of Saddam Hussein with a giant image of Imam Hussein a. Imam Hussein is considered the grandson of the Prophet and the founder of the Shiite branch of Islam. The Shiites of Baghdad also intend to establish in a prominent place a portrait of another spiritual leader of the Shiites - Muhammad Bakra al -Sadra, who was executed by Hussein in 1980.

19:40 - Before the war, Putin through Primakov invited Hussein to leave the post of President Iraq to avoid the attack. On the eve of the beginning of hostilities, Primakov, on personal assignment of the President of Russia, visited Baghdad and met with Hussein.

18:50 - Americans bomb Tikrit , where the Iraqi leadership could hide. American aircraft bombing the North Iraksky city of Tikrite, the birthplace of Saddam Hussein, where, according to the American military, the top of the ruling regime can be hidden.

18:15 - The British military killed five looters trying to rob the bank in the Basra. According to the official representative of the US Army Command, the robbers joined the battle with the patrol. As a result, the British were forced to open fire and shoot the looters.

17:30 - US troops will not penetrate the territory of the Russian Embassy in Baghdad . The US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbou denied reports of the possibility of the penetration of the US military into the territory of the Russian embassy in Baghdad to search for the Archive of Saddam Hussein.

17:05 - Kurdish formations are leaving the city of Kirkuk in the north of Iraq. They received an order from their command to leave the city without a fight with weapons in their hands before the arrival of American troops. Türkiye, which threatened to introduce troops into Iraq if the Kurds remain in this city.

16:40 - The American special forces found 5 light sports aircraft next to Tikrite . As the military command of the coalition suggests, intended for flights outside the country of members of the Iraqi leadership, and, possibly, Saddam Hussein himself. Airplanes are destroyed.

16:15 - The act of the surrender of Mosul without a fight was signed . The document was signed on Friday by the commander of the 5th corps of the Iraq regular army in the Mosul region and representatives of the American military. This was announced by the representative of the coalition forces Brigadier General Vincent Brooks.

15:40 - Great Britain begins to reduce the number of its troops in the Persian Gulf . The country's Ministry of Defense said on Friday that this measure would also affect warships, aircraft and helicopters.

15:05 - American marines were handed out a list of Iraqi leaders who need to be captured or destroyed . There are 55 surnames in the SENCUM list. General Vincent Brooks said that Iraqi leaders are trying to escape from the country to other states, and the coalition forces seek to prevent this.

14:30 - "International Amnesty" requires allies to restore the rule of law in Iraq . In a situation where in many areas of Iraq, robberies and looting continue, the organization resembles the forces of the coalition that they, as for occupation forces, have special responsibilities regarding human rights.

14:20 - the Americans saved the portrait of the Bush Sr. in Baghdad from the worst insult . US troops dismantled the mosaic portrait of Bush Sr. on the floor at the entrance to the Baghdad hotel "Ar-Rashid". In the Arabs, the touch of shoes to the face is considered the worst of the insults.

14:10 - The Russian Foreign Minister claims that the United States should solve humanitarian problems in Iraq . According to Igor Ivanov, this directly follows from the resolution of the UN Security Council 1472. At the same time, the minister emphasized that the restoration of Iraq should contribute to the entire international community, including the UN.

13:55 - In Baghdad, shootings began between store owners and robbers . Shop owners are armed with machine guns, pistols and knives to protect their property. At least 25 people received injuries during clashes. In hospitals they cannot help them. International organizations urge the United States to restore order in the city, referring to the decisions of the Geneva Convention.

13:40 - Employees of the Iraq Embassy in Tokyo renounced the Hussein regime . Diplomats said that they no longer "represent the interests of the administration of Saddam Hussein." “We represent our country and expect when a legal government is formed in Iraq,” said a responsible employee of the diplomatic mission. Earlier from the Hussein regime, a representative of Iraq at the UN denied.

13:10 - On one of the checkpoints, the Americans mistakenly killed two children . The driver of the car in which two children were sitting did not have time to stop. The marines shot the car, fearing a possible attack of Kamikadze.

13:00 - Georgia will send 100 military personnel to Iraq . According to Georgian media, they can be sent to Iraq in the next two months. The Minister of Defense of Georgia signed an order to start their preparation. According to the authorities, not a combat unit, but military engineers and doctors will be sent to Iraq.

12:00 - The Vatican is ready to help in the distribution of humanitarian assistance to the population of Iraq . The special note of the secretariat of the Holy See, widespread the day before in the media, says that the Vatican is ready to provide his structures for this.

11:55 - In Iran, representatives of the Iraqi opposition arranged a pogrom at the Baghdad embassy . About 50 activists of the Shiite Iraqi opposition attacked the building of the Iraq Embassy in Tehran on Friday. They broke furniture and tore off the portraits of Saddam Hussein, shouting: "No - Saddam, no - foreign domination." The police took 20 minutes to take control of the situation.

11:40 - Kurdish forces received an order to leave Kirkuk . Now there are up to 10 thousand Kurdish fighters. According to the military Kurdistan themselves, they are waiting for the arrival of American troops to leave the city with weapons on Friday or Saturday.

11:35 - Many Russians do not want to believe in the fall of Baghdad . According to Frankfurter Rundschau, the Russians became victims of propaganda of their own media. Instead of deep analytical materials, the television channels of ORT, RTR and NTV daily presented their viewers with the fantasies of the Iraqi Minister of Information and reports about Iraqi, who are supposedly ready to stand to the end, the German newspaper believes.

11:30 - Hussein and his entourage disappeared mysteriously and his surroundings are looking for intelligence and army of the United States . The secret detachments of the CIA, before which the goal was set to kill or seize Saddam and other leaders, found that the leadership of the Baas party, the Republican Guard and the army, as well as high -ranking leaders of the government on which they aimed, disappeared.

10:55 - Iraq Ambassador to Moscow is not going to ask for political asylum in Russia . This was announced on Friday by one of his assistants. The ambassador itself has been refraining for several days from communicating with the press and, according to his assistant, does not intend to make any public statements.

10:50 - Most Iraqi embassies abroad continue to work . All Iraqi diplomats said that the connection with Baghdad was interrupted about two weeks ago, but before receiving the instructions of the mission they would continue to operate.

10:40 - Putin does not comment on the fall of the Iraqi regime . The fall of the Iraqi regime seemed to be the Kremlin by surprise - none of the Russian leaders still publicly outlined the official position of Moscow. Even Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov chose to be silent, instructing his deputy to make a common call "to stop bloodshed as soon as possible," writes La Stampa.

10:15 - Syria will pass through the border with Iraq only humanitarian aid . Syria authorities notified the United States about closing their border with Iraq, making an exception only to transfer humanitarian aid. Earlier, the United States warned Syria against supporting supporters of President Iraq Saddam Hussein.

09:50 - Spanish authorities will demand from the United States the payment of compensation for the operator murdered in Iraq . Jose Cowo died as a result of shelling by the American tank of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. Earlier, the Spanish government refused to call the United States to answer for its death, however, after the protest of journalists, they changed their position.

09:10 - Mass robberies and riots continue in Baghdad. The villa of Hussein was plundered . In fact, everything was made from the premises - expensive wine, collection weapons. White Arabian horses are stolen. The yacht of the udee, standing on the pier near the mansion, was also submitted to a total plunder. The forces of the coalition said they did not intend to deal with mass robberies in Iraq.

08:40 - US troops almost completely control the north of Iraq . As a result of hostilities on Thursday and last night, the coalition troops captured key cities in the north of Iraq - Mosul and Kirkuk. The US troops entered the city some time after its capture by the Kurdish militia and are now there.

07:30 - The United States turned to 65 countries of the world with a request to help in the post -war reconstruction of Iraq . The Pentagon and the State Department compiled a list of specific areas in which Washington urgently needs the help of foreign states. The list of the required specialists includes, in particular, police officers, doctors, nurses, engineers for the construction of bridges, roads, buildings, etc.

06:00 -Aircraft of the US-British coalition inflicted a bomb at the house in which the cousin of Saddam Husan Barzan Ibrahim Hassan At-Chryti lived, who previously headed the Iraqi counterintelligence.

05:00 - the troops of the Americans and the Kurds entered on Friday night in Mosul in the north of Iraq .

03:30 - In three weeks of operations in Iraq, the coalition forces lost 136 people killed, including 105 American and 31 British soldiers, the American command reported .

02:40 - the battalion of American paratroopers landed in the city of Kirkuk (north of Iraq) to support the Kurds located there, which occupied the city on Thursday morning.

02:30 - The United States resumed their requirements for the closure of Iraq’s embassies around the world, freezing of the regime of the Saddam Hussein regime and the expulsion of diplomatic representatives of this country. In addition, the Americans found and froze another 1.2 billion dollars from the finances of Saddam Hussein.

01:00 - The Spanish journalist reports that as a result of an attack by Iraqi Kamikadze, three people were killed in the marine infantrymen, and not one, as previously reported.

00:10 - The Kremlin claims that the trilateral summit in St. Petersburg with the participation of Putin, Schroeder and Shirak dedicated to Iraq is not an alternative to the meeting of Bush and Blair in Belfast.

Combat losses

USA ( officially recognized 105 dead )
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 dead near Nasiria (Al-Jazeera personnel) ;
12 US troops went missing during the battle near Nasiria ;
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.
March 30 - Two American Marines died in Iraq as a result of accidents. In Kuwait , from 10 to 15 US soldiers were injured . A truck ran into them.
March 31 - the United States lost another helicopter;
Three marine infantrymen died , and another was injured;
At least one American soldier died during the fighting south of Baghdad.
The American command announced the loss of a tank during a crossing through the Euphrates . His driver was killed, and the tank fell into the water. Three marine infantrymen choked. The incident occurred on March 27. The entire crew of the car - four people died.
April 3 - in the south of Iraq, in the area of the city of Karbela, the American Black Hawk helicopter is shot down . On board there were 11 military personnel. Seven of them died, four were injured.
The US Navy fighter F-18 Hornet is shot down by an anti-aircraft missile during a combat mission in the south of Iraq. The pilot died.
The Marine, which was driving on the roof of the truck, died as a result of a shock received from contact with low -hanging power lines in the Nsiria.
April 4 - in the central part of Iraq , the Marine Corceress died - he shot himself. Morpeh was asleep when he suddenly shot his machine gun.
One US soldier died and several more were injured, falling under the fire of an American F-15E fighter .
The American command announced another deceased from the "friendly fire" - the American soldier was killed after he was mistaken for an Iraqi soldier .
April 5 - Two American pilots died on Saturday in Iraq.
8 American soldiers who were missing were identified.
April 6 - in the north of Iraq "friendly fire" 3 Americans and 18 Kurds were killed .
April 7 - during the battles for Karbel, an American soldier died ;
2 marines of the United States died and 3 were injured on the approaches to the center of Baghdad;
2 died during an attack on the Baghdad communication center.
April 9 - two American pilots were declared missing - their F -15e Strike Eagle plane crashed in Iraq;
1 Morce of the United States died, 6 were injured in battles on the eastern outskirts of Baghdad.
April 10 - 1 Morce of the United States died, 13 were injured during the shelling of the coalition troops from the mosque, where Saddam Hussein can be sheltered;
1 Morce of the United States is killed, 4 were wounded as a result of a terrorist attack in Baghdad .