The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA with a score of 69:71 (18:26, 16:13, 14:17, 21:15) lost in Istanbul the Turkish Ephesus Pilsen in the match of the third round of the second group of Euroleague. This victory allowed the Turks with 6 points to go to the leaders of Group D. CSKA is one point behind. Recall that only the winner of the group goes to the final of four. The next match as part of the Euroleague CSKA will be held in Moscow on March 26 against Uniqueha.

The United States does not exclude the possibility of using military force against other "rogues" that have weapons of mass destruction. Speaking on Thursday morning, the US Ambassador to the US Ambassador to Moscow Alexander Vershbow, answering the question of whether the operation against the DPRK would follow the military operation in Iraq, said: "We are not excluding any actions." At the same time, the American diplomat emphasized that military operations are the last remedy.

Russia's missile forces (Strategic Missile Forces) of Russia carry combat duty in constant combat readiness, Colonel Alexander Vovk, head of the press service of the Strategic Missile Forces, told Interfax, commenting on the beginning of hostilities in Iraq. "The personnel of the Strategic Missile Forces is in constant readiness to fulfill the tasks set by the supreme main command," said Vovk.

Fans of the Moscow Dynamo hockey believe that there should be a wolf in the team talisman. This is the result of the survey, which was conducted on the official website of the metropolitan club . Of the 582 people who took part in the vote, 28 percent gave their preference to the wolf. The second most popular option is a dinosaur (21 percent). 13 percent of the respondents would like to see the white -white lion talisman, 9 percent hedgehog and 6 percent - crocodile and moose.

On the eve of 12:05 in the village of Industrial Kemerovo Region, when extinguishing a fire in the house of a 55-year-old local resident, three corpses were found with traces of violent death. There were stab wounds on all bodies. In addition, experts discovered that all dead were inflicting traumatic brain injuries. According to one version, the offender set fire to the house, noticing the traces of the crime.

The Iraqi opposition claims that the youngest son of Saddam Hussein Kusai was killed on Thursday morning as a result of an artillery bombardment. Kuwait's news agency Kun with reference to the speaker of the opposition organization - the Higher Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - Mohammed al -Asadi reported that several American Tomagavk missiles were in the presidential complex, where the headquarters of the Central Military District of Iraq, which is headed by Kusai Hussein.

The small civilian aircraft Cessna crossed the border between Iraq and Kuwait and crashed on the territory of the emirate, a representative of the American defense department told AFP. “One plane crossed the border and crashed,” said the Pentagon representative, who wished to remain an unknown. “An investigation is being conducted,” he added.

Chronicle of War: The First Day. (All photos and videos) Baghdad airlines At 4:00 Moscow time expired the term of the ultimatum presented by Washington Baghdad so that Saddam Hussein and his sons leave the country. The first plaque was taken around 5:35 pm Moscow time, airy anxiety sirens howled over the city. The first blows were inflicted in Baghdad in the area of ​​the alleged meeting of the Higher Iraqi leadership, the US television company said.

Two -thirds of the recruits of the Iraqi army are ready to capitulate without entering the battle, the British TV channel Sky TV reports. Two infantry divisions with a total number of 20 thousand people deployed in the south of Iraq are ready to surrender to the allied troops located next to Kuwait. The official sources reported this to the Sky News reporter Colin Braisera.

In Komsomolsk-on-Amur of the Khabarovsk Territory, a 33-year-old household plot was detained. According to the materials of the investigation, over the past year and at the beginning of the current detainee he committed 11 robberies of women. Five of his victims, the locksmith killed. As established, in early March 2003, the criminal fraudulently penetrated the apartment on Sevastopolskaya Street, where the hostess and her friend were.

The eastern regions of Jordan bordering with Iraq are declared a closed zone, which will be entered only by special transactions. Limitable are low -populated desert areas, in which several small cities are located. This decision, as reported on Thursday, the Petra Jordanian Information Agency was adopted at a meeting of the country's highest security council, who was chaired by King Jordan Abdullah of the Second.

American cruise missiles were released at the house of the family of Saddam Hussein. Iraqi radio claims that no one was injured. The raid on Baghdad resumed. In various areas of the city, powerful explosions thundered. During the first attack, rockets and bombs struck four government buildings on the western bank of the Euphrates River, including the residence of the deputy prime minister of Tarik Aziz .

In Moscow, security measures were strengthened in connection with the beginning of hostilities in Iraq, the mayor of the Russian capital Yuri Luzhkov said on Thursday at the airport in Leipzig (Germany), where the Moscow delegation arrived at the international book fair opened on March 19. “I instructed to conduct additional checks of how, first of all, the safety of housing, objects of the social sphere, trade is always necessary.

The State Duma at a plenary session on Thursday unanimously (410 voices) voted to start today's meeting with the discussion of the situation around Iraq in connection with the beginning of hostilities. The chamber supported the proposal of the head of the Committee on International Affairs Dmitry Rogozin, Interfax reports.

The terrestrial operation of the US Armed Forces in Iraq assumes three stages and aims to complete destruction of the Saddam Hussein regime. This was reported by European analytical defense centers. According to them, the ground operation will begin in a matter of hours after a powerful missile and bomb attack of aviation and cruise missiles at the key defense centers of Iraq, ITAR-TASS reports.