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2003-03-31 Iraq

Coalition prepares new offensive against Basra

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-03-31 09:53 am|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Update from News.com.au:
BRITISH commandos captured five senior Iraqi officers in a clash with Iraqi paramilitaries near Basra yesterday but none of them was a general as had been initially reported, a British military spokeswoman said today. "We have got five senior Iraqi officers but none of them is a general," Major Catherine Convery said at the US-British forward command headquarters at As-Saliyah, from which the war on Iraq is directed.
They were trying to slip out of Basra to the west and got caught.

Posted by Steve 2003-03-31 10:31:23|| 2003-03-31 10:31:23|| Front Page Top

#2 "five senior Iraqi officers .... but none of them was a general"

Iraqi equivalent of full bird colonels?

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-03-31 13:21:32|| 2003-03-31 13:21:32|| Front Page Top

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