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...forces have indeed raced forward, reaching Najaf and other points in the north that are within striking distance of Baghdad. But the costs of this rapid advance are now being paid. There is mounting insecurity behind the front lines, and spreading harrassment of the long logistics column that links Kuwait with the troops 240 miles to the northwest...
...Journalists who have crossed the border from Kuwait into southern Iraq have found that local people are far from the joyous celebrating crowds that the U.S. and UK miltary had hoped for. Many are surly or resentful of the foreign military presence, and impatient to get humanitarian aid that still hasn't arrived...
...members have regrouped, and last night were about to attack a group of journalists camped out near that town until the British military told the reporters to leave quickly, under the cover of darkness. They spent an uncomfortable night further up the road to Nasiriyah before being evaucated to Kuwait this morning by a military convoy...
...Route 8, the main road north from Kuwait to Nasiriyah and ultimately to Baghdad, is seeing deteriorating security. The advance units moved so quickly that they had no time to pacify hostile pockets en route, and now there are armed Iraqis roaming this road, which is still the main logistics route for frontline US troops. That is why the prisoners from the 507 Maintenance unit were taken yesterday; they are rear echelon troops, but were ambushed by Iraqi forces who had not been dispersed by the first advance...
...Baghdad, success has not come without a fight. Nor have they entirely subdued the territory through which they have passed - elements of the Iraqi military and members of the ruling Baath party continued Monday to fight guerrilla-style actions in Umm Qasr, Basra and even Safwan on the Iraq-Kuwait border. Sunday's capture by Iraq of a U.S. maintenance unit outside Nasiriyah is a reminder that these guerrilla-style tactics can harass coalition supply lines as the front moves closer to Baghdad...