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...pressure from the air. Apache helicopters from the Army's 101st Airborne Division have begun attacking the Republican Guard's Medina division southwest of Baghdad. Warplanes and gunships will try to smash the three Republican Guard divisions arrayed south of Baghdad as U.S. and Kurdish forces pouring in from northern Iraq attack Iraqi troops on the northern edge of the city. As ground forces moved closer to Baghdad, the Army's AH64 and Marine AH-1 helicopter gunships that accompanied them north began pulverizing Iraqi armor and the troops around them...
...BAGHDAD Coalition air strikes dropped larger bombs on central Baghdad and also took aim at Republican Guard targets south of the city. An explosion, possibly caused by an errant coalition bomb, was reported in a crowded market in a northern Baghdad neighborhood...
...NORTHERN IRAQ...
...special forces in Afghanistan wore local garb and beards in an effort to blend in. There was talk even within the Pentagon that such deceptive appearances could amount to perfidy in a war-crimes trial. The official line was that the Americans were wearing the uniform of the Northern Alliance. "But that may be a distinction without a difference for someone from the Arab community," says Duke law professor Scott Silliman, the top U.S. Air Force lawyer in Gulf...
...Baghdad, getting pictures of the city as it suffers the trauma of bombardment. Four others--James Hill, Benjamin Lowy, Christopher Morris and Robert Nickelsberg--are traveling with U.S. forces as they fight their way north. Kate Brooks, Thomas Dworzak and Yunghi Kim are already there, with the Kurds in northern Iraq. Here is some of what they...