The Houston Chronicle April 08, 2003
War In Iraq: Day 20
SOURCE: Staff
U.S. troops stormed into the heart of Baghdad, seizing Saddam's New Presidential Palace and setting up a prisoner of war facility inside the elaborate compound near the Tigris River.
British officials said troops found a body in southern Iraq believed to be the notorious Iraqi general Ali Hassan al-Majid known as "Chemical Ali."
Two soldiers and two journalists were killed in southern Baghdad when Iraqi rockets struck a group of U.S. Army personnel carriers at the field headquarters of the 2nd Brigade, 3rd Infantry.
Colin Powell says Washington will send a team to Iraq this week to assess the needs for a future interim authority.
U.S. troops killed at least 100 Iraqi soldiers in a seven-hour battle at Baghdad's airport.
U.S. military forces dropped four bombs in the Mansour district in an apparent attempt to kill Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi leaders.
U.S. troops set up pen for prisoners on New Presidential Palace grounds.
The Baath Party headquarters was completely destroyed.
U.S. forces briefly went into but did not occupy the Information Ministry and Al-Rashid Hotel.
U.S. military testing area for possible chemical weapons; several soldiers, a reporter treated.
British troops claimed control of central Basra after two-week siege.
Heavy bombing.
GRAPHIC: Map: Iraq (color)
NOTES: Sources: National Imagery and Mapping Agency; Global Security.org; Associated Press; Knight Ridder Tribune
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