IRAQ - March 27 - US Opens New Front.About 1,000 US soldiers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade, which is based in Italy, parachute parachute, umbrellalike device designed to retard the descent of a falling body by creating drag as it passes through the air. The development of modern aircraft has led to many experiments in the aerodynamic problems of parachute design, with the result that the into the Kurdish-held territory in the north of the country to prepare the way for the landing of armoured forces based in Germany that will open a northern front. The Pentagon also says the 4th Infantry infantry, body of soldiers who fight in an army on foot and are equipped with hand-carried weapons, in contradistinction originally to cavalry and other branches of an army. Division and other units totalling 30,000 soldiers will be flown to the Gulf over the next few days from their base in Texas amidst a·midst prep. Variant of amid. [Middle English amiddes : amidde; see amid + -es, adverbial suffix; see -s3.] growing signs that the level of opposition in Iraq so far has prompted tactical shifts by US and British commanders to bolster their ground offensive. With the advance hit by a series of ambushes and slowed by sandstorms, officials at US Central Command in Qatar acknowledge the need to stiffen stiff·en tr. & intr.v. stiff·ened, stiff·en·ing, stiff·ens To make or become stiff or stiffer. stiff protection of their supply lines, which now stretch about 480km back to the ground forces' base in Kuwait. Some of the strongest resistance took place close to the city of Najaf, on US armoured columns moving north to join advance units near Karbala, about 100 km south of Baghdad. US officials said up to 300 of Iraqis were killed in the fighting. There was no word on US casualties. An 80-vehicle US supply convoy convoy Vessels sailing under the protection of an armed escort. Since the 17th century, neutral powers have claimed the right of convoy in wartime, providing warships to escort their merchantmen and keep them secure from search or seizure. to the south-east was reported to have come under similar attack on March 26 north of Nasiriyah as it was moving to re-supply other US forces pushing northwards north·ward adv. & adj. Toward, to, or in the north. n. A northern direction, point, or region. north to confront the elite Republican Guard, which is protecting Baghdad's southern approaches. In the south, an Iraqi armoured column was attacked on March 26 when it broke out from Basra, where UK forces are facing continued resistance from government loyalists Loyalists, in the American Revolution, colonials who adhered to the British cause. The patriots referred to them as Tories. Although Loyalists were found in all social classes and occupations, a disproportionately large number were engaged in commerce and the . Baghdad authorities showed television footage of what it said were two British soldiers captured in fighting around Baghdad and of the bodies of two British soldiers. Earlier, Baghdad officials said at least 16 civilians were killed when missiles hit a market in Baghdad on March 26, as the US and UK stepped up their air campaign in readiness for an assault on the capital. Reuters correspondents reported seeing at least 15 bodies littered among the wreckage wreck·age n. 1. The act of wrecking or the state of being wrecked. 2. Something wrecked. 3. The debris of something wrecked. of burnt-out cars and severe damage to residential buildings in Al Shaab district of Baghdad. The Pentagon said US forces had carried out attacks on a number of missile sites located in civilian areas of Baghdad, but it said these were not in the area where the market was hit. Gen. Stanley McChrystal said: "We'll continue to look and see if we missed anything. But it remains unclear whether the damage was caused by US or Iraqi weaponry". |
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