Here are the main events on day ten of the Iraq invasion, from Islam-Online:- Baghdad came under fresh bombardment, setting off a series of explosions and prompting anti-aircraft fire, as Iraq said 62 people had died in the bombing of the Iraqi capital in 24 hours.
- President George W. Bush said U.S. and British invasion forces were advancing steadily on Baghdad as they battled "desperate" units of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's regime, while Iraq's leaders expressed their ultimate confidence in victory.
- Four U.S. soldiers died when a man driving a taxi set off a bomb at a U.S. roadblock in southern Iraq, making it the first suicide attack on invasion troops.
- Baghdad later said a suicide bomber who killed U.S. troops in central Iraq was a non-commissioned officer seeking to teach the Americans a "lesson" and warned of more such attacks to come.
FoxNews says Sammy's he was going to give him two medals for that. Posthumously, of course. Taha Yassin Ramadan says they're going to use this as a tactic, and threatens the same in the USA.
- A group of Iraqi deserters said Iraqi soldiers had been ordered by militias loyal to President Saddam Hussein to ride motorbikes packed with explosives into invasion forces and blow themselves up.
- Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan denied that his country has received military assistance from Syria or Iran, as the United States has alleged.
- Invasion forces said they destroyed a building which was hosting a meeting of some 200 members of Iraq's ruling Baath party in the Basra region.
- Iraq's chief Muslim cleric pronounced a Fatwa, or religious decree, calling on the people to fight against the U.S. and British invasion forces.
- Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned the United States that Ankara would make up its own mind on whether to send troops into northern Iraq as Kurdish groups controlling the breakaway region advanced on the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
- Another wave of demonstrations against the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq rippled around the world Saturday with protesters continuing - sometimes violently - to show their anger and frustration at the continuing conflict.
- Air raid sirens sounded in Kuwait and an Iraqi projectile was intercepted over the north of the country by a Patriot missile hours after a Silkworm missile damaged a shopping mall in the capital.
That was yesterday...
- Iraq rejected the resolution adopted by the UN Security Council to renew the "oil-for-food" program, which uses Iraq's oil revenues for food and medical supplies.
- The bodies of the first British servicemen to die in the Iraq war were flown home on amid controversy over Prime Minister Tony Blair's claims that two soldiers were executed by Iraqi forces.
- French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair said they wanted to "work together closely" on post-war Iraq, Chirac's office said.
- Pope John Paul II said he feared the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq could provoke a religious catastrophe in the world and said everything should be done to prevent divisions forming between different creeds.
JP, it's not like a fanatical sect of one religion declared war on everybody else, is it? Oh. It is. Was it us? Didn't think so... So. Any ideas?
- A British soldier was missing and presumed dead and four others were injured in an apparent friendly fire incident outside Basra in southern Iraq, the British ministry of defense said.
- In Germany, a doctor refuses treating Americans, British, or their sympathizers, while German military experts ruled out that it was impossible for the invasion forces to invade and occupy the Iraqi capital.
"We don't like you. And you can't take Leningrad, either. I mean Baghdad."
- The Pentagon expelled a U.S. journalist with the Christian Science Monitor from Iraq claiming he revealed sensitive information in broadcast interviews.
- The tactic of setting oil-filled trenches ablaze around the Iraqi areas since the beginning of invasion has sent all missiles, aircraft and electronically-guided military equipment of the U.S-led invasion forces into full blindness by misleading their hit targets, a Tunisian expert said.
- Chief UN inspector to Iraq, Hanz Blix said the inspectors' work "irritated" the United States as Washington had sought a UN resolution legitimizing a war on Iraq.
- While accusing Washington of âstate terrorism policyâ in invading Iraq, North Korea declared it would make no concessions to end the ongoing nuclear crisis and pledged instead to build up its defense and fend off the kind of "miserable fate" that has befallen Iraq.
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