None of the forces apparently encountered chemical or biological weapons. The Iraqi military claimed in a statement it had repulsed an "enemy" attack at Al-Anbar province, on Iraq's border with Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It was not clear what force could be attacking from that point, and the statement did not mention attacks in the south. Meanwhile, Mosul has been rocked by explosions, a reporter in the northern Iraqi city for Qatar-based Al Jazeera television said on Friday. The reporter said he heard several explosions in the suburbs of Mosul at around 4:30 a.m., almost an hour after air raid sirens rang out in the city.
Reports coming in now that the airfields know as H-2 and H-3 have been taken. That would be the fighting in the west that the Iraqis say they "repulsed". |