The Command Post
Iraq
April 03, 2003
Coalition Has Seized Saddam Intl Airport

FOXNews Channel's Shep Smith is citing an ABC embedded reporter travelling with a detachment of the 3rd Infantry Division as saying that Coalition forces have "sezied the airport".

UPDATE: ABCNews site now has the story:

Reporting from the tarmac of Saddam International Airport, ABCNEWS' Bob Schmidt, embedded with the 3rd Infantry Division, said the airport was in pitch darkness as coalition tanks entered the facility.

U.S. forces encountered very little Iraqi resistance, said Schmidt, although some units of the 3rd Infantry Division did encounter scattered firing by Iraqi foot soldiers and men in pickups.

He reported seeing Iraqis waving and cheering as U.S. tanks rolled toward the airport which is just 10 miles from central Baghdad.

This at first seemed contradictory of earlier Reuters reports that "elements of" four Iraqi regular army divisions were guarding the airport, but the past weeks have shown that these two stories are, in fact, entirely compatible.

Posted By GlennFrazier.com at April 3, 2003 03:05 PM | TrackBack
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