From the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

United States-led forces have come under attack in northern and southern Iraq, killing several Iraqis, capturing 100 others and seizing weapons, the US Central Command announced.
US forces engaged in a firefight north of Baghdad while British forces came under fire in the southern city of Basra, Brigadier-General Vincent Brooks said at Centcom's war headquarters at As-Saliyah, Qatar.
"The arrival of the Fourth Infantry Division's land component operations in the area included a brief firefight in the vicinity of Taji airfield north of Baghdad," he said at a news conference.
"The engagement of the Fourth Infantry Division forces killed and wounded a portion of the enemy forces, destroyed some T-72 tanks and captured over 100 enemy fighters," the general said.
"The enemy force also had unmanned artillery pieces, armoured personnel carriers, loaded rocket launcher systems at a warehouse, and a number of computers."

No mere skirmish this.

"In the UK sector of southern Iraq, patrols were attacked by rocket propelled grenades near a bridge in Basra," he said.

OK, that one was.

Posted By Alan E Brain at April 17, 2003 10:27 AM | TrackBack