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Day 23 briefing

April 12 2003


IRAQI TROOPS AND officials loyal to Saddam abandon Mosul as US-led forces move in. War planes pound Saddam's home town of Tikrit.

TWO IRAQI CHILDREN are shot dead by US marines at a checkpoint in Nasiriyah, nine other Iraqis injured.

US TELLS TURKEY that American forces will control the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, not the conquering Kurdish fighters, and agrees to Ankara sending military observers.

US-LED FORCES bomb the home of Saddam's half-brother, who used to head the secret police. Marines ordered to crack down on looters.

MARINE IS KILLED and more than 20 wounded in a battle with Saddam loyalists at Imam al-Adham Mosque on eastern bank of the Tigris.

SUICIDE BOMBER REPORTEDLY kills and injures marines in attack on Baghdad military checkpoint.

CROWDS WELCOME KURDISH fighters with flowers and sweets when they sweep into the strategic city of Khaneqin, capturing it without a fight.

PENTAGON DEFENDS CHALABI, but says it won't "anoint" the former exile leader of Iraq.

IRAQI SHIITE LEADER Abdul Majid al-Khoei and aide murdered by mob in a holy shrine at Najaf.




BRITISH SOLDIERS KILLED: 30 (20 from accidents and friendly fire).

IRAQI SOLDIERS KILLED: More than 2320, according to the US military. Iraq has released no figures.

IRAQI CIVILIANS KILLED/WOUNDED: 1252 killed, 5103 wounded, according to Iraq.

(The coalition says it can be up to 48 hours behind in releasing figures.)


FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER Dominique de Villepin visits Egypt to meet President Hosni Mubarak.

G7 MINISTERS MEET in Washington for talks on global economic conditions and aiding Iraq's economic reconstruction.

GERMAN CHANCELLOR Gerhard Schroeder and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are due to meet in Hanover next week.

- Compiled by Martin Daly



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