Iraqis Rig Bridges; U.S. Rejects Reports of Iraqi Convoy
Susan Jones, CNSNews.com
Wednesday, March 26, 2003
The bridges into Baghdad are rigged with explosives, and a large convoy of Republican Guard units was heading south toward U.S. troops, wire reports said today.
Those reports, quoting intelligence officers with the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said at least 1,000 Republican Guard vehicles were advancing toward U.S. Marines in central Iraq. But at a press briefing today, the U.S. military dismissed those reports.
"We have not seen any significant movements ... in and around Baghdad. There have been some local positionings. There have been some survival positionings ... but we certainly remain, we believe, well in control of the situation at hand," Brig. Gen. Vincent Brook told reporters in Qatar today.
In other developments, coalition missiles killed a dozen people in a residential Baghdad neighborhood, Iraqi officials claimed, but U.S. officials could not confirm those reports.
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