Up to 3,000 troops killed in Baghdad, says US
In southern Iraq, British forces made their deepest push yet into Basra, with a column of 40 armoured personnel carriers rolling into the country’s second-biggest city after a series of strikes on Saddam Hussein’s loyalist defenders.
Though Saturday’s 25-mile incursion through an industrial section of southern Baghdad was brief, it inflicted a heavy toll, according to command spokesman Jim Wilkinson. More than three-dozen tanks and armoured vehicles were involved. US casualties were described as light.
