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Show BC INFLICT WITH IRAQ 4 The Salt Lake Tribune Harsh Rhetoric Follows Inroads to Capital “Far from finished”: Coalition leaders declare OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM: DAY 18 Allies tighten grip . on Baghdad thatrelentless troopswill continue probes ofcity By Anprea GERLin Knaght Radler News Seva SOUTH OF SAYYID ABID, fraq In a taunt to Saddam Hussein, U.S. armor sout eastern Baghdad on Saturday d encountering destroying target: fire in some sectors and being resistancebeforeleavingthecity. U.S. welcomed inothers. The daring daytime probe. which pushed to the very center military officials were encouraged by Force Elements of the Ist Marine military power than a victory Division spread lap. It cameas Saddam's regime throsighout continued to assureIraqis that its armywas repulsing theU.S. Jed invasion of their country “Tt was veryclear to the people of Baghdad that coalition forces areas just east ao. ofthecapital mentto the Iragi regime as well that we can move at times and L US. Army soldiers captured the headquarters of the Republican Guard's Medina division in Suwayrah places of our choosing.” jets and spy drones started round-the-clock Patrols over the city Saturday to provide close air support for any urban fighting ahead. Thousands of civilians fled the capital. And fighting did continue elsewhere in the country Saturday, sometimes in raw hand-to-hand com. bat, sometimes with aerial bombing and strafing of Iraqi forces. “We're not softening them up. We're killing them,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Michael Moseley, commander of the overall U.S. air war. “Tm not willing totell you we killed them all, but we crippled them a bit, and those who are stil) walking are walk. ing with a limp.” In one potentially significant strike, allied aircraft hit the home of one of Saddam's most notorious deputies, Ali Hassan al-Majid, nicknamed “Chemical Ali” for his use of poison gas on the Kurds in 1988, butit could not be immediately determined if he waskilled. TwoMarinepilots were killed Euphrates River: US. soldiers swept 2 Republican Guard base about Hillah on Highway 8, the third such base overrun by sntttat Republican ST 1Mio lit e oe. or ease a vial4 positions are ar approximate. Guard units Ruben EstrellaSoto, 18, of El James Kiehl, Smmal@O™ —— 6 100%m chop off their rotten heads. The U.S. Army response: acol- The column had to fight its at points; it was met weapons attack diminished, U.S. forces shed the tops of their Noriegain two days. At the same time, no one wants a repeat of the siege of Berlin in World War II, where a brutish Soviet artillery assault killed 300,000 people andleft the Few ap So American forces are look ing for a third way, one that avoids full-on urban warfare and the U.S. and civilian casualties it in hand-to-handfighting with a former bunkers, leading themto band of Saddam supporters who believe that some in the army Saddam to turn it into a grinding came from Egypt, Jordan, Sudan and other countries. There was no word on casualties. In northern Iraq, U.S. pilots attacked Iraqi military barracks with laser-guided bombs, then strafed surviving troops before being told to stop by coalition forces on the ground. “They're capitulating,” said the radio call, according to Navy Rear Adm John Stufflebeem onboard the were abandoning their posts and going home. Said Moseley: “Weeither kill them or they give up.” Outside Baghdad, U.S. Ma. Asked when the Marines would begin operations into Baghdad itself, Col. Larry Brown, operations director for carrier Harry § man. In a sign that other Iraq e gun fire. “Those kinds of operations,” said Renuart, “will continue.” Fighting remained intense at several locations outside the city In 4 marsh just outside Baghdad, U.S. Marines used bayonets city in ruins would bring, yet doesn't allow jreraft. and Special Rept were dead for several years; With the threat of chemical on 27 crucial military and civil ian locations in the ita) crip. pled the government of Manuel z bayt Basra + @ British soldiers discovered Saturday, unusually hot for April even in the desert climate. not about to rush headlong into the city. No oneexpects a repeat of the easy Panamainvasion in 1989, when pinpointU.S. attacks forces. Allied forces have started distributing water“+ ia Ocer = in Umm Qasr, accordingto a defenseofficial. umn of Abrams M1A2 tanks and ley fighting vehirolled into the city in broad y it. They headed north to the Tigris River, near Baghdad University before heading west toward the newly-renamed Bagh dad International Airport. what could be torture victims. Initial signs indicated the bodies Having reached the gates of Baghdad after 18 of war, US. military commanders are s discovered hundreds of boxes of human arehouse between Basra and Zubayf. Officiais aid the remains were not from this war 22, of Comfort, Texas; Chief Warrant Officer Johnny Vii lareal Mata, 35, of Amarillo, Texas; Pvt. Brandon Sloan, 19, of Cleveland: and Sgt. Donald Waiters, 33, of Kansas City, Mo. In other developments Saturday the remains of as many as 200 personsin a southern Iraq warehouse, along with photographs of Saddam Hussein's government Iraq's southern SOURCES: CLA: United Nations: Department ofDrferor: Digitlab: Omoet Resurces: Asworsated Press Paso, Texas; Spe. es, counter Iraqi propaganda and encourage a coup against command n centralIraq. 10 miles north of The brief foray into the Iragi strategyto test the city’s defens- I Ali,” heis ittack helicopter central Irag. And the Pentagon estewa, 23, a Hopi Indian from ‘Tuba City, Ariz. Besides Piestewa, the recov “Ch Army tanks and Bradley Fight ingVehicles rolled into Baghdad on Saturday, they came not to capital was part of an unfolding the Basra residenceof Saddai cousin, Gen. Ali Hassan al Majid Central Commandsaid Also known as Ei MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, lraq WhenU.S. message: The Americans have arrived. Coalition aircraft struck Two U.S. Marine pilots were @ Temperatures around Baghdad reached 112 degrees woman killed in combat in the war, Army Pfc. Lori Ann Pi Mosul and Kirkuk By Juan Tamayo Knight Rudder News Service occupy the city but to deliver a US. airstrikes supported Kurdish forces fighting Iraqi troo n the North. The advancing Kurds drove Iragis back to within about 20 milesof killed Saturday whentheir Saturday when their Super Cobra attack helicopter crashed in identified the remains of eight soldiers whose bodies were found in shallow graves during the rescue of Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. The dead, all with Lynch when their unit was ambushed March 23 included the first country still were not inallied control, CONTROLLED REGION Force Major Gen. Victor Renuart, a spokesman for the coalition forces. “It was a very clear state. U.S. in Baghdad and elsewhere, but cautioned that many parts of the KURDISH — were in the city,” said U.S. Air Indeed, progres Ist Maririe of the city before exiting to the west, Was more a message of fight is far from finished in Straight fn armored convoy from the 3rd A Infantry Divisionrolied into rolled through the streets of Baghdad during daylight Saturday, taking He added, however, that “the ‘Troops Set Record forces were of reler war ofattrition rines moving north along High the Ist Marine Expeditionary way 6 engaged Iragi militias in small towns andvillages and en countered thousands of Iraqis fleeing the capital Marines from the ist battalion 4th Marines handed out huraniarian rations and made polite Force, said Friday: conversation using handsignals ad speakingin broken Arabic Enterprising locals sold ciga giving upinthe face Jess allied bombard rettes for $1 to $5 a pack. Harsher on as we “Soon. spokesman for the coalition forces, said Saturday's mission was primarily intended to show that American troops could en. ter the Iraqi capital y time despite the government's claims that it hadtheupper hand Coalition forces then than American cigarettes,the lo- probably carry out special oper cal brands were nonetheless wel come. Said one Marine: “They werebetter than what we'd been ations, armyuniforms and weaponsin smoking nothing.” jous foot advances andair campaignsagainst Sadd am’s Baath Party, secret service andSpecial Republican Guard In Baghdad, regime officials were defiant in trying to con vincethe city’s five million resi ing pushed ba: “We butchered the force present at the airport.” said In. ered dead soldiers were identi formation Minister Mohammed fied as Sgt. George Buggs, 31, of Barnwell, S.C; Master Sgt. Robext Dowdy, 38, of Cleveland; Pvt Saeed al-Sahhaf. 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