Show A6 — The Herald Journal Logan Utah Sunday 1 America at war T April 13 C£ST AVAILABLE COPY 2003 if ' I I M ’IT i' he Associated Press American forces agreed Saturday to team up with Iraqi police to stem widespread looting that emptied the National Museum of thou- cands of ancient treasures while IJS Marines geared up to push north toward Tikrit resident Saddam Hussein’s hometown In thc west coalition troops took an airfield and advance ynits of the 4th Infantry Division moved into southern Iraq Kuwait 1 lore’s a summary of repents ! :ilmut units on the move in Iraq followed by other battle- ' Held developments The ! reports are culled from official assessments and from journalists of The Associated Press and member news organizations traveling with American ' " units in Iraq : the National Museum US officials were dispatching the fust contingent of 1200 American police and judicial officers to help troops quash lawlessness Earlier in the day US forces had reopened two strategic bridges in the heart of Baghdad — giving looters--' easier access to territory that had been spared US forces watched but did not intervene n$ plunderers swarmed into several government buildings - American troops battled ' Iraqi fighters outside the Hotel 'Viestine underscoring t!ij danger that still confronts Mn-in the Iraqi capital f urines found nearly SO sui- ioc bomb vests packed with wplosivcsin a school in cen- - ' ' 1 ’ I ' AF5 Iraqi museum stripped bare Sensing its treasures could be in peril museum curators secretly removed antiquities from their display cases before the war and placed — them into storage-vaultbut to no avail The doors of the vaults were opened or smashed and everything was taken museum workers said That lead one museum employee to suspect that others familiar with die museum may have participated in the theft “The fact that the vaults ' were opened suggests that employees of the museum may have been involved” said the employee who declined to be identified ‘To ordinarily people these are just stones Only the educated know the value of these s “significant-size- d oice" of the st Marine Expe-- j dilionary Force was gearing up to move out of Baghdad to 1 confront suspected Iraqi mili- i iVy strongholds north of the ily The Marines were ' cpccied they would head for (dam's hometown of Tikrit here Iraqi resistance remains i‘c photo as she looks for her brother on the Military Intelligence Ministry grounds In central Baghdad on Saturday Hundreds of people gathered at the ministry's prison searching for their relatives claiming they are kept in underground ceils An Iraqi woman cries Baghdad A j strongest THE NORTH US military convoys of m vees and pickups mount- ! with heavy machines guns f iled through boulevards in the northern city of Mosul and i"ok up positions at busy rsoclions Thousands of eople waved and applauded is they passed iooting diminished in k'fisui with the arrival of the ' 'siei ican troops On Friday i rc Sadifam defense forces h'solved and US special ecs moved in qwciiii operations forces ed soldiers with the 173rd Ah home secured another 'ponani northern city hit kuk Troops are still : "Gliding security in Kirkuk's f1! fields and the gas-o- il sepa- - pieces” Join us ifvou livefworkTwoiship or go to school in Cache CountYAUtahori Franklin Coun Sp : i ' WI PUT THE "LOB” IN i "IMNS" thou-v-m- is of foreign fighters might holed lip Marines slopped hides to see if Iraqi soldiers: " o'liamiliiary fighters were dug to escape the city r roopsfmmthe 4th Division pushed intouthern Iraq from Kuwait headed north to take die plaice i the 3rd Infantiy Division — in Baghdad but jikjcly to 'isli north Joward Tikrit: I - Prune Plant and Fertilize Your Roses! 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