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Cruise missile residential area { March 26 2003 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.canada.com/national/features/iraq/story.html?id=51C1C66A-1590-413B-9B95-2F1C103E3046 http://www.canada.com/national/features/iraq/story.html?id=51C1C66A-1590-413B-9B95-2F1C103E3046 12 dead in cruise missile attack on residential area, Iraqi official says Wednesday, March 26, 2003 BAGHDAD -- Two cruise missiles struck a residential area in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 12 people, Iraqi defence officials said. The attack occurred in the northern Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Shaab, which contains dozens of shops and homes. The Arabic satellite television channel Al-Jazeera showed several charred cars and at least one bloodied body being carried away. Hundreds of people stood in front of what appeared to be a bombed-out building, some holding their fists in the air and shouting, "There is no God but God!'' Associated Press Television News video showed a large crater in the middle of the street, a smouldering building, a child with a head bandage, and bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting in the back of a pickup truck. Meanwhile, a series of explosions could be heard Wednesday afternoon across the Iraqi capital. Overnight, with the final assault on Baghdad drawing closer, the allies tried to cripple the regime's communications with bombs and missiles, knocking Iraq's satellite TV signal off the air for several hours Wednesday. U.S. forces pounded targets in the Iraqi capital with a barrage of at least 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched from warships in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea, the navy said. The air strikes also included bombing runs by warplanes. The attacks targeted not only Iraqi television but also government communications and satellite links at several sites in the capital, U.S. military officials said. Smoke was seen next to the information ministry and the Iraqi TV building. "These targets are key regime command-and-control assets,'' said Jim Wilkinson, a spokesman for U.S. Central Command. Iraqi Satellite TV, which broadcasts 24 hours a day outside Iraq, went off the air around 4:30 a.m. after the attack on the TV building. It went back on the air about eight hours later. Iraq's domestic state-run television service, which does not broadcast around-the-clock and was not on the air at the time, resumed broadcasting Wednesday morning as scheduled. However, there was no trace of Al-Shabab television, the station owned by Saddam Hussein's son Odai. That station is normally transmitted from the state television building. Meanwhile, a howling sandstorm that had cast a yellow haze over Baghdad eased Wednesday morning as U.S.-led troops lay within 80 kilometres of the capital, setting up a seemingly inevitable fight for control of the city of five million people. The sandstorm had slowed the allies' advance to a crawl. "We are determined to defend our capital after what we have seen of our brothers' resistance in the south,'' Baghdad truck driver Ahmed Falah said. "The whole world is with us now, even the weather, because the sandstorm has brought benefits to us. They are the storms of God.'' The city has also been shrouded with smoke from fuel fires set by Baghdad authorities to obscure military targets. Some resident have been busy digging or expanding defensive trenches, some of them the courtyard of the Iraq museum, home to priceless archeological treasures. Television, like state radio, constantly played patriotic songs and messages of support from Iraqis for Saddam Hussein. © Copyright 2003 The Associated Press

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