Pentagon says 300 Iraqis may be dead after battle

South China Morning Post

War casualities: US troops from the 3rd Infantry Division carry a wounded Iraqi prisoner for treatment at a battalion aid centre on a captured airfield in southern Iraq after heavy fighting in Nasiriyah.

Pentagon says 300 Iraqis may be dead after battle

Up to 300 Iraqis may have been killed overnight (HK time) when they attacked the US Seventh Calvary near the town of Najaf, about 160km south of Baghdad, the Pentagon said.

Sandstorms hit Baghdad advance

Blinding sandstorms threaten to achieve what Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard have so far failed to do - hold up the march of coalition forces into Baghdad.

British forces plan to support any Basra uprising

The British military said overnight (HK time) it believed citizens of Basra were rising up against President Saddam Hussein, but an Iraqi minister denied a revolt was underway in Iraq's southern city.

Two British soldiers killed by 'friendly fire'

Two British tank crew members were killed by ''friendly fire'' from another British tank near Iraq's southern city of Basra, officials said overnight (HK time).

US television networks losing the fight against biased coverage

Media-watchers on both sides of the war have declared the Americans the losers. Embedded journalists and hi-tech equipment have so far not been able to deflect accusations that US television networks are presenting biased coverage.

Waiting for refugees in cruellest place on the planet

"This place looks like God roasted it," Raphael Mutiku said as we travelled through Badiyat ash Sham, the great desert that stretches from Jordan and Syria into Iraq.

Americans brace for a longer and bloodier conflict

News of coalition fatalities and troops held prisoner have changed Americans' expectations of the potential scale and tragedy of the Iraq conflict, a poll showed yesterday, as President George W. Bush prepared to ask Congress for a US$74.7 billion (HK$582.2 billion) war chest.

In halls of power and on the streets, opposition is muted

Despite wide public opposition to the war, China is the only permanent member of the United Nations Security Council that has not seen widespread protests.

America's 'war without suspense'

Alex Liebman was accosted last week in the cafeteria by a usually mild-mannered teacher here at Xiaoshi Middle School in Ningbo, Zhejiang. "Why is the US attacking Iraq? The US is trying to establish a new empire and set up hegemony over the whole world," he said. I struggled to swallow my rice before responding: "I oppose the war too. Please let me finish my food."