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Liberation for Iraqis is near, says Bush
Washington: President George W Bush said liberation for Iraqis was close and praised American military success while denouncing Saddam Hussein's regime.
US tanks roll into Baghdad amid counter claims
Dubai: Tightening their hold on Baghdad, US tanks and armoured vehicles on April 5 rolled into the city clashing with Saddam Hussein's elite Republican Guard amidst claims and counterclaims by the two warring sides that the international airport on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital was under their respective control.
Muslim cleric stripped of British citizenship
London: The controversial radical Muslim cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza, who praised the September 11 terrorist attacks on the US, has been stripped of his UK citizenship for acting against the interests of Britain.
Powell for inclusion of war opponents in Iraq work
Washington: US Secretary of State Colin Powell has said he opposes Congressional efforts to bar France, Germany, Russia and Syria from US-funded Iraqi reconstruction projects because they opposed the war in Iraq.
US-led forces driven out of Baghdad airport: Iraq
Baghdad: Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf insisted on April 5 that coalition troops had been chased out of Saddam International Airport, which they had seized the day before.
US forces claim to have entered Baghdad city
Baghdad: Substantial numbers of coalition troops were near the centre of Baghdad on April 5 and had no plans to pull back, a US Central Command spokesman said. South of the city, the headquarters of the Republican Guard's Medina division was captured without resistance.
US forces tighten grip around Baghdad
Baghdad: Heavy machine-gun fire reverberated through the center of Baghdad and a massive explosion shook buildings as US forces tightened their grip around the Iraqi capital.
'Blast that killed US soldiers was suicide attack'
Baghdad: A car explosion that killed coalition troops North West of Baghdad was a suicide attack carried out by two Iraqi women, Iraq's official INA news agency said on April 4.
Saddam orders compensation for families of casualties
Baghdad: President Saddam Hussein has ordered the payment of compensation to the families of Iraqi casualties in the US-led war, Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said on April 4.
Plane crashes into building near Boston, 5 dead
Leominister (Massachusetts): A small plane crashed into a sheet metal shop on April 4, igniting a huge fireball and sending its workers fleeing. Five people from the plane were killed, authorities said.
2 US soldiers killed in battle for Baghdad airport
Saddam International Airport (Iraq): Two US soldiers were killed on April 4 as troops battled to take control of Baghdad's main airport while a third was killed in a Humvee accident after coming under fire on their approach, a military spokesman said.
Iraq war must not inspire India to attack Pak: US
Washington: The Bush administration has said that India must not use the US-led pre-emptive war against Iraq as a pretext for an attack on Pakistan.
India attacks Pak in UN for its support to terror
United Nations: India and Pakistan clashed in the Security Council after New Delhi described Islamabad as "epicentre of terrorism" and charged it with not living up to its commitments to the international community and the United Nations to stop cross-border terrorism.
Finding Saddam not key to victory: US
Washington: The White House has said victory in Iraq does not hinge on finding Saddam Hussein and rejected the possibility that US forces may not locate the banned weapons central to the US case for war.
Iraqi TV shows Saddam appearing in public
Baghdad: Iraqi television on April 4 showed President Saddam Hussein being cheered on a street, in the first footage of the Iraqi leader in public aired since the start of the war March 20.
Saddam urges Iraqis to take on coalition forces
Baghdad: In an unannounced television broadcast on April 4 designed to rally his people, President Saddam Hussein called on Iraqis to strike at the US-led coalition.
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