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 April 2
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March 15-18 - ultimatum and protest March 19-20 - air attack and invasion March 21-24 - "shock and awe" March 25-27 - counterattacks March 28-31 - calm before the storm April 2-4 - red line breached |
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April 2
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April 2
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 Veteran reporter and former talk show host Geraldo Rivera, a correspondent for Fox News, said in a televised report from Iraq on March 31, 2003 that all was well and he wasn't being ejected from the country by the U.S. military for coverage of the war. His report from Iraq, where he said he was about 60 miles from Baghdad with the 101st Airborne Division, came after the Pentagon said that Rivera was being ejected from the country for allegedly violating rules against reporting Western troop movements. He is shown in this June 29, 1996 file photo. REUTERS/Axel Koester/Files -Mon Mar 31,12:53 PM ET
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 A U.S. Marine Humvee is parked next to a dead Iraqi soldier as the convoy heads north in south central Iraq , Wednesday, April 2, 2003. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours) -Wed Apr 2,10:29 AM ET
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 U.S. Marines from Lima Company, a part of the 7th regiment, secure a bridge over Tigris river on April 2, 2003. U.S. Marines captured a bridge on the River Tigris on Wednesday, securing a key crossing point for their advance on Baghdad, Marines on the scene said. REUTERS/Oleg Popov -Wed Apr 2,11:09 AM ET
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 U.S. Marines seized a key bridge over the Tigris river in central Iraq on April 2, 2003 and took control of the main Highway 6 from Kut to Baghdad, a senior Marine officer told Reuters. 'That's the last big bridge we needed' for an advance on Baghdad, the officer told Reuters correspondent Sean Maguire near Kut. 'This was the plan. It's been successful.' (Reuters Graphic) -Wed Apr 2,10:51 AM ET
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 U.S. Army Brigadier General Vincent Brooks comments on the rescue of U.S. PFC Jessica Lynch (visible during her rescue on the screen behind Brooks) during a news conference in the media center at Camp As Sayliyah outside Doha, Qatar April 2, 2003. Brooks showed a video clip of the rescue during the briefing. (Tim Aubry/Reuters) -Wed Apr 2, 9:17 AM ET
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 An image from video shown during a news conference Wednesday, April 2, 2003 at Camp As Sayliyah, Central Command Center, Doha, Qatar, shows the rescue of United States soldier Jessica Lynch on Tuesday, April 1, 2003. (AP Photo/U.S. Central Command, HO) -Wed Apr 2,10:19 AM ET
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 Iraqi women reach out with empty water containers as British soldiers arrive to supply the outskirts of Iraqi's southern city of Basra with drinking water, Friday, April 4, 2003. (AP)
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 Map of the Baghdad area locating the US assault on Sadam International Airport, as of Friday 0500 GMT(AFP) -Fri Apr 4, 2003
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