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Last Updated:  Thursday, 27 March, 2003, 01:34 GMT
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WATCH AND LISTEN
The BBC's Peter Hunt in Qatar
"The coalition wants to overthrow Saddam Hussein, not get bogged down"


Harlan Ullman, military analyst
"The ground campaign is going exceedingly well"


The BBC's Peter Hunt in Qatar
"They have secured an airfield in north-eastern Iraq"


Charles Heyman of Jane's World Armies
"The Americans are trying to ensure the Iraqis have to keep troops in the north"


Charles Heyman, Jane's world armies
"The Americans are trying to ensure the Iraqis have to keep troops in the north"


Jim Muir reports from northern Iraq
"This is not enough to start a conventional front"


Rob Parsons reports
"It's not the northern front that planners had dreamed of"


Andrew Gilligan reports from Baghdad
"We heard about 30 bomb explosions"


The BBC's Mike Sergeant
"In the north, an air assault has prepared the ground for an invasion"


The BBC's John Simpson in northern Iraq:
"It's nothing like the front that everyone expected"


The BBC's Mike Sergeant
"Military commanders say more troops and tanks will be flown in"


The BBC's Mike Sergeant
"Military commanders say more troops and tanks will be flown in"


The BBC's Andrew Burroughs
"There's fierce fightingż where the US attack force has to cross the Euphrates"


The BBC's James Westhead
"There are signs the US commanders are taking a new direction"


The BBC's Jim Fish
"After a two-day slowdown the American force is keen to maintain the momentum of their advance"


The BBC's Tim Willcox
"The Desret Rats had been involved in their biggest tank battle since the Second World War"


The BBC's Tim Willcox
"Coalition troops now control most of the desert around Basra"


The BBC's David Shukman
"Eight days into this war and in military circles they're getting worried"


The BBC's James Robbins
"A very powerful message from the most powerful man on the planet"


The BBC's Nick Childs
"Officials are saying there are now 90,000 US-led coalition forces in Iraq"



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