‘Shock and awe’ under way

March 21 — Massive cruise missile strikes took out dozens of buildings in Baghdad and across Iraq on Friday as the Pentagon began its promised “shock and awe” aerial campaign. Fires and huge plumes of smoke filled the skies of downtown Baghdad in what correspondent Peter Arnett said were strikes far larger than what he had seen in the 1991 Gulf War. Meanwhile, on the southern front, thousands of U.S. Marines and British Commandos moved across the desert to the key southern city of Basra after taking control of Iraq’s oil port.

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