Explosions Seen from Basra

Politics | March 21, 2003, Friday // 00:00

As the ground war got under way in Iraq, explosions and fireballs were seen in the direction of Basra, Iraq's second city.

The explosions could be a mix of artillery fire and bombings from warplanes.

Meanwhile, British troops secured a position on the Faw peninsula in southern Iraq, a strategic point for oil tanker traffic at the head of the Gulf, and later headed north meeting only light resistance, a British military spokesman said.

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