Blair: We are Nearing Crucial Confrontation in Baghdad

Politics | March 24, 2003, Monday // 00:00

US and British forces fighting in Iraq aim to reach Baghdad as quickly as possible, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Monday. He added that they were nearing a crucial confrontation.

"Coalition forces led by the American 5th Corps are on the way to Baghdad. As we speak, they are about 60 miles south of Baghdad near Karbala," he said. "It is a little way from there that they will encounter the Medina Division of the Republican Guard...This will be a crucial moment," Blair said.
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