1. UMM QASR: US and British forces battle to gain control of port. 2. BASRA: Struck by US and UK cluster bombs, leaving 77 civilians dead and 366 wounded, according to Iraq.Compiled by Joe Humphreys
3. NASSIRIYA: Fighting on the outskirts of the city blocks US advance. Marines seize control of bridgeheads on Euphrates river.
4. NAJAF: Ground forces approach Republican Guard-held city.
5. TIKRIT: Four killed as Saddam's home town is bombed heavily.
6. KIRKUK: Large flashes seen at oilfields amid fresh bombing. At nearby Sayed Sadiq, Australian cameraman killed in car bomb attack.
7. MOSUL: Air strikes continue as more US special forces flown in.
8. BAGHDAD: Waves of bombs and missiles briefly knock out power. Iraq sets oil-filled trenches ablaze to create smokescreen. Iraq reports three deaths from raids and 250 wounded.
9. SOUTHERN IRAQ: Up to 10 US soldiers go missing in action. Al Jazeera TV broadcasts footage of several dead bodies, apparently US soldiers, along with five prisoners, one of them a woman. ITV news reporter Terry Lloyd is killed near Basra. British Tornado fighter bomber is shot down by a US Patriot missile near the Kuwaiti border.
10. KUWAIT: US soldier at a camp in Kuwait kills one colleague and wounds 12 others when he lobs explosives into officers' tents.
A family's grief: "It's all for nothing, that war could have been prevented. . . \ Bush is not out of a brother. We are." - Michelle Waters, a sister of Staff Sgt Kendall Waters-Bay, one of the first US casualties.
Media watch: Arab and Israeli
With Saddam gone, " whose turn will it be?" asks Algeria's El Watan. "Might it be Syria or Iran, both of which appear in the 'note pads' of George W. Bush's team?" Citing US opposition to the Kyoto Protocol and the UN, it adds Mr Bush "takes after Frederick the Second of Prussia and Hitler. His arrogant pan-Americanism offers many ideological and economic similarities with the pan-Germanism of a 'Germany above all' (Deutschland über alles)." The Syria Times attacks Bush's "unholy war" and his "imperialist strategy to control the Arab oil-rich region", while an Iranian TV commentary describes as "totally unacceptable" US claims that civilians won't be killed in the war. Egyptian paper Akhbar al-Yawm publishes a column entitled "Could Saddam commit suicide?" If he doesn't, it said, "there is a great chance he might be dragged along in the streets of Baghdad until he is dead, as Nuri al-Sa'id was more than 50 years ago." Saudi daily Al-Watan calls for the Palestinian question to be addressed after the war. "Saddam was a source of instability in the region for less than a quarter of a century, while Israel has been shaking the security and stability in the region since before its creation in 1948," it says. Israeli media, meanwhile, remain positive about the war. Ha'aretz columnist Ze'ev Schiff writes: "If the present thrust continues, the possibility of attacking Israel will be further reduced, and with it the possibility that Israel will have to retaliate."
At a glance Saddam TV: What's on?
Here follows a summary of Saturday's broadcasts on Iraq State TV (satellite and terrestrial channels broadcasted programmes simultaneously, the latter with a number of reception breaks):
0635: News report saying Iraq is "besieging" the enemies.
0700: Newscast highlighting Saddam Hussein's offer of cash awards to anyone who shoots down enemy warplanes or kills or captures enemy soldiers (repeated at 0810, 0904, 1104).
0945: Talk show on "false" US media reports on war.
1018: Talk show hosting writer and political analyst Nasif Awwad on how Iraq is waging this war on behalf of humanity.
1100: A poem praising Saddam Hussein.
1130: Audio recording of supportive telephone calls from Arabs in Palestine, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.
1200: Footage of anti-war demonstrations from around the world.
1248: Afternoon call for prayers.
1250: Interviews with wounded Iraqis (repeated 1825).
1318: Iraqi women interviewed on the streets of Baghdad, saying they love Saddam, and will not give him up (repeated 1540).
1331: Letter by Iraqi Foreign Minister to UN read (repeated 1555).
1400: More women and children on Baghdad streets interviewed.
1526: Political commentary, saying collision between two British helicopters shows how poorly skilled the enemy troops are.
1600: Main news. Reports on Iraqi information minister comments, anti-war demonstrations, and civilian injuries. (Updated at 1700 with story that missile which fell on a farm was made in Israel.)
1635: Interview with Baghdad University professor of politics.
1756: Communique issued by Iraqi Armed Forces.
1846: Statement of National Command of Ba'th Party read, claiming US "the worst example of governance in the entire world".
1926: Video report on bombing of museum in Tikrit.
2135: News report saying "poisonous leaflets" dropped by US over cities. "The Iraqi citizens' reply to the rancorous enemies took place through trampling these leaflets underfoot and setting them on fire."
2300: Repeat documentaries, news broadcasts and patriotic songs continue through the night.
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