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Monday 7 April 2003
	Commander in Chief of the coalition forces in Iraq (news - web sites) Gen. Tommy Franks addresses soldiers of the 1st Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division during a short visit in An-Najaf, Iraq, today. (AP Photo/Jean-Marc Bouju) Royal Marine Stuart Lawley, 20, from Darlington stands in a corridor of Saddam Hussein's palace at Basra today. British paratroopers, guarded by tanks and helicopter gunships, walked unopposed into the center of Iraq's second city of Basra, meeting a warm reception in the narrow streets of the old quarter. (REUTERS/Jon Mills/POOL) An Iraqi girl waves an American flag to U.S. Marines of the15th Expeditionary Unit at the Marines Battalion Combat Operation Center in Nasiriyah, southern Iraq (news - web sites), today. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye) Iraqi women and children dance with joy as they see soldiers from Britain's 1st Battalion The Parachute Regiment enter their village, north of the city of Basra in southern Iraq (news - web sites), today. British and U.S. troops walked unopposed almost to the center of Basra for the first time on Monday, with Britain's Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon saying that British forces had moved to the heart of the city and were there to stay. (REUTERS/POOL/Chris Ison) 11th Engineer Battalion, Alpha Company Pvt. Richard Post, tasked with the 3-69 Task Force, takes a cover position before Task Force soldiers enter and secure one of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s captured palaces today in Baghdad. (AP Photo/USA Today, Jack Gruber) Iraqis come out of their home to greet a British soldier in Basra, Iraq (news - web sites) as coalition forces moved to take possession of the city today. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
Monday 7 April 2003
	Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, seen in this image from video, talks about fighting near the international airport in Baghdad today. He urged Baghdad residents to remain calm and warned them against firing guns without being told to do so. (AP Photo/APTN) With U.S. tanks rolling into central Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites)'s information minister denied in a rooftop news conference Monday that the Americans were in the city, declaring: "Be assured Baghdad is safe, secure and great." "They are sick in their minds. They say they brought 65 tanks into center of city. I say to you this talk is not true. This is part of their sick mind," Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said. "There is no presence of American infidels in the city of Baghdad at all." Sahhaf, speaking outside the Palestine Hotel to a crowd of foreign reporters, said amid sirens and clouds of dust that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s forces had given invading coalition forces "poison and bitterness." "Their forces committed suicide by the hundreds. ... The battle is very fierce and God made us victorious. The fighting continues," he said. "Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them." Sahhaf said coalition forces pushed one of the armored carriers and tanks into the city and "we killed most of them and we will get of rid of them soon. Baghdad will be their graveyard."