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CNN Live At Daybreak
War Recap
Aired March 27, 2003 - 05:46 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks for sticking with us. About 14 minutes from now we're anticipating a press conference, Landstuhl Hospital. You're going to hear from some troops wounded. They're going to be talking, for the first time that is, in about 13 minutes now.
There were -- have been a lot adrenaline in the last couple hours on the battlefront and several developments in the war in Iraq in the past half a day or so as well. And a major step taken to open a northern front.
CNN's Miles O'Brien now has a quick recap.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN (voice-over): 8:54 a.m. Eastern, just before 5:00 p.m. in the Gulf, CNN's Lisa Weaver, embedded with an Army air defense unit, reports a U.S. convoy was ambushed near Najar by what U.S. officials believe to be Iraqi paramilitary groups.
9:05 a.m. Eastern time from CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, Defense Department sources say war planners may have underestimated the capabilities of the paramilitary groups.
1:06 p.m. from CNN's Walt Rogers embedded with the 3rd Infantry 7th Cavalry, a column of up to 1,000 Iraqi military vehicles carrying elite fighters racing out of Baghdad towards the Cavalry's position near Naja. A sandstorm is limiting air support from helicopters and planes.
2:00 p.m., in a briefing, Pentagon officials deny targeting a Baghdad marketplace where more than a dozen people were killed today. They say they don't know whether the devastation was caused by Iraqi weapons or U.S. missiles that went astray.
2:54 p.m. in Umm Qasr, Iraq, British pool reporter Bill Nealy (ph) reports U.S. war planes have broken up a convoy of 70 Iraqi armored vehicles south of Basra.
5:10 p.m., CNN's Steve Nettleton reports the 173rd Airborne has taken an airfield in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Armor and troops will be airlifted to the region to open up the coalition's long awaited northern front.
6:10 p.m. from CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre, officials now think reports of a large convoy of Republican Guards racing out of Baghdad toward U.S. troops near Najaf may be false.
6:55 p.m., Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers says it appears that convoy consists of a few light vehicles moving toward Karbala. He says -- quote -- "they're being engaged as we find them."
7:50 p.m. Eastern, 3:50 in Baghdad, new explosions, anti-aircraft fire and smoke in the skies over the Iraqi capital, according to the Reuters News Agency.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Miles.
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Aired March 27, 2003 - 05:46 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks for sticking with us. About 14 minutes from now we're anticipating a press conference, Landstuhl Hospital. You're going to hear from some troops wounded. They're going to be talking, for the first time that is, in about 13 minutes now.
There were -- have been a lot adrenaline in the last couple hours on the battlefront and several developments in the war in Iraq in the past half a day or so as well. And a major step taken to open a northern front.
CNN's Miles O'Brien now has a quick recap.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN (voice-over): 8:54 a.m. Eastern, just before 5:00 p.m. in the Gulf, CNN's Lisa Weaver, embedded with an Army air defense unit, reports a U.S. convoy was ambushed near Najar by what U.S. officials believe to be Iraqi paramilitary groups.
9:05 a.m. Eastern time from CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr, Defense Department sources say war planners may have underestimated the capabilities of the paramilitary groups.
1:06 p.m. from CNN's Walt Rogers embedded with the 3rd Infantry 7th Cavalry, a column of up to 1,000 Iraqi military vehicles carrying elite fighters racing out of Baghdad towards the Cavalry's position near Naja. A sandstorm is limiting air support from helicopters and planes.
2:00 p.m., in a briefing, Pentagon officials deny targeting a Baghdad marketplace where more than a dozen people were killed today. They say they don't know whether the devastation was caused by Iraqi weapons or U.S. missiles that went astray.
2:54 p.m. in Umm Qasr, Iraq, British pool reporter Bill Nealy (ph) reports U.S. war planes have broken up a convoy of 70 Iraqi armored vehicles south of Basra.
5:10 p.m., CNN's Steve Nettleton reports the 173rd Airborne has taken an airfield in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. Armor and troops will be airlifted to the region to open up the coalition's long awaited northern front.
6:10 p.m. from CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre, officials now think reports of a large convoy of Republican Guards racing out of Baghdad toward U.S. troops near Najaf may be false.
6:55 p.m., Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers says it appears that convoy consists of a few light vehicles moving toward Karbala. He says -- quote -- "they're being engaged as we find them."
7:50 p.m. Eastern, 3:50 in Baghdad, new explosions, anti-aircraft fire and smoke in the skies over the Iraqi capital, according to the Reuters News Agency.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Miles.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
