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US Land Advance Could Pause for Weeks - Report

Some US troops said on Sunday they had been told a pause in land advances toward Baghdad could last several weeks. They said they were digging trenches, laying mines around camps and camouflaging vehicles, but that the aerial and artillery bombardment on Iraqi positions in and around Baghdad would continue unabated.


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Some US troops said on Sunday they had been told a pause in land advances toward Baghdad could last several weeks. They said they were digging trenches, laying mines around camps and camouflaging vehicles, but that the aerial and artillery bombardment on Iraqi positions in and around Baghdad would continue unabated.

"It looks like they are going to be in this position for at least two weeks, the sergeant says," said a Reuters reporter with US forces in central Iraq.

"They're going to send in the aircraft to do the work before the grunts (foot soldiers) go in. It's going to be more air strikes, at least for a couple of weeks probably."

Another Reuters reporter was told that the pause could last as much as 35 to 40 days.

Source: agencies


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