US Troops Expelled from Baghdad Airport: Minister

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US Troops Expelled from Baghdad Airport: Minister

Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Sahaf said on Saturday that the Republican Guard is now controlling Saddam International Airport.

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Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed Sahaf said on Saturday that the Republican Guard is now controlling Saddam International Airport.

The minister said Iraqi forces beat the coalition forces with rockets and artillery fire and fighting is still going on around the airport.

Many casualties were inflicted on US forces, many enemy vehicles were destroyed and coalition forces are now surrounded in and around the airport, the minister said.

The minister said that the ministry will take reporters to the airport a few hours later to let them see with their own eyes of the situation there.

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