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TS(‘3/21/03 7:11 pm CST’): Marines take control of Iraqi port. U.S. Marines take control of the strategic port of Umm Qasr in southern Iraq. More »
TS(‘3/21/03 6:36 pm CST’): Anti-war protest winds way through Loop. Anti-war protesters are surrounded by more than 500 Chicago police officers at a rally in the Loop. More »
TS(‘3/21/03 5:55 pm CST’): An Iraqi troop surrenders. Iraqi army division surrenders en masse to coalition forces, Pentagon officials say.
TS(‘3/21/03 5:46 pm CST’): Iraqi commander surrenders. An Iraqi military commander surrendered to American Marines in southern Iraq, U.S. defense officials said.
TS(‘3/21/03 5:02 pm CST’): Dow up more than 230. Wall Street rallied in step with the escalating war on Iraq, lifting the Dow Jones industrials more than 230 points to their strongest weekly gain in more than two decades.
TS(‘3/21/03 4:47 pm CST’): United cuts flights. United Airlines today said it would cut 104 more domestic flights as travelers put off or call off flying during the Iraqi conflict.
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TS(‘3/21/03 3:55 pm CST’): Iraq facilities captured. U.S. and British troops have captured many key facilities in Iraq’s southern oil fields, saving them from possible sabotage and ensuring their use for the country’s postwar reconstruction, AP reports.
TS(‘3/21/03 3:21 pm CST’): A-Day. Pentagon names today “A-Day” in the war against Iraq.
TS(‘3/21/03 3:03 pm CST’): Headlines across the Web.
TS(‘3/21/03 2:49 pm CST’): 3 dead in Yemen protests. Police clashed with anti-war demonstrators at the U.S. Embassy in Yemen, leaving three people dead amid a barrage of bullets, rocks, water cannons and tear gas canisters. More »
TS(‘3/21/03 2:40 pm CST’): Tomahawk count. The U.S. Navy said it launched about 320 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Iraq from ships in the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea.
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TS(‘3/21/03 1:45 pm CST’): Did Bush watch? Asked whether President Bush watched the bombing of Baghdad today, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleisher said: “The president understands the implications of the actions he has launched.” He added: “The president may occasionally turn on the TV, but that’s not how he gets his news and information. From time to time, he might.”
TS(‘3/21/03 1:18 pm CST’):
Another Marine death. U.S. Central Command reports the death in combat of a second Marine. More »
TS(‘3/21/03 1:01 pm CST’): No comparison. Rumsfeld says the U.S. attack on Baghdad is nothing like the bombings of World War II, which he said employed “dumb bombs, and they were spread across large areas. These are very precise.”
TS(‘3/21/03 12:56 pm CST’): ‘I don’t know.’ – Rumsfeld, asked whether Saddam Hussein is still in control of the Iraqi government. He said he had only “scraps of information” but contended the U.S. strike on Hussein’s headquarters was successful.
TS(‘3/21/03 12:48 pm CST’): Words of caution. Rumsfeld repeated an appeal that the Iraqi military not obey orders to use weapons of mass destruction, take human shields, destroy more oil wells, blow up dams or flood villages. Those who do, he warned, “will be found and punished.”
TS(‘3/21/03 12:44 pm CST’): Losing it. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tells reporters the Iraqi regime is “starting to lose control” of the country. More »
TS(‘3/21/03 12:36 pm CST’): Palace target. Part of what’s known as Saddam Hussein’s “Old Palace” compound has been hit.
TS(‘3/21/03 12:18 pm CST’):
Quick work. “Man, I’ve been in country two hours, and already I’ve got two wounded and a truckload of prisoners,” said one Marine, standing guard over his prisoners with weapon ready. More »
TS(‘3/21/03 12:05 pm CST’) ‘Shock and awe’ begins. The U.S. military today began delivering on its promise of “shock and awe” by launching a major air campaign against Baghdad. More »
TS(‘3/21/03 12:03 pm CST’): So it was Hussein. Wasn’t it? Intelligence officials have determined it was almost certainly Saddam Hussein, not a look-alike, in that Iraqi television broadcast Wednesday. More  »
TS(‘3/21/03 11:51 am CST’): Thunder over Baghdad. Air raid sirens accompanied by the rumble of explosions filled the air as night descended on Iraq’s capital.
TS(‘3/21/03 11:16 am CST’): Kicked out. CNN reports it has been ordered out of Baghdad and Iraq. More  »
The Associated Press, Reuters, Tribune wire services and Tribune staff reporters Scott Anderson, Ben Estes, Mark LeBien, Christine Tatum and Stephen Rynkiewicz contributed to this report.
