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U.S. Forces Tighten Noose, Battle for Baghdad Airport.
Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 4--IN CENTRAL IRAQ -- U.S. forces stormed to the gates of Baghdad on Thursday, rolling to within 10 miles of the Iraqi capital, raiding one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces and battling to seize the international airport that bears his name.
Opposition to the allied advance was sporadic and light. Advancing Marines found abandoned gun emplacements where they had expected to find the Republican Guard, the Iraqi regime's best troops. Army units passed dead Iraqi soldiers and piles of discarded military uniforms.
U.S. officials held out hope that the Iraqis had deserted en masse but did not rule out the possibility that they had retreated to make their last stand inside the capital.
Early Friday Iraq time, elements of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division were advancing on Baghdad from the southwest while Marines paralleled them to the east. U.S. Special Forces troops had sealed off the road between Baghdad and Tikrit, Hussein's hometown, blocking a potential northern escape route.
"A vise is closing," President Bush told Marines at Camp Lejeune, N.C. "Our destination is Baghdad and we will accept nothing less than complete and final…
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