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Fri 04 Apr 2003Capture of airports would be a key advance for allies
MILITARY ANALYSIS: Baghdad appears to be in the throes of envelopment by invading forces, writes Tom Clonan
Members of the US 3rd Infantry Division are reported to have secured an important river-crossing at Musayyib, to the south-west of Baghdad. This would bring US troops close to the strategically important Iraqi airbase at the Baghdad suburb of Iskandariyah.
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