- BAGHDAD AIRPORT, Iraq (Reuters)
- U.S.-led forces are "just about there" in a bid to control
all roads to Baghdad, a U.S. commander said on Sunday.
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- U.S. military maps seen by Reuters showed that the sole
main road still to be secured on the 18th day of the war was Highway 2,
leading north to the oil city of Kirkuk. "We're just about there,"
Col. Will Grimsley, commander of the 1st Brigade of the U.S. 3rd Infantry
Division, told Reuters correspondent Luke Baker when asked if U.S. forces
controlled all access to the capital.
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- "Look at it from this point of view -- 1st Brigade
holds the airport and the west of Baghdad, the 2nd Brigade is securing
the south, the 3rd Brigade is holding the northwest and the Marines are
in the northeast," he said.
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