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thedrifter
03-21-03, 07:06 AM
Over 250 Iraqis Surrender at Umm Qasr -UK Command


ABOARD HMS ARK ROYAL (Reuters) - U.S. Marines under British command took at least 250 Iraqi prisoners on Friday as they advanced into the outskirts of the important southern port of Umm Qasr, a British commander said.


Colonel Steve Cox told Reuters on board the British flagship Ark Royal in the Gulf that the Iraqi troops had surrendered to the U.S. 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit by noon.


Reuters correspondent Adrian Croft, who is with 15 MEU, said the marines raised the Stars and Stripes over Umm Qasr's new port around noon but had yet to take the old port, about a mile away.


Umm Qasr, close to the second city of Basra, is Iraq (news - web sites)'s main port for cargo and its capture would give the British-led brigade control of virtually all access to Iraq by sea.



Sempers,

Roger

Sgt Sostand
03-21-03, 07:11 AM
i like it when Iraqis Surrender that should make better for the Marines and less risk for Marines to get Hurt

:marine:

Sempers Fi