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soldiers and Fedayeens are ready by all means and are waiting to take on the invaders and "tear them apart".
Iraqi forces killed 19 soldiers and shot down three helicopters around the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, Defence Minister Hashim Ahmad said yesterday.
Ten bodies -- at least two of them Americans -- were found with prisoner of war Pfc. Jessica Lynch when she was rescued in a US commando raid on an Iraqi hospital, a military spokesman said.
Lynch, a 19-year-old Army supply clerk, was captured by the Iraqis on March 23 after her maintenance unit made a wrong turn and was ambushed in the Euphrates River city of Nassiriyah.
KARBALA SECURED
Earlier, US forces yesterday claimed to have secured the central Iraqi city of Karbala and a strategically important Tigris river crossing in their push to Baghdad. The claim was however brushed aside by the Iraqi information minister.
Commanders of the US 3rd Infantry Division had expected a daylong battle to seize the perimeter of the city, which is 70 miles south of Baghdad, but the operation lasted three hours.
Rather than tackling Iraqi soldiers inside, the US soldiers secured all major exit routes and continued the drive north, the Anglo-Americans claimed.
"We've secured the positions we wanted to around Karbala," said Colonel John Peabody, commander of an engineer brigade.
Up to 15,000 US troops have massed around Karbala waiting to pour across the Euphrates -- the last major natural obstacle standing between them and Baghdad on the southwestern approach to the capital.
US marines later took control of the main Highway 6 from Kut to Baghdad -- the eastern flank of the advance -- and seized a Tigris river crossing described by one senior officer as the "last big bridge" needed for an advance on the Iraqi capital.
BATTLE IN THE SOUTH
Fighting has continued in the holy city of Najaf, where US troops backed by helicopters, A-10 Warthog warplanes and RAF Tornadoes attacked Fedayeen militia fighters.
The US central command said Iraqis fired from inside the Ali mosque in the city, an important Shia Muslim shrine where Mohammed's son-inlaw, Ali, is commemorated, but its troops did not return fire. But Iraq yesterday accused the US-led coalition
of bombing mosques and trying to destroy the most sacred tombs of the Shiite Muslim faith in the holy cities of Najaf and Karbala.
"They have bombarded some mosques in Najaf and Karbala," the Iraqi information minister told a press conference in the Iraqi capital.
He also accused the coalition of trying to destroy the tombs of imams Ali and Hussein in Najaf and Karbala by sending warplanes screeching low over the holy sites, and warned of a Shiite outcry.
RELATIVE CALM IN SOUTHERN IRAQ
British forces reported a quiet night in southern Iraq after US troops advanced toward Basra.
But a lull in fighting was broken when British tanks fired on a building on the city's edge where soldiers believed to be Iraqi paramilitary fighters launched a mortar attack against a military checkpoint. On Tuesday, fighter jets from the USS Kitty Hawk pounded an Iraqi intelligence facility in the southern city of Basra with 2,000-pound bombs.
"The Challenger tanks are pressing forward to try to find out where the mortars are coming from, " said Sergeant Pete Clifford, a tank commander.
British forces have besieged Basra
since reaching its outskirts at the start of the 14-day-old war.
BAGHDAD BOMBARDMENT
In the Iraqi capital, explosions and anti-aircraft fire were again heard yesterday as the aerial bombardment began shortly before dawn after an unusual lull in bombing for most of the night.
A presidential compound on the banks of the Tigris where President Saddam's son Qusay has his headquarters was hit, and sustained explosions pounded Republican Guard positions on the southern edge of the city.
Smoke also rose to the east of the centre in an area where airforce and other military buildings are situated. Tracer fire lit the sky and warplanes could be heard flying overhead.
NORTHERN FRONT
US B-52 warplanes have bombed the northern Iraqi front line between the town of Dohuk and the city of Mosul, Reuters reported.
Elsewhere in the north, British troops staged an "extraction mission" after al-Jazeera showed pictures of what it said was a special forces Land Rover captured near Mosul.
The Qatar-based channel said the Iraqis had killed 10 British troops and showed footage of local tribesmen driving the vehicle.