Troops 'told of March 17 invasion'
March 06, 2003
BRITISH troops had been told an invasion of Iraq would begin on March 17,
with a huge bombing campaign being launched four days earlier, the Daily
Express in London has reported.
The tabloid quoted a senior government source, who it reported had direct
access to British military planning in Kuwait, as saying that "everything
is being geared up towards a ground invasion beginning on Monday week".
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Action was expected to begin towards the end of next week, and senior
allied commanders had set April 10 as the target date for the end of the
war, before temperatures in Iraq soared and the cost of conflict spirals
