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Bombing knocks Iraqi television off the air BAGHDAD, March 31 (Reuters) - Iraq's domestic state television channel was off the air on Monday and a source at the Information Ministry told Reuters that the disruption was probably caused by bomb damage to the ministry in Baghdad. The station does not normally broadcast overnight but it failed to come back on the air in the morning after a U.S.-led air raid that damaged the Information Ministry building. Last week, domestic television briefly went off the air but resumed transmission, apparently after engineering work. The station is used by President Saddam Hussein...

DEADLY: Marines with an anti-tank Milan missile launcher yesterday PROUD: Salute from a Challenger tank crew off for night patrol in Basra city HUMBLED: PoW is escorted away by British soldier at camp in south Iraq SADDAM GIVES TWO MEDALS IN SICK HONOUR TO SUICIDE KILLER SICK Saddam yesterday awarded two posthumous medals to the suicide bomber who lured four American soldiers to their deaths at an Army checkpoint. And as the killer, Ali Hammadi al-Namani,was named and hailed a hero on Iraqi TV, the country's Vice-President warned the US could expect MORE suicide attacks on its troops. Gloating...

Iraq satellite TV goes off air after Baghdad raids DUBAI, March 28 (Reuters) - Iraq's international satellite television channel went off the air on Friday in the latest disruption of broadcasts following U.S.-led raids on Baghdad, but the domestic television channel broadcast as normal. The 24-hour satellite channel, monitored in Dubai, went dead around 1800 GMT. But Reuters correspondents in Baghdad said domestic television broadcast normally on Friday. Earlier, U.S. defense officials said a radar-avoiding B-2 stealth bomber had dropped two 4,600-pound bombs on a communications centre in downtown Baghdad on Friday. The satellite channel, which airs Iraqi military statements...

<p>Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein yesterday threw waves of marauding paramilitary forces from Baghdad against the Army's mechanized 5th Corps, while Iraqi tanks dashed from the besieged southern city of Basra, only to be pounded by waves of air strikes.</p> <p>The 5th Corps and its tank-laden 3rd Infantry Division, on their drive to Baghdad, have killed more than 1,000 of the fanatical fighters led by Saddam's personal militia, the black-hooded Fedayeen Saddam, commanders said.</p>

0651: British forces take Iraqi state radio and television off the air in the second city of Basra. The move effectively isolates Basra from any communications with the capital Baghdad.

The U.S.-led coalition continued its bombing campaign of Baghdad Thursday, aid delivery to the strategic port of Umm Qasr was delayed due to the discovery of suspected mines and fighting continued in Basra where U.K. forces took Iraqi state radio and television off the air.In Baghdad, two missiles hit near the city center, al-Jazeera television reported."So far, we have not been able to locate the area, but we can see the smoke billowing from the site," a reporter for the network said.Other explosions were heard outside the capital, the network reported. In a news briefing, Health Minister Umid Midhat...

UK military takes over Basra radio and TV - Sky LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - British troops battling to take Basra, Iraq's second city, have taken over the local radio and television stations, Sky television news said on Thursday. The station gave no further details. U.S. and UK troops have been battling Iraqi troops on the outskirts of Basra, a city of more than one million people, for several days. 03/27/03 10:02 ET