Posted on 04/06/2003 7:56:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BAGHDAD AIRPORT, Iraq, April 6 (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.
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," Colonel 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.
"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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