Baghdad, Apr 02: Seventeen members of the Baghdad Division of Iraq's elite Republican Guard have been killed and 35 wounded, its commander told Iraqi television today after the United States reported the Division had been routed. "The command is intact and we are ready to confront the enemy wherever he may be," said the General, who was not named.
Brigadier General Vincent Brooks had told a press briefing earlier at the US Central Command in Qatar that the first Marine expeditionary force had attacked the Baghdad division near al-Kut, about 150 kilometers southeast of the Iraqi capital, and "destroyed" it.

Bureau Report