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As U.S. ground troops and warplanes pounded Republican Guard positions south of Baghdad, allied officers said Iraq was sending reinforcements from the north. British troops broke resistance in a Basra suburb, and U.S. Marines seized a huge cache of weapons southwest of Nasiriyah. Along the Euphrates River, nearly 50 Iraqis were killed in a fight for a key bridge. Near Najaf, U.S. troops, fearing another suicide bombing, killed seven women and children in a car when it failed to stop at a checkpoint. In Baghdad, bombs repeatedly struck the Republican Palace complex.
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