War Briefing

Baghdad:

* Marines engage in a 45-minute gun battle near the Palestine Hotel.

* Marines find more weapons and ammunition. U.S. troops find two Frog-7 surface-to-surface missiles capable of carrying chemical agents. One missile is found in a nursery and another is found at Baghdad University.

* U.S. Army engineers arrives to help restore power to Baghdad.

* U.S. troops encounter small-arms fire along the Tigris River.

* Forensics teams sent by the U.S. military will analyze remains found at the scene of an airstrike that targeted the Iraqi president and his sons.

Tikrit:

* Near Samarra, Iraqis turn over seven U.S. POWs to Marines, who were pushing north to Tikrit. The Americans were captured by the Iraqis three weeks ago.

* American forces enter the city and encounter light to moderate fire from Hussein loyalists.

* Most members of the Republican Guard flee north.

Bridges north of the city are damaged by retreating forces and struck by allied warplanes targeting Iraqis.

Mosul:

* A U.S. Special Forces soldier is shot and wounded while on a security patrol.

* Watban Ibrahim Hasan, half brother of Saddam Hussein, is captured northwest of Mosul, apparently while attempting to escape to Syria.

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Sources: Associated Press; Times reports

Researched by Times graphics reporter Paul Duginski