An Iraqi woman cries as she walks in front of a bakery that was destroyed in Baghdad Sunday, April 6 foto AP
14th day since coalition forces entered Iraq. Our operations are achieving the desired effects, and our coalition soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines continue to make our nations proud.
As always, we remember those who have fallen, and their loved ones.
The coalition attacks against the regime remain effective throughout the country, and there is increasing evidence that the regime cannot control its forces or the Iraqi population in most of the country.
I have two products to show you from recent precision attacks against the regime.
The first one is a regime command and control facility in downtown Baghdad. The target was stuck on the 27th of March. This is an important facility that was used for military control and also civilian communications. The tower beside it is very obvious. That tower has a restaurant on top and a child care center at the base. We were well aware of that before we considered the attack of the target nearby. And it also illustrates the kinds of design the regime will go to to protect infrastructure that they know to be at risk. You can see the different impact points off to the side, and in the post- strike image what was hit. This area is completely unaffected, and only the desired target areas have damage. And there's a different degree of damage on each one of them, and that's by design by the weapons that were chosen.
The second image is a command and control facility also in Baghdad. This one was struck with 12 different impact points hit simultaneously. It occurred on the 29th of March. The post-image, please. It was an effective attack against that complex.
Our coalition special operations forces in northern Iraq coordinated very effective air attacks against the 15th Mechanized Division, a regular army unit. We've had communication with divisions along the green line and also provided information to them about the potential damage that will occur in the future.
Additionally, our special operations forces have enjoyed very good freedom of action, and have moved into a number of positions to deny regime movement along the road that joins Tikrit and Baghdad. There have been several skirmishes that have occurred in these areas, and the mission remains successful.
Special operations forces remain in control of the Hadithah Dam. I mentioned that we had seized that at yesterday's briefing to prevent its destruction and the release of certain water flow that would affect the down-river areas particularly near Karbala. This shows the dam itself. The town of Hadithah is just to the south of it. There have been repeated attacks against the force holding the dam by artillery and mortars, and we believe these are being shot by counter special operations units operating from the town of Hadithah. The coalition forces in place have been well-supported by close air support, and that has enabled them to hold the dam.
I have a short video that shows the initial seizure of the dam by special operations forces and some of the action that has occurred since that time. The initial assault did occur at night. Initial fires against known targets that were in the area. We have the entry inside the initial parts of the dam. This is a very robust structure that had 16 floors inside it and underground. The top of the dam, in daylight. This is what they can observe from the dam, and that is a counter-artillery strike.
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