A suicide bomber has attacked U.S. army soldiers at Baghdad international airport, a U.S. Marine gunnery sergeant told Reuters on Saturday.
Fot its part, the Iraqi military said "hundreds" of U.S. troops were killed at Baghdad international airport on Saturday in a battle which Iraq said it had won.
"The enemy was forced to retreat suffering hundreds of casualties and Saddam International Airport has been changed to a graveyard for the invaders," the Iraqi military said in a statement.
Earlier, Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf said Iraq had recaptured the airport from the U.S. invaders, who seized it on Friday morning. At Central Command headquarters in Qatar, senior U.S. spokesman Captain Frank Thorp told CNN that Iraq's claim to have retaken the airport was "quite frankly groundless".
"We still do have troops on the ground at the airport. There's sporadic fighting," Thorp added.
Meanwhile, hundreds of human remains were discovered Saturday by British soldiers in a makeshift morgue in southern Iraq, Sky News television reported. The remains, including bundles of bone in strips of military uniform, were found in an abandoned Iraqi military base on the outskirts of Al Zubayr, some 20 kms southwest of Basra.
Sky News, in a live report from west of Basra, carried video images of the morgue, showing a line of cardboard boxes with what appeared to be white shrouds in each of them. A British soldier was also seen flipping through what appeared to be a handwritten list of the dead. (Albawaba.com)
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