Another right in the thick of it report from Anton Antonowicz in Baghdad
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Apr 4 2003By Anton Antonowicz in Baghdad
?A VAST cloud of unreality hangs over the battle for Baghdad. We are told that American and British forces are no more than six miles from the southern edge of the city.
We are told they have captured Saddam International Airport, 12 miles from the centre. And yet nothing is as it is claimed.
A bus packed with reporters and taken to the airport could find no trace of Alliance troops. A car load of British journalists, turned back 150 yards from the terminal by a couple of elderly sentries, said the same.
I had earlier tried driving to the airport but was forced by our guide to stop some eight miles east of it.