Репортер видел сам 7 потерянных единиц техники союзников - танков, БТР и Хамви. 2 застряли в грязи и были брошены, 4 подбиты иракцами, 1 подбит самолетом A-10 Thunderbolt. О людских потерях в последнем неизвестно.
CNN correspondent Art Harris is traveling with the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, Task Force Tarawa. Harris said as the battalion drove on the main road, which crosses the key bridges, he saw seven Marine vehicles, including tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvees, that were "lost."
Two of those vehicles were stuck in mud and abandoned, Harris said. Five others had been destroyed.
Marine sources said four of those vehicles were destroyed by Iraqis, but the fifth was "shot up" by a U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt warplane, an attack aircraft often used to destroy tanks.
The sources said it was unknown whether anyone was killed in the A-10 attack on the Marine vehicle.