UK and US 'set to seize Umm Qasr'

Reports quote British military officials saying UK and US forces expect to soon seize the border port town of Umm Qasr, south of Basra.

That would give US and British forces access to a port to bring in more supplies for the war.

It would also set the stage for the capture of Basra, which lies just 20 miles from the Kuwaiti border.

The move on the area between Basra and the Persian Gulf suggested that the allied strategy on the ground calls for a two-pronged attack - one to clear Iraqi resistance in the southern oil region while the other heads north toward Baghdad.

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