Al-Sahhaf also said 16 people were killed and 95 wounded in the overnight bombing in Baghdad. "In Muthanna Governorate, there has been, during the night, last night and in the dawn, very fierce fighting against an American column which approached that area, until about 10:40 this morning. The results are the following: the Iraqi fighters, Arab Ba'ath Socialist Party fighters, and the masses supporting the party activists. They have destroyed 30 vehicles, some of them tanks and personnel carriers, and they have destroyed three helicopters, three American helicopters.," al-Sahhaf said.

Iraqi military spokesman Hazem al-Rawi said an Iraqi carried out the first suicide attack of the war by blowing up a tank and himself on the southern Al-Faw Peninsula.