| | | Friday, March 21, 2003 | Updated 7:47 p.m. ET
| | | |  An explosion rocks one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad during air strikes. (Reuters)  Massive Air Assaults Hit Iraq Aerial bombardment of sites in Baghdad and other cities signals start of military onslaught; ground war also escalates as troops push further into Iraq. Thomas W. Lippman, Peter Baker and Terry M. Neal
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