March 31, 2003
- US troops kill 7 civilians including women and children in a car whose driver refuses to stop at a checkpoint. According to one account the driver ignored several warning shots, as well as gunfire into the vehicle's engine.
- Journalist Peter Arnett is fired by NBC after giving an interview to Iraqi television, which some considered as unfairly critical of the Bush administration's war on Iraq. Later in the day, Arnett is hired by a British tabloid, the Daily Mirror.
- The Pentagon orders embedded Fox News reporter Geraldo Rivera from its troops and demands him to leave Iraq after accusing him of reporting United States troop positions.
Read more about this topic: Timeline Of The 2003 Invasion Of Iraq
Famous quotes containing the word march:
““Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly.
“I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone: “so I ca’n’t take more.”
“You mean you ca’n’t take less,” said the Hatter: “it’s very easy to take more than nothing.””
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)