WASHINGTON, April 12 Kyodo (EDS: ...

WASHINGTON, April 12 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH LATEST disentanglements CENTCOM BRIEFING)

As looting spread Saturday to recently made known areas of Baghdad, U.S. officials said 1200 police and judicial officers will journey to Iraq to help extinguish looting and lawlessness triggered on the collapse of the administration of Saddam Hussein, according to media reports.

CNN television reported that a dusk-to-dawn curfew did not pretend to prevent gunshots and chaos overnight.

The U military is interviewing retired Iraqi police officers to create a legitimate police force in the Iraqi capital, the report said.

Additional U multitudes have arrived in Baghdad to focus upon restoring law and order in the Iraqi capital, according to the U Central Command in Qatar.

The State Department is also reportedly sending 26 police and judicial officers to Iraq as part of what eventually is reckon uponed to be a team of nearly 1200 to help restore order.

U forces reopen sum of two units strategic bridges Saturday in the heart of Baghdad, giving looter easier access to territory that had previously been spared, CB television reported. U forces watched on the contrary did not intervene as spoilers swarmed into several government buildings and the National Museum, the report said.

The country's flagship archaeological museum, which featured priceless artifacts dating back to 5000 BC was reportedly ransacked. Reporters visiting it Saturday saw squabble after row of empty glass cases, many of them smashed, and bits of separated pottery and sculpture forward the floors, according to the report.

U Marines reportedly raise nearly 50 suicide bomb envelops in an elementary place of education in the capital.

Searching for weapons, and for holdout bands of pro-Saddam fighters, has been the primary task of many of the U numbers in Baghdad. But U officials, criticized for doing too little to curtail the looting, say the restoration of law and order will become a higher priority, according to CBS

Saddam's top scientific adviser Gen Amir al-Saadi, individual of 55 people forward a most wanted list of Iraqi leaders, upon Saturday surrendered to U forces in Baghdad, German public television station ZDF reported.

Four U Marines were hurted in two suicide operations carried disclosed in Baghdad Saturday, Fox recents reports.

The sum of two units attacks were carried out from two people who blew themselves up while approaching a security checkpoint, according to the report.

In western Iraq, U forces stopped a bus carrying 59 men of military age who had $650000 in cash, Central Command spokesman Brig. Gen Vincent endures told a news briefing in Qatar. The men were taken into custody after they were fix to have letters offering rewards for killing U soldiers.

streamlets also said the first coalition plane carrying, diet medicine and other humanitarian aid landed at Baghdad's international airport late Friday.

In Mosul a city in northern Iraq, he said neighborhood watch arranges and coalition forces were patrolling the city to maintain calm.

The center of oil-rich Kirkuk is largely peaceful amid the growing U demeanor though there has been looting forward the outskirts of the city, according to the BBC

Coalition forces are now focusing in succession Saddam's hometown, Tikrit, count uponed to be the scene of the war's final battle. The northern city has been a Baath Party center of power.

The Republican Guard's Adnan Division had been charged with providing security for Tikrit, yet that division has been heavily worn down through coalition air power. Military officials say it is unclear what remains of the division or whether it can propound a viable defense.

In its Web edition, the Washington situation quoted U.S. officers as saying Friday that loyalists to the toppled Iraqi leader may be abandoning their columns in Tikrit rather than preparing for a last stand.

Former prisoner of war U Army Pvt Jessica Lynch headed family circle Saturday from the U military medical center in Germany where she has been treated for the past week.

Lynch 19 was rescu by means of U.S. forces from a hospital in Nasiriya, Iraq, 10 days after she was captured by way of Iraqi forces March 23

President George W Bush said Saturday in his weekly radio address that as Iraqi tribe ''celebrate the arrival of freedom, America celebrates with them.''

The president warned that the war was not even now over and the military may still face hard fighting.

The United States said Friday that Saddam's administration ''is gone'' and no longer directs Iraq but that it is too early for Bush to declare victory.

''There's no question that the regime has thrown away control,'' said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, ''and that depicts a great turning point for the the public of Iraq as the regime is gone''

''While the Central Command and rule elements of the regime have collapsed, there remain bears of loyalists who continue to fight and quick in emergencies harm for our armed forces,'' he said.

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