* U.S. military bombed a target where Saddam may have been
inside, U.S. official says
* U.S. forces storm the heart of Baghdad, seizing two Saddam
palace complexes; U.S. troops, tanks still occupying one palace
* Gunfire, blasts heard from Baghdad palace held by U.S.
* Colin Powell says Washington will send a team to Iraq this
week to assess the needs for a future interim authority
* U.S. officers say may have found banned chemical weapons
* Britain says thinks it has found body of "Chemical Ali"
* Iraqi television shows Saddam meeting with top aides

QUOTES
Rumsfeld: "We believe that the reign of terror of Chemical
Ali has come to an end."
Colin Powell: "There will be a role for the United Nations
as a partner in this process."
UK soldier on mood in Basra towards troops: "This is more
than we could have hoped for. We took part in the raid yesterday
and today it's a completely different city."

EVENTS (TIMES IN GMT)
Tuesday -
* Bush, Blair end two-day summit, hold news conference
* French Foreign Minister Villepin meets Kuwaiti Foreign
Minister in Paris

Friday
* Germany's Schroeder meets Russia's Putin

CASUALTIES
* U.S. - 91 dead, 14 missing
* Britain - 30 dead
* Iraqi military - More than 2,320, according to U.S.
military. Iraq has given no figures for its military losses
* Iraqi civilians (Iraqi estimates) - 1,252 killed, 5,103
injured

MILITARY ACTION
BAGHDAD: U.S. forces mount raid into the heart of Baghdad
and enter two presidential palace complexes. U.S. officer says
65 tanks and 40 Bradley fighting vehicles take part.
U.S. forces near the Information Ministry and central Rashid
Hotel but do not take them. Iraqi forces block many Tigris
bridges, defend key ministries with rocket-propelled grenades.
U.S. military describes assault as show of force, rather
than final attack, but troops remain in city after nightfall.
Iraqi, U.S. troops exchange fire in a "battle zone" in
central Baghdad that includes a residential district. Two U.S.
soldiers and two journalists killed, 15 injured and six missing
in Iraqi attack on communications centre south of Baghdad.
Two U.S. Marines killed, many injured in fighting to secure
two bridges over a river on the edge of Baghdad, U.S. military
says. Marines say both bridges badly damaged in fighting but
they have crossed the river using one of the bridges and a new
crossing laid by military bridge-laying machines. Heavy bombing
of Baghdad resumes.

SOUTHERN IRAQ: British paratroopers guarded by tanks and
helicopter gunships walk unopposed into the centre of Iraq's
second city, Basra
British forces still expect some resistance from a "hard
core" of Ba'ath Party members

NORTHERN IRAQ: Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, working with U.S.
forces, advance south towards Iraq's third largest city Mosul,
capturing the small town of Faida on the way.