A truck full of Iraqi soldiers was seen moving through the streetsof Baghdad but it is not known where the troops were coming from or heading to.An Iraq military truck crossed the streets of Baghdad, on Saturday(April 5), loaded with Republican Guard soldiers shouting and waving their weapons in the air. It was not clear what destination the truck was going to or it came from.

After another night of heavy bombing, residents of one Palestinian Suburb in Baghdad surveyed the damage.

A U.S. military spokesman says U.S. forces have entered the heart of Baghdad Saturday (April 5) for the first time in the 17-day war against Iraq.

He would not say how many troops were in Baghdad or define exactly what he meant by the "middle" of the city.

A Reuter's correspondent in the centre said he had seen no U.S. forecast there, but had heard more than a dozen explosions from the south. He said the explosions were "going on all morning, but the pace seems to have picked up now."

There was no immediate comment from the Iraqi authorities on the first entry into Baghdad of foreign invaders since a British military intervention in 1941 to oust a pro-German government.

One unidentified resident said the bombing began in the early hours of Saturday morning, he vowed, Iraqis remained defiant,

"At quarter to three in the morning there were air strikes on a Residential compound called 'Palestine'.

We are not scared of these American and British missiles, we will resist with our leader Saddam Hussein until the end."

Another resident said, "The Americans and the British are bombings, shame on them, they should be ashamed of themselves. We are a small nation and they are superpowers."

It is understood no one died as a result of the bombing here, but there were a number of residents wounded.

US Invasion Jets Attack Telecommunication Station in Baghdad

U.S warplanes attacked an Iraqi telecommunications centre in Baghdad's al-A'thamiya neighborhood and caused damage to houses nearby.

Residents of the neighborhood said a number of people were killed in the bombing and a number of others were wounded.

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Graphic showing details of Saddam's Fedayeen paramilitary group(AFP)