On 18 August, loyalists fully withdrew from the city, which was confirmed by a Reuters correspondent.

Saine also worked as a Reuters correspondent for West Africa.

A Reuters correspondent who also travelled on the plane said the prisoner wore traditional robes with a scarf pulled over his face.

A Reuters correspondent just outside Basra said flashes of explosions were visible over the city.

Speaking to a Reuters correspondent, she added: "This is not life, but what can we do?"

The Reuters correspondent was a Londoner who had begun as a police reporter, and since covered assignments all over the world.

Reuters correspondent in the center of the city heard no gunfire.

And today, a Reuters correspondent reported seeing 13 more bodies on the dusty streets of the city.

The second version, posed by a Reuters correspondent, was whether Bush thought rumors of his cocaine use were "being planted."

A week earlier, a Reuters correspondent visited Falluja and wrote about a strategic bridge.