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Senate investigators looking into pre-war intelligence failures are taking a closer look at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans. Pentagon officials say the office was a policy-planning group. Critics say it was created to second-guess CIA intelligence on Iraq. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly reports.

The aerial bombardment of Baghdad increases, including an attack on a telecommunications center that knocks out the phone system. Iraqi officials say seven people died and more than 100 were wounded in the latest barrage. Hear NPR's Bob Edwards and Los Angeles Times reporter John Daniszewski.

NPR's Michele Norris talks to NPR health correspondent Richard Knox to find out more about SARS. Since the symptoms mimic influenza, many people are worried that their spring allergies and colds might be the start of SARS. Since there are only 70 reported cases of SARS in the United States -- only one of which has been serious -- it's unlikely the public here is at great risk at the moment.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Army Times reporter Sean Naylor, traveling with the 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division. He says soldiers were involved in heavy fighting last night.

European leaders meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell in Brussels say they're not opposed to sending NATO peacekeeping forces into Iraq. But many European nations still call for the United Nations, not the U.S., to take the lead role in administering post-war Iraq. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Peace activists shift efforts from trying to prevent war to stopping one under way. With steady support among Americans for the assault on Iraq, activists also look for ways to oppose the war while showing support for the troops who are fighting it. Nancy Solomon reports.

A massive sandstorm that buffeted Iraq the past few days has calmed, but daytime skies remain dark over parts of Baghdad, obscured by thick smoke from blazing trenches of oil. Public health experts say the pollution from those fires could expose the people to yet another hazard. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports.

NPR's Richard Gonzales reports on an anti-war demonstration today in Oakland, Calif., that police put down using non-lethal bullets, beanbags and concussion grenades. Several dockworkers who were not part of the demonstration were injured; they say the police used too much force.

British paratroopers enter Basra, and the main opposition in that city appears to have been subdued, though pockets of resistance remain. NPR's Melissa Block talks with Reuters reporter Rosalind Russell who's near Basra in southern Iraq. Russell says the British were received well by most of the people.

Two Shia clerics, one returning from exile and the other a Saddam loyalist, are hacked to death in the holiest mosque in Najaf. Observers fear the deaths could be the first round of bloodletting among rival Shia groups jockeying for power in post-Saddam Iraq. NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports.