Iraqi tanks will be blocked by land forces on the hard surface roads.
Large numbers of Iraqi tanks have been destroyed by American air power.
Each passing hour, the officials said, diminished the opportunity for the Iraqi tanks to escape the battlefield.
Early this morning, 40 more Iraqi tanks crossed the border again at the same place they came across before.
One private said that the platoon would pick off the Iraqi tanks as they advanced.
At the same time, the rugged terrain held up Iraqi tanks.
Five Iraqi tanks were also destroyed in the raid, the officials said.
An example was an attack last week on a column of Iraqi tanks.
Do the allies also claim authority to rain missiles on Iraqi tanks?
"There is only destroyed Iraqi tanks from the war."