IRAQ: AT LEAST 3 PEOPLE ARE KILLED AFTER A U.S. WARPLANES ATTACKS REBEL-HELD CITY OF FALLUJAH

Record ID: 208372

  • Title: IRAQ: AT LEAST 3 PEOPLE ARE KILLED AFTER A U.S. WARPLANES ATTACKS REBEL-HELD CITY OF FALLUJAH
  • Date: 1st October 2004
  • Summary: (W8) FALLUJA, IRAQ (OCTOBER 1, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. PEOPLE AT SITE WHERE HOUSE ATTACKED 0.13 2. BODY OF CHILD LIFTED FROM RUBBLE 0.29 3. PEOPLE DIGGING AROUND WOMAN'S BODY 0.50 4. CLOSE OF WOMANS SCARVED HEAD IN RUBBLE 0.57 5. MORE OF PEOPLE DIGGING AROUND WOMAN'S BODY (3 SHOTS) 1.19 6. FIRE BEING EXTINGUISHED (2 SHOTS) 1.39 7. AMBULANCE 1.47 8. AMBULANCE AND FIRE TRUCK AT SITE (2 SHOTS) 2.11 9. VARIOUS OF CHILDREN WOUNDED IN ATTACK IN HOSPITAL BEING TREATED (4 SHOTS) 2.54 10. WOMAN WOUNDED IN ATTACK (2 SHOTS) 3.21 11. SCU: YOUNG WOMAN ON HOSPITAL BED 3.31 12. MAN AND CHILD ON BED / MAN WIPING HIS EYES 3.48 13. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) FATHER HOLDING CHILD SAYING: "Come here Iyad Allawi and see him. Does he look like a mujahid? Does he look like a terrorist to you? But by Allah's will everyone will become a mujahideen. Old and young." 4.03 14. VARIOUS: MORE WOUNDED CHILDEN IN HOSPITAL (4 SHOTS) 4.49 15. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) DOCTOR MUSHTAR TALEP SAYING: "After midnight tonight, American fighter jets attacked the city of Falluja. They attacked residential homes of people who were safe in their homes. The hospital received 4 or 5 dead, including one woman and two children, and the wounded exceeded 11, mostly women and children." 5.19 16. MORE OF WOUNDED CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL 5.29 17. CU: HOSPITAL SIGN OUTSIDE 5.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th October 2004 13:00
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  • Location: FALLUJA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADNE6C7ELNEPG7I6Y43EKJZKQE
  • Story Text: A U.S. warplane attacked the rebel-held Iraqi city
    of Falluja on Friday night, killing at least three people,
    a Reuters witness and a hospital official said.



    A U.S. warplane attacked the rebel-held Iraqi city
    of Falluja on Friday night (October 1), killing at least
    three people, a Reuters witness and a hospital official
    said.

    Dr. Mohammad al-Dulaimi said at Falluja's main hospital
    that the dead were civilians and seven others were wounded
    in the raid that also left a house in flames.

    "After midnight tonight, American fighter jets attacked
    the city of Falluja. They attacked residential homes of
    people who were safe in their homes. The hospital received
    4 or 5 dead, including one woman and two children, and the
    wounded exceeded 11, mostly women and children," said Dr.

    Mushtar Talep.

    The Falluja strike came after U.S.-led forces stormed
    Samarra on Friday and said more than 100 guerrillas were
    killed in air strikes and street-to-street combat during a
    major new American offensive to wrest control of the Iraqi
    town.

    Iraq's defence minister said on Wednesday that U.S. and
    Iraqi forces would take control of several rebel-held
    cities in October ahead of elections scheduled for January.

    U.S. marines launched a major offensive to uproot
    insurgents in Falluja in April but withdrew from the
    guerrilla and militant hotbed after hundreds of Iraqis were
    killed in the fighting.


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