IRAQ: UNITED STATES SOLDIERS ARREST MAN SUSPECTED OF ORGANISING ATTACKS ON U.S. TROOPS

Record ID: 338295

  • Title: IRAQ: UNITED STATES SOLDIERS ARREST MAN SUSPECTED OF ORGANISING ATTACKS ON U.S. TROOPS
  • Date: 3rd August 2003
  • Summary: (U4) TIKRIT 160 KM BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 1, 2003)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL)(NIGHT VISION - BLACK AND WHITE IMAGES) 1. SLV U.S. SOLDIERS RAIDING HOUSE WITH SOUND OF HELICOPTERS FLYING OVER THE SITE (2 SHOTS) 0.22 2. MV SOLDIERS CAPTURING A SUSPECT; BLINDFOLDED AND HANDCUFFED SUSPECT WALKING AND U.S. SOLDIER BEHIND HIM (5 SHOTS) 1.44 3. (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT COLONEL STEVE RUSSELL, SAYING "We won't be able to determine that immediately but obviously everything that we look for at this point leads to the destruction of that regime." 1.58 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) COLONEL JAMES HICKEY, COMMANDER OF THE 1ST BRIGADE, SAYING "This is one of the middle managers hat we had interest in for sometime, He's the kind of guy that organises armed armed activities in this area, he like several before him have fallen into our hands." 2.22 5. SLV U.S. SOLDIERS STANDING BESIDE VEHICLE 2.39 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 18th August 2003 13:00
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  • Location: TIKRIT, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA45NWX3684JIJ1IS4YGS505V6S
  • Story Text: U.S. soldiers have arrested a man suspected of
    organising attacks on U.S. troops.

    U.S. soldiers arrested a man in the Iraqi city of
    Tikrit, 160 km north of Baghdad on Friday night (August 1, 2003)
    who was suspected of organising guerrilla attacks against
    U.S troops.

    In the night-time raid on a house in the southwestern
    part of Tikrit, soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division, 1st
    Brigade, backed by helicopters, met no obvious resistance
    as they took the middle-aged, unidentified man into
    custody. It is not known whether the man has close
    connections with former Iraqi leader, Saddam Hussein.

    "We won't be able to determine that immediately but
    obviously everything that we look for at this point leads
    to the destruction of that regime," Lieutenant Colonel
    Steve Russell told reporters at the scene.

    The United States says die-hard Saddam loyalists and
    some foreign fighters are behind a guerrilla campaign that
    has killed 52 U.S. troops since President George W. Bush
    declared major combat over on May 1.

    Friday night's arrest, at a walled villa in a quiet,
    residential neighbourhood, involved several U.S. units,
    including two helicopters and soldiers equipped with night
    vision gear. The suspect was led away in plastic handcuffs,
    blindfolded, and driven off in a truck for interrogation.

    Officers said two other Saddam loyalists were detained
    near Tikrit on Friday. They were the latest of "scores" of
    such figures, some quite senior, detained in raids this
    week.


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