- Title: VARIOUS: HOLLYWOOD ACTOR BRUCE WILLIS VISITS UNITED STATES TROOPS
- Date: 27th September 2003
- Summary: (EU) TURSAQ, IRAN-IRAQ BORDER (SEPTEMBER 26,2003) (REUTERS) 1. SCU "IRAN 3 K's" WRITTEN ON A POSTER HANGING FROM A U.S. TANK; SLV SOLDIERS STANDING BESIDE TANK 0.07 2. MV AMERICAN ACTOR BRUCE WILLIS SHAKING HANDS WITH US SOLDIERS 0.13 3. SCU NEWLY TRAINED IRAQI BORDER POLICEMEN LOOKING AT WILLIS; MV WILLIS POSING FOR PHOTOGRAPHS WITH U.S. SOLDIERS (5 SHOTS) 0.36 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WILLIS, SAYING "It doesn't really matter where I am over here. I feel a lot of pride for these guys out here. If I were a little younger I'd be out here with them." 0.46 4. MV BACKVIEW U.S. SOLDIERS 0.49 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) WILLIS SAYING "What they're doing here is a good thing, it's a humanitarian thing. They're taking care of a lot of these guys that are coming out of Iran on their own pilgrimages and helping take care of them." 1.11 6. MV IRAQI BORDER POLICEMEN LOOKING ON; SLV WILLIS LEAVING (4 SHOTS) 1.26 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 12th October 2003 13:00
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- Location: TURSAQ, IRAN-IRAQ BORDER
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- Country: Iran Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA93ZH2LHTAQBT89W9ECVJ9SOAT
- Story Text: Hollywood actor Bruce Willis has visited U.S. troops
on the border between Iraq and Iran.
Actor Bruce Willis visited U.S. troops stationed
near to the Iran-Iraq border on Friday (September 26, 2003).
Willis, travelling inside Iraq by U.S. army helicopter
landed at a small helipad used by 1-10th Cavalry of the 4th
Infantry Division. The Hollywood megastar spoke to
soldiers, shook hands, signed pictures and posed for
photographs. Task force 1-10th Cavalry is based in the city
of Tursaq and is responsible for more than 300 kilometres
of Iran-Iraq border from Kuwait to the north, and deals
with hundreds of Iranians seeking pilgrimage after days of
long walks through mountains towards the holy Shi'ite city
of Kerbala.
"It doesn't really matter where I am over here. I feel
a lot of pride for these guys out here. If I were a little
younger I'd be out here with them," Willis said.
"What they're doing here is a good thing, it's a
humanitarian thing. They're taking care of a lot of these
guys that are coming out of Iran on their own pilgrimages
and helping take care of them," he added.
Willis, who was one of the Hollywood celebrities
defending the war against Iraq, also gave a rock concert
for U.S. troops near the Syrian border.
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