IRAQ: INSURGENTS MANUFACTURE MISSILES FOR FIGHTING IRAQI AND U.S MILITARY

Record ID: 376262

  • Title: IRAQ: INSURGENTS MANUFACTURE MISSILES FOR FIGHTING IRAQI AND U.S MILITARY
  • Date: 11th November 2004
  • Summary: (W5) UNKNOWN LOCATION , IRAQ (RECENT) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF INSURGENTS MANUFACTURING MISSILES AND RECITING A PRAYER TOGETHER 0.58 (W5) KARMA , IRAQ (NOVEMBER 11 , 2004) (REUTERS) 2. WIDE OF STREET 1.00 3. ZOOM INTO INSURGENTS CARRYING ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADES (RPGS) (IMAGE BECOMES UNSTABLE AS CAMERAMAN TRIES TO AVOID BEING HIT
  • Embargoed: 26th November 2004 12:00
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  • Location: UNKNOWN LOCATION AND KARMA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA7EKGPXGAKM0Q8G62BA4PQBLVI
  • Story Text: Video footage delivered to Reuters shows how Insurgents manufacture missiles.




    A video delivered to Reuters shows how insurgents manufacture missiles used to
    attack U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces. The video showed a group of masked
    gunmen in a safe-house manufacturing missiles and artillery as they recited a
    prayer together.

    Meanwhile Insurgents in the town of Karma near the
    besieged town of Falluja on Thursday (November 11) fired
    mortars on U.S. bases, witnesses told Reuters.

    On Wednesday (November 10) clashes erupted between
    insurgents and U.S. soldiers in Karma with gunmen taking up
    positions on the streets carrying machine guns and rocket
    propelled grenades (RPG) .

    Iraq's interim government has vowed to retake
    rebel-held cities so national elections can go ahead in
    January.

    Insurgents in their Falluja stronghold of Jolan put up
    little resistance to U.S. Marines on Thursday, a Reuters
    reporter at the scene said.

    Guerrillas barely responded to intense U.S. mortar
    barrages -- the first day they have failed to resist a U.S.

    military offensive in the city since it started on Monday.

    Only one or two mortars were fired in response to the U.S.

    attack.

    The north-western Jolan district, a stronghold for
    Saddam Hussein loyalists, had seen some of the fiercest
    fighting of the U.S.-led offensive.

    U.S. officers said Marine Corps and army units had
    gained a large presence throughout Falluja but were still
    taking some fire from Saddam Hussein loyalists and foreign
    militants.


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