- Title: IRAQ: US SOLDIERS CONDUCT SEARCHES IN SECURITY OPERATION IN RAWAH
- Date: 21st December 2003
- Summary: (W5) RAWAH (350 KM WEST OF BAGHDAD), IRAQ (DECEMBER 21, 2003) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV U.S. VEHICLE DRIVING IN THE STREET 0.05 2. VARIOUS OF U.S. SOLDIERS IN A CHECKPOINT IN THE ENTRANCE OF THE TOWN OF RAWAH (2 SHOTS) 0.14 3. SMV U.S. SOLDIER WATCHING /VEHICLES DRIVING PAST 0.40 4. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. LIEUTENANT KIEVENNAAR, SAYING: "I can't talk specifics because the operation still ongoing. What I can tell you is we have detained approximately thirty people. Those individuals which we have detained have professed to be either Mujahideen or individuals that have been responsible for supplying the money and the weapons to not only foreign fighters but anybody who is trying to attack Iraqis and coalition forces. In terms of weapons we have found everything from RPG's, mines, rockets and AK-47's machine guns." 1.22 6. SLV SOLDIER RUNNING 1.33 7. WIDE OF RAWAH AND U.S. TANKS IN THE STREETS ( 2 SHOTS) 1.42 8. SLV U.S. TANK NEAR EUPHRATES RIVER. /CLOSE OF GUN TURRET 1.52 9. WIDE OF RAWAH (2 SHOTS) 2.01 10. VARIOUS OF U.S. SOLDIERS IN RAWAH (5 SHOTS) 2.28 11. SLV US. SOLDIERS TALKING TO RESIDENTS 2.33 12. WIDE OF US MILITARY VEHICLES AND ROAD 2.37 13. WIDE /PAN OF ROAD BRIDGE ACROSS EUPHRATES RIVER/ TOWN SKYLINE 2.51 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: RAWA (350 KM WEST OF BAGHDAD), IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA9JNTNFL9QGITKAXQAIKAKYGCI
- Story Text: U.S. soldiers conduct two day operation in search of
insurgents in the Iraqi town of Rawa.
U.S. troops conducted a second day of house-to-house
searches in the Iraqi town of Rawah, close to the Syrian
border on Sunday (December 21).
Soldiers manning checkpoints stopped cars from entering
the town while U.S. military vehicles and tanks took
position at the entrance to Rawah and blocked the main road
with barbed-wire barricades.
Thirty people were detained in the operation and a
number of weapons, including machine-guns, RPG's, rockets
and AK-47 were seized.
"Those individuals which we have detained have
professed to be either Mujahideen or individuals that have
been responsible for supplying the money and the weapons to
not only foreign fighters but anybody who is trying to
attack Iraqis and coalition forces," said U.S. Lieutenant
Kievnnaar.
Residents said some former Ba'ath party members were
among those arrested.
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