IRAQ: U.S. AIRCRAFT FIRED ON POSITIONS NEAR VILLAGE OF KIFRI FOR FIRST TIME

Record ID: 644533

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S. AIRCRAFT FIRED ON POSITIONS NEAR VILLAGE OF KIFRI FOR FIRST TIME
  • Date: 31st March 2003
  • Summary: (U6) NEAR KIFRI, 150 KMS SOUTHWEST OF SULAYMANIYAH, NORTHERN IRAQ (MARCH 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SLV KURDISH 'PESHMERGA' SOLDIERS WALKING ALONG ROAD; PAN TO IRAQI POSITION IN DISTANCE/ KURDISH 'PESHMERGA' SOLDIERS LOOKING AT THEM 0.24 3. LV IRAQI POSITION IRAQI SOLDIERS CAN BE SEEN STANDING TALKING TO EACH OTHER 0.26 4. MV KURDISH 'PESHMERGA' FIGHTERS WATCHING IRAQI POSITIONS AND PLANE IN SKY; AV U.S. PLANE IN AIR FIRING MISSILES; SLV IRAQI SOLDIERS RUNNING AWAY FROM POSITION AND DOWN HILL TOWARD BUNKER ZOOM OUT GV AREA (3 SHOTS) 0.59 5. LV IRAQI POSITION (AUDIO OF LOUD EXPLOSION); SLV THICK BLACK SMOKE RISING FROM STRIKE 1.09 6. MV KURDISH 'PESHMERGA' SOLDIER HANDING WALKIE TALKIE RADIO TO ANOTHER; LV IRAQI POSITIONS THICK BLACK SMOKE RISING FROM AREA ZOOM OUT (2 SHOTS) 1.30 7. MV KURDISH 'PESHMERGA' FIGHTERS AND LOCAL COMMANDER TALKING ON RADIO; LV SMOKE COMING FROM ANOTHER IRAQI POSITION; KURDISH 'PESHMERGA' FIGHTERS LOOKING AT SMOKE RISING; MORE OF KURDISH 'PESHMERGA' FIGHTERS; LONG VIEW OF IRAQI POSITIONS (7 SHOTS) 2.17 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 15th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: KIFRI, 150 KMS FROM SULAYMANIYAH, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVADHUARV8IB4CCHA0LT57I0V6B9
  • Story Text: U.S. aircraft fired on Iraqi positions near the village
    of Kifri in northern Iraq for the first time on Saturday.

    Iraqi soldiers could clearly be seen running for their lives
    as the bombs were dropped.

    U.S. planes flying high in the sky fired upon the Iraqi
    positions on hilltops near the village of Kifri, which is 150
    kms southwest of Sulaymaniyah, on Saturday (March 29, 2003).

    The village is not far from where U.S. planes dropped bombs
    earlier in the week on a village occupied by militant Islamic
    group Ansar al-Islam, which Washington has linked to al Qaeda.

    Iraqi soldiers could clearly be seen running from their
    hilltop positions to try to reach the safety of bunkers before
    the bombs struck.

    Kurdish 'peshmerga' fighters watched from only two
    kilometres away as the bombs fell.

    For the past two days. U.S. planes have been bombing Iraqi
    positions near Chamchamal. After two days of intensive
    bombardment, Iraqi soldiers withdrew farther towards Kirkuk,
    the main city in the oil-rich area.

    Now it appears the U.S. planes are focussing on Iraqi
    positions southwest of Sulaymaniyah. There is a good road
    going from Kifri to Baghdad, the capital is only 150
    kilometres to the southwest.


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