IRAQ: CLASHES CONTINUE IN BAQUBA, BAGHDAD, MOSUL, BEIJI, AND FALLUJA AGAINST U.S. LED FORCES.

Record ID: 646665

  • Title: IRAQ: CLASHES CONTINUE IN BAQUBA, BAGHDAD, MOSUL, BEIJI, AND FALLUJA AGAINST U.S. LED FORCES.
  • Date: 9th April 2004
  • Summary: (W4) ADHIMIYA, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 10, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: U.S. ARMOURED VEHICLES IN ADHIMIYA. (3 SHOTS) 0.22 2. LV: MAN WITH ARMS RAISED CROSSES STREET. 0.27 3. WS: PEOPLE STANDING ON ONE SIDE OF A ROAD TRYING TO CROSS WITH THE AUDIO OF GUNFIRE. 0.33 (W4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 10, 2004) (REUTERS) 4. VARIOUS: OF U.S. TANK ON FIRE AND SOUND OF EXPLODING AMMUNITIONS. (2 SHOTS) 0.46 (U3) BAQUBA, IRAQ (APRIL 10, 2004) (REUTERS) 5. MV: OF DAMAGE IN AL-SADR OFFICE IN BAQUBA. 0.49 6. VARIOUS/(AS INCOMING): U.S. SOLDIERS BLOCKING THE ROADS OF BAQUBA, TRUCK LYING UPSIDE DOWN. (2 SHOTS) 1.05 (W4) MOSUL, IRAQ (APRIL 10, 2004) (REUTERS) 7. VARIOUS: NIGHT SHOTS OF MOSUL AND AUDIO OF THE GUNFIRE AND IRAQI POLICE FIRING. (4 SHOTS) 1.48 (EU) FALLUJA, IRAQ (APRIL 9, 2004) (REUTERS) 8. MV: OF BODIES COVERED WITH WHITE SHEETS ON THE GROUND OUTSIDE A MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL. 1.54 9. CU: A DEAD CHILD. 2.00 10. CU: A DEAD MAN. 2.03 11. VARIOUS: COVERED BODIES OURTSIDE MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL. (3 SHOTS) 2.19 12. MV/CU: BULLET HOLES ON AN AMBULANCE WINDSCREEN. 2.31 13. MV: BODY TAKEN AWAY IN A PICK UP TRUCK. 2.36 (EU) BEIJI, IRAQ (APRIL 10, 2004) (REUTERS) 14. MV: DAMAGE IN A HOUSE SHOWING HOLE IN CEILING. 2.39 15. VARIOUS: SHELL CRATER / AND DAMAGE TO A BUILDING UNDER CONSTRUCTION. (4 SHOTS) 3.02 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 24th April 2004 13:00
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  • Location: BAQUBA/BAGHDAD/MOSUL/BEIJI/FALLUJA, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAE7UB29LXZ67YNP4VHI0LTUGTY
  • Story Text: Clashes continue in several cities and areas in Iraq.



    Street fighting erupted in Baghdad on Saturday
    (April 10) and sporadic gunfire echoed across Falluja
    despite a new U.S. truce offer and an effort by Iraqi
    officials to secure a peace deal with insurgents in the
    western city.

    Teenage gunmen shot at U.S. troops from alleys in
    northwest Baghdad's Sunni Muslim Adhimiya district. Reuters
    journalists saw an Iraqi shot dead in his car as he tried
    to flee the area.

    In other violence, a U.S. tank was set on fire on a
    highway west of Baghdad on Saturday and locals said it had
    been hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired by a
    10-year-old boy.

    The U.S. army said on Saturday it killed 12 insurgents
    in northern Iraq, destroying their truck with a missile,
    and killed three "insurgents" after clashes in the city of
    Mosul.

    President George W. Bush said U.S.-led forces would
    defeat guerrilla groups wreaking havoc in Iraq and
    reaffirmed that an interim Iraqi government would take back
    sovereignty on June 30.

    Bush is campaigning for re-election in November and
    keen to avoid setbacks in Iraq. He promised military and
    economic aid would continue to Baghdad after the handover
    and during the period leading to full elections due by the
    end of next year.

    Hundreds of Iraqis and 51 U.S. or allied troops have
    been killed in this week's battles with Sunni and Shi'ite
    militias.

    The truce offer in Falluja came after Iraqi politicians
    decried U.S. "collective punishment" meted out to local people.

    The aim was to allow peace talks between Iraqi
    officials and insurgents, said U.S. Brigadier General Mark
    Kimmitt. He told a news conference fighting had continued
    despite U.S. Marines holding back on offensive operations.

    But a delegation from Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council
    did make it into Falluja.

    Council member Mahmoud Othman said the team would ask
    Falluja leaders to hand over those who attacked four U.S.

    private security guards 10 days ago and then burned and
    dragged their bodies through the streets.

    U.S. Marines launched a retaliatory crackdown in
    Falluja on Monday, triggering battles in which one hospital
    official has said 450 people were killed and 1,000 wounded.

    Wounded children were seen treated at a makeshift field
    hospital on Friday (April 9) while a number of bodies,
    including those of children, were lying around on the
    ground covered in sheets awaiting burial.

    An Iraqi doctor on site appealed for help to enable his
    team evacuate the wounded civilians out of Falluja.

    U.S warplanes attacked suspected guerrilla targets in
    the northern town of Beiji in retaliation to an attack by
    Iraqi insurgents on a U.S army convoy, locals said.

    Residents said the air raid took place early morning on
    Saturday and that one Iraqi was killed in the attack.

    Most of the recent fighting in Iraq has been between
    foreign troops and either Shi'ite militants in southern and
    central Iraq or Sunni insurgents in Baghdad and the west.

    But there have been demonstrations in support of those
    fighting the occupation in many towns to the north, several
    of which have turned violent.


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