IRAQ: THE IRAQI INFORMATION MINISTRY HAS TAKEN JOURNALISTS ON A TOUR OF CENTRAL BAGHDAD

Record ID: 646781

  • Title: IRAQ: THE IRAQI INFORMATION MINISTRY HAS TAKEN JOURNALISTS ON A TOUR OF CENTRAL BAGHDAD
  • Date: 7th April 2003
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 7, 2003)(REUTERS - NO ACCESS CNN INTERNATIONAL) 1. LV/TRACKING SHOT CENTRAL BAGHDAD; CAR DRIVING THROUGH STREET FLYING AN IRAQI FLAG; V CLOSED SHOP FRONTS; CENTRAL BAGHDAD (4 SHOTS) 0.58 2. MCU MAN SELLING NEWSPAPERS WITH PICTURES IF IRAQI LEADER SADDAM HUSSEIN ON FRONT COVER 1.03 3. SV IRAQI POLICE CAR - POLICE FLYING IRAQI FLAG/ MAKING VICTORY SIGN WITH THEIR HANDS/HOLDING UP PICTURES IF IRAQI LEADER SADDAM HUSSEIN 1.17 4. SV/SLV MEN IN STREET CHANTING/FIRING GUNS/POLICE CARS DRIVING AWAY (5 SHOTS) 1.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 22nd April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAF48OGB1BXMISXZIAKYV4JCVFD
  • Story Text: The Iraqi Information Ministry has taken journalists on
    a tour of central Baghdad and said Iraqi troops remain in
    control of the capital.



    The Iraqi Information Ministry took journalists on a
    tour of Baghdad on Monday (March 7, 2003), in a bid to convince
    media that the Iraqis have control of the city and that
    nothing is wrong.

    Policemen gathered in police cars and fired off their guns
    in defiance and waved Iraqi flags.

    Meanwhile, in other parts of the city, ordinary Iraqis
    were buying food in the street markets despite the turmoil in
    other parts of the capital. The mood appeared sombre and
    subdued.

    Earlier, U.S. forces burst into the heart of Baghdad on
    Monday (March 7) and entered two palace complexes of Iraqi
    President Saddam Hussein, but they said the operation was an
    armoured raid not intended to hold territory.

    Iraq said the invaders were "committing suicide" on the
    gates of the capital.


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