IRAQ: HUNDREDS PROTEST IN BAGHDAD AGAINST THE U.S. ULTIMATUM CALLING FOR PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN AND HIS FAMILY TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.

Record ID: 646815

  • Title: IRAQ: HUNDREDS PROTEST IN BAGHDAD AGAINST THE U.S. ULTIMATUM CALLING FOR PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN AND HIS FAMILY TO LEAVE THE COUNTRY.
  • Date: 18th March 2003
  • Summary: (EU) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (MARCH 18, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. HAS/WS: LARGE CROWD OF DEMONSTRATORS. 0.05 2. HAS/MLV/PAN: PROTESTERS CHANTING. 0.09 3. CROWD OF DEMONSTRATORS CARRYING GUNS AND HAS/MV/PAN: CHANTING 'SADDAM, SADDAM, AL-JIHAD, AL-JIHAD!' ('HOLY WAR!, HOLY WAR!') / STAGE. 0.17 4. WS: PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF MAIN RALLY STAGE. 0.25 5. MV: MILITARY OFFICER MAKING SPEECH TO CROWD. 0.34 6. WS: DEMONSTRATORS CARRYING KALASHNIKOV RIFLES AND PORTRAITS OF SADDAM, CHANTING. (2 SHOTS) 0.55 7. MV: TWO ELDERLY WOMEN IN CROWD CHANTING 'SADDAM!, SADDAM!' AND WAVING GUNS. 1.06 8. CU: OF WOMEN IN CROWD CLAPPING AND CHANTING 1.12 9. WS/PAN: LARGE CROWD OF CHANTING DEMONSTRATORS. 1.23 10. CU: OF PORTRAIT OF SADDAM HELD IN AIR BY DEMONSTRATORS. 1.28 11. MV: YOUNG BOYS WAVING RIFLES AND CHANTING. 1.33 12. WS/PAN: CROWD OF PEOPLE AND SOLDIERS HOLDING GUNS AND CHANTING. 1.42 13. SCU: OF TWO SOLDIERS SCREAMING SADDAM'S NAME. 1.45 14. CU: OF HAND HOLDING GUN. 1.52 15. HAS/WS: MORE OF DEMONSTRATION. 2.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 2nd April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAD8JSWIKXBTNCPKR302B9OFBT5
  • Story Text: Hundreds of Iraqis have taken to the streets of Baghdad
    to protest against the ultimatum issued by America's George
    Bush to President Saddam Hussein and his sons to leave the
    country, or face military action.



    As the countdown to war continued on Tuesday (March
    18), hundreds of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad to
    protest against the ultimatum issued by George W. Bush.

    Bush gave Saddam Hussein and his sons 48 hours to leave
    Iraq, or face military action. Saddam defied the ultimatum on
    local television, condemning it in the strongest terms.

    The demonstrators chanted "Bush, listen well! We all love
    Saddam!", as they braved the evening chill.

    The Iraqi president has placed Iraq on a war footing,
    dividing the country into four military districts under his
    personal command and ordering them to "destroy" any invading
    force.

    He named close aides to command the districts, including
    his younger son Qusay, put in charge of the government's power
    base in Baghdad and Saddam's home town of Tikrit.

    The United States and Britain have massed a force of more
    than 250,000 troops around the Gulf ready to attack Iraq.

    The deadline is 4:15 a.m. Iraqi time (0115 GMT) on
    Thursday (March 20).




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