IRAQ: US AND IRAQI TROOPS PATROL HADITHA ON THIRD DAY OF OFFENSIVE/ SUICIDE TRUCK BOMB KILLS TWO POLICE
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IRAQ: US AND IRAQI TROOPS PATROL HADITHA ON THIRD DAY OF OFFENSIVE/ SUICIDE TRUCK BOMB KILLS TWO POLICE
- Title: IRAQ: US AND IRAQI TROOPS PATROL HADITHA ON THIRD DAY OF OFFENSIVE/ SUICIDE TRUCK BOMB KILLS TWO POLICE
- Date: 7th August 2005
- Summary: (W3) HADITHA, IRAQ (AUGUST 7, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED HOUSES IN THE CITY OF HADITHA 0.26 2. SLV CHILDREN IN THE RUBBLE OF A DAMAGED HOUSE 0.33 3. WIDE OF SLOGANS ANTI US FORCES WRITTEN ON ONE OF THE WALLS ("GOD DEFEAT AMERICA AND THOSE WHO HELP AMERICA. GOD IS GREATEST, VICTORY TO THE MUHAHIDEEN) 0.37 4. VARIOUS OF DAMAGED WALL 0.48 5. VARIOUS OF CITY OF HADITHA/ DAMAGED TO BUILDINGS 1.02 (W3) TIKRIT, IRAQ (AUGUST 7, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 6. VARIOUS OF BLACK SMOKE RISING FROM CAR BOMB THAT EXPLODED NEAR A POLICE HEADQUARTERS 1.09 7. SLV POLICE CARS AND AMBULANCE RACING TO THE SCENE OF BLAST 1.15 8. SLV MAN CRYING INSIDE THE HOSPITAL 1.23 9. SLV WOUNDED POLICEMAN LYING ON BED, ATTACHED TO MEDICAL DRIP, IN HOSPITAL 1.32 10. WIDE OF MEDICS TREATING WOUNDED POLICEMAN 1.41 11. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) CAPTAIN MUTHANNA HAMDAN SAYING: "The Americans were there (at the police headquarters) and when they went outside a car exploded near them. (Question: Was it a suicide car bomb?) Yes. it was a truck." 1.57 12. VARIOUS OF WOUNDED PERSON BEING TAKEN OUT OF VEHICLE AT THE HOSPITAL, COVERED BODIES ON BACK OF PICK UP TRUCK 2.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 22nd August 2005 13:00
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- Location: HADITHA, TIKRIT, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA72QRRHMPNFLKID6TDZHOFOTSF
- Story Text: U.S. and Iraqi troops patrol Haditha on the third
day of Operation Quick Strike and a suicide truck bomb
kills two policemen in Tikrit.
The U.S. and Iraqi forces are pressing on with an
offensive west of Baghdad, around the city of Haditha.
The town on the Euphrates river was like a ghost town
on Sunday (Aug 7). Streets were empty and shops remained
closed. Witnesses said a key bridge had been blown up by
U.S. forces and soldiers raided homes.
A local doctor, Waleed al-Hadithi, said six civilians
were killed and eight wounded in military operations.
The offensive, dubbed Quick Strike, began after 14 U.S.
Marines were killed in a roadside bomb blast near Haditha
on Wednesday (Aug 3), one of the deadliest attacks against
U.S. forces since the war began.
The blast, which brought the number of U.S. troops to
have died in Iraq to 1,820, has raised questions about
whether Washington has underestimated the strength of the
insurgency. More than 20 U.S. troops have died in western
Iraq this month.
Meanwhile, A suicide truck bomber killed at least two
policemen and wounded 12 others in an attack on an Iraqi
police headquarters in the northern town of Tikrit on
Sunday, hospital officials and police sources said.
Police said earlier that five people were killed in the
blast.
Iraqi police who were guarding the station said they
fired on a small fuel truck that sped towards the gate of
the police station before it crashed into the sand barriers
and exploded.
"The Americans were there (at the police headquarters)
and when they went outside a car exploded near them...it
was a truck," said Captain Muthanna Hamdan.
Tikrit is the home town of former Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein and lies in the heartlands of the once dominant
Sunni Arab minority, some of whom have risen against the
new Shi'ite-led government and U.S. troops.
Suicide attacks have been a frequent tactic against
Iraq's police and army recruits, who form a key part of
Washington's strategy for withdrawing many of its own
troops.
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