IRAQ: TRUCK-FULL OF IRAQI SOLDIERS SEEN MOVING THROUGH BAGHDAD, RESIDENT OF PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY IN CAPITAL SAY U.S. PLANES BOMBED THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD

Record ID: 647247

  • Title: IRAQ: TRUCK-FULL OF IRAQI SOLDIERS SEEN MOVING THROUGH BAGHDAD, RESIDENT OF PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY IN CAPITAL SAY U.S. PLANES BOMBED THEIR NEIGHBOURHOOD
  • Date: 5th April 2003
  • Summary: (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 5) (REUTERS - NO ACCESS CNN INTERNATIONAL) 1. LV: IRAQI TROOPS STANDING UP IN THE BACK OF A LARGE OPEN-BACKED LORRY, THEY SHOUT AND WAVE THEIR GUNS IN THE AIR AS THE VEHICLE DRIVES THROUGH THE STREETS OF BAGHDAD 0.39 (W3) BAGHDAD, IRAQ, (APRIL 5, 2003) (REUTERS - NO ACCESS CNN INTERNATIONAL) 2. PAN DOWN: EXTERIOR OF BUILDING IN BAGHDAD SUBURB 0.45 3. SCU/PAN: DAMAGED CAR WITH BOMB CRATER NEXT TO IT 0.57 4. TILT: RESIDENTS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD LOOK OUT OF A WINDOW 1.00 5. GENERAL: PEOPLE ON STREET 1.04 6. SCU: YOUNG CHILD BEHIND GATE 1.07 7. CU: EXPLOSIVE CANISTER LYING ON STREET 1.11 8. VARIOUS: MORE REMNANTS FROM EXPLOSIVES LYING ON FLOOR OF HOUSE COURTYARD (2 SHOTS) 1.22 9. SV/SLV: CHILDREN ON BALCONY SHOWING PEACE SIGN WITH THEIR FINGERS (2 SHOTS) 1.28 10. SCU/PAN: YOUNG BOY IN STREET POINTING TO EXPLOSIVE CANISTER 1.38 11. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED RESIDENT SAYING "At quarter to three in the morning there were airstrikes on this residential compound called 'Palestine'. We are not scared of these American and British missiles, we will resist with opur leader Saddam Hussein until the end." 2.04 12. SV: RESIDENTS ON STREET 2.07 13. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE RESIDENT SAYING "The Americans and the British are bombing us, shame on them, they should be ashamed of themselves. We are a small nation and they are superpowers." 2.29 14. VARIOUS: MORE BOMB AND SHRPANEL DAMAGE; MV MAN HOLDS UP BLOOD-SOAKED JACKET (3 SHOTS) 3.08 15. VARIOUS CAR WITH BROKEN WINDOWNS AND DAMAGE (2 SHOTS) 3.18 16. HIGH SHOT OF STREET 3.31 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 20th April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA7MC6RUOA56HP247XKOIGJBYKZ
  • Story Text: A truck full of Iraqi soldiers was seen moving through
    the streets of Baghdad but it is not known where the troops
    were coming from or heading to.

    In a Palestinian community neighbourhood in Baghdad,
    residents said U.S planes bombed the neighbourhood in the
    early hours of the morning.


    An Iraq military truck crossed the streets of Baghdad,
    on Saturday (April 5, 2003), loaded with Republican Guard
    soldiers shouting and waving their weapons in the air.

    It was not clear what destination the truck was going to or
    it came from.

    After another night of heavy bombing, residents of one
    Palestinian suburb in Baghdad surveyed the damage.

    A U.S. military spokesmen says U.S. forces have entered the
    heart of Baghdad Saturday (April 5) for the first time in the
    17-day war against Iraq. He would not say how many troops were
    in Baghdad or define exactly what he meant by the "middle" of
    the city.

    A Reuters correspondent in the centre said he had seen no
    U.S. forces there, but had heard more than a dozen explosions
    from the south. He said the explosions were "going on all
    morning, but the pace seems to have picked up now."
    There was no immediate comment from the Iraqi authorities
    on the first entry into Baghdad of foreign invaders since a
    British military intervention in 1941 to oust a pro-German
    government.

    One unidentified resident said the bombing began in the
    early hours of Saturday morning, he vowed, Iraqis remained
    defiant, "At quarter to three in the morning there were airstrikes
    on this residential compound called 'Palestine'.

    We are not scared of these American and British
    missuiles, we will resist with opur leader Saddam Hussein
    until the end."
    Another resident said, "The Americans and the British are
    bombing us, shame on them, they should be ashamed of
    themselves. We are a small nation and they are superpowers."
    It is understood no one died as a result of the bombing
    here, but there were a number of residents wounded.


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