ROMANIA: REACTION IN BUCHAREST TO DEATH OF ROMANIAN SECURITY WORKER KILLED IN AN AMBUSH NEAR BAGHDAD.

Record ID: 647595

  • Title: ROMANIA: REACTION IN BUCHAREST TO DEATH OF ROMANIAN SECURITY WORKER KILLED IN AN AMBUSH NEAR BAGHDAD.
  • Date: 13th April 2004
  • Summary: (W5) BUCHAREST, ROMANIA (APRIL 13, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WS: EXTERIORS OF HEADQUARTERS OF PRIVATE SECURITY COMPANY, BIDEPA. 0.09 2. CU: BIDEPA SIGN. 0.14 3. SET UP VIEWS: OF MANAGING DIRECTOR OF BIDEPA, DUMITRU NICULAI SPEAKING ON TELEPHONE AT RECEPTION THEN WALKING TOWARDS CAMERA. 0.28 4. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Romanian) MANAGING DIRECTOR OF BIDEPA, DUMITRU NICULAI, SAYING: "We are marked by what happened, we are sorry for the loss of life and regarding the withdrawal of our people, we are under contract and today we will discuss with them and with the Romanian Embassy what we will do." 0.55 5. CU: AWARD PLAQUE RECEIVED BY COMPANY. 1.02 6. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Romanian) NICULAI, SAYING: "The actual situation in Iraq is making us worry, by sending our employees there we are trying to help to make things more calm." 1.23 7. CU: NEWSPAPER HEADLINE. 1.28 8. CU: (SOUNDBITE) (Romanian) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON, SAYING: "Nobody was forced, they went voluntarily for a better salary, so there are always risks when you want more money you have to accept the higher risk." 1.48 9. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Romanian) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON, SAYING: "I do not agree to send troops there (Iraq) they are our children, why should they fight there? If somebody attacks us ok, we are defending our frontiers, but why should we go to make order over there? I also would not like somebody else to come here." 2.06 10. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Romanian) UNIDENTIFIED PERSON, SAYING: "Because we are involved (in NATO) we have to take part. I think personally it would be better to be less involved." 2.15 11. CU: NEWSPAPER HEADLINE. 2.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
  • Country: Romania
  • Reuters ID: LVA2MPS1GJH25B5VQTZ25PNKG35P
  • Story Text: Romanians react to the death of a civilian security
    worker in Iraq.



    One Romanian civilian security worker was killed
    and another one injured on Sunday (April 11) in an ambush
    near Baghdad, Romania's Foreign Ministry said on Monday
    (April 12).

    The injured worker underwent surgery in a hospital in
    the Iraqi capital and is now out of danger, the ministry
    said in a statement.

    "Several cars full of employees of a security company
    came under fire Sunday afternoon," Romanian ambassador to
    Iraq Mihai Stuparu told a private Romanian television
    station. Romania's Defence Ministry said in a statement no
    Romanian soldier was involved in the incident.

    The workers were employees of a private security
    company working in Iraq. Dumitru Niculai, the managing
    director of the company, BIDEPA, on Tuesday (April 13)
    expressed regret over the death of a colleague.

    "We are marked by what happened, we are sorry for the
    loss of life," he said.

    "Regarding the withdrawal of our people, we are under
    contract and today we will discuss with them and with the
    Romanian Embassy what we will do," added Niculai.

    Romanians on the streets of Bucharest reacted to the
    death of the Romanian security worker.

    "Nobody was forced, they went voluntarily for a better
    salary, so there are always risks when you want more money
    you have to accept the higher risk," said one man.

    "I do not agree to send troops there (Iraq) they are our children,
    why should they fight there? If somebody attacks us ok, we are
    defending our frontiers, but why should we go to make order over
    there? I also would not like somebody else to come here,"
    said another.

    A woman nearby said, "Because we are involved (in NATO)
    we have to take part. I think personally it would be better
    to be less involved."
    New NATO member Romania has contributed around 700
    troops to the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.

    Around 400 Romanian soldiers are in the southern Iraqi
    city of Nassiriya under Italian command, another 100
    military police are under British command in the
    south-eastern sector and around 200 are under Polish
    command in the central sector, a Romanian army spokesman
    said.
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