IRAQ: US MARINES PULL OUT OF BAGHDAD AND 3RD INFANTRY MOVES IN

Record ID: 647684

  • Title: IRAQ: US MARINES PULL OUT OF BAGHDAD AND 3RD INFANTRY MOVES IN
  • Date: 19th April 2003
  • Summary: (U4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (APRIL 19, 2003) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. THE U.S. THIRD INFANTRY OF THE 101ST AIRBORNE DIVISION OF THE U.S. ARMY ENTERING BARRACKS 00.00.25 2. VEHICLES PARKING IN FRONT OF BARRACKS,TAKING OVER FROM MARINES 00.35 3. VARIOUS ARMY TANKS 00.49 4. TURRET OF MARINE TANK 00.56 5. CU U.S.. SOLDIERS TALKING AND SMOKING 01.07 6. CU BARREL OF GUN TURRET 01.14 7. VARIOUS SHOTS OF MARINES PACKING BAGS 02.00 8. MARINES DRIVING OUT AND LEAVING BAGHAD 02.36 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th May 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA99IGU23DOMYV6ONOAZ6H5DVAV
  • Story Text: U.S. Marines are pulling out of Baghdad and the Third
    Infantry attached to the 101st Airborne Division of the U.S.

    army is moving in.



    U.S. Marines began a planned pullout from Baghdad on
    Saturday (April 19) morning as part of a handover to the much
    larger U.S. Army, signalling an end to the fighting phase in
    the capital.

    The Army has more resources to deal with the
    reconstruction and policing desperately needed in Baghdad,
    where many residents have no electricity and live in fear of
    looters.

    Baghdad has been divided between Marines who control east
    of the river Tigris, and Army units occupying the western
    half. The handover will bring the city under the control of a
    single commander.

    The move is part of a plan to reorganise the overall
    deployment of U.S. forces in Iraq, one month after the United
    States and Britain began the war to topple Saddam.

    Washington says it intends to hand over control of Iraq to
    the Iraqi people after a period of control by a U.S.-led
    interim administration that will oversee reconstruction.

    It has called for a quick end to 12-year-old U.N. economic
    sanctions, imposed after Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, so that
    oil sales can fund reconstruction.


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