IRAQ: U.S. MILITARY HOLD CEREMONY IN BAGHDAD TO HONOUR WOUNDED AND KILLED IRAQI POLICEMEN

Record ID: 647818

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S. MILITARY HOLD CEREMONY IN BAGHDAD TO HONOUR WOUNDED AND KILLED IRAQI POLICEMEN
  • Date: 29th October 2003
  • Summary: (U3) CONVENTION CENTER, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (OCTOBER 29, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF U.S ARMY MUSIC BAND 0N STAGE (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. U.S. GEN. MEYERS AND IRAQI POLICE CHIEF AND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AHMED KAZEM IBRAHIM WALKING IN/ IRAQI POLICEMEN AND U.S. SOLDIERS AT FRONT OF AUDIENCE (2 SHOTS) 0.22 3. WIDE OF CEREMONY 0.28 4. (SOUNDBITE)(English) MEYERS, SAYING: "Today we will recognise the officers who have sacrificed their lives, suffered great bodily harm or demonstrated acts of heroism in the line of duty." 0.38 5. VARIOUS OF MEYERS AND IBRAHIM HANDING OUT DECORATIONS TO POLICEMEN, SOME INJURED AND RELATIVES OF DEAD POLICE (5 SHOTS) 1.19 6. (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) IBRAHIM, SAYING: "This is an attempt to hurt the Iraqi people by exploding a number of police centres and the headquarters of the Red Cross, which is a humanitarian body to help families. This is a blatant criminal act. They committed such act because they felt that Iraq has become stronger and it would not be shaken." 1.45 7. WIDE OF CEREMONY 1.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th November 2003 12:00
  • Keywords:
  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA7WFCLHLZ0IQJN3TSY36MM76GD
  • Story Text: The U.S. military have held a ceremony in Baghdad to
    honour wounded and killed Iraqi policemen.


    A decorating ceremony to honour tens of Iraqi
    policemen, some of them wounded or killed in action, was
    held at the Convention center in Baghdad on Wednesday
    (October 29).

    Decorations were handed out to policemen or their
    relatives by Gen. Myers, commander of the U.S army 1st
    division and Iraqi Police Chief and Deputy Prime Minister
    Ahmed Kazem Ibrahim.

    "Today we will recognise the officers who have
    sacrificed their lives, suffered great bodily harm or
    demonstrated acts of heroism in the line of duty," Myres
    said.

    The ceremony took place two days after three suicide
    bombs targeted iraqi police stations in Baghdad killing at
    least eight policemen. A fourth bomb, on the same day,
    target the ICRC building in Baghdad.

    Following the ceremony Deputy Prime Minister Ibrahim
    told journalists the attacks were an act of terrorism.


    awa/


  • Copyright Holder: REUTERS
  • Copyright Notice: (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2015. Open For Restrictions - http://about.reuters.com/fulllegal.asp
  • Usage Terms/Restrictions: None
Register