- Title: IRAQ: US TROOPS AND IRAQI SECURITY RAID DESERT SETTLEMENT IN CRACKDOWN ON THIEVES
- Date: 14th September 2003
- Summary: (U3) JABAL HAMRIN RIDGE, 30KM NORTHEAST OF TIKRIT, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 14, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF U.S. TROOPS ENTERING AND SEARCHING HOMES (5 SHOTS) 0.31 2. VARIOUS, IRAQI WOMEN AND CHILDREN CROUCHING OUTSIDE THEIR HOMES (2 SHOTS) 0.38 3. WIDE OF IRAQI SECURITY FORCES SEARCHING A CAR 0.45 4. SLV IRAQI SECURITY FORCES SEARCHING FOR WEAPONS 0.49 5. S;V IRAQI SECURITY FORCES INSPECTING WEAPONS 0.54 6. VARIOUS , OF DETAINED IRAQI MEN SITTING IN TRUCK GUARDED BY IRAQI (2 SHOTS) 1.01 7. SLV U.S. SOLDIERS ON PATROL 1.06 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. LIEUTENANT COLONEL DAVID POIRIER SAYING: "Before the war this problem existed also. It existed for years along this highway, so, the Iraqi police always wanted to do something about it but never had support from the government for cracking down on it. So now they are very exited." 1.22 9. WIDE OF IRAQ OFFICER ON PATROL 1.27 10. GV HELICOPTER FLYING THROUGH THE SKY 1.32 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: JABAL HAMRIN RIDGE, 30KM NORTHEAST OF TIKRIT, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVAEAW52OV1Z7KEA4C2G5RWKKLHB
- Story Text: U.S. forces and Iraqi police have stormed a desert
settlement during a crackdown on thieves.
More than 100 U.S. troops and Iraqi police backed
by attack helicopters stormed a tiny desert settlement 30
kilometres (20 miles) northeast of Tikrit at dawn on Sunday
(September 14) in a show of force that netted seven
suspected car thieves.
Police cars and U.S. armoured vehicles kicked up clouds
of dust in the parched scrub as their mile-long convoy
cordoned off an adobe-brick village so small it has no name
on maps.
Iraqis in green uniforms and helmets worked with their
U.S. back-up, raiding a handful of bare, one-storey
buildings and rounding up men suspected of stealing cars
along the nearby highway between Kirkuk and Tikrit.
"Before the war, this problem existed also. It existed
for years along this highway, so, the Iraqi police always
wanted to do something about it but never had support from
the government for cracking down on it. So now they are
very excited." said U.S Lieutenant Colonel David Poirier.
The raid came against the grim backdrop of the mistaken
killing by U.S. troops of several men from the U.S.-trained
Iraqi force in a shootout in Falluja, west of Baghdad.
During Sunday's raid, near the Jabal Hamrin Ridge
mountains, about 30 km (20 miles) northeast of deposed
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, women in
black crouched with children on their haunches outside
their homes, crying or shivering in the morning cool.
The U.S.-supervised raid was a chance for the Iraqis to
take the lead and put into practice their months of
training with the 720th Military Police Battalion.
The Iraqi police, some wielding battered rifles held
together with bandages, tipped over drums full of hay in
their search for weapons during the raid.
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