IRAQ: U.S. OFFICIALS SHOW MEDIA BODIES IT CLAIMS ARE THOSE OF SADAM AND QUSAY HUSSEIN
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IRAQ: U.S. OFFICIALS SHOW MEDIA BODIES IT CLAIMS ARE THOSE OF SADAM AND QUSAY HUSSEIN
- Title: IRAQ: U.S. OFFICIALS SHOW MEDIA BODIES IT CLAIMS ARE THOSE OF SADAM AND QUSAY HUSSEIN
- Date: 25th July 2003
- Summary: (W5) MILITARY MORGUE, BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 25, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. SV: EXTERIOR OF MORGUE WITH SIGN 0.05 2. MV: PEOPLE FILING INTO TENT 0.19 3. VARIOUS OF BODY ALLEGEDLY OF UDAY WITH LEG BROKEN (2 SHOTS) 0.31 4. CU: FACE OF BODY ALLEGEDLY OF UDAY 0.37 5. SV: UPPER PART OF BODY ALLEGED TO BE UDAY 0.42 6. SCU: LEGS OF BODY ALLEGEDLY OF UDAY AND PAN TO FACE 0.47 7. SV: BODY ALLEGEDLY OF QUSAY 0.53 8. CU: FACE OF BODY ALLEGEDLY OF QUSAY AND PULL-OUT TO BODY 1.05 9. CU: FACE OF BODY ALLEGED TO BE QUSAY 1.10 10. PULL OUT: BODY ALLEGEDLY OF UDAY 1.24 11. PAN FROM BODY ALLEGEDLY OF UDAY TO BODY ALLEGEDLY OF QUSAY 1.36 12. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (English) JOURNALIST ANDREW MARSHALL SAYING: "Well, the bodies are easily recognisable, but that's because they have been reconstructed by the U.S. officials working there, but they have made the faces look just like they did when they were alive, so for that reason the bodies look like Uday and Qusay. It could still leave doubt in Iraqi's minds weather or not it is Uday or Qusay, because they have been cosmetically enhanced to look that way." 2.01 13. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) CAMERA OPERATOR HASSAN FALAH SAYING: "I can recognise the bodies of Uday and Qusay, I can recognise them. Uday has serious injuries. Yes, yes, yes, they are Uday and Qusay. Yes, yes, yes." 2.16 (W5) MOSUL, IRAQ (JULY 25, 2003) (REUTERS) 14. VARIOUS OF U.S. FORCES REMOVING DAMAGED CAR BELONGING TO THE OWNER OF THE HOUSE WHERE UDAY AND QUSAY HUSSEIN ARE SAID TO HAVE BEEN KILLED (4 SHOTS) 2.37 15. VARIOUS OF U.S. SOLDIERS NEAR THE HOUSE (5 SHOTS) 3.04 16. WS: U.S. MILITARY HELICOPTER IN AIR 3.10 (W5) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JULY 25, 2003) (REUTERS) 17. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE READING NEWSPAPER HEADLINES (2 SHOTS) 3.19 18. CU: PICTURES OF UDAY AND QUSAY 3.24 19. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) BAGHDAD RESIDENT KHADIM HUSSEIN SAYING: "As far as I'm concerned, the pictures of (bodies of Uday and Qusay) are correct. But the youth are sceptical, saying that this could be made in computers. I am fully confident that the pictures are true." 3.41 20. SV: PEOPLE READING YESTERDAY'S NEWSPAPERS 3.46 21. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) LOCAL RESIDENT UMAID ABDULLAH SAYING: "Of course, the pictures are true. I think that they are of Uday and Qusay. The American troops don't lie and Uday and Qusay were killed in the raid. The Iraqi people wished their killing." 4.19 22. MV: MAN READING PAPER 4.24 23. MV: MEN AT NEWSPAPER STAND 4.29 24. WIDE OF NEWSPAPER STAND 4.35 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BAGHDAD, MOSUL, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA8KN4CZJ4XL48O25ED1N74EUOL
- Story Text: Striving to convince fearful Iraqis that Saddam Hussein's
sons are dead, U.S. officials have shown Reuters and
other journalists two bodies that Washington says it is
certain are those of Uday and Qusay. Iraqis on the streets of
Baghdad said they believed Uday and Qusay were dead.
Unlike the grisly, blood spattered photographs published
by the U.S. military earlier, the faces had been touched
up and shaved to make them more closely resemble the
brothers in life -- a U.S. official insisted the aim was not
to deceive.
About 15 journalists saw two corpses laid out in a tented
military morgue. They did look like the two brothers, whom
U.S. troops said they killed in a raid in Mosul on Tuesday
(July 22).
The face of Uday, 39, had been repaired. The U.S. pictures
showed wounds that officers said were sustained in the siege
of a villa in Mosul, where he and his 37-year-old brother went
down fighting an overwhelming force firing rockets.
"Well, the bodies are easily recognisable, but that's
because they have been reconstructed by the U.S. officials
working there, but they have made the faces look just like
they did when they were alive, so for that reason the bodies
look like Uday and Qusay," Reuters correspondent Andrew
Marshall said.
And Reuters cameraman Hassan Falah added: "I can recognise
the bodies of Uday and Qusay, I can recognise them. Uday has
serious injuries. Yes, yes, yes, they are Uday and Qusay. Yes,
yes, yes."
U.S. officials have yet to decide how the bodies will be
disposed of, another possible controversy in the light of
strict Muslim traditions on burial.
Qusay's uncharacteristic beard, visible in the original
U.S. photographs, had been shaved off but a moustache, which
he normally wore, had been left. The gaping wound in Uday's
face, visible in the pictures, was gone but a hole in the top
of his head was still visible to reporters.
Although security around the house where the men alleged
to be Uday and Qusay Hussein were killed remained tight, U.S.
soldiers have removed barbed wire around the area making it
easier for residents to come and look at the activity around.
But it also gave access to self-declared revengers of the
Hussein sons. The man who housed Uday and Qusay Hussein,
experienced that himself. His car was destroyed and had to be
removed by U.S. troops.
Iraqis in Baghdad expressed on Friday (July 25) their
relief and joy over the killing of Uday and Qusay, sons of the
ousted Saddam Hussein who ruled the country for 35 years.
"As far as I'm concerned, the pictures of (bodies of Uday
and Qusay) are correct. But the youth are sceptical, saying
that this could be made in computers. I am fully confident
that the pictures are true," said Baghdad resident Khadim
Hussein.
"Of course, the pictures are true. I think that they are
of Uday and Qusay. The American troops don't lie and Uday and
Qusay were killed in the raid. The Iraqi people wished their
killing," added resident Umaid Abdullah.
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