IRAQ: U.S.SPECIAL FORCES AND KURDISH PESHMERGA SOLDIERS TAKE THE VILLAGE OF HAWARE.

Record ID: 647936

  • Title: IRAQ: U.S.SPECIAL FORCES AND KURDISH PESHMERGA SOLDIERS TAKE THE VILLAGE OF HAWARE.
  • Date: 6th April 2003
  • Summary: (U4) HAWARE AND NEAR ARBIL, NORTHERN IRAQ (APRIL 6, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS: OF WRECKAGE OF IRAQI ARMY VEHICLES DESTROYED BY AERIAL BOMBARDMENT FROM COALITION AIRCRAFT. (4 SHOTS) 0.18 2. WS: MURAL WITH DEFACED PORTRAIT OF IRAQI PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSSEIN AND IRAQI FLAG/ KURDS SITTING ON TOP OF MURAL WALL. 0.23 3. LAS: KURDISH PESHMERGA SOLDIERS, PRAYING BY ROADSIDE. 0.30 4. MV: KURDISH PESHMERGA SOLDIERS WALKING UP HILLSIDE. 0.37 5. GV: DAMAGE CAUSED BY COALITION AIR ATTACKS INSIDE VILLAGE. 0.42 6. CU: BOMB CRATER IN VILLAGE / CRANE UP/WS: TO DAMAGED BUILDINGS. 0.49 7. WS/MLV: DAMAGE CAUSED BY COALITION AIR ATTACKS INSIDE VILLAGE. (2 SHOTS) 1.00 8. WS: COMPOUND USED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / VEHICLES INSIDE COMPOUND 1.06 9. MV: TWO U.S. SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS INSIDE COMPOUND/ ONE TALKING TO LOCAL INTERPRETER. 1.12 10. MV: U.S. SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS NEAR VEHICLE. 1.20 11. WS: U.S. SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS MOVING OUT OF COMPOUND IN CONVOY OF VEHICLES. 1.28 12. WS/ZOOM IN/MV: U.S. SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS IN BACK OF VEHICLES / ONE MANNING A MACHINE-GUN, ANOTHER SPEAKING ON RADIO. 1.48 13. WS: CONVOY MOVES OFF, HEADING SOUTH. 1.55 14. GV: PESHMERGA SOLDIERS MARCHING SOUTH ALONG ROAD. 2.01 15. CU/TRACK: U.S. SPECIAL FORCES SOLDIERS IN VEHICLE. 2.08 16. GV: VEHICLES IN THE DISTANCE, MOVING SOUTH ALONG ROAD. 2.14 17. LAS: U.S. F-14 FIGHTER-BOMBER IN SKY ABOVE. 2.20 (U4)NEAR ARBIL, NORTHERN IRAQ (APRIL 6, 2003) (REUTERS) 18. VARIOUS: OF U.S. PARATROOPERS ON PATROL, HEADING SOUTH TOWARDS HAWARE AREA. (2 SHOTS) 2.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 21st April 2003 13:00
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  • Location: HAWARE AND NEAR ARBIL, NORTHERN IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAEP6UTSOE5G1NLU4BTUBM2SOCX
  • Story Text: U.S. special forces and their Kurdish allies have taken
    the village of Haware in northern Iraq from Iraqi government
    forces. The village is 25 km south of the Kurdish controlled
    village of Kalak. Haware lies 30 km north of a road that links
    the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk. The road and the two cities
    are in the control of Iraqi government forces.



    A Reuters Television team entering Haware on Sunday
    (April 6, 2003), saw the wreckage of destroyed Iraqi army vehicles
    littering the road into the village.

    Some of the buildings in the village had been destroyed by
    aerial bombardment by coalition aircraft. Huge bomb craters
    could be seen in the centre of the village.

    According to local reports, U.S. special forces and
    Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers took Haware at 0700 local time
    (0300 GMT) on Sunday (April 6), after the Iraqis withdrew from
    the area.

    About 10 U.S. special forces and two of their vehicles
    were in Haware on Sunday. They soon moved out further south,
    backed by some 300 Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers.

    After about one hour, Iraqi forces began shelling the area
    south of Haware, targeting the Peshmerga and the U.S. special
    forces.

    A U.S. F-14 fighter-bomber flew overhead and appeared ready to
    provide air support.

    Near Arbil on Sunday, a column of U.S. paratroopers were
    on patrol and were seen heading south towards the Haware area.

    GULF WAR 3



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