IRAQ: DOZENS OF IRAQIS ARE DETAINED BY U.S. TROOPS IN BAGHDAD FOLLOWING A GRENADE-ATTACK ON U.S. FORCES

Record ID: 648289

  • Title: IRAQ: DOZENS OF IRAQIS ARE DETAINED BY U.S. TROOPS IN BAGHDAD FOLLOWING A GRENADE-ATTACK ON U.S. FORCES
  • Date: 4th August 2003
  • Summary: (U4) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 4, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. MV/ZOOM OUT: DETAINEES HANDCUFFED SITTING ON THE GROUND IN AL-RASHEED STREET WHERE THE INCIDENT TOOK PLACE (2 SHOTS) 0.17 2. MV: U.S SOLDIER SEARCHING A DETAINEE 0.24 3. MV: U.S HUMVEE TOWING A JEEP WITH FLAT TYRE 0.31 4. MV: U.S SOLDIERS CUFFING HANDS OF A MAN 0.37 5. ZOOM OUT FROM DETAINEES TO A U.S SOLDIER ON HUMVEE, HOLDING A PISTOL 0.49 6. MV: U.S SOLDIER WITH DETAINEES 0.53 7. LV/SLV: U.S SOLDIER PUTTING A DETAINEE IN A TRUCK (2 SHOTS) 1.09 8. MV: U.S HUMVEE 1.13 9. SLV: DETAINEES IN A MILITARY TRUCK 1.23 10. MV: U.S SOLDIER ON A ROOF OF A BULDING 1.27 11. WIDE OF U.S SODIER ON THE BUILDING 1.37 12. SV: THE TRUCK CARRYING THE DETAINEES MOVING 1.46 13. WIDE OF ONLOOKERS ON STREET CORNER 1.49 14. SLV: THE TRUCK CARRYING DETAINEES DRIVING 2.05 15. MV: DOZENS OF DETAINEES IN A TRUCK 2.12 16. MV: IRAQI POLICE LOOKING ON 2.18 17. LV: THE TRUCK DRIVING 2.27 18. CU/SV: U.S SOLDIER HOLDING A PISTOL (2 SHOTS) 2.37 19. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Arabic) HADI SALEH, AN EYEWITNESS SAYING: "A U.S. soldier was injured and they transferred him there. We would like to talk about those people whom they detained. The doer fled. What is the guilt of those, all of them are workers." 2.49 20. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Arabic) HUSSEIN KANAN SAYING: "Two people were coming near that building and hit two U.S humvees with grenades while standing there. They were with a Tikrit accent not ours." 3.07 21. SCU: SOUNDBITE (Arabic) NASER ALI SAYING: "What is the guilt of those people. We are poor people. We would like to live." 3.13 22. SLV: U.S. SOLDIERS ON STREET 3.19 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 19th August 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVAA9D5ZSD82XT3YTVCVUKS6KNCV
  • Story Text: Dozens of Iraqis have been detained by U.S troops in Baghdad
    in the wake of a hand grenade attack that reportedly injured
    a U.S. soldier

    U.S forces launched a wide-scale man-hunt campaign,
    arresting dozens of Iraqis in al-Rasheed street, central
    Baghdad, on Monday (August 4), following a grenade-attack
    on U.S forces earlier in the day.

    U.S. forces put the detainees in trucks and they were
    taken for investigation.

    Angry Iraqis who lined the street expressed
    indignation over the process of detention.

    "A U.S. soldier was injured and they transferred him
    there. We would like to talk about those people whom they
    detained. The attacker fled. What is the guilt of those,
    all of them are workers," Hadi Saleh, an Iraqi citizen,
    said.

    U.S. forces have frequently come under hit and run
    attacks since the downfall of Baghdad to the coalition
    troops on April 9.

    At least 52 U.S. soldiers were killed since U.S.

    President Bush declared major combat over on May 1.




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