IRAQ: US SOLDIERS SHOOT LOOTERS ATTEMPTING TO ENTER BAGHDAD HOTELS

Record ID: 648527

  • Title: IRAQ: US SOLDIERS SHOOT LOOTERS ATTEMPTING TO ENTER BAGHDAD HOTELS
  • Date: 20th September 2003
  • Summary: (W5) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (SEPTEMBER 20, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. WIDE / PAN U.S. SOLDIERS AND TANK AT CHECKPOINT 0.07 2. SMV CAR THAT WAS SHOT AT BY U.S. SOLDIERS 0.12 3. SMV U.S. SOLDIER 0.17 4. CLOSE OF INTERIOR OF CAR 0.21 5. SMV JOURNALISTS 0.28 6. SMV CAR INTERIOR 0.33 7. SLV PEOPLE GATHERED AROUND THE CAR 0.39 8. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) LIEUTENANT SERGEANT RYAN BARDONNE, SAYING: "They ran at the checkpoint. You can see all the security out there, all the soldiers and the Iraqi police. Anybody in their right mind would know to not to go past there. They undoubtedly had false intentions and they were carrying a big handgun. I don't now what their intentions were, I don't want to speculate, we haven't had time to interview them yet." 1.00 9. SLV PEOPLE ON THE ROOF OF THE SHERATON HOTEL, OPPOSITE PALESTINE HOTEL 1.06 10. WIDE OF CROWD 1.11 11. WIDE OF SHERATON HOTEL 1.16 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th October 2003 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA1DUTJ5P0CLUGYFNJUXSMVU44V
  • Story Text: US soldiers shot at looters who attempted to enter a hotel
    compound in Baghdad


    Looters tried to enter the compound which houses
    Baghdad's Palestine and Sheraton hotels on Saturday
    (September 20) sending the media into a frenzy of activity.

    Soldiers said they shot at the looters as they tried to
    drive away and destroyed what was left of their beaten up
    Corona car.

    Fearing an attack on their compound journalists rushed
    to the scene just to find that the attackers were in fact
    most probably petty thieves.

    Lieutenant Sergeant Ryan Bardonne said the hotel
    compound was the wrong place to attempt a robbery.

    "They ran at the the checkpoint. You can see all the
    security out there, all the soldiers and the Iraqi police.

    Anybody in their right mind would know not to go past
    there. They undoubtedly had false intentions and they were
    carrying a big handgun. We haven't had time to interview
    them yet," Bardonne said.

    A large number of journalists and coalition personnel
    are staying at the Palestine and Sheraton hotel compound.


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