IRAQ: IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS ARREST SIX MEN SUSPECTED OF HAVING LINKS WITH FOREIGN MILITANTS IN BASRA HOTEL RAID
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IRAQ: IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS ARREST SIX MEN SUSPECTED OF HAVING LINKS WITH FOREIGN MILITANTS IN BASRA HOTEL RAID
- Title: IRAQ: IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS ARREST SIX MEN SUSPECTED OF HAVING LINKS WITH FOREIGN MILITANTS IN BASRA HOTEL RAID
- Date: 26th November 2004
- Summary: (W4) BASRA, IRAQ (NOVEMBER 26, 2004) (REUTERS) 1. TOP SHOT OF PICK-UP TRUCKS OF IRAQI NATIONAL GUARDS OUTSIDE HOTEL BUILDING 0.06 2. SLV ARMED POLICEMAN ON ROOFTOP 0.15 3. WIDE OF IRAQ NATIONAL GUARDS PICK-UP TRUCKS OUTSIDE HOTEL BUILDING 0.26 4. WIDE OF IRAQ NATIONAL GUARDS WITH COVERED FACES NEAR TRUCKS OUTSIDE HOTEL 0.34 5. VARIOUS OF IRAQI GUARDS BEHIND WIRE FENCE ON ROOF TOP 0.47 6. WIDE OF GUARDSMEN COVERING THEIR FACES WALKING IN STREET NEAR HOTEL 0.56 7. CLOSE OF POLICE ON ROOFTO SPEAKING INTO RADIO 1.04 8. SLV GUARDSMAN IN STREET 1.13 9. GUARDSMAN ARRESTING MAN 1.17 10. SLV GUARDS IN STREET 1.21 11. VARIOUS OF DETAINEES IN PICK-UP TRUCK/ DETAINEES STEPPING OUT OF TRUCK 1.36 12. SLV GUARDSMEN SECURING AREA 1.43 13. CLOSE OF POSTER OF THREE MEN WITH WRITING READING "PICTURE OF TERRORISTS IN SAMARA." 1.49 14. CLOSE OF WRITING WARNING UNIVERSITY STUDENTS OF SEVERE PUNISHMENT IF THEY DO NOT WEAR A HEADSCARF 1.54 15. VARIOUS OF GUARDSMEN TALKING ON RADIO/ TWO ARMED SECURITY MEMBERS NEARBY 1.58 16. CLOSE OF GUARDSMAN TALKING ON RADIO/ HOLDING UP PISTOL 2.05 17. WIDE OF NATIONAL GUARDSMEN IN STREET 2.11 18. WIDE OF GUARDSMEN ON ROOFTOP OF BUILDING 2.17 19. CLOSEUP OF GUARDSMAN ON ROOFTOP 2.22 20. SLV ARMED GUARDSMEN ON STREET 2.31 21. SLV GUARDSMAN BEHIND MOUNTED MACHINE-GUN 2.38 22. SLV MASKED GUARDSMAN NEAR TRUCK 2.43 23. CLOSE OF UARDSMAN HOLDING A DETAINEE IN PICK-UP TRUCK AND HITTING HIM ON BACK OF HEAD 2.58 24. SLV GUARDSMEN SECURING STREETS 3.07 25. CLOSE OF GUARDSMAN ON STREET 3.13 26. SLV GUARDSMEN NEAR TRUCK 3.19 27. SLV GUARDSMEN ARRIVING ON PICK-UP TRUCKS 3.17 28. VARIOUS OF FIVE SUSPECTED MILITANTS BLINDFOLDED STANDING AGAINST WALL IN INTELLIGENCE OFFICE 3.56 29. VARIOUS OF MILITANTS WITH GUARDSMEN 4.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: BASRA, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVA98037CNNJTHU2HYE9H9FB9812
- Story Text: Iraqi National Guards arrested six men suspected of
having links with foreign militants in a raid on a hotel in
Basra.
Iraqi National Guards on Friday (November 26)
stormed a hotel in the southern city of Basra, detaining
six men suspected of having links with militants.
A group of Iraqi National guardsmen were seen
surrounding the al-Yarmouk Hotel in the city, some 550 km
south of Baghdad, and then walking out with detainees.
The guardsmen deployed to the streets near the hotel,
with a number of them taking positions on the rooftops of
surrounding buildings.
The detainees were led blindfolded and handcuffed to
a waiting pick-up truck .
A source at the National Guards, who asked not to be
named, said the arrested men where from Samarra and
Falluja, two Sunni areas to the west of the capital.
One guardsman held up a picture of the men, saying
that there were "terrorists" from Samarra.
On Wednesday, police arrested five suspected fighters
north of the city of Basra.
Basra's police chief Mohammed Kadem al-Ali said the
arrested men, included five foreign Arabs, suspected of
planning attacks in the southern Iraqi city.
He said the suspected foreign fighters were a Saudi, two
Tunisians, a Libyan and an Iraqi.
Kadem said the men were stopped late on Wednesday at a
checkpoint in Qurna, about 37 miles north of Basra, and
"personal weapons" were found in their four-wheel-drive
vehicle. The men said they came from Falluja.
In another raid on Thursday at a Sunni mosque in
Zubayr, near Basra, Iraqi forces captured 37 suspected
Iraqi fighters from Samarra, Ramadi, Falluja and Mosul, the
Iraqi National Guard said.
Shi'a southern Iraq has seen less violence than the
country's Sunni heartlands, where the insurgency is
strongest.
The United States military says Iraqi guerrillas,
Saddam Hussein loyalists and foreign Arab fighters are all
involved in the insurgency against US-led troops and Iraqi
security forces.
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