(27 Oct 2003)
Al-Shaab area, east Baghdad
1. Wide shot of blast site, with destroyed building being guarded by US soldiers
2. Large crater caused by blast
3. Close up people searching amongst debris, pull out to show wide shot of destroyed building
4. Wide shot Iraqis carrying body wrapped in blanket across bomb site
5. Wide shot bomb site
6. Another body being carried away
Ad Doura- (also known as Al-Alam area) , west Baghdad
7. Wide of the area where the explosion took place smoke by Omar mosque, zoom in
8. Soldiers next to wall with flames leaping up behind wall
9. Police vehicles on street
10. Destroyed cars and people examining wreckage
11. Wide shot scene of blast with security
Al-Khadra area, northeastern Baghdad
12. Wide shot black smoke pouring from blast
13. Closer shot of huge plumes of smoke and flames from blast
14. People putting badly wounded man in a car
15. Wide shot with smoke and fire
16. Injured man being helped away from scene
17. Close up cars burning
18. US troops arriving in truck
Central Baghdad
19. SOUNDBITE (English) US Brigadier General Mark Hertling - assistant Division Commander, First armoured Division:
"The Iraqi force protection services and the Iraqi police bravely defended the building, stopped the bomber and the bomber evidently exploded the device far outside the building."
Central Baghdad
20. US Humvees in front of the police station
21. Hole in wall which was rammed by car in attempted attack
22. Attacker's car with flat tyre and shattered windows
23. SOUNDBITE (English) US Brigadier General Mark Hertling - assistant Division Commander, First armoured Division:
"But it was a suicide bomb that did not go off. He was the one that was shot trying to get away from the vehicle. But all five of those were suicide attacks. (he pauses for question from media) He is a foreign fighter, he had a Syrian passport and the policeman claimed that as he was shot and fell, that he said that he was a Syrian."
24. Back of car with shattered windows
25. Front of car with wall debris on bumper
26. Wide exterior of police station
STORYLINE:
Car bombers struck the International Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad on Monday, killing about 40 people.
The spree of destruction terrorised the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The 45-minute string of bombings was Baghdad's bloodiest episode yet in a six-month-old underground war targeting the American-led occupation and those perceived as working with it.
It seemed to represent a dramatic escalation, from single suicide bombings to coordinated strikes.
27 people were killed in the police station bombings and all but one were Iraqis.
The US military has confirmed one American soldier was killed.
The first police station bombing, in the ad-Doura district of south Baghdad (also known as al-Alam), which reportedly killed 15 people people.
Then, at 8:55 a.m, another vehicle exploded at a police station in the al-Shaab district of north Baghdad, and 20 minutes later the third hit the station in al-Khadra, in northeastern Baghdad.
In the al-Khadra attack, a vehicle exploded in front of the police station, killing three or four people, according to an Iraqi policeman, who added that about 50 people were injured.
At a fourth police station in central Baghdad, officers stopped a suicide bomber before he could detonate his bomb.
US Brigadier General Mark Hertling praised the Iraqi police for preventing the car bombing and said the man they captured was carrying a Syrian passport.
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