(5 May 2005) SHOTLIST
POOL
Baghdad - 5 May 2005
1. Various of police car on fire in incident that killed eight policemen
2. Police at the site
3. Bodies on the ground
4. Police car on fire
5. Wide shot smoke and traffic
6. Various police next to damaged car
POOL
Baghdad - 4 May 2005
7. Various soldiers at car bomb site in nine Iraqi National Guardsmen were killed and 20 wounded
8. Crowds and damaged cars
9. Various US troops and people on street
10. Damaged buildings
11. Mid shot family outside building
POOL
Baghdad - 5 May 2005
12. Wide shot road where suicide bomber blew himself up at a recruitment centre at Muthanna airbase
13. Mid shot road with police truck
14. Red Crescent ambulance driving along road
15. Watch tower
16. Various soldiers on street
APTN
Baqouba - 4 May 2005
17. US vehicles blocking road where the attack took place
18. US soldiers at scene
19. Various of wreckage of car
20. Iraqi police at scene
21. Wreckage of car with US troops at scene
22. US troops checking crater
23. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Police Lt. Colonel - No Name Given:
"A car bomb exploded near one of our patrols in this area. The blast caused no casualties among our personnel as it (the explosion) was far away from them."
24. US soldiers at scene
STORYLINE
In three separate attacks targeting Iraqi security forces, including one by a man who slipped into an army recruitment centre with hidden explosives, militants killed at least 20 people in Baghdad on Thursday, police said.
The attacks came one day after a suicide attacker joined a line at a police recruitment centre in the northern Kurdish city of Irbil and blew himself up, killing 60 Iraqis and wounding 150.
The attacks are part of an escalation of violence aimed at destabilising Iraq's new democratic government. The militants often target Iraqi security forces, which are being recruited and trained by the US-led coalition as part of its eventual exit strategy.
As of Monday, at least 616 Iraqi police had been killed this year, according to statistics compiled by the Brookings Institution in Washington DC.
In Thursday's worst attack, a man carrying hidden explosives set them off inside an Iraqi army recruitment centre in central Baghdad, killing at least 11 people, police. The US military said it couldn't immediately confirm the attack.
The explosion occurred at the centre at about 8 a.m. (0400 GMMT), a police officer said on condition of anonymity. He said at least six people also were wounded in the blast.
The centre is near Baghdad's main train station and not far from the Green Zone, where Iraq's parliament and embassies are located and heavily protected by US forces.
In western Baghdad on Thursday, insurgents attacked two police patrols, killing a total of nine policemen, an official said.
Gunmen opened fire on a patrol in the Al-Amil area of western Baghdad at 6:45 a.m. (0245 GMT), killing eight policemen and wounding two, said police Maj. Mousa Abdul Karim.
He first reported the blast was caused by a suicide car bomb, but said he realised that wasn't the case when rescuers reached the scene.
About 15 minutes after the Al-Amil attack, a suicide car bomb exploded in the nearby Al-Gazaliya area, killing one policeman, wounding six and destroying four of their cars, said Karim.
The US military said it had no immediate information about attacks in Al-Amil or Al-Gazaliya.
In Baqouba, 60 kilometres (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded on Wednesday near an Iraqi police patrol, according to authorities.
No casualties were reported among the policemen.
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