(13 Apr 2003) VOICED BY: VERA FRANKL


Kirkuk's outskirts
0.00 - Barbed wire next to road
0.04 - Various, US troops checking cars
0.14 - US troops at checkpoint
0.19 - US troops at gun position
0.23 - Cars driving away from checkpoint
0.29 - Pan to cars at side of road from Arbil to Kirkuk

Kirkuk
0.35 - Wide shot water tankers driving through barrier at US military base, former Iraqi airport in Kirkuk, in background shot of plane
0.39 - Civilians queuing for water
0.43 - Woman pushing drum for water
0.46 - SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop. Kirkuk Resident
"Mr George Bush says become happy when we come. Where is water?"
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop. Kirkuk Resident
"The people here die. Why? Why? Why No food, no anything. why?"
1.00 - Troops outside government building
1.04 - Tilt up from weapon to soldiers face
1.09 - Pull out US troops outside building, delegates entering building
1.17 - SOUNDBITE (English) Major Dino Saracino, Commander of Delta 96 Force, Civil Affairs, US Special Forces:
"As for civil affairs, we'll go out and assess other things like medical health needs and just to find out where the weaknesses are so we can start working that and building back."
1.28 - Soldiers driving away in Humvee
1.39 - Soldiers on back of vehicle lighting cigarettes
1.44 - VISION ENDS

STORYLINE

US troops are working with the local authorities in the city of Kirkuk to work towards establishing an interim authority.

The city's currently under the control of Kurdish fighters who say they'll give up power when more Americans turn up.

In the meantime, however, locals are concerned with their most basic needs.

0.02:
Strengthening their grip.

0.03:
American forces are establishing control in the run up to their takeover of Kirkuk.

0.09:
Kurdish fighters currently control the city. They say they'll yield to the Americans once more of them arrive.

0.16:
Kirkuk's surrounded by abundant oil fields with pipelines connected to ports on the Mediterranean Sea.

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Neighbouring Turkey is concerned that Kurds would use that oil wealth to help fund an independent state - perhaps encouraging Kurds in Turkey to follow suit.

The Turkish government fears that Kurds there would be encouraged by this to seek independence.

0.34:
At the US base - set up at the city's former airport - residents were filling up containers with water.

0.40:
Despite the region's natural resources locals are concerned, for the moment, with their basic needs.

0.46:
SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop. Kirkuk Resident
"Mr George Bush says become happy when we come. Where is water?"
SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpop. Kirkuk Resident
"The people here die. Why? Why? Why No food, no anything. why?"

1.00:
In Kirkuk's centre US commanders were meeting local representatives, including Kurdish officials.

1.05:
The meeting was one of the first steps towards setting up a new administration to run the city.

1.12:
Once basic needs are met then other issues will be dealt with.

1.17:
SOUNDBITE (English) Major Dino Saracino, Commander of Delta 96 Force, Civil Affairs, US Special Forces:
"As for civil affairs, we'll go out and assess other things like medical health needs and just to find out where the weaknesses are so we can start working that and building back."

1.28:
Restoring law and order could be an uphill struggle for those involved.

1.33:
But it's considered vital that all sides start working together if ethnic strife in post Saddam Iraq is to be nipped in the bud.

1.44:
VISION ENDS

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