(15 Apr 2003)
1. Cars at a US checkpoint on the outskirts of Kirkuk
2. Close-up barbed wire
3. Cars driving along road heading towards Kirkuk
4. Cars queuing to enter Kirkuk with tanks at side of road
5. Tracking shot of Kirkuk town centre
6. Various shops which have re-opened for business
7. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish): Feredyon Abdul Qadir, Administrator of Kirkuk :
"There is no more looting and stealing. The police now control the city. In each quarter of the city there is a police station and we were able to collect more than 100 stolen cars and a large amount of goods were recovered."
8. Various workmen clearing up and cleaning street
9. Man sweeping up rubbish on street
10. Women and children sitting on street
11. SOUNDBITE: (Kurdish) Mohammed Sayyid, Kirkuk resident:
"Thank God everything is normal now. There is nothing strange anymore. The regime has collapsed. It is very good and I can't say more than that, but we are very glad."
12. US petrol convoy leaving the military airfield in Kirkuk
13. Close-up of US military vehicle
14. US petrol convoy along road
15. Petrol convoy arriving at hospital in Kirkuk
16. Children cheering and shouting: 'George Bush'
STORYLINE:
The northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk is getting back to normal after several days of chaos and looting.
On Tuesday shops reopened, streets were swept clean, and the water and electricity supplies were restored.
Kirkuk Administrator, Feredyon Abdul Qadir, said the looting that followed the immediate downfall of Saddam Hussein's regime has stopped.
He said there are now police stations in "each quarter of the city ... and we were able to collect more than 100 stolen cars and a large amount of goods were recovered".
A few days ago an American checkpoint was set up on the outskirts of Kirkuk to prevent armed Kurds from entering the city.
The US troops have been patrolling Kirkuk' s streets to restore civil order - and the looting and violence that swept the city before their arrival has mostly subsided.
Last week, Kurds seized Kirkuk but US forces are now in control of the oil-rich city.
Kirkuk is about 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, and lies outside the autonomous Kurdish enclave set up in northern Iraq after the 1991 Gulf War.
The US is keen to show a nervous Turkey that it - and not the Kurds - is in control of Kirkuk.
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