(22 Apr 2004) SHOTLIST
Fallujah, Iraq - 22 April, 2004
1. Wide shot of Fallujah families waiting at US Marines checkpoint to enter city
2. US Marine with sniffer dog on road
3. Mid shot Marine with ''Fallujah'' sign in background
4. Wide of people waiting on road
5. Pan from lorry to Marines
6. Marine with gun
7. Various of people waiting to enter Fallujah
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Nadhim Mohammed, Fallujah resident:
"We have been trying to enter Fallujah since six this morning. The Americans waste time, telling us to wait. We need to get back and check on our homes and families."
9. Marines cross road - group of ICDC soldiers in background
10. Iraqi police officers
Baghdad, Iraq - 22 April 2004
11. Set up of Doctor Muthana Harith
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Dr. Muthana Harith, spokesman for negotiators:
"Despite yesterday''s attacks in Fallujah, a few families were allowed back into the city. For security reasons though, many were not. Medical supplies were also stopped from being taken in."
Fallujah, Iraq - 22 April 2004
13. Wide of checkpoints
Fallujah, Iraq - 22 April, 2004
14. Wide shot Lieutenant-General James Conway standing at podium
15. Reporter
16. Conway talking
17. Reporter
18. SOUNDBITE (English): Lieutenant-General James Conway, senior US marine commander in Iraq:
"The people of Fallujah, the negotiators, have to understand that it is a give-and-take process. We''re allowed, we''re expected to give certain things and I think we have. We expect certain things in return, and those things, to date, have not been forthcoming. (Q: How long do they have?) Days, not weeks."
19. Wide shot Conway
20. SOUNDBITE (English): Lieutenant-General James Conway, senior US marine commander in Iraq:
"We were not pleased at all with the turn-in that we saw yesterday. In terms of volume, it probably amounted to a pick-up truck full. I didn''t see the actual weapons, although a number of my staff did, and I think that your characterisation is pretty much the way they would cite it, junk - things that I wouldn''t ask my marines to begin to fire because they probably wouldn''t even be safe to handle."
21. Reporter
22. Wide shot Conway at podium
STORYLINE:
US Marines continued their blockade of Fallujah on Thursday, refusing to allow residents to return to their homes in the city, 45 kilometres west of Baghdad.
Peace efforts ran into trouble on Wednesday as resistance fighters mounted a heavy attack on US Marines, with the ensuing battle killing 20 insurgents.
US Marines halted the return on Wednesday of some of the 70,000 residents, more than a third of Fallujah''s population, who had fled the city earlier this month during the bloody fighting.
About 10 families made it back into the city on Wednesday before Marines announced to some 600 Iraqis waiting at the checkpoint that no more would be allowed to enter.
This was corroborated by a spokesman for the negotiators in Baghdad on Thursday.
On Thursday crowds massed behind concertina wire, women and crying children pressing forward demanding to be let in. Nearby trucks were stacked high with families'' belongings and other goods.
The steps were a setback to two key parts of an agreement aimed at bringing peace to the beleaguered city, reached over the weekend by US officials and Fallujah city leaders.
Resistance fighters and residents in Fallujah have only days to turn in heavy weapons, the top Marine general in Iraq said on Thursday, warning that fighting could resume and that a Marine push to take the city will likely be costly for both sides.
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