(22 May 2004)

1. Wide shot of blast site, smoke, bystanders
2. Various of damaged cars
3. Engine lying in street
4. Pan across scene, smouldering wreckage, police
5. Pan from police by wrecked car to ambulance with siren on
6. US soldiers bending over injured person in doorway
7. US soldiers coming out of gate pan to bystanders

8. Men carrying body of victim in blanket and placing in ambulance
9. Firemen spraying car
10. Smouldering wrecks of cars
11. Ambulance leaving scene

12. Various of injured man being taken into ambulance
13. Pan up from bandaged foot to man in wheelchair
14. Interior Minister Samir Shaker Mahmoud al-Sumeidi among policemen and locals
15. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Samir Shaker Mahmoud al-Sumeidi, Minister of Interior:
"This is a heinous crime committed against an official aiming to serve the people and intending to put the law into force. But the criminals don't want the law to prevail and we will chase the perpetrators of this crime and they will be brought to justice."
16. Al-Sumeidi walking with his guard

STORYLINE:

A car bomb exploded outside the home of a deputy interior minister on Saturday, wounding him and killing at least five people, including four police.

The blast hurled two cars onto the front lawn of the official's house, and police fired shots to disperse distraught bystanders who scuffled with them.

Abdul-Jabbar Youssef al-Sheikhli, the deputy minister in charge of security, was slightly injured in the forehead and right arm, a Health Ministry official said.

Al-Sheikhli is a member of the Shiite Muslim Dawa party, which lost a prominent member this week in another fatal car bombing.

On Monday, the president of the Iraqi Governing Council, Dawa member Izzadine Saleem, was killed along with at least six other people near the headquarters of the U.S.-run coalition in the capital.

The blast outside al-Sheikhli's house occurred about 200 yards (metres) from the headquarters of the former Iraqi general security service in the Baghdad district of Baladiyat.

Police and U.S. military officers at the scene said the dead included four Iraqi policemen and a female neighbour who died in her home.

U.S. Army Captain Brian O'Malley of the 1st Cavalry Division, the U.S. Army unit in charge of security in Baghdad, said the blast occurred at about 8:05 a.m. (0405GMT) and was caused by a "vehicle-borne improvised explosive device."

It was unclear whether the bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker.

Interior Minister Samir Shaker Mahmoud al-Sumeidi visited the site and was mobbed by distraught neighbours who screamed at him "come and see what happened to our homes."

He told reporters: "It would seem that the criminals do not want the law to prevail or the security men to implement it."

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