GWT: APTN footage of battle for airport

(6 Apr 2003)

1. Truck on road to airport
2. Close up airport sign
3. Picture of Saddam with tank in front at airport entrance
4. Soldiers walking in formation through trees
5. Wider shot of soldiers walking in formation
4. Soldiers running to truck, audio gunfire
5. Soldiers sheltering behind tank
6. Soldiers sheltering behind fortification
7. Close up soldier aiming gun
8. Wide shot soldiers sheltering behind vehicles
9. Soldiers lying down
10. Soldier climbing fortification, looking through binoculars
11. Soldier running across road to join others behind vehicles
12. Mid shot soldiers behind vehicles
13. Soldier looking through view finder
14. Wide shot soldiers behind wall, standing on fortification
15. Soldiers with missile launcher
16. Wide shot small tower
17. Mid shot tower
18. Soldier aiming missile, UPSOUND (English) Soldier:
"Hey, there's something wrong with the missile, this one's messed up", soldier brings back launcher
19. Pan of soldiers, UPSOUND (English) Soldier looking through binoculars: "They're moving."
20. Side shot of soldiers with launcher
21. Close up soldier putting helmet back on
22. Missile launched, soldier with launcher runs back
23. UPSOUND soldiers cheering, soldier on walkie talkie
24. Wide shot soldiers and vehicles, audio gunfire, soldiers move to shelter
25. Explosion behind wall with soldiers sheltering in foreground
26. Fire behind trees
27. Soldier behind wall
28. Mid shot tank
29. Group of soldiers behind wall, pull out
30. Soldiers running over to join group
31. Soldier behind car
32. Troops behind vehicle doors
33. Point of view shot of soldiers and ground
34. SOUNDBITE (English) Lieutenant Colonel Scott Rutter, Battalion Commander, US Army:
"Hopefully this is a sign that we're able to send to the residents of Baghdad that we're here and they can rise up and deal with the regime appropriately and save some future battles inside the city."
35. Wide shot soldiers frisking Iraqi man
36. Wide shot Iraqi POWs sitting down
37. Wide shot tanks on road
38. Tank turning around
39. Pull out from soldier behind truck to tank passing
40. Tracking shot of destroyed Iraqi aircraft on airport tarmac
41. Pan of destroyed Iraqi aircraft
42. Wide shot aircraft

STORYLINE:

United States (US) soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division seized Saddam International Airport, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from downtown Baghdad on Friday, and said they are renaming it Baghdad International Airport.

APTN footage showed US soldiers fighting Iraqi units in the airport area on Friday.

The combat footage shows a US soldiers firing a missile towards Iraqi positions as well as captured Iraqis.

The seizure of the airport is a crucial step in the bid to establish a base of operations for coalition forces just outside the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, in a news conference in Baghdad on Friday, said the Iraqis would annihilate American forces at Saddam International Airport.

He said Iraqi forces had surrounded coalition units and cut them off from other units near the city.

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