GWT: WRAP Sirens/ People in gas masks/ Scud inteception

(20 Mar 2003)

Kuwait city
1. Wide shot, Kuwait city street with sound of sirens
2. Mid shot, two men in gas masks
3. Men sitting around car, siren stops
4. Tanks driving through street
5. Wide shot, street

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Kuwait Desert
6. Mid shot of crater
7. Mid shot of missile fragment
9. Wide shot of crater, pan to another crater
10. Military personnel inspecting scene

Near Kuwait City
11. UPSOUND: Waling of air raid siren - Mid shot of empty street
12. Mid shot of siren
13. Panning shot of road crammed with cars
14. Police donning protective masks
15. Close-up of policeman with mask on
16. Panning shot, sand storm in desert
17. Various, helicopters flying
18. Vehicles driving down the road
19. UPSOUND: (English) Radio Announcement:
"So just to announce that the emergency sirens are now over, and everything is returning to normal. So please go back to your normal business. Thank you."

Kuwaiti International Airport
20. Various, people heading towards shelter inside the airport
21. Shelter sign
22. Various, people in bomb shelter
23. People entering shelter

Kuwait City
24. Wide shot, empty street
25. Deserted football pitch
26. Deserted children's playground

Kuwait International Airport
27. Wide shot, terminal
28. People checking in
29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sabah, Kuwaiti resident
"I don't want to live there in war. I don't want my children to feel these sounds and to hear these sounds of war. I don't want to make them afraid."
30. Wide shot terminal
31. Arrivals board

Kuwaiti Desert
32. Various, British soldiers and journalists taking cover and wearing respirators after chemical alert
33. Soldier adjusting boot
34. Soldiers/ journalists running for cover
35. Soldiers/ journalists helping each other with respirator straps
36. SOUNDBITE: (English) Unidentified First British soldier:
"I don't know how close they were and I don't know what they were but the call came to "gas go" and that was our first real drill."
Unidentified British Second soldier:
"You see the importance of having your kit on you, on your back, that's why it's got to be at hand."
37. Mid shot of reporters interviewing soldiers

Doha - Qatar
38. Wide shot press scrum
39. Mid shot US soldier listening
40. Cameras and journalists surrounding McCourt
41. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lt Colonel Ronnie McCourt, British spokesman:
"Confirm that three missiles were fired towards Kuwait. Two are believed to be anti-shipping missiles, one was confirmed as a scud. The Scud was knocked out by a Patriot system, (pause) No, I was just saying that one was knocked out by a Patriot system. Where the debris landed I'm not sure. The debris is being investigated at this moment but what we can say is that there are no causalities. And that concludes what I have to say for the time being. Thank-you very much."
42. McCourt talking to press

STORYLINE:

Air raid warnings sounded in Kuwait City on Thursday, as Saddam Hussein launched his first retaliation to a US air assault on Iraq a few hours earlier.

As the sirens went off, people on the street could be seen wearing gas masks. The alarm lasted a few minutes

Iraq was said to have fired a Scud missile toward a US troop position but it was intercepted by Patriot missiles, according to the US military.

US troops in the northern Kuwaiti desert put on gas masks in response to an alert caused by the missile, but were given the all clear shortly afterwards.


There were no immediate reports of any casualties or damage, and soldiers were given the all-clear.






All flights were temporarily suspended.




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