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Mortar barrage strikes Green Zone
1. Various of thick smoke plume billowing from the Green Zone/ UPSOUND: mortar type explosions
2. Wide of Green Zone buildings/ UPSOUND: mortar type explosions
A series of mortars or rockets slammed into the US-controlled Green Zone in...
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Skorsky helicopters taking off and landing
1. Skorsky helicopter landing
2. Skorsky helicopter taxiing
3. Helicopter being towed
4. Skorsky helicopter taking off
5. Helicopter lands
Skorsky helicopters could be seen taking off and landing from Diyarbakir military base on...
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Police show weapons, ammunition seized during campaigns
1. Mid of building with sign, reading: (Arabic) "Ministry of Interior - Karbala police directorate"
2. Various of confiscated weapons laid out on ground
3. Mid-shot of ammunition and shells
4. Close-up of confiscated mortar rounds
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Car bomb kills four people, wounds 16, scene, hospital
Al Sarafiyah bridge, Karkh district
1. Wide of the site where the bus exploded
2. Mid of the site and fire engine
3. Rubble and debris on ground with firemen walking
4. Bloodspot on the ground
5. Mid of explosion scene
6. Fire...
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At least 51 killed in suicide bombing GRAPHIC PIX
1. Various of police officers and emergency workers at scene
A suicide attacker killed at least 30 people when he exploded a bomb-laden vehicle outside a central Baqouba police station on Wednesday, a top Iraqi police official said.
The...
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FM says talks can resume only if Iran returns to moratorium
1. Wide of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov at news conference
2. Wide of press
3. Mid shot journalist taking notes
4. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister:
"Sanctions are not the best or the only way to...
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WRAP Polish ambassador hurt in attack ADDS file, embassy exterior
Baghdad, 3 October 2007
1. Military vehicles at site of attack, wreckage seen behind them
2. Various of security and military vehicles at site, wreckage behind them
3. Close-up of security at site
4. More of military vehicles and...
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Defence secretary visits troops
1. Wide of Iraqi troops
2. Pan to mid shot of soldiers
3. Wide of British Defence Secretary John Reid arriving
4. Close up of flags
5. Wide of Reid inspecting Iraqi soldiers
6. Mid shot of Reid talking to a soldier
7. Reid shaking...
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Car bomb at ING headquarters kills one guard
1. Iraqi National Guard, ambulance driving away with sirens blaring, AUDIO: gunshots
2. Various of men looking at the wreckage from car bomb at the scene
3. Fire fighters cleaning up the scene
4. Iraqi soldiers surround the...
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President Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight Monday for a two-day break from a summer vacation, during which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and beach plans. (Aug. 18)
President Barack Obama returned to Washington just after midnight Monday for a two-day break from a summer vacation, during which airstrikes in Iraq and violent clashes in a St. Louis suburb intruded on his golf and beach plans.
The...
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Ashoura, one of Islam''s most solemn holidays, will be held on Christmas day this year. In Baghdad, Christmas has gone underground. Plastic Father Christmas ornaments are not selling and Christmas trees in storefront windows are few and far between.
HEADLINE: Raw Video: Christmas preparations in Baghdad
CAPTION: Ashoura, one of Islam''s most solemn holidays, will be held on Christmas day this year. In Baghdad, Christmas has gone underground. Plastic Father Christmas ornaments are...
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Iraq - UN weapons inspectors continue to work
United Nations weapons inspectors resumed work in Iraq on Thursday (22/01) after the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) chief Richard Butler flew out of Baghdad empty handed.
Butler departed after three days of talks during which...
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Iraq holds long-awaited provincial elections, polls open
1. Wide exterior of the Marjiyoun polling station in Baghdad's Karrada neighbourhood
2. Mid-shot of officials outside
3. People checking seals on ballot box inside polling station
4. Election official (female) sitting behind desk
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Turkish military activity in Diyarbakir
1. Helicopter landing
2. Helicopter taxiing next to parked one
3. Plane taxiing on tarmac
4. Helicopter taxiing
5. Plane taking off
Turkey on Wednesday continued to move troops to its border with the autonomous region of Kurdistan in...
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Scene of kidnapping of American and Austrian contractors
1. Road in Safwan where convoy of private security contractors attacked
2. Building along edge of road and green flag flying
3. Various of traffic along the road
An Austrian security guard taken hostage with four Americans was killed and...
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Radical cleric in public as his newspaper is reopened
1. Hundreds of supporters surrounding radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as he enters Imam Ali Shrine
2. Various of Muqtada al-Sadr's bodyguards trying to keep people away from him as he kneels for prayers.
3. Close-ups of Sadr...
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Japanese troops continue their withdrawal
1. Various of Japanese trucks carrying military vehicles driving on the Safwan highway, south of Baghdad on their way to Kuwait
2. Convoy stopping at checkpoint in the south of the country
Japanese troops on Tuesday continued their...
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SECURITY AND PREPARATIONS FOR 5+1 MEETING ON IRAN NUCLEAR PROGRAMME
Iraqi authorities tightened security in the capital Baghdad on Tuesday, ahead of talks between six world powers and Iran on the latter's controversial nuclear programme.
Baghdad's security-force commanders said security-levels have been...
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SYND 23 6 75 MAKARIOS ARRIVES TO BAGHDAD
President of Cyprus Archbishop Makarios arriving to Baghdad.
1. gv plane taxiing in
2. ms Iraq officials across tarmac
3. ms Makarios out of plane and greeted
4. gv military band playing
5. various of Makarios shaking hands with line of...
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Al Ma'amon telephone tower on fire
1. Various wides of TV tower with nearby telephone exchange building belching smoke
2. Close-up of smoke billowing from tower
3. Wide shot looking up at burning building
4. Various of smoke billowing from telephone exchange and past TV...
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Site where light aircraft crashed, killing five
1. Sign in Arabic and Kurdish reading "Crude oil, Diyala, 20 km"
2. Oil refinery flame
3. Blackened area where the plane crashed
4. Battery of the plane on ground
5. Various of the scene where the aircraft crashed, pieces of...
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell arrives in China
1. Wide of US Secretary of State Colin Powell's plane on runway
2. Cutaway cameraman
3. Mid shot of Powell's plane taxiing on runway
4. Mid shot US ambassador to China Clark Randt (red tie) and China protocol officer Zhou Wen Zhong...
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Blast near national museum kills 2
1. Wide shot of scene with onlookers, zoom in US military vehicles and soldiers
2. Wide shot of US military vehicle and US soldier near wreckage
3. Various of onlookers gathering around wreckage of car bomb
4. Various shots of Iraqi...
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Two killed as mortar rounds hit stadium in north of capital
Baghdad's Kadhimiyah neighbourhood
1. Wide of stadium where mortars landed
2. Various of bloodstains on ground
3. Various of crater caused by mortar
4. Mid of hole in fence, crater
5. Pan from crater to hole in fence, bleachers
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