Iraq A'math of night clashes

Описание: (19 Sep 2004)

1. Various shots of night clashes
2. Exterior Fallujah hospital
3. Interior of hospital with bodies and wounded
4. Various injured people
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hospital Doctor (no name available):
"About 11pm, the Fallujah hospital received two martyrs and after half an hour we received two more martyrs and five wounded from the American bombing around Fallujah. Actually, the bombing was very strong.''
6. Locals gathering inside the hospital.
7. Exterior of the hospital.

STORYLINE:

US forces struck a checkpoint in the western city of Fallujah on Saturday, allegedly manned by insurgents linked to the suspected 'terror' mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, according to a military statement.

The attack occurred at 1030 pm (1830 GMT) on the northern outskirts of Fallujah, while heavily armed insurgents were allegedly operating an illegal
checkpoint, the military said in a statement.

A local hospital official said four people brought into the facility were dead on arrival and another five were admitted after sustaining injuries in the attack.

"The illegal checkpoint used blockades to disrupt security, intimidate and harass local citizens and interrogate and detain local civilians," the US military statement said.

"Evidence indicates Iraqi citizens have been kidnapped at such checkpoints, taken to outlying areas where they were forced to dig their own
graves and then executed," it added.

Saturday's attack was the latest in a series of strikes in and around Fallujah which started late on Thursday.

The military said claimed there were "no innocent Iraqi civilians reported in the area," during Saturday's strike.

Al-Zarqawi's Tawhid and Jihad group has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly attacks in Baghdad during the past week as well as a number
of car bombings, kidnappings and other assaults meant to destabilise the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi and his US allies.

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