Car bombings, a'math from Balad, Fallujah, Gates

Описание: (11 Feb 2008) SHOTLIST
Baghdad
1. Tracking shot along road toward dense black smoke rising, men on the road carrying guns UPSOUND: gunfire from shots being fired into air
2. People in street, smoke in background
3. People amid dense black smoke UPSOUND: gunfire from shots being fired into air, zoom in to car on fire
4. Firefighters at scene
5. Smoke, cars, firefighters
6. Various of damaged cars and car wreckage on fire in street
7. Firemen spraying water on cars
8. Crater in road
9. Firemen fighting fire, pan of scene to Iraqi soldiers running onto site
10. Iraqi soldiers evacuating injured soldier
11. Another injured person being evacuated
12. Ambulance driving along road
Baghdad
13. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates exiting car, shaking hands with Iraqi President, Jalal Talabani and other Iraqi officials
14. Various of Gates seated with Talabani during photo opportunity
15. Various of Gates seated with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki during photo opportunity
Balad
16. Wide of people gathered at scene in aftermath of bomb attack
17. People standing next to damaged shops and car wreckage
18. Wide of people and soldiers gathered at the site
19. Mid of people standing amongst rubble and wrecked vehicle
20. Bloodstains on ground, tilt up to wreckage of car
21. Long shot of women mourners gathering near a house, some beating their chests
22. Close-up of young man crying, pan to covered bodies in back of truck
23. Bodies under blankets, people mourning
24. Wide of graveyard and mourners gathered
25. Wide of burial trench being dug
26. Mid of men digging
27. Wide of graveyard and mourners
Fallujah, 65 kilometres (40 miles) west of Baghdad
28. Various of Iraqi police gathered around wreckage of vehicle
29. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mahmoud Sami, policeman:
"The captain came asking the car driver to step out of the car to check his identity. As soon as he stepped down he exploded on the captain, God may bless his soul."
30. Police gathered around wreckage of vehicle
STORYLINE:
Twin car bombs targeted a meeting of US-allied Sunni tribal leaders on Monday in Baghdad, killing at least 22 civilians and wounding 42, Iraqi officials said.
A dense cloud of black smoke filled the air as firefighters hosed down dozens of charred vehicles, with flames shooting out of the back of one pickup truck.
The attack occurred near the heavily fortified offices of Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of the country's largest Shiite party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, or SIIC, but the chief military spokesman for Baghdad said the apparent target was a nearby building in which Sunni chieftains from Anbar province who have joined forces against al-Qaida in Iraq were meeting.
The spokesman, Brigadier General Qassim al-Moussawi, said an explosives-laden minibus and a sedan blew up nearly simultaneously.
Iraqi police, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorised to release the information, said at least three members of the Anbar awakening movement were wounded.
The Anbar sheiks often meet in Baghdad and have been lobbying the national parliament in recent days over stalled draft legislation that would set a date for provincial elections.
The blasts ripped a crater two meters (yards) wide in the asphalt.
Television footage showed a soldier and a civilian being led away from the scene, pressing cloths to their bloodied heads as sirens wailed around them.
The American military, however, put the death toll at 23.

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