Friday prayers, US Bishop arrives, foreign members of human shield

Описание: (21 Feb 2003)
1. High, wide shot of Baghdad street and a mosque
2. Wide of a mosque
3. Various of newspaper stalls
4. Various of people reading newspaper
5. Newspaper headlines: "Army preparations to face American threats"
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ahmed Nouri, teacher:
"The United States and it's ally Britain is pressurising the U-N to get a resolution to attack Iraq."
7. Family crossing street outside mosque
9. Wide of Um Al-ma'arek mosque
10. Wide interior of mosque
11. Mid shot people in mosque
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Imam of mosque:
"The war today on our country and on all Muslims is a holy war. They (Americans) seek to isolate Muslims from this world and true Islam."
13. High shot of people praying
14. Mid shot of praying
15. Congregation seen through open doors of Christian church
16. Various of service
17. Bishop Pierre W. Whalon Bishop surrounded by press
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Pierre W. Whalon, bishop in charge, Convocation of American Churches in Europe:
"This is not about Christians against Muslims. People say this is Christians attacking Islam - this is wrong. George W. Bush is a methodist. Methodist Christian churches have told him his policy is wrong."
19. Wide of Turkish human shield press conference
20. Mid shot of press conference
21. SOUNDBITE (Turkish) Sabah Dayanon, member of the Turkish Human Shield:
"We hope that the Turkish assembly will not let U-S troops to come to Turkey and we think that if somebody is killed the responsibility will be on the U-S troops, the allies and the Turkish M-P's who are supporting the war decision."
22. Wide of press conference

STORYLINE:

Anti-American sentiment continued to build in Baghdad on Friday, as news circulated that the US plans to table a new resolution on Iraq at the UN as early as next week.

If approved, the resolution could give the US a green light to use military force to disarm Iraq.

At Friday prayers in Baghdad, religious leaders continued their defiance in the face of looming conflict.

An American church leader visiting Iraq said US President George W. Bush had been told by his own church that his policy on Iraq was wrong.

Pierre Whalon, bishop in charge of the Convocation of American Churches in Europe, was holding a Mass at the Anglican church in Baghdad.

Meanwhile, members of a Turkish human shield group in Baghdad said on Monday that the Turkish parliament should not allow the use of US military bases in their country for deployment of US forces against Iraq.

Washington wants to use Turkey to open a northern front in a war in Iraq and Turkish and US officials have been in intense negotiations for weeks on the issue.

Turkish Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said he would make a statement on Friday on the US deployment.

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