Overnight shelling, damage, tanks in Shiite neighbourhood

Описание: (10 May 2004)

Sadr City neighbourhood, Baghdad
1. Wide shot of fires smouldering in a local market in Sadr City, bombed by U.S. overnight
2. US tanks driving in the city streets and locals looking at them
3. Various of extensive damage to the market
3. Street light pole with wires cut
4. Various of damage with locals standing
5. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Eyewitness (no name):
''''At 2:30 am (22:30 GMT) overnight, U.S. planes bombed Sadr office with three missiles, and two missiles hit a wood market which was totally burned.''''
6. Various of damage
7. Various high shots of the destruction of Sadr office in Sadr City with people running through the streets

Al-A''del neighbourhood, Baghdad
8. US humvee on fire
9. Various of humvee burning
10. US helicopter flying over the site
11. Humvee burning

STORYLINE:

A U.S. aircraft destroyed a Baghdad office of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, his followers said on Monday.

There was no comment from the U.S. command.

The office, located in the Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, lay in rubble on Monday.

Residents took to the streets with white plastic buckets and wheelbarrows to remove the rubble.

It was one of two main al-Sadr offices in the Baghdad area.

Locals displayed fragments from an American missile, with "Guided missile: surface attack" stencilled on the casing.

The U.S. command in Baghdad said it had no report of an air attack.

However, a statement by the command said U.S. troops clashed on Sunday with "numerous anti-Iraqi forces" in Sadr City, killing 19 of them in separate engagements.

One U.S. Bradley Fighting Vehicle was hit by a grenade but there were no U.S. casualties, the statement added.

U.S.-led forces have been trying to kill or capture al-Sadr and disband his militia after an Iraqi judge issued an arrest warrant for the young
cleric in connection with the killing last year of a moderate religious leader in Najaf.

On the other side of the city, In the al-A''del neighbourhood of western Baghdad, a U.S. humvee was seen burning.

There was no available information about either the cause or casualties.

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