Preps with checkpoints and civil defence soldiers practising drills

Описание: (3 Nov 2002)

Kuwait-Iraqi border, Kuwait - November 3, 2002
1. Pan across desert to wide of checkpoint
2. Kuwaiti soldiers at checkpoint
3. Kuwaiti army jeep under camouflage
4. Long shot of tents at the checkpoint
5. Truck arriving at checkpoint
7. Kuwaiti soldier checking papers
8. Kuwaiti soldiers checking in back of truck
9. Long view of Kuwaiti army vehicles
10. Kuwaiti army helicopter landing
11. Close up of sign reading "No US Personnel Beyond This Point"
12. US army helicopters in flight
13. Tanks being moved on trucks

Kuwait City, November 3, 2002
14. Wide exterior of Ministry of Information with people running and alarm bells ringing
15. Fire engines arriving
16. Emergency services worker running
17. Various of emergency services workers treating and transporting mock injured
18. Close up of mock injured man
19. Emergency worker helping mock injured
20. Soldiers at the scene
21. Wide of people watching
22. Set up of Mustafa Jomma, Colonel in Civil Defence Force
23. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mustafa Juma, Colonel in Civil Defence Force:
"All the Ministries are prepared for any normal or abnormal attacks."
24. Wide of mock injured being moved on stretchers
25. Mock injured person being loaded into ambulance

FILE 2001 Kuwait-Iraqi border
26. Wide of US soldiers looking through binoculars
27. Wide of US soldiers on maneuvers in the desert
28. Various of tanks rushing across desert
29. Digger working next to tank
30.Tank rushing up to camera


STORYLINE:

Kuwait on Sunday began restricting access to a vast area where its military forces conduct maneuvers with western troops, mostly Americans.

The measure comes after two attacks on U.S. military personnel last month in Kuwait, a major U.S. ally in the Gulf.

In the first attack on October 8, a Marine was killed and another wounded.

Kuwait said the zone is being cleared as a security measure to permit the US army to operate behind the line in safety.

The ban on people visiting the training area in northwest Kuwait is aimed at safeguarding lives, according to the defence ministry. The area is popular with campers, bird hunters and sheep herders. The war games are conducted with live ammunition and heavy military machines.

Meanwhile, hundreds of government employees took part in a mock evacuation to the sound of echoing explosions and wailing fire engines.

It was the latest in a series of drills to prepare Iraq's neighbour for possible reprisals by Saddam Hussein.

Many Kuwaitis fear they may be targetted by Iraq if the United States attacks Baghdad.

Sunday morning's exercise began with three controlled explosions in a courtyard of the Information Ministry buildings.

Ten minutes later, about 300 employees filed out of a 14-story building, past people lying on the ground
covered with fake blood.

Fire engines with sirens blaring arrived to seal off the buildings, which are responsible for state radio and television broadcasts.

US-led forces liberated Kuwait in 1991 from a seven-month Iraqi occupation. Kuwait and Washington have defence pacts and the tiny Arab state remains one of America's closest Gulf allies, hosting some 10,000 U.S. military personnel.

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