GWT: WRAP - APTN footage of battle for airport

(4 Apr 2003)

1. Truck on road to airport
2. Close up airport sign
3. Picture of Saddam with tank in front
4. Soldiers walking in formation through trees
5. Wider shot of soldiers walking in formation
6. Soldiers running to truck, audio gunfire
7. Soldiers sheltering behind tank
8. Soldiers sheltering behind fortification
9. Close up soldier aiming gun
10. Wide shot soldiers sheltering behind vehicles
11. Soldiers lying down
12. Soldier climbing fortification, looking through binoculars
13. Soldier running across road to join others behind vehicles
12. Mid shot soldiers behind vehicles
14 Soldier looking through viewfinder
15. Wide shot soldiers behind wall, standing on fortification
16. Soldiers with missile launcher
17. Wide shot small tower
18. Mid shot tower
19. Soldier aiming missile, UPSOUND (English) Soldier:
"Hey, there's something wrong with the missile, this one's messed up", soldier brings back launcher
20. Pan of soldiers, UPSOUND (English) Soldier looking through binoculars: "They're moving."
21. Side shot of soldiers with launcher
22. Close up soldier putting helmet back on
23. Missile launched, soldier with launcher runs back
24. UPSOUND soldiers cheering, soldier on walkie talkie
25. Wide shot soldiers and vehicles, audio gunfire, soldiers move to shelter
26. Explosion behind wall with soldiers sheltering in foreground
27. Fire behind trees
28. Soldier behind wall
29. Mid shot tank
30. Group of soldiers behind wall, pull out
31 Soldiers running over to join group
32. Soldier behind car
33. Troops behind vehicle doors
34. Point of view shot of soldiers and ground
35. SOUNDBITE (English) Coalition soldier (no name available):
"Hopefully this is a sign that we're able to send to the residents of Baghdad that we're here and they can rise up and deal with the regime appropriately and save some future battles inside the city."
36. Wide shot soldiers frisking Iraqi man
37 Wide shot Iraqi POW's sitting down
38. Wide shot tanks on road
39. Tank turning around
40. Pull out from soldier behind truck to tank passing
41. Tracking shot of destroyed Iraqi aircraft on airport tarmac
42. Pan of destroyed Iraqi aircraft
43. Wide shot aircraft

STORYLINE:

US soldiers from the 3rd Infantry Division seized Saddam International Airport, 15 kilometres (nine miles) from downtown Baghdad on Friday, and said they are renaming it Baghdad International Airport.

APTN footage showed US soldiers fighting Iraqi units in the airport area on Friday.

The combat footage shows a US soldiers firing a missile towards Iraqi positions as well as captured Iraqis.

The seizure of the airport is a crucial step in the bid to establish a base of operations for coalition forces just outside the Iraqi capital.

Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, in a news conference in Baghdad on Friday, promised to annihilate American forces at Saddam International Airport.

He said Iraqi forces had surrounded coalition units and cut them off from other units near the city.

The capture of the airport prevents Iraq's leaders from fleeing by air and enables coalition forces to use it now or in the future, Brooks said.

Special operations forces were "in key locations" inside the capital, Brigadier General Vincent Brooks told a news conference at US Central Command headquarters in Qatar.

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