GWT: WRAP British forces advance into central Basra

(6 Apr 2003) VIDEOPHONE QUALITY ON SOME SHOTS
1. Sunrise over Basra skyline, tank goes past in foreground
2. Helicopters landing troops on road outside Basra
3. Troops walking down road
4. Helicopters flying off
5. Various of tanks going down road
6. View down gun barrel as ammunition is fired, wide of buildings in distance, flashes of explosion
7. Wide of smoke covered buildings, fires burning in distance
8. Helicopter flies past
9. View down barrel of armoured vehicle as it fires
10. Armoured vehicles firing
11. Tank moving past fallen billboard of Saddam Hussein
12. Soldiers running forward
13. Soldier firing missile from launcher on shoulder
14. Various of soldiers moving forward from positions
15. Iraqis surrounding what appears to be a body
16. Injured man in back of pickup truck
17. Prisoner with head covered being searched
18. Soldiers running to cover
19. Machine gun firing from Warrior armoured vehicle
20. Loud gunfire from tank (out of shot)
21. Smoke rising from target
22. Small arms fire at tanks from building, flashes seen from windows
23. Soldiers against wall of building
24. Soldiers running from APC to building
25. Apache helicopter flying overhead
26. Apache flying low over buildings, tanks in street
27. British soldiers running along roof during searches
28. Apache flies over
29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Blackman, commanding officer, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, British Army:
"As we started to enter the city centre in order to conduct this attack we started to come against a degree of opposition. Some tanks, T-55 (the type of tank), a small number, but in the main Fedayeen and irregulars with small arms and RPG-7 rockets."
30. Prisoner being led away
31. Various of groups of civilians
32. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic with English translation) Vox Pop, Basra resident:
"Now we need supplies, food and water to help us. The first and most important thing is the water."
33. Various of Iraqi civilians waving from vehicles
34. Man holding poster of football players
35. Various of family waving from property gate
36. Iraqi men on donkey cart, waving white flag
37. Various of children with donkey cart piled high with loot, towing a machine
38. More looting
39. Statue of Saddam Hussein getting run into by British armoured vehicle
40. Various of white flags flying from building
41. Crowd of cheering Iraqis approaching camera
42. Various of cheering people
43. Various of people climbing on tank
44. Tanks and armoured vehicles in street
45. APC drives past wall with poster of Saddam Hussein
STORYLINE:
Cheering crowds of Iraqis welcomed British forces in Basra on Sunday evening after the largest military incursion yet into the southern Iraqi city.
In a day-long operation, British troops and marines said they had destroyed the Ba'ath Party there and pounded the headquarters of the Fedayeen militia loyal to President Saddam Hussein.
Three British soldiers died during the attack, the British Ministry of Defence said later on Sunday.
The British military says it appears Basra's Ba'ath Party leadership has collapsed.
It was the deepest British forces had moved into the southern city, Iraq's second largest with a population of
1.3 (M) million.
Previously, British forces have remained on the outskirts of town and staged raids and incursions from those positions.
British pool reports said the final five-mile (8 kilometre) push into the centre of the city was quick and without resistance.
British troops and marines found the streets of Iraq's second city lined with civilians cheering and waving.
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[@phucknuts.7065]

Tony Blair should be in prison. I am truly sorry Iraq. God bless.

[@user-en9rt3sw2l]

بحجة أسلحة الدمار الشامل حطموا بلد وشعب لأجل سرق الاثار وسرق الاموال والنفط ولا يزالون يتأمرون على العراقيين

[@oldpain7625]

4:09 Forgetten history by most people

[@IMP-vi6je]

First most of them were paid of forced at gun point to do that
Second those same people will be carrying guns and fighting the brits

[@hussamaldean20]

شنو الي اسفاديتو ياعراقين من هاذه الي صار بس الدمار والقتل والتهجير وحقوق مسلوبه بيد الحراميه

[@iom5292]

ألف شكر وتحيه للرئيس جورج بوش و قوات التحالف المحررة للعراق والعراقيين من صدام النكس والبعثين السفله الكفرة
جعلها الله في ميزان حسناتك ايها الرئيس جورج بوش

[@أسدالبصرةالشمريأسدالبصرةالشمري]

تبقون عملاء للغرب حتى هاذا ساعة

[@bassamabobusairi1029]

The is my collage 😭in 2008

[@GBARBERSHOPG]

What it is the name of the place