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Sandstorm hits Kuwait, plus people fleeing possible impact of conflict
Kuwait City
1. Mid-shot of Kuwait City in sandstorm, pans down to armoured vehicle
2. Close-up of soldier holding rifle
3. Two soldiers on top of armoured vehicle
4. Mid-shot of soldier in sandstorm
5. Car drives past camera
6. Troop...
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GNS: US Defence Secretary continues tour of Gulf region
Doha, Qatar
1. Wide of Rumsfeld walking with entourage across tarmac to plane
2. Rumsfeld getting onto "The Spirit of Middle Georgia" US Air Force plane
3. Rumsfeld putting his jacket on back of chair in plane, sitting down
4. Mid of...
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Various - Update on Iraq crisis
UN chief Kofi Annan was awaiting a green light from the Security Council on Monday for a visit to Baghdad amid growing calls for him to make a last-ditch effort to defuse the crisis over arms inspections.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohammad...
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GWT: WRAP Sirens/ People in gas masks/ Scud inteception
Kuwait city
1. Wide shot, Kuwait city street with sound of sirens
2. Mid shot, two men in gas masks
3. Men sitting around car, siren stops
4. Tanks driving through street
5. Wide shot, street
Kuwait Desert
6. Mid shot of crater
7. Mid...
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UK troops practise NBC suit drills
1. Medical armoured vehicle stopping beside "casualty"
2. Driver gets out of vehicle
3. Zoom into soldiers stretchering gas "casualty"
4. Soldiers placing stretcher in back of medical vehicle
5. Vehicle driving off
6. Soldiers standing...
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WRAP Bush has breakfast with US Navy 5th Fleet, leaves Bahrain
1. Wide of US President George W. Bush entering breakfast room of US Navy 5th Fleet
2. Bush greeting officials; UPSOUND clapping and cheering, zoom out to wide of room, zoom in to Bush greeting officials
3. Wide of officials clapping,...
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UK: LONDON: 5TH ANNIVERSARY OF END OF GULF WAR COMMEMORATED
Natural Sound
The UK Royal Family and numerous British and foreign dignitaries and servicemen attended a service at St. Pauls Cathedral in London on Wednesday to commemorate the end of the Gulf War five years ago.
More than 200 members...
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US troops on base, soundbites from Kuwaitis in Iraq occupation.
1. Wide shot of desert sunrise.
2. Wide shots of soldiers running during exercise period.
3. Various shots of soldiers exercising in fitness facility.
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major General Warren Edwards, U.S. Army First Cavalry...
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Kuwaitis who lived through Iraqi invasion watch Saddam trial, reax
1. Various of a main road in Kuwait City, the Kuwait Towers in the background
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Vox Pop:
"To be sentenced to imprisonment or something else is not just. He should be tortured so that he can feel what torture he did,...
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US Dem presidential hopeful playing basketball, meeting troops on Friday
++DVIDS - US Department of Defence Handout++
1. Illinois senator and Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama enters sports hall, greets troops
2. Troops applauding
3. Obama addressing troops
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barack...
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USA: TEXAS: FIRST CHARTERED AIRLINER FLIES OUT TO KUWAIT WITH TROOPS
English/Nat
The first of three-thousand American troops left Fort Hood in Texas, Wednesday, for Kuwait. A chartered airliner flew out with 219 soldiers aboard.
The troops will join 12-hundred U-S soldiers already in Kuwait.
Leaving the...
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Kuwaiti FM visits, comments on post-war Iraq
1. Car arriving at Kuwait Embassy in Beijing, Kuwaiti Minister of State for Foreign Affairs gets out and walks into building
2. Various inside at press conference
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sheikh Dr. Mohamad Sabah Salem Al-Sabah, Kuwaiti...
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IRAQ: LEADERSHIP URGES ARAB WORLD TO CONDEMN US/UK AIRSTRIKES
Natural Sound
The Iraqi leadership on Tuesday urged the Arab world to condemn the American and British airstrikes.
The statement was issued after Iraqi President Saddam Hussein met several Cabinet ministers and Parliament Speaker...
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Kuwait, Saudi, Iran comments after OPEC forgoes production cut
1. Various of Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ali Naimi, Saudi Oil Minister:
"They only cut when they have to, and I hope they don't have to. We want to sell our product, we're not...
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FRANCE: KUWAIT'S MINISTER OF PETROL MEETS PM JOSPIN
English/Nat
Kuwait's Minister of Petrol, Sheikh Saoud Massev Al-Sabah, met French Prime minister Lionel Jospin in Paris on Wednesday.
The aim of the meeting was said to be a discussion of the crisis in Europe following the rise of petrol...
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IRAQ: SADDAM CLAIMS FORCES DEFENDED SUCCESSFULLY LATEST AIRSTRIKE
Arabic/Nat
Iraqi TV has claimed that anti-aircraft gunners drove off an attack by 'enemy' planes that crossed into Iraq from Kuwaiti and Saudi airspace on Saturday.
It didn't identify the nationality of the aircraft, but Iraq normally...
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Contingent of Japanese troops arrives en route to Iraq
1. Various of officials on runway at Mubarak Air Base
2. Col. Koichiro Bansho, who is leading the humanitarian mission, being greeted as he steps down from plane,
3. Col. Bansho saluting
4. Wide shot of aircraft
5. Troops stepping down...
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US army stages biggest desert manoeuvres since Gulf War
20 December 2002
1. Wide US M1A1 Abrams tank with "All the way to Baghdad" written on its barrel
2. Mid shot of same tank
3. Close up (pull focus) of same tank
21 December 2002:
4. Wide of tank driving along
5. Mid shot of tank commander...
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IRAQ: US/UK PATROLS
Arabic/Nat
In a televised interview, Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said that Iraq will fire on U-S and British warplanes patrolling the no-fly zones imposed after the Gulf War.
Ramadan's interview was conducted in Baghdad...
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GWT: Marines arrive in Southern Kuwait, bring heavy equipment
1. US Army vehicles driving through checkpoint
2. Panning shot, marines and equipment
3. Marine examining weapon
4. Wide shot, marines
5. Marines sitting around tanks
6. Various, marines sitting and lying on ground
7. Marines around...
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Arrivals for OPEC meeting
1. Sign outside El Mitak residence where OPEC summit will be held
2. Foyer pans to media working
3. Close up journalist
4. SOUNDBITE: (French) Chakib Khelil, Algerian oil minister
"This is an extraordinary meeting of OPEC that was...
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USA: US PREPARED TO TAKE ALL NECESSARY ACTION TO DEFEND TROOPS
English / Nat
The United States will take all "necessary and appropriate actions" to defend its forces in the Middle East from any challenge posed by Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the US Defense Secretary William Perry warned Thursday.
Speaking...
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VOICED Soldier writes to wife for final time before battle
0000 Wide shot US army camp with vehicles and tents
0003 Various helicopters
0011 Tanks
0016 Various Private Michael David Trudel, 1st Combat Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division writing letter to wife inside armoured personnel carrier
0033...
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US troops exercise near the border with Iraq
SHOTLIST: NB: wrong slate on tape, story correct
1. U-S troops assembling
2. U-S troops gathering amid boxes
3. Troops cleaning equipment and checking tanks
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) VOX POP Military Officer
"Times are a little different...