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Iraq - Chemical Ali Among Those Sentenced To Death For Halabja Massacre
Baghdad/Halabja - 24 June 2007
1. Wide of Ali Hassan al-Majid, Hussein Rashid Mohammed, Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, Sabir al-Douri, Taher Tawfiq al-Ani and Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai in dock
2. Chief Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa
3. Ali...
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10th anniversary of war with Iraq marked with seminar on chemical weapons
1. Ministers being seated at conference table
2. Reporter's hand taking notes
3. Guests at seminar
4. IForeign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki approaching lectern
5. Guests following proceedings
6. SOUNDBITE (Farsi) Manouchehr Mottaki,...
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The MV Cape May is preparing to leave Portsmouth, Virginia in about two weeks time, heading for the Mediterranean, where other nations' ships will deliver chemical weapons from Syria to be destroyed. The Pentagon gave reporters a tour Thursday. (Jan. 2)
SOUNDBITE (English) Adam Baker, chemical engineer:
"Mustard gas, and DF is the other compound that's the most hazardous. That's the sarin precursor."
SOUNDBITE (English) Frank Kendall, Defense Under Secretary:
"This is a proven...
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EXCLUSIVE Report on reax among Kurds to the resumption of the Anfal trial without Saddam
Halabja - 11 January 2007
1. Wide skyline shot of city
2. Various of sign reading (Kurdish, Arabic, English) "Welcome to Halabja"
3. Wide of skyline
4. Various of monument in graveyard commemorating victims of 1988 chemical attack
5....
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BURMA: USA INVESTIGATION INTO HUMAN RIGHTS
Eng/Karen/Nat
Human rights campaigners are welcoming an investigation by the United States into claims that the Burmese government has used chemical weapons against Karen rebels.
The US military attache in Thailand is checking...
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Russian Deputy FM says Syria has assured Moscow it will not use chemical weapons
1. Wide of Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov walking into room for interview
2. Wide of Gatilov seated and looking at notes
3. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Gennady Gatilov, Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia:
"As to Russia, we have...
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UK's Hague says credible Syrian offer to hand over chemical weapons "welcome"
Britain has welcomed Syria's acceptance of the Russian proposal for President Bashar Assad's regime to place its chemical weapons under international control for dismantling.
William Hague, Britain's Foreign Secretary, was cautiously...
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Chemical weapons chief loses job in vote
1. Various of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) building
2. UPSOUND: (English) Jose Bustani, former OPCW Director-General walking away from building:
"The vote has taken place yes.
(Reporter question - off...
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Talks on future of head of world's chemical weapons body
1. Wide shot building
2. Mid shot cars driving up to building
3. Cutaway flag
4. Various delegates entering building
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) US State Department delegate (declined to give name)
"(Q What do you think of Mr Bustani? Should...
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Secretary of state on Syria developments, UN report on attack
US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that the United Nations should move swiftly to approve a US-Russia deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons.
Speaking at the State Department, Kerry said that there was no time to argue...
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China's FM says NKorea ready to make nuclear commitment; Syria; dispute over islands
China's foreign minister pushed on Friday for the restart of international talks on North Korea's nuclear programme, saying that Pyongyang is ready to recommit to the goal of denuclearisation.
A day after meeting with US Secretary of...
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Russian FM meets OPCW chief and Tom Lantos, comments on Iraq
1. Exterior of Russian Foreign Ministry
2. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov greeting Director General of the Technical Secretariat of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Rogelio Pfirter
3. Cutaway
4....
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Anti-terror exercise in London's financial heart
1. Emergency services preparing for chemical weapons attack exercise
2. Firemen setting up yellow decontamination chamber
3. White tent being carried at exercise scene
4. Fire engines at scene
5. Firemen setting up decontamination...
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On board a US ship being readied to destroy Syrian chemical weapons
A US government cargo ship should sail within two weeks on a mission to destroy some of Syria's chemical weapons, US officials said on Thursday.
The 648-foot (197.5-metre) ship, MV Cape Ray, was opened for media tours by the US Defence...
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Syrian opposition group not surprised by allegations of sarin use; pro Assad rally
A spokesman for the largest alliance of Syrian opposition members said on Sunday that "the world needs to send a very strong message" to the Syrian government following the alleged use of chemical weapons.
Speaking in Istanbul, Khalid...
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UN: IRAQ AGREES TO VISIT BY NEGOTIATORS IN ARMS INSPECTION DISPUTE
Eng/Fr/Span/Nat
Iraq agreed on Monday to allow a three-member U-N mission to visit Baghdad to try to defuse the crisis over Iraqi plans to expel American arms inspectors.
U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the three would not discuss...
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Director General commends those who work to ban chemical weapons
The head of the Nobel Peace Prize winning chemical weapons watchdog said on Friday he hoped the award would broaden efforts to achieve peace in Syria.
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) was formed in 1997 to...
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Syrian deputy FM says no evidence that Syria used chemical weapons
Syria's Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said in Damascus on Wednesday that there was no evidence that Syria had used chemical weapons.
"Of course there is no evidence at all," Mekdad said.
"The most dangerous thing regarding this...
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Makeshift clinic to treat those exposed to chemical weapons; Syrian refugees
A hospital in southern Turkey is bracing for the possibility of contamination following an alleged chemical weapons attack in neighbouring Syria.
Reyhanli State hospital in Hatay province, which abuts part of the 910-kilometre...
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At an Italian port on the Mediterranean the last batch of chemical weapons from Syria's arsenal is transferred to the US MV Cape Ray for destruction. (July 2)
A Danish ship carrying hundreds of tons of Syrian chemical weapons steamed into the southern Italian port of Gioia Tauro on Wednesday for a rendezvous with a US cargo vessel carrying equipment that will destroy the toxic material....
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IRAQ: UN TEAM'S MISSION TO DESTROY CHEMICAL WEAPONS
English/Nat
An international team of experts on Wednesday reached Iraq on a mission to destroy chemicals and mustard gas left behind by departing U-N weapons inspectors.
The experts are expected to assess the chemicals in the Baghdad...
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+4:3 US 'concerned' that Syrian regime may use chemical weapons
Washington
1. Wide of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney walking to podium
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jay Carney, White House Press Secretary:
"The Assad regime has been unable to halt the opposition's progress through conventional...
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UN secretary-general visits SKorean foreign ministry; comments on Syria, Egypt, Koreas
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Monday that the UN investigation team will start "conducting on-site fact finding activities" into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria in a matter of hours.
Speaking at a news conference...
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Israelis double demand for gas masks because of fears over Syria
The demand for gas masks among Israelis is doubling, according to a postal services spokeswoman, the latest sign of mounting fears that Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles could be used against the Jewish state as the crisis there...