GWT: Information minister claims coalition helicopters downed
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(24 Mar 2003) SHOTLIST 1.
(24 Mar 2003) SHOTLIST
1. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, enters news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Minister of Information:
"A few farmers, a few peasants, brave peasants have shot down two Apache helicopters. We've shown one of them on the Iraqi television only half an hour back. And maybe, if we will find it convenient, maybe, maybe we will show the pilots. Maybe, or maybe not. They will protest again that we are violating Geneva Conventions. Their hands are still blood stained with Vietnamese blood, with all their aggressions all over the world and recently even women in Afghanistan and they are talking about Geneva Convention. The Zionists, the Jews, supported by those villains in Washington and London, murdering the Palestinians - even the babies, the infants - every day. They are keeping supporting the criminals in the Zionist entity and they are talking about Geneva Conventions."
3. Shot of Sahhaf past cameramen's shoulders
4. High shot of cameramen filming from spiral staircase
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Minister of Information:
"They are insisting criminally in bombarding the civilian quarters. Those stooges, those villains think that by widening their war crimes they can weakening us. They are not only wrong, they are criminal, criminals and stupid."
6. High shot from balcony of Sahhaf talking
7. Cameramen filming from spiral staircase
8. Side shot of Sahhaf and journalists
9. Sahhaf finishes speaking and walks from podium
STORYLINE
Iraq claimed on Monday to have shot down two coalition Apache helicopters and to be holding two pilots prisoner.
Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said at a briefing that Baghdad would consider showing pictures of the pilots he alleges crashed after coming under fire from local farmers.
Until this point, Iraqi state television has showed pictures of only one downed helicopter in a grassy field, but not the crews.
In the pictures aired on the Iraqi state channel, men holding Kalashnikov automatic rifles danced around the aircraft.
Iraqi state television also showed pictures of two helmets apparently belonging to members of the crew, as well as
documents and other papers lying on the ground.
US Central Command said it did not have any comment on the footage. A military spokesman said officials were
analysing the images.
The report of the downed helicopters and new prisoners of war came a day after al-Jazeera showed video images of five American prisoners of war captured in fighting near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
Even so, Sahhaf said that Iraq's leadership - including Saddam Hussein himself - said the POWs would be treated
according to the Geneva Conventions.
Sahhaf released a tirade against the United States, accusing Washington itself of violating the Geneva Convention in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and Vietnam.
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1. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Minister of Information, enters news briefing
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Minister of Information:
"A few farmers, a few peasants, brave peasants have shot down two Apache helicopters. We've shown one of them on the Iraqi television only half an hour back. And maybe, if we will find it convenient, maybe, maybe we will show the pilots. Maybe, or maybe not. They will protest again that we are violating Geneva Conventions. Their hands are still blood stained with Vietnamese blood, with all their aggressions all over the world and recently even women in Afghanistan and they are talking about Geneva Convention. The Zionists, the Jews, supported by those villains in Washington and London, murdering the Palestinians - even the babies, the infants - every day. They are keeping supporting the criminals in the Zionist entity and they are talking about Geneva Conventions."
3. Shot of Sahhaf past cameramen's shoulders
4. High shot of cameramen filming from spiral staircase
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Minister of Information:
"They are insisting criminally in bombarding the civilian quarters. Those stooges, those villains think that by widening their war crimes they can weakening us. They are not only wrong, they are criminal, criminals and stupid."
6. High shot from balcony of Sahhaf talking
7. Cameramen filming from spiral staircase
8. Side shot of Sahhaf and journalists
9. Sahhaf finishes speaking and walks from podium
STORYLINE
Iraq claimed on Monday to have shot down two coalition Apache helicopters and to be holding two pilots prisoner.
Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf said at a briefing that Baghdad would consider showing pictures of the pilots he alleges crashed after coming under fire from local farmers.
Until this point, Iraqi state television has showed pictures of only one downed helicopter in a grassy field, but not the crews.
In the pictures aired on the Iraqi state channel, men holding Kalashnikov automatic rifles danced around the aircraft.
Iraqi state television also showed pictures of two helmets apparently belonging to members of the crew, as well as
documents and other papers lying on the ground.
US Central Command said it did not have any comment on the footage. A military spokesman said officials were
analysing the images.
The report of the downed helicopters and new prisoners of war came a day after al-Jazeera showed video images of five American prisoners of war captured in fighting near the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah.
Even so, Sahhaf said that Iraq's leadership - including Saddam Hussein himself - said the POWs would be treated
according to the Geneva Conventions.
Sahhaf released a tirade against the United States, accusing Washington itself of violating the Geneva Convention in Afghanistan, the Palestinian territories and Vietnam.
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