Aftermath of overnight air strikes on Fallujah
(4 Oct 2004) 1. Pan across rubble after air strike, residents 2. Bulldozer 3. Various of residents digging through rubble 4. Close-up spade digging 5. Destroyed building 6. Men around damaged car covered in debris 7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Eyewitness "One of the American enemy aircraft fired two missiles, killing 11 innocent people, including women and children." 8. Local people on heaps of rubble 9. Various of people pulling car out of debris 10. Sign reading in Arabic: Fallujah General Hospital 11. Various of injured child in hospital 12. Various of injured man 13. Doctors treating injured person STORYLINE: US war planes launched an air strike on the rebel-held Iraqi town of Fallujah early on Monday - the latest strike in weeks of attacks targeting groups linked to the network of Jordanian terror mastermind, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The city hospital said two people were killed and 12 were wounded in the strikes. At least one child was among the injured in hospital. A local man put the casualty rate higher, saying 11 people, including women and children, were killed when two missiles struck. Dr Rafe al-Issawi said two more people, a man and his wife, were killed and two others were wounded when a tank fired on a house. The US military, which confirmed only one strike targeting a building where militants were moving weapons, regularly accuses the hospital of inflating casualty figures. Fallujah residents said US troops built temporary checkpoints across two entrances into the city, 65 kilometres (40 miles) west of Baghdad, regarded by the US military as the "toughest nut to crack" in Iraq. US military officials have indicated they plan to step up attacks on key Iraqi cities this autumn, partly as a way to put pressure on the militants to negotiate with Iraqi officials. "I have personally informed them (Fallujah residents) that it will not be a picnic. It will be very difficult and devastating," Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawer said on the Al-Arabiya television network. But he added that Iraqi troops had to establish a presence in all Iraqi cities. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
