Скачать с ютуб WRAP Sporadic gunfire echoeing through centre of Karbala, pilgrims в хорошем качестве

WRAP Sporadic gunfire echoeing through centre of Karbala, pilgrims

(29 Aug 2007) SHOTLIST August 29, 2007 1. Building fa�ade scorched by fire AUDIO gunfire 2. Burnt out car 3. Huge cloud of black smoke near the holy shrine of Imam al-Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammed 4. Fire truck and smoke, people looking on 5. Various wides of scene with smoke 6. Close of building on fire 7. Group of people street 8. Helicopter flying over 9. Imam al-Hussein Hospital sign, Karbala 10. People in hospital corridor 11. Injured boy in hospital bed 12. Man with chest and arm injuries 13. Badly injured man on bed 14. Injured man being wheeled into room on trolley 15. Wooden coffin being taken to morgue 16. Various of women grieving outside morgue 17. Various of bodies in morgue 18. People gathered outside morgue 19. Ambulance turning in street 20. Coffin being loaded on to truck August 28, 2007 21. Crowds around holy shrine of Imam al-Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammed 22. Ambulance passing through crowd 23. Soldier standing on jeep directing pilgrims, pullout to wide 24. Gunman in mask directing pilgrims pullout to wide 25. Man being walked and handed over to group of armed men August 28, 2007 26. Various of policeman with machine gun mounted on back of vehicle 27. Soldiers on foot and police cars arriving August 28, 2007 28. People running in street, zoom-in to masked gunman firing rifle AUDIO gunfire 29. Damaged motorbike, zoom-in ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 30. Crowd of pilgrims in street 31. Zoom-in from crowd to soldier 32. Pilgrims dancing and chanting 33. Various of buildings and vehicles on fire STORYLINE: Authorities locked down access to the southern city of Karbala on Wednesday after fierce clashes between rival Shiite militias claimed more than 50 lives and forced an end to a massive religious festival. Security was heightened in other Shiite areas to prevent clashes from spreading. Following two days of clashes, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, went to Karbala to meet with local officials trying to restore order and move the hordes of pilgrims who had descended on the city for the festival. The Karbala office of al-Maliki's Dawa Party was firebombed during the melee. Sporadic gunbattles raged Wednesday near two shrines protected by the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, although violence was tapering off. Clashes began late Monday but escalated dramatically the following day when gunmen believed to be from the Mahdi Army militia of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr began firing on security forces and the Badr guards, according to security officials. However, a spokesman for al-Sadr denied that the Mahdi Army was involved in the Karbala fighting. Al-Sadr called for an independent inquiry into the clashes and urged his supporters to cooperate with the authorities "to calm the situation down," the spokesman said. A pro-Sadr member of the Karbala city council, Ahmed al-Husseini, blamed the violence on pro-Iranian groups among security forces that guard the Karbala shrines. In another development, al-Sadr ordered a six-month suspension of activities by the Mahdi Army in order to reorganise the force, an aide said Wednesday. The organisation has reportedly broken into factions, with some disenchanted with Al-Sadr's call to keep a low profile during the U.S. Surge. The U.S. maintains some of these splinter groups are trained and supplied by Iran, though no concrete proof of that has been forthcoming. Tensions have been rising in southern Iraq as rival Shiite groups manoeuvre for power, especially in the oil-rich area around Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. 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...