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GWT: WRAP Adds crowds cheering to British forces advance into central Basra

(13 Apr 2003) VIDEOPHONE QUALITY ON SOME SHOTS including 1-5 1. Crowd of cheering Iraqi's approaching camera 2. Various of cheering people 3. Various of people climbing on tank 4. Tanks and armoured vehicles in street 5. APC drives past wall with poster of Saddam Hussein 6. Sunrise over Basra skyline, tank goes past in foreground 7. Helicopters landing troops on road outside Basra 8. Troops walking down road 9. Helicopters flying off 10. Various of tanks going down road 11. View down gun barrel as ammunition is fired, wide of buildings in distance, flashes of explosion 12. Warrior armoured personnel carriers in streets 13. Machine gun firing from Warrior 14. Loud gunfire from tank (out of shot) 15. Smoke rising from target 16. Small arms fire at tanks from building, flashes seen from windows 17. Soldiers getting out of APC 18. Soldiers against wall of building 19. Soldiers running from APC to building 20. Apache helicopter flying overhead 21. Apache flying low over buildings, tanks in street 22. British soldiers running along roof 23. Apache flies over 24. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Col. Hugh Blackman, commanding officer, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards "As we started to enter the city centre in order to conduct this attack we started to come against a degree of opposition. Some tanks, T-55, a small number, but in the main Fedayeen and irregulars with small arms and RPG-7 rockets." 25. Warrior APC firing 26. Soldier firing missile from launcher on shoulder 27. Various of soldiers moving forward from positions 28. Various of columns of armoured vehicles approaching Basra 29. Wide of factory as forces arrive 30. Various of troops searching grounds of factory 31. Wide of tanks and civilians on bridge 32. Iraqi being taken prisoner 33. Various of groups of civilians 34. SOUNDBITE (Arabic with English translation) Vox Pop, Basra resident "Now we need supplies, food and water to help us. The first and most important thing is the water." 35. Iraqi men on donkey cart, waving white flag 36. Various of children with donkey cart piled high with loot, towing a machine 37. More looting 38. Various of white flags flying from building 39. Statue of Saddam Hussein getting run into by armoured vehicle STORYLINE: Cheering crowds of Iraqi's welcomed British forces in Basra on Sunday evening after the largest military incursion yet into the southern Iraqi city. In a day-long operation, British troops and marines destroyed the Baath Party there and pounded the headquarters of a militia loyal to President Saddam Hussein. Three British soldiers died during the attack on Basra, the Ministry of Defence said later on Sunday. British pool reports said the final five-mile push into the centre of the city was quick and without resistance. Instead, the troops and marines found the streets of Iraq's second city lined with civilians cheering and waving. The elite forces began the attack at dawn with heavy shelling as they edged closer to the city's edge. A column of more than 40 armored personnel carriers and tanks plowed deep into the city, where British forces and Iraqi fighters have waged exhaustive battles for control since the war began. The 7th Armored Brigade launched an attack from the west and battled their way toward the city centre, killing an unknown number of paramilitary fighters and taking others prisoner. Royal Scots Dragoon Guards commanding officer Hugh Blackman said troops cleared a factory complex on the outskirts of the city that intelligence strongly indicated was the headquarters of the Fedayeen resistance in the area. 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...