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(7 Apr 2007) SHOTLIST 1. Wide pan of Diwaniyah streets the morning after US airstrike 2. Pull out of children playing football in street 3. Wide of military vehicle driving down street 4. Wide of US military helicopter flying overhead 5. Pan of street 6. Zoom in of news conference 7. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Major General Oothman Farhood, Commander of 8th Iraqi Army Division: "The Governor of Diwaniyah, with whom I have always had direct contact, called me two days before the Army's operation in the city, to tell me that the security situation in Diwaniyah had reached a crisis point and that police forces had lost all control over the city." 8. Cutaway of Farhood and Police Chief Brigadier General Sadiq Jaafar Ali 9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Major General Oothman Farhood, Commander, 8th Iraqi Army Division: "The next day I received two letters. The first was a copy of a decision by the Diwaniyah Provincial Council, signed by the Head of the Council, asking the Army to advance into the city and restore order and security." 10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Brigadier General Sadiq Jaafar Ali, Iraqi Police Chief, Qadisiyah province: (part overlaid with document) "The police have not been marginalised. The police forces are simply poorly trained. The Diwaniyah police forces received insufficient training of a very poor standard due to lack of resources." 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel Michael Garrett Commander, 4th Brigade Combat Team Airborne 25th Infantry Division: "You will see tomorrow, General Sadiq and his police will be out enforcing the rule of law in Diwaniyah." 12. Wide of news conference 13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Major Vavel Lamla, Polish Coalition Forces: "We are going to establish the two elements inside of the city (Diwaniyah). The name of the elements is JSS, Joint Security Stations. They will be done by the (inaudible) elements which will be located inside of the city and JSS will consist of the coalition forces, Iraqi armed forces and the Iraqi police." 14. Wide of news conference STORYLINE US warplanes attacked suspected militiamen wielding shoulder-fired rockets on Saturday in the second day of fierce fighting between US and Iraqi forces and Shiite gunmen south of Baghdad, US and Iraqi officials said. At least one civilian was killed and five were seriously wounded when an American tank fired on their house in Diwaniyah, 130 kilometres (80 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. The victims had to be pulled from the rubble of their home, and evacuated to Diwaniyah hospital, police said. The US military had no immediate comment on Saturday on any casualties among civilians or soldiers in Diwaniyah. Saturday's airstrike was based on a tip-off from area residents who told Iraqi military officials that militiamen were operating in the area, the US military said in a statement. The strike targeted "illegally armed militiamen using shoulder-fired rocket propelled grenades," the statement read. Leaders of the joint US-Iraqi forces and Iraqi police held a news conference on Saturday to outline the grounds for the operation in Diwaniyah. Major General Oothman Farhood, Commander of 8th Iraqi Army Division told reporters he personally received a telephone call from the Governor of Diwaniyah asking for military intervention because, according to the governor, "police forces had lost control of the city." The operation began before dawn on Friday when US troops swept into the troubled, predominantly Shiite city of Diwaniyah, killing three militia fighters and capturing 27 in the first day of the assault, the military said. 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...