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(15 May 2004) Nasiriyah 1. Driving shot showing concrete block and barbed wire fence, believed to be fence round Coalition headquarters 2. Various of Iraqi police at side of road, police waving on traffic 3. Pan across masked armed militia on pavement Baghdad 4. Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, the chief military spokesman in Iraq, and Dan Senor, coalition spokesman, walk into briefing 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, chief military spokesman in Iraq "There were also a number of incidents last night in Nasiriyah. There was a report yesterday at 1600 that approximately 40 personnel carrying weapons had gathered near two of the bridges crossing the Euphrates. These forces attacked the CPA building and patrols in and around the city starting at 1930 last night. The CPA building was attacked by mortars, RPGs and small arms fire five times between 7.30 pm and 0230 in the morning. Coalition patrols were attacked three times by small arms fire as they manoeuvred to secure the building. Nonetheless by 0200, reinforcement coalition troops had entered and secured the CPA compound. By 0300 the coalition forces had reestablished control of the city. There were no coalition casualties as a result of these attacks." 6. Kimmitt and Senor walk out of briefing STORYLINE: Overnight fighting ebbed early on Saturday in the southern city of Nasiriyah, where gunmen believed to be loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had attacked the local headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition. Shooting lasted all night until 6 a.m. around the coalition building, where some international staffers and four Italian journalists were trapped, said US spokesman Andrea Angeli, who was among those in the building. Italian forces and Filipino security guards in the compound fought militiamen who fired mortars, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades from the southeast and northeast parts of the city, Angeli said by telephone. In Nasiriya, calm had returned but there was a strong Iraqi police presence on routes in and out of the city, and armed militia men were seen on the streets. Speaking to reporters in Baghdad, chief military spokesman in Iraq Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt said reinforcement coalition troops eventually entered and secured the coalition compound and had had reestablished control of the city by dawn. "There were no coalition casualties as a result of these attacks" he 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...