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GWT: WRAP British forces advance into central Basra

(6 Apr 2003) VIDEOPHONE QUALITY ON SOME SHOTS 1. Sunrise over Basra skyline, tank goes past in foreground 2. Helicopters landing troops on road outside Basra 3. Troops walking down road 4. Helicopters flying off 5. Various of tanks going down road 6. View down gun barrel as ammunition is fired, wide of buildings in distance, flashes of explosion 7. Wide of smoke covered buildings, fires burning in distance 8. Helicopter flies past 9. View down barrel of armoured vehicle as it fires 10. Armoured vehicles firing 11. Tank moving past fallen billboard of Saddam Hussein 12. Soldiers running forward 13. Soldier firing missile from launcher on shoulder 14. Various of soldiers moving forward from positions 15. Iraqis surrounding what appears to be a body 16. Injured man in back of pickup truck 17. Prisoner with head covered being searched 18. Soldiers running to cover 19. Machine gun firing from Warrior armoured vehicle 20. Loud gunfire from tank (out of shot) 21. Smoke rising from target 22. Small arms fire at tanks from building, flashes seen from windows 23. Soldiers against wall of building 24. Soldiers running from APC to building 25. Apache helicopter flying overhead 26. Apache flying low over buildings, tanks in street 27. British soldiers running along roof during searches 28. Apache flies over 29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Blackman, commanding officer, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, British Army: "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 (the type of tank), a small number, but in the main Fedayeen and irregulars with small arms and RPG-7 rockets." 30. Prisoner being led away 31. Various of groups of civilians 32. 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." 33. Various of Iraqi civilians waving from vehicles 34. Man holding poster of football players 35. Various of family waving from property gate 36. Iraqi men on donkey cart, waving white flag 37. Various of children with donkey cart piled high with loot, towing a machine 38. More looting 39. Statue of Saddam Hussein getting run into by British armoured vehicle 40. Various of white flags flying from building 41. Crowd of cheering Iraqis approaching camera 42. Various of cheering people 43. Various of people climbing on tank 44. Tanks and armoured vehicles in street 45. APC drives past wall with poster of Saddam Hussein STORYLINE: Cheering crowds of Iraqis 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 said they had destroyed the Ba'ath Party there and pounded the headquarters of the Fedayeen militia loyal to President Saddam Hussein. Three British soldiers died during the attack, the British Ministry of Defence said later on Sunday. The British military says it appears Basra's Ba'ath Party leadership has collapsed. It was the deepest British forces had moved into the southern city, Iraq's second largest with a population of 1.3 (M) million. Previously, British forces have remained on the outskirts of town and staged raids and incursions from those positions. British pool reports said the final five-mile (8 kilometre) push into the centre of the city was quick and without resistance. British troops and marines found the streets of Iraq's second city lined with civilians cheering and waving. 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...