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TAPE: EF03/0160 IN_TIME: 00:37:45 DURATION: 2:07 SOURCES: Greenpeace RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale without clearance DATELINE: Rotterdam - 20 Feb 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Greenpeace inflatable with NO WAR banner driving fast 2. Wide shot of two Greenpeace inflatables dinghies 3. Greenpeace inflatable drives past MVAS Progress with NO WAR banner followed by police 4. Greenpeace inflatables with rope attached to NDS Progress mooring line. 5. Front of police boat at side of Greenpeace inflatable 6. Greenpeace inflatable hosed by personnel on board Progress 7. Greenpeace inflatable and canoe hosed from bow of Progress 8. Greenpeace activists on board police boat after being arrested 9. Police boat circles greenpeace inflatable 10. Police boat picks up activist from water 11. Rainbow Warrior with yellow banners. Pan right to wide shot of Progress and police boat 12. Wideshot police boat and Rainbow Warrior 13. Rainbow Warrior STORYLINE: The environmental group Greenpeace said it confronted a freight ship in Holland early on Thursday carrying U.S. military equipment to the Gulf, in protest against a possible war in Iraq. Activists from the group attempted to board the cargo vessel - MVAS Progress - in Rotterdam port in three rubber dinghies, but were intercepted by police, according to Greenpeace. Greenpeace says that U.S. military personnel used water cannons to try and stop them climbing onto the side of the cargo vessel. The group also sailed its Rainbow Warrior ship alongside the American vessel in protest and tried to prevent the craft from leaving Rotterdam en route to the Gulf region. Greenpeace video footage of the protest showed several of the protestors being taken away by authorities, and a Rotterdam police spokesman said 10 activists had been arrested for trespassing in a secure area around the ship, according to the Reuters news agency. Greenpeace says it knows of one activist, an Australian, that has been arrested. The group is opposed to war on Iraq whether or not an attack is sanctioned by the United Nations. Greenpeace considers the solution to weapons of mass destruction is collective international arms control and disarmament.

Source ABCNEWS VideoSource
Title: Greenpeace Protest - US military ship headed to Gulf confronted by protesters
Date: 02/20/2003
Library: APTN
Tape Number: VSAP363974
Content: TAPE: EF03/0160 IN_TIME: 00:37:45 DURATION: 2:07 SOURCES: Greenpeace RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale without clearance DATELINE: Rotterdam - 20 Feb 2003 SHOTLIST: 1. Greenpeace inflatable with NO WAR banner driving fast 2. Wide shot of two Greenpeace inflatables dinghies 3. Greenpeace inflatable drives past MVAS Progress with NO WAR banner followed by police 4. Greenpeace inflatables with rope attached to NDS Progress mooring line. 5. Front of police boat at side of Greenpeace inflatable 6. Greenpeace inflatable hosed by personnel on board Progress 7. Greenpeace inflatable and canoe hosed from bow of Progress 8. Greenpeace activists on board police boat after being arrested 9. Police boat circles greenpeace inflatable 10. Police boat picks up activist from water 11. Rainbow Warrior with yellow banners. Pan right to wide shot of Progress and police boat 12. Wideshot police boat and Rainbow Warrior 13. Rainbow Warrior STORYLINE: The environmental group Greenpeace said it confronted a freight ship in Holland early on Thursday carrying U.S. military equipment to the Gulf, in protest against a possible war in Iraq. Activists from the group attempted to board the cargo vessel - MVAS Progress - in Rotterdam port in three rubber dinghies, but were intercepted by police, according to Greenpeace. Greenpeace says that U.S. military personnel used water cannons to try and stop them climbing onto the side of the cargo vessel. The group also sailed its Rainbow Warrior ship alongside the American vessel in protest and tried to prevent the craft from leaving Rotterdam en route to the Gulf region. Greenpeace video footage of the protest showed several of the protestors being taken away by authorities, and a Rotterdam police spokesman said 10 activists had been arrested for trespassing in a secure area around the ship, according to the Reuters news agency. Greenpeace says it knows of one activist, an Australian, that has been arrested. The group is opposed to war on Iraq whether or not an attack is sanctioned by the United Nations. Greenpeace considers the solution to weapons of mass destruction is collective international arms control and disarmament.
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