NAME: IRQ FUNERALS 20070713Ix TAPE: EF07/0832 IN_TIME: 11:25:49:11 DURATION: 00:03:05:01 SOURCES: POOL DATELINE: Baghdad, 13 July 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Sadr City, Baghdad 1. Mourners waiting outside Al-Sadr Martyr hospital 2. Coffins (of Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen) carried out of hospital and into street 3. Two mourners embracing each other 4. Close up of Saeed Chmagh's coffin being lifted onto mourners' shoulders 5. Women in black crying with grief walk out of building joining men in street 6. Chmagh's son draping himself over car used as funeral hearse 7. Still of Saeed Chmagh 8. Posters of Namir Noor-Eldeen erected on minibus used as funeral hearse 9. Chmagh's father in wheelchair crying 10. Women clapping next to funeral hearse 11. Man crouched on floor crying 12. Various of funeral procession 13. US helicopter flies over funeral procession Baghdad's Amin neighbourhood 14. Various of larger funeral procession for another seven people killed in Thursday's clashes STORYLINE: Funerals were held in Baghdad on Friday for an Iraqi photographer and a driver who both worked for Reuters news agency, as well as seven others killed in clashes between the US military and insurgents on Thursday. The U.S. military said on Friday that nine insurgents and two civilians - including photographer Namir Noor-Eldeenm, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, both from Reuters - were killed in the fighting. Iraqi police blamed US military action for the deaths of the two Reuters' employees. Also on Friday, the funerals for another seven people killed in the clashes were held in Amin neighbourhood. The U.S. military said Thursday's fighting, in Baghdad's Amin neighbourhood, took place when troops on a raid came under attack from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades, prompting the American forces to return fire and call in aviation reinforcement. Thirteen insurgents were detained, it said. During the fighting, a U.S. helicopter struck targets on the ground as gunmen exchanged mortar and small arms fire with the Americans, said an Iraqi police official who was at the scene. Explosions hit several residential buildings, said the official, though he could not say which side caused the blasts. Officials from the three hospitals where the victims were taken put the toll at 19 dead and 20 wounded. The hospital and police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to give information to reporters. The discrepancy with the American count could not be immediately explained. A preliminary police report obtained by Reuters said Noor-Eldeen and Chmagh had been killed by a "random American bombardment" that had killed nine other people.

NAME: IRQ VIOLENCE 3 20070712I TAPE: EF07/0830 IN_TIME: 11:24:34:11 DURATION: 00:02:15:16 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Baghdad - 12 July 2007 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Baghdad's Amin neighbourhood, July 12, 2007 1. Wide of damaged building with people standing outside 2. Pull out from damaged building 3. People moving rubble about 4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) No name given, Local resident: "At 11.00 (0700 GMT) US forces surrounded the area and fired rockets on these innocent people. People who have already suffered, they came here to escape the attacks in Baqouba. These people have been living with hunger, they have no water or electricity. What have they done to anybody? Children are dead, what did they ever do to anybody?" 5. Wide shot of damaged building 6. Pan from another damaged house to destroyed minibus ++ PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS NOT THE VEHICLE BELONGING TO REUTERS PHOTOGRAPHER AND DRIVER KILLED IN THE AREA ++ 7. Close of destroyed vehicle 8. Pan of burnt debris outside scorched house 9. Various of street 10. Various of white car belonging to Reuters news agency employees who died in the incident 11. Pan of house and crowd of people Sadr City, July 12, 2007 12. Wide of gates of Sadr Hospital, 13. People outside morgue 14. Various of coffins 15. People mourning outside Reuters handout /AP Photo - No Access Canada/Internet Date Unknown 16. Two undated file photographs released by Reuters news agency shows photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22 , right, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, left . The Iraqi photographer and driver employed STORYLINE: US troops raided a Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, capturing two militants believed linked to Iran and sparking a battle that Iraqi officials said killed 19 people. Two employees of the Reuters news agency, an Iraqi photographer and his driver, were among the dead. Angry residents of Amin district many of them Shiites who fled to Baghdad from Baqouba, where US troops are waging an offensive against insurgents, accused US helicopters of striking buildings during the fight with gunmen and killing civilians. "These people have been living with hunger, they have no water or electricity. What have they done to anybody? Children are dead, what did they ever do to anybody?," one woman told AP Television." The US military did not immediately comment on the fighting. Among the dead were at least one woman and two children, and some of the men killed appeared to have been armed and firing on the Americans, Iraqi police and hospital officials said. The violence in the Amin district in eastern Baghdad began with a pre-dawn raid by US forces that the military said captured two militants involved in kidnappings and planting roadside bombs against US and Iraqi troops. Militants fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the troops, hitting a nearby building, the military said in a statement. After the initial raid, US troops surrounded the neighbourhood for several hours, announcing with loudspeakers to residents that they were seeking militants and that they should stay inside, said an Iraqi police official who was at the scene. As the Americans withdrew around 11 a.m, (0700 GMT) they came under fire, prompting troops to move back into the district, hitting several buildings, the official said. A US attack helicopter struck targets on the ground, he said. The result was a battle with militants that included mortars and rockets, the official said. Several explosions hit residential buildings, killing eight people, including a woman and two children, said the official and another police officer involved in counting the casualties. They could not say whether the blasts came from the helicopter or from militants. Eleven others, mostly men, including some suspected gunmen, were killed on the street near buildings, shops and a husseiniyah, a Shiite religious building the officials said. AP Television News footage showed buildings riddled with holes from heavy machine gun and rocket fire, and a minibus with its front seat blasted away. Officials from the three hospitals where the victims were taken put the toll at 19 dead and 20 wounded. Some bodies were taken to the morgue in Sadr hospital near the area where they were killed. Among the dead were an Iraqi photographer for Reuters, Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and a driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, the London-based news agency said "The cause of their deaths was unclear, although witnesses spoke of an explosion in the area," Reuters reported. "Iraqi police said either a US air strike or a mortar attack had occurred." Six employees of Reuters have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003, the agency said. "Once again we are left mourning colleagues who have met an untimely death while doing their job in Iraq," chief executive Tom Glocer said. The US military reported on the initial raid but not on the later fighting. The Associated Press asked the US by e-mail for comment but was told only that reports were still coming in.