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British Military Spokesman: 250 Iraqis Surrender

Aired March 21, 2003 - 06:33   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: I want to get now into Iraq right now, the northern part of that country and CNN's Brent Sadler. He is at a very peculiar location, which is essentially marked off with Iraqi soldiers on one side and Kurdish-controlled soldiers on the other. Brent has been at that post for several hours right now, said to be quiet before. Let's check in and see if things have changed since then.
Brent -- good afternoon.

BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Bill.

Interesting to hear what you were saying there about those large numbers of Iraqi soldiers surrendering at Umm Qasr. A lot of attention, as you just pointed out, is now being focused on these hills behind me. Beyond those rolling hills lie the Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraq's second largest population center.

And what I want to do now is just to take you in with a special long lens we have into that area behind me, and we'll be able to...

(INTERRUPTED BY LIVE EVENT)

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: I'm sorry, we're going to have to break in. This is Anderson Cooper at the CNN Center in Atlanta. We are going to go live to British Prime Minister Tony Blair making statements to reporters.

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Aired March 21, 2003 - 06:33   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: I want to get now into Iraq right now, the northern part of that country and CNN's Brent Sadler. He is at a very peculiar location, which is essentially marked off with Iraqi soldiers on one side and Kurdish-controlled soldiers on the other. Brent has been at that post for several hours right now, said to be quiet before. Let's check in and see if things have changed since then.
Brent -- good afternoon.

BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon, Bill.

Interesting to hear what you were saying there about those large numbers of Iraqi soldiers surrendering at Umm Qasr. A lot of attention, as you just pointed out, is now being focused on these hills behind me. Beyond those rolling hills lie the Iraqi city of Mosul, Iraq's second largest population center.

And what I want to do now is just to take you in with a special long lens we have into that area behind me, and we'll be able to...

(INTERRUPTED BY LIVE EVENT)

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: I'm sorry, we're going to have to break in. This is Anderson Cooper at the CNN Center in Atlanta. We are going to go live to British Prime Minister Tony Blair making statements to reporters.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.