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War Recap

Aired April 09, 2003 - 08:22   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: As our viewers can well see now by the pictures we've shown already, a lot to talk about yet again today. I want to back up a few hours.
Right now, Renay San Miguel takes us over the highlights of the past 12 hours or so.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: 12:10 a.m.: CNN's Walter Rodgers, embedded with the 3-7th Cavalry, hears from a senior U.S. officer that most of the Iraqi troops in Baghdad have given up. Army sources say they are watching out after ambushes from Iraqi paramilitary fighters who have moved into residential areas of the city.

1:03 a.m.: CNN's Rym Brahimi, in Amman, Jordan, reports her sources in Baghdad are telling her, an eerie calm has settled over the Iraqi capital, and there is no sign of any Iraqi authority on the streets.

3:32 a.m.: Reporter Richard Gaisford, embedded with British troops, reports those troops are collecting weapons left by Iraqi forces in Basra, because local people are showing them where the weapons are.

4:05 a.m.: CNN's Rula Amin reports from Baghdad that there is looting going on in Baghdad and no sign of police presence. She's also hearing from sources in Baghdad that people in Saddam City, a poor, mostly Shiite neighborhood, are celebrating what they view as the end of the Iraqi regime. And reporters in Baghdad told Rula, their so-called minders, government officials who go everywhere with journalists, did not show up for work this morning.

4:25 a.m.: CNN's Brent Sadler, in northern Iraq, says Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have just taken a strategic area near Mosul.

5:50 a.m.: CNN's Tom Mintier, in Doha, Qatar, reports that U.S. Central Command is taking a cautious view of the seeds of jubilation in Baghdad, warning that it may be not be representative of the whole country, and the fighting in Iraq is not over.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired April 9, 2003 - 08:22   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: As our viewers can well see now by the pictures we've shown already, a lot to talk about yet again today. I want to back up a few hours.
Right now, Renay San Miguel takes us over the highlights of the past 12 hours or so.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RENAY SAN MIGUEL, CNN ANCHOR: 12:10 a.m.: CNN's Walter Rodgers, embedded with the 3-7th Cavalry, hears from a senior U.S. officer that most of the Iraqi troops in Baghdad have given up. Army sources say they are watching out after ambushes from Iraqi paramilitary fighters who have moved into residential areas of the city.

1:03 a.m.: CNN's Rym Brahimi, in Amman, Jordan, reports her sources in Baghdad are telling her, an eerie calm has settled over the Iraqi capital, and there is no sign of any Iraqi authority on the streets.

3:32 a.m.: Reporter Richard Gaisford, embedded with British troops, reports those troops are collecting weapons left by Iraqi forces in Basra, because local people are showing them where the weapons are.

4:05 a.m.: CNN's Rula Amin reports from Baghdad that there is looting going on in Baghdad and no sign of police presence. She's also hearing from sources in Baghdad that people in Saddam City, a poor, mostly Shiite neighborhood, are celebrating what they view as the end of the Iraqi regime. And reporters in Baghdad told Rula, their so-called minders, government officials who go everywhere with journalists, did not show up for work this morning.

4:25 a.m.: CNN's Brent Sadler, in northern Iraq, says Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have just taken a strategic area near Mosul.

5:50 a.m.: CNN's Tom Mintier, in Doha, Qatar, reports that U.S. Central Command is taking a cautious view of the seeds of jubilation in Baghdad, warning that it may be not be representative of the whole country, and the fighting in Iraq is not over.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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