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U.S. Soldier Patrolling Gas Station Shot, Killed in Iraq

Aired December 08, 2003 - 06:31   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Iraq, where a U.S. soldier has been killed in a drive-by shooting while on patrol at a gas station.
Jane Arraf, our Baghdad bureau chief, joins us live from the Iraqi capital with the latest.

You know, we're talking about the gas shortage in Iraq, and now we hear a soldier has been killed in a drive-by shooting at a gas station.

JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF: Carol, it happened just a couple of hours ago in the northern city of Mosul. Now, it's not too far from the Iraqi oil fields, and there is what the oil industry, the oil ministry, is calling a temporary shortage -- but Iraqis are calling a crisis -- in kerosene and fuel supplies, particularly gasoline.

Now, in Mosul, in the northern city, this soldier from the 101st was shot in a drive-by shooting as he was patrolling a gas station, according to the 101st Airborne. Now, the military has been increasingly trying to secure these gas stations. The lineups go on for hours sometimes. And not only are they affecting consumers, ordinary Iraqi motorists, they're also badly affecting the electricity. They need fuel to run a lot of the electrical plants, and they're just not doing that.

A couple of breakthroughs on that front, though. Military sources say a deal has been struck with Syria for refined products -- gasoline and kerosene perhaps -- to come across the border from Syria. Syria is also sending electricity back to Iraq to help it out.

There is also a breakthrough on a strike that has caused a lot of these problems. It's a strike of Turkish truck drivers. And, according to military sources again, that strike has been solved, and that oil should be flowing again.

And just one more thing, Carol. The Iraqi Governing Council has decided this morning as well that they are going to establish a war crimes tribunal with five Iraqi judges. That is now being sent to the Coalition Provisional Authority for approval -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Jane Arraf reporting live from Baghdad this morning.

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Aired December 8, 2003 - 06:31   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Iraq, where a U.S. soldier has been killed in a drive-by shooting while on patrol at a gas station.
Jane Arraf, our Baghdad bureau chief, joins us live from the Iraqi capital with the latest.

You know, we're talking about the gas shortage in Iraq, and now we hear a soldier has been killed in a drive-by shooting at a gas station.

JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF: Carol, it happened just a couple of hours ago in the northern city of Mosul. Now, it's not too far from the Iraqi oil fields, and there is what the oil industry, the oil ministry, is calling a temporary shortage -- but Iraqis are calling a crisis -- in kerosene and fuel supplies, particularly gasoline.

Now, in Mosul, in the northern city, this soldier from the 101st was shot in a drive-by shooting as he was patrolling a gas station, according to the 101st Airborne. Now, the military has been increasingly trying to secure these gas stations. The lineups go on for hours sometimes. And not only are they affecting consumers, ordinary Iraqi motorists, they're also badly affecting the electricity. They need fuel to run a lot of the electrical plants, and they're just not doing that.

A couple of breakthroughs on that front, though. Military sources say a deal has been struck with Syria for refined products -- gasoline and kerosene perhaps -- to come across the border from Syria. Syria is also sending electricity back to Iraq to help it out.

There is also a breakthrough on a strike that has caused a lot of these problems. It's a strike of Turkish truck drivers. And, according to military sources again, that strike has been solved, and that oil should be flowing again.

And just one more thing, Carol. The Iraqi Governing Council has decided this morning as well that they are going to establish a war crimes tribunal with five Iraqi judges. That is now being sent to the Coalition Provisional Authority for approval -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Jane Arraf reporting live from Baghdad this morning.

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