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Update on Troop Movement In Iraq
Aired August 09, 2003 - 12:14 ET
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FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: In the new Iraq, another card is retired from the U.S. Deck of the Most Wanted Iraqis. Former interior minister, Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad was the 7 of spades in the deck. U.S. Central Command says he surrendered yesterday to coalition forces. Meanwhile coalition forces have been busy conducting raids and quelling riots. We get the latest now, from Baghdad and CNN's Harris Whitbeck.
HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello Fredricka. The British Navy intercrepted a ship in the Persian Gulf off the Iraqi coast. The ship was carrying more than 1,000 metric tons of smuggles Iraqi diesel. The ship was registered to the United Arab Emirates and it had been warned three times before Royal Marines decided to board it and arrest its the crew. The ship's crew and its captain have now been turned over to the Iraqi police and they will be prosecuted strongly according to U.S. Administrator Paul Bremer. Bremer also said the coalition is determined to stop the lucrative smuggling of Iraqi oil as part of its effort to stabilize the Iraqi economy.
Meanwhile, British forces were also involved in quelling a series of small riots in Basra, in the southern part of the country. People who have been waiting for several hours at gasoline stations to fuel the cars became desperate when the lines just became too long and when, apparently, some gasoline station owners actually tried to jack the prices. The people started throwing stones and the British troops had to come in to quell that riot.
Meanwhile, there is the investigation of the bombing of the Jordanian Embassy, in Baghdad, which occurred last Thursday continued. The U.S. has brought in a team of FBI investigators to look into possible links between that bombing and international terrorist organizations. The U.S. is focusing particularly on a Jordanian-born citizen known to be -- have ties with al Qaeda and with Ansar al- Islamia, a terrorist group that has a large training camp-- or had, rather, a large training camp in Northern Iraq. That camp was bombed by the U.S. after the start of the war -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: All right. Harris Whitbeck in Baghdad, thanks very much.
For more now ,on that suspect that Harris was talking about and new information emerging on the Jordanian Embassy bombing in Iraq that killed at least 16 people.
CNN has learned investigators are focusing on a suspect they say is affiliated with al Qaeda, he is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Officials say he's a Jordanian-born terrorist, also behind the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Ahman, last year. Zarqawi had been convicted in absentia by Jordan. He has been sentenced to death in connection with several terrorist attacks in Jordan.
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Aired August 9, 2003 - 12:14 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDERICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: In the new Iraq, another card is retired from the U.S. Deck of the Most Wanted Iraqis. Former interior minister, Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad was the 7 of spades in the deck. U.S. Central Command says he surrendered yesterday to coalition forces. Meanwhile coalition forces have been busy conducting raids and quelling riots. We get the latest now, from Baghdad and CNN's Harris Whitbeck.
HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello Fredricka. The British Navy intercrepted a ship in the Persian Gulf off the Iraqi coast. The ship was carrying more than 1,000 metric tons of smuggles Iraqi diesel. The ship was registered to the United Arab Emirates and it had been warned three times before Royal Marines decided to board it and arrest its the crew. The ship's crew and its captain have now been turned over to the Iraqi police and they will be prosecuted strongly according to U.S. Administrator Paul Bremer. Bremer also said the coalition is determined to stop the lucrative smuggling of Iraqi oil as part of its effort to stabilize the Iraqi economy.
Meanwhile, British forces were also involved in quelling a series of small riots in Basra, in the southern part of the country. People who have been waiting for several hours at gasoline stations to fuel the cars became desperate when the lines just became too long and when, apparently, some gasoline station owners actually tried to jack the prices. The people started throwing stones and the British troops had to come in to quell that riot.
Meanwhile, there is the investigation of the bombing of the Jordanian Embassy, in Baghdad, which occurred last Thursday continued. The U.S. has brought in a team of FBI investigators to look into possible links between that bombing and international terrorist organizations. The U.S. is focusing particularly on a Jordanian-born citizen known to be -- have ties with al Qaeda and with Ansar al- Islamia, a terrorist group that has a large training camp-- or had, rather, a large training camp in Northern Iraq. That camp was bombed by the U.S. after the start of the war -- Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: All right. Harris Whitbeck in Baghdad, thanks very much.
For more now ,on that suspect that Harris was talking about and new information emerging on the Jordanian Embassy bombing in Iraq that killed at least 16 people.
CNN has learned investigators are focusing on a suspect they say is affiliated with al Qaeda, he is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Officials say he's a Jordanian-born terrorist, also behind the assassination of a U.S. diplomat in Ahman, last year. Zarqawi had been convicted in absentia by Jordan. He has been sentenced to death in connection with several terrorist attacks in Jordan.
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