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Chaos Takes Heavy Toll on Iraqis
Aired November 10, 2003 - 15:03 ET
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Iraq, where almost 400 U.S. troops have been killed in combat and otherwise since the U.S. invaded in March. The Pentagon doesn't keep count of Iraqi casualties, but they are no secret, even without an official tally.
CNN's Matthew Chance in Baghdad.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you think Baghdad is dangerous for the coalition, just visit the city's emergency rooms. These are the Iraqi casualties of chaos, civilians with bullet wounds, stabbings and beatings.
"They stabbed and kicked me until I fell to the ground," Ayad (ph) tells us. "Then snatched my money, all $600 of it." "I know who they are and where they live," he says.
Baghdad is a city where much crime like this goes uninvestigated and unpunished. In the operating room of Yarmuk Hospital (ph), one of the city's busiest, surgeons struggle to save the life of one victim. Since the fall of Baghdad, doctors like Nissan Abdullah have seen the number of injuries from violent crimes rocket.
DR. NISSAN ABDULLAH, SURGEON: All these types of injuries (UNINTELLIGIBLE) after the war (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
CHANCE: Saba (ph), just a teenager, lies wounded in his bed. The fragments of shrapnel from a cluster bomb picked from his chest. His brother, Faraj (ph), was killed when the device they found in a field exploded.
"America dropped them and they are everywhere," says this man. "They are destroying us for no reason." "This man is a victim and there are three others over there. He's just a laborer. What did he do to deserve this?"
(on camera): There's been much talk about how dangerous Baghdad has come for the coalition forces, and for others, like aid workers. But with crime and insecurity running rife on the streets of this city, it's ordinary Iraqis who are feeling its slide into chaos more than anyone else.
(voice-over): And coalition officials acknowledge providing better security to these ordinary Iraqis must happen if hearts and minds are to be won.
Matthew Chance, CNN, Baghdad.
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Aired November 10, 2003 - 15:03 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Now to Iraq, where almost 400 U.S. troops have been killed in combat and otherwise since the U.S. invaded in March. The Pentagon doesn't keep count of Iraqi casualties, but they are no secret, even without an official tally.
CNN's Matthew Chance in Baghdad.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you think Baghdad is dangerous for the coalition, just visit the city's emergency rooms. These are the Iraqi casualties of chaos, civilians with bullet wounds, stabbings and beatings.
"They stabbed and kicked me until I fell to the ground," Ayad (ph) tells us. "Then snatched my money, all $600 of it." "I know who they are and where they live," he says.
Baghdad is a city where much crime like this goes uninvestigated and unpunished. In the operating room of Yarmuk Hospital (ph), one of the city's busiest, surgeons struggle to save the life of one victim. Since the fall of Baghdad, doctors like Nissan Abdullah have seen the number of injuries from violent crimes rocket.
DR. NISSAN ABDULLAH, SURGEON: All these types of injuries (UNINTELLIGIBLE) after the war (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
CHANCE: Saba (ph), just a teenager, lies wounded in his bed. The fragments of shrapnel from a cluster bomb picked from his chest. His brother, Faraj (ph), was killed when the device they found in a field exploded.
"America dropped them and they are everywhere," says this man. "They are destroying us for no reason." "This man is a victim and there are three others over there. He's just a laborer. What did he do to deserve this?"
(on camera): There's been much talk about how dangerous Baghdad has come for the coalition forces, and for others, like aid workers. But with crime and insecurity running rife on the streets of this city, it's ordinary Iraqis who are feeling its slide into chaos more than anyone else.
(voice-over): And coalition officials acknowledge providing better security to these ordinary Iraqis must happen if hearts and minds are to be won.
Matthew Chance, CNN, Baghdad.
(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
