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Red Cross: 1 Dead, 14 Injured in Baghdad Attack
Aired March 20, 2003 - 07:12 ET
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PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: We're just beginning to get some information in from the Red Cross about the effectiveness of the attack. We have now been told that the Red Cross is reporting that at least 14 people were wounded in that attack last night in Baghdad and one person was killed. And the Jordanian Information Ministry is now saying that it was indeed a Jordanian citizen who was killed in the strike.
Rula Amin now joins us along the Jordanian border of Iraq.
Good morning -- Rula.
RULA AMIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Paula.
We just learned that a Jordanian citizen, Ashmat Dusa Selbos (ph), is the first Jordanian casualty in this war. According to security here, Jordanian security, he was killed when a fuel depot station on the road between Amman and Baghdad was hit by a missile. This is about -- we're here at the Jordanian-Iraqi border, and it's about 170 miles away from here.
Now, if I step aside from the shot, you're going to see these two arches, and these are the entrances and the exits to the Jordanian- Iraqi border. On a regular day this is a very busy border crossing, but not today. Very few cars going in, more cars going out full with Jordanian students who have decided to leave, as well as Sudanese refugees, Sudanese families who have been in Iraq for years, and now they've decided to leave coming here.
They were taken in a bus to a refugee camp that was set for them just close from here, and there they were given mattresses, blankets. They are supposed to stay there only for a very short time until their papers are processed, and then they are sent to their home countries. The Jordanian officials say they are determined they are not going to observe a large number of refugees, and that's why they have very strict procedures at the border, so as to limit the numbers of people who are coming in. Those Sudanese refugees told us that they had spent more than 12 hours on the border.
We also know that very few Iraqis have been able to come in, although there are preparations to set up a refugee camp here to receive any Iraqi who will be able to get in -- Paula.
ZAHN: Rula Amin reporting from along the Jordanian-Iraqi border.
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Aired March 20, 2003 - 07:12 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: We're just beginning to get some information in from the Red Cross about the effectiveness of the attack. We have now been told that the Red Cross is reporting that at least 14 people were wounded in that attack last night in Baghdad and one person was killed. And the Jordanian Information Ministry is now saying that it was indeed a Jordanian citizen who was killed in the strike.
Rula Amin now joins us along the Jordanian border of Iraq.
Good morning -- Rula.
RULA AMIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Paula.
We just learned that a Jordanian citizen, Ashmat Dusa Selbos (ph), is the first Jordanian casualty in this war. According to security here, Jordanian security, he was killed when a fuel depot station on the road between Amman and Baghdad was hit by a missile. This is about -- we're here at the Jordanian-Iraqi border, and it's about 170 miles away from here.
Now, if I step aside from the shot, you're going to see these two arches, and these are the entrances and the exits to the Jordanian- Iraqi border. On a regular day this is a very busy border crossing, but not today. Very few cars going in, more cars going out full with Jordanian students who have decided to leave, as well as Sudanese refugees, Sudanese families who have been in Iraq for years, and now they've decided to leave coming here.
They were taken in a bus to a refugee camp that was set for them just close from here, and there they were given mattresses, blankets. They are supposed to stay there only for a very short time until their papers are processed, and then they are sent to their home countries. The Jordanian officials say they are determined they are not going to observe a large number of refugees, and that's why they have very strict procedures at the border, so as to limit the numbers of people who are coming in. Those Sudanese refugees told us that they had spent more than 12 hours on the border.
We also know that very few Iraqis have been able to come in, although there are preparations to set up a refugee camp here to receive any Iraqi who will be able to get in -- Paula.
ZAHN: Rula Amin reporting from along the Jordanian-Iraqi border.
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