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CENTCOM: Pregnant Woman, Driver Killed In Iraq Blast
Aired April 04, 2003 - 08:11 ET
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Down to Qatar, Central Command. Tom Mintier checking in right now. And Tom, there are number of developments again today. What more are you learning from there after this briefing?
TOM MINTIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, one thing about the airport, before we move to other things. They also said, near the end of the briefing, that they discovered an underground complex at the airport and are in the process of clearing that. No idea what was stored in this underground complex. In the next few hours we may hear something about that.
There has been apparently another suicide bomb attack. This one near a dam that was secured by Special Forces. A Special Forces checkpoint along the road, a car pulled up, a pregnant woman came out of the vehicle screaming. As the special forces troops went closer to investigate the bomb was detonated in the car. Three -- at least three coalition casualties, including -- the pregnant woman was also killed and also the driver of the car.
General Vincent Brooks did indeed talk about this bombing that occurred just in the last few hours before the briefing but he seemed to have information.
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BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND: Initial reports do indicate that a vehicle approached checkpoint. A woman who appeared clearly to be pregnant exited the vehicle screaming for assistance in some degree of distress. As coalition forces began to approach, she and the vehicle were detonated. So she was killed by the explosion from the vehicle. We do have some combat losses as a result of this and will provide more information as time go on.
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MINTIER: General Brooks was also asked if this car bombing today was indeed by remote control or the one previously that killed several soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division was a remote control device. Did not have an answer on that.
What he did have an answer was something that he alluded to yesterday They had found some bottles that has some chemicals in it that they did not understand the label, so they sent them off for investigation. Today we not only heard about it we got to them. A picture of this what now appears to be a chemical/biological weapons training facility, not large quantities but samples as they were referred to saying that this was a training facility for the Iraqi military where they had small quantities of biological/chemical agents that were well known to the coalition, but saying that this was not a storage facility, this was not a new facility but simply that this was used for training -- Bill.
HEMMER: Tom, thanks. Tom Mintier at Central Command.
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Aired April 4, 2003 - 08:11 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Down to Qatar, Central Command. Tom Mintier checking in right now. And Tom, there are number of developments again today. What more are you learning from there after this briefing?
TOM MINTIER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, one thing about the airport, before we move to other things. They also said, near the end of the briefing, that they discovered an underground complex at the airport and are in the process of clearing that. No idea what was stored in this underground complex. In the next few hours we may hear something about that.
There has been apparently another suicide bomb attack. This one near a dam that was secured by Special Forces. A Special Forces checkpoint along the road, a car pulled up, a pregnant woman came out of the vehicle screaming. As the special forces troops went closer to investigate the bomb was detonated in the car. Three -- at least three coalition casualties, including -- the pregnant woman was also killed and also the driver of the car.
General Vincent Brooks did indeed talk about this bombing that occurred just in the last few hours before the briefing but he seemed to have information.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BRIG. GEN. VINCENT BROOKS, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND: Initial reports do indicate that a vehicle approached checkpoint. A woman who appeared clearly to be pregnant exited the vehicle screaming for assistance in some degree of distress. As coalition forces began to approach, she and the vehicle were detonated. So she was killed by the explosion from the vehicle. We do have some combat losses as a result of this and will provide more information as time go on.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MINTIER: General Brooks was also asked if this car bombing today was indeed by remote control or the one previously that killed several soldiers in the 3rd Infantry Division was a remote control device. Did not have an answer on that.
What he did have an answer was something that he alluded to yesterday They had found some bottles that has some chemicals in it that they did not understand the label, so they sent them off for investigation. Today we not only heard about it we got to them. A picture of this what now appears to be a chemical/biological weapons training facility, not large quantities but samples as they were referred to saying that this was a training facility for the Iraqi military where they had small quantities of biological/chemical agents that were well known to the coalition, but saying that this was not a storage facility, this was not a new facility but simply that this was used for training -- Bill.
HEMMER: Tom, thanks. Tom Mintier at Central Command.
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