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Busy Day in Iraq
Aired August 03, 2003 - 07:29 ET
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: A busy day in Iraq on Saturday with the burial of Uday and Qusay, another attack on U.S. forces and comments on the hunt for Saddam from U.S. administrator Paul Bremer. But today, a little less activity. In fact, a fairly quiet day.
Rym Brahimi joins us now from Baghdad with more on what is shaping up to be a very quiet 24 hour period in Baghdad, Rym?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, John. So far what we have is just the U.S. soldiers have actually closed the roads to the airport, to Baghdad Airport. And this is after an incident in which Iraqi civilian car exploded.
Now it's not clear whether it blew up on the landmine, whether it was attacked by what they call an improvised explosive device. Also not clear, according to military spokesmen, whether or not that was intended for U.S. troops that regularly patrol that highway.
As you know, John, that highway -- on that highway, soldiers have been targeted and died before.
But it does raise the question, John, increasingly of basically the presence of U.S. troops, and the fact that more and more Iraqi civilians are being caught, if you will, in the crossfire in those attacks against U.S. troops or when they retaliate and they feel threatened, well doesn't -- isn't that going to basically further alienate the Iraqi population with regard to the presence of U.S. troops?
Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator here, says he hasn't noticed any hatred among Iraqi people with regards to U.S. troops. He actually blames most of the attacks on remnants of the former Ba'ath Party regime and what he calls foreign terrorists -- John.
VAUSE: OK, Rym Brahimi reporting live for us from Baghdad this morning. Thank you, Rym.
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Aired August 3, 2003 - 07:29 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN ANCHOR: A busy day in Iraq on Saturday with the burial of Uday and Qusay, another attack on U.S. forces and comments on the hunt for Saddam from U.S. administrator Paul Bremer. But today, a little less activity. In fact, a fairly quiet day.
Rym Brahimi joins us now from Baghdad with more on what is shaping up to be a very quiet 24 hour period in Baghdad, Rym?
RYM BRAHIMI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, John. So far what we have is just the U.S. soldiers have actually closed the roads to the airport, to Baghdad Airport. And this is after an incident in which Iraqi civilian car exploded.
Now it's not clear whether it blew up on the landmine, whether it was attacked by what they call an improvised explosive device. Also not clear, according to military spokesmen, whether or not that was intended for U.S. troops that regularly patrol that highway.
As you know, John, that highway -- on that highway, soldiers have been targeted and died before.
But it does raise the question, John, increasingly of basically the presence of U.S. troops, and the fact that more and more Iraqi civilians are being caught, if you will, in the crossfire in those attacks against U.S. troops or when they retaliate and they feel threatened, well doesn't -- isn't that going to basically further alienate the Iraqi population with regard to the presence of U.S. troops?
Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator here, says he hasn't noticed any hatred among Iraqi people with regards to U.S. troops. He actually blames most of the attacks on remnants of the former Ba'ath Party regime and what he calls foreign terrorists -- John.
VAUSE: OK, Rym Brahimi reporting live for us from Baghdad this morning. Thank you, Rym.
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