GWT: First pictures as US troops arrive at Baghdad airport

(4 Apr 2003) 1. Wide shot airport region 2. Mid shot US convoy approaching airport 3. Close up sign to airport 4. Mid shot US trucks driving along road 5. Close up second sign pointing towards airport 6. Wide shot US vehicle truck and sign 7. Various tank next to Saddam Hussein mural 8. Various tank convoy moving along road 9. Mid shot tank in front of Saddam Hussein mural 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Scott Rutter, Battalion Commander, US Army: “What happened tonight is that we basically occupied the (Saddam) international airport and two batallions of one brigade, First brigade, Third Infantry Division came down from the South to the North in order to seize the runway. Our mission up here is to block the entrance from Baghdad this is about as far east as you can get into the Baghdad proper city. We’re on an outpost and have security running forward to, two company teams and one team in reserve executing combat patrols in orientation where direct fire weapons systems down the main
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