After 20 years, Iraqis still suffer from impact of U.S. use of banned weapons

STORY: After 20 years, Iraqis still suffer from impact of U.S. use of banned weapons SHOOTING TIME: March 12, 2024 DATELINE: March 20, 2024 LENGTH: 00:03:05 LOCATION: FALLUJAH, Iraq CATEGORY: POLITICS/SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of Fallujah 2. various of local people 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Arabic): KHALID IBRAHIM, Fallujah citizen 4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Arabic): NOUR, Ibrahim's daughter 5. SOUNDBITE 3 (Arabic): ABDUL QUDDUS HAMEED, Medical analysis specialist STORYLINE: Twenty years after the U.S. military offensive in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, locals are still suffering from the lasting impacts of the use of internationally banned weapons by U.S. forces. In April 2004, U.S. occupation forces launched an offensive in Fallujah, 50 km west of Baghdad, but they encountered strong resistance from anti-U.S. armed groups, which prompted the U.S. forces to sweep the city in November of the same year. According to local doctors and citizens, the U.S. forces employed internationally banned weapons in their operation,

3 killed, 28 injured in explosion in SW Pakistan

STORY: 3 killed, 28 injured in explosion in SW Pakistan DATELINE: March 9, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:25 LOCATION: Islamabad CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various shots of the site STORYLINE: At least three people were killed and 28 others injured when a bomb went off in Sibi district of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province on Tuesday, hospital and police sources said. The incident happened on a road near a busy market of the district when some unknown militants blew up roadside-planted explosives and fled the scene, police told media. The injured have been shifted to Civil Hospital Sibi for medical treatment. Several of them are in critical condition. A heavy contingent of police reached the blast site following the incident, and cordoned off the area for investigations. No group or individual has claimed the blast. Chief Minister of Balochistan Mir Abdul Quddus Bizenjo condemned the attack and directed the hospital administration to provide the best possible medical treatment to the inj