GWT: WRAP Dramatic footage of battle for Basra suburb, British artillery

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Night vision: 1. Various of bright lights flashing as guns and mortars fire 2. Wide of shots coming from jeep and other Royal Marines' vehicles 3. Wide shot of fire-fight with soldier in vehicle with gun in foreground 4. Coalition vehicle in convoy on road 5. Wide of bright lights of ammunition from the fire fight passing through the shot 6. Vehicles on road, fire-fight in background 7. fire-fight, troops on vehicles in foreground 8. Two jeeps on road, flares from mortars falling in background 9. UPSOUND (English) "Get them out now, get them all out." 10. Tilt up of marine firing flare, mortar and gunshot into the air 11. Marine behind sand bank Night vision: 12. Shot of Royal Marine firing automatic weapon 13. Marine in foreground, manoeuvering tanks behind him 14. Convoy of vehicles with flashes of light from fire-fight passing through shot 15. Marine firing several flares Daylight shots: 16. Tracking shot with ruins of houses, plumes of black smoke on landscape, passing a wrecked and burnt Iraqi tank by road 17. A second wrecked tank by roadside 18. Third tank behind a sand bank, smoking after fire 19. Wide of several burnt vehicles, including a tank, one vehicle is still in flames 20. Wide of a group of Iraqi men with hands in air, one waving a makeshift white flag, walking towards marines (off camera) through palm trees 21. Wide of same group of men walking, burning tank in background, several plumes of smoke 22. Close up of hands in air 23. Wide of marine searching Iraqi man 24. Marines carrying injured Iraqi on stretcher to field ambulance 25. Group of Iraqi villagers, some waving to camera 26. Wide of marines walking through palm trees by buildings Daylight shots: 27. British Challenger tank moving in to position 28. British soldiers blow up building containing Iraqi weapons cache Daylight shots: British frontline, north west of Basra 29. Various of British artillery pieces firing 30. British soldier runs for cover in foxhole as Iraqi fire comes in 31. Various of British artillery pieces firing 32. Various of mobile British 155mm guns on the move STORYLINE: British Royal Marines entered the southern Basra neighbourhood of Abu al Khasib after 15 hours of fighting overnight from Sunday to Monday. In their biggest offensive so far in Iraq, 600 Royal Marines from 40 Commando took up a "consolidation position" before an expected push towards the Shatt-al-Arab waterway on Monday. The British say an Iraqi force was trapped when a group of British Marines also moved into an area to the east of Abu al Khasib. Iraqi defenders in bunker positions fired on the marines during the operation which began at 0200 GMT. The British named the mission "Operation James" after the fictional spy character James Bond. It also involved a back up force of two tank squadrons and commando-trained Royal Engineers. The British say several hundred soldiers in three rifle companies advanced on foot at dawn towards the Shatt-al-Arab waterway. Throughout Monday morning, plumes of dark smoke rose from wrecked and burning Iraqi tanks, buildings and the landscape were pock-marked with the evidence of the prior night's fire-fight. By Monday afternoon British guns on the front line north west of Basra were firing repeatedly. The British army said that during Monday it had destroyed 25 Iraqi tanks, 12 gun positions, armoured cars and Iraqi infantry. It was also moving up larger 155mm mobile guns with a range of 25 kilometres (15 miles) The British military said its plan was to keep 3 Iraqi army divisions to the north of Basra out of the region. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/156226f8c67b1f8f10251f12cbd1e667 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork