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B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 4A Box 331, Video-cassette ME215

  1. 05-03-14-19 Dohuk Fort - where villagers were brought. People entering - long shot and pull out. Travelling shot into fort behind landrover. (Wind screen dirty.) Through main portals into sun. Shots of interior of fort. Kanan walks around. Burnt out walls, overturned vehicles. Children on balcony. Families. Woman with water container on shoulder walks into fort. Inside kitchen, Kanan ptc. "No good comes to a nation that eats more than it produces." "Slogans like this get to the mind of the regime almost as good as the papers we are looking for."
  2. Retake which good.
  3. Two boys look at camera. Woman washes dishes on floor.
  4. General views (gvs.) of Dohuk from roadside.
  5. 05-15-43-22 Wedding sequence en route to Saladhin. Kanan looks on. Bride waits in car. Travelling shots behind wedding cars.
  6. 05-21-20-11 Saddam's palace from afar. The wall surrounding the enclave. Pesh merga walks by. Soldier section. Various shots. Kanan's encounter with Iraqi soldiers. Lorry drives and barbed wire replaced. Iraqi soldier walks back. Pesh merga and soldiers confront each other. Kanan asks what secrets they are concealing.
  7. 05-27-38-18 Gvs. of Amadiya. Beautiful.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 5 Box 331, Video-cassette ME216

  1. 05-06-50-03 Talabani – on sex video shot by Muhbarat, etc., Sheikh Wassan story.
  2. 9:45 Talabani and Kanan exterior shots.
  3. 05-10-13-17 Asshad - "Kurdistan is not computerised." Pleading between him and Kanan in landrover.
  4. 11:40 Kanan - "He wanted to bring us here at night. It's not going to be an easy matter. I just want a sense of scale."
  5. Inside landrover again. Drive to the building where documents kept. "Don't bring the camera."
  6. Kanan and Ashad talk in Arabic.
  7. Interior: Asshad. "I'm going to Arbil with the UN."
  8. K: "I want to come tonight."
  9. A:"I have to go."
  10. Meeting with keeper of the documents - in Arabic.
  11. 24-38 Kanan explains above.
  12. 27-10 Art exhibition - various grim pictures, raven picking out eyes of young girl, crucifixion scenes.
  13. 35-01 Travelling shot with landrover. Exterior (ext.)
  14. (Near Shaklawa.)
  15. 36-15 Street scenes in Shaklawa. Landrover passes.
  16. 37-18 Dusk shots of herd of sheep in Shaklawa from balcony.
  17. (Same place as before - roll 2.)
  18. 37-45 Kanan inside room with documents - first encounter.
  19. Kanan describes their provenance.
  20. "This is the section dealing with the investigation of people's thoughts?"
  21. What do you mean with people's thoughts?"
  22. Responses.
  23. Flicking through file, Kanan studies documents. Excerpts from documents.
  24. 41-31 "Densest collection of files concern those that probe into people's thoughts . . .," K
  25. 42-00 Security maps.
  26. 43-54 Hunting through files on floor. Excerpts.
  27. Primitive filing system. "Routing business of recording . . . mixture of fact and fiction . . . is this world is or imagined to be . . . one great big jumble," etc.
  28. 50-36 Masoud's visit abroad to find money and arms. Highest level of authority.
  29. Kanan looking at passports of government agents. Audio cassettes of taped, bugged conversations.
  30. 57-39 Housewives chat.
  31. 00-30 Talabani bugged.
  32. 07-00 Security magazines - one on deterioration of morality.
  33. Files on "active targets . . . we have a number of interesting, etc. variety of subjects and shots.
  34. External night time shot of building where documents housed.
  35. 14-25 Index of saboteurs.
  36. Kanan's reaction: retakes. "I'm tired, the place was real mess . . . what kind of people were employed in the security." Retake: "What we found in there was a humdrum provincial security office in a dinky little town on the edge of Iraq . . . Nothing sensational."
  37. Retake: "I'm tired, the room was a mess . . . tiny little provincial town on the edges of Iraq. Provincial bureaucrats running . . ."
  38. Retake: the best.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 6 Box 331, Video-cassette ME218

  1. Travelling shots on road to Suleimaniya - 06-01-52-00.
  2. Shots of driver 06-03-09-20.
  3. Travelling shots of road etc.
  4. Dragon mountain 06-05-03-00.
  5. Kanan inside car 06-21-13-00.
  6. More travelling shots and car interior with Shalaw.
  7. Visit to settlement - "concentration camp" - 06-10-40-12.
  8. Police station - 06-11-11-15 PPI-fr.
  9. Kanan walks around and general views (gvs.).
  10. Women walking around with water containers 06-12-17-17.
  11. Gvs of street.
  12. Children at school cheer and wave. 06-14-41-22.
  13. File back into school.
  14. Seated on floor inside classrooms 06-16-01-24.
  15. Classes.
  16. Shalaw: talks about how Kurdish people looted the schools just as the Iraqi troops had in Kuwait - part of the Ba'ath culture - everyone for himself. 06-19-2o-00.
  17. Gvs. settlement from school roof.
  18. Water supply 06-20-41-19.
  19. Women with water buckets on shoulders.
  20. At the taps.
  21. Gvs. of landscape near Suleimaniya. 06-22-1.
  22. Meeting with Teimour at Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) camp - 06-26-02-19.
  23. Talks to Kurdish man.
  24. Walking shot 06-27-40-24; shot from back also.
  25. Gvs. of camp 06-30-20-13.
  26. Guards standing at main gate.
  27. Kanan talks to boy. 06-32-03-00.
  28. More gvs. Interior (int.) Teimour interview 06-34-21-14.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 7 Box 322, Video-cassette ME220

  1. Interview with Taymour at Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) base.
  2. PUK officials talk about documents in Suleimaniya.
  3. Also about "strange behaviour," i.e. sexual perversity, of Ba'ath. Also about anfal . . . legitimation of destruction of Halabaja 10 months before chemical attack . . . role of presidential office in issuing death certificate, etc., etc., microcassettes . . . shots from window. More PUK disclosures.
  4. Outside security headquarters Suleimaniya/The eye.
  5. Through main gate, burnt facade. Boys wander in. Kanan walks towards camera.
  6. The anfal sign at the local post office in Suleimaniya.
  7. General views (gvs.) of Suleimaniya. Inside building.
  8. Ba'ath party headquarters now full of refugees. Bullet pocked walls.
  9. The list of 14,000 people presented by PUK at Kirkuk base.
  10. Refugees on the way to Askar.
  11. Pan around Askar.
  12. Gvs. of countryside, Kurd sits smoking cigarette.(Wind noise). Man prays.
  13. Travelling shots with vehicles. Two men talking.
  14. Interview with Shalaw's uncle about attack on Askar with chemical weapons and village survivors becoming Anfal victims.
  15. Shots of Askar demolished by Iraqis.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 8 Box 322, Video-cassette ME222

  1. Teimour walks with Shalaw in Suleimaniya. Forward and backwards.
  2. 2-43 Travelling shot through Suleimaniya from inside car.
  3. Shalaw: On what happened to Anfal victims. "They didn't to kill these people inside the Kurdish areas."
  4. Explains how local people came to be buried in Kurdish areas.
  5. Jahsh's role.
  6. 10-30 Says more than 170,000 executed at border area.
  7. Talks about heads being severed, including that of mentally sick boy, and sold to government for 10,000 dinar.
  8. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) district branch - man talks about list of Anfal victims.
  9. Travelling shots towards Chamchamal.
  10. Refugees at side of road fleeing. "We're afraid of Army. They're bombing Chamchamal. So we left." Women washing. Refugees in back of truck.
  11. Travelling shots towards Askar. Driver says he hates Jahsh.
  12. Drive past ruined village - Anfal victims.
  13. Askar/Goptapa - ruins, graves, Kanan looks at chemical weapons shells vistas of monument with graves of chemical weapons victims.
  14. Interview with Shalaw. Pans across ruined village.
  15. Kanan stands out in front of Talabani's headquarters.
  16. Interview with Shalaw's relative who tried to save family from chemical weapons with atropine injections (Kurdish).
  17. Kanan says he doesn't think he's going to be able to get them out. "They're studying them from the point of view of cleaning out their own houses." Says we've been snubbed on succession of occasions . . . all they know is their private grudges.
  18. Saladhin cafe.
  19. Kaman: "After that charade last night, we've been snubbed four times . . . beginning to think unlikely they will come out . . . petty political interests over historic things that have been done to the Kurdish people." General views (gvs.) inside tea shop.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 9 Box 322, Video-cassette ME224

  1. "Kanan looks at documents with socialist. Diary of military intelligence officer in Arbil. Jan. 17 - on how to rig elections - the importance of not wearing military uniform. (Interference) warning that those who don't participate will be dismissed.
  2. "Degrees of proclivities - wine, sex, playing cards - "how can he be bought with money."
  3. Two look at documents on floor. "Agents watching over other agents." Military intelligence file - transcripts of telephone bugs - agents watching other security agents - index. Who talked with who and about what.
  4. Single figure.
  5. Kanan - "I get the feeling of routine . . . no overall sense of what is going on - bureaucracies out of control Kafkaesque . . . arbitrary . . .
  6. Petrol filling station. Our taxi fills up and drives away.
  7. Guli Ali Beg refugees.
  8. 10-05 General views (gvs.) of mountains at Sheikh Wassan. Pans. Balisan valley. First region to suffer from chemical weapons attack in Kurdistan. Villagers show chemical weapons shell to Kanan. Walk off to mountain side to inspect the damage. Villagers tell us what happened. Dig up further shells on mountainside. "Reminds me of the American war college which said no chemical weapons used in Kurdistan. We're in K and this undoubtedly a chemical weapons shell." Kanan. "German markings on the bomb." Withered trees. Having tea inside house with villagers.
  9. Kanan led into another pile of documents. Level of penetration. Names of traitors. Pictures of captives. Diary of cultural notebook of Arab Ba'ath. MOD Baghdad box gvs. of bundled files. Windows. Cutaways. Kanan sorting through files (and finding tape of Ali Hassan Majid and his comments on Anfal . . . plays tape." Close-ups of tape recorder. Hear voice of man in question. Other files - Kurdish mercenaries.
  10. 12-57 Kanan: "I find these piles of paper unbelievably depressing . . . the amount of pain and violence written on these papers, boxes and boxes of peoples lives extracted under torture built on lies and violence, half of the people here are dead. Do we have the right to ask for these to come out and be exposed?"
  11. 15-07 Arbil - gvs. of dusk street scenes and young girls. Bridal dresses. Shops of young girls buying wedding dresses, cosmetics. Shops.
  12. Interview with communist party member on experiments on prisons with chemical weapons and bacteriological substances. Man at desk. Communist documents. Kanan enters and looks at docs. Empties sack. Exterior (ext.) shots as well. Goes through what he finds. Executions. students outside Iraq, communists who have escaped. Saboteurs. Political files. Agents armed by security forces. "Armed killers."
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll From "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 10 Box 322, Video-cassette ME226

  1. Guli Ali Beg - Kanan the tourist. Wedding party. Dancing.
  2. Koshtapa - women with photos, paintings, exterior (ext.), interior (int.) house with bereaved women. Picture shrine. They tell their story.
  3. Ext. of house plus interview and presence of Barzani Takrit when menfolk were taken away. Crying woman.
  4. 33-36 ptc by Kanan. "Dress-rehearsal for the Anfal campaign." Woman holds up passports of missing Barzani men. Driving through Koshtapa.
  5. 35-46 Dr. Jaafar on rooftop in Arbil talks about the fate of the Sheikh Wassan victims. Silhouette.
  6. General views (gvs.) of Arbil castle.
  7. Hospital where these poisoned people from Sheikh Wissan were turned away from. Corridors int. and ext. Prison in Arbil where they were brought before execution.
  8. 52-40 Baharka camp. Few inhabitants now. Plastic sheeting initially given. Pits forced to live in.
  9. Kanan talks about what happened.
  10. Kurd explains how his parents fared, etc.
  11. Second Kurdish man tells about the experience.
  12. Kanan: "We're not going to come out with any documents . . ."
  13. Masoud Barzani interview. Walking shots. (Translated?)
  14. Shots of documents, etc. (Kurdistan Democratic Party [KDP]) Man opens cases and flicks through documents. Cutaways.
  15. Retake of entry by Kanan, and searching through boxes.
  16. File of agent in security department recruited at 16. Completely trustworthy.
  17. Presidential palace wants information about people, many women included.
  18. Collecting information using Turkish agent for military intelligence - on active targets. Picture of agent concerned.
  19. Anfal operation as directed by Saddam. Says some saboteur units located in land and document requests their elimination. (1988 Aug.)Saddam - "It is necessary for very active and non-traditional work - implies destruction of houses and chemical weapons attacks."
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 11 Box 322, Video-cassette ME229

  1. Kanan still searches files - individuals. Some documents burnt. Running of agents. "Everything handwritten like Babylonian scribes of thousands of years ago." Register of high-ranking agents in Arbil. "All these are people who have sold their souls in one way or another." Sits at desk.
  2. Letter from Arbil director of security - Ali Hassan al-Majid liquidation of Communist Party cadre whose body has been burnt.
  3. Interview with Communist Party archivist on Ba'ath eavesdropping and filming women undressing.
  4. 13-37 Arbil college for girls classroom shots.
  5. Girls file through main school corridor.
  6. Girls in main hall - seated.
  7. Interview with Arbil police director. Aid snaps to attention on entering and leaving room. Two shot of Kanan and director.
  8. Director walks self-consciously through corridor.
  9. Host of general filing, archiving, typing shots from police building, etc. etc.
  10. Halabja postcards for sale.
  11. Travelling by bus. Shots of Kanan looking pensive. Driving to Talabani's headquarters.
  12. Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) training sequences.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 12 Box 331, Video-cassette ME231

  1. "Bus arrives at Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) camp. Kan waits at main gate. General views (gvs.) of camp and mountains around. Fort.
  2. Grave yard - mainly victims of Intifada. Three women at grave. Gvs.
  3. Kanan - "short term considerations . . . blame them all for . . . basest of reasons."
  4. 8-15 Chamchamal - Suresh. Gvs. of streets. Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) camp.
  5. Iraqi Army frontline. Tank on horizon. Guerrillas hang around frontline areas. RPG 7 rockets on back of one.
  6. Woman collects water.
  7. Anfal victims surround us and show fingers to demonstrate how many family members lost. Riot develops.
  8. Boys run ahead of landcruiser in Suresh.
  9. Interview with man and woman about experiences of Anfal. Woman talks of girls being raped.
  10. Fort where Anfal carriages are discovered. Victims have disappeared. Peshmerga holds up clothes.
  11. Variety of shots - pans, etc. Kanan taking photos. Peshmerga with children's clothes.
  12. Tank dug-outs. Iranian position in distance. Children's garments.
  13. Peshmerga commander talks.
  14. Kanan ptc.
  15. KPTC, silence and shame.
  16. Walking around interior of fort - Anfal victims' excrement. Shots of carriages atop fort. Travelling shots of fort. General travelling shots. Several more carriages. Cross-country shots from vehicle. Refugees in lorry Derbend Dikhan. General shots - very beautiful.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

B-Roll from "Saddam's Killing Fields"-Roll 13 Box 331, Video-cassette ME233

  1. Suleimaniya - Kanan goes walk-about in security headquarters. He reads from document picked up from floor. "Those that have had their freedom stolen from them look forward to the day when Arab history will return to its brilliance."
  2. Letter to security unit - on mother of "criminal karim."
  3. K walks into torture cells in basement.
  4. Woman's prison. Poems on wall.
  5. The cells of "no return."
  6. Religious "relics." "The only time I have seen this is the shrines.
  7. KPTC confessions.
  8. Very dim exterior shot of security headquarters.
  9. Tracking shot along streets at night.
  10. Nighttime time shots of shops, restaurants, etc.
  11. Kanan, in car: "Families asking for videos not to be sold.
  12. N.B. rape.
  13. Hunt for videos in Suleimaniya.
  14. TV shots of Suleimaniya during Intifada - dead bodies of security agents.
  15. Video parlour - watching Western thriller.
  16. Then torture video.
  17. Various ptc from Kanan.
  18. Videos - filmed off screen - execution. Shiites in south.
  19. Travelling shots - crossing river with ferry.
  20. Gr on camera on ferry.
  21. Travelling shots from car.
  22. Car in shot.
  23. Accra - various - town that close to government and survived relatively unscarred.
  24. Long shot of car on road to Zakho.
  25. Travelling shots.
  26. TV - man singing who Anfaled.
  1. David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
  2. International Monitor Institute records, 1986-2011
  3. Audiovisual Materials, circa 1990-2008
  4. Middle East, circa 1991-2008

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