Kifri

CNN photojournalist David Turnley is joining us now live via videophone from a place called Kifri with details from those battles - David.

CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003 2003

We're standing in the town of Kifri, which is on the eastern side of the northern front.

CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003 2003

You know, we're between -- if you can get a map out, we're pretty close to Kifri at a place called -- 75 kilometers south of Kifri, and, you know, it was formerly between the lines.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003 2003

Now what you're seeing are cars with people from the Kifri area, and other areas, heading towards villages and towns that have been just been liberated.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003 2003

And these pictures show Iraqis running for cover just before U.S. planes dropped a bomb near the village of Kifri, in northern Iraq.

CNN Transcript Mar 29, 2003 2003

We -- if we throw up the map again, we'll just quickly -- we can give you an idea of where these men are, roughly, about 60 kilometers, so 40ish miles, 38, 37 miles from Kifri, heading toward Baghdad, moving south.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003 2003

And you know, these men are heading towards Kifri.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003 2003

CNN's Brent Sadler has been bringing us an extraordinary sight from northeast Iraq Friday morning -- thousands upon thousands of unarmed Iraqi soldiers walking, some of them barefoot, from the city of Kifri, heading south in the direction of Baghdad.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003 2003

Our Brent Sadler came across this amazing site near Kifri (ph), and he spoke to some of the defeated forces, and he's joining us on the phone right now.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003 2003

I'm in part of the northern front, at least it was the northern front near Kifri and I'm watching now some incredible scenes of thousands and thousands of former Iraqi soldiers walking down a recently opened highway.

CNN Transcript Apr 11, 2003 2003