Transcript of satellite phone report from Stephanie Mills aboard the Rainbow Warrior (recorded by Reuters)....

"They have just come alongside. They've put this grappling hook on the lower deck. There is one commando now boarding.

They are dressed in black... there is one coming on board. They've boarded."

[She says they are carrying gas grenades]

"There's now about six or eight on board. One is now on the bridge and he's ordering people around.

He's just ordering everybody to stop, to sit down... They are coming to the bridge now.

They are telling the photographer to sit down and stop taking photographs.

They are telling everybody to stand back and they've got cannisters of some sort. They are shouting through the bridge window."

"...They have pushed our cameraman over. We can't see anything except the sea and somebody's feet at the moment." [Note: she was speaking from the radio room below decks]

"... I can see the bridge now.. our first mate is on the bridge... I can see them tapping on the windows through the outside... " [contact broken].

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