(2 Aug 2003)
1. Chief US administrator for Iraq, Paul Bremer walking into news conference
2. SOUNDBITE: (English) L. Paul Bremer, the chief US administrator for Iraq:
"As Iraqis have come to recognise that Saddam is finished they are coming forward in increasing numbers with information. All over the country local police and units of the coalition forces are receiving tips about where the criminals can be found. In the most famous case someone told us where to find Odai and Qusai. Within hours they were dead. Less than two weeks later we have paid the informant 30 million dollars and relocated him and his family safely outside Iraq. We are going to get Saddam too. The only question is who is going to get the 25 million dollars and move to another country."
3. Cutaway hand writing
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) L. Paul Bremer, the chief US administrator for Iraq:
"The attacks will be reduced if we can kill or capture Saddam. Those are attacks that are coming to us from desperados from the Ba'athist party the trained killers of the fedayeen Saddam and the trained killers of the many intelligence services Saddam had in the country. We believe the death of his sons and the eventual death or capture of Saddam will have a beneficial effect on reducing these attacks over time. I said at the time of the killing of the two sons that I expected attacks in the short run to increase and indeed that did happen for a few days as these people reacted to the death of their leaders."
5. Journalists at conference
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) L. Paul Bremer, the chief US administrator for Iraq:
"There is clear evidence of an al-Qaida related terrorist group Ansar al-Islam reconstituting itself inside Iraq since the war. You will recall there was an Ansar al-Islam base in the north that was attack by coalition forces early in the war. With regret I say we did not kill all the terrorists, some of them escaped across various borders and they have started to trickle back into Iraq and we believe there are quite a number of these Ansar al-Islam professional killers on the loose in the country. We are doing everything we can to track them down and deal with them."
7. Wide news conference
8. Cameramen filming
9. Bremer leaving room
STORYLINE:
The chief US administrator for Iraq, Paul Bremer, blamed Ba'ath party members and terrorists on Saturday for attacks on American soldiers, and said he thought the capture or killing of Saddam Hussein would reduce resistance.
Speaking at a news conference in Baghdad, Bremer said more Iraqis were giving US soldiers and local police information about former regime sympathisers.
"As Iraqis have come to recognise that Saddam is finished they are coming forward in increasing numbers with information," he said.
Bremer also said an al-Qaida related terrorist group present in northern Iraq at the beginning of the war was regrouping, saying this meant there were a number of 'professional killers' on the loose in the country.
"With regret I say we did not kill all the terrorists, some of them escaped across various borders and they have started to trickle back into Iraq...We are doing everything we can to track them down and deal with them," Bremer said.
Also Saturday, the military said a US soldier was killed and three were wounded in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on their convoy east of Baghdad on Friday.
The Arabic satellite television broadcaster Al-Jazeera reported that another US soldier also died on Saturday morning in an attack north of the capital, but the military said it had no details on the incident.
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