Скачать или смотреть Administration on removing WMDs and security in post-war Iraq

(11 Oct 2002)

1. Pentagon Spokesperson, Victoria Clarke and Admiral David Gove, Director of Global Operations, walk in
2. Cutaway journalists
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victoria Clarke, Pentagon Spokesperson:
"There are so many people, so many countries, look at the vote in Congress yesterday and last night. So many who clearly think that Iraq would be a better place, the world, and the region could be a better place if Saddam Hussein were not running the country. So it just makes sense, it is common sense to begin planning and begin thinking through the tough issues of how you would do this."
4. Cutaway Pentagon officials
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victoria Clarke, Pentagon Spokesperson:
"But it is too soon to say what specific roles might be. Clearly there would be and this is would be. These are hypotheticals at this stage of the game, there would be security considerations. So the DOD (Department of Defence) would have an important role. Clearly one of your first priorities would be to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction."
6. Cutaway cameramen and journalists
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Victoria Clarke, Pentagon Spokesperson:
"On the weapons of mass destruction, it would be hard. I mean they have gotten very clever and very agile in hiding these programs. Mobile means, putting them in bunkers, putting them in all sorts of different places. It will be very very hard and very time consuming."
8. Cutaway journalists
9. SOUNDBITE: (English), Admiral David Gove, Director of Global Operations:
"The attacks on coalition aircraft in both operation Northern Watch and operation Southern Watch have been continuing and our responses are against both the shooters, the facilities, the launchers that shoot. As well as integrated defense systems that supports the targeting of coalition aircraft. And we have been very open about that we are going to go after the infrastructure and help degrade the capability that targets coalition aircraft whenever they are fired on."
10. Clip of coalition F-16 dropping ordinance on a Iraqi missile launcher
11. SOUNDBITE: (English), Admiral David Gove, Director of Global Operations:
"The coalition aircraft were fired upon and the response was coordinated by the joint task force commander in south-west Asia."
12. Clip of coalition plan dropping ordinance on radar in al Basrah
13. Wideshot of Clarke and Gove

STORYLINE:

President George W. Bush's administration's postwar plans for Iraq could include using American and other foreign troops as a stabilising force until a new government is established, the Defence Department said on Friday.

Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke said any plan would also include finding and securing any weapons of mass destruction hidden in mobile sites and bunkers.

Clarke added that there would be an important role for the Iraqi people, Iraqi dissidents living abroad, and the international community to determine the country's future.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon released clips on yesterday's airstrikes.

Allied planes bombed radar and missile sites in the southern no-fly zone over Iraq on Thursday, targeting President Saddam Hussein's air defenses for the third time this week.

Coalition planes targeted precision-guided weapons at a radar site near al Basrah, about 245 miles southeast of Baghdad

At the same time as the Basrah strike - 4 a.m. EDT - allied planes also launched a strike against a surface-to-air missile site near Tallil, about 160 miles southeast of Baghdad,


Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
Twitter:   / ap_archive  
Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​
Instagram:   / apnews  


You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...