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(5 May 2003) SHOTLIST
Baghdad
1. Various of US administrator of Iraq Lieutenant General Jay Garner, his entourage and journalists walking to military plane on tarmac
2. Various of Garner and others inside plane

Basra
3. Garner and others walking in street
4. Various of tank rolling over rifles to destroy them
5. Various of crushed rifles
6. Various of tank
7. Various of Garner and journalists walking in street
8. Garner touring building guarded by coalition troops
9. Soldiers on balcony
10. Soldiers outside building
11. Desert Rats badge on uniform
12. Soldier's gun
13. Low shot of two soldiers at gates

Basra
14. Wide of news conference with Garner, Garner's British deputy Major General Tim Cross and Ole Woehler Olsen, the Danish administrator of Basra region
15. SOUNDBITE (English) General Jay Garner, Interim Iraq Administrator:
"May is a key month for setting the conditions for the rest of the time. Because what you have now is I think you can see the beginning of settlement, the beginning of stability. It's necessary that we do stabilise to a great degree, that we bring up the law enforcement ability, that we begin to bring the public services back, and that we begin now to see what we hope will be the emergence of a government, not a government, that's wrong, a leadership that we can work with towards a democratic government process. I think all those now are moving, I think those are major muscle movers, I think that's good too by the way."
16. Wide of Cross and Garner and Olsen
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Tim Cross, Garner's Deputy:
"What we're finding across the board is that things are going well and the links with the ministry teams, the links with the regions, the links with the conference that we had in Baghdad earlier last week. We hope to see this interim government emerging as Jay says by the end of the month and that is great news. I think the message is a very powerful, successful message and we must make sure that's understood."
18. All three leave news conference

STORYLINE:

The American civilian overseeing Iraq's reconstruction traveled to Basra on Monday for a tour of the city that fell to British coalition troops during the war.

Iraq's U.S. administrator, retired Lieutenant General Jay Garner said he expects a small group of leaders to take the reins of post-Saddam Iraq.

He said he hoped the emergence of a stable leadership could facilitate the effective vision of essential services to Iraq, including law enforcement.

Retired U.S. Lieutenant General Jay Garner is scheduled to spend his one-day-trip to Basra visiting a school, hospital and an oil refinery and will be conferring with a local sheik.

Garner's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance has been working with the U.S. military to restore order in Iraq.

Major General Tim Cross, deputy to Garner in the Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, said progress was being made in the reconstruction of Iraq, despite the concerns of some.

Cross said the links between various ministries and regions was working well.

Cross and Garner toured Basra with Ole Woehler Olsen, recently appointed as the administrator for Basra province.

Olsen has been Denmark's ambassador to Syria since October 2000, and is a practising Muslim.

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