- Title: USA: PRESIDENT GEORGE W BUSH DISCUSSES IRAQ AND SAUDI ARABIA AT NEWS CONFERENCE
- Date: 1st August 2003
- Summary: (EU) WASHINGTON, D.C. UNITED STATES (JULY 30) (NBC - NO ACCESS CNN/USA/INTERNET/WIRELESS) 1. MV U.S. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH WALKS TO PODIUM; SLV JOURNALISTS SEATED (2 SHOTS) 0.19 2. SOUNDBITE (English) BUSH SAYING "I don't know how close we are to getting Saddam Hussein, you know, closer than we were yesterday I guess All I know is that we're on the hunt. It's like if you'd have asked me before we got his sons how close we were to getting his sons, I'd have said I don't know, but we're on the hunt. And, we're making progress, slowly but surely making progress bringing those who terrorize their fellow citizens to justice and making progress about convincing the Iraqi people that freedom is real." 0.54 3. MV JOURNALIST 1.04 4. SOUNDBITE (English) BUSH SAYING "There are still al Qaeda remnants that have designs on the America. The good news is we are dismantling the al Qaeda organization and two we're learning more information about their plans as we capture more people. And, the threat is a real threat. It's a threat that we don't have specific data, we don't know when, where, what, but we do know a couple of things. That al Qaeda tends to use the methodologies that worked in the past." 1.45 5. SCU JOURNALIST 1.51 6. SOUNDBITE (English) BUSH SAYING "Our people have done a really good job of hauling in a lot of the key operator, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zebeta, Ramsey al Sheba or whatever the guy's name was. Sorry Ramsey if I got it wrong. Bin al Sheba, excuse me. Swift sword is dead thanks to the Saudis. Abu Bakr is now captured by the Saudis. We're dismantling the operating decision makers. We got more to do." 2.28 7. SLV BUSH AT PODIUM 2.38 8. SOUNDBITE (English) BUSH SAYING "What we really don't want to do, doesn't seem to make sense to me, is to reveal those sources and methods. At some point in time, as we make progress in the investigation and as the threat to our national security diminishes, perhaps we can put out the document. But in my judgement, now is not the time to do so, and I made that clear to him and to the members of Congress." 3.07 9. MV JOURNALISTS 3.11 10. SOUNDBITE (English) BUSH SAYING "And in order to placate the critics about the intentions of the United States we need to produce evidence and I understand that. And I am fully confident that our search will yield that which I strongly believe, that Saddam had a weapons programme. I want to remind you that he used his weapons program on his own people at one point in time which is pretty tangible evidence. I am confident history will prove the decision we made to be the right decision." 3.48 11. SLV BUSH AT PODIUM 3.54 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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