WRAP Bush meets Iraqi PM, presser, meets US troops
(13 Jun 2006) SHOTLIST Baghdad 1. Wide of US President George W Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki at news conference Baghdad 2. Shot of video-conference screens Baghdad 3. SOUNDBITE (English): George W. Bush, US President: "I've come to not only look you in the eye, I have also come to tell you that when America gives its word, it will keep its word. It is in our interests that Iraq succeed." 4. Wide of Bush and al-Maliki at news conference Baghdad 5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Nouri al-Maliki, Iraqi Prime Minister: "This government which has been chosen by full Iraqi national mandate, is determined to succeed, and we have to defeat terrorists and defeat all these hardships." Baghdad 6. Pan officials at table 7. Pull out of Bush and al-Maliki shaking hands Baghdad 8. Shot of video-conference screens Washington DC 9. Pan from rear shot of US officials watching video conference, to screens showing Baghdad press conference 10. Mid shot of US officials including Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice 11. Pull out from video conference screens to US officials watching 12. Close up Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice 13. Mid shot US officials 14. Close up Rice 15. Close up Cheney 16. Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and other senior aides Baghdad 17. Zoom in from wide of Bush being introduced by US Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, and cheered by troops 18. Wide shot Bush being cheered by troops 19. Mid shot troops cheering and taking photos 20. Various troops cheering and taking photos 21. SOUNDBITE (English) George W. Bush, US President: "The mission that you are accomplishing here in Iraq will go down in the history books as an incredibly important moment in the history of freedom and peace, an incredibly important moment of doing our duty to secure our homeland." 22. Various shots of troops listening and cheering STORYLINE US President George W Bush assured Iraqis in a surprise visit to Baghdad on Tuesday that the US stands with them and that the future of Iraq was in the hands of its people. Bush discussed next steps in the troubled three-year-old Iraq war in a meeting with newly named Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "I've come to not only look you in the eye," Bush told al-Maliki. "I also come to tell you that when America gives its word, it keeps its word." Al-Maliki, who didn't know Bush was in coming until five minutes before they met, said Iraq was determined to succeed. "This government which has been chosen by full Iraqi national mandate, is determined to succeed, and we have to defeat terrorists and defeat all these hardships," he said. The dramatic move came as Bush sought to bolster support for Iraq's fledgling government and US war policy at home. Bush travelled to Baghdad less than a week after a US air strike killed militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The president was expected to be in Baghdad a little more than five hours. It was the president's second unannounced visit to Baghdad since the 2003 invasion. The two leaders were seated at a table in a room with two large television screens, one showing Bush and al-Maliki and the other showing Bush's aides and advisers at Camp David in the United States. Bush was flanked at the table by al-Maliki and Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador to Iraq. The trip was known only to a handful of aides and a small number of journalists sworn to secrecy because of obvious security threats for Bush and members of his entourage. 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...
