(11 Apr 2003)
1. Wide shots of General Tommy Franks, head of US Central Command, as he walks to podium UPSOUND: Attention!
2. Wide shot of soldiers listening
3. Franks addressing soldiers
4. Cutaway shot of US flag
5. Soldiers converge on Franks after speech
6. Mid shot, Franks among the troops
7. Franks walks to podium to give press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) General Tommy Franks, head of US Central Command:
"Well, they're either dead or running like hell. That is the case with the leadership inside Iraq."
9. Media cutaway
10. SOUNDBITE (English) General Tommy Franks, head of US Central Command:
"With regard to the specific location of bin Laden or anyone else that you could mention, I think what you do is you continue to take bits and pieces of information, you use those, and as our capability grows over time by the amount of work that we do in a given place like Afghanistan or in Iraq in the current example, the closer we get."
11. Franks leaving press conference
12. Various shots of Franks meeting Afghan President Hamid Karzai
STORYLINE:
The US commander of the coalition war effort in Iraq said on Friday that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his sons were either dead or on the run.
The head of US Central Command, General Tommy Franks, made the comments at a news conference at the US command center at Bagram air base, north of Afghanistan's capital Kabul.
"They're either dead or they're running like hell," Franks told reporters. "That is the case with the leadership of the regime inside Iraq."
Franks also spoke to hundreds of coalition soldiers before moving on to Kabul to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the US ambassador to Afghanistan.
Franks is scheduled to return to the US Central Command forward base in Doha, Qatar on Friday evening.
Thousands of US troops remain in Afghanistan to hunt down al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives who continue to target international forces in Afghanistan.
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