(21 Aug 2003) SHOTLIST
1. New US army chief of staff, General Peter Schoomaker (left), with Major General Raymond Odierno, Commander of the 4th Infantry division, walking up stairs towards camera for news conference
2. General Schoomaker entering room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) General Peter Schoomaker, new US Army Chief of Staff:
"I am absolutely impressed and proud, as all American people are, of the American soldier and what the American soldier is able to accomplish, both in combat, in winning the war, as well as winning in peace."
4. Soldiers standing at attention
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Major General Raymond Odierno, US Commander of the 4th Infantry division (Pulls out from close-up of General Schoomaker):
"Sir, we never know - we conducted a raid last night, we thought we had a tip, we conducted it north east of Baghdad, around the Baquoba region. We found some relatives, some associates, we had an informant, but he was not there. We will continue to run down any lead on Saddam Hussein or anybody else that's involved in attacks against the coalition and trying to subvert anything that we are trying to do."
6. Various of Schoomaker presenting badges to soldiers, congratulating them for their performance in Iraq
7. Schoomaker walking away
STORYLINE:
The US military has said it captured an unspecified number of Saddam Hussein's relatives and associates in a Wednesday night raid in Baquoba, 70 kilometres (45 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
Speaking in Tikrit on Thursday, Major General Raymond Odierno, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, declined to name or identify any of the captives.
He added the net was closing in on Saddam, saying the former Iraqi leader would have to keep moving around or he would be caught.
Odierno spoke with reporters embedded with the 4th Infantry in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of Baghdad, during a visit by the new US Army Chief of Staff, General Peter Schoomaker.
Schoomaker praised the work of the US forces in Iraq.
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