New civilian admin leader on tour of Mosul

(18 May 2003) 1. Wide US military waiting on tarmac at Mosul Airport 2. Paul Bremer, chief civilian administrator gets off plane and is greeted by Major General David Petraeus, commanding general of the 101st Airborne Division and coalition forces in north west Iraq 3. Close up Bremer 4. Wide of Mosul Palace 5. Interior central command 6. Bremer looking at operations board 7. Cutaway soldiers in local headquarters 8. Wide of Mosul city 9. Bremer walking with Petraeus 10. Cutaway delegate 11. Bremer arrives at meeting, sits at table 12. Retired General Ghanam al-Basso, Mosul's Mayor (blue shirt) sitting at table 13. Mid shot Bremer 14. People at meeting 15. Cutaway media 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Bremer, chief civilian administrator: (Q. There are reports that the establishment of an interim government is being delayed.) "I don't know where those stories are coming from because we haven't delayed anything. My colleague the British Ambassador and I had a very productive meeting with some Iraqi leaders on the subject in Baghdad on Friday night. We told them that our coalition authority is intent on moving forward as quickly as we can." 17. US Soldiers keeping people back 18. Iraqis chanting "With blood, with soul, we will sacrifice ourselves for Iraq" 19. Iraqis holding banner saying that people want to return to their villages, from which they have been displaced by returning kurds 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Paul Bremer, chief civilian administrator: "We also have here in Mosul a great example of embryonic democracy. We have seen what the Iraqi people of Mosul have been able to do to put together a representative town council on their own. We have seen here on the streets today a voice of freedom speaking in these demonstrators. Free to express their views in a way they have been denied for 30 years." 21. Bremer walking 22. Iraqis on road 23. Bremer talking to Iraqi children 24. Close up Iraqi child STORYLINE: America's administrator in Iraq went north on Sunday, meeting a US-installed city council in turbulent Mosul and appraising the challenges of restoring order to the ethnically volatile region. Paul Bremer met behind closed doors with Mosul's council nearly a week into his tenure as Iraq's imposed civilian administrator. The council was installed earlier this month by Mosul political figures under US supervision. Bremer paid tribute to newly established city council in Mosul. Meanwhile, more than 100 protesters gathered to protest their displacement from their homes by returning Kurds who had been forced to leave during Saddam Hussein's rule. Speaking to the media, Bremer denied reports that there was a delay in setting up an Iraqi interim authority. Bremer was also briefed by Major General David H. Petraeus, commander of the US Army's 101st Airborne Division. 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...