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Iraq launches first post-Saddam stamps

(11 Jan 2004) 11 January 2004 1. Wide shot of post office building 2. Customer walking inside post office 3. People standing at post office counter 4. Man buying stamp 5. Close up of man putting stamp on letter 6. Close up of letter with stamp 7. Piles of letters 8. Clerk with a magnifying glass checking stamps 9. Zoom in stamp through magnifying lens 10. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Wathiq Mohammed, Post Office official: "The issuing of the new stamp is a big achievement after recent events. We are now able to issue stamps with a modern design and new printing methods. We are now able to develop Iraqi stamps anew." 11. Various of stamps 12. Pan of new stamps displayed on the wall January 10 2004 13. Wide of news conference with Dan Senor and General Kimmitt 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dan Senor, Coalition Authority spokesman: "There was a handover of something both operational and symbolic. The Iraqi post master general Ibrahim and the Iraqi Minister of Communication doctor Haida al Obeidi announced today the new Iraqi stamp. This is the first stamp post Saddam Hussein. The postal service as many of you know, was the first public service to re-open in this country following the war and this is the next step, providing or augmenting the complete postal system with the new Iraqi stamp." 15. Mid shot of news conference STORYLINE: Iraq launched its first postal stamps since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime on Sunday. The 50 and 100 Dinar stamps - worth less than one cent of the dollar - will replace the old ones that, like everything else in Iraq, were decorated with the face of President Saddam Hussein. Other stamps that will come into circulation in the next months were exhibited at the main post office building in Baghdad. With no telephone lines and a very limited number of computers the old fashioned letter is still the principal means of communications amongst Iraqis leaving in different parts of the country and abroad. At a news conference on Saturday, Coalition Authority spokesman Dan Senor said the launch of the new stamps was an important step for Iraq, both practically and symbolically. 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...