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American Morning
'Morning Buzz'
Aired January 22, 2002 - 07:50 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Time now for the Morning Buzz. Here's the front page of "The New York Post". Steve Donnelley (ph), he is arguably a very conservative columnist, wrote a whole piece about "let's remember the victims" called "Torturing the Truth", and what he talks about is all of this bleeding heart left-wing - these are his words, "bleeding heart left-wing sympathy for the detainees, the terrorists, the murderers, the people who were responsible in part for the society that brought down the World Trade Center, for executing people at soccer games, for shooting women in the back of the head in the streets, for cutting people's arms off".
I was just talking to a person unnamed, who is a guest on this program saying that maybe the best thing to do with the detainees is keep them for about six months and then let them go back in Afghanistan because they'd all be killed in a heartbeat over there then - just a thought.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Cheerful thought.
CAFFERTY: Just a thought.
ZAHN: It's you know that was a powerful piece, and this ...
CAFFERTY: Yes.
ZAHN: ... comes at a time when "The Miami Herald" broke a story about how we're beginning to see leaders actually emerge at Guantanamo Bay, and I guess they believe it is the former chief of staff of the Army now, a one-legged guy ...
CAFFERTY: Facing the wrong way towards - away from Mecca.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: With the one-legged and the one- eyed thing, what is it with the ...
ZAHN: War is costly.
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ZAHN: Civil war is deadly.
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CAFFERTY: Now but it's - apparently they're very concerned about this man who apparently an Arabic was chanting something about be strong, Allah will save us, and they have now, I think, isolated him from the rest of the population.
COOPER: It's ...
CAFFERTY: They're afraid. These are dangerous people.
COOPER: ... amazing to watch the coverage of this in the U.S. as compared to over in Europe. I mean the British tabloids and the British papers are up in arms about the alleged ...
CAFFERTY: Yes.
COOPER: ... or about you know how these guys are being treated, and it's, I don't know, it's interesting. I mean if you check out the British papers, they're all over this.
CAFFERTY: This would be 30 years after their paratroopers killed 13 unarmed people in a protest in northern Ireland, if I remember correctly.
ZAHN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) on a slightly lighter note, check this out in "The New York Post", this picture, and we're going to talk about this more later. Do you recognize this woman to the far left? Gwyneth Paltrow in the middle, then ...
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ZAHN: Who is that Anderson?
COOPER: That's Elvira mistress of the dark, isn't it?
ZAHN: Oh come on, it's Chelsea Clinton. She's ...
COOPER: Oh my God.
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ZAHN: Show.
CAFFERTY: Yes. She obviously ...
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COOPER: What is she doing at a Versace show with the celebrities? Why do all these - I don't get this.
ZAHN: I thought she was supposed to be studying at Oxford.
COOPER: The world of celebrities is something I still don't understand.
CAFFERTY: Somebody is going to teach you how to do eye makeup with one of those ...
ZAHN: We'll take a short break here. We'll bring you to the top of the hour on the other side. We'll be right back.
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