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Updates on Kenyan/Israeli Attacks, U.N. Weapons Inspections

Aired December 02, 2002 - 05:36   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're following many international stories throughout the day here on CNN and it's time to get down to brass tacks now, so to speak.
Our senior international editor David Clinch joins us, as usual.

DAVID CLINCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Good morning, Carol.

COSTELLO: Good morning.

CLINCH: Good morning.

I'm looking at my list here. We have, I didn't know we had this many reporters. We've got people all over the place today. But, again, something that I talk about a lot, when we do a story, for instance, we're in Kenya still, a story that happened a few days ago. But so many questions still unanswered about that story. We need more than one reporter. We actually have three reporters there. And we need to be able to look into the investigation, find out what's going on, talk to people. We had a very interesting interview today with a farmer there who says he -- and officials seem to agree with him -- seems to have been the last person to actually talk to the attackers before they bombed the hotel there.

COSTELLO: Now, is he the one that got the license plate number, too?

CLINCH: Apparently he got some very useful information. But just also the eeriness of him having talked to these people who he describes as very nervous and having lots of equipment in their car and then lo and behold, he hears an explosion next door. So we need more than just one person on that story to continue.

COSTELLO: And how do correspondents go about trying to prove there is a link, or not a link, to al Qaeda?

CLINCH: Well, I mean that's interesting, you had Jerrold Kessel there reporting from Jerusalem. That's another angle on the story we need to maintain. There's so much else going on in Israel, but we need to make sure we have enough reporters to stay on this investigation, because the Israelis, if they're not officially leading the investigation, they're unofficially leading it, and they certainly have, they say, very good information that al Qaeda or groups linked to al Qaeda are behind this attack. So... COSTELLO: And now American investigators are there, too, and that must, you know, when you get too many investigative units together some...

CLINCH: Too many cooks, I suppose.

COSTELLO: Yes.

CLINCH: So it's going to take us some time to sort through all of this and each one of these, the Kenyans, the Israelis, the Americans, each have a different agenda, as well, you would have to say.

COSTELLO: Absolutely.

CLINCH: So we have to sort through not only the facts as they're presented to us, but look behind the facts to the agenda that each group and each group of investigators are trying to present.

And Baghdad, we're also there again. Again, with more than one reporter. We've got to go out and follow the inspectors. They went to a place in Baghdad today that Nic Robertson has followed them to which, you know, had been visited before by nuclear, by nuclear inspectors. We seem to be seeing a pattern of them going mostly to places that inspectors had gone to before. They also apparently, though, went to a distillery, an alcohol distillery just outside of Baghdad today. We need to find out a little bit more about that.

So Nic's following that...

COSTELLO: Not giving anything away, but Christiane Amanpour is working on an exclusive for us.

CLINCH: She's got some information -- it'll come up in the next hour -- about what inspectors were told by the Iraqis before the inspections even began so.

COSTELLO: And it's very interesting information, so you want to stick around for the six o'clock hour.

CLINCH: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And I'll be back later to talk about some of the themes that we also try to bring into our reporting, not just the facts, but also the themes and the sort of global aspect of the story at the moment, the clash of civilizations. We'll come back and talk about that later.

COSTELLO: OK, well, I'll let you get back to work, then.

David, thank you.

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Aired December 2, 2002 - 05:36   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're following many international stories throughout the day here on CNN and it's time to get down to brass tacks now, so to speak.
Our senior international editor David Clinch joins us, as usual.

DAVID CLINCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Good morning, Carol.

COSTELLO: Good morning.

CLINCH: Good morning.

I'm looking at my list here. We have, I didn't know we had this many reporters. We've got people all over the place today. But, again, something that I talk about a lot, when we do a story, for instance, we're in Kenya still, a story that happened a few days ago. But so many questions still unanswered about that story. We need more than one reporter. We actually have three reporters there. And we need to be able to look into the investigation, find out what's going on, talk to people. We had a very interesting interview today with a farmer there who says he -- and officials seem to agree with him -- seems to have been the last person to actually talk to the attackers before they bombed the hotel there.

COSTELLO: Now, is he the one that got the license plate number, too?

CLINCH: Apparently he got some very useful information. But just also the eeriness of him having talked to these people who he describes as very nervous and having lots of equipment in their car and then lo and behold, he hears an explosion next door. So we need more than just one person on that story to continue.

COSTELLO: And how do correspondents go about trying to prove there is a link, or not a link, to al Qaeda?

CLINCH: Well, I mean that's interesting, you had Jerrold Kessel there reporting from Jerusalem. That's another angle on the story we need to maintain. There's so much else going on in Israel, but we need to make sure we have enough reporters to stay on this investigation, because the Israelis, if they're not officially leading the investigation, they're unofficially leading it, and they certainly have, they say, very good information that al Qaeda or groups linked to al Qaeda are behind this attack. So... COSTELLO: And now American investigators are there, too, and that must, you know, when you get too many investigative units together some...

CLINCH: Too many cooks, I suppose.

COSTELLO: Yes.

CLINCH: So it's going to take us some time to sort through all of this and each one of these, the Kenyans, the Israelis, the Americans, each have a different agenda, as well, you would have to say.

COSTELLO: Absolutely.

CLINCH: So we have to sort through not only the facts as they're presented to us, but look behind the facts to the agenda that each group and each group of investigators are trying to present.

And Baghdad, we're also there again. Again, with more than one reporter. We've got to go out and follow the inspectors. They went to a place in Baghdad today that Nic Robertson has followed them to which, you know, had been visited before by nuclear, by nuclear inspectors. We seem to be seeing a pattern of them going mostly to places that inspectors had gone to before. They also apparently, though, went to a distillery, an alcohol distillery just outside of Baghdad today. We need to find out a little bit more about that.

So Nic's following that...

COSTELLO: Not giving anything away, but Christiane Amanpour is working on an exclusive for us.

CLINCH: She's got some information -- it'll come up in the next hour -- about what inspectors were told by the Iraqis before the inspections even began so.

COSTELLO: And it's very interesting information, so you want to stick around for the six o'clock hour.

CLINCH: Yes, absolutely. Absolutely. And I'll be back later to talk about some of the themes that we also try to bring into our reporting, not just the facts, but also the themes and the sort of global aspect of the story at the moment, the clash of civilizations. We'll come back and talk about that later.

COSTELLO: OK, well, I'll let you get back to work, then.

David, thank you.

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