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International Wrap, Eye on World
Aired August 25, 2003 - 06:36 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.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Our senior international editor, David Clinch, joins us now to tell us what we can expect in today's coverage. And there was some kind of explosion in India. I saw it cross the wires just a short time ago.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Right. We're just getting details on this. It's not clear exactly what's going on yet. We do know there have been at least two very large explosions in Mumbai -- it used to be called Bombay -- in India, right in the heart of the financial capital of India.
We are now confirming at least 46 people dead.
COSTELLO: Wow!
CLINCH: Again, not clear exactly what's behind this, but there is a running theory at the moment that it may be Muslim extremists. The city has seen clashes between Muslims and Hindus before, as have many other parts of India.
There was an announcement earlier today from national archeologists in India that in another part of India they had found, after years of looking into this, evidence of a Hindu temple, an ancient Hindu temple underneath a controversial Muslim mosque. Again, in another part of India, but that announcement came out earlier today. It's possible that may have triggered this. We're still looking into that.
So, more depressing news. I told you earlier I was depressed. That's more sad news. We'll look into that.
But we did find -- I went out of my way and, and we did find something that, relatively speaking, is a little bit cheerier news in Iraq today. American soldiers, the same American soldiers who are finding out they may have to spend at least a year in Iraq, possibly more, separated from their families, a very difficult situation for them.
Some of them, though, are making the most of it and finding a spiritual aspect, perhaps inspired by their biblical surroundings. Some of them -- you can see some still photographs here -- are taking advantage of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers passing by their camps and being baptized again -- many of them not for the first time, just reaffirming their faith there in the rivers.
Some of them saying that they take life for granted when they live here in the United States, but out there, facing gunfire and violence every day, it made them reassess their lives. And they're taking advantage, as I said, of their biblical surroundings to reaffirm their faith.
So, now they are separated from their families, and a rather bit of good news, if you could put it that way.
L. Paul Bremer, who is the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, we are told -- we haven't absolutely confirmed this yet -- but we were told in a press conference earlier this week that he is going to get a break. He will actually be able to come back to the United States and visit his family for a few days. But no doubt at all he will be back in Iraq. There is still a big job for him to do there.
COSTELLO: Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
CLINCH: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Can't leave in the middle of it.
CLINCH: But, you know, when he signed on originally, he knew he'd be separated from his family for a long time, so I think he's probably due a break.
COSTELLO: Yes.
CLINCH: Just a few days.
COSTELLO: I was just thinking of it from the soldiers' perspective. I don't think I'd be too happy to see him going back to visit his family, but...
CLINCH: Well, yes, I hadn't really thought about that story. I didn't mean to juxtapose those two. But he is going to get a break. The soldiers probably will, too. That is actually something that we're still looking into. The soldiers at one point were told they would get a break at home. We're still looking into the details of exactly when that will happen.
COSTELLO: Well, we hope so, for their sake.
CLINCH: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Thank you, David. We appreciate it.
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Aired August 25, 2003 - 06:36 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Our senior international editor, David Clinch, joins us now to tell us what we can expect in today's coverage. And there was some kind of explosion in India. I saw it cross the wires just a short time ago.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Right. We're just getting details on this. It's not clear exactly what's going on yet. We do know there have been at least two very large explosions in Mumbai -- it used to be called Bombay -- in India, right in the heart of the financial capital of India.
We are now confirming at least 46 people dead.
COSTELLO: Wow!
CLINCH: Again, not clear exactly what's behind this, but there is a running theory at the moment that it may be Muslim extremists. The city has seen clashes between Muslims and Hindus before, as have many other parts of India.
There was an announcement earlier today from national archeologists in India that in another part of India they had found, after years of looking into this, evidence of a Hindu temple, an ancient Hindu temple underneath a controversial Muslim mosque. Again, in another part of India, but that announcement came out earlier today. It's possible that may have triggered this. We're still looking into that.
So, more depressing news. I told you earlier I was depressed. That's more sad news. We'll look into that.
But we did find -- I went out of my way and, and we did find something that, relatively speaking, is a little bit cheerier news in Iraq today. American soldiers, the same American soldiers who are finding out they may have to spend at least a year in Iraq, possibly more, separated from their families, a very difficult situation for them.
Some of them, though, are making the most of it and finding a spiritual aspect, perhaps inspired by their biblical surroundings. Some of them -- you can see some still photographs here -- are taking advantage of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers passing by their camps and being baptized again -- many of them not for the first time, just reaffirming their faith there in the rivers.
Some of them saying that they take life for granted when they live here in the United States, but out there, facing gunfire and violence every day, it made them reassess their lives. And they're taking advantage, as I said, of their biblical surroundings to reaffirm their faith.
So, now they are separated from their families, and a rather bit of good news, if you could put it that way.
L. Paul Bremer, who is the top U.S. administrator in Iraq, we are told -- we haven't absolutely confirmed this yet -- but we were told in a press conference earlier this week that he is going to get a break. He will actually be able to come back to the United States and visit his family for a few days. But no doubt at all he will be back in Iraq. There is still a big job for him to do there.
COSTELLO: Oh, yes. Oh, yes.
CLINCH: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Can't leave in the middle of it.
CLINCH: But, you know, when he signed on originally, he knew he'd be separated from his family for a long time, so I think he's probably due a break.
COSTELLO: Yes.
CLINCH: Just a few days.
COSTELLO: I was just thinking of it from the soldiers' perspective. I don't think I'd be too happy to see him going back to visit his family, but...
CLINCH: Well, yes, I hadn't really thought about that story. I didn't mean to juxtapose those two. But he is going to get a break. The soldiers probably will, too. That is actually something that we're still looking into. The soldiers at one point were told they would get a break at home. We're still looking into the details of exactly when that will happen.
COSTELLO: Well, we hope so, for their sake.
CLINCH: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: Thank you, David. We appreciate it.
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