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Aired December 04, 2003 - 06:35 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Is it a real miracle in Bethlehem, a baby, a birthmark, a sign from above?
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, is with us with that story and more.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes. Carol, yes, we talked about this earlier, a baby born in Bethlehem, which the Palestinians are calling a miracle baby born with a mark on the side of his face, which forms the name of his uncle, who was a Palestinian militant killed by the Israelis. The Palestinians...
COSTELLO: Oh, it just looks like a butterfly to me.
CLINCH: Yes. Well, in Arabic, it apparently very clearly forms the name of the baby's dead uncle. Palestinians are making quite a fuss about this, apparently. Hundreds or thousands of Palestinians have turned up to see this miracle baby.
COSTELLO: And the uncle was killed while planning a suicide bombing...
(CROSSTALK)
CLINCH: Well, according to the Israelis, he was planning a suicide bombing and was killed by them a matter of months ago, around the time the baby was born.
Another story in Israel that caught my notice this morning -- I don't know if we have the Web page -- but we were reading in Israeli papers this morning that the first Eskimo will be going to join the Israeli army. Now, it's a very kind of interesting story. I don't know if you can see, but there's a picture there of this young girl who was born of Native-American parents in Alaska, was then adopted by an Israeli couple.
She and her brother -- you can see them there if you look closely -- were adopted by this Israeli couple. They now live in Israel, and the girl is of age and is now joining the Israeli army, as anybody who lives in Israel has to. So, we'll keep an eye on that to see if we get more video on that later today.
The story really that's dominating our coverage today, we heard from Donald Rumsfeld in Afghanistan with President Karzai just a short time ago, focusing us very clearly on one of the biggest issues that we are covering that is there in the world at the moment -- the idea that the United States is pushing its NATO allies to go way beyond the traditional alliance idea of defending each other against a threat within NATO, and the idea that NATO should support the United States in Afghanistan and perhaps even Iraq.
Now, Rumsfeld making it very clear that NATO has already taken a huge step, in his words, by taking part already in Afghanistan. A very small NATO force is already there in Afghanistan in a very restricted form. He and his counterpart, the State Department, Colin Powell, who is in Brussels at NATO today, pushing hard for NATO to expand that role in Afghanistan and opening the idea that if NATO has bought into the idea of taking part in Afghanistan, why not buy into Iraq as well?
Well, some of the NATO allies are not so keen on that idea -- the sort of "can't say no" tradition of NATO in terms of being asked to help their NATO allies they see as not applying to Iraq.
So, a very interesting story. We'll hear from Colin Powell in Brussels later today.
COSTELLO: All right, David Clinch, thank you.
CLINCH: OK.
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Aired December 4, 2003 - 06:35 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Is it a real miracle in Bethlehem, a baby, a birthmark, a sign from above?
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, is with us with that story and more.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes. Carol, yes, we talked about this earlier, a baby born in Bethlehem, which the Palestinians are calling a miracle baby born with a mark on the side of his face, which forms the name of his uncle, who was a Palestinian militant killed by the Israelis. The Palestinians...
COSTELLO: Oh, it just looks like a butterfly to me.
CLINCH: Yes. Well, in Arabic, it apparently very clearly forms the name of the baby's dead uncle. Palestinians are making quite a fuss about this, apparently. Hundreds or thousands of Palestinians have turned up to see this miracle baby.
COSTELLO: And the uncle was killed while planning a suicide bombing...
(CROSSTALK)
CLINCH: Well, according to the Israelis, he was planning a suicide bombing and was killed by them a matter of months ago, around the time the baby was born.
Another story in Israel that caught my notice this morning -- I don't know if we have the Web page -- but we were reading in Israeli papers this morning that the first Eskimo will be going to join the Israeli army. Now, it's a very kind of interesting story. I don't know if you can see, but there's a picture there of this young girl who was born of Native-American parents in Alaska, was then adopted by an Israeli couple.
She and her brother -- you can see them there if you look closely -- were adopted by this Israeli couple. They now live in Israel, and the girl is of age and is now joining the Israeli army, as anybody who lives in Israel has to. So, we'll keep an eye on that to see if we get more video on that later today.
The story really that's dominating our coverage today, we heard from Donald Rumsfeld in Afghanistan with President Karzai just a short time ago, focusing us very clearly on one of the biggest issues that we are covering that is there in the world at the moment -- the idea that the United States is pushing its NATO allies to go way beyond the traditional alliance idea of defending each other against a threat within NATO, and the idea that NATO should support the United States in Afghanistan and perhaps even Iraq.
Now, Rumsfeld making it very clear that NATO has already taken a huge step, in his words, by taking part already in Afghanistan. A very small NATO force is already there in Afghanistan in a very restricted form. He and his counterpart, the State Department, Colin Powell, who is in Brussels at NATO today, pushing hard for NATO to expand that role in Afghanistan and opening the idea that if NATO has bought into the idea of taking part in Afghanistan, why not buy into Iraq as well?
Well, some of the NATO allies are not so keen on that idea -- the sort of "can't say no" tradition of NATO in terms of being asked to help their NATO allies they see as not applying to Iraq.
So, a very interesting story. We'll hear from Colin Powell in Brussels later today.
COSTELLO: All right, David Clinch, thank you.
CLINCH: OK.
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