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International Wrap: Eye on the World

Aired January 28, 2004 - 05:34   ET

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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: We've got more on the deadly events in Iraq over the past 24 hours. Our senior international editor, David Clinch, joins us this morning.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, Carol.

LIN: Tough - tough news for us here.

CLINCH: It was a dreadful day for us yesterday at CNN. Losing two people in Iraq is a very, very disturbing thing for us to deal with us. I've said it dozens of times in this segment over the last few months and years that the safety of our people in the field is of prime concern to us. It still is, and it's just really sickening when something like this happens.

It's an important job that they're doing, that we're doing all doing. They're really is no more important international story right now than what's going on in Iraq. It's not for us to decide whether it's right or wrong. What's going on is for us to report every aspect of it.

The shoot that Dureid (ph) and Yasser (ph), who died yesterday, were going on with our crew was to go and look at a story in Hillah (ph), just south of Baghdad, where Iraqis were being taught about the principles of democracy. That's just an example of the kind of story we do everyday in and out in Iraq that needs to be covered. Not just the violence - there's obviously more violence today - but that kind of story going on all over Iraq, and we have to and will continue to make an effort to cover as much and as many different aspects of what's going on in Iraq as possible.

So a really awful day for us yesterday and we're still dealing with that today. And as we - as we are reporting, more violence in Baghdad today.

Another place, though, that we're looking at today that we're paying very close attention to see whether there is, in fact, an emerging pattern here - we've seen two deadly attacks on international troops in Afghanistan. Yesterday a Canadian group was attacked - Canadian soldier was killed yesterday. And today, British troops near Kabul were attacked and at least one British soldier killed there today.

The former Taliban, if you want to call them that - the Talibam - claiming responsibility for today's attack. And the search for Taliban and al Qaeda and in Afghanistan is still very much a priority. We're hearing -- obviously looking in Washington today at the 9/11 commission. Obviously, that continues. But the continued problem - thorn in the sides of the Bush administration in regard to September the 11th is that Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar - they're still out there and they are still being searched for. And obviously the Taliban - if in fact they did carry out this attack, as they're claiming, are still a deadly force to be dealt with there in Afghanistan.

I'll come back at 6 a.m. to talk about an interesting commitment that the U.S. military is now sort of going on record in terms of what they're saying about whether they will catch Osama bin Laden or not.

(CROSSTALK)

CLINCH: ...talk a little bit more about that at 6.

LIN: Be interesting to talk about that too, because whether it's an actual claim based on information they have (AUDIO GAP)

CLINCH: We don't know, but they're putting themselves on record in terms of when they think they'll catch him.

LIN: All right. Thanks, David. We'll see you in an hour.

CLINCH: All right.

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Aired January 28, 2004 - 05:34   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: We've got more on the deadly events in Iraq over the past 24 hours. Our senior international editor, David Clinch, joins us this morning.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, Carol.

LIN: Tough - tough news for us here.

CLINCH: It was a dreadful day for us yesterday at CNN. Losing two people in Iraq is a very, very disturbing thing for us to deal with us. I've said it dozens of times in this segment over the last few months and years that the safety of our people in the field is of prime concern to us. It still is, and it's just really sickening when something like this happens.

It's an important job that they're doing, that we're doing all doing. They're really is no more important international story right now than what's going on in Iraq. It's not for us to decide whether it's right or wrong. What's going on is for us to report every aspect of it.

The shoot that Dureid (ph) and Yasser (ph), who died yesterday, were going on with our crew was to go and look at a story in Hillah (ph), just south of Baghdad, where Iraqis were being taught about the principles of democracy. That's just an example of the kind of story we do everyday in and out in Iraq that needs to be covered. Not just the violence - there's obviously more violence today - but that kind of story going on all over Iraq, and we have to and will continue to make an effort to cover as much and as many different aspects of what's going on in Iraq as possible.

So a really awful day for us yesterday and we're still dealing with that today. And as we - as we are reporting, more violence in Baghdad today.

Another place, though, that we're looking at today that we're paying very close attention to see whether there is, in fact, an emerging pattern here - we've seen two deadly attacks on international troops in Afghanistan. Yesterday a Canadian group was attacked - Canadian soldier was killed yesterday. And today, British troops near Kabul were attacked and at least one British soldier killed there today.

The former Taliban, if you want to call them that - the Talibam - claiming responsibility for today's attack. And the search for Taliban and al Qaeda and in Afghanistan is still very much a priority. We're hearing -- obviously looking in Washington today at the 9/11 commission. Obviously, that continues. But the continued problem - thorn in the sides of the Bush administration in regard to September the 11th is that Osama bin Laden, Mullah Omar - they're still out there and they are still being searched for. And obviously the Taliban - if in fact they did carry out this attack, as they're claiming, are still a deadly force to be dealt with there in Afghanistan.

I'll come back at 6 a.m. to talk about an interesting commitment that the U.S. military is now sort of going on record in terms of what they're saying about whether they will catch Osama bin Laden or not.

(CROSSTALK)

CLINCH: ...talk a little bit more about that at 6.

LIN: Be interesting to talk about that too, because whether it's an actual claim based on information they have (AUDIO GAP)

CLINCH: We don't know, but they're putting themselves on record in terms of when they think they'll catch him.

LIN: All right. Thanks, David. We'll see you in an hour.

CLINCH: All right.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com