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Another Top al Qaeda Suspect Arrested; Four Charged With Gruesome Slaying in Florida
Aired August 08, 2004 - 11:00 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.
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR: It's 11:00 a.m. in Washington, 6:00 p.m. in Islamabad, Pakistan. I'm Deborah Feyerick at the CNN center. Welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
Ahead this hour, another arrest of a top Al Qaeda suspect. What this may mean to the international war on terror.
Also, examining the Al Qaeda training tapes. What clues investigators hope to find to prevent future attacks.
And later...
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm just so motivated to try different things now, to play tennis, to play golf. Last week we went skeet shooting. I really enjoyed that. So now I want to buy a shotgun.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FEYERICK: After losing an arm on a battlefield, a hero in the war in Iraq finds a new direction in life. A story of hope and perseverance.
But first, a check of stories now in the news.
In Florida, four people are under arrest, charged with murder in a gruesome slaying. Six people were found dead Friday inside a rented home in Deltona. Police believe theft was a motive. We'll have the latest in the live report coming up in about ten minutes.
200 people are forced to evacuate their homes in California's Calaveras County. Three fires there burned more than 3,400 acres. Several other fires are also blazing across southern California.
And in Afghanistan, American war casualties. Two U.S. Soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were killed Saturday in a roadside bombing.
Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news.
A major Al Qaeda terror suspect is captured in the Middle East and taken to Pakistan. The man was arrested in the United Arab Emirate city of Dubai. Officials describe him as a senior Al Qaeda leader in Pakistan. He's believed to be part of two assassination attempts on Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan estimates it has arrested more than 600 Al Qaeda operatives and turned them over to the United States.
One of those recently rounded up in Pakistan is Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a computer expert said to be a key communicator between Al Qaeda operatives. Pakistani intelligence sources say they were using him in a sting operation when the U.S. leaked his name to reporters. They say that leak may have interrupted intelligence gathering. This morning National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice talked about the Khan case.
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CONDOLEEZZA RICE, UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: I don't know what might have been going on in Pakistan. I will say this, that we did not, of course, publicly disclose his name.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: He was disclosed in Washington on background...
RICE: On background, and the problem is that when you are trying to strike a balance between giving enough information to the public so that they know that you are dealing with a specific credible different kind of threat than you have dealt with in the past, you are always weighing that against operational considerations. We tried to strike a balance; we think for the most part we have struck a balance. But indeed, it's a very difficult balance to strike.
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FEYERICK: You can see the full interview with Condoleezza Rice on "LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER." That's today at noon eastern.
What can officials who are trying to keep the United States safe learn from Al Qaeda operations in the past? Some compelling video shows members of the terror group learning how to use surface to air missiles and build and detonate a bomb using a cell phone. The video was made before last year's attack on a compound in Saudi Arabia.
More details now from CNN's Brian Todd in Washington -- Brian.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Deborah, we are learning more about some of Al Qaeda's past operations. This is a tape we obtained from a group called IntelCenter, a consulting firm that worked with U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. CNN has independently verified the authenticity of this tape through consultants that we have gone to.
The video, which was produced some months ago, shows training sessions conducted by the group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In it, we see Al Qaeda members displaying surface to air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades and showing techniques for assembling and detonating improvised explosive devices.
But more than just training, this is an operational tape. We see surveillance of what IntelCenter says is the Al Muhaya housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a diagram of that complex, according to the caption from the IntelCenter, and a technique which later proved effective: The painting of a vehicle with the markings and insignia of Saudi security forces. We also see a man next to the vehicle later identified as an Al Qaeda operative involved in the suicide attack last November on the Al Muhaya compound. The attackers use those vehicles to get into the compound and set off three explosions that killed at least 17 people and wound more than 100.
The tape was originally posted on a website and we asked IntelCenter why Al Qaeda would tip off people on their training techniques.
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BEN VENZKE, INTELCENTER: Al Qaeda shoots this kind of material and prepares it for training its recruits, for driving recruitment, for trying to attract new people to the organization, but also as sort of a morale boost for the current members and to drive fund raising for future efforts.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TODD: Ben Venzke said one important thing we learn from this tape about Al Qaeda strategy, this particular complex had security forces. It had guards at the perimeter. Those guards engaged the attackers but that did not deter Al Qaeda from hitting the complex. It merely adapted its tactics to go after the chosen target -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: Brian, thanks so much. So with this new information, this new video, and with another Al Qaeda suspect behind bars in Pakistan, where do things stand and what does it all mean in this part of the war on terror?
CNN's Maria Ressa is in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Maria, what's new there?
MARIA RESSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What's interesting hear is when you speak with intelligence officials they confirm that Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, the computer expert, was cooperating with them. But there also seems to be a lack of any desire to lay blame at the United States for releasing his name prematurely. The information minister here told us that let's not look backwards, let's look ahead. There's a lot of information out there. It would yield positive results.
Effectively that's what Pakistan is doing. It is moving ahead, working not just with the United States, but with other governments around the world to combat Al Qaeda, to dismantle its network in the only effective way is possible, that is to go country by country, man by man.
And there are retaliatory effects here in Pakistan. Just last December two assassination attempts against Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf. Also, just last month, a suicide bomb attack against its prime minister designate.
While this crackdown continues, the Pakistan government asked its cabinet ministers to minimize public appearances, basically getting ready for what happens when Al Qaeda's back is further pushed against the wall -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: So, Maria, they're arresting suspects on one hand, and they're also putting themselves at significant risk on the other, these assassination attempts that you mentioned. And yet, on some levels, Pakistan is being criticized for having some training camps. Are they friend? Are they foe? Somewhere in the middle? What's the situation?
RESSA: Well, that's really part of the reason there is a lot of anger among the Pakistani officials I spoke with. They feel that they are doing all they can, at least that's what they said. They have gone and sent troops -- this is the first time Pakistan has sent troops into the tribal areas. That is causing a lot of disturbance there, also a lot of anger against the Pakistani government. And again, this is a government now, its cabinet ministers now fearing for their own safety.
They feel that they've gone out. They're at the front line of the war on terror. They continue to say that there are no training camps in Pakistan and that those charges are unsubstantiated. They say that they are doing all they can to bring down Al Qaeda; it is in their interest to do so -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: And when you say I think you earlier mentioned the number of people that they are going door to door, country by country. They have actually gotten 600 Al Qaeda operatives. That's a significant number. Certainly making a dent in Al Qaeda. You can't just go after the big guys; you have to go after the little guys, also.
RESSA: Absolutely. If you take what happened last week, the terror plot, the attacks against possible institutions, buildings in the United States, that was actually a plot that was hatched by Khalid Sheikh Muhammad. It was passed down to men like Esa al-Hindi. He was sent by Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the mastermind of the 9/11 plot to the United States in 2001 to begin observations and surveillance of these buildings. So he chose the attacks. While Khalid Sheikh Muhammad is in prison, the men he chose were still meeting just three months ago here in Lahore, Pakistan.
So the arrest of these men now are leading authorities to other men they're working with. And that's the way to stop the terror plots. Although those diagrams, the maps, the pictures of the buildings may be three or four years old, remember that in the U.S. Embassy bombings in east Africa they took five years to do that. The idea for 9/11 began in 1995. This is methodical organization that takes years to carry out what they want to do -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: Maria, as always, thanks.
All right. Well in Iraq, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi pays a surprise visit to the battle torn city of Najaf. This as Iraq worries about the fate of the kidnapped diplomat. CNN's John Vause live now in Baghdad -- John.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Deborah. In the last hour or so, Iranian television quoting the Iranian foreign minister has confirmed that one of their diplomats is now being held hostage here in Iraq.
A short time before that, a videotape from the Islamic Army in Iraq showed passports and a business card to an Iranian diplomat. That aired on the Arabic network Al Arabiya, accusing the diplomat of causing sectarian strife.
An official at the Iranian embassy here in Baghdad says Fereidoun Jahani left Baghdad for Karbala four days ago. They have not heard from him since he left Baghdad. On this tape, though, there's no demands being made. They are just accusing the diplomat of causing sectarian strife. There are some who believe he may in fact be the consul general to Karbala. Now this will be the second diplomat who's been kidnapped here; an Egyptian diplomat was taken July 23 out of the front of a Baghdad mosque.
While this is one headache for the interim Iraqi government, there is still the ongoing violence in the area of Najaf. Now the Iraqi interim prime minister made an unannounced visit to Najaf today. He was surrounded by heavy security.
While he did not meet with the firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, he did call on al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, to lay down their weapons, to leave the city, to stop the fighting. It appears, though, they're not moving. They're holed up inside the Imam Ali mosque.
According to the U.S. military, that compound is now surrounded on all sides. They're trying to stop the supply lines. They're trying to wait them out. It's been a scene of intense fighting in Najaf over the last few days. Reports that U.S. troops have in fact been involved in hand-to-hand combat.
That violence is also being seen in other cities in Iraq, in particular in Sadr City, a poor neighborhood here in Baghdad. Militants have fired mortars and rocket propelled grenades at U.S. and Iraqi forces. Earlier today a U.S. reconnaissance helicopter was brought down by small arms fire. Two crew members onboard both escaped unharmed. They have been recovered, so, too, the helicopter.
In the last 24 hours or so the death toll continues to climb. 56 people dead. More than 300 wounded. That's from the Iraqi health ministry. They can't give us a breakdown. We don't know how many of those dead are in fact, civilians, police, or may in fact be insurgents.
FEYERICK: John, lots going on. Thank you, as always.
Well, four arrests made in the brutal Deltona, Florida, murders. The apparent motive will shock you. Details coming up.
Also, an update on dozens of beached dolphins in Florida.
And later --
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The whole concept that it's a monolithic voter group that all thinks the same is just bunk.
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FEYERICK: Courting a Latino voter in this presidential election, this is CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
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FEYERICK: Those brutal killings in Florida may have been sparked over simple video games. Police say theft of that game may have been the motive. Four people are under arrest. CNN's Sara Dorsey with us live in the newsroom -- Sara.
SARA DORSEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Deborah, in an early Sunday morning press conference, Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson announced the arrest of four people for murder. The sheriff said three 18-year-old men, Robert Cannon, Jerone Hunter, Michael Salas, and one 27-year-old, Troy Victorino, brutally beat to death six people and a dog with bats. One woman, he said, was so badly beaten that they had trouble even trying to identify her. Johnson says Troy Victorino, the ringleader, went to the house ready to kill over some missing clothes and an Xbox.
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DORSEY (voice-over): An emotional and sometimes angry Sheriff Johnson said this was worst crime he has ever seen.
BEN JOHNSON, SHERIFF, VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA: This is a mean individual that believes that somebody had done him wrong. Nothing justifies this. I don't call it a mistake. I call this a criminal acting out on violence that he has shown in the past that he is capable of.
DORSEY: The sheriff says the only remorse the four men have shown is that they were caught. The bodies of the victims were found early Friday morning after a co-worker of one of the dead women asked someone to visit the home because she hadn't arrived to work.
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DORSEY: These arrests came after two men were brought in for questioning. One of them confessed leading to the arrest, of course, of the others. Sheriff Johnson says the investigation is not over but he is confident that all of those involved are in police custody.
FEYERICK: Sara, it seems as if the sheriff is very upset about this. He's almost taking it personally in how he's pursuing this.
DORSEY: That's right, Deborah. The sheriff was actually out on the streets with the patrol officers and helped to catch the four individuals. He said he's taking it personally on behalf of all the citizens in his community and actually said he hopes the men all get the death penalty. FEYERICK: Just brutal. Sara, thank you very much.
Now, a check of other news across America.
A tragedy for a church group returning from a Florida theme park. Police say three children were killed after an SUV hit their bus, sending it into a canal. Authorities say a fourth child, thought to have been missing, may not have been on the bus.
The man who revolutionized the way firefighters battle oil well blazes has died. Paul "Red" Adair is credited with battling more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well fires. He died yesterday of natural causes at a hospital in Houston, Texas. He was 89.
A failed effort to save beached dolphins off Florida's coast. 30 dolphins had to be euthanized after volunteers could not get them to swim back to the ocean. Six of the rough-tooth dolphins are being nursed back to health.
And seeing double in Twinsburg, Ohio. Twins day is being held near Akron. The festival usually draws more than 2,500 sets of twins.
A whistle stop rally that wasn't. We'll tell you what the Kerry- Edwards campaign plans to do to make it right.
And se habla espanol? They all don't speak the same political language. We'll take a closer look at the efforts both presidential hopefuls are making to court the Latino vote.
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FEYERICK: We're on the campaign train with the Democratic presidential ticket. Senator John Kerry will ride his train through Albuquerque and Gallup, New Mexico as well as Flagstaff, Arizona, today.
Meanwhile his running mate, John Edwards, is backtracking to Lawrence, Kansas, today, after a snafu. The candidate's train passed right through the town station over night without stopping. A crowd of supporters, some 1,500 strong, not very happy about that. Aides say they had no advance notice such a crowd would be there.
President Bush heads back to the White House today after a family weekend in Kennebunkport, Maine. He hits the campaign trail later this week with Senator John McCain, the Vietnam War hero. It's believed McCain might help the president's counter Kerry's frequent references to his service in Vietnam. McCain and the president will stump together in Florida, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Presidential candidate from both parties are looking for support from the nation's fastest growing ethnic group. The Latino community is a diverse voting group. CNN's Ed Lavandera shows us how Republicans and Democrats are courting Hispanics in Arizona.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ask a Latino Democrat in Arizona what issues they care about most, and you're likely to hear about education and the economy. John Kerry hits the right notes for them.
JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have fought to try to do what is right.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I feel he could help because the Democratic Party has always been for the under dog and middle class and poor than the Republicans.
LAVANDERA: Ask a Latino Republican what issues they find most important, and you are likely to hear about values and character.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is my heart. This is what I believe.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I think the Latino vote is very family oriented as well and very moral. Morally oriented. Bush focuses lot on the family.
LAVANDERA: That message works well for republicans and helped President Bush garner about 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in Arizona four years ago. But take a look at the television advertisements targeting Hispanic voters in the state and you'll notice a subtle change.
The ad describes Kerry as the man of faith, family, and honor. Bush hits the themes of education, health care and economy. It's a subtle change that illustrates how the Latino vote is evolving. According to a non-partisan research group, only 12 percent of Hispanics in Arizona call themselves Republican back in 1990. Now Republicans make up almost 30 percent of this state's voting Latino population.
EARL DE BERGE, POLITICAL ANALYST: The whole concept it's a monolithic voter group that all thinks the same. It's all Democrat, it's all liberal, it does what it's told to do by Democrat Latino leaders, is just bunk.
LAVANDERA: This means there can be pitfalls for candidates courting Latino voters. John Kerry recently discovered that even talking about immigration, a topic traditionally labeled a Latino issue, can unite and just as easily alienate Hispanic voters at the same time. Kerry was touting his immigration reform plan recently in Phoenix. The plan would give illegal immigrants a chance to eastern U.S. citizenship.
Earl De Berge is an analyst that studies Hispanic voting trends in Arizona. He said the speech caused Kerry to fall six points in the polls. Surprisingly, the drop came almost entirely from independent Hispanic voters.
DE BERGE: They believed that was going to be a home run with the Latino population here. Indeed, it was the reverse. LAVANDERA: De Berge says this snapshot from the campaign trail should remind politicians that it won't be easy winning the support of Latino voters this year.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: You are registered to vote, right?
LAVANDERA: Ed Lavandera, CNN, Phoenix.
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FEYERICK: There's more ahead. This hour on "RELIABLE SOURCES," looking at the media coverage this week focusing on terror threats and warnings. Howard Kurtz has a preview.
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES: Coming up, are the media overreacting to the latest terror alert and allowing the Bush administration to dominate the presidential campaign by changing the subject? Laura Bush takes on the press. A minority journalist convention is a lot friendlier to John Kerry than the president and a new scheme to turn online news into a sales tool. That's all next on "RELIABLE SOURCES."
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FEYERICK: Every Sunday morning we bring you a story of survivors, heroes to many. This morning we introduce you to Danielle Green, a soldier who is back from the war in Iraq and a former college basketball player. Our Bill Tucker has her story.
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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): That's Danielle Green playing basketball at Notre Dame. Known as "be smooth" for her smooth left-hand style.
Here's Green now.
DANIELLE GREEN, WOUNDED ARMY SPECIALIST: It's the footwork.
TUCKER: Still smooth, even without her left hand. Relearning to play.
GREEN: I think my mind still thinks I'm left handed.
TUCKER: After college B-ball she joined the army and went to Iraq. The 27-year-old specialist was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad in May.
TUCKER: Now at Walter Reed Hospital she learns how to function as a righty, when she used to be a lefty. Basics like writing with the wrong hand.
GREEN: That's an ugly two.
TUCKER: She is a newlywed; husband Willie a basketball coach, now her life coach, too. GREEN: He's my left hand. And he has to learn how to use this pressing iron and put my ponytail in, and my earrings.
WILLIE BYRD, GREEN'S HUSBAND: I would be upset. I don't know what I would be if I was in that position. But I couldn't be as high spirited as she is.
TUCKER: Green will be medically discharged from the army for an athletic career again. She wants to compete in the 2008 Para Olympics.
GREEN: I'm just so motivated to try different things now. To play tennis, to play golf. Last week we went skeet shooting. I really enjoyed that. So now I want to buy a shotgun and start going to the range and skeet shooting. This injury just opened up so many different doors.
TUCKER: And she isn't wasting any time. Two months after being injured she's running in her first race.
GREEN: I'd never been part of this when I did have both my hands.
TUCKER: An hour later she crosses the finish line, not first but still a winner.
GREEN: I think this is a beginning to my new athletic career.
TUCKER: Bill Tucker, CNN.
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FEYERICK: Well that's courage.
There's much more ahead on CNN SUNDAY. Next on "RELIABLE SOURCES," a look at this week's media coverage of the terror alerts.
At noon, it's "LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER." Among Wolf's guests, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
And at 2:00 p.m. eastern it's "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS," today profiling actor Tom Cruise.
But first, a check of the headlines.
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Aired August 8, 2004 - 11:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN ANCHOR: It's 11:00 a.m. in Washington, 6:00 p.m. in Islamabad, Pakistan. I'm Deborah Feyerick at the CNN center. Welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
Ahead this hour, another arrest of a top Al Qaeda suspect. What this may mean to the international war on terror.
Also, examining the Al Qaeda training tapes. What clues investigators hope to find to prevent future attacks.
And later...
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm just so motivated to try different things now, to play tennis, to play golf. Last week we went skeet shooting. I really enjoyed that. So now I want to buy a shotgun.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FEYERICK: After losing an arm on a battlefield, a hero in the war in Iraq finds a new direction in life. A story of hope and perseverance.
But first, a check of stories now in the news.
In Florida, four people are under arrest, charged with murder in a gruesome slaying. Six people were found dead Friday inside a rented home in Deltona. Police believe theft was a motive. We'll have the latest in the live report coming up in about ten minutes.
200 people are forced to evacuate their homes in California's Calaveras County. Three fires there burned more than 3,400 acres. Several other fires are also blazing across southern California.
And in Afghanistan, American war casualties. Two U.S. Soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were killed Saturday in a roadside bombing.
Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news.
A major Al Qaeda terror suspect is captured in the Middle East and taken to Pakistan. The man was arrested in the United Arab Emirate city of Dubai. Officials describe him as a senior Al Qaeda leader in Pakistan. He's believed to be part of two assassination attempts on Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan estimates it has arrested more than 600 Al Qaeda operatives and turned them over to the United States.
One of those recently rounded up in Pakistan is Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, a computer expert said to be a key communicator between Al Qaeda operatives. Pakistani intelligence sources say they were using him in a sting operation when the U.S. leaked his name to reporters. They say that leak may have interrupted intelligence gathering. This morning National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice talked about the Khan case.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, UNITED STATES NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: I don't know what might have been going on in Pakistan. I will say this, that we did not, of course, publicly disclose his name.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: He was disclosed in Washington on background...
RICE: On background, and the problem is that when you are trying to strike a balance between giving enough information to the public so that they know that you are dealing with a specific credible different kind of threat than you have dealt with in the past, you are always weighing that against operational considerations. We tried to strike a balance; we think for the most part we have struck a balance. But indeed, it's a very difficult balance to strike.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FEYERICK: You can see the full interview with Condoleezza Rice on "LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER." That's today at noon eastern.
What can officials who are trying to keep the United States safe learn from Al Qaeda operations in the past? Some compelling video shows members of the terror group learning how to use surface to air missiles and build and detonate a bomb using a cell phone. The video was made before last year's attack on a compound in Saudi Arabia.
More details now from CNN's Brian Todd in Washington -- Brian.
BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Deborah, we are learning more about some of Al Qaeda's past operations. This is a tape we obtained from a group called IntelCenter, a consulting firm that worked with U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. CNN has independently verified the authenticity of this tape through consultants that we have gone to.
The video, which was produced some months ago, shows training sessions conducted by the group Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In it, we see Al Qaeda members displaying surface to air missiles and rocket-propelled grenades and showing techniques for assembling and detonating improvised explosive devices.
But more than just training, this is an operational tape. We see surveillance of what IntelCenter says is the Al Muhaya housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a diagram of that complex, according to the caption from the IntelCenter, and a technique which later proved effective: The painting of a vehicle with the markings and insignia of Saudi security forces. We also see a man next to the vehicle later identified as an Al Qaeda operative involved in the suicide attack last November on the Al Muhaya compound. The attackers use those vehicles to get into the compound and set off three explosions that killed at least 17 people and wound more than 100.
The tape was originally posted on a website and we asked IntelCenter why Al Qaeda would tip off people on their training techniques.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BEN VENZKE, INTELCENTER: Al Qaeda shoots this kind of material and prepares it for training its recruits, for driving recruitment, for trying to attract new people to the organization, but also as sort of a morale boost for the current members and to drive fund raising for future efforts.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
TODD: Ben Venzke said one important thing we learn from this tape about Al Qaeda strategy, this particular complex had security forces. It had guards at the perimeter. Those guards engaged the attackers but that did not deter Al Qaeda from hitting the complex. It merely adapted its tactics to go after the chosen target -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: Brian, thanks so much. So with this new information, this new video, and with another Al Qaeda suspect behind bars in Pakistan, where do things stand and what does it all mean in this part of the war on terror?
CNN's Maria Ressa is in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Maria, what's new there?
MARIA RESSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What's interesting hear is when you speak with intelligence officials they confirm that Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan, the computer expert, was cooperating with them. But there also seems to be a lack of any desire to lay blame at the United States for releasing his name prematurely. The information minister here told us that let's not look backwards, let's look ahead. There's a lot of information out there. It would yield positive results.
Effectively that's what Pakistan is doing. It is moving ahead, working not just with the United States, but with other governments around the world to combat Al Qaeda, to dismantle its network in the only effective way is possible, that is to go country by country, man by man.
And there are retaliatory effects here in Pakistan. Just last December two assassination attempts against Pakistan's president Pervez Musharraf. Also, just last month, a suicide bomb attack against its prime minister designate.
While this crackdown continues, the Pakistan government asked its cabinet ministers to minimize public appearances, basically getting ready for what happens when Al Qaeda's back is further pushed against the wall -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: So, Maria, they're arresting suspects on one hand, and they're also putting themselves at significant risk on the other, these assassination attempts that you mentioned. And yet, on some levels, Pakistan is being criticized for having some training camps. Are they friend? Are they foe? Somewhere in the middle? What's the situation?
RESSA: Well, that's really part of the reason there is a lot of anger among the Pakistani officials I spoke with. They feel that they are doing all they can, at least that's what they said. They have gone and sent troops -- this is the first time Pakistan has sent troops into the tribal areas. That is causing a lot of disturbance there, also a lot of anger against the Pakistani government. And again, this is a government now, its cabinet ministers now fearing for their own safety.
They feel that they've gone out. They're at the front line of the war on terror. They continue to say that there are no training camps in Pakistan and that those charges are unsubstantiated. They say that they are doing all they can to bring down Al Qaeda; it is in their interest to do so -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: And when you say I think you earlier mentioned the number of people that they are going door to door, country by country. They have actually gotten 600 Al Qaeda operatives. That's a significant number. Certainly making a dent in Al Qaeda. You can't just go after the big guys; you have to go after the little guys, also.
RESSA: Absolutely. If you take what happened last week, the terror plot, the attacks against possible institutions, buildings in the United States, that was actually a plot that was hatched by Khalid Sheikh Muhammad. It was passed down to men like Esa al-Hindi. He was sent by Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, the mastermind of the 9/11 plot to the United States in 2001 to begin observations and surveillance of these buildings. So he chose the attacks. While Khalid Sheikh Muhammad is in prison, the men he chose were still meeting just three months ago here in Lahore, Pakistan.
So the arrest of these men now are leading authorities to other men they're working with. And that's the way to stop the terror plots. Although those diagrams, the maps, the pictures of the buildings may be three or four years old, remember that in the U.S. Embassy bombings in east Africa they took five years to do that. The idea for 9/11 began in 1995. This is methodical organization that takes years to carry out what they want to do -- Deborah?
FEYERICK: Maria, as always, thanks.
All right. Well in Iraq, interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi pays a surprise visit to the battle torn city of Najaf. This as Iraq worries about the fate of the kidnapped diplomat. CNN's John Vause live now in Baghdad -- John.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Deborah. In the last hour or so, Iranian television quoting the Iranian foreign minister has confirmed that one of their diplomats is now being held hostage here in Iraq.
A short time before that, a videotape from the Islamic Army in Iraq showed passports and a business card to an Iranian diplomat. That aired on the Arabic network Al Arabiya, accusing the diplomat of causing sectarian strife.
An official at the Iranian embassy here in Baghdad says Fereidoun Jahani left Baghdad for Karbala four days ago. They have not heard from him since he left Baghdad. On this tape, though, there's no demands being made. They are just accusing the diplomat of causing sectarian strife. There are some who believe he may in fact be the consul general to Karbala. Now this will be the second diplomat who's been kidnapped here; an Egyptian diplomat was taken July 23 out of the front of a Baghdad mosque.
While this is one headache for the interim Iraqi government, there is still the ongoing violence in the area of Najaf. Now the Iraqi interim prime minister made an unannounced visit to Najaf today. He was surrounded by heavy security.
While he did not meet with the firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, he did call on al-Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, to lay down their weapons, to leave the city, to stop the fighting. It appears, though, they're not moving. They're holed up inside the Imam Ali mosque.
According to the U.S. military, that compound is now surrounded on all sides. They're trying to stop the supply lines. They're trying to wait them out. It's been a scene of intense fighting in Najaf over the last few days. Reports that U.S. troops have in fact been involved in hand-to-hand combat.
That violence is also being seen in other cities in Iraq, in particular in Sadr City, a poor neighborhood here in Baghdad. Militants have fired mortars and rocket propelled grenades at U.S. and Iraqi forces. Earlier today a U.S. reconnaissance helicopter was brought down by small arms fire. Two crew members onboard both escaped unharmed. They have been recovered, so, too, the helicopter.
In the last 24 hours or so the death toll continues to climb. 56 people dead. More than 300 wounded. That's from the Iraqi health ministry. They can't give us a breakdown. We don't know how many of those dead are in fact, civilians, police, or may in fact be insurgents.
FEYERICK: John, lots going on. Thank you, as always.
Well, four arrests made in the brutal Deltona, Florida, murders. The apparent motive will shock you. Details coming up.
Also, an update on dozens of beached dolphins in Florida.
And later --
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MAN: The whole concept that it's a monolithic voter group that all thinks the same is just bunk.
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FEYERICK: Courting a Latino voter in this presidential election, this is CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
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FEYERICK: Those brutal killings in Florida may have been sparked over simple video games. Police say theft of that game may have been the motive. Four people are under arrest. CNN's Sara Dorsey with us live in the newsroom -- Sara.
SARA DORSEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Deborah, in an early Sunday morning press conference, Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson announced the arrest of four people for murder. The sheriff said three 18-year-old men, Robert Cannon, Jerone Hunter, Michael Salas, and one 27-year-old, Troy Victorino, brutally beat to death six people and a dog with bats. One woman, he said, was so badly beaten that they had trouble even trying to identify her. Johnson says Troy Victorino, the ringleader, went to the house ready to kill over some missing clothes and an Xbox.
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DORSEY (voice-over): An emotional and sometimes angry Sheriff Johnson said this was worst crime he has ever seen.
BEN JOHNSON, SHERIFF, VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA: This is a mean individual that believes that somebody had done him wrong. Nothing justifies this. I don't call it a mistake. I call this a criminal acting out on violence that he has shown in the past that he is capable of.
DORSEY: The sheriff says the only remorse the four men have shown is that they were caught. The bodies of the victims were found early Friday morning after a co-worker of one of the dead women asked someone to visit the home because she hadn't arrived to work.
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DORSEY: These arrests came after two men were brought in for questioning. One of them confessed leading to the arrest, of course, of the others. Sheriff Johnson says the investigation is not over but he is confident that all of those involved are in police custody.
FEYERICK: Sara, it seems as if the sheriff is very upset about this. He's almost taking it personally in how he's pursuing this.
DORSEY: That's right, Deborah. The sheriff was actually out on the streets with the patrol officers and helped to catch the four individuals. He said he's taking it personally on behalf of all the citizens in his community and actually said he hopes the men all get the death penalty. FEYERICK: Just brutal. Sara, thank you very much.
Now, a check of other news across America.
A tragedy for a church group returning from a Florida theme park. Police say three children were killed after an SUV hit their bus, sending it into a canal. Authorities say a fourth child, thought to have been missing, may not have been on the bus.
The man who revolutionized the way firefighters battle oil well blazes has died. Paul "Red" Adair is credited with battling more than 2,000 land and offshore oil well fires. He died yesterday of natural causes at a hospital in Houston, Texas. He was 89.
A failed effort to save beached dolphins off Florida's coast. 30 dolphins had to be euthanized after volunteers could not get them to swim back to the ocean. Six of the rough-tooth dolphins are being nursed back to health.
And seeing double in Twinsburg, Ohio. Twins day is being held near Akron. The festival usually draws more than 2,500 sets of twins.
A whistle stop rally that wasn't. We'll tell you what the Kerry- Edwards campaign plans to do to make it right.
And se habla espanol? They all don't speak the same political language. We'll take a closer look at the efforts both presidential hopefuls are making to court the Latino vote.
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FEYERICK: We're on the campaign train with the Democratic presidential ticket. Senator John Kerry will ride his train through Albuquerque and Gallup, New Mexico as well as Flagstaff, Arizona, today.
Meanwhile his running mate, John Edwards, is backtracking to Lawrence, Kansas, today, after a snafu. The candidate's train passed right through the town station over night without stopping. A crowd of supporters, some 1,500 strong, not very happy about that. Aides say they had no advance notice such a crowd would be there.
President Bush heads back to the White House today after a family weekend in Kennebunkport, Maine. He hits the campaign trail later this week with Senator John McCain, the Vietnam War hero. It's believed McCain might help the president's counter Kerry's frequent references to his service in Vietnam. McCain and the president will stump together in Florida, New Mexico, and Arizona.
Presidential candidate from both parties are looking for support from the nation's fastest growing ethnic group. The Latino community is a diverse voting group. CNN's Ed Lavandera shows us how Republicans and Democrats are courting Hispanics in Arizona.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ask a Latino Democrat in Arizona what issues they care about most, and you're likely to hear about education and the economy. John Kerry hits the right notes for them.
JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have fought to try to do what is right.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: I feel he could help because the Democratic Party has always been for the under dog and middle class and poor than the Republicans.
LAVANDERA: Ask a Latino Republican what issues they find most important, and you are likely to hear about values and character.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: This is my heart. This is what I believe.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: I think the Latino vote is very family oriented as well and very moral. Morally oriented. Bush focuses lot on the family.
LAVANDERA: That message works well for republicans and helped President Bush garner about 35 percent of the Hispanic vote in Arizona four years ago. But take a look at the television advertisements targeting Hispanic voters in the state and you'll notice a subtle change.
The ad describes Kerry as the man of faith, family, and honor. Bush hits the themes of education, health care and economy. It's a subtle change that illustrates how the Latino vote is evolving. According to a non-partisan research group, only 12 percent of Hispanics in Arizona call themselves Republican back in 1990. Now Republicans make up almost 30 percent of this state's voting Latino population.
EARL DE BERGE, POLITICAL ANALYST: The whole concept it's a monolithic voter group that all thinks the same. It's all Democrat, it's all liberal, it does what it's told to do by Democrat Latino leaders, is just bunk.
LAVANDERA: This means there can be pitfalls for candidates courting Latino voters. John Kerry recently discovered that even talking about immigration, a topic traditionally labeled a Latino issue, can unite and just as easily alienate Hispanic voters at the same time. Kerry was touting his immigration reform plan recently in Phoenix. The plan would give illegal immigrants a chance to eastern U.S. citizenship.
Earl De Berge is an analyst that studies Hispanic voting trends in Arizona. He said the speech caused Kerry to fall six points in the polls. Surprisingly, the drop came almost entirely from independent Hispanic voters.
DE BERGE: They believed that was going to be a home run with the Latino population here. Indeed, it was the reverse. LAVANDERA: De Berge says this snapshot from the campaign trail should remind politicians that it won't be easy winning the support of Latino voters this year.
UNIDENTIFIED MAN: You are registered to vote, right?
LAVANDERA: Ed Lavandera, CNN, Phoenix.
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FEYERICK: There's more ahead. This hour on "RELIABLE SOURCES," looking at the media coverage this week focusing on terror threats and warnings. Howard Kurtz has a preview.
HOWARD KURTZ, HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES: Coming up, are the media overreacting to the latest terror alert and allowing the Bush administration to dominate the presidential campaign by changing the subject? Laura Bush takes on the press. A minority journalist convention is a lot friendlier to John Kerry than the president and a new scheme to turn online news into a sales tool. That's all next on "RELIABLE SOURCES."
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FEYERICK: Every Sunday morning we bring you a story of survivors, heroes to many. This morning we introduce you to Danielle Green, a soldier who is back from the war in Iraq and a former college basketball player. Our Bill Tucker has her story.
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BILL TUCKER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): That's Danielle Green playing basketball at Notre Dame. Known as "be smooth" for her smooth left-hand style.
Here's Green now.
DANIELLE GREEN, WOUNDED ARMY SPECIALIST: It's the footwork.
TUCKER: Still smooth, even without her left hand. Relearning to play.
GREEN: I think my mind still thinks I'm left handed.
TUCKER: After college B-ball she joined the army and went to Iraq. The 27-year-old specialist was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Baghdad in May.
TUCKER: Now at Walter Reed Hospital she learns how to function as a righty, when she used to be a lefty. Basics like writing with the wrong hand.
GREEN: That's an ugly two.
TUCKER: She is a newlywed; husband Willie a basketball coach, now her life coach, too. GREEN: He's my left hand. And he has to learn how to use this pressing iron and put my ponytail in, and my earrings.
WILLIE BYRD, GREEN'S HUSBAND: I would be upset. I don't know what I would be if I was in that position. But I couldn't be as high spirited as she is.
TUCKER: Green will be medically discharged from the army for an athletic career again. She wants to compete in the 2008 Para Olympics.
GREEN: I'm just so motivated to try different things now. To play tennis, to play golf. Last week we went skeet shooting. I really enjoyed that. So now I want to buy a shotgun and start going to the range and skeet shooting. This injury just opened up so many different doors.
TUCKER: And she isn't wasting any time. Two months after being injured she's running in her first race.
GREEN: I'd never been part of this when I did have both my hands.
TUCKER: An hour later she crosses the finish line, not first but still a winner.
GREEN: I think this is a beginning to my new athletic career.
TUCKER: Bill Tucker, CNN.
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FEYERICK: Well that's courage.
There's much more ahead on CNN SUNDAY. Next on "RELIABLE SOURCES," a look at this week's media coverage of the terror alerts.
At noon, it's "LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER." Among Wolf's guests, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
And at 2:00 p.m. eastern it's "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS," today profiling actor Tom Cruise.
But first, a check of the headlines.
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