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Major Military Operation Over in Iraq; Gulf Coast Residents Breathe Sigh of Relief Over Arlene

Aired June 12, 2005 - 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.


FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: It's 11:00 a.m. on the East coast, 8:00 out west. I'm Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta. Welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. Ahead this hour, a major military operation in Iraq is over. Jane Arraf goes exclusively to the commander of the unit and we'll have a report coming up.
And soaked but still standing. People along the Gulf Coast breathe a sigh of relief following Tropical Storm Arlene. We're live from Pensacola Beach.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KAMAL ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: Imagine if you were put on a plane and were landed in some random country with a bag of clothes, having to start your life all over again. How would that feel? It feels like that. It feels exactly like that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WHITFIELD: Dreams shattered. These brothers may have to leave the place they've called home for 13 years. But first, here is a look of our top stories.

A bomb on the tracks is blamed for the derailment of a Moscow- bound passenger train. Fifteen people were injured when six cars left the tracks 90 miles from the capital city. A Russian official says it could have been worse had the blast not happened where trains typically slow down to test their brakes.

A French journalist who was kidnapped five months ago in Iraq heads home. French officials say Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter were free today. They had been held hostage since January. No word on how the pair gained their freedom or who was holding them.

And it's a history making time in Kuwait. Kuwaiti television says the government has appointed its first ever female cabinet minister. Just one month after Kuwaiti lawmakers gave women the right to vote and run for office, the new appointee, a political science teacher, will handle the nation's planning and administrative development portfolios.

In our security watch, a Pentagon official describes it as quote, the kind of document that was never meant to leave Gitmo. This week's "Time" magazine cover story offers a first ever documented look inside the highly secret realm of military interrogations with shocking information culled from a secret 84-page log from a certain detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Joe Johns joins us now from Washington with more on this. Joe.

JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in the spotlight with new calls now for the closing of the prison camp there. Republican Senator Mel Martinez quoted over the weekend as questioning whether the costs outweigh the benefits of the facility. On the Sunday morning talk shows today, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont saying in his view Gitmo will eventually have to be closed.

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SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D) VERMONT: We've actually created a legal black hole there. We set up Guantanamo but the White House isn't going to do it under one legal thing but they did it under something else. Right now they have no particular legal framework with it. We're the country that tells people that we adhere to the rule of law. We want other countries to adhere to the rule of law and at Guantanamo we are not.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHNS: But not everyone agrees. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Duncan Hunter, saying, in his view, if Gitmo were closed down, it would send a message that the United States has done something wrong when, in his view, the prisoners there are treated well.

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REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R) CALIFORNIA: We are going to serve him a meal. If you look at the menu, and I showed the menu to the American people, we're going to serve him rice pilaf. We're going to serve him oven fried chicken. We're going to serve him three types of fruit and pita bread and he's going to top that all off with a glass of tea. We give him a free Koran, prayer beads, oil, a prayer mat. We give him five times a day a call to prayer where we use our loud speakers to call him and the rest of the inmates to do their prayer under their religion. In fact, we do things for them that we couldn't do for our own soldiers.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHNS: At the bottom of all of this, of course, human rights groups argue that prisoners at Gitmo are mistreated. Amnesty International calling it quote, the gulag of our time. Fredricka, back to you.

WHITFIELD: And Joe, now with this "Time" magazine article coming out, talking about this highly secretive document that shows what kind of treatment, for instance, the 20th hijacker may have received, Mohammed al Kahtani (ph), I wonder if any inside Washington viewers are feeling like well, if this kind of document, highly secretive document would get out, what does this say about the secrecy of intelligence in this day and age?

JOHNS: It's interesting. If you read that article, Fredricka, you can go two ways on it. Number one, it does seem clear that there are some standards for treatment of prisoners. They're even highly valued prisoners at the same time. When you read through the details, it certainly doesn't sound like something that would occur in a jail in the United States under constitutional protection. So in the days and weeks, we would expect to hear a lot more about that report and the treatment of prisoners.

WHITFIELD: All right, Joe Johns at the White House. Thanks so much.

CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night.

In Iraq, some major offenses against the insurgency have ended. CNN senior Baghdad correspondent Jane Arraf has been embedded with American troops during those operations. She joins us now by video phone or telephone rather from Camp Sykes military base near Tal Afar with a report you'll only see exclusively here on CNN. Jane?

JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, the operation has ended for now, but the fight against the insurgency certainly continues. Here in Tal Afar, it's become a ghost town. People are just now starting to come out but in the hospital there, the only working hospital, people are afraid to come, three patients in a 200- bed hospital. U.S. soldiers still drive there only in Bradleys and tanks, but they say they have made some headway against insurgents.

And Fredricka, we've just been speaking to the Marine commander just a little further closer to the border further west, Amir Al Kayan (ph). Now he's the head of regimental combat team two involved in the air strikes that he says killed 40 insurgents. He says that was not an offensive. He told us they happened to find that there was a gathering of insurgents and likely foreign fighters and they used that opportunity to launch air strikes with attack helicopters and planes. They believe they have killed at least 40 of them. That fight continues all throughout this huge area of northwestern Iraq. Fredricka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Jane Arraf, thanks so much and stay safe.

Well, southeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police have made a grizzly discovery. They have found 26 bodies, all of them showing signs of torture. The men had gun shots wounds and had been buried. Police say it's not clear when they killed. It took place, the discovery that is, in a neighborhood made up of Sunni and Shiite Muslims about 16 miles from the Iraqi capital.

In a separate discovery in Baghdad, police found three bodies under a bridge. The victims appear to have been tortured. The bodies of three other apparent torture victims were found yesterday in another area of Baghdad. A costly nation building exercise. That's what a new report says British officials thought about American post-war plans in Iraq. The "Washington Post" obtained a memo prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The document prepared eight months before the invasion of Iraq concluded that occupation plans by the U.S. military were inadequate. And the British document said little thought had been given to the aftermath of the war and how to shape it. The "Post" says British sources have confirmed the memo is authentic.

Here in the United States there's not much left of the storm that blew in along the north central Gulf coast as tropical storm Arlene. It is now mainly a rain maker. After sloshing ashore yesterday between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida, let's check in now with CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti who is in Pensacola Beach and nice to see the sunshine there now.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Fredricka. A big difference from 24 hours ago when we saw you the last time, right? Now beach umbrellas are back out. Surfers are back in the water, but life guards are keeping swimmers out for now because of rip currents. But all that aside, Arlene is history, going out with a whimper.

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CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Arlene fizzled and that was just fine with Gulf Coast residents.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Going to be a great eye opener for us, to wake us up for the season, get us prepare and get those medical kits and the first aid equipment in the houses, get that bottled water stored up.

CANDIOTTI: When word came that the hurricane season's first- named storm was heading toward Pensacola, Florida, an understandable reaction.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here we go again.

CANDIOTTI: No one thought Arlene would come close to matching last September's Hurricane Ivan. Yet, the surf looked menacing, pounding beaches and blasting sand. Waves crashed up and over piers along the Gulf coast. Along Pensacola Beach, a steady flow of residents and tourists spent much of the day watching Arlene blow on to shore. The Whelans (ph) brought their daughters.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They were too young when Ivan came through, so we wanted them to play and have some fun, get out of the house for a little bit.

CANDIOTTI: Arlene made some anxious that hurricane season was officially under way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can't handle another Ivan. That was too much to take in one season and followed up with another one this season, can't do it. We've got too much damage, too much loss. It would really tear Pensacola apart. CANDIOTTI: But tropical storm Arlene barely made an impact. No more than about 3 inches of rain, virtually no damage from wind or flooding and the storm surge that fortunately didn't live up to forecasts.

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CANDIOTTI: And here is how the local newspaper sees it. Area lucks out. Of course, that's also the hope for the rest of this hurricane season. But Fredricka, naturally, there are no guarantees. It's very early.

WHITFIELD: It is, indeed. All right. Thanks, a lot, Susan.

Well, hundreds of miles away from the Gulf coast, an unrelated storm system spawned tornadoes. A twister in Hammond, Wisconsin damaged nearly two dozen homes but no injuries were reported. Severe storms also swept across others parts of the region. Let's check in with meteorologist Bonnie Schneider in the weather center. And at least we think this tropical storm is over land, right? Does it still have a name? Is it still considered Arlene?

BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. We call it an area of low pressure now, the remnants of Arlene. If you're wondering where Arlene is right now, we can show you. Take a look at this, some rain coming down heavy and hard into Nashville, Tennessee. We had some downpours earlier in Memphis and now it looks like western Kentucky getting hammered, southern Illinois and back on into Missouri. Now much left with Arlene, but enough to pack a punch and cause some flood watches across much of the area.

Now if we look at our regional satellite perspective for the southeast, we're watching for the threat of severe weather further back to the west and overall it's going to be not such a bad day for many locations, a lot better than yesterday. But here's what we're looking at for high temperatures. Currently actually, we're looking at some pretty mild conditions. The heat is really starting to soar especially in the northeast. We have a stationary front just north of Boston, so temperatures through the south already not even the noon hour, but already in the 70s and 80s.

And watch what happens as we work our way through the day. These temperatures are really shooting on up. Highs today on the east coast will be in the 90s from D.C. at 93, all the way up to Boston at 91. Down in Miami, 91 as well, comfortable in California on the west coast in the 70s for today. Look at that hot spot. We've got 106 there in Phoenix. And once again, the southern plains, this is where we're going to be watching throughout the day today for the biggest threat of severe weather. We may see some tornadoes break out once again. Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Bonnie, thanks so much.

Still ahead on CNN LIVE SUNDAY, more questions than answers in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. We'll tell you where the investigation in Aruba is headed now. And they fear the worst but hope for the best. Will these brothers face deportation to a country they don't consider their homeland?

Plus, preliminary results from Emmitt Till's autopsy. We'll tell you what they may reveal.

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WHITFIELD: In Aruba, a judge ruled that prosecutors have enough evidence against three young men to hold them another eight days. They were arrested earlier last week in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. But questions remain as to whether there has been a confession in the case. CNN's Karl Penhaul has more from Palm Beach, Aruba.

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KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: An Aruba judge has ordered three suspects to be detained for eight more days while police investigate their alleged links to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Investigators brought the three in unmarked cars to the courtroom in Aruba's capital Oranjestad. They have been named as 17- year-old Joran Van Der Sloot and brothers, 21-year-old Deepak and 18 year old Satish Kalpoe. Witnesses say they saw the three men drive off from an Aruba bar with Natalee on the morning of May 30th, the day she disappeared. A senior police official has told CNN there has been a breakthrough in the investigation amounting to a confession or some sort of confession. But defense attorneys for the three suspects had this to say.

DAVID KOCK, BROTHERS ATTY: My client states -- keeps on saying that he is not guilty and he is not the one that have been reading in the press that has confessed. Up until now that I know, nobody has.

ANTONIO CARLO, ATTY FOR 17-YEAR OLD MALE: My client is maintaining that he is innocent.

PENHAUL: Earlier in the day, Aruba's prosecution service had this to day about the progress of the investigation.

VIVIAN VAN DER BIESEN, PROSECUTOR'S SPOKESWOMAN: The prosecution service has -- is aware of some information that are related to the investigation of alleged statements of witnesses -- sorry -- suspects in this case. The prosecution service would like to state is at this moment we neither confirm or deny any information coming from other sources. The investigation at this point is the following. We have five suspects. They are being interrogated and we are at a very crucial, very important moment in our investigation.

PENHAUL: Two other men, both security guards, were arrested a week ago. They're still being held. One of those men's defense attorneys said his client had an alibi and appealed for him to be freed.

CHRIS LEJUEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: They know now for sure that they don't need him any time to solve this case and yet they still keep him and this brings injustice to an innocent man.

PENHAUL: Amidst the cut and thrust of the investigation and legal arguments, one fact is clear. There's still no sign of Natalee or her remains. Karl Penhaul, CNN, Palm Beach, Aruba.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WHITFIELD: They call America home, but these brothers are facing an unknown future. Did a government program put their dream at risk? The story straight ahead on CNN LIVE SUNDAY.

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WHITFIELD: Time now for a check of the headlines across America.

After almost four years, New York holds a funeral for a firefighter killed on 9/11. A memorial service was held shortly after the attacks for Keith Roy Maynard, but only recently did his family decide that enough of his remains had been identified to now hold a formal funeral.

Early results from the autopsy on Emmitt Till may reveal possible fragments of bullets used in his 1955 killing. The "Chicago Sun-Times" reporters investigators are still waiting for DNA results to confirm the body exhumed earlier this month is exactly that of Till.

Jury selection begins tomorrow in the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged in the murders of three civil rights workers during the freedom summer of 1964.

And former heavy weight champion Mike Tyson may be hanging up his gloves. The 38-year old called it quits in the sixth round of his fight last night against Kevin McBride. Tyson says he no longer has the stomach for boxing. Let's check in with Howard Kurtz and see what's up on RELIABLE SOURCES. Howard.

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES: Thanks, Fredricka. Coming up, are the media too easy on President Bush, shortchanging Democrats in the process? That's what Hillary Clinton charges.

FOX anchor Neil Cavuto gets flak for a squishy soft interview with the president. We'll also talk about the scant coverage of the Downing Street memo on Iraq.

And should news organizations pay sources for the inside scoop? A "New York Times" columnist John Tierney says yes. We'll ask him why ahead on RELIABLE SOURCES.

WHITFIELD: We look forward to that. Thanks a lot Howard.

They were living the American dream but not legally. Now, these brothers may be sent back to a country they barely know. Their story is straight ahead.

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WHITFIELD: After September 11th, the federal government actively searched for more information about Muslims living in the U.S. But some of the men who volunteered to be questioned for the sake of national security are learning they're no longer welcome in America. Alina Cho has the story of three young brothers and their fight to stay in this country.

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ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In most ways, the Essaheb brothers are living the American dream. Immigrants from Morocco, they came here with their parents for a better life. Kamal was 11 at the time. He's now 23. This is home for you?

KAMAL ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: This is -- Queens is exactly where we belong. It is where our lives are.

CHO: Yet Kamal and twin bothers Hassan and Housseine are in trouble. They have been living in the U.S. for 13 years illegally. Now, the government wants to deport them.

KAMAL ESSAHEB: Imagine if you were put on a plane and were landed in some random country with your bag of clothes and having to start your life all over again, how would that feel? It feels like that. It feels exactly like that.

CHO: It's possible they wouldn't be in this situation were it not for a program called special registration. The Federal government created the controversial program which has since been scaled back in the months after September 11th. It required Muslim men living in the United States, families like the Essahebs, to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said one goal was national security, but the broader objective was to enforce immigration laws.

HASSAN ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: I would like -- it's just kind of getting starting, so it is kind of weird that all of a sudden it's going to come to an end.

CHO: A Department of Homeland Security spokesman tells CNN, they're all well educated and positive members of their community, but they're still in violation of our laws. Immigration laws must be complied with. Kamal is so angry he's studying to be a lawyer. He and Hassan could be deported as early as next month. On Friday, all three attended a court hear for Housseine and the judge gave him good news. He could be eligible for a green card.

HOUSSEINE ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: It is not exactly that clear. We got to see what happens and I'm still not too clear on it myself.

CHO: So the family remains in limbo. The boy's parents say if their sons are deported, they'll return to Morocco, too.

KAMAL ESSAHEB: They've struggled. They've done everything they could and now this whole creation, everything that they built is about to go down the drain.

CHO: The American dream?

KAMAL ESSAHEB: Yeah. Their American dream is about to be shattered.

CHO: Or with a reprieve from a judge, it could be just beginning. Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

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WHITFIELD: That's it for CNN LIVE SUNDAY. Up next a live edition of RELIABLE SOURCES with Howard Kurtz. Then at noon Eastern on LATE EDITION, Wolf Blitzer tackles topics from the Bolton nomination to the FBI terrorism report. And at 2:00 Eastern, PEOPLE IN THE NEWS profiles Angelina Jolie on her new movie and Michael Jackson who's waiting for a verdict in his trial.

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Aired June 12, 2005 - 11:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: It's 11:00 a.m. on the East coast, 8:00 out west. I'm Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta. Welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. Ahead this hour, a major military operation in Iraq is over. Jane Arraf goes exclusively to the commander of the unit and we'll have a report coming up.
And soaked but still standing. People along the Gulf Coast breathe a sigh of relief following Tropical Storm Arlene. We're live from Pensacola Beach.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KAMAL ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: Imagine if you were put on a plane and were landed in some random country with a bag of clothes, having to start your life all over again. How would that feel? It feels like that. It feels exactly like that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WHITFIELD: Dreams shattered. These brothers may have to leave the place they've called home for 13 years. But first, here is a look of our top stories.

A bomb on the tracks is blamed for the derailment of a Moscow- bound passenger train. Fifteen people were injured when six cars left the tracks 90 miles from the capital city. A Russian official says it could have been worse had the blast not happened where trains typically slow down to test their brakes.

A French journalist who was kidnapped five months ago in Iraq heads home. French officials say Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter were free today. They had been held hostage since January. No word on how the pair gained their freedom or who was holding them.

And it's a history making time in Kuwait. Kuwaiti television says the government has appointed its first ever female cabinet minister. Just one month after Kuwaiti lawmakers gave women the right to vote and run for office, the new appointee, a political science teacher, will handle the nation's planning and administrative development portfolios.

In our security watch, a Pentagon official describes it as quote, the kind of document that was never meant to leave Gitmo. This week's "Time" magazine cover story offers a first ever documented look inside the highly secret realm of military interrogations with shocking information culled from a secret 84-page log from a certain detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Joe Johns joins us now from Washington with more on this. Joe.

JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay in the spotlight with new calls now for the closing of the prison camp there. Republican Senator Mel Martinez quoted over the weekend as questioning whether the costs outweigh the benefits of the facility. On the Sunday morning talk shows today, Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont saying in his view Gitmo will eventually have to be closed.

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SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D) VERMONT: We've actually created a legal black hole there. We set up Guantanamo but the White House isn't going to do it under one legal thing but they did it under something else. Right now they have no particular legal framework with it. We're the country that tells people that we adhere to the rule of law. We want other countries to adhere to the rule of law and at Guantanamo we are not.

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JOHNS: But not everyone agrees. The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Duncan Hunter, saying, in his view, if Gitmo were closed down, it would send a message that the United States has done something wrong when, in his view, the prisoners there are treated well.

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REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R) CALIFORNIA: We are going to serve him a meal. If you look at the menu, and I showed the menu to the American people, we're going to serve him rice pilaf. We're going to serve him oven fried chicken. We're going to serve him three types of fruit and pita bread and he's going to top that all off with a glass of tea. We give him a free Koran, prayer beads, oil, a prayer mat. We give him five times a day a call to prayer where we use our loud speakers to call him and the rest of the inmates to do their prayer under their religion. In fact, we do things for them that we couldn't do for our own soldiers.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

JOHNS: At the bottom of all of this, of course, human rights groups argue that prisoners at Gitmo are mistreated. Amnesty International calling it quote, the gulag of our time. Fredricka, back to you.

WHITFIELD: And Joe, now with this "Time" magazine article coming out, talking about this highly secretive document that shows what kind of treatment, for instance, the 20th hijacker may have received, Mohammed al Kahtani (ph), I wonder if any inside Washington viewers are feeling like well, if this kind of document, highly secretive document would get out, what does this say about the secrecy of intelligence in this day and age?

JOHNS: It's interesting. If you read that article, Fredricka, you can go two ways on it. Number one, it does seem clear that there are some standards for treatment of prisoners. They're even highly valued prisoners at the same time. When you read through the details, it certainly doesn't sound like something that would occur in a jail in the United States under constitutional protection. So in the days and weeks, we would expect to hear a lot more about that report and the treatment of prisoners.

WHITFIELD: All right, Joe Johns at the White House. Thanks so much.

CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night.

In Iraq, some major offenses against the insurgency have ended. CNN senior Baghdad correspondent Jane Arraf has been embedded with American troops during those operations. She joins us now by video phone or telephone rather from Camp Sykes military base near Tal Afar with a report you'll only see exclusively here on CNN. Jane?

JANE ARRAF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, the operation has ended for now, but the fight against the insurgency certainly continues. Here in Tal Afar, it's become a ghost town. People are just now starting to come out but in the hospital there, the only working hospital, people are afraid to come, three patients in a 200- bed hospital. U.S. soldiers still drive there only in Bradleys and tanks, but they say they have made some headway against insurgents.

And Fredricka, we've just been speaking to the Marine commander just a little further closer to the border further west, Amir Al Kayan (ph). Now he's the head of regimental combat team two involved in the air strikes that he says killed 40 insurgents. He says that was not an offensive. He told us they happened to find that there was a gathering of insurgents and likely foreign fighters and they used that opportunity to launch air strikes with attack helicopters and planes. They believe they have killed at least 40 of them. That fight continues all throughout this huge area of northwestern Iraq. Fredricka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Jane Arraf, thanks so much and stay safe.

Well, southeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police have made a grizzly discovery. They have found 26 bodies, all of them showing signs of torture. The men had gun shots wounds and had been buried. Police say it's not clear when they killed. It took place, the discovery that is, in a neighborhood made up of Sunni and Shiite Muslims about 16 miles from the Iraqi capital.

In a separate discovery in Baghdad, police found three bodies under a bridge. The victims appear to have been tortured. The bodies of three other apparent torture victims were found yesterday in another area of Baghdad. A costly nation building exercise. That's what a new report says British officials thought about American post-war plans in Iraq. The "Washington Post" obtained a memo prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The document prepared eight months before the invasion of Iraq concluded that occupation plans by the U.S. military were inadequate. And the British document said little thought had been given to the aftermath of the war and how to shape it. The "Post" says British sources have confirmed the memo is authentic.

Here in the United States there's not much left of the storm that blew in along the north central Gulf coast as tropical storm Arlene. It is now mainly a rain maker. After sloshing ashore yesterday between Mobile, Alabama and Pensacola, Florida, let's check in now with CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti who is in Pensacola Beach and nice to see the sunshine there now.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Fredricka. A big difference from 24 hours ago when we saw you the last time, right? Now beach umbrellas are back out. Surfers are back in the water, but life guards are keeping swimmers out for now because of rip currents. But all that aside, Arlene is history, going out with a whimper.

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CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Arlene fizzled and that was just fine with Gulf Coast residents.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Going to be a great eye opener for us, to wake us up for the season, get us prepare and get those medical kits and the first aid equipment in the houses, get that bottled water stored up.

CANDIOTTI: When word came that the hurricane season's first- named storm was heading toward Pensacola, Florida, an understandable reaction.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here we go again.

CANDIOTTI: No one thought Arlene would come close to matching last September's Hurricane Ivan. Yet, the surf looked menacing, pounding beaches and blasting sand. Waves crashed up and over piers along the Gulf coast. Along Pensacola Beach, a steady flow of residents and tourists spent much of the day watching Arlene blow on to shore. The Whelans (ph) brought their daughters.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They were too young when Ivan came through, so we wanted them to play and have some fun, get out of the house for a little bit.

CANDIOTTI: Arlene made some anxious that hurricane season was officially under way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can't handle another Ivan. That was too much to take in one season and followed up with another one this season, can't do it. We've got too much damage, too much loss. It would really tear Pensacola apart. CANDIOTTI: But tropical storm Arlene barely made an impact. No more than about 3 inches of rain, virtually no damage from wind or flooding and the storm surge that fortunately didn't live up to forecasts.

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CANDIOTTI: And here is how the local newspaper sees it. Area lucks out. Of course, that's also the hope for the rest of this hurricane season. But Fredricka, naturally, there are no guarantees. It's very early.

WHITFIELD: It is, indeed. All right. Thanks, a lot, Susan.

Well, hundreds of miles away from the Gulf coast, an unrelated storm system spawned tornadoes. A twister in Hammond, Wisconsin damaged nearly two dozen homes but no injuries were reported. Severe storms also swept across others parts of the region. Let's check in with meteorologist Bonnie Schneider in the weather center. And at least we think this tropical storm is over land, right? Does it still have a name? Is it still considered Arlene?

BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes. We call it an area of low pressure now, the remnants of Arlene. If you're wondering where Arlene is right now, we can show you. Take a look at this, some rain coming down heavy and hard into Nashville, Tennessee. We had some downpours earlier in Memphis and now it looks like western Kentucky getting hammered, southern Illinois and back on into Missouri. Now much left with Arlene, but enough to pack a punch and cause some flood watches across much of the area.

Now if we look at our regional satellite perspective for the southeast, we're watching for the threat of severe weather further back to the west and overall it's going to be not such a bad day for many locations, a lot better than yesterday. But here's what we're looking at for high temperatures. Currently actually, we're looking at some pretty mild conditions. The heat is really starting to soar especially in the northeast. We have a stationary front just north of Boston, so temperatures through the south already not even the noon hour, but already in the 70s and 80s.

And watch what happens as we work our way through the day. These temperatures are really shooting on up. Highs today on the east coast will be in the 90s from D.C. at 93, all the way up to Boston at 91. Down in Miami, 91 as well, comfortable in California on the west coast in the 70s for today. Look at that hot spot. We've got 106 there in Phoenix. And once again, the southern plains, this is where we're going to be watching throughout the day today for the biggest threat of severe weather. We may see some tornadoes break out once again. Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Bonnie, thanks so much.

Still ahead on CNN LIVE SUNDAY, more questions than answers in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. We'll tell you where the investigation in Aruba is headed now. And they fear the worst but hope for the best. Will these brothers face deportation to a country they don't consider their homeland?

Plus, preliminary results from Emmitt Till's autopsy. We'll tell you what they may reveal.

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WHITFIELD: In Aruba, a judge ruled that prosecutors have enough evidence against three young men to hold them another eight days. They were arrested earlier last week in the disappearance of Alabama teen Natalee Holloway. But questions remain as to whether there has been a confession in the case. CNN's Karl Penhaul has more from Palm Beach, Aruba.

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KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: An Aruba judge has ordered three suspects to be detained for eight more days while police investigate their alleged links to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Investigators brought the three in unmarked cars to the courtroom in Aruba's capital Oranjestad. They have been named as 17- year-old Joran Van Der Sloot and brothers, 21-year-old Deepak and 18 year old Satish Kalpoe. Witnesses say they saw the three men drive off from an Aruba bar with Natalee on the morning of May 30th, the day she disappeared. A senior police official has told CNN there has been a breakthrough in the investigation amounting to a confession or some sort of confession. But defense attorneys for the three suspects had this to say.

DAVID KOCK, BROTHERS ATTY: My client states -- keeps on saying that he is not guilty and he is not the one that have been reading in the press that has confessed. Up until now that I know, nobody has.

ANTONIO CARLO, ATTY FOR 17-YEAR OLD MALE: My client is maintaining that he is innocent.

PENHAUL: Earlier in the day, Aruba's prosecution service had this to day about the progress of the investigation.

VIVIAN VAN DER BIESEN, PROSECUTOR'S SPOKESWOMAN: The prosecution service has -- is aware of some information that are related to the investigation of alleged statements of witnesses -- sorry -- suspects in this case. The prosecution service would like to state is at this moment we neither confirm or deny any information coming from other sources. The investigation at this point is the following. We have five suspects. They are being interrogated and we are at a very crucial, very important moment in our investigation.

PENHAUL: Two other men, both security guards, were arrested a week ago. They're still being held. One of those men's defense attorneys said his client had an alibi and appealed for him to be freed.

CHRIS LEJUEZ, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: They know now for sure that they don't need him any time to solve this case and yet they still keep him and this brings injustice to an innocent man.

PENHAUL: Amidst the cut and thrust of the investigation and legal arguments, one fact is clear. There's still no sign of Natalee or her remains. Karl Penhaul, CNN, Palm Beach, Aruba.

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WHITFIELD: They call America home, but these brothers are facing an unknown future. Did a government program put their dream at risk? The story straight ahead on CNN LIVE SUNDAY.

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WHITFIELD: Time now for a check of the headlines across America.

After almost four years, New York holds a funeral for a firefighter killed on 9/11. A memorial service was held shortly after the attacks for Keith Roy Maynard, but only recently did his family decide that enough of his remains had been identified to now hold a formal funeral.

Early results from the autopsy on Emmitt Till may reveal possible fragments of bullets used in his 1955 killing. The "Chicago Sun-Times" reporters investigators are still waiting for DNA results to confirm the body exhumed earlier this month is exactly that of Till.

Jury selection begins tomorrow in the trial of Edgar Ray Killen, a reputed Ku Klux Klansman charged in the murders of three civil rights workers during the freedom summer of 1964.

And former heavy weight champion Mike Tyson may be hanging up his gloves. The 38-year old called it quits in the sixth round of his fight last night against Kevin McBride. Tyson says he no longer has the stomach for boxing. Let's check in with Howard Kurtz and see what's up on RELIABLE SOURCES. Howard.

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES: Thanks, Fredricka. Coming up, are the media too easy on President Bush, shortchanging Democrats in the process? That's what Hillary Clinton charges.

FOX anchor Neil Cavuto gets flak for a squishy soft interview with the president. We'll also talk about the scant coverage of the Downing Street memo on Iraq.

And should news organizations pay sources for the inside scoop? A "New York Times" columnist John Tierney says yes. We'll ask him why ahead on RELIABLE SOURCES.

WHITFIELD: We look forward to that. Thanks a lot Howard.

They were living the American dream but not legally. Now, these brothers may be sent back to a country they barely know. Their story is straight ahead.

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WHITFIELD: After September 11th, the federal government actively searched for more information about Muslims living in the U.S. But some of the men who volunteered to be questioned for the sake of national security are learning they're no longer welcome in America. Alina Cho has the story of three young brothers and their fight to stay in this country.

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ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In most ways, the Essaheb brothers are living the American dream. Immigrants from Morocco, they came here with their parents for a better life. Kamal was 11 at the time. He's now 23. This is home for you?

KAMAL ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: This is -- Queens is exactly where we belong. It is where our lives are.

CHO: Yet Kamal and twin bothers Hassan and Housseine are in trouble. They have been living in the U.S. for 13 years illegally. Now, the government wants to deport them.

KAMAL ESSAHEB: Imagine if you were put on a plane and were landed in some random country with your bag of clothes and having to start your life all over again, how would that feel? It feels like that. It feels exactly like that.

CHO: It's possible they wouldn't be in this situation were it not for a program called special registration. The Federal government created the controversial program which has since been scaled back in the months after September 11th. It required Muslim men living in the United States, families like the Essahebs, to be photographed, fingerprinted and questioned. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security said one goal was national security, but the broader objective was to enforce immigration laws.

HASSAN ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: I would like -- it's just kind of getting starting, so it is kind of weird that all of a sudden it's going to come to an end.

CHO: A Department of Homeland Security spokesman tells CNN, they're all well educated and positive members of their community, but they're still in violation of our laws. Immigration laws must be complied with. Kamal is so angry he's studying to be a lawyer. He and Hassan could be deported as early as next month. On Friday, all three attended a court hear for Housseine and the judge gave him good news. He could be eligible for a green card.

HOUSSEINE ESSAHEB, FACING DEPORTATION: It is not exactly that clear. We got to see what happens and I'm still not too clear on it myself.

CHO: So the family remains in limbo. The boy's parents say if their sons are deported, they'll return to Morocco, too.

KAMAL ESSAHEB: They've struggled. They've done everything they could and now this whole creation, everything that they built is about to go down the drain.

CHO: The American dream?

KAMAL ESSAHEB: Yeah. Their American dream is about to be shattered.

CHO: Or with a reprieve from a judge, it could be just beginning. Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

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