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U.S. Destroyer Docks in Japan; Astronauts Complete Space Walk; New Christian Video Game; Images From North Korea; Report From Sudan

Aired July 08, 2006 - 16:00   ET

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: A pair of space shuttle astronauts do a little arm twisting in space. The question is will it one day save the day for an injured space shuttle crew?
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: We'll be checking in with Miles O'Brien soon.

It seems following the directions isn't always what the doctor ordered. Coming up, why the findings of a new study on Tylenol might surprise you.

And is there an avid gamer in your house? Have them look at this? There's plenty of violence. And believe it or not, a Christian message. How did they manage that? We'll show you.

Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY. All that and more after this check of the headlines.

A high tech missile destroyer is now parked in a Japanese port. But the Navy says it's a pre-planned deployment and not a response to North Korea's nuclear tests. CNN is covering every angle of this story.

A call for calm amid rising hostilities in the Middle East. The Palestinian prime minister is asking for a cease-fire on both sides as Israel steps up its offensive to secure the return of a kidnapped soldier. Six Palestinians were killed in the violence today.

It's not your ordinary cable repair job. Two Discovery astronauts made a space walk today immobilizing a cable cutter on the International Space Station. They also rerouted a cable which carries power, data and video games, or images that is. A second space walk on Monday will focus on replacing a severed cable.

More prisoners have been released in Iraq. It's part of an ongoing effort to calm sectarian tensions in the fractured country. More than 200 prisoners were reunited with their families today.

Doctors are amazed a 4-year-old boy is alive. He fell from an 11 story window yesterday, bounced off a metal awning and landed in a concrete court yard. Police in Albany, New York say, he was left home alone. He is in serious condition with a broken skull, a broken leg and other injuries, but miraculously alive.

First, the growing backlash against a belligerent North Korea. U.S. envoy Christopher Hill touched down today in Seoul to spearhead the effort to the North held accountable for its missile test this week. Even though the long range missile launch fizzled, it has rallied opposition to the North's nuclear weapons program. Hill says it is time for Pyongyang to come to its senses.

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CHRISTOPHER HILL, ASST. SECRETARY OF STATE: It gives me no pleasure to think about 20 million citizens in the DPRK. People who don't have enough to eat, who don't have enough clothing, who don't have enough electricity. And meanwhile they have a regime firing off missiles. So they need to get serious and get back to the talks.

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WHITFIELD: Officially unconnected this pressure on North Korea, a new U.S. warship arrived today in neighboring Japan equipped to take down enemy missiles. Japan is leading the push for U.N. sanctions against North Korea.

Among other items of interest, South Korea has threatened to halt food supplies to the North, but it does still plan to hold talks with North Korea on Tuesday. And a report out of Japan says China appears to have curbed material shipments into the ally of North Korea, a possible sign of displeasure. Let's talk about the warship docked today in Japan. Alec Frazier is our guest, he's a former captain of one of the Navy's Aegis Cruisers, a cousin to the ship that arrived in Japan. He's now president of Turner Properties here in Atlanta. So we get to enjoy your multitasking here. Let's talk about Aegis 101. First of all, what is it?

CAPT. ALEC FRASER, U.S. NAVY (RET): Aegis is a combat system that has a special computer-guided radar which links with special missiles that allows the ships to be able to track hundreds of targets, fire at dozens of targets simultaneously and track targets at long distances, as you can see in this diagram here, the picture. It has the ability to go up and intercept intercontinental missiles at the same time.

WHITFIELD: So already there were some of these destroyers equipped with Aegis equipment already in the Port of Japan, already in the region. Now with the arrival of the USS Musted, how does that kind of beef up the presence or the technology?

FRASER: Well, the more Aegis Destroyers and Cruisers you have in the area, the better capability you have. The Musted being there is a defensive capability against intercontinental ballistic missiles. But, at the same time, you have the Enterprise getting under way from the Persian Gulf.

WHITFIELD: A nuclear powered carrier.

FRASER: A nuclear powered carrier. It is getting under way from the Persian Gulf a little bit early. But that provides an offensive capability back to the Navy in that area, too. So you have both an offensive and a defensive capability which ought to make the North Koreans think a little bit. WHITFIELD: And that really might be part of the objective, right? Because along with the USS Enterprise, while it's a flight carrier, it also is equipped with a number other destroyers and ships around it. It's got an entire fleet.

FRASER: They call it a battle group. It comes with aircraft carrier, it's embarked air wing, cruisers, destroyers and even submarine that can fire tomahawk missiles at locations also.

WHITFIELD: When we talk about the USS Musted. It is bringing with it newer, faster, better equipment. Does that mean that it can detect these missiles earlier in the launch phase?

FRASER: The answer to that is a quick yes, because an Aegis radar could detect the launch of a missile seconds after it leaves the platform wherever it is in Korea or anywhere else. It allows it to be able track it intercontinentaly as long as the radar can track it. That's a long distance. On one of my ships I remember being off the east coast and being able to track all of the aircraft from Maine to Miami, simultaneously. Which is a big capability.

WHITFIELD: Alright, Alec Frasier. Thanks so much. Appreciate your expertise and your time.

FRASER: Glad to be here.

WHITFIELD: Well what's it like living in Kim Jong Il's North Korea? Watch undercover in a secret state, a CNN presents special tonight at 8:00 PM Eastern. It includes footage that had to be smuggled out of the country.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: North Korea, March 2005. A crowd has been ordered to gather in an open field. A party official makes an announcement. Children have been brought to watch. The sentence is about to be passed. Three men are about to die. These people have committed the crime most damaging to North Korea's leader, Kim Jong- Il. They made contact with the outside world. Three policemen step forward and raise their rifles. On the left, a prisoner is tied to a pole. This video was passed from person to person along a secret underground network. Powerful evidence of public executions under the regime of Kim Jong-Il.

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WHITFIELD: That's just one part of "Undercover in The Secret State." Don't miss a special airing tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

We'll go into outer space in a moment. But first a reminder of what's coming up later on in the hour. At 27 minutes after, hear about a new violent video game which is nothing new, but one called spiritual warfare? What's being marketed as a Christian video game encourages praying before killing.

At 35 minutes after, who is this man attacking his own country? A look at the American al Qaeda.

And at 50, after a Tylenol headache, how much acetaminophen is too much? We'll have a doctor in the house.

A lot more than just stretching their legs. A rather unique space walk just wrapped up for two of the crew aboard the International Space Station. Our space correspondent Miles O'Brien joins us for more of our continuing coverage of it. So, are they considering this a very successful first space walk?

O'BRIEN: Yes, I think we can say that so far. It's still under way. They're wrapping up. you're looking at some helmet cam views. This is what it looks like if your

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O'BRIEN: One of the space operators just lost the signal there. You'll see down on the robotic arm of the space shuttle there, which was at the center of this space walk, an extended version of that. There you see some still images that are coming down. That's Cellars (ph) as they're wrapping up, putting their tools away and heading back into the air lock of the space station. At the end of this six hour plus space walk, the idea here was to test an extra long robot arm.

Take a look at this thing. It is 100 feet in length. It has a 50-foot extension on it, twice as long as the shuttle robot arm. The two of them, Piers Sellers along with his spacewalking compadre Mike Fossum went out to the end and deliberately started shaking it around and doing what they would do if they were working on a space shuttle to see how stable that platform would be. Take a listen to some of the exchanges as they try to sort of do some arm twisting.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next on is 90 degrees.

(INAUDIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the clockwise direction. So going back to the starting point there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'll try. Two, one, it's secure.

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O'BRIEN: All right. There you go. That's Piers Sellers taking his feet out of those foot restraints. And that causes a lots of torque. And as you can see if you look at that arm, it seems like it's wobbling a little. The question is, is it too much? Is it safe enough for them to use that extended robot arm to do repairs on parts of the shuttle that would otherwise be unreachable for that 50 foot arm. This was pretty much the focus of the spacewalk, all throughout this 6 1/2 hour procedure, trying to come up with ways and test to see if it can be done and used on future spacewalks.

We had wonderful views up close and personal views. You get a chance to see those $250,000 customized gloves that they use and they also had an opportunity to free a cable on a sort of rail car device which travels the full spine of the space station and currently is inoperative. They have one more step to do before it's back in business, but that will make it easier to continue the construction of the space station. Now there is some reason to believe that it is possible that Piers Sellers and Mike Fossum will have a chance to test out that extra long boom for real before the end of this mission.

Space shuttle managers now are looking at five distinct locations on the Space Shuttle Discovery, two here, two here and one there where they're not sure if they have some damage to the heat shield as a result of the launch. One in particular here is a piece of so-called gap filler which is sticking out in between two of the 24,000 heat shielding tiles which protect the space shuttle. Take a look at these still images here. This is one of the protruding gap fillers. They say that one is okay.

This one in that place I just told you may be sticking up enough that it could cause a little hot spot right around it during re-entry. That's not good. So it's possible they may authorize those spacewalkers to try out that extra long, 100 foot long boom to go and pull that gap filler out. The decision has not been made just yet, but based on what we saw, it seems like it would be possible. A little bit of swaying, but generally speaking, it seemed like it was a fairly stable platform.

Take a look at this shot right here, coming down live if you would. That's the arm, not the astronauts, but it's a beautiful sight isn't it?

WHITFIELD: It's remarkable. And this just underscores why these guys and gals are in a class of their own. Incredibly courageous.

O'BRIEN: Yes, they are.

WHITFIELD: That's remarkable. Thanks so much, Miles O'Brien.

O'BRIEN: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: Coming up, the alleged plot was foiled but should New Yorkers still be worried about tunnel security? We'll ask the FBI and --

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Adam Gaddan has come a along way from his home in California.

ADAM GADDAN, AMERICAN AL QAEDA MEMBER: Why should we target the military only?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's him playing a starring role in the latest al Qaeda video.

(END VIDEO TAPE)

WHITFIELD: The so-called American al Qaeda, wanted for questioning. We'll hear from his father. And this.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I will reclaim heaven and rule the universe unchallenged.

WHITFIELD: It's not just another violent video game, it's a violent Christian video game or some say a wolf in sheep's clothing. More ahead on CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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WHITFIELD: Now to security concerns on the U.S. mainland. Law enforcement authorities say they disrupted a plot by Islamic extremists against New York's transportation system. They say the terrorists' goal was to attack tunnels between Manhattan and New Jersey and flood lower Manhattan.

Only one of eight suspects has been identified. He is 31-year- old Assem Hammoud, the alleged ring leader of the plot. He was arrested in Beirut in late April. Two other suspects are also in police custody overseas. Word of the New York tunnel plot came as Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff toured Boston's transit system. He spoke with our Dan Lothian.

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DAN LOTHIAN, CNN BOSTON BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): On the very day a plot to attack New York's trains and tunnels was revealed, and exactly one year after the assault on London's transit system, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff walked onto a subway train in Boston, confident, but aware of the constant threat the London attack reinforced.

CHERTOFF: I think it was a great reminder, first of all, about the fact that we cannot be complacent about terrorism, that it's not going to go away. It's not just a one-time event.

LOTHIAN: In a one-on-one interview that lasted two subway stops, Chertoff said guarding against another terror attack on the American transit system is a complicated effort.

CHERTOFF: We have to look at all of the kinds of transportation, as well as our fixed infrastructure. You know, we have to worry about ferries. We have to worry about buses, as well as, obviously, the traditional aviation type of situation.

LOTHIAN: This latest case is the second plot against New York's transit system to come to light in the past month, after news of an alleged subway cyanide attack was revealed in early June.

CHERTOFF: What we try to do is not focus on any single threat, but look at all of the threats, and make sure we're covering them.

LOTHIAN: If trains and buses seem to be more vulnerable than air travel or perhaps even secured buildings, it's because, Chertoff says, the system has some constraints. CHERTOFF: We have an open system. And that's one where we want to encourage people to come in and out without a lot of inconvenience. So, we try to build security that raises the level of safety, but doesn't actually break the system we're trying to protect.

LOTHIAN (on camera): Critics argue, not enough money has been spent on securing ground-based transportation since 9/11. It's been hundreds of millions of dollars vs. billions spent on aviation security.

(voice-over): But based on the potential catastrophic nature of a terror event in the sky, the federal government believes tax dollars are being used wisely. And Chertoff says strides are being made on the ground, like the addition of high-tech surveillance equipment and bomb-sniffing dogs to assist local law enforcement agencies.

CHERTOFF: We're doing other things as well, including random searches, surge operations, where we put more inspectors, more bomb- detection team into subways, either on a random basis on when there's a particular threat.

LOTHIAN: Chertoff used to ride these trains all the time while a student at Harvard. Now, as the nation's top terrorism fighter, he says he's confident commuters are still safe and that Americans should not live in fear.

CHERTOFF: Sure, there are no guarantees in life. But what we continue to work to do is to get as close as possible to safety.

LOTHIAN: Dan Lothian, CNN, Boston.

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WHITFIELD: And you can see more of Dan Lothian's reporting on Anderson Cooper's show. Watch weeknights at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.

So are Americans safe, especially on ground based transportation systems such as trains and subways? Joining me from Buffalo, New York, is Robert Heibel. He was the FBI's deputy chief of counter- terrorism in the mid-'80s. Good to see you.

ROBERT HEIBEL, FMR FBI DEPT. CHIEF COUNTER-TERROR: Good evening.

WHITFIELD: So, I wonder has it always been anticipated that post 9/11 transportation would once again be a target?

HEIBEL: I think that the terrorist recognizes that in the infrastructure of any country, transportation is always a weak link. Always a link where they can have a maximum impact and certainly in New York City, you have the subway trains, you have people trying to get on to the island on a daily basis, so it's a very tempting target.

WHITFIELD: So, is it your concern now that security's being beefed up in tunnels, bridges, other thoroughfares, whether it be New York or other major cities, that those kind of resources are being taken away from other areas, leaving other areas potentially vulnerable?

HEIBEL: I think you only have so many resources and resources are regional. Where you have a threat, then you have to respond to that threat.

WHITFIELD: So the FBI says it was tipped off by Internet chat. You have to wonder, now, that potential planners or terrorists now know that the FBI, if they haven't known already, they're watching the Internet activity. Might they, the planners, kind of change their habits now, making it more difficult for intelligence to track them?

HEIBEL: I think you have to realize that communications is the big weakness here. What alternatives do they have. Are they going to pass notes to each other? Are they going to write letters? Are they going to make telephone calls? Almost any form of communication they use other than passing notes is going to be insecure. So what they're going to have to do in response is try to tighten up their communication security.

WHITFIELD: And communications is also involved other agencies overseas. And we heard from the FBI director, who was involved in this operation, that he's worried now that the publicizing of this foiled plot might jeopardize the relations with other country. In what way?

HEIBEL: Well, I think that most countries after 9/11 have agreed to cooperate with the United States in counter-terrorism investigations. Because as we've seen, events that have unfolded since 9/11, that you have terror attacks in most countries in the world. So they're susceptible to this. I really would not be too concerned about the relationship being damaged because of this. You have to remember one of the goals in the United States in these counter-terrorist activities is to keep the activity out of the United States, if it possibly can. That's what it's done here.

WHITFIELD: Alright, former FBI deputy chief of counter-terrorism Robert Heibel. Thank you so much for joining us from Buffalo.

HEIBEL: My pleasure, thank you.

WHITFIELD: Tunnel terror is just one of the topics on tonight "WEEK AT WAR." Join John Roberts and his team as they look at terror in the U.S. and abroad.

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.

Coming up, Christian or not. It's a violent video game that's getting a lot of play.

And he's come a long way from his home in California. Is this the American face for al Qaeda on the web?

And on a much lighter note, it will fall between goofy and googley eyed. What is it? You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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WHITFIELD: In news across America, you can finally push your luck again in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The resort's dozen casinos are back in business after a budget battle that closed down the state government. Today Governor John Corzine signed an executive order resuming state operations.

Heavy downpours brought on flash flooding in the Tucson area yesterday. The storms closed a few roads, knocked out power and caused minor damage. Luckily no injuries reported.

You can find just about anything with the web search engine google. Now you'll find google in the dictionary. Thursday the verb google made Merriam Webster's latest version. The definition to use the google search engine to gain information on the world wide web.

It appears more American music lovers are skipping the store and going online for their favorite tunes. The latest Nealson Sound Scan figures show that album sales are down four percent, but downloaded music sales are up 77 percent.

A new video game is causing controversy. Not because of its graphic violence, but its Christian twist. Ted Rowlands has the story first seen on CNN's "PAULA ZAHN NOW."

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At first glance, it looks like any other video game with dramatic graphics, special effects, lots of violent shooting and death. But in this game, next to the button used to shoot bad guys is a button to pray.

TROY LYNDON, GAME DEVELOPER: We're the first product that appeals to more than one marketplace. The hard core gamers and also to Christian marketplace.

ROWLANDS: A Christian video game that appeals to the masses. That is what the makers of "Left Behind" are praying for. The game is based on the wildly successful "Left Behind" Christian fictional book series. And the game, like in the book, the world is in the hands of Satan. Players fight evil forces while gaining strength through prayer. Watch as a player stops shooting to bow his head and pray. Doing this, increases the player's strength on the battlefield. The Christian messages are there. But unlike other religious-based games, which stay away from violence, the main focus of this one is warfare.

LYNDON: The only way we're going to appeal to any hard core gamer in a real-time strategy game is to bring warfare to life. The difference is we have added a new element, spiritual warfare.

ROWLANDS: Troy Lyndon, who used to help produce main stream games, like Madden Football is confident that "Left Behind" is good enough to break in to the mainstream. The game created a buzz at this year's E-3 Video Game Convention in Los Angeles.

ADAM SESSLER, G4 TV: When you take religious-themed game, this is definitely the highest quality I have ever seen.

ROWLANDS (on camera): Producers of "Left Behind," say the violence in the game will be enough to attract the mainstream. But critics say that violence is violence no matter what. Whether God's involved, and it is inappropriate, especially for children.

JACK THOMPSON, VIDEO GAME CRITIC: This game is literally a wolf in sheep's clothing. And it's been marketed to Christian parents for their kids, trading on the label of Christianity. When in fact it's a very secular product that has a same harmful effects as other games that don't have the Christian motif.

ROWLANDS (voice-over): Christian video games have been around for years, and while they can be found on store shelves next to other games, they haven't made much of a dent in the market. Christian game developers, Tom and Bill Bean, are demonstrating one of their games called "Dance Praise." While none of their games have violence, they don't have a problem with "Left Behind."

TOM BEAN, DIGITAL PRAISE: They're doing it through a different method than we are. We're focussing right now, a little bit more on the family sector. And they're looking more at the hard-core gamers and I think there is a place at table for all of these different kinds of games and we encourage them, applaud them and hope they do great.

ROWLANDS: Doing great means attracting the hard-core players. We asked a couple people at convention to try out "Left Behind" and compare it to other games.

MARK WEINBERG, GAMER: I thought it was a good game. I thought it looked really great. It was fluid game play. I don't know enough about the story to really get emotionally involved. You know, on a quick play, it played great.

RONALD DIEMIECKE, GAMER: This whole spirit thing seems different. But it's kind of cool.

ROWLANDS: "Left Behind" is scheduled to hit store shelves later this year. The game's producers are hoping to attract enough players to make some money and make a difference.

LYNDON: I have an unusually blessed opportunity. In that, the same goal to distribute as many product as possible, also aligns with getting kids to think more about matter of eternal importance.

ROWLANDS: Ted Rowlands, CNN, Los Angeles.

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WHITFIELD: Ted's report first aired on "PAULA ZAHN NOW." The show airs weeknights at 8 Eastern, 5 Pacific.

Coming up, they are the stuff of real-life and movies. The lost boys of Sudan now reuniting. Gary Nurenberg was with them.

And home-schooled on a farm in California by Christians. Now he's in a new al Qaeda video on the Web. Who is he? Ahead on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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WHITFIELD: Well, this "Just In," it's being described as an embarrassment for Saudi Arabia. Just a few days ago reportedly seven prisoners suspected of aiding terrorists escaped from a jail in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. The men, six Saudis and a Yemeni, were being held in a minimum security facility in Riyadh used for people charged with security crimes. None of the men have had trials. Of course, the search is on. This information just coming out of Saudi Arabia, the capital of Riyadh, with these seven prisoners escaping.

Other news now we're following, making an offer to North Korea during a visit to South Korea today, U.S. envoy Christopher Hill said the U.S. will hold one-on-one nuclear talks with North Korea if that country agrees to rejoin stalled six-party talks.

A successful spacewalk 220 miles above Earth. Today two Discovery astronauts ventured outside to move a cable on the International Space Station and to test a robotic arm. They may use the arm next week to repair hard-to-reach spots on the bottom of the shuttle.

The Coast Guard says a Cuban woman died of injuries suffered in a high-speed chase at sea. The woman was one of 31 migrants in a vessel that tried to ram a Coast Guard speed boat and outrace it to Florida.

No ceasefire in the Middle East. Israel says its military operation in Gaza will continue until Palestinian militants release an Israeli soldier kidnapped two weeks ago. The Hamas-led Palestinian government says it wants to resolve the standoff diplomatically.

More provocative comments from Iran's president today. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called Israel, quote, "the basic and fundamental problem of the Muslim world." And he urged Muslims to mobilize all their capabilities to deal with the issue.

And now, a deadly battle between U.S. soldiers and Iraqi insurgents. Three American soldiers were killed today while fighting in Iraq's Anbar province. In Baghdad, at least four civilians were killed in insurgent attacks. Three died when mortar rounds landed in a residential neighborhood. Meantime, the Iraqi government is pushing ahead with its national reconciliation plan by releasing 368 prisoners today. Nearly 3,000 released last month. Officials say none staged attacks on soldiers or civilians.

Two U.S. senators are getting briefed on that reconciliation effort from Iraq's prime minister. Senators Joseph Biden and Jack Reed say the prime minister promised to reach out to Sunni Arabs and crack down on Shiite militias.

Unmasked. An American who is also a member of al Qaeda, Adam Gadahn hid his face on his first terrorist tape. Now, for the first time, he reveals himself, and once again threatens the U.S. So how does someone raised in rural California end up in the inner circle of the world's most notorious terrorist networks? CNN's Anderson Cooper finds out in this "AC 360" report.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Adam Gadahn has come a long way from his home in California.

ADAM GADAHN, AMERICAN AL QAEDA: And why should we target their military only?

COOPER: That's him playing a starring role in the latest al Qaeda video.

GADAHN: ... because they're the ones who started this dirty war.

COOPER: U.S. officials say this tape shows Gadahn playing a central role in al Qaeda's inner circle, valued by its leaders for putting an American face on al Qaeda, a valuable propaganda tool, attacking his own country in its own language.

GADAHN: No sane Muslim should shed tears for them.

COOPER: This is Adam Gadahn in the early 1990s. His odyssey began on this goat farm in rural Riverside County, California. His father, Phil, once an acid rock guitarist and his mother dropped out of the L.A. music scene, moved to the farm and home-schooled their children. But Adam Gadahn rebelled against the counterculture and his parent's Christianity.

PHIL GADAHN, ADAM'S FATHER: Most of the kids, they don't want to be a bumpkin out here, you know, living on the farm, so they all move to town.

COOPER: After going through a heavy metal phase, Adam Gadahn embraced Islam and took the Muslim name Yaya. That was in 1995 and Gadahn wrote about it in this Web site posting. "Having been around Muslims in my formative years," he wrote, "I knew they were not bloodthirsty barbaric terrorists."

Two years after becoming a Muslim, he was arrested for allegedly attacking the president of the Islamic Society of Orange County. Federal officials say soon after, Gadahn moved to Pakistan in 1998. His family lost touch with him after 2002.

P. GADAHN: He sort of detached. He went off and did his own thing.

COOPER: But he surfaced in a big way in 2004. First named by the FBI as someone it was seeking information on in connection with possible terrorist threats, threats he later made when appearing masked in this video, calling himself "Azam, the American."

A. GADAHN: People of America, I remind you...

COOPER: Now in this latest video, he gives a hint of time he spent in Afghanistan during and after the Americans toppled the Taliban and drove out al Qaeda.

A. GADAHN: They have murdered thousands of Afghan civilians. I've seen it with my own eyes. My brothers have seen it. I've carried the victims in my arms, women, children, toddlers, babies in their mother's wombs. You name it, they've probably bombed it.

COOPER: Gadahn is now believed to be somewhere along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border. He appears for more than five minutes in the latest video, his words aimed at both the British and American audience.

A. GADAHN: Britain is the one who taught America how to kill and oppress Muslims in the first place.

COOPER: Gadahn refers to the recent charges of U.S. killings in Iraq, saying it is proof that Muslims are being slaughtered by American troops there.

A. GADAHN: And then when our mujahedeen take revenge on the unit which committed this outrage and capture and execute two of its members, they're called terrorists.

COOPER: Gadahn's family isn't talking about the latest tape. But a family friend says they are devastated.

Anderson Cooper, CNN.

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WHITFIELD: You can watch "AC 360" with Anderson Cooper every night 10 p.m. Eastern, 7 Pacific.

Coming up, once they were lost, now they're found. The lost boys of Sudan with a new mission.

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WHITFIELD: If you or someone you know is one of the millions who take Tylenol, listen up. A new study out suggests that even following the directions on the bottle might be risky. Dr. Bill Lloyd joins us now for more on this debate surrounding these new findings of acetaminophen. They have been around for a while, why now controversial?

DR. BILL LLOYD, UC DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER: Fredricka, you know, we've been taking Tylenol and other acetaminophen products for a generation. But researchers at the University of North Carolina have recently found that healthy people taking the recommended dosages of acetaminophen develop elevated liver enzymes. And those are warning signs for the possibility of liver damage.

This is something we didn't know about. Doctors have always known that people with chronic liver problems who took lots of acetaminophen for many, many years could be in trouble. But now they are showing people who are just taking everyday doses for a few days might be in trouble. WHITFIELD: Are there some people who are at greater risk than others?

LLOYD: Well, it starts off with people who have underlying liver problems, people with hepatitis, A, B, or C. People who obviously have problems with previous liver failure. Alcoholics and people who drink a lot of alcohol that may not be alcoholic, three or more drinks a day. But, you know, Fredricka, everybody has a different kind of metabolism.

And for some people, one drink alone may be enough to challenge their liver so that an everyday dose of, let's say, four grams of acetaminophen every day, that's eight tablets of Extra Strength Tylenol, a usual dose over the course of a day, might be too much for your healthy liver.

WHITFIELD: So aside from the person who may consume too much alcohol, are there other folks who just really should stay away from acetaminophen-type -- based products?

LLOYD: Well, anybody who has trouble with their liver needs to take caution. Because the liver is the source of the body, that part of the body that metabolizes the active ingredient in acetaminophen. It metabolizes it. And in order to do that, it has to have all the necessary enzymes.

So if your liver is busy during the day metabolizing alcohol or other drugs or fighting other diseases like cirrhosis, then you won't be available -- those cells won't be available to attack the acetaminophen, to break it down to metabolize it when its necessary, when people are taking it to, for example, get rid of a headache or other simple pain problems that they may encounter during the day.

WHITFIELD: So break down what kind of damage we're talking about, to the liver.

LLOYD: Well, it's a remarkable finding that half the cases of acute liver failure in this country, that's 500 deaths, are due exclusively to people who accidentally take too much acetaminophen. And it's not just from taking Tylenol.

We have acetaminophen it in over 150 different products. Excedrin has acetaminophen, Midol has acetaminophen. And there are many other things, cough and cold remedies, for example, many pain relievers and many prescription pain relievers, like Darvocet and Percocet, have very large doses of acetaminophen.

So people may be taking more than that recommended total of four grams over the course of the day and not even know it. And that's how the acute liver poisoning happens that leads to fatal acute liver failure.

WHITFIELD: Dr. Bill Lloyd, thanks so much. Important news to know.

LLOYD: We'll talk again soon. WHITFIELD: All right. Carol Lin is -- right now, actually, with what's up next.

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Coming up in the next couple of hours, Fred, we're going to be going in-depth on the Korean missile situation. And we're going to be dealing with a couple of questions. What if, I mean, what if there was a North Korean missile heading towards the United States? Do we have a defense system in place, a shield, per se? Our Ted Rowlands went up to Ft. Greely, Alaska, where a missile defense system is being constructed.

And what if diplomacy doesn't work? All right. Is it possible that the United States would consider a unilateral military strike against North Korea? I'm going to be talking with a man who has worked with the State Department and who would understand the dance of diplomacy and what happens when it breaks down.

So we're going to be going in-depth for the next couple of hours.

WHITFIELD: A lot of (INAUDIBLE).

LIN: You bet.

WHITFIELD: All right. We'll be watching. Thanks so much, Carol.

Still ahead this hour, the lost boys of Sudan reunited. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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WHITFIELD: Now to ongoing efforts to end the suffering in Sudan. Actress and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Mia Farrow recently returned from Darfur. It was her second visit to the conflict-ridden country.

Earlier she spoke with CNN about what she saw.

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MIA FARROW, UNICEF GOODWILL AMBASSADOR: What we're seeing is in excess of 4 million people now reliant on food aid. And people are receiving less than the minimum of what is required to sustain life. More than 2 million people are actually living in refugee camps. Many others are just on the run, living in -- under trees and so forth. People are terrorized.

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WHITFIELD: After surviving the slaughter of their families, many Sudanese refugees fled to the U.S. Some were featured in the documentary, "The Lost Boys of Sudan." This week has been a reunion of sorts for many of them. And they have a new mission.

They shared it with CNN's Gary Nurenberg.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) GARY NURENBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The miracle is that they are still alive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We go a long way back.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A long way back.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. So we have memories of the past.

NURENBERG: Horrible memories of a civil war in Sudan that in the late 1980s robbed them of their childhood.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was 7 years old back in 1987. My mom was killed and my two brothers in front of me when I was 7 years old. You see, I think my mom was cooking when my two brothers were playing with me. And they just started shooting. They killed my two brothers on the spot.

NURENBERG: Elizabeth Anok Koch was only 5.

ELIZABETH ANOK KOCH, LOST GIRL: The houses were being burned and there was shooting. And when I was sleeping. So when I just got up, I just ran away to save my life. I didn't even know where I was going. Some of the women get raped. Some of the small girls get raped, get to be slaves.

NURENBERG: Survivors of the government raids on southern villages made their way to refugee camps in Ethiopia and near the Kenyan border, hundreds of miles on foot, hiding from predators human and wild.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Some of my friends that I was working with have been eaten lions, by crocodiles and by some wild animals.

NURENBERG: For thousands of children, it was a death march.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were chased and hunted like animals across the entirety of Sudan.

NURENBERG: Those who made it to the camps, lived in them for years. In 2001, the United States agreed to resettle 3,700 of the young adults in several dozen American cities. It is those survivors who met this weekend to talk about rebuilding their country.

James Garang (ph) is trying to become a doctor.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have a responsibility to make a difference in my country, be able to go to school and be able to go back home and apply (INAUDIBLE) realization that I have here and be able to help the people out.

NURENBERG: And so many plan to return, survivors who lost a childhood, adults who have found a mission.

Gary Nuremberg, CNN, Washington.

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WHITFIELD: And we will hear more of James Garang's inspirational story of hardship and hope tomorrow. He shares his riveting tale of survival with CNN at 7 p.m. Eastern on Sunday.

Time now to go global with headlines around the world. German soccer fans have reason to cheer. It looks like their country's World Cup squad will place third. Right now the Germans are ahead of Portugal, 2-0. Tomorrow the championship pits underdog France against Italy.

Say hello to England's newest older mom, 62-year-old Patty Farrant (ph) gave birth to a son by C-section earlier this week. It makes her Britain's oldest mother. Fertility treatments helped her conceive her newborn son, named J.J. It's Farrant's fourth child and her first with her current husband.

And you'd have to travel to Indonesia to see the world's largest flower, the Titan Arum, which is now in bloom. It is quite a sight. And it stinks. The plant exudes a foul odor that helps it attract pollinators. The Titan Arum also attracts illegal poachers who threaten the plant's long-term existence.

From the global headquarters of CNN in Atlanta, I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Carol Lin is coming up with the day's top stories. More of CNN LIVE SATURDAY right after this.

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