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9/11 Commission Points To Poor Organization; Video Shows 9/11 Hijackers Screened at Airport; Negotiations For Release Of Six Hostages; Bobby Sherman Turns 61

Aired July 22, 2004 - 14:30   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.


(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KYRA PHILLIPS, ANCHOR: A sweeping raid turns into a street battle along Haifa Street in central Baghdad. A senior interior minister advisor says that 270 suspects were arrested, a large number of weapons confiscated.

The United States is threatening to impose sanctions against Sudan unless the crisis in the Darfur region is stopped. A new American resolution has just been submitted to the U.N. Security Council. Sudan has 30 days to comply and apprehend militia leaders.

No comment yet from the Israeli military, but just a short time ago, the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says an Israeli strike on a car in Gaza killed two of its members. Keep it here for more on this developing story.

We're keeping you informed. CNN, the most trusted name in news.

MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: Well, as we've been reporting, the 9/11 Commission's final report is out. The nearly 570-page document, in part, sober reminder of America's shortcomings in the war against terror. It also is a blueprint for the way forward.

Commission members released the report in Washington this morning.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

THOMAS KEAN, CHAIRMAN, 9/11 COMMISSION: What we can say with a good deal of confidence is that none of the measures adopted by the United States government before 9/11 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al Qaeda plot.

There was several unexploited opportunities.

Our government did not watch-list future hijackers Hamzi and Mindhar before they arrived in the United States or take adequate steps to find them once they were here.

Our government did not link the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, described as interested in flight training for the purpose of using airplane as a terrorist act, to the heightened indications of attack.

Our government did not discover false statements on visa applications or recognize passports that were manipulated in a fraudulent manner.

Our government did not expand no-fly lists to including names from terrorist watch-lists or require airline passengers to be more thoroughly screened.

LEE HAMILTON, VICE CHAIR, 9/11 COMMISSION: We need to play offense --to kill or to capture the terrorists, deny them sanctuaries, and disrupt their ability to move money and people around the globe.

We need to ensure that the key countries, like Afghanistan and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, are stable, capable and resolute in opposing terrorism.

We need to sustain a coalition of nations that cooperates bilaterally and multilaterally with us in the counter terrorism mission.

We need a better dialogue between the west and the Islamic world. We also highlight the need to restrict and roll back the proliferation of the world's most dangerous weapons.

We need to put forth an agenda of opportunity, economic, educational, political. So that young people in the Arab and Islamic world have peaceful and productive avenues for expression and hope.

We need to join the battle of ideas within the Islamic world, communicating hope instead of despair, progress in place of persecution, life instead of death. This message should be matched by policies that encourage and support the majority of Muslims who share these goals.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'BRIEN: You can read the key findings of the 9/11 Commission report at CNN.com. You'll also find an interactive gallery of the 9/11 Commission members, clips of key testimony in the investigation, all that at cnn.com.

We've been taking some of your e-mail today, too. We want to just thank you for it, by the way. We've gotten quite a flood of it. We have a few minutes here. We'll share a few with you.

Rita Shank (ph) writes to us from Katy, Texas, Roger Clemens country. "Why does this remind me of World War II? We weren't prepared then either. Times have changed. Our intelligence hasn't."

PHILLIPS: Charles from Florida: "Thank God there are 10 people who care about this country. My hat's off to all 10."

O'BRIEN: "We the people need to stand together. We all made this country. We can change anything if we choose to do so. We are all responsible for making our testimony work. People need to quit passing the blame and see what we can do to change things and make them work." That's from Mark.

PHILLIPS: "The publication of the report is great, but over time, as attention wanes, especially if there are no further attacks, will homeland security simply degrade to the same pork barrel tendencies that we see in every other agency with significant fines (ph) to spend?" That's from Chris Foreman (ph) in Maryland.

O'BRIEN: Annabelle LeFrancois (ph) has this: "Why isn't the question brought up about the reasons the terrorists are doing these acts of violence? What do they want that they are willing to give their lives for? This is the crux of the problem."

PHILLIPS: And Lieutenant Colonel -- actually retired from the U.S. Air Force -- Thomas (ph), says: "If only our current politicians would pay attention and start using their minds instead of their political voices, maybe our country will get informed enough to get their heads out of the sand and realize we're in a war, whether we want to be or not."

O'BRIEN: Mary Kennedy Johnston (ph), Greensburg, North Carolina: "I'm glad that the commission was wise enough not to place blame. All of us are to blame, especially our leaders and their selfish needs being put ahead what is best for the people that vote for them. Kudos to the commission for their work."

A lot of e-mails like that, by the way.

PHILLIPS: Robert Baysore (ph) says: "If this report is not acted on been acted on before Osama bin Laden and his terrorists act again in this country, I will not be surprised, just overwhelmingly saddened by the petty attitudes and lack of stature of our statesmen."

O'BRIEN: And here's another sort of half-empty version. Kevin in New Jersey offers this: "What is going to happen is that we're going to sit around and debate the politics of the recommendations until another terrorist attack happens. Then we'll sit around and scratch our heads and ask, 'What went wrong?' The problem is that we spend too much time finger pointing and debating and not enough time doing and acting."

Kevin, we will end it with you on that sort of sad note. And we have some others to share with you later if we have some time. Thank you by the way, everybody.

PHILLIPS: Great response. We have pages of them.

Well, almost 3,000 people lost their lives on the morning of September 11, 2001. And for the families of the victims, the release of the 9/11 Commission's report today brought back some pretty painful memories. They will also have to consider the wide-ranging legal implications of the commission's findings.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: I want your first reaction to what you heard today from this report. Did anything make you feel at peace at all?

CHERYL MCGUINNESS, LOST HUSBAND IN 9/11: Kyra, it's great to be here again. And you know, my first reaction to the report is I'm really thankful it's finally here, that we can now get the recommendations from the commission that they've been working so diligently to get, and take a look at it and hopefully implement some recommendations and make changes to keep our country safe for our children and our children's children.

PHILLIPS: And Cheryl, in the report it said the 9/11 attacks came as a shock but didn't come as a surprise. That hit me for a number of reasons. Because you have told me that you and Tom used to talk. Tom was a navy top gun pilot. He would talk about the so- called enemy that he was supposed to defend against. But this is an enemy that neither one of you ever expected to hit the United States.

MCGUINNESS: Absolutely. I'm shocked to hear that -- that news, and I thought it was completely surprising and shocking.

PHILLIPS: When you talk about who is -- who was the enemy, the greater enemy, do you believe it's the Islamic extremists, or do you think it's the neglect of the warnings and intelligence that lacked?

MCGUINNESS: Well, I think it's -- you know, I -- it's difficult to say, you know, who is to blame and what group or anything like that. I honestly believe that it wasn't just an attack on America, although it happened here in America. I believe it was an attack on all of mankind, and I feel like it showed the worst that mankind can do and that -- what we're capable of doing.

And although, you know, you know as well as I that as long as -- you know, 3,000 of our loved one -- husbands, wives, fathers, children -- died, they didn't kill our spirit. They didn't take away our hope and the promise of tomorrow that we have.

PHILLIPS: Cheryl, Fred Fielding -- who, of course, is on the commission -- came forward and talked about the recommendations that they have made and some criticism that maybe these recommendations are too bold. I want to get you to respond to what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FRED FIELDING, 9/11 COMMISSION MEMBER: Why do you make recommendations that are so bold? Why do you make recommendations that are going to be very difficult because somebody has to give up something, somebody has to break a cookie jar? Why do you do that? Why don't you do something that you know has a better percentage chance of passing?

I think after our discussions, the answer we came to and the reason you see the recommendations we have, is -- the question is, if not now, when?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Cheryl, are the recommendations bold enough? Are they justified? Will they make a difference? And is it worth the money, is it worth the difficulty that Fred Fielding talks about? MCGUINNESS: It absolutely is worth the difficulty. This is the time to be bold and courageous and to step up and to say what we need to do and to implement some changes. Many Americans were lost that day, and we need to do all we can to keep our country safe. And this is the time to be bold and to make change.

PHILLIPS: Well, I've got to ask you before we go, Cheryl, speaking about being bold and stepping out and not being afraid, I know your son is taking flight lessons and wanting to pursue the same things your husband did. How's that going?

MCGUINNESS: His flying lessons are going great. He's still keeping his dream alive that he talked about and wants to be just like his dad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Well, another reminder of that tragic September morning. Newly released video show some of the hijackers going through a security check at Dulles Airport outside Washington.

As Aaron Brown reports, these were the men that would crash a plane into the Pentagon only two hours later.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

AARON BROWN, HOST, "NEWSNIGHT" (voice-over): Knowing what we know now the videotape is both stark and chilling.

Taken the morning of September 11th, 2001, the tape shows five hijackers passing through the metal screening detectors at Dulles airport outside of Washington.

The detail is difficult to discern, but you can clearly see an airport security officer passing his wand over one of the hijackers. They are all dressed conservatively. They don't stand out. They appear to be composed.

Four of the five hijackers bound for the American Airlines flight that would crash into the Pentagon a few hours later were pulled aside for additional screening. This after apparently setting off the metal detectors.

The only hijacker who did not require additional screening was the man believed to have been the pilot after Flight 77 was hijacked, Hani Hanjour.

The Associated Press says it obtained the tape from a law firm which represents survivor families, families suing both the airlines and security firms.

Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

O'BRIEN: CNN has just received some amazing video of a military jet collision in Oregon. Take a look at this. Shot as two F-18 fighter jets collided in midair yesterday over the Columbia River, although I didn't see the collision there, did you? There we go. There's the parachute; obviously somebody ejected.

Three Marine reservists were onboard: one parachuted to safety; the other two were killed. There's no word on the cause of that collision.

Bullets flying on a violent day in Iraq. Details on that.

Plus, a new hostage situation straight ahead here on LIVE FROM.

And national newspapers call him the vilest man in Britain. Today he's calling his lawyer. Details on the man who kiss and told on Princess Diana.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

O'BRIEN: In Iraq today, more fighting, sweeping raids and the ongoing insurgency. Iraq's interior minister says 270 suspects have been arrested in Baghdad alone.

While Bulgaria identifies a headless body found in the Tigris River last week. It says it is that of Georgi Lazov, one of two Bulgarian truck drivers kidnapped June 29 near Mosul.

CNN's Michael Holmes with more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Diplomats in Baghdad this day trying to secure the release of those seven men, three of them from India, three from Kenya, one from Egypt. All of them truck drivers. All of them working for the same Kuwaiti trucking company.

Now what we know is that the gunmen holding them call themselves the Holders of the Black Banners. And they say they're going to start executing those hostages one by one every 72 hours, starting Saturday if those countries -- Kenya, India and Egypt -- do not withdraw all of their citizens from Iraq and the men's employer, a company called KGL, doesn't withdraw its business from the country.

There has been more violence, also in Ramadi to start with, 70 miles west of Baghdad, a place where there has been much violence over the months. U.S. Marines say one of their patrols was ambushed with a roadside bomb and what they call a barrage of small arms fire and RPGs.

Marines say that they killed 25 insurgents, wounded 17, captured 25 others. Fourteen U.S. servicemen were wounded. None of those injuries said to be life threatening.

Here in Baghdad not far from our position, Haifa Street, where there have been clashes in the past, there were more in the early hours of this morning as U.S. forces combined with Iraq police and Iraqi National Guard to carry out a series of raids on houses and apartments.

Some of those they were seeking fought back, and there were some running gun battles in the early hours. At the end of the day four Iraqis were wounded. Several were arrested, dozens in fact. And an amount of arms and ammunition were seized.

Michael Holmes, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: News around the world now. In Gaza, Israeli troops discovered two tunnels they say Palestinians were using for weapon smuggling. The troops destroyed one of the tunnels, which reportedly stretched more than 200 feet from Egypt to Rafa. No injuries reported during that operation.

The Vatican sends a special envoy to Sudan as the crisis continues to unfold in Darfur. The emissary carried a message of solidarity from the pope to refugees in a region and a plea for the Sudanese government to put an end to human rights violations.

And in London, James Hewitt arrested last night at a bar for alleged drug possession. Hewitt is widely reviled in Britain for his kiss and tell affair with Princess Diana, including a failed bid to sell love letters after her death. He's reported free on bail.

O'BRIEN: You know, it's amazing what we can find time for on LIVE FROM on a busy news day. A special LIVE FROM shout-out is coming up.

PHILLIPS: That's right. And the always hot former teen idol, heartthrob of millions of people, is celebrating a birthday today. Can you guess how old he is?

O'BRIEN: And the funky flight that got a passenger wondering if she was a witness to 9/11 style dry run. We'll explain that one in our next hour. And we'll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

O'BRIEN: All right. It's true confessions time on LIVE FROM. I was young, occasionally took a peek at the "Tiger Beat" magazine my sister had. Remember Susan Dey?

PHILLIPS: I know you do.

O'BRIEN: Laurie Partridge?

PHILLIPS: She's a hottie.

O'BRIEN: I had a hankering for her.

PHILLIPS: Leif Garrett. That's who's a hottie.

O'BRIEN: Yes. No, he wasn't a hottie. You tricked me on that one. Anyway. PHILLIPS: I used to plaster, you know, some of those glossy covers all over my room. I'll never admit it to anybody else, except for all of you.

And today we found a reason to drag this cover out. He was hot before my prime pubescent longings. But, hey, I'm sure that a lot of you remember teen idol Bobby Sherman. He had some hits on the radio and on TV, as you know, in the late '60s and the early '70s.

O'BRIEN: So you may ask why on this day are we talking about Bobby Sherman. We want to give him a little LIVE FROM happy birthday shout-out. That's why.

Bobby Sherman, believe it or not, turned 61 in this day. Here is on a clip from ABC's "Here Comes the Bride" -- remember that one? -- in -- back in '68.

PHILLIPS: And if you're wondering whatever happened to him. Ta- da! He's been a trained emergency medical technician since 1988. He's a special officer with the LAPD...

O'BRIEN: Nice car.

PHILLIPS: That's right -- where he trains officers -- Oh, my goodness -- to do CPR.

O'BRIEN: I bet he's very good with the ladies in that car.

PHILLIPS: He's gone from teenage heartbreaker to hey, modern day lifesaver.

O'BRIEN: Happy birthday, Bobby Sherman.

All right. Pirated CD sales continue to spin out of control.

PHILLIPS: Mary Snow joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange. She is not spinning out of control. Quite in control.

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

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Aired July 22, 2004 - 14:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KYRA PHILLIPS, ANCHOR: A sweeping raid turns into a street battle along Haifa Street in central Baghdad. A senior interior minister advisor says that 270 suspects were arrested, a large number of weapons confiscated.

The United States is threatening to impose sanctions against Sudan unless the crisis in the Darfur region is stopped. A new American resolution has just been submitted to the U.N. Security Council. Sudan has 30 days to comply and apprehend militia leaders.

No comment yet from the Israeli military, but just a short time ago, the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad says an Israeli strike on a car in Gaza killed two of its members. Keep it here for more on this developing story.

We're keeping you informed. CNN, the most trusted name in news.

MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: Well, as we've been reporting, the 9/11 Commission's final report is out. The nearly 570-page document, in part, sober reminder of America's shortcomings in the war against terror. It also is a blueprint for the way forward.

Commission members released the report in Washington this morning.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

THOMAS KEAN, CHAIRMAN, 9/11 COMMISSION: What we can say with a good deal of confidence is that none of the measures adopted by the United States government before 9/11 disturbed or even delayed the progress of the al Qaeda plot.

There was several unexploited opportunities.

Our government did not watch-list future hijackers Hamzi and Mindhar before they arrived in the United States or take adequate steps to find them once they were here.

Our government did not link the arrest of Zacarias Moussaoui, described as interested in flight training for the purpose of using airplane as a terrorist act, to the heightened indications of attack.

Our government did not discover false statements on visa applications or recognize passports that were manipulated in a fraudulent manner.

Our government did not expand no-fly lists to including names from terrorist watch-lists or require airline passengers to be more thoroughly screened.

LEE HAMILTON, VICE CHAIR, 9/11 COMMISSION: We need to play offense --to kill or to capture the terrorists, deny them sanctuaries, and disrupt their ability to move money and people around the globe.

We need to ensure that the key countries, like Afghanistan and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, are stable, capable and resolute in opposing terrorism.

We need to sustain a coalition of nations that cooperates bilaterally and multilaterally with us in the counter terrorism mission.

We need a better dialogue between the west and the Islamic world. We also highlight the need to restrict and roll back the proliferation of the world's most dangerous weapons.

We need to put forth an agenda of opportunity, economic, educational, political. So that young people in the Arab and Islamic world have peaceful and productive avenues for expression and hope.

We need to join the battle of ideas within the Islamic world, communicating hope instead of despair, progress in place of persecution, life instead of death. This message should be matched by policies that encourage and support the majority of Muslims who share these goals.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'BRIEN: You can read the key findings of the 9/11 Commission report at CNN.com. You'll also find an interactive gallery of the 9/11 Commission members, clips of key testimony in the investigation, all that at cnn.com.

We've been taking some of your e-mail today, too. We want to just thank you for it, by the way. We've gotten quite a flood of it. We have a few minutes here. We'll share a few with you.

Rita Shank (ph) writes to us from Katy, Texas, Roger Clemens country. "Why does this remind me of World War II? We weren't prepared then either. Times have changed. Our intelligence hasn't."

PHILLIPS: Charles from Florida: "Thank God there are 10 people who care about this country. My hat's off to all 10."

O'BRIEN: "We the people need to stand together. We all made this country. We can change anything if we choose to do so. We are all responsible for making our testimony work. People need to quit passing the blame and see what we can do to change things and make them work." That's from Mark.

PHILLIPS: "The publication of the report is great, but over time, as attention wanes, especially if there are no further attacks, will homeland security simply degrade to the same pork barrel tendencies that we see in every other agency with significant fines (ph) to spend?" That's from Chris Foreman (ph) in Maryland.

O'BRIEN: Annabelle LeFrancois (ph) has this: "Why isn't the question brought up about the reasons the terrorists are doing these acts of violence? What do they want that they are willing to give their lives for? This is the crux of the problem."

PHILLIPS: And Lieutenant Colonel -- actually retired from the U.S. Air Force -- Thomas (ph), says: "If only our current politicians would pay attention and start using their minds instead of their political voices, maybe our country will get informed enough to get their heads out of the sand and realize we're in a war, whether we want to be or not."

O'BRIEN: Mary Kennedy Johnston (ph), Greensburg, North Carolina: "I'm glad that the commission was wise enough not to place blame. All of us are to blame, especially our leaders and their selfish needs being put ahead what is best for the people that vote for them. Kudos to the commission for their work."

A lot of e-mails like that, by the way.

PHILLIPS: Robert Baysore (ph) says: "If this report is not acted on been acted on before Osama bin Laden and his terrorists act again in this country, I will not be surprised, just overwhelmingly saddened by the petty attitudes and lack of stature of our statesmen."

O'BRIEN: And here's another sort of half-empty version. Kevin in New Jersey offers this: "What is going to happen is that we're going to sit around and debate the politics of the recommendations until another terrorist attack happens. Then we'll sit around and scratch our heads and ask, 'What went wrong?' The problem is that we spend too much time finger pointing and debating and not enough time doing and acting."

Kevin, we will end it with you on that sort of sad note. And we have some others to share with you later if we have some time. Thank you by the way, everybody.

PHILLIPS: Great response. We have pages of them.

Well, almost 3,000 people lost their lives on the morning of September 11, 2001. And for the families of the victims, the release of the 9/11 Commission's report today brought back some pretty painful memories. They will also have to consider the wide-ranging legal implications of the commission's findings.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: I want your first reaction to what you heard today from this report. Did anything make you feel at peace at all?

CHERYL MCGUINNESS, LOST HUSBAND IN 9/11: Kyra, it's great to be here again. And you know, my first reaction to the report is I'm really thankful it's finally here, that we can now get the recommendations from the commission that they've been working so diligently to get, and take a look at it and hopefully implement some recommendations and make changes to keep our country safe for our children and our children's children.

PHILLIPS: And Cheryl, in the report it said the 9/11 attacks came as a shock but didn't come as a surprise. That hit me for a number of reasons. Because you have told me that you and Tom used to talk. Tom was a navy top gun pilot. He would talk about the so- called enemy that he was supposed to defend against. But this is an enemy that neither one of you ever expected to hit the United States.

MCGUINNESS: Absolutely. I'm shocked to hear that -- that news, and I thought it was completely surprising and shocking.

PHILLIPS: When you talk about who is -- who was the enemy, the greater enemy, do you believe it's the Islamic extremists, or do you think it's the neglect of the warnings and intelligence that lacked?

MCGUINNESS: Well, I think it's -- you know, I -- it's difficult to say, you know, who is to blame and what group or anything like that. I honestly believe that it wasn't just an attack on America, although it happened here in America. I believe it was an attack on all of mankind, and I feel like it showed the worst that mankind can do and that -- what we're capable of doing.

And although, you know, you know as well as I that as long as -- you know, 3,000 of our loved one -- husbands, wives, fathers, children -- died, they didn't kill our spirit. They didn't take away our hope and the promise of tomorrow that we have.

PHILLIPS: Cheryl, Fred Fielding -- who, of course, is on the commission -- came forward and talked about the recommendations that they have made and some criticism that maybe these recommendations are too bold. I want to get you to respond to what he had to say.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FRED FIELDING, 9/11 COMMISSION MEMBER: Why do you make recommendations that are so bold? Why do you make recommendations that are going to be very difficult because somebody has to give up something, somebody has to break a cookie jar? Why do you do that? Why don't you do something that you know has a better percentage chance of passing?

I think after our discussions, the answer we came to and the reason you see the recommendations we have, is -- the question is, if not now, when?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Cheryl, are the recommendations bold enough? Are they justified? Will they make a difference? And is it worth the money, is it worth the difficulty that Fred Fielding talks about? MCGUINNESS: It absolutely is worth the difficulty. This is the time to be bold and courageous and to step up and to say what we need to do and to implement some changes. Many Americans were lost that day, and we need to do all we can to keep our country safe. And this is the time to be bold and to make change.

PHILLIPS: Well, I've got to ask you before we go, Cheryl, speaking about being bold and stepping out and not being afraid, I know your son is taking flight lessons and wanting to pursue the same things your husband did. How's that going?

MCGUINNESS: His flying lessons are going great. He's still keeping his dream alive that he talked about and wants to be just like his dad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Well, another reminder of that tragic September morning. Newly released video show some of the hijackers going through a security check at Dulles Airport outside Washington.

As Aaron Brown reports, these were the men that would crash a plane into the Pentagon only two hours later.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

AARON BROWN, HOST, "NEWSNIGHT" (voice-over): Knowing what we know now the videotape is both stark and chilling.

Taken the morning of September 11th, 2001, the tape shows five hijackers passing through the metal screening detectors at Dulles airport outside of Washington.

The detail is difficult to discern, but you can clearly see an airport security officer passing his wand over one of the hijackers. They are all dressed conservatively. They don't stand out. They appear to be composed.

Four of the five hijackers bound for the American Airlines flight that would crash into the Pentagon a few hours later were pulled aside for additional screening. This after apparently setting off the metal detectors.

The only hijacker who did not require additional screening was the man believed to have been the pilot after Flight 77 was hijacked, Hani Hanjour.

The Associated Press says it obtained the tape from a law firm which represents survivor families, families suing both the airlines and security firms.

Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

O'BRIEN: CNN has just received some amazing video of a military jet collision in Oregon. Take a look at this. Shot as two F-18 fighter jets collided in midair yesterday over the Columbia River, although I didn't see the collision there, did you? There we go. There's the parachute; obviously somebody ejected.

Three Marine reservists were onboard: one parachuted to safety; the other two were killed. There's no word on the cause of that collision.

Bullets flying on a violent day in Iraq. Details on that.

Plus, a new hostage situation straight ahead here on LIVE FROM.

And national newspapers call him the vilest man in Britain. Today he's calling his lawyer. Details on the man who kiss and told on Princess Diana.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

O'BRIEN: In Iraq today, more fighting, sweeping raids and the ongoing insurgency. Iraq's interior minister says 270 suspects have been arrested in Baghdad alone.

While Bulgaria identifies a headless body found in the Tigris River last week. It says it is that of Georgi Lazov, one of two Bulgarian truck drivers kidnapped June 29 near Mosul.

CNN's Michael Holmes with more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Diplomats in Baghdad this day trying to secure the release of those seven men, three of them from India, three from Kenya, one from Egypt. All of them truck drivers. All of them working for the same Kuwaiti trucking company.

Now what we know is that the gunmen holding them call themselves the Holders of the Black Banners. And they say they're going to start executing those hostages one by one every 72 hours, starting Saturday if those countries -- Kenya, India and Egypt -- do not withdraw all of their citizens from Iraq and the men's employer, a company called KGL, doesn't withdraw its business from the country.

There has been more violence, also in Ramadi to start with, 70 miles west of Baghdad, a place where there has been much violence over the months. U.S. Marines say one of their patrols was ambushed with a roadside bomb and what they call a barrage of small arms fire and RPGs.

Marines say that they killed 25 insurgents, wounded 17, captured 25 others. Fourteen U.S. servicemen were wounded. None of those injuries said to be life threatening.

Here in Baghdad not far from our position, Haifa Street, where there have been clashes in the past, there were more in the early hours of this morning as U.S. forces combined with Iraq police and Iraqi National Guard to carry out a series of raids on houses and apartments.

Some of those they were seeking fought back, and there were some running gun battles in the early hours. At the end of the day four Iraqis were wounded. Several were arrested, dozens in fact. And an amount of arms and ammunition were seized.

Michael Holmes, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: News around the world now. In Gaza, Israeli troops discovered two tunnels they say Palestinians were using for weapon smuggling. The troops destroyed one of the tunnels, which reportedly stretched more than 200 feet from Egypt to Rafa. No injuries reported during that operation.

The Vatican sends a special envoy to Sudan as the crisis continues to unfold in Darfur. The emissary carried a message of solidarity from the pope to refugees in a region and a plea for the Sudanese government to put an end to human rights violations.

And in London, James Hewitt arrested last night at a bar for alleged drug possession. Hewitt is widely reviled in Britain for his kiss and tell affair with Princess Diana, including a failed bid to sell love letters after her death. He's reported free on bail.

O'BRIEN: You know, it's amazing what we can find time for on LIVE FROM on a busy news day. A special LIVE FROM shout-out is coming up.

PHILLIPS: That's right. And the always hot former teen idol, heartthrob of millions of people, is celebrating a birthday today. Can you guess how old he is?

O'BRIEN: And the funky flight that got a passenger wondering if she was a witness to 9/11 style dry run. We'll explain that one in our next hour. And we'll be right back.

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O'BRIEN: All right. It's true confessions time on LIVE FROM. I was young, occasionally took a peek at the "Tiger Beat" magazine my sister had. Remember Susan Dey?

PHILLIPS: I know you do.

O'BRIEN: Laurie Partridge?

PHILLIPS: She's a hottie.

O'BRIEN: I had a hankering for her.

PHILLIPS: Leif Garrett. That's who's a hottie.

O'BRIEN: Yes. No, he wasn't a hottie. You tricked me on that one. Anyway. PHILLIPS: I used to plaster, you know, some of those glossy covers all over my room. I'll never admit it to anybody else, except for all of you.

And today we found a reason to drag this cover out. He was hot before my prime pubescent longings. But, hey, I'm sure that a lot of you remember teen idol Bobby Sherman. He had some hits on the radio and on TV, as you know, in the late '60s and the early '70s.

O'BRIEN: So you may ask why on this day are we talking about Bobby Sherman. We want to give him a little LIVE FROM happy birthday shout-out. That's why.

Bobby Sherman, believe it or not, turned 61 in this day. Here is on a clip from ABC's "Here Comes the Bride" -- remember that one? -- in -- back in '68.

PHILLIPS: And if you're wondering whatever happened to him. Ta- da! He's been a trained emergency medical technician since 1988. He's a special officer with the LAPD...

O'BRIEN: Nice car.

PHILLIPS: That's right -- where he trains officers -- Oh, my goodness -- to do CPR.

O'BRIEN: I bet he's very good with the ladies in that car.

PHILLIPS: He's gone from teenage heartbreaker to hey, modern day lifesaver.

O'BRIEN: Happy birthday, Bobby Sherman.

All right. Pirated CD sales continue to spin out of control.

PHILLIPS: Mary Snow joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange. She is not spinning out of control. Quite in control.

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