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Tropical Depression Heads Towards Florida; 3 Guantanamo Detainees Commit Suicide
Aired June 11, 2006 - 07:00 ET
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BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Now in the news, that tropical depression in the Caribbean is headed toward Florida. No it is not expected to become a hurricane but it could become a tropical storm before the day is over. It's located about 300 miles southwest of Key West, Florida, we'll have a complete forecast in just a minute.
Suicides at Guantanamo Bay. The U.S. military says three detainees hanged themselves with bed sheets and clothes at the military prison in Cuba. The deaths renewed criticism of the Bush administrations handling of terrorism suspects at that prison. Many have been held for four years without being charged.
In the Middle East now, Palestinian security sources say an Israeli air strike in northern Gaza killed three people and wounded one, all from the military wing of the Hamas militant group. The action comes a day after Hamas said it resumed rocket strikes against Israel. Militants fired 11 rockets into Israeli territory today alone. One man was critically wounded.
Iran is still studying a western incentives package over its nuclear program. An Iranian official says today parts of the package are acceptable but other parts need to be strengthened. Iran says it's considering a counter offer. The incentives are aimed at getting Iran to stop enriching uranium.
And in World Cup action in Germany, England beat Paraguay without ever scoring a goal. You believe that? English star David Beckham's free kick deflected off the head of Paraguay's captain. Now it's the first time an own goal has ever led to 1 to nothing win in World Cup play. Among today's matches, I know you're watching, Iran is pitted against Mexico. We'll give you a complete line-up. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.
From CNN Center this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING, 7:00 a.m. in Key West, Florida where they're getting some rain. And 4:00 a.m. on the West Coast, bright and early. Good morning everybody, I'm Betty Nguyen.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Tony Harris, Betty, good morning to you.
NGUYEN: Hey, what, did you get tired of me?
HARRIS: No, no, no. There's no way possible that could ever happen. Good morning to you, I'm just upstairs in the weather center, kicking the tires of all this technology up here, joined... widen that shot out a little bit for me, Bill -- joined by Reynolds Wolf here. Reynolds, we want to talk about what yesterday started out as a what, a disturbance.
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NGUYEN: Want to talk now about deaths at Guantanamo Bay. An investigation is under way. The military says three detainees hanged themselves at the military prison in Cuba. Now some call it an act of desperation, others an act of warfare. Regardless though, critics are renewing calls that the terror suspects be tried or released. CNN's Elaine Quijano has our report.
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ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The U.S. military says it was just after midnight early Saturday morning when a guard at Guantanamo noted something out of the ordinary in a detainee's cell.
VOICE OF REAR ADMIRAL HARRY HARRIS, COMMANDER, JOINT TASK FORCE GUANTANAMO, U.S. NAVY: When it was apparent that the detainee had hung himself, the guard force and medical teams reacted quickly to attempt to save the detainee's life.
QUIJANO: Minutes later guards found two other detainees in different cells. The two Saudis and a Yemeni according to the military hanged themselves with nooses made from clothes and bed sheets. Defense Department officials say they were pronounced dead after medical teams exhausted life-saving measures. Top military officials believe the suicides were coordinated and say the three detainees who left notes in Arabic were dangerous enemy combatants plucked off the battlefield, calling one a mid to high-level Al Qaeda operative.
HARRIS: They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but rather an act of asymmetric warfare waged against us at Guantanamo.
QUIJANO: But lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees insist the conditions there and legal limbo are a formula for despondency.
JOSHUA DENBEAUX, ATTORNEY FOR TWO DETAINEES: This lack of judicial process intentionally denied by the government is what the government then uses to say hey, look, they're enemy combatants because we say so.
QUIJANO: The military says it's now looking closely at new procedures and is already taking away detainees' bed sheets each morning. The news comes just one day after the president reiterated that he'd like to close Guantanamo one day.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: We'd like it to be empty and we're now in the process of working with countries to repatriate people.
QUIJANO: The president who is spending the weekend at Camp David, was informed of the deaths by his Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice. A senior aide says Mr. Bush expressed serious concern and said he wanted the situation handled "humanely and with cultural sensitivity." Elaine Quijano, CNN, the White House.
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NGUYEN: And this does bring us to our email question of the day. Should the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay be closed? What do you think about it? Email us your comments, weekends@cnn.com. We'll read those responses throughout the morning.
HARRIS: Add hundreds more names to the list of identity theft victims. This time a report of a security breach at the Energy Department. A hacker stole a file from the department's nuclear weapons agency, on it, the names and social security numbers of 1500 people. It happened last September, but wasn't reported until Thursday. None of the victims was notified. And the search is still on for a stolen laptop computer in Maryland. On it, personal information linked to millions registered with the U.S. military. Yesterday we spoke with Todd Davis, CEO of Life Lock. He has promised free fraud protection for the next 90 days to all veterans and military personnel affected by this theft. Visit www.lifelock.com for more information. Again, this is for military personnel and veterans worried about the theft of their personal information.
A California woman had her identity stolen by illegal immigrants and her battle to regain it is going nowhere. She's tracked down more than 200 instances so far and it is still being used. CNN's Casey Wian has her story.
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CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Audra Schmierer has been a stay- at-home mom for six years. Now that her son's in school she wants to return to work so she applied to a temp agency.
AUDRA SCHMIERER, IDENTITY THEFT VICTIM: They called me three or four hours later and said, Mrs. Schmierer, I don't understand why you're applying, you already work here.
WIAN: At a big tech company, a similar experience.
SCHMIERER: There's my driver's license, my passport, my social security card. I gave them everything and she said well, really. How can you actually prove you're you? What if those people have the same documentation you do?
WIAN: Schmierer has discovered more than 200 illegal aliens throughout the United States are doing jobs Americans supposedly won't do by using her social security number. They work in fast food chains, cosmetic companies, even receive dividends from Microsoft.
SCHMIERER: I started to gather all this information and really found out how extreme the situation was. It's scary.
WIAN: Her ordeal began last year with a bill from the IRS for nearly $16,000 in back taxes for a job in Texas. She lives in Dublin, California.
SCHMIERER: My husband was actually quite upset. He asked me when I had ever been to Texas.
WIAN: She tracked down the illegal alien whose phony tax return triggered the IRS bill. He told her he bought her social security number and a fake green card at this Texas flea market.
SCHMIERER: I don't understand how illegal aliens can come across here and commit a felony, identity theft is a felony. And be excused from that felony to continue living your life when I cannot live my life.
WIAN: By January Schmierer faced a million dollar IRS bill. She was temporarily detained by customs returning from a foreign business trip with her husband. And her social security account now shows a zero balance erasing 14 years of work before her marriage.
SCHMIERER: Social Security right now sends me to IRS. IRS sends me to Social Security. Every now and then they'll send me to the FTC, whom I have a case with. No one wants to do anything about it. Right now I have nowhere to go.
WIAN: Schmierer spends several hours a day trying to clear her name. The IRS has cancelled her bill but Social Security won't give her a new number. She says all 35 employers she's contacted have refused to take action against the workers using her number.
SCHMIERER: Its cheap labor and they don't care.
WIAN: Neither do most senators. John Ensign brought Schmierer's case to their attention and they still approved Social Security benefits for illegal aliens using stolen identities.
SEN. JOHN ENSIGN, (R) NEVADA: The crime of identity theft and Social Security fraud are not victimless crimes. The victims of these crimes are American citizens and legal immigrants.
WIAN: Casey Wian, CNN, Dublin, California.
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HARRIS: Now why can't we fix this?
NGUYEN: That is amazing to me. It's outrageous is what it is.
HARRIS: I mean really, who do we need to call?
NGUYEN: Well she's calling all the people that are supposed to help her.
HARRIS: Who do we need to call? And this is -- really.
NGUYEN: And she just keeps getting the runaround.
HARRIS: Do you think we can fix it? NGUYEN: We -- we can try.
HARRIS: We'll try. We'll try.
NGUYEN: Yeah, we'll see what we can do.
HARRIS: Why not. For complete coverage of breaking news and today's top stories, stay with CNN. The most trusted name in news.
NGUYEN: And you want to be careful about what you type because your boss may be spying on you. Ahead, extreme measures some companies are taking to make sure you, Tony, comply with cyberspace rules. We'll check it out. Plus --
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You're looking into the heart of hell. And hell is staring back at you.
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HARRIS: A real-life exorcist faces demons.
NGUYEN: Wow. Oh man.
HARRIS: But is this the real deal or the devil in disguise? We will examine it in our "Faces of Faith."
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HARRIS: Good morning. Our top stories, it's soaking Cuba and heading toward Florida and so far it's a tropical depression in the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Top winds around 35 miles an hour. If maximum sustained winds reach 39 miles per hour, it would be called tropical storm Alberto.
Back and forth goes the shelling between Israel and Gaza. Three killed one wounded in Gaza today says Palestinian security. The Israeli military says its air strike targeted a terror cell in northern Gaza.
Iran labels as acceptable some of the western incentives to halt enriching uranium but Tehran says it will offer a counter proposal before it agrees to negotiation.
NGUYEN: Hey Tony, I'm still thinking about that woman that has lost her identity or at least had it stolen. You know the one that we just showed in California.
HARRIS: We need to get on that.
NGUYEN: We are going to be working on that, in fact we have people making phone calls. We're going to try to at least get her congressman or someone to do something about this.
HARRIS: Let's put the power of this network to work and let's advocate for this woman. And then at the very least we can show folks how you can successfully get this accomplished and get your identity back.
NGUYEN: We're going to give it the good old try and try to get those folks on possibly next weekend and see what we can do about that.
HARRIS: I'm all for that. Alright, well you know speaking of, it's not big brother but it is the big boss. Yeah people are watching you. More companies are monitoring their workers' emails and it's not just to protect company secrets. CNN's Rusty Dornin looked into this for "PAULA ZAHN NOW."
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RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When Nurse Jamie Ray sends an email from her computer at the DeKalb Medical Center where she works to the outside world she knows her bosses are looking over her shoulder electronically speaking. If her message contains any company no-nos, the hospital now has software to catch it. You don't mind the idea that they can see what you're typing out, if it triggers something.
JAMIE RAY, DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER: Exactly. Yes. And not a problem at all because this is a hospital, it is a secure network.
DORNIN: Hospital officials say they don't care about most personal emails about dinner plans, et cetera. But they do worry about confidential information, patient history, Social Security numbers and the like. Since last year, Sharon Finney has been tasked with keeping up with those questionable emails. How many things pop up for you in a day that you have to take a look at?
SHARON FINNEY, DEKALB MEDICAL CENTER: Probably I would say probably 200 plus.
DORNIN: No one has been fired yet for violations. But a few have been counseled, says Finney. Do people still feel like they're being spied upon?
FINNEY: I think employees do have some concern when they find out that we're monitoring.
DORNIN: So while the software alerts on confidential information, it also alerts on other things that are forbidden. Harassment for one. So we did a test. Finney sent me an email saying if you don't respond immediately I will be forced to take physical action against you. Sounds like a threat to me. Let's see, what time is it now, let's see what time is it?
FINNEY: It's about 10:30.
DORNIN: Her email reached me right away. I just received your email. Then it doesn't take long for the red flags to pop up.
FINNEY: So it's about -- no it's probably about 10:40 now, so it took about 10 minutes. And then I get a page on my email or on my blackberry that basically comes up and I can see that a -- where it says here and I've got an email that says I can see regarding account on here. So I know that that is a secure message that has left the facility.
DORNIN: Back in her office, Finney can check the exact wording of the message. Then --
FINNEY: At that point what I would do is I would notify human resources that we had an employee that sent a potentially harassing email.
DORNIN: According to the Proofpoint survey funded by the company that makes security software, more than 40 percent of major U.S. companies have hired people to do what Finney does. Read questionable email. But it's tough to get most companies to discuss this publicly. At CNN's request, the ePolicyInstitute asked 8,000 companies to be interviewed on their email security. Only three were willing to talk about it. So we asked our parent company Turner Broadcasting. It would neither confirm nor deny that it monitors our outgoing emails. So you might say if big brother is watching, he's not talking about it. Rusty Dornin, CNN, Atlanta.
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NGUYEN: And you can see more of Rusty Dornin's reports on "PAULA ZAHN NOW", that is weeknights at 8:00 eastern, 5:00 pacific.
So, what should you do before you hit the send button on your computer at work? Well coming up in just three minutes from now, email tips to help you keep your job and maybe even impress your co-workers.
Still ahead --
HARRIS: This woman says she has been possessed by the devil four times and exorcised twice. Is it the work of the devil or mental illness? A "Faces of Faith" you don't want to miss.
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NGUYEN: That's because they are watching you. Yeah, be careful what you write in emails, especially at work. Yes your boss may be watching your every move. Before the break we mentioned that almost one in three large U.S. companies surveyed had fired employees for violating email policy. So what can you do to protect your job and those outgoing messages? Well here to spell it out is Nancy Flynn, author of "E-Mail Rules", she's also the executive director of ePolicyInstitute. Thanks for being with us this morning.
NANCY FLYNN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, EPOLICYINSTITUTE: You're welcome. Good morning.
NGUYEN: Good morning. Okay, so a third of U.S. large companies say they fire people for violating those email policies. So let's go through the no-nos. What you shouldn't do. Top of the list, don't send emails to family and friends, right? No personal emails. FLYNN: Well not necessarily. It really depends on what your employer's email policy is. So the first thing employees want to do is take a look at that policy and then be certain that you adhere to that policy. Because, as you said, the majority -- not the majority but certainly a growing number of employers are putting teeth in their policy and they're firing violators and you don't want to lose your job over an email.
NGUYEN: Well and a lot of email policies include the fact that it has got to be about business and business only. So if you're sending jokes, you're talking in personal lingo, those kind of fun things that you would do with your buddies or your family members, that can really throw up a red flag, can it?
FLYNN: It absolutely can. In fact, the 2005 survey from the ePolicyInstitute and American Management Association revealed that 84 percent of U.S. employers do have a policy in place that governs personal use of email. So if you have a tendency to kind of play it fast and loose with your email, you want to save those messages for your home computer. And then at work, you want to really stick to business, professional content. You don't want to lose your job and you don't want to see your employer end up on the wrong side of a workplace lawsuit.
NGUYEN: Okay but on the flip side, about 40 percent of companies hire people, just as we saw in Rusty Dornin's package who actually track employee emails. Is that legal?
FLYNN: It certainly is. Here in the U.S. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act gives the employers the right to monitor all employee email transmissions and all employee internet activity for that matter. And you know one positive -- one thing we can really pat employers on the back for is the fact that while only two states, Delaware and Connecticut, actually require employers to notify their employees that, hey, we're taking a look at your email. The fact is that well over 80 percent of U.S. employers do let heir employees know that big brother is reading over their electronic shoulder when they send their email messages.
NGUYEN: Okay. But for those who don't tell their employees that, hey, we're watching you, can you tell? Will an employee be able to see on their screen or somehow whether they are being watched?
FLYNN: You really cannot. And in addition to that, what everybody needs to bear in mind is that email creates a written business record. It is the electronic equivalent of DNA evidence. So what the courts here in the U.S. have tended to tell employees is, listen, even if your boss doesn't tell you that they're watching your email, you should just assume that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy and you really should assume that your email is being watched. And while 13 percent of companies have had to go to court to battle a lawsuit triggered by employee email, employees have not -- have really not been very successful when they have tried to sue employers for invasion of privacy, for example, for reading their email. Again, because the courts say, listen, everybody knows the boss is watching. Just behave professionally. NGUYEN: So let's tackle two things now then. If you are sending or you're thinking about sending an email and you say, I better not do this. Is there any way to erase it before the boss sees it? What about those incoming emails? You can't tell what someone's going to send you, especially a family or friend at work. So can you keep the boss from seeing that after you've already gotten it in your in-box?
FLYNN: Well what we at the ePolicyInstitute we advise employers to train their employees -- to let their employees know how do you want your workers to handle incoming messages that violate your policy. And typically if a message comes from a known sender, a friend, a family member, you just ask that person, hey, quit sending me that kind of email.
And then if it comes from an actual spammer and it's not being stopped by your boss's spam, anti-spam software, you don't want to delete it. You don't want to forward it you don't want to click on that reply to be taken off the spammer's list. Because if you do you're just going to let the spammer know, hey, I have a valid email address. So, employer -- employees really, you can't tell if your employer is watching you. You should just assume the boss is, in fact, monitoring. And you should also be aware of the fact that some of this software is very sophisticated.
NGUYEN: So if it's in there, you can't erase it. You can't hide it from the boss, per se, it's there?
FLYNN: No.
NGUYEN: Okay.
FLYNN: Right. Nothing is ever permanently deleted. A computer forensic investigator can always go in and find it.
NGUYEN: Alright very, very quickly, though. You know those instant messaging sites, and those personal Web sites that you can logon from your work computer. Can they trace those? Because those are off-site, correct?
FLYNN: They absolutely can. To an extent it depends on the employer's computer system, but IM., blogs, intranet, you need to think of them all on the -- it's an equal playing field your boss is allowed to monitor. Chances are your boss is monitoring. If you send an inappropriate message that violates policy, either you'll end up fired or your boss will end up on the wrong side of a workplace lawsuit and in the end you could end up fired because of that as well.
NGUYEN: Or bottom line, hey, just do the right thing. Stick to business while at work. Thank you so much, Nancy Flynn we appreciate your time today.
FLYNN: Thank you.
NGUYEN: Tony?
HARRIS: Betty, I really enjoyed working with you. Still ahead, a tropical depression in the eastern Gulf of Mexico is hundreds of miles away from Florida but parts of the state are already seeing torrential rains. A live weather update in just about three minutes.
Plus this minister will scare the devil out of you literally. Casting out demons, one exorcist walks us through a hard day at work in our "Faces of Faith."
And good morning everyone. We are closely watching the season's first tropical depression. It is still over the eastern Gulf of Mexico and could become a tropical storm later today. Parts of western Cuba, Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula and the Florida keys in western Florida could see several inches of rain. A tropical weather update in just one minute.
Human rights groups fire off more condemnation of the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay. It follows the suicides of three detainees. U.S. officials say the three hanged themselves in a coordinated action. President Bush reportedly has expressed serious concern. A live report on White House reaction at the top of the hour.
More rocket attacks between Israel and Gaza. Israel claims it targeted a terror cell in Gaza attempting to launch an attack. Palestinian security sources report at least three deaths, all members of the Hamas military wing. Israel defense forces add that a rocket fired from Gaza landed near a school severely wounding an Israeli man.
A seven-year-old girl orphaned by Israel's beach shelling on Friday met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas says he will symbolically adopt the girl who also lost three siblings. Her pain was captured immediately after the attack. She had been swimming when her family died yards away on shore. Israel says it shelled the area to curb cross-border rocket fire.
NGUYEN: All right. It's here. The first tropical depression of the Atlantic hurricane season remains a disorganized low pressure system spread out over a wide area of the Caribbean. I sound like a meteorologist and eastern Gulf of Mexico. That's right, I don't have my seal. For now, that means though for you mostly rain in the Florida keys and for western Cuba. Now some parts of the island have been placed on alert for possible flooding. The National Hurricane Center warns the system could grow into tropical storm Alberto later today. So things are still brewing out there. Reynolds Wolf is watching all this. How did I do, Reynolds? Did I do all right?
REYNOLDS WOLF, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I think you did great. I stand and salute you. You really mentioned a key thing about the Florida Keys. They could see anywhere from four to eight inches of rainfall from Key West to Isle of Marano (ph), all the way to Miami. It's going to be really heavy at times. And the center of this storm, you mentioned it being poorly organized. The center of the storm as we put this into motion is actually right about here. So it will be the eastern quadrant. And I guess the southeastern quadrant is really giving us the heft of the rain. That's where most of the activity is really taking place.
Now we know where it is. We know what it's doing. Now where is it going to go? That's a very good question. We are going to take a look at the latest path we have from the National Hurricane Center. This brings the storm further to the north. It is strengthening, becoming a tropical storm by 2:00 a.m. Monday and then making a turn towards the northeast. Again, expected to make landfall near Cedar Key at 2:00 a.m. Tuesday and then zipping right across the peninsula. Again, you have to look at the cone of probability. The storm could move much further to the north or farther to the south. It all bears watching. Now last year's busy hurricane season did batter parts of the Gulf coast. And many areas were just swamped with rain. Despite that, the southeast is still suffering from a very long drought and we have more from CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
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JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): When most people think of weather in the southeast over the past year, images like this come to mind -- wind, rain, floods, storm surge from Dennis, Katrina, Rita and Wilma. In actuality, it looks like this. Dry, brittle ground covers much of the Gulf coast. The drought dates back to before last year's record hurricane season. And what those storms left behind is making matters worse.
BARRY KEIM, CLIMATOLOGIST: With the debris from homes and clean- up, this everywhere and it's exceptionally dry and it's highly vulnerable and all it's going to will take is just a spark to get this stuff going.
JERAS: Wildfires have been ignited from Texas to the Florida panhandle. Last week, several fires raged in southern Mississippi. One of them burned nearly 2,000 acres in the Desoto national forest just north of Gulfport and Biloxi. In addition to the forest damage, Louisiana state climatologist Barry Keim says agriculture has taken a big hit.
KEIM: Hurricane Rita pushed a pretty big storm surge up into southwestern Louisiana and inundated a lot of the fields, especially ones that are used for rice and crawfish production. And as a result, there still is salt in those soils and it's actually halting some of the production in those areas.
JERAS: It's not all bad news. The dry conditions have some positive effects. Wheat and some other grains actually thrive in dry weather. And for roofers, builders and clean-up crews across the ravaged hurricane zone, no rain means continuous work.
(on-camera): It may be difficult to conceive, the hurricane season may be just what the Gulf coast needs. The Bermuda high which can steer storms towards the United States can also bring in pop-up showers and thunderstorms and a weak hurricane or a tropical storm can bring in beneficial and drought-busting rains. Jacqui Jeras, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE) HARRIS: How about a few headlines from across the globe now. In London, Muslim groups are heated, feeling unfairly targeted for terror-related investigations. They're accusing British police of making a number of mistakes in a raid last week. One suspect was shot. Two other suspects in the house were eventually released from custody. Police said they never found the bomb that was the focus of the raid in the first place.
It's chaos in parts of Taiwan in southern China. Days of torrential rain have led to flooding and mudslides. At least 100 people are dead. A couple hundred other people had to be evacuated by helicopter. The forecast calls for at least two more days of rain.
Get a load of this plane here, missing its nose, radar, its front window shattered. A hail storm pelted the plane on the way to Seoul from a resort island. There were nearly 180 elementary students on board. No injuries were reported.
NGUYEN: You can call it foosball. You can call it soccer. That's what I prefer or whatever you call it, millions just love it. It is day three of the World Cup and since it's Sunday, you don't have to try to sneak a peek when your boss isn't watching. But even if you are among the die-hard fans, there are a lot of countries, games and players. It can be a little tough keeping it all straight. So (INAUDIBLE) is here with the 411 on the World Cup.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey guys, I've got your 411, but really it's not me, it's all about cnn.com. They put together a great World Cup. Let's show you. All right. First off, it's really hard to keep track of all the matches. You're going to want to see the schedules of what teams are playing and when they're playing, right, like today. We've got 1:00 p.m., GMT time, that's Serbia and Montenegro play Holland. Now GMT in case you guys were wondering is -- you just have to subtract four hour and you get Eastern time. That's a little bit more than an hour from now and if you want to learn a little bit more about a team before you go ahead and tune in, right?
HARRIS: Right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, you just click on the team profiles section. Let's choose a country. What do you guys want? Germany?
HARRIS: That's the home country.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We've got to show them a little bit of love. So we click on Germany. And you get a little bit of stats about the German team. You get a little picture of the players over there. You get to know the fact that they were runners up in the last World Cup back in 2002.
NGUYEN: That's right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's when Brazil won. You remember that. And then you get a little neat section on the bottom there where you can actually see a profile of a player you should be watching from that team. Look at that guy. That's Michael Ballack (ph). He's a midfielder from Germany. Certainly those guys got a lot of pressure.
HARRIS: But he's pretty good right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He doesn't look like he's got a lot pressure. He looks kind of happy in that picture. And if you love him or let's say you love another player. Renaldo, Pele, you got any favorites. OK, cnn.com is putting together a dream team. You can vote for your favorite players. They don't even have to be from the same country. They don't have to still be playing. You just got to vote for the ones you think is the very best. And you think you're a hot shot?
HARRIS: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You think you're a hot shot. When don't you take this quiz.
HARRIS: All right.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It could very well fool you guys.
NGUYEN: I'm sure it will, especially me.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The first question on the quiz is which country is going into the tournament number one in the FIFA world ranking?
HARRIS: FIFA.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Country. (INAUDIBLE)
HARRIS: No, no, I'll get this.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All right. We're talking France. We're talking Czech Republic, Brazil, or Argentina.
NGUYEN: My pick wasn't even on there. OK.
HARRIS: My guess would be -- my guess would be either Brazil --
NGUYEN: Yeah.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stop right there. You're right. It is Brazil.
NGUYEN: Nice guess.
HARRIS: Did you get that, Betty?
NGUYEN: I was guessing. At first I said England, but that wasn't even among the choices. Then I said Brazil.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You guys got it right. You guys have a lot of other questions, don't worry. There are some harder ones on there if case you want a little bit of a challenge. There's a lot of history. It's all at cnn.com/world cup. NGUYEN: It's always at cnn.com.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: All the 411.
HARRIS: I'm OK as long as the answer is Beckham.
NGUYEN: (INAUDIBLE) Beckman, that's about all I have.
HARRIS: (INAUDIBLE) I can win this game. All right, Nicole, thank you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thanks.
HARRIS: Still ahead, more people than you'd imagine believe evil is lurking, just waiting for the opportunity to take us over. In our faces of faith segment coming up in just a couple of minutes we will introduce you to a man whose life work is giving evil its walking papers. CNN SUNDAY MORNING continues in a moment.
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HARRIS: Let me ask you a question here this morning. Could there be some -- some truth to the old cop-out the devil made me do it? Is it possible our bodies can be inhabited by evil? Is there somebody or some thing inside you pulling the strings?
The Reverend Bob Larson says absolutely yes. He performs exorcisms. CNN's Tom Foreman was there for one of them.
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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From the moment he arrived on the brown outskirts of Tulsa, Bob Larson is getting the devil out. What might be called his personal theme song pounds through the room as he starts tonight's session at a local hotel and it is appropriate. Bob Larson is an exorcist.
REV. BOB LARSON, EXORCIST: The power of Jesus Christ available now, not 2000 years ago, now. You're destroying the works (ph) of darkness. The bible is full of it. It's right here in the book. We can't escape it. So I -- I'm doing what's normal. If the rest of the people think I'm abnormal, I think they're the ones who are out of step with scripture.
FOREMAN: As it is, many people are falling in step with Larson mesmerized by his public confrontations with people who say they are possessed by devils. Larson is not alone. The Catholic Church is training more exorcists and one religion scholar says more than 600 deliverance ministries have popped up in Protestant churches around the country. The common belief driving them all -- demons really do move among us.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I believe there's demonic influence in the world.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He moves in the supernatural I want to be around it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Really, I expect to see some pretty wild stuff.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Wouldn't be here if I didn't believe that there were demons.
FOREMAN: On this night, Sherri Crittenden gives a typical example of how these demons show themselves. One minute just sitting in the crowd.
LARSON: Get out of the way. Get in the back seat and let the devil drive.
FOREMAN: The next howling, writhing and a strange voice screaming at Larson.
LARSON: Who are you? Who are you!
FOREMAN: Is this a set-up or a show? Larson insists it is neither. He says some people tried to fool him. Some people have obvious mental conditions, but there's no mistaking a person possessed.
LARSON: There's something I referred to as that look. It's the look of a demon. And once you see it, believe me, you never forget it. You are looking into the heart of hell. And hell is staring back at you.
FOREMAN: Interest in all of this goes back to 1973 when "The Exorcist" scared the devil out of millions of movie fans. Larson's interest dates to about that time. A Nebraska farm boy, he was a rock musician, became an inspirational speaker, then a Christian broadcaster. Along the way, he says he started running into possessed souls.
LARSON: It was the real deal. I knew it was the real deal.
FOREMAN: So now he spends almost all his time preaching the gospel of deliverance. Christian TV.
LARSON: If you think you're tormented by the devil, who are you going to call? Where are you going to go? What are you going to do?
FOREMAN: Through videos and through exorcisms. As he pulls demons from his audience, he also pulls dollars through offerings, sales of books, discs. He says he doesn't profit, but he is using the money to train deliverance ministry teams all over. He believes no one should be more than a day's drive from an exorcist, especially these days.
LARSON: Crime, violence, drugs, a horrendous rise in sexual abuse in our country. All of this is an environment of human suffering that demons can feed on.
FOREMAN: Do you believe that most people have demons in them? LARSON: I'd say it's close to half the population. In the name of Jesus! Come out! Come out!
FOREMAN: After a long confrontation, Sherri's demon appeared to be driven out. Sherri wept. The crowd applauded and the exorcist called it a night.
LARSON: I would go another four, five hours. I feel great. I feel fine.
FOREMAN: How is that possible? This is what is physically and mentally exhausting.
LARSON: It is. But it's what God has called me to do. I'm excited. I mean Sherri is a different person.
FOREMAN: She says so. Even though she also said she's been possessed four times and exorcised twice.
SHERRI CRITTENDEN, BEIEVER: God's brought me a long way in a short amount of time. And I think it's a continuing process.
Reporter: That's good enough for Larson. Do you believe that lives that are changed this way are truly permanently changed?
LARSON: Some yes and some no. No pun intended, some get repossessed. Serious, they do.
FOREMAN: After all, he says this is an eternal struggle between heaven and hell and the desperate souls caught somewhere in between. Tom Foreman, CNN, Tulsa.
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WOLF: Good morning. I'm Reynolds Wolf with the very latest on tropical depression number one. We're watching this storm ease its way into the Gulf of Mexico. Although the center of the storm is actually in the Gulf itself, all the action is over on the east side, east of center, leaves (ph) some scattered showers in the Florida Keys. They could see anywhere from four to eight inches of rainfall. To Tampa, well, you could see some rain there. We have a live image out of Tampa this morning. Here is the shot. The waves are beginning to pick up just a bit, a few white caps out there, but nothing major at this time. But we're expecting conditions to deteriorate in that region as the storm edges its way, moves its way a little bit more to the north and the northeast.
Let's go back to the weather computer if we can. We're going to show you the projected path from the National Hurricane Center, bringing the storm farther to the north, should increase in power, become a tropical storm and then veer off to the northeast, north of Tampa. The projected path at this time, at this time being the key, brings it right near Cedar Key at 2:00 a.m. on Tuesday and then right across the peninsula by 2:00 a.m. on Wednesday. But again, everything is up in the air. A lot of things could change. We'll just have to watch it for you very carefully. Back to you downstairs.
HARRIS: Reynolds, appreciate it. Thank you, sir.
WOLF: No problem.
HARRIS: Our e-mail question of the morning, as you know there were three suicides at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Here is the question, should that military prison be closed? Gary writes, Guantanamo houses enemy combatants. The prisoners there are not like the ones who stole a car or kidnapped a child. They are the ones who blow up school buses and murder children. They belong there.
NGUYEN: Well, Nandi disagrees, saying Gitmo is against our very own constitution and we are being cursed with it, not from outsiders, but from our own constitution and our forefathers. I am so upset right now she writes. These deaths are our fault, all of us Americans.
HARRIS: AND this from Jay in Iraq, as a U.S. soldier I don't feel any empathy for the men who took up arms against us and are now imprisoned at Gitmo. They had a choice and now they should freely accept the consequences of their actions. Thank you, Jay, service personnel in Iraq. Folks watch this show everywhere.
NGUYEN: And they're speaking out because a lot of people take issue with what's going on there and a lot of people do support it as you just heard. So here is the question again for you. You can still write it. Should the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay be closed? Here's our address, weekends@cnn.com. We will read some more of your responses throughout the morning.
HARRIS: The next hour of CNN SUNDAY MORNING begins in a moment.
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NGUYEN: Now in the news. The seasons first tropical depression could dump up to eight inches of rain on the Florida Keys. That is after it drenches Cuba. At last check it was about 335 miles southwest of Key West. The system could become the season's first tropical storm Alberto. We're still waiting on that, though. Meteorologist Reynolds Wolf will have the latest coming up.
The military says three suicides at the Guantanamo detention camp were coordinated. They say the nooses of detainees used to hang themselves were similar. The critics are renewing their call to shut down the detention camp. President Bush wants the incident handled humanely. Reaction just ahead in a live report from the White House.
No letup in the tension between Israelis and Palestinians. Today Israel says it fired on a terror cell in Gaza that itself was preparing to launch a rocket attack. Palestinian security sources say three people were killed. Israeli officials say Palestinian militants have launched dozens of rocket attacks over the weekend. One attack seriously wounded an Israeli man.
HARRIS: Iran says parts of an incentive package to suspend its nuclear activities are acceptable, but others need to be strengthened. Iran's foreign minister says the country is considering a counteroffer. The proposal is from the U.S. and five world powers; it is aimed at convincing Iran to stop its uranium enrichment program.
Spaniards rally against the governments plan to hold talks with Basque separatists. Ten of thousands marched in Madrid to show their opposition. Spain's prime minister was to open peace talks with ETA after the group announced the permanent cease-fire in March. ETA is blamed for 800 killings in campaign for a separate Basque homeland.
Mexico takes on Iran during World Cup action in Germany today. That match kicks off at in about four hours. Next hour it's the Netherlands versus Serbia and Montenegro. We'll get the latest on World Cup action. A live report from Berlin. That's about 20 minutes away.
NGUYEN: From the CNN Center, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING, June 11th, 8:00 a.m. at CNN Global Headquarters here in Atlanta. Good morning everybody. I'm Betty Nguyen.
HARRIS: Good morning everyone. I'm Tony Harris, thank you for being with us.
Suicides at Guantanamo Bay, three of them and what looks like an orchestrated manner. Human rights groups are calling the hangings an act of desperation, but the U.S. military say the suicides are something else. CNN White House correspondent Elaine Quijano reports.
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QUIJANO (voice over): The U.S. military says it was just after midnight early Saturday morning when a guard at Guantanamo noticed something out of the ordinary in a detainee's cell.
HARRY HARRIS, COMMANDER JOINT TASK FORCE GUANTANAMO U.S. NAVY: When it was apparent that the detainee had hung himself the guard force and medical teams reacted quickly to attempt to save the detainee's life.
QUIJANO: Minutes later guards found two other detainees in different cells. The two Saudis and a Yemeni according to the military hanged themselves with nooses made from clothes and bed sheets. Defense department officials say they were pronounced dead after medical teams exhausted life-saving measures. Top military officials believe the suicides were coordinated and the three detainees who left notes in Arabic were dangerous enemy combatants plucked off the battlefield, calling one a mid to high-level Al Qaeda operative.
HARRIS: They have no regard for human life, neither ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but rather an act of a symmetric warfare waged against us.
QUIJANO: But lawyers representing Guantanamo detainees insist the conditions there and legal limbo are a formula for despondency.
JOSHUA DENBEAUX, ATTORNEY FOR TWO DETAINEES: This lack of judicial process intentionally denied by the government is what the government then uses to say hey, look, they're enemy combatants because we say so.
QUIJANO: The military says it is now looking closely at new procedures and is taking away detainee's bed sheets each morning. The news comes one day after the president reiterated that he'd like to close Guantanamo one day.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF U.S: We'd like it to be empty and we're in the process of working with countries to repatriate people.
QUIJANO: The president who is spending the weekend at Camp David was informed of the deaths by his secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. A senior aide said Mr. Bush expressed serious concern and said he wanted the situation handled humanely and with cultural sensitivity.
Elaine Quijano, CNN, the White House.
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HARRIS: Quijano part of the best political team on television.
HARRIS: So is White House correspondent Ed Henry. Guantanamo has been a point of controversy for President Bush, with the suicides and last weeks killing of Iraq's number one terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi, what are you hearing from the White House?
ED HENRY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well certainly as you heard Elaine report, the president is seriously concerned about this. It was just a couple of weeks ago that British Prime Minister Tony Blair was here with the president. The president noted the whole situation with Abu Ghraib, the Iraqi prison, the mishandling there and the alleged torture and what not; the president himself noted after all this time that that had such a difficult and devastating impact on the mission in Iraq.
One of the things the president will be doing over the next couple of days at Camp David is gathering together his national security team on Monday to talk about the way forward in Iraq. On Tuesday he'll be bringing in the Iraqi Prime Minister Al-Maliki by videoconference along with members of his cabinet. They're talking about the way forward in Iraq, as I noted and these meetings were planed before the death of Al Zarqawi, but we're told there was new urgency to these talks. A lot of people wondering now with the death of Al Qaeda's top man in Iraq, will U.S. troops be coming home a bit sooner?
The White House is trying to caution as the president did on Friday when he was at Camp David with the Danish prime minister, he is trying to caution while this was a major blow to Al Qaeda that we should not be overly optimistic about U.S. troops coming home. Take a listen to the president.
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BUSH: The problem we have in this war is all they have to do is kill some innocent people by a car bomb and it looks like they're winning see? It takes a major event like an election or the death of Zarqawi to understand that we're making progress. And so one of the things I want to be is realistic with the American people and say there will still be tough days ahead because the enemy has the capacity to get on our TV screens with death and destruction.
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HENRY: A senior administration official here noted there have been so many ups and downs in this war. As you heard the president there he wants to be realistic and straightforward with the American people about the need for more patience ahead and while there are undoubtedly lot more people now wondering as the president himself noted on Thursday after Al Zarqawi's death that now is the time to take a new look at how U.S. resources are deployed in Iraq. It's still something he has to be cautious about, and he can't get too far out on a limb because he's seen other milestones and the voters going to the polls, a new constitution and new government only to be brought down by violence in Iraq. It's delicate balancing act for the president.
Betty.
NGUYEN: Ed you also said you know with Zarqawi's death in that news conference that this man does not end a war. So a lot of caution being used. Ed Henry, thank you for that.
HENRY: Thank you.
NGUYEN: This brings us to our e-mail question of the day. Should the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay be closed? E-mail your comments to WEEKENDS@CNN.com. We'll read those responses throughout the morning.
And for a complete coverage of breaking news and the days top stories you'll want to stay with CNN, the most trusted name in news.
HARRIS: This tropical depression that we're keeping a close eye on, it looks like it could turn into Florida, which if it is just a line of severe storms and doesn't intensify into something worse might not be a bad thing for that drought-stricken state.
NGUYEN: They have dealt with a lot of wildfires.
WOLF: Again we've been talking about this for months and months about how dry Florida has been especially along the I-75 and I-10 corridor. They're desperate for rainfall and a good sign of the storm is we may get beneficial rain.
Already we've been seeing the rain chug its way into portions of the Gulf of Mexico, most of the activity just to the east of the center, in fact at this time through the Florida Keys we're seeing scattered showers from Key West to Island Marano (ph), four to eight inches of rainfall possible. Farther to the north in Tampa we have a live image for you and does it doesn't look that bad for the time being as we show you the live camera shot out of Tampa. There we go, there's the shot. We're expecting the waves to increase and hide and tell you when things will begin to deteriorate as we make our way through the rest of the afternoon.
In fact as we take a look at the storm system, we're expecting the storm to make its way farther to the north and sweep from 2:00 a.m. Monday to 2:00 a.m. Tuesday off to the northeast, north of Tampa is the projected path and it will go out to the Atlantic by 2:00 a.m. Wednesday. There's a lot of room for error. It could move farther along the Panhandle and possibly as far south as Punta Gorda, but many, many possibilities. We'll have more coming up here on CNN. Keep it here folks.
HARRIS: Reynolds, thank you.
NGUYEN: We want to tell you about this just in to CNN. We do have reports of a new threat from Al Qaeda in Iraq. According to Reuters News Agency the group vows to carry out large-scale attacks that will, quote, shake the enemy. The strike comes in an Internet statement. Reuters says the group held a meeting after the death of leader Musab Al Zarqawi to discuss the strategy. And as you know we'll continue to follow the story and we'll bring you more developments.
In the meantime you're watching CNN SUNDAY MORNING. Stay with us. We'll have more right after this break.
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CHRISTY FEIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): This retired army paratrooper, 78-year-old Vernon Coffee knows to stay fit, even though he suffered a minor stroke 13 years ago, doctors say he bounced back because he was physically active.
VERNON COFFEE: It's like the old saying, if you don't pay now, you pay later.
FEIG: But seniors like Coffee are unusual. A recent study by the American Public Health Association found that almost half of older adults surveyed were aware they needed to make changes in their lifestyles to improve their health. They say they lack motivation, money and time to do it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have bridge or a trip to the movies or something going all day long every day. So they'll say they're retired, but they don't have time to do it.
Come on, big guy.
FEIG: Doctors say it takes just a little effort to improve quality of health. People don't need fancy gyms or equipment to stay healthy. Just walking around the block can help. By keeping active and seeing their physicians, many seniors can avoid the early onset of heart disease, hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
In Washington, I'm Christy Feig.
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HARRIS: Once again, this just in to CNN. Reports of a new threat from Al Qaeda in Iraq according to Reuters. The group vows to carry out large-scale attacks that will, quote, shake the enemy. It comes in an Internet statement. Reuters says the group held a meeting after the death of Abu Musab Al Zarqawi to discuss strategy. CNN is working to confirm the report and we'll bring you more as we get it.
A high profile huddle on Iraq tomorrow begins tomorrow at Camp David. It was planned before the air strike that killed terrorist Zarqawi and no dramatic announcements are expected from President Bush. So what can we expect? Jim Walsh is an international security expert with MIT and he joins us from Boston. Jim good to talk to you as always.
JIM WALSH, MIT: Good morning, Tony.
HARRIS: What do you make of this threat? Because I was about to ask you whether or not the death of Zarqawi gives coalition forces an opportunity to jump into the breach of whatever power vacuum is there and strangle this insurgency. What do you think?
WALSH: Well I think it gives them an opportunity. I think strangle might be too much to expect. In fact, if you look at the comments made by the White House and then officials on the ground in Iraq there was real caution this week that what impact this killing would have and the closer you got to Iraq the more cautious the statements were in part because, remember, Zarqawi is only one part of the insurgency. There are nationalists and there are Baathists and there are criminals.
It's helpful, maybe they can put them on the defensive a little bit, but I think we will continue to see violence. We saw violence yesterday, more than 20 civilians being killed in Iraq.
HARRIS: Baathists, militias, common street criminals, hoods, corruption, rampant, this death doesn't stop any of that, does it?
WALSH: It doesn't. What it may do, however, is give President Bush an opportunity along with the formation of the government, the completion of the government this week of trying to change the percent all momentum. There are questions of facts on the ground that is stopping the violence and how it's perceived. I thought Ed Henry's report preceding mine was right on target. He had the great quote from President Bush, what did President Bush talk about? He talked about the way it looked. In other words, he's talking about perception and psychology and what he's trying to do with Zarqawi and this government is create positive momentum so people have confidence in the process.
HARRIS: We're reporting this new threat posted on the Web site talking about large-scale attacks that would shake the enemy after the killing of Zarqawi. Isn't this totally to be expected?
WALSH: Absolutely. Tony, that's right on the mark because let's face it, Zarqawi and Al Qaeda in Iraq, their business is to try to launch large-scale attacks. The faster they can the sooner they will. Whether Zarqawi was dead or alive they'd still be trying to mount a big attack against U.S. forces or more likely against the Shiite Muslim community with the purpose of trying to encourage a civil war.
HARRIS: So we have these high-level meetings Monday and I believe Tuesday as well and what I was struck by in the meeting at Camp David between the president and the Danish prime minister is the president talking on the subject saying that he was essentially encouraging kind of a free-wheeling, free-thinking open, speak your mind session on Iraq, and where we and are where we go from here. If you were in that room what would you say to the president?
WALSH: Gosh, that's probably the most difficult question I've had this morning, Tony. The most important thing to do is to be realistic and to recognize that we may be on the edge of civil war, if we're not in civil war. I think they know what the story is. The story is they've got to get that government working. If that government does not come together quickly and effectively then it will be difficult to make progress and I think they'll have to reduce the insurgency. People are scared. If they continue to be scared the project in Iraq will not succeed.
HARRIS: Jim Walsh, good to see you, thanks for your time.
WALSH: Thank you Tony.
NGUYEN: This just in, CNN has now confirmed reports of a new threat from Al Qaeda in Iraq. The group vows to carry out large-scale attacks that would, quote, shake the enemy. This threat comes an Internet statement. The group held a meeting after the death of the leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi to discuss strategy. We'll bring you more details from this Internet threat as we get them. Stay with us. CNN, the most trusted name in news.
In the meantime, soccer fans all over the world have seen look at this. The first lame game in the world of soccer. Yes, England won against Paraguay without even scoring. How do you do that? We'll show you and in sharp contrast, Sweden went up against Trinidad and Tobago. These teams rocked the house. The fans just went wild. Look at this, neither team won. They didn't even score. Are you confused? I know I am. We'll go live to Berlin in about four minutes.
HARRIS: Oh, in about 12 minutes time for your "House Call." The topic today, stroke. More than 700,000 Americans will experience one this year. Do you know the signs of stroke? How to react? "House Call" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta, oh in about 11 minutes.
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NGUYEN: We want to get back to that new information today that Al Qaeda in Iraq has vowed to carry out large-scale attacks. This coming off of the Internet. Caroline Faraj is the CNN Arabic editor and she's on the phone with us from Dubai. Caroline, you've been looking at this site and looking at what was written. Tell us what you found out so far. CAROLINE FARAJ, CNN ARABIC EDITOR: Indeed, a lot of Arabic- speaking, Islamic Web sites have been carrying these statements from the beginning of the day here local time. They were saying, basically, they're vowing to continue their attacks and also with the death of our martyr which includes Zarqawi. We should continue our mission and we should continue our jihad according to them. They also vowed they would be following the steps that the leader Osama Bin Laden asked the leader of al Qaeda, and they'll never stop until they reach their target.
NGUYEN: Caroline, when they talk about these large-scale attacks that is going to shake the enemy, are you guessing or taking from what you've read so far that this is only going to be in Iraq or are they targeting other places around the world?
FARAJ: We have to make sure that whatever they're trying to do is basically they're saying although our leader, Zarqawi, is dead, however we still exist. And we're still actually working. So basically what they're targeting is their own followers and their own sympathizers in Iraq, mainly. Zarqawi is basically functioning and doing his own terrorist attacks in Iraq as well as other Arab countries, but I think from the statement they read, mainly I concede that the writer is targeting Iraqis first and then other Arab countries because this is the mission. They were formed during Zarqawi when he was still alive, basically.
NGUYEN: Caroline Faraj, CNN Arabic editor joining us by phone in Dubai. Thank you for the insight. Tony.
HARRIS: Turning now to the World Cup. Today's action gets underway in about 40 minutes and the likes in Germany. Soccer fans are looking for a first-rate match up between Holland, which Betty is known for its aggressive attack, and Serbia, Montenegro, which is known for its iron, clad defense.
NGUYEN: So savvy with soccer.
HARRIS: German, neo-nazis are using the game's high profile to push their racist agenda. Riot police had to intervene with members of the right wing national Democratic Party were confronted by several thousand angry counter demonstrators. CNN's Chris Burns joins us from Berlin with the latest and Chris, the expectation is that today's match between Iran and Mexico could become a political football. What's up with that?
CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, definitely because of Iran's President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying that Israel should be wiped off the face of the map, that the holocaust did not happen and, of course, the suspected arms or nuclear program that it's pushing forward right now has a lot of people upset. The far right has been expected to seize on the games before this reason. They want to turn out and show support for Mr. Ahmadinejad even though they declined to say, they refused to say they're neo-nazi. Try to figure that one out, but today, only about 30 of the supporters turned out. The national Democratic Party turned out in Nuremberg. I think the Nuremberg steps where there were marches and massive rallies, that, of course having political significance and historical significance, but so far no traction.
Only 30 people would turn out to show pictures of Ahmadinejad and that's about it. The other main demonstration they had was yesterday in western Germany. Only about 200 of them turned out and about 5,000 counter demonstrators turned out against them. Some were throwing tomatoes saying Nazis out. It doesn't look like the far right is getting any traction so far, but, of course, this only the third day of these games and there could be more protests ahead.
Tony.
HARRIS: Thank you, Chris Burns for us in Berlin. Can we just play the game?
NGUYEN: Because three World Cup matches were played yesterday. While they're all important, the match up between England and Paraguay was of key interest. Here you see the only -- here we go, right there. The only goal of the game. Paraguayan player who deflected the shot past his own goalie, despite the win, most people say England's play was less than stellar. The day's most thrilling match was this grueling 0-0 contest between Sweden and Trinidad and Tobago. It was ratcheted up when a player was ejected. Still, the 10-man squad managed to prevent Sweden from scoring in what everyone agrees was an outstanding performance.
HARRIS: As we've already mentioned, the Netherlands takes on Serbia and Montenegro today in Leipzig. That match begins at the top of the hour. And as Chris Burns just reported, today's contest at Nuremburg between Iran and Mexico, may be notable as much for the political undercurrent as for the action on the field -- that begins at noon Eastern. Also today, Angola faces Portugal. That will be played in Cologne, beginning at 3:00 p.m. Eastern.
NGUYEN: The World Cup and Germany is not only smiles and games. There's one dark side of the sporting event. The business of human trafficking, thousands of prostitutes from East Europe is forced into the country. Our report coming up at 9:00 a.m. Eastern on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.
HARRIS: First "House Call" with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and your top stories are straight ahead.
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