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Five Sentenced to Life for Plotting Terror Bombings; Findings Harshly Critical of Ehud Olmert's Leadership; Children of Illegal Immigrants Born in the U.S.

Aired April 30, 2007 - 12:00   ET

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Five dangerous -- very dangerous are now behind bars.

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JIM CLANCY, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: The end game for Operation Crevice. Convictions and verdicts in Britain's longest-running terror trial.

ROSEMARY CHURCH, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: And with those verdicts, details of a plot prosecutors say could have inflicted massive casualties.

CLANCY: A different sort of verdict in Israel on the war with Hezbollah. A new report giving the country's leaders failing grades.

CHURCH: And taking flight without the use of sight. The story of a remarkable pilot and his unprecedented journey.

It's 5:00 p.m. in London, 7:00 p.m. in Jerusalem.

Hello and welcome to our report broadcast all around the globe.

I'm Rosemary Church.

CLANCY: I'm Jim Clancy.

From London to Jerusalem, to Sydney, wherever you're watching, this is YOUR WORLD TODAY.

CHURCH: Calling them cruel, ruthless misfits, a judge in Britain has sentenced five men to life behind bars in the longest terrorism trial in that country's history.

CLANCY: And what we saw there was jurors finding them guilty of plotting al Qaeda-style attacks that could have caused massive loss of life.

CHURCH: That's right. The men, all British citizens, had a huge stockpile of explosives stored away when they were arrested in 2004. Prosecutors said all they had left to do was pick a target.

CLANCY: Now, they wanted to hit crowded areas to maximize the impact of this. They were considering a shopping center and a nightclub, among other targets. Now, the trial also exposed for the first time the connections that existed between those defendants and the deadly attacks on London's transit system in July of 2005.

Paula Newton looks at all how it comes together, starting with details of the case known as Operation Crevice.

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PAULA NEWTON, CNN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Operation Crevice was the code name. Breaking up an al Qaeda cell in Britain, the end game. In this iconic video, a chilling reminder of the plot's potential -- 600 kilograms of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, a key bombmaking component as this police video shows. As the cell's ringleader, Omar Khyam methodically checked on the lethal load in a London storage unit, undercover police cameras were checking on him.

A London jury has now found five men guilty of conspiracy to cause explosions and several possessions charges. All were sentenced to decades in prison. Two men were acquitted of the charges.

The evidence pieced together from one of the most complicated and elaborate British terrorism investigations in history. Aided by the U.S., Canada and Pakistan, Operation Crevice uncovered a plot to blow up several targets, including a shopping mall, utilities plants, and a nightclub called the Ministry of Sound. All this from months of secret surveillance, audio recordings and videos.

Listen to some of what the jury heard from March 2004.

OMAR KHYAM, SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON: If you get a job in a bar, yeah, or a club, say the Minister of Sound, what are you planning to do there then?

JAWAD AKBAR, SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON: Blow the whole thing up.

NEWTON: But it's what the jury was not allowed to hear about this investigation that says so much more about Britain's war on terror.

The July 7th bombers...

MOHAMMED SIDIQUE KHAN, SUICIDE BOMBER: We are at war and I'm a soldier.

NEWTON: ... Mohammed Sidique Khan, seen here in his martyrdom video and his suicide bombing accomplice, Shezad Tanweer...

SHEZAD TANWEER, SUICIDE BOMBER: What you have witnessed now is only the beginning.

NEWTON: ... we're caught on tape with the ringleaders of the fertilizer plot, tag, tailed and secretly under surveillance more than a year before the deadly bombings, and were never arrested, even though they were videotaped and recorded, along with the ringleaders of Operation Crevice, hour after hour of secret police tapes.

On Saturday, in February of 2004, at about 9:00 a.m. at a McDonald's outside of London. Forty-five minutes later, at a builder's store, following each other on highways across the south of England. Two conspiratorial cells, Crevice, and the July 7th bombers together day after day.

A little over three weeks later on a Tuesday, picked up at this residential address. Later, in a town just west of London, together again for hours. The surveillance video shown in court has not been released, but as in this CNN recreation, police say that it shows that the two groups of terrorists knew each other and could have even been plotting together.

(on camera): But even after all the secret surveillance, the two suicide bombers were never picked up. Authorities never suspected they were terrorists until the day they were seen on camera again, this time plotting to blow themselves up.

(voice over): They were never arrested, no background checks, never referred to local police. Instead, they were left to walk free and wreak havoc on a blue sky morning in London.

June and John Taylor have returned to the underground station where their daughter was murdered by the suicide bomber they say could have been caught. They're here not just in grief now, but in anger.

Even after Shezad Tanweer was spied on by British intelligence, more than a year later he got within three feet of Carrie Taylor and detonated his suicide bomb, killing Carrie and six others on the underground train.

The Taylors feel the British government hasn't come clean, they could have prevented the July 7th terrorist attacks.

JUNE TAYLOR, LOST DAUGHTER CARRIE IN ATTACKS: If they fell short of their investigations on -- prior to 7/7, they're negligent. And I want them to stand up and be counted.

JOHN TAYLOR, LOST DAUGHTER CARRIE IN ATTACKS: But I've always had the impression that they kept some things back purposely from us. You know? Was this because somebody somewhere didn't do their duty properly, or was it because of incompetence?

NEWTON: British intelligence sources tell CNN they mistook the 7/7 bombers as common criminals, low-risk offenders. One former intelligence officer says the agency might have had a blind spot when it came to spotting homegrown suicide bombers.

GLENMORE TRENEAR-HARVEY, FMR. INTELLIGENCE OFFICER: We are harboring within our midst this cancerous group that obviously have an agenda that is so difficult for the rest of the population, for the rest of the Muslim community to understand what is driving them in this manner.

NEWTON: From Operation Crevice, to covert liaisons, to the atrocity that eventually followed, victims' families say there is enough proof out there now British authorities never really understood the nature of the terror threat they faced. They want the secret service to admit it made mistakes. And more than that, to learn from them.

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CLANCY: International Security Correspondent Paula Newton joins us now live from London.

And Paula, obviously a sweeping case here, but obviously some difficult questions are going to be asked. What does the home secretary have to say about this?

NEWTON: The home secretary said, look, he was very satisfied, very gratified, in fact, that they got five convictions, and calling this a landmark case. And again, closely following what MI-5 and Scotland Yard have said about the case -- have said that, look, yes, two of the suicide bombers were under surveillance, but limited by our resources, we had dismissed them as petty fraudsteres. We did not think that they served as a clear and present danger to the population of Britain.

Of course, Jim, now we know that they were wrong about that. They're saying, look, given all the resources that we have, all the information we had at the time, we did the best we could. But Jim, that's why this case is a landmark case for two reasons.

It shows people here, people in Europe, people in the United States two things. One is, is the fact that these terror cases show how far that the reach of al Qaeda can go in terms of being homegrown activists, people who are actively recruited here in Europe, actively recruited perhaps even in the United States, thrown into these kinds of plots that are, in the end, still backed by al Qaeda, no matter in what kind of minimal way.

But secondly, it also shows the limitations of our own security services. Look at this case, Jim.

We had these guys under surveillance apparently day after day, week after week, and in the throes of that, caught in that net, were two suicide bombers that were not referred to local police. Today, MI-5 saying that, look, we did the best we could. But when you look at the data, as I have for the last year -- we've known about this for quite some time -- you do -- you are left with some very nagging questions as to why these men were dismissed.

Even if MI-5 couldn't tell them, why weren't they tailed by at least their local police officers? That might have actually meant that 52 people would be alive today, and that is what the victims' families have told me in the last few weeks about this case -- Jim.

CLANCY: Lessons learned.

Paula Newton there with some great reporting on a major story breaking this day in London. And Rosemary, the point she makes is really good, because those two points, that they are among the homegrown terrorists among you -- and in the days ahead we're going to learn a lot more information really about who they were, how they lived. And it's going to open up a lot of people's minds.

CHURCH: That's right. And, of course, the focus still being on the fact that there was a lot that was already known about those two suicide bombers. The victims' relatives saying could this have been prevented, the 2005 attack? That question is not going to go away.

CLANCY: At all.

CHURCH: All right. Well, we turn now to the Middle East, where Israel's prime minister and his top military brass are in hot water for the way they handled the war with Lebanon last summer.

Ben Wedeman has more on the report from Jerusalem.

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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The Israeli cabinet receives the bad news, the initial findings of the Vinograd Committee charged with examining what went wrong in last summer's war between Israel and Hezbollah. The committee found that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert failed to set clear goals and failed to exercise judgment when launching the war, that defense minister Amir Peretz was hobbled by a lack of military experience, and that the now retired army chief of staff, Dan Halutz, overstated the military's level of readiness.

"The difficulties and faults," Prime Minister Olmert promised, "will be corrected."

The findings only cover the first five days of the war, which was sparked by Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on the border with Lebanon. What followed was 34 days of Hezbollah rocket attacks on northern Israel and a massive Israeli air, land and sea bombardment of Lebanon.

Lebanon suffered widespread destruction. Around 1,200 Lebanese were killed. More than 160 Israelis were also killed, and hundreds of thousands forced to flee Hezbollah's rockets. Unbowed, Hezbollah still holds the two Israeli soldiers.

It was, without a doubt, Israel's most media-saturated war. And thus, reports of blunders and mistakes come as no real surprise to a country that followed the fight, blow by bloody blow. In the words of one of Israel's most prominent columnists, "It's not the thirst for answers that led to the committee being formed, it was the hunger for punishment."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Israelis are very into deciding who to blame whenever anything goes wrong in the country. I think that had September 11th happened in this country, then the newspapers on September 12th would have all focused on who is to blame. WEDEMAN: And savoring Israel's very public process of recrimination is Hezbollah's own Manar Television, which asserts that the Vinograd Committee has confirmed Israel's utter defeat in the war Al-Manar covered the committee's summary of its findings live.

(on camera): But these are only the initial findings covering the beginning of the war. The committee has yet to pass judgment on the rest of the war, when for Israel things went dramatically wrong as it failed to crush Hezbollah. For Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, the worst may be yet to come.

Ben Wedeman, CNN, Jerusalem.

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CLANCY: All right. Well, from the Middle East, we're going to focus right here in the United States, and really a story that goes around the world because it involves immigration and the debate in the United States over reform of that.

It's a complex issue, certainly. No easy answers.

CHURCH: It is.

And, I mean, an example, just take -- take the children of illegal immigrants born in the United States. The children become legal citizens, while their parents can face deportation.

CLANCY: Here with a closer look at some of these contradictions, Peter Viles takes a look at that particular aspect of the debate.

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PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): On this day in Los Angeles, children had the stage and the streets. In a march partly organized by church groups, they chanted and held signs like this one, "Don't deport my parents." The American-born children of illegal immigrants are U.S. citizens, but their parents can be deported.

DAVID ACEVED, IMMIGRATION REFORM MARCHER: This law is really wrong, and people -- kids' fathers are being taken away from them, and that's not good.

VILES: This girl carried a sign saying she had been separated from her mother for four years.

JUDITH MEJIA, MOTHER DEPORTED TO MEXICO: I want to go back. She left when I was little.

VILES (on camera): Where is your mom right now?

MEJIA: Tijuana.

VILES: And when did she live?

MEJIA: When I was kind of little. VILES (voice over): Advocates for tougher border security say the current law makes sense. Illegal border crossers should be sent back, even if they've had children here.

JACK MARTIN, AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: It creates hardship. There's no doubt about that. But any time that parents have broken the law, the children are going to pay a penalty.

VILES: Further, they say, it is the parents' choice. They can always keep the family together in another country.

ARNE CHANDLER, CITIZEN ACTIVISTS, SECURE AMERICA: If they're here illegally, they should be deported. And they would have the option since they're responsible for their children until adulthood to take them with them and take care of their children.

VILES: The march was clearly an emotional appeal by adults, as well. It was, after all, the adults who made signs like this one which reads "Don't make them cry."

(on camera): Now, a year ago, these immigration marches proved controversial in part because so many Mexican flags were being flown in American cities. This year, a likely source of controversy is the use of children to make a political point.

Peter Viles, for CNN, Los Angeles.

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CHURCH: All right. Religion and politics.

CLANCY: For millions of Turks, those are two words that do not mix. One day after a massive rally in Istanbul supporting a secular state, Turkey's highest court ponders a complex dilemma that could redefine Turkey's future.

CHURCH: Also ahead, a mangled mess in northern California's Bay Area.

CLANCY: Rush hour commuters improvising after a tanker access literally melts away major access to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.

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DON CHEADLE, ACTOR: We need the people to get behind that, impress our leadership to do the right thing now.

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CHURCH: And the Oscar-nominated actor so integral in the film "Hotel Rwanda" teams up with a human rights activist to help in genocide in Darfur. We'll hear from Don Cheadle.

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CLANCY: Hello, everyone, and welcome back to CNN International and YOUR WORLD TODAY.

CHURCH: And we're covering the news the world wants to know and giving you some perspective that goes deeper into the stories of the day.

CLANCY: All right. We're going to talk about Turkey right now.

There was a presidential vote that has highlighted the pull of two different forces that are -- really can be pulling the country apart.

CHURCH: That's right. Secular and religious. A day after a huge rally by secular supporters...

CLANCY: Turkey's constitutional court set to review the legitimacy of a vote on a sole presidential candidate.

CHURCH: That's right.

Paula Hancocks takes a look now at the political crisis.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): A massive sea of red representing an increasing tide of discontent in Turkey. Up to one million on the streets Sunday shows the battle for balance between religion and secular is more acute now than it has been for years.

The current crisis revolves around this man, foreign minister Abdullah Gul. He is the ruling AK Party's candidate for president, but he, along with the AKP, has Islamic roots, spooking the secularists and the powerful military.

ROBERT O'DALY, ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT: It should be said that while 99 percent of Turks are Muslims, 75 percent do not want to see an Islamic state in Turkey. And so any move in that direction will not get popular support.

HANCOCKS: Gul and the AKP have insisted they will respect the secular state, but many secularists cannot accept that his wife would be the first first lady to wear the head scarf, a very divisive symbol in Turkey.

Opposition parties have already petitioned the constitutional court to declare the election illegal. The court should make a ruling before a second round of voting on Gul takes place this Wednesday.

The military has already said it is ready to act to preserve Turkey's secularism. The army has carried out three coups in the past 50 years. In 1997, it intervened to stop Turkey's first Islamist prime minister from taking power, exerting pressure behind the scenes and not on the streets. FADI HAKURA, TURKEY ANALYST: It's a pragmatic institution, although it has very robust views. If one looks even at previous schools, the military was very careful always to bring back civilian government and to bring back democratic voting. So the military has that pragmatism, but the situation is very fluid.

HANCOCKS: Gul has already said he will not stand down as his party's presidential candidate. Analysts are hoping a compromise can be hammered out soon. Stock markets plunged Monday on worries that this election could be drawn out and could be costly to the economy.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, London.

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CLANCY: A story to keep our eyes on. And we will.

We've got to take a short break. But after U.S. stocks set records last week, coming up we'll show you how the U.S. and other markets are doing this day.

CHURCH: We'll do that.

And it's the material of a nightmare rush hour for drivers in one U.S. city.

CLANCY: And Britain's Crevice trial ending with five men convicted. Coming up, we'll have more insight into the huge anti- terrorism investigation behind that trial.

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CLANCY: Welcome back for our viewers. Joining us from more than 200 countries, or territories all around the globe including her in the United States.

CHURCH: That's right. This is YOUR WORLD TODAY. I'm Rosemary Church.

CLANCY: I'm Jim Clancy. These are the stories making headlines.

An Israeli committee looking into Israel's handling of the war with Lebanon last summer accusing Prime Minister Ahod Olmert (ph) of quote "severe failure in his handling of the conflict." The findings say he acted hastily in leading the country to war without a comprehensive plan. After receiving a copy of the report, Olmert said failures will be remedied.

CHURCH: A judge in Britain has sentenced five men to life behind bars in that country's longest terrorism trial in history. Jurors convicted them of plotting al Qaeda-style attacks against their fellow Britons with targets including a nightclub and shopping center. The trial also exposed connections between the defendants and the deadly 2005 attacks on London's transit system. CLANCY: Although police foiled the defendant's planned attacks we now know that they missed an opportunity to prevent the suicide bombings that ended up shocking London a year after the men were first arrested.

Cal Perry explains.

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CAL PERRY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Five men found guilty by a British criminal court of planning a massive attack on U.K. soil. Planning to use a 1300-pound bomb made of fertilizer.

JOHN REID, BRITISH HOME SECURITY: Five dangerous terrorists are now behind bars, due to the efforts of our security services and our police.

I want to extend my personal thanks to them and I believe the gratitude of everyone in this country for the work that they have done. It isn't the first time they have averted a very serious threat to life in this country.

PERRY: But this successful prosecution also revealed a costly failure about two men who slipped through the cracks. We now know these two men, Mohamed Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer who were involved in the train and bus bombings of July 2005, crossed MI-5's path multiple times during the investigation into the fertilizer plot. But at some point security officials decided they were not involved and stopped their surveillance.

DAVID DAVIS, BRITISH SHADOW HOME SECURITY: There has clearly been a mistake. Whether that mistake was unavoidable we don't know. What we do need to know, is that the organization, the approach we use in the future gives the best possible protection to British public.

PERRY: One of the factors perhaps, a simple matter of resources. This was a huge law enforcement operation.

PETER CLARK, DEPUTY ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER: In scale intensity and geographic spread unprecedented and involved international cooperation across borders, across continents.

PERRY: There are not endless resources for intelligence agencies in Britain. Nor around the world. At some point the difficult decision of where to dedicate those resources must be made. Because of the new information many in the government are calling for an independent inquiry into the perceived breakdown in intelligence. For many across Britain this trial has re-opened old wounds and memories of the plot which was not foiled.

RACHEL NORTH, 7/7 LONDON BOMBINGS SURVIVOR: It's heartbreaking, isn't it? Because if you find out that these people were watched and listened to and taped and followed and then for some reason or another they were let go and went on to kill 52 innocent people and injure and maim up to 800 other people. Traumatize thousands of people and they could have been stopped, it is devastating. PERRY: According to the former head of MI-5 in November, they were tracking 30 plots with some 300 cell members which is why the UK home secretary said they plan to double the size of the British intelligence service by next year. A country reviewing its failures in the face of its success.

Cal Perry, CNN, outside MI-5 headquarters, in London.

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CHURCH: Well, one of the amazing things about the crevice trial is the scale of the investigation. The British government doesn't give away a lot of information about its anti-terror effort but add it all up and it's enormous.

Jonathan Mann has some insight. John?

JONATHAN MANN, CNN ANCHOR: British police describe the size of the investigation that led to this trial as unprecedented. Reuters says that there were taps on 100 different phone lines and some 34,000 man hours of surveillance on suspects. But it wasn't just this trial, Britain has taken on a very big job.

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WILL GEDDES, SECURITY ANALYST: Probably following on from the United States, Britain is probably the most prevalent and proactive in terms of gathering information. But in terms of bringing that to trial it has been critical that that evidence has been intact because they could lose enormous credibility in the eyes of the general public in this whole war on terrorism. If they are not successful in prosecuting individuals that are hatching threats that threaten us at large.

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MANN: Late last year, the head of Britian's MI-5 security service, Dame Eliza Manninghan-Buller, (ph) stunned a lot of people by describing how busy her agency has been. She said it has identified nearly 30 terror plots involving 200 different networks, the plots against people and economic targets. Sixteen-hundred people, more than 1600, in fact, were said to have been involved. The results of all of that effort to track those people down that we know of in Britain's fight against terror, well, here are a few examples.

In June of 2004 Camel Buurgasp (ph) was found guilty of the murder of a police detective after police had raided his apartment. He was also convicted in connection of a plot to manufacture ricin (ph), a powerful poison.

In April of 2005, al-Quida suspect, Sajid Badat (ph) was jailed for 13 years after admitting conspiring with the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, in a plot to blow up passenger planes, as well.

In November of 2006 al-Qaeda operative, Dhiren Barot (ph), who planned to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, was sentenced to life in prison.

And in January of this year, six men were charged with conspiracy to murder, plotting a copycat attack on the London public transit in July of 2005.

There are other convictions too, but those arrests and convictions don't tell you about the people who were arrested and not convicted. And there are a lot of them. If you look at Britain's batting average this is what you see, the British government says it arrested more than 1100 people, 1,166, in fact. In between the attacks of 9/11 and the end of last year. Of those, 1100 people, it charged 407 people. About a third, maybe a little bit less, with terror or criminal offenses. By earlier this year, slightly over half of those, 220 out of that 1100 have been convicted while 98 were still awaiting trial.

The bottom line is that the British arrest a lot more people than they charge. And Muslims in Britain say they are feeling the brunt of it.

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ABDEL BARI ATWAN, EDITOR IN CHIEF, AL-QUDS: It seems that Muslim community is targeted and this actually made the job of al-Qaeda to recruit disaffected, young Muslims very, very successful and easier, to be honest.

MANN: The British government says the relatively small number of extremists it has identified, represent a much bigger problem. The way it reads published opinion polls. It believes more than 100,000 people in the UK actually support or find some justification for those enormous transit attacks of July 7th. So as big as the job has been the British government has an even bigger job ahead.

CHURCH: It does. Really, that's an extraordinary work load, extraordinary scale but two suicide bombers from 2005 slipped through the net. Are they doing a good job?

MANN: No one who saw the attacks and certainly none who lost family members think they did enough to stop the 7/7 attack. But the British government said they foiled five other big attacks and say there's another complaint they're arresting too many people. And Muslims are certainly saying that in Britain but so eager to try to stop attacks before they happen they don't wait long enough to be sure, 100 percent sure, of who they've got and know they'll arrest innocent people in the net as they try to stop these things in the tracks.

The other thing, a point made by Will Geddes (ph), the security analyst we spoke to, is they don't go to trial with all the evidence. A lot of times they don't because they want to be sure in every case when they go to trial they'll succeed and won't get acquittals that discredit the entire effort so they're proceeding extraordinarily careful. Maybe in the case of 7/7 it wasn't enough manpower or too much caution but with that terrible exception aside, the British government says and some security analysts agree they're doing a pretty good job.

CHURCH: Jonathan Mann with that insight, thanks so much. Jim?

CLANCY: All right, sometimes it seems the world's problems are so great, no single one of us can really make a difference. But you can and we're going to tell you how.

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The United Nations Security Council and the governments that compose it are not stepping up.

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CLANCY: Activists and actors, teaming up to tell us some simple steps you can take to make the world a better place. Also, before they died, they dreamed. An Italian scholar plays music composed by Holocaust victims when we return.

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CHURCH: And a warm welcome back. You are watching YOUR WORLD TODAY on CNN International.

CLANCY: That's right. Seen live in, what, 200 countries and territories all around the world.

The humanitarian crisis in Darfur in Sudan has inspired an American actor and a human rights activist into action. Don Cheadle, who you probably know from Hotel Rwanda, and John Prendergast, who you might recall from appearances on our air here, to talk about Darfur and other Africa hot spots, teamed up to write a book that goes beyond the normal book. Its really a road map that tells you how to get involved if you want to stop what's going on in Darfur. We talked to the authors of "Not On Our Watch" asking what was the point? What were they trying to achieve with their book?

DON CHEADLE, ACTOR AND HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVIST: Well, I had had a web site at the time. It's defunct now, but I would say every third letter was asking me about either Rwanda or Darfur and what can be done and what can the average citizen do. And John and I had traveled to the region together and clearly it was something that was a passion for him, and it had become one of mine and I wanted to answer those questions in a document that, you know, was not didactic and over people's heads but was very simple and could be broken down with, you know, sections that would be signalled out for what people could do that moment if they were having these questions. And just try to get this grassroots sort of collective going because I know a lot of people look at this tragedy and want to become involved and don't know how to do that.

CLANCY: John Prendergast, yes, in some ways, it's a map for action to stop the violence, the death in Darfur. But at the same time, doesn't it seem to be saying, governments, the people who hold the responsibility aren't doing enough. They aren't doing anything? JOHN PRENDERGAST, AUTHOR: This is the problem. You've had four years of the crisis unfold in Darfur. We know what needs to be done to resolve the crisis to bring a solution to the horrors of Darfur but the United Nations Security Council and the governments that compose it are not stepping up. And the United States, being the lead country on the security council for matters related to human rights, people look generally to the U.S. to take the lead role in this. It has not stepped up and that's why citizens across the United States are now increasingly seeing this in Europe are saying to demanding that their government step up and take the kind of actions necessary to end the crisis in Darfur.

CLANCY: Don, and you mentioned a little bit. People come to you and ask questions. When you were out there how many people are really concerned? How many people really want to get involved, really consider Darfur a priority today?

CHEADLE: I know when we were in China, though, the government has its particular steps that is obviously due to the revenues and the oil trade that they have with the Sudan. The people, it was even an article in the paper which surprised me because I always thought of the press as being so controlled. But there was a poll of the citizenry and they knew about the issue and they wanted to know what their country was doing about it and wanted to see an end to it. And I believe there are very few people around the world who are saying we want genocide.

I think people understand that this horror allowed to visit anywhere could ultimately come to them. So they want to be a part of a solution and they're looking for ways to do that. But until the people, until there is a ground-swell, or enough din that the leaders of our government believe that there will be a cost for political inaction and diplomatic inaction that it'll continue to just be business as usual.

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CLANCY: Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, there. "Not on My Watch" is their book. Six strategies that any of us can implement. You can write letters, get involved in urging investors not to support companies that are doing billions of dollars of business in Sudan. Good book for a lot of the news we see here.

CHURCH: Absolutely. Now, we're getting some more news in. We're getting word that the head of the British army has personally decided to send Prince Harry to Iraq. Supposedly to end the speculation, all the speculation last week of course whether he would go, whether he wouldn't go. But it won't necessarily end it.

CLANCY: It probably won't. It can be reviewed over and over again before he goes. He says very much he wants to go but the concerns are real. The concerns are obviously, he's third in line for the throne, but how about the men around him, as well? He could become a real target for al-Qaeda or any kind of group trying to make a bigger name for themselves. CHURCH: We already know that they are very excited about a prince being a target and that's the problem. As you say, Jim, that it's going to put others in danger, as well as the prince. The last thing too, what a PR coup for the insurgents if they get hold of Prince Harry.

CLANCY: But for now, Prince Harry is going. That's the call right now. We are going to take a short break.

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CHURCH: Welcome back, everyone.

Well, the Holocaust is remembered as a time of unimaginable horror.

CLANCY: But sometimes in the prisons or concentration camps run by the Nazis there was a great beauty that shone through.

CHURCH: Now, it came in the form of thousands of works of art, paintings, poems and even music.

CLANCY: On that last note, Alessio Vinci looks at a man who's bringing them out of the darkness and into the light.

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ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: For more than 15 years Francesco Lotoro has collected music, about 4,000 works composed in the hellish conditions of the prisons and concentrations camps of the Second World War, melodies scribbled on any scrap of paper their composer could find.

"I tried to give them a musical sense. This is not just a document or piece of paper," Lotoro says. Music needs to be listened to. It needs to be played and sung. Lotoro and a university professor traveled the world searching archives, museums and even antique shops, creating a library of originals, copies and recordings of musical pieces composed by imprisoned artists, never recorded or catalogued until now.

Composers like Reduval Carroll (ph), a Czech, arrested by the Nazis for taking part in the Prague resistance. Carroll wrote an entire opera on toilet paper, and died in March 1945, just a few days after finishing this "Prisoner's March."

Many of works in Lotoro's collection were written in Terazinstat (ph), the Czech town used by the Nazis as a model ghetto where Jewish leaders and prominent artists staged operas and concerts, a tool of the Nazis to hide their plans to exterminate Europe's Jews from visiting Red Cross officials. Some of the music showed evidence of defiance, like the "March of Terrazine (ph)," which begin with notes of the Hadiquva (ph). The melody that would become the Israeli national anthem.

DAVID MEGHNAGI, UNIV. PROFESSOR: (INAUDIBLE) this music is an inhumanity (ph), and for love, not for hate.

VINCI: Lotoro's library also includes works by an American colonel from North Carolina, who wrote songs and poems, prisoners of the Japanese, an opera composed by an Italian captain held the allies in an Algerian camp, and music written by German officers in prison in Soviet camps. Music is a universal language, Lotoro says, the notes a way to stay human no matter who the prisoners were.

Alessio Vinci, CNN, Rome.

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CHURCH: Oh, inspiration from such horror. Here's another inspirational story. A blind British pilot has landed in Sydney, Australia in a climax to an epic journey. Fifty-eight-year-old adventurer Miles Hilton-Barber, who lost his sight 20 years ago, completed a microaircraft flight of almost 22,000 kilometers today, flying halfway around the world.

Now, his journey really the realization of a childhood dream. He was hoping to raise money for a blindness charity when he left from an airbase in South London. That was on the 7th of March. Now he braced snowstorms, freezing temperatures. Remember, he's out there in the open pretty much in that aircraft, and he did, though, have the help of a co-pilot.

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MILES HILTON-BARBER, BLIND PILOT: Very mixed feelings, quite euphoric. It's been the fulfillment of a dream since I was a kid I wanted to be a pilot. When I went blind they said you'll never fly.

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CLANCY: But he did fly again. And he flew into the record books with this one.

CHURCH: He sure did. And so exposed there. It's incredible. Well done.

CLANCY: You know, all around the world there are people doing things today. Don Cheadle and John Prendergast, great book on Sudan today. There's are a lot of things that bring us all in.

CHURCH: That's right, and we can all be part of it. I'm Rosemary Church. Thanks for watching.

CLANCY: I'm Jim Clancy. This is CNN.

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