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00:00:02:15 Aside from the gunman themselves, who do you believe was responsible for the terrorist attacks against Mumbai? Zardari: Larry I think these are stateless actors who have been operating all throughout the region. The gunmen plus the planners who ever they are, stateless actors who have been holding hostage the whole world. LK: So the state of Pakistan is in no way responsible, you are saying, right? Zardari: In the state of Pakistan in no way responsible that I believe even the White House and the American CIA have said that today. The state of Pakistan is of course not involved. We are part of the victims Larry. I'm a victim, the state of Pakistan is a victim, we are the victims of this war and I am sorry for the Indians and I feel sorry for them. I've seen this pain, I feel this pain every time I see my children, I can see it in their eyes. This pain lives with me because of my wife and we are going through in Pakistan. LK: What do you know about this lone surviving attacker, the man that's in custody, is he definitely a Pakistani? Zardari: Not as yet, we have not been given any tangible proof to say that he is def. a Pakistani. I very much doubt it Larry that he is a Pakistani. (1:16) /

NAME: GAZ ZOO 20051128I TAPE: EF05/1055 IN_TIME: 10:26:15:19 DURATION: 00:02:09:17 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION DATELINE: Gaza City, 28 Nov 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1. Remaining lion cub called Sakher looking through cage bars 2. Sakher lying down alone 3. Zoo keeper playing with Sakher 4. Sakher crouching and running to play 5. Sakher playing with nylon sheet 6. Soud al-Shawaa, Director of the Gaza Zoo, overseeing maintenance work at the zoo 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Soud al-Shawaam, Director of Gaza Zoo: "A gang of armed people stole the lion and two Arabic speaking parrots and it is unfortunate that there are no armed guards for this newly established zoo but now we are forced to put armed guards in place to keep our animals and birds." 9. Parrots cage 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Soud al-Shawaa, Director of Gaza Zoo saying: "He was shocked, he also refused to eat his meat and is looking sad all the time, he is looking for his partner to come back to Gaza zoo." 11. Various of Gaza Zoo Director, Soud al-Shawaa in office 12. Pictures of Sabrina and Sakher on computer screen 13. Various of Sakher playing with teddy bear 14. Sakher in the cage STORYLINE A lion hunt is underway in Gaza after gunmen snatched a young lioness from the local zoo. The cub, called Sabrina, was seized two weeks ago, leaving her playmate Sakher confused and lonely, according to zoo officials. Four gunmen overpowered a zoo keeper before throwing a blanket over Sabrina and making their getaway. Zoo director Soud al-Shawaa said the gang also took two "talking" parrots, who can utter phrases in Arabic. Palestinian officials chose not to reveal the theft until now, hoping they could trace the kidnappers. The zoo has now offered a 1000 US dollar reward for the return of Sabrina and the two parrots. Soud al-Shawaa said Sakher is missing his playmate. "He was shocked, he also refused to eat his meat and is looking sad all the time, he is looking for his partner to come back to Gaza zoo," he said. Palestinian police think the animals are still alive and have been hidden somewhere in the Gaza strip. Sabrina reportedly weighs around 20 kilograms, but when fully grown could reach 130 kilograms. There are suspicions the lion cub was kidnapped to be kept as a mascot by a mafia-style criminal gang. The new zoo opened last month and the lions were its main attraction.

DOUG FRATTALLONE TELLS US ABOUT A SPINOFF OF THE X-FILES

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TAPE: EF02/0771 IN_TIME: 22:55:59 DURATION: 1:34 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Sugam - 11 Sept 2002 SHOTLIST: Sugam, Jammu and Kashmir State 1. Ambulance carrying injured driving past 2. Mid shot of body of minister Mushtaq Ahmed Lone 3. Close of face 4. Man beating chest and crying beside body 5. Women crying 6. Body surrounded by people 7. Man wiping tears 8. Woman crying and singing 9. Woman being consoled 10. Public gathered 11. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Saifuddin, Eyewitness: "He was just ending his speech. Suddenly there was a burst of gunfire. I was standing behind Lone. There was a pillar behind which I hid." 12. Lone's sister screaming hysterically 13. Relative entering 14. Various of soldier 15. Wide of public and tent in background STORYLINE: Suspected Islamic militants gunned down a state minister and 15 others in separate attacks on Wednesday in the run-up to crucial state elections in Kashmir, according to police. Mushtaq Ahmad Lone, law minister for Jammu-Kashmir state,was killed in a hail of gunfire while addressing an election rally in a school building in Lalpora. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior police officer said an explosion went off and two gunmen burst out of a rice paddy firing machine guns. Lone, who was a candidate in the upcoming state legislature elections, was hit in the first burst of gunfire, along with a police officer guarding him. The minister's security forces returned fire, but by the time the gun battle was over, Lone, five police officers and one civilian were dead. Eight other people were injured in the attack some 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Srinagar. The gunmen escaped. Two Islamic militant groups, Lashkar-e-Tayyaba, the largest Pakistan-based group operating in Kashmir, and the previously unknown Al-Arifeen Squad, both claimed responsibility for the attack. Suspected insurgents also opened fire at a bus station in Surankot, a town 200 kilometres (125 miles) northwest of Jammu, the state's winter capital, killing at least nine people, including four Border Security Force soldiers and a 12-year-old boy, according to police. The assailants fled. The rebels, who have been fighting for either an independent state or a merger with Pakistan, have intensified attacks on politicians defying their call to boycott the elections that begin next Monday. On Tuesday, insurgents attacked two National Conference leaders, but they survived. The Indian government, however, hopes that peaceful and transparent voting will ease violence and deflate support for the separatist movement. Some 32-thousand paramilitary soldiers have been deployed across the state to prevent violence during the polls. Lone was also one of the most heavily guarded men in Kashmir - with dozens of soldiers constantly surrounding him - and his killing was a sign to other candidates that they are not safe. With Lone dead, the election in the Lolab constituency will be postponed, according to Dheeraj Gupta, deputy chief election officer.

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THE BASTILLE DAY ATTACK IN NICE IS THE THIRD MAJOR TERROR ATTACK IN FRANCE IN THE LAST 16 MONTHS.
WHY DO THESE ATTACKS KEEP HAPPENING IN FRANCE?
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 Attack in Nice: New terror in France months after mass shooting
 By Faith Karimi
 CNN
 (CNN) -- First, it was a magazine office and a kosher food market. Then a concert venue, football stadium and terrace restaurants. Now it"s the seaside city of Nice.
 Since the beginning of last year, terrorists have targeted France in a series of shootings and bombings mostly aimed at social scenes, including a November massacre that killed at least 130 people. 
 Before a truck rammed through a crowd in the beach city of Nice on Thursday night, leaving more than 80 people dead, previous attacks shared one connection: the claims of responsibility by Islamist extremists. 
 While it"s unclear who was behind the attack in Nice, it occurred on a French national holiday, Bastille Day, largely considered France"s Independence Day. 
 It struck at the heart of a city considered a tourist hotspot for its beautiful beaches and vibrant crowds. 
 And like previous attacks, it left a stunned nation reeling from yet another mass killing and its people asking: Why France again? 

 Attack in Nice

 The latest, horrifying attack on French soil was carried out by a man driving a truck in Nice on Thursday. 
 Hundreds, if not thousands, of people were out in the streets, celebrating Bastille Day with fireworks and a beachfront concert.
 After the last firework fizzled, an apparent lone driver in a large white truck first opened fire into the crowd before plowing through horrified tourists and residents along one of the city"s main thoroughfares.
 Although the road was cordoned off, the man drove for more than a mile along the crowded waterfront before police shot him.
 The dead included several children. 
 No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. 

 November attacks

 Not too long before the attacks in Nice, France was in mourning and under a state of emergency after terrorists targeted a crowded concert hall, a football stadium and terrace restaurants in Paris on November 13. 
 The attackers, armed with assault rifles and explosives, targeted six locations across the city.
 In the deadliest of the incidents, three attackers raided the Bataclan concert venue and opened fire during a performance by the U.S. band Eagles of Death Metal. They fired on people as they lay on the floor, writhing in pain from gunshot wounds.
 By the time French police stormed the building, at least 89 people were dead. 
 Another attacker targeted a soccer stadium in a suburb north of Paris, where French President François Hollande was watching France play Germany -- but he was safely evacuated.
 Other terrorists stormed four restaurants in Paris, firing assault weapons on people sitting on the terraces, eating and drinking. 
 In all, at least 130 people were killed and hundreds more wounded.
 French officials said the ringleader was a Belgian of Moroccan descent who lived in Brussels. He was killed in a police raid in a Paris suburb three days after the attacks. 
 ISIS claimed responsibility. 

 Magazine office attack

 The three days of terror started with a massacre at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on January 7 last year -- followed by an intensive hunt for the attackers. 
 On the first day, gunmen raided the magazine"s office in Paris, killing 12 people. They said they were avenging the Prophet Mohammed after the magazine irked some with its past caricatures of him. 
 The next day, a French policewoman was gunned down in a Paris suburb.
 On the third and final day, terrorists seized a Jewish grocery store, killing four hostages. 
 French officials said the attackers were three French-born citizens of Algerian descent, and a French-born citizen of Senegalese descent. 
 Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed responsibility for the attack 


 Failed attempts

 Some attackers have tried and failed -- like the attempted mass shooting aboard the Thalys train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris in August. Three Americans, a UK citizen and a French national helped thwart the shooting and subdue the gunman. No one was killed. 
 In January, after a year of jihadist violence, police shot dead a man armed with a knife who tried to enter a Paris police station on the anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo magazine attacks. A paper image of the ISIS flag was found on his body, Paris prosecutors said. 

 Why France?

 CNN terrorism analyst Paul Cruickshank said no nation in the West faces as many terror threats as France. 
 "They are absolutely exhausted after a year and a half of intense efforts to try and protect this country," he said. "The police and army have been at maximum deployment and Nice is one of the cities that was hosting some of the big games of the Euro 2016, so it was already on high alert." 
 While the identity of the Nice attacker is unknown, experts say previous major terror attacks have been carried out by terrorists from disenfranchised communities. 
 "You have a very large disaffected North African community. They are French citizens now ... but they"ve been excluded from French society," Robert Baer, a former CIA operative, told CNN"s Don Lemon Thursday night. 
 "I went to school in France ... I worked there and they are really totally excluded," Baer added.
 "And it keeps getting worse since the attacks in Paris because (police) are using profiling and they are stopping people who look like Arabs on trains and buses, checking their IDs, which we don"t even do in this country. The French have been very aggressive ... radicalization of people of North African origin is actually picking up rather than lessening."

 "Confined neighborhoods"

 Tom Fuentes, a former FBI assistant director who served on the executive board of Interpol, said homegrown terrorism is a major concern in Europe. 
 "We have third-generation immigrants that came there from Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Tunisia ... and even when their children are born in France and their children"s children are born in France, they don"t consider themselves French," he said.
 "These immigrant populations stay in confined neighborhoods and only assimilate with each other and aren"t accepted into the general population."
 Cruickshank said Nice was probably targeted because Paris has intensified its security and the attacker zeroed in on unexpected targets. 
 "The problem is, you can"t get inside the heads of these terrorists to know precisely where they"re going to be targeting people next," he said. "You can"t predict unless you"re inside the planning of those attacks."

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NEW YORK POLICE ARE STILL TRYING TO DISCOVER HOW A LONE GUNMEN, WHO WAS SHOT DEAD AFTER WOUNDING FOUR COPS, MANAGED TO BUILD UP A HUGE ARSENAL OF WEAPONS.

TAPE: EF02/0434 IN_TIME: 22:34:55 DURATION: 2:51 SOURCES: APTN/PTV RESTRICTIONS: DATELINE: Various, 22 May 2002 SHOTLIST: APTN Srinagar, Jammu-Kashmir State, India 1. Wide shot of coffin of Abdul Ghani Lone and funeral procession 2. Various of mourners APTN Srinagar, Jammu-Kashmir State, India 3. Coffin of Abdul Ghani Lone being carried by crowd of mourners 4. Mid shot of coffin being carried by crowd of mourners 5. Wide shot of coffin being carried by crowd of mourners 6. Mourners chanting 7. Long shot of coffin being carried by mourners APTN Kupwara, Jammu-Kashmir State, India 8. Various of Indian Army troops 9. Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, shaking hands with members of army 10. Indian flag 11. Various of Vajpayee inspecting weapons APTN New Delhi, India 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson, Nirupama Rao "We've seen how a large number of terrorist cadres have been released. Terrorist leaders reportedly under 'arrest' continue to function and direct their cadres. And training camps have been relocated and reopened." 13. Cutaway 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson, Nirupama "Our patience with terrorism has been exhausted. Since December 13 the steps we have taken to deal with the situation that confronts us have been measured and have been gradual. No one in India takes the possibility of war lightly." PTV Islamabad, Pakistan 15. Various of Musharraf at cabinet meeting STORYLINE: India warned its nuclear rival Pakistan on Wednesday that it's not bluffing about a "decisive battle" against terrorism and told its soldiers on the tense Kashmir border to be ready for sacrifice. Meanwhile tens of thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of Abdul Ghani Lone, a Muslim separatist leader killed by gunmen in Kashmir on Tuesday. Lone, the leading Kashmiri peace advocate, was killed by masked gunmen during a ceremony marking the murder of another independence leader 12 years ago. The killing came shortly after the Indian Prime Minster Vajpayee arrived in Kashmir on Tuesday to inspect security measures there amid increasing tensions with neighbouring Pakistan. Lone, a moderate, soft-spoken Muslim separatist leader, had sought dialogue with India to bring self-determination to Kashmir, the only Muslim majority state in predominantly Hindu India. Meanwhile, India's prime minister told soldiers on the tense Kashmir frontier to prepare for a "decisive battle" against Pakistan-supported Islamic insurgents, sending a warning to its nuclear-armed neighbour. Vajpayee said that India has been forced to fight a proxy war with Pakistan, which New Delhi accuses of training and arming the Islamic militants who have waged a battle for Kashmir's independence or merger with Pakistan for 12 years. Islamabad says it has no control over the militants and only supports the ideology of the "freedom fighters." Speaking to reporters in New Delhi, Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Nirupama Rao rejected Pakistani accusations of warmongering saying Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf had not failed keep to his January pledge to rein in Islamic extremists. Rao called for negotiations to ease tensions between the rivals who have fought two wars over the disputed Himalayan region, but said India too was prepared for war.

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<p><b>--SUPERS</b>--</p>\n<p>:00 </p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour</p>\n<p>London</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>:39 </p>\n<p>Jan Egeland</p>\n<p>Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council:</p>\n<p></p>\n<p>1:32</p>\n<p>Mark Regev</p>\n<p>Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister</p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--SOT</b>--</p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: Ok. That's your view. Nobody else has actually said that. You are going to have it under review and others will probably as well. But let me play for you then Jan Egeland, the Secretary General, the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who basically says that trucks are still lined up at borders, there aren't enough entrance points from the Israeli-Gaza side, and that so much minute checking is happening as to make these entrances really rare. This is what he said to me and he said it's up to Israel plus America and to an extent Egypt to fix this situation. </p>\n<p>Jan Egeland, Secretary General, Norwegian Refugee Council: There is very little aid. There is very little supplies there to start with. So famine is breaking out there. There is no other way to describe it which again shows that the Karni crossing, which is also from Israel, Israel could fix this. They are the occupying power. They have the overwhelming military superiority. They could have convoys going over Karni Crossing which is in the middle area from where you can easily reach the north. It's very hard from here south in Rafah and Karen Shalom. </p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: So, Mark, ABC News reports that you are considering opening the Karni Crossing. And last month, the Biden administration was said to have asked you to open the Erez Crossing. Is that going to happen? </p>\n<p>Mark Regev, Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister: So, I can't announce anything before it's decided, but I can tell you that those reports are correct in that. Israel wants to work with the international community to make sure the aid gets in. And I repeat what you've heard me say before, the people of Gaza, we don't want to harm them, we want to see them receive the aid that they require. And there are logistic issues. There are problems on the ground. I think of course, we've got to focus on getting the aid into Gaza. But as today's incident shows we have to work to make sure that aid is effectively distributed. There's no point to have aid come into Gaza and it's just gonna cause problems. So we have to do both those tasks and we as a government are committed in doing so. </p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: So Jan Egeland says that when they take their trucks in and he says, thankfully theirs haven't been looted, he says they have a system, they have a delivery delivery route, they have a distribution route and they know what they are doing. He also said that they cannot move up north, that the Israeli checkpoints have prevented them from moving up north where the most dire situation is. We, CNN, have also conducted an investigation with all the geolocations and everything else which show that Israel fired on an aid convoy February the fifth. So there is a lot of insecurity that most say are coming from you. He also said that Hamas has their food. That's in the tunnels, that's with them. It's got nothing to do with the civilians. So this is about civilians trying to receive aid. So these are facts, and when you say you want to take more aid in, I mean, seeing is believing. How are the people, how is anybody meant to, you know, believe that you want it if it's not going in? </p>\n<p>Mark Regev, Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister: So it is going in and more will be going in. That's our commitment. Do you think we have an interest in starvation in the Gaza? </p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: I don't know. </p>\n<p>Mark Regev, Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister: Of course, we don't. </p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: Ok. I don't know, I just don't understand it. </p>\n<p>Mark Regev, Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister: No, no, no. I think we are screening trucks, we are sending trucks in the backlog is often on the Gaza side of the frontier because of all sorts of logistic issues. But to say that the UN aid going into Gaza that Hamas is not stealing it, that's just simply not true. The people of Gaza, they say that the that Hamas is stealing the aid. They're the people in Gaza, unfortunately, with guns they can take what they want and that's an unfortunate reality.</p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: So the question is then have you disarmed Hamas or not? I mean, this is five months. Have you, are you close to destroying them and preventing this? This is your whole raison d'etre and civilians are paying. So, have you? How much have you destroyed them? </p>\n<p>Mark Regev, Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister: So, Hamas has 24 battalions. We've taken apart 18 and we're well on the way to finishing the job. Obviously, we can discuss separately. There are Hamas battalions in Rafah that are still intact and we'll have to deal with them when the time is right. But Hamas' military machine is an organized fighting force is being crippled. What you do have unfortunately is you can have lone gunmen or small squads of people who can steal aid, who can cause problems, who can even fire a rocket here and there, they can shoot at our forces, but we are winning this war. It's only a matter of time, bit of patience, this can be over. </p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: So a bit of patience as you know, the international community and your biggest backers, the US are urging no ground offensive into Rafah. Have you made a decision? Has the government made a decision to, you know, go into Rafah? And if so when? And added to that, do you think that there will be this ceasefire that has been talked about? </p>\n<p>Mark Regev, Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister: First of all, the ceasefire is dependent on a deal with the hostages. And unfortunately, I'd like to be optimistic. We're ready for a deal to bring our hostages home. We want to see our hostages come home. We're willing to pay a price, even a price that is difficult for Israel, which is painful for Israel, but to get our hostages home, we're willing to do that. But Hamas has to be, you know, a part of a serious negotiation and unfortunately, so far it's not clear that they are. And I'd like to tell you, I'm optimistic that we can get such a deal which will bring a ceasefire. Unfortunately, I have to be doubtful today. It's not clear that Hamas wants a deal. If they're serious, like in November, we can get a deal. But it's not clear to me at all today that Hamas is serious.</p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: And Rafah? When will we see that? </p>\n<p>Mark Regev, Special Adviser to the Israeli Prime Minister: So, here, I think with respect, I think you may be simplified the American position. The American position, which is actually, I think in many ways identical to the Israeli position, is that we can go into Rafah, we need to go into Rafah because there are those Hamas battalions there and you've got to finish the job. But we said we will create a humanitarian corridor and we'll find a safe place for the people in Gaza that we don't want to see civilians caught up in the crossfire between us and Hamas, not in Rafah, not in any part of Gaza. </p>\n<p>Christiane Amanpour, London: Right. Well, clearly, obviously, I assume that what happened today will be a learning moment for trying to do something like that on a much, much bigger scale if you say you have a plan. Mark Reveg, thank you for being with us.</p>\n<p><b>-----END-----CNN.SCRIPT-----</b></p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--KEYWORD TAGS--</b></p>\n<p>ISRAEL PRIME MINISTER GAZA HAMAS WAR AID </p>\n<p></p>\n<p><b>--MUSIC INFO---</b></p>\n<p></p>

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