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In the shadow of Jackie Kennedy
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1960s/1970s HAMPTONS LIFESTYLE BEACH SCENES, HOME MOVIES. ASPARAGUS BEACH. AMAGANSETT, SOUTHAMPTON, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK.
RICARDO CAPUTO/ SERIAL KILLER (1994)
HEARING FOR ACCUSED SERIAL KILLER RICARDO CAPUTO REGARDING COMPETENCY HEARING. HE TURNED HIMSELF IN LAST WEEK AFTER TWENTY YEARS ON THE RUN AND HAS ADMITTED TO KILLING HIS GIRLFRIEND AND THREE OTHER WOMEN IN THE 1970S.
US Mafia - Police in Italy and US arrest dozens of suspects in mafia raids
NAME: US MAFIA 20080207I TAPE: EF08/0149 IN_TIME: 10:51:54:17 DURATION: 00:01:46:18 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/Pool DATELINE: New York, 7 Feb 2008 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST AP Television 1. Wide exterior of Federal Building 2. Mid of suspects walking, escorted by FBI (US Federal Bureau of Investigation) officials 3. Wide of building housing US Attorney's office 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Benton Campbell, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York "Twenty-five defendants - all members and associates of the Gambino family - are charged with racketeering and conspiracy which includes predicate acts of: murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, felony murder, robbery, extortion, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, securities fraud, mail fraud, loan sharking, theft of union benefits, illegal gambling and bribery." 5. Photographer 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Gordon Heddell, Inspector General, US Department of Labour "This investigation exposed the alleged grip that the Gambino organised crime family has had over one of the largest construction markets in the United States, from small private projects to large scale public works contracts. This involved the trucks that moved construction material and debris throughout the entire New York City region." 7. Close up suspects walking, escorted by FBI officials Pool ++MUTE++ 8. Mid of suspects walking STORYLINE: American and Italian authorities arrested dozens of people on Thursday in a round up of the remnants of New York's Gambino crime family, which was also intended to cripple a trans-Atlantic drug trafficking operation run by the Mafia. As part of one of law enforcement's biggest operations against the Mafia in recent memory, a federal grand jury in New York accused 62 people of ties to the Gambinos and murders, drug trafficking, robberies, extortion, and other crimes dating back to the 1970s. "Twenty-five defendants - all members and associates of the Gambino family - are charged with racketeering and conspiracy which includes predicate acts of: murder, attempted murder, murder conspiracy, felony murder, robbery, extortion, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and marijuana, securities fraud, mail fraud, loan sharking, theft of union benefits, illegal gambling and bribery," US Attorney Benton Campbell said. The international law enforcement operation, code-named "Old Bridge," was centred on New York and the Sicilian capital of Palermo, targeting Mafia figures who were strengthening contacts between mob groups in Italy and the United States. "This investigation exposed the alleged grip that the Gambino organised crime family has had over one of the largest construction markets in the United States, from small private projects to large scale public works contracts. This involved the trucks that moved construction material and debris throughout the entire New York City region," said Gordon Heddell, Inspector General of the US Department of Labour. The sprawling US indictment covers gangland killings from the days when the Gambino family was run by Paul Castellano, who was murdered in 1985. Some of the charges allege more recent crimes including credit fraud conspiracies and theft of union benefits. In the 170-page indictment, authorities allege that associates of the crime family extorted people in the construction industry, embezzled from labour unions and engaged in loansharking and bookmaking. The massive investigation also includes charges brought in state court. The federal indictment's targets include a list of well-known mobsters and people believed to be top leaders in the Gambino clan, some of whom have already served prison time. Among those sought was the reputed acting boss of the Gambino family, John "Jackie the Nose" D'Amico, who is accused of playing a lead role in a broad racketeering conspiracy. The investigation and arrests had ensnared whatever members of the Gambino crime hierarchy were still at liberty, Campbell said. Many of the charges relate to the activities of a Staten Island cement business, whose owner was identified in the indictment only as "John Doe No. 4." Prosecutors allege that mob figures extorted the owner for money and jobs, and interfered with several of his business ventures. The indictment charges reputed Gambino soldier Charles Carneglia with five killings over three decades, including that of Albert Gelb, a state court officer who was gunned down on March 11, 1976. Prosecutors have long claimed that Gelb was murdered in retaliation for making an off-duty arrest of Carneglia after he spotted him in a restaurant wearing a gun. Previous attempts to prosecute Gambino associates for the killing, including Carneglia's brother, ended in failure. As of Thursday morning, the FBI had arrested 54 people in New York City and its northern suburbs, New Jersey and Long Island. Among the 29 people sought in Italy were members of clans linked to Salvatore Lo Piccolo, the Sicilian Mafia boss arrested in November, Italian officials said. When Lo Piccolo was arrested, investigators warned that as part of his attempt to become the Cosa Nostra's next "boss of bosses," he had been working to mend ties with US-Italian clans such as the Gambinos and the Inzerillos. Those relations were wrecked during Sicily's internal Mafia war of the 1980s and the rise of the Corleonesi clan, which dominated the Cosa Nostra until the arrests of boss Salvatore "Toto" Riina in 1993 and his successor Bernardo Provenzano in 2006. Named in arrest warrants issued by U.S. authorities were Gambino associates including Domenico Cefalu' and Frank Cali, described as the main contact between the Cosa Nostra in Sicily and the United States. The Gambino crime family has been the subject of a steady stream of government indictments and prosecutions since its late don, John Gotti, was sentenced to life in prison in 1992. One acting boss after another has gone to prison, including Gotti's son, John Gotti Junior, who was not named in this most recent indictment. In the government's last high-profile attack on the family, the younger Gotti, freed after completing his prison term, was tried three times on charges that he conspired to murder the radio talk show host Curtis Sliwa for insulting his father. Each trial ended in a hung jury and prosecutors finally gave up the case last year.
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Amazing: [show of 24 April 2017]
RICARDO CAPUTO / SERIAL KILLER (1994)
ADMITTED SERIAL KILLER RICARDO CAPUTO TURNS HIMSELF IN AFTER TWENTY YEARS ON THE RUN. HE’S SAYS HE KILLED FOUR WOMEN IN THE 1970S.
BUD WIRTSCHAFTER
POV DRIVING UP TO THE BEACH. LONG ISLAND BEACH IN THE TOWN OF AMAGANSETT, NEW YORK - THE HAMPTONS. WHERE SINGLES GO TO MEET AND TRY TO PICK EACH OTHER UP. CU SINGLES MAGAZINE IN THE SAND. MAN EXPLAINS ASPARAGUS MONIKER, EVERYONE STANDS UP AT THIS BEACH. HIPPIES SMOKING POT, HAND JOINT AROUND. MARIJUANA. GIRL SHOWS HER COPY OF MY SECRET LIFE. LATE 1960S/EARLY 1970s FASHIONS, SINGLES LIFESTYLES. PEOPLE INTERVIEWED. LIFEGUARD STAND.
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Docu No. 141 - Tomi Ungerer crunches New York
BEACH EROSION SETTLEMENT (4/20/1994)
After years of battling various government agencies like the Corps of Engineers, the Mayor has finally won agreements to allow homeowners on the thin strand of sand, who have lost everything due to storms, to rebuild. Three hundred properties on Dune Road will be restored by the Corps in exchange for the homeowners dropping a $150 million lawsuit against them and the county. The suit charged a series of jetties built by the Corps in the 1970's caused the severe erosion conditions which allowed nearly 150 homes to be swept into the ocean. The jetties were never completed, and the lawsuit was initially filed in 1973. -
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: USA: ROCK AND ROLL INDUCTION
TAPE_NUMBER: EN9911 IN_TIME: 10:48:30 LENGTH: 05:02 SOURCES: APTN/VH1 RESTRICTIONS: MUSIC/PERFORMANCE RIGHTS MUST BE CLEARED FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: xfa English/Nat NEW YORK, 15TH MARCH ENG/NATSOT SEVENTIES STARS DOMINATE CEREMONY ======================================= Three singers who dominated the airwaves in the 1970s - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, PAUL MCCARTNEYand BILLY JOEL - joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with sixties diva, DUSTY SPRINGFIELD, who died two weeks ago. Springsteen reunited with his E STREET BAND for a brief set of '70s era classics, and McCartney - joined onstage by his impatient fashion designer daughter, STELLA, - paid tribute to his late wife, LINDA. "I would like my baby to share this with me," McCartney said. "She wanted this." But not as much as Stella it seemed. She wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "about f***ing time." Inducted by Neil Young, McCartney, whose former songwriting partner JOHN LENNON has already been inducted into the hall for his solo work, said GEORGE (HARRISON) and RINGO (STARR) should be next. Later, during a jam session that stretched past midnight, McCartney performed the Carl Perkins classic, "Blue Suede Shoes." He was backed by a band including Bruce Springsteen - a fellow inductee at the ceremony - and ERIC CLAPTON, who worked with McCartney back in the late Sixties as he produced The Beatles' White Album. Other guest stars included BONO, THE BAND'S ROBBIE ROBERTSON, BONNIE RAITT, MELISSA ETHERIDGE, WILSON PICKETT and Billy Joel, who was also inducted last night. Paul also performed a rousing version of RAY CHARLES' What I Say. And in tribute to the man who holds the world record for the greatest number of gold discs, with 82, Paul's record company EMI chose the occasion to release a special limited edition of BAND ON THE RUN, generally recognised to be Paul's greatest post-Beatles moment. The new edition of the album features songs never before released. Paul has dedicated the anniversary edition of Band On The Run to "My beautiful Linda and her indomitable spirit". The ceremony at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel provided the chance of a warm-up gig for Springsteen and his E Street Band, who are due to kick off their first tour in a decade next month. U2's Bono inducted Springsteen with a rambling speech that recalled how Springsteen had never embarrassed himself: "No bad hair period, even in the '80s, no blood transfusions in Switzerland" he said. Springsteen was judged rock 'n' roll's saviour upon the release of "Born to Run" in 1975 and hit his commercial peak with "Born in the USA" in 1984. The E Street Band did not join Springsteen as inductees because under Hall of Fame rules, artists aren't eligible until 25 years after their first record, and the band didn't receive billing on a Springsteen record until 1986. Springsteen paid tribute to each band member in his acceptance speech and thanked his mother, who was in the audience, for buying him his first guitar one Christmas. He also thanked his father, who died in 1998, with whom he had a contentious relationship. "If everything had gone great between us, what would I have written about?" he said. "I tried to write happy songs in the early '90s, but it didn't work. The people didn't like it." . Sir Elton John inducted Dusty Springfield, recalling how he joined her fan club and stuck her pictures on his bedroom wall. "Every song she sang, she claimed as her own," said John. The British singer lost her long battle with breast cancer just ten days before her induction. Her hits included "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me." Her critical reputation deepened when she travelled to Memphis to record "Son of a Preacher Man" in 1968. Ray Charles inducted Billy Joel, the Piano Man who burst out of Long Island with a rocker's swagger and Tin Pan Alley songwriting skill. The wedding standard "Just the Way You Are," "Uptown Girl" and "We Didn't Start the Fire" are among his hits. Joel gave a long hug to Ray Charles, who inducted him. Joel said he learned his music from Charles, Otis Redding, and Wilson Pickett. Although he continues to perform, Joel hasn't written a pop song in more than five years while he concentrates on classical composing. Other inductees included "Superfly" singer CURTIS MAYFIELD, already in the hall as a member of the Impressions; DEL SHANNON, who made "Runaway" a hit in 1961; and the gospel group THE STAPLES SINGERS. Blues artist CHARLES BROWN and the Western swing band BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS were honored as early influences. Beatles producer GEORGE MARTIN was saluted in the non-performing category. The names of Hall of Fame honorees are on permanent exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, which opened in 1995. SHOTLIST: SHOWS : BILLY JOEL PERFORMS 'GOOD DIE YOUNG' ; RAY CHARLES INDUCTS BILLY JOEL ; JOEL AND CHARLES EMBRACE ; CA PAUL MCCARTNEY AND STELLA MCCARTNEY IN AUDIENCE ; SOT JOEL ; MELISSA ETHERIDGE PERFORMS DUSTY SPRINGFIELD'S 'PREACHER MAN' ; SOT ELTON JOHN ; SOT LAURYN HILL INDUCTS STAPLE SINGERS ; CA BUSTA RHYMES IN AUDIENCE ; SOT PUFF DADDY INDUCTS CURTIS MAYFIELD ; SOT MAYFIELD ON TAPED STATEMENT ; ERIC CLAPTON AND D'ANGELO PERFORM 'KEEP ON TRUCKIN'' ; SOT BONO INDUCTING BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ; WS AUDITORIUM ; SOT SPRINGSTEEN ; NEIL YOUNG INDUCTS PAUL MCCARTNEY ; MCCARTNEY ON STAGE ; STELLA JOINS MCCARTNEY ON STAGE ; SOT MCCARTNEY ; CA BONO IN AUDIENCE ; JOEL STARTS SINGING 'LET IT BE' ; SOT JOEL ; MCCARTNEY AND ALL STAR BAND PERFORM LET IT BE ?
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Jamaica Arrest 2
AP-APTN-0930: Jamaica Arrest 2 Wednesday, 23 June 2010 STORY:Jamaica Arrest 2- REPLAY Fugitive drug lord arrested, awaits extradition to US LENGTH: 02:55 FIRST RUN: 0630 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: VARIOUS STORY NUMBER: 649233 DATELINE: Kingston - 22 June 2010/ Recent LENGTH: 02:55 AP PHOTOS / THE JAMAICA GLEANER - NO ACCESS JAMAICA/ NO ACCESS CANADA/ FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE JAMAICA TV - NO ACCESS JAMAICA SHOTLIST ++NEW (FIRST RUN 0630 ASIA PRIME NEWS - 23 JUNE 2010) JAMAICA TV - NO ACCESS JAMAICA Kingston - 22 June 2010 1. Various of police helicopter carrying alleged drug baron Christopher "Dudus" Coke flying over Kingston (FIRST RUN 0530 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2010) JAMAICA TV - NO ACCESS JAMAICA Kingston - 22 June 2010 2. Wide of news conference by police commissioner Owen Ellington 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Owen Ellington, Jamaican police commissioner: "Christopher Lloyd Coke, in respect of whom the police are holding a warrant of arrest for the commencement of extradition proceedings, was arrested this afternoon at four (o'clock). He was arrested by a party of policemen manning a vehicle checkpoint along the Mandela Highway and they were acting on intelligence." (FIRST RUN 0530 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2010) AP PHOTOS / THE JAMAICA GLEANER - NO ACCESS JAMAICA/ NO ACCESS CANADA/ FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE Location and date unknown 4. STILL: showing alleged drug kingpin Christopher "Dudus" Coke, facing extradition to the United States on drug and arms trafficking charges (FIRST RUN 0530 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2010) JAMAICA TV - NO ACCESS JAMAICA Kingston - 22 June 2010 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Owen Ellington, Jamaican police commissioner: "The security forces are taking every step possible to assure his safety and wellbeing while he's in our custody. The legal proceedings will commence immediately. Once we are able to settle on the issue of legal representation and to reach an agreement with the director of public prosecutions on where the hearings will be held, a court date will be set. And we anticipate that we can achieve that within 48 hours." 6. Cutaway of reporters (FIRST RUN 0530 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2010) JAMAICA TV - NO ACCESS JAMAICA Kingston - 22 June 2010 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Owen Ellington, Jamaican police commissioner: "I'd like to appeal to the family, friends and sympathisers of Christopher Coke to remain calm and to allow the law to take its course. I'd also like to assure the citizens of Jamaica that the situation remains normal." (FIRST RUN 0530 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2010) JAMAICA TV - NO ACCESS JAMAICA FILE: Kingston - 23 May 2010 8. Police running along street AUDIO: gunshots, police taking cover behind vehicle 9. Police vehicle arrives at scene to support beleaguered officers 10. Various of police units advancing through streets 11. Wide of people on street, police trucks arriving in West Kingston (FIRST RUN 0530 NEWS UPDATE - 23 JUNE 2010) JAMAICA TV - NO ACCESS JAMAICA Kingston - 22 June 2010 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Owen Ellington, Jamaican police commissioner: "The circumstances of Christopher Coke's arrest today will be the subject of investigations at the very highest level and in this regard we are appealing to the Reverend Al Miller to make contacts with the police because we have an interest in interviewing him." 13. Wide of news conference STORYLINE Hunted by security forces across Jamaica, reputed drug baron Christopher "Dudus" Coke sought out a preacher's advice and tried to turn himself in to US marshals. He was caught by police at a highway checkpoint before he could get there. Now, Jamaica's top police officer is appealing for cool heads, urging Coke's supporters to allow the law to take its course following his arrest on Tuesday. Last month, fighting between security forces and gunmen loyal to the man dubbed by US authorities as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords killed 76 people. "I would like to appeal to the families, friends and sympathisers of Christopher Coke to remain calm," Jamaica Police Commissioner Owen Ellington said after the capture of the Caribbean island's number one fugitive, who eluded the bloody police offensive in his West Kingston shantytown stronghold. Security forces "are taking every step possible to assure his safety and wellbeing while he's in our custody," Ellington said on Tuesday night, adding that legal proceedings against Coke should get under way quickly. The 42-year-old Coke, who faces trial in New York on drug-trafficking and gunrunning charges, is said to fear suffering the same fate as his father, a gang leader who died in a prison fire in 1992 while awaiting extradition to the US on drug charges. Ellington said Coke was caught by police manning a vehicle checkpoint along a highway, but added that other circumstances of the arrest were being investigated. He said police were acting on intelligence. The Reverend Al Miller, an influential evangelical preacher who facilitated the surrender of Coke's brother earlier this month, told The Associated Press that Coke was heading to surrender to authorities at the US Embassy in Kingston when police stopped his convoy on a highway outside the capital. Miller said he had made arrangements with Coke's lawyers because he wanted to "go ahead with the extradition process." Miller said police took Coke to the nearby Spanish Town police headquarters, then flew him to Kingston. Last month, a US law enforcement official in New York, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the AP that a lawyer for Coke was negotiating with the Justice Department about his client's possible safe removal to New York to face charges. A phone listed for Coke's lead attorney, Don Foote, went unanswered. Coke is wanted in New York on charges that he trafficked cocaine and marijuana as well as weapons between this Caribbean island and the United States. Coke, who typically avoids the limelight, faces life in prison if convicted. Prime Minister Bruce Golding, whose Jamaica Labour Party has long counted on the support of gunmen inside Coke's stronghold in the Tivoli Gardens shantytown, opposed the US extradition request for nine months before reversing his position under growing public pressure that threatened his political career. His stand also strained relations with the US. Earlier this month, the main opposition party staged a no-confidence vote against Golding, which he survived after promising a sustained assault on the gangs that control poor politicised areas like Tivoli Gardens. Jamaica's political history is intertwined with shantytown gangs that the two main parties helped organise, and some say armed, in Kingston's poor neighbourhoods in the 1970s and '80s. The gangs controlled the streets and intimidated voters at election time. In recent years political violence has waned, and many of the killings in Kingston now are blamed on the drug and extortion trade. Coke was born into Jamaica's gangland. His father, known as Jim Brown, was the leader of the notorious Shower Posse, a cocaine-trafficking gang with members in Jamaica and the US that began operating in the 1980s and was named for its members' tendency to spray victims with bullets. The son took over from the father, US authorities allege. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 06-23-10 0529EDT
Millennium 73 Documentary Pt. 3 (1973)
A documentary that won the prestigious Columbia-duPont award for documentaries. It weaves information to provide a critical video exploration of the Guru Maharaj Ji, the sixteen-year-old leader of a cult-like new age group, the Divine Light Mission (DLM), and who is known to his followers as "The Lord of the Universe." It chronicles a gathering of his followers at Houston's Astrodome, as well as some of the beliefs and practices of his zealous supporters.
Jamaica Tension
AP-APTN-2330: Jamaica Tension Friday, 28 May 2010 STORY:Jamaica Tension- REPLAY Burned down market near Tivoli Gardens; angry residents LENGTH: 02:20 FIRST RUN: 2030 RESTRICTIONS: AP CLIENTS ONLY TYPE: Eng/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 646858 DATELINE: Kingston - 28 May 2010 LENGTH: 02:20 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of woman complaining about her burned stall in the market 2. Woman attempting to salvage something from the debris 3. Close of smouldering debris in the market place 4. Wide of burned out market place 5. Various of angry stall owners and neighbours at the market place 6. Bullet cases on the ground at the market 7. Armed soldiers arriving on site and going inside the market 8. People coming out of burned out market place 9. Wide of burned market 10. Man attempting to salvage something from the debris 11. Soldiers advancing through Tivoli Gardens neighbourhood 12. Soldiers questioning a man 13. Sniper on roof top, zoom out to soldiers speaking to the man 14. Exterior of May Pen cemetery 15. Various of wood coffins of people who died during recent shootings 16. Wide of woman complaining UPSOUND: ( English) "We are hungry, don't have anything to eat." 17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Vox Pop, local resident: "They (referring to the army) won't let us out, we can come out and buy food, we're hungry. We can't come out, still hostage." 18. Exterior of hospital 19. Police officers coming out of hospital STORYLINE: A mysterious fire in a sprawling Kingston market next to a police-occupied slum reduced stalls and produce to ashes on Friday. Kingston's Coronation Market was gutted in the early morning blaze, which is situated next to the bullet-pocked complex of Tivoli Gardens. Jamaican security forces have conducted raids on the Tivoli Gardens, that has left over 70 people dead in gun battles that began on Monday. Bullet casings were scattered at the gutted market as locals tried to salvage what they could from the smouldering remains of their stalls. Vendors have been avoiding the market since violence broke out on Sunday. However the government has been encouraging them to return. Heavily armed forces have gained tenuous hold on Tivoli Gardens in a hunt for reputed underworld boss Christopher "Dudus" Coke. Units of armed soldiers continue to search the neighbourhood house by house in search of Coke, who is wanted by the United States on drug and arms trafficking charges On Friday, soldiers stopped and searched people on the street looking for information that could lead them to the drug-lord though authorities believe he may have fled the country. The battle in Kingston erupted on Sunday and so far has left at least 73 people dead, according to the Deputy Police Chief Glenmore Hinds Hinds said that police and soldiers had found 73 "civilian" bodies, three of which might not have been killed in incidents related to the raid. He said three security officers were also killed in battles with gunmen loyal to Coke, who had nine months to prepare for an escape while Jamaica's prime minister wavered over US demands for his extradition. Police said that more than 500 people had been arrested in connection with the four days of fighting, most of them in Tivoli Gardens. Police were searching for weapons, but had found only six, along with seven thousand rounds of ammunition and some improvised explosives, according to Hinds. Some of the latest victims were buried on Friday morning at one of Kingston's cemeteries. Meanwhile, residents of Tivoli Gardens complained that due to the heavy shooting and the massive military presence they haven't been able to leave their houses and get food and supplies. The violence didn't surprise island police and community groups who warned that Coke had been stockpiling weapons and preparing to defend himself since the US demanded his extradition last August. According to the US indictment, Coke had built a private arsenal of firearms smuggled in by gang members in the United States, sharing guns with other criminals to solidify his power as a major underworld boss. American authorities say Coke has been trafficking cocaine to the streets of New York City since the mid-1990s, allegedly hiring island women to hide the drugs on themselves on flights to the US. Jamaican politicians and gang leaders who control ghetto fiefdoms have enjoyed cosy ties for decades. Political parties created Jamaica's street gangs in the 1970s to rustle up votes. Since then, the gangs have turned to drug trafficking, but they remain staunchly and often violently loyal to their parties and live in poor neighbourhoods called "garrisons". The slum presided over by Coke, the alleged leader of the "Shower Posse" gang, has long been a bastion of support for the governing Jamaica Labour Party. Police rarely, if ever, patrol inside Coke's slum. The last time they attempted to assert control inside Tivoli Gardens, in 2001, clashes between gunmen and security forces killed 25 civilians, a soldier and a constable. Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchive.com (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. APTN APEX 05-28-10 1939EDT
ACL-3030 Digibeta
BEACH FUN CORE - PART THREE
PRESIDENT BUSH SUPPORTS JESSE HELMS (1990)
B-ROLL OF PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH IN RALEIGH FOR SENATOR HELMS FUNDRAISING BREAKFAST.
File Castro 2 - Castro resigns as president after nearly a half-century
NAME: FILE CASTRO 2 20080219I TAPE: EF08/0198 IN_TIME: 10:18:00:14 DURATION: 00:09:41:16 SOURCES: CUBAVISION /Various DATELINE: Various - See Script RESTRICTIONS: See Script SHOTLIST ALL CUBAVISION MATERIAL IS NO ACCESS CUBA ALL AP STILLS - "No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile" CUBAVISION 1.Still photo of Fidel Castro during his infant years 2.Still photo of Fidel Castro as a youth 3.Two still photos of Fidel Castro during teenage years CUBAVISION - Isla de la Joventud - 1955 4..Amnesty for Fidel Castro - Fidel Castro walking out of the Presidio jail, Fidel, and face of Juan Almeida, Vice President of the Council of State and Comandante de la Revolucion, walking closest past the camera 5.Fidel and his younger brother Raul Castro, being embraced by supporters CUBA VISION - DATE UNKNOWN 6.Still photo of Fidel Castro organising revolution attempt in Moncada Moncada, 1953 - CUBAVISION 7. Storming of the Moncada barracks which led to the imprisonment Fidel and Raul Castro; Then leader, Batista soldiers entering barracks, bodies of rebels killed who tried to take over what was then Cuba's second fort Sierra Maestra mountains, Santiago de Cuba - 1959 - CUBAVISION 8.Fidel Castro in the mountains 9.Re-enacted footage of the arrival of Fidel and Raul Castro off the coast of Cuba, prior to the Revolution 10. Fidel broadcasting for Radio Rebelde (Rebel Radio), the mouthpiece of the revolutionary force 11. Raul Castro (in hat) active in the Sierra Maestra mountains with Vilma Espina, President of the Federation of Cuban Women 12. Various of Fidel Castro in the mountains with fellow fighters, then talking to Che Guevara, more fighters, standing alone Havana -1959 - CUBAVISION 13. Various of americans and Cubans leave Havana in commercial planes CUBAVISION - Havana -1959 14. Castro takes Havana - Fidel Castro entering Havana along the Malecon sea front avenue, Fidel on top of tank entering Havana waving crowd 15.Fidel on top of tank entering Havana 16.Fidel greeting female supporter of the Revolution 17.Fidel cheering along with supporters 18.Fidel Castro, Raul Castro, Che Guevara and Dr Oswaldo Dorticos, appointed President 1961 by Cuba's then Prime Minister Fidel Castro CUBAVISION - Various - 1960's 19.Literacy - Various of Cubans carrying out the Revolution's literacy programme, Fidel Castro giving diploma to literacy programme recipient 20.Fidel pausing after cutting sugar cane to take a drink in the cane fields 21.Che Guevara and Fidel Castro talking CUBAVISION - Havana - 1960's 21.Various of La Cobre explosion in the docks of Havana port, alleged anti revolutionary act of sabotage 22.Funeral of victims of La Cobre march, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Dr Oswaldo Dorticos at Funeral march Bay of Pigs footage - 1961 - CUBAVISION 23.Various of of military manoeuvres 24.Fidel Castro directing offensive 25.Various of of military manoeuvres 26.Various of victims of combat 27.More of military manoeuvres 28.Various of US aircraft shot down 29.Body of US pilot 30. Ship on fire during fighting 31.Various of invasion militia surrendering 32 Castro walking, smoking cigar during Bay of Pigs crisis 33.Newspaper headline "The Invasion smashed" CUBAVISION - New York -1960 34.Fidel Castro arrives in New York 35.Castro and Soviet Premier Nikita S. Krushchev 36.Various of Castro's visit to New York, his first to the U-S 37.Fidel Castro shaking hands with Vice President Richard Nixon in New York Havana -1962 - CUBAVISION Cuban Missile Crisis 38.U-S ships off the coast of Cuba, imposing the blockade 39.Various of defence installations and troops along Havana's Malecon (seafront avenue) U-N POOL - New York - 22 October 1995 40 Castro in New York for U-N's 50th birthday, Castro greeting with Russian President Boris Yeltsin 41. US President Clinton entering room and saluting 42. Pan from Castro to Clinton during lunch at separate tables AP Television - AP Clients only Havana - 1 May 1996 45. May Day parade AP Television Santa Clara - 17 October 1997 46. Wide shot of Che Guevara's statue AP Television Havana - 17 October 1997 47. Mid shot of march through Revolution Square AP Television Santa Clara - 17 October 1997 48. Close up Che Guevara's coffin 49. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban President: "Always until victory." VATICAN TV Vatican City, Rome 1996 50.. Various of Castro during visit to meet the Pope AP Television Havana - 24 January 1998 63. Medium shot of Pope John Paul II with Castro AP Television Havana -3 February 1998 64. Medium shot of people inside house watching Fidel Castro speech on television 65. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban president "I want to have the pleasure of thanking the Cuban people for the success of the papal visit." 66. Medium shot of Pope John Paull II and Castro POOL Miami, Florida - March 29, 2000 67. Elian Gonzales, shipwrecked Cuban boy, being carried on someone's shoulders outside Miami relatives' home, drapes himself with U-S flag AP STILL - No Access Canada/Internet Miami, Florida - April 22, 2000 68. Still of Elian being seized by federal agents from his Miami home ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet Miami, Florida - 22 April 2000 69. I-N-S Federal officers seizing Elian and bundling him into car CUBAVISION - Havana - 28 June 2000 70. Various of Elian's return to Havana CUBAVISION - Havana - 13 December 2000 APTN 71. Russian president Putin greeted by Castro IRIB - No Access Iran Tehran - 8 May 2001 72. Cuban President Fidel Castro shakes hands with Iranian President Khatami Libyan TV - No Access Libya Tripoli - 16 May 2001 73. Castro and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi saluting CUBAVISION - Havana - 12-17 May 2002 74. Wide shot of Former US President Jimmy Carter and Castro at airport ceremony 75. Close up Carter smiling at ceremony at Havana University 76. Mid shot Castro clapping 77.Carter signing document 78. Castro and Carter shake hands 79. Wide of Castro and Carter before Carter's departure 80. SOUNDBITE : (Spanish with English translation) Fidel Castro, Cuban Leader "All my life I believed in change. I promised, because we are always changing, but changing towards the future. We are looking ahead not backwards, all those have gone backwards in corruption and other things. We want to go forwards not backwards." CUBAVISION - 19 January 2003 81.Mid shot of Fidel Castro casting his vote for the National Assembly elections 82.Cutaway pf Castro speaking to reporters 83.SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban President: "Do you know where is the factory of dissidents in Cuba? In the US interests section. I can provide you 10-thousand pages of all data we have collected" 83. Mid shot of Cuban citizen casting her vote 84.Close up of sign saying " Election for congressmen and delegates" AP Television Havana, Cuba - 17 Dec 2004 85. Wide shot Malecon Avenue with US interests snowman and "75" sign - a reference to 75 dissidents jailed the year before 86. US Interests Section fence with "75" sign and Cuban guard AP Television - AP Clients only Havana - 30 January 2004 87.Castro arriving to anti-FTAA conference 88.SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban President: "We know that Mr. Bush committed himself with the mafia of the Cuban National Foundation to assassinate me. Simply, I said it once before and today I'll say it clearer: I accuse him!" 89.Cutaway of attendees 90.SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Fidel Castro, Cuban President: " I don't care how I die. But rest assured, if they invade us, I'll die in combat. Thank you." 91. Pull out from podium to audience AP Television Santa Clara - 20 Oct 2004 92. Wide shot audience 93. Castro walking and falls forward, aides rush to his side 94. Wide shot of audience 95. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba: "Dear guests, I ask for your forgiveness, for having fallen down." 96. Wide of audience applauding as Castro speaks 97. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Fidel Castro, President of Cuba: "Do not suspend this cultural event, there has been many artists working on this event. Please me, please. I don't want sadness, I want joy, I want happiness, happiness for all." 98. Wide shot of event Cubavision 30 October, 2006 99. Various of Fidel Castro appearing on camera after surgery, in a lift and holding a telephone Cubavision Havana, 31 January 2007 100. Chavez saluting Cuban President Fidel Castro as he walks into his hospital room 111. Chavez hugging Fidel 112. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President: "A strong hug, from millions (of people), you know? The hugs of millions. This is the hug of millions of people, not only me. I am here to express the sentiments of millions who admire you, who love you and need you and we follow you step by step." 113. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan President: "You are speaking with more strength now than when you went to Caracas 48 years ago. I have been calibrating your voice, checking the decibels." 114. SOUNDBITE (Spanish): Fidel Castro, Cuban President: "I hadn't learnt back then (to give speeches)." 115. Various of Castro and Chavez sitting talking Cubavision Havana 15 January 2008 116. Various of Castro meeting Brazilian President Inacio Lula da Silva meeting STORYLINE: An ailing Fidel Castro resigned as Cuba's president Tuesday after nearly a half-century in power, saying he will not accept a new term when the new parliament meets Sunday. "I will not aspire to nor accept - I repeat, I will not aspire to nor accept - the post of President of the Council of State and Commander in Chief," read a letter signed by Castro published early Tuesday in the online edition of the Communist Party daily Granma. The announcement effectively ends the rule of the 81-year-old Castro after almost 50 years, positioning his 76-year-old brother Raul for permanent succession to the presidency. Fidel Castro temporarily ceded his powers to his brother on July 31, 2006, when he announced that he had undergone intestinal surgery. He survived hundreds of assassination attempts, a U.S.-backed invasion at the Bay of Pigs and a standoff with Washington over Soviet missiles that pushed the world to the brink of nuclear war and the end of the Cold War. Castro came to power in the Cuban revolution on Jan. 1, 1959, and, monarchs excepted, was the world's longest ruling head of state. With his bushy beard, olive-green fatigues and cigar, Castro was for decades a living symbol of socialist revolution. The robust image lingered long after the beard turned white and scraggly and the cigar was abandoned for health reasons. The defiance, too, endured. "Socialism or death" remained his rallying cry even as Western-style democracy swept the globe and left the island of 11 million people an economically crippled Marxist curiosity. Fidel Castro Ruz was born in eastern Cuba's sugar country, where his Spanish immigrant father ran a prosperous plantation. His official birthday is Aug. 13, 1926, although some say he was born a year later. Castro attended Jesuit schools, then the University of Havana, where he received law and social science degrees. In 1948 he married Mirta Diaz Balart, who gave birth to Fidel Jr. on Sept. 1, 1949. They divorced in 1956. Castro never remarried - at least officially. Castro was a university student when he was inspired by Cuban independence hero Jose Marti's passionate nationalism and calls for Latin American unity. At 21, he joined an ill-conceived expedition against the Trujillo dictatorship in the nearby Dominican Republic and barely escaped with his life. A year later, he participated in an urban revolt in Colombia. Castro led a failed attack on the Moncada military barracks in Santiago, Cuba, in 1953 in which most of his comrades were killed. Castro's defence speech during his trial became a rallying point for opponents of then-President Fulgencio Batista. Freed under a pardon, Castro went to Mexico and organised a rebel band that returned and rallied support in Cuba's Sierra Maestra mountains. The guerrillas gained power and staunch U.S.-ally Batista fled Cuba on New Year's Day 1959. Upon his triumphal entry into Havana, Castro declared, "Power does not interest me, and I will not take it." But from the beginning, he was clearly Cuba's leader. Members of the old government went before summary courts, and at least 582 were shot by firing squads over two years. Independent newspapers were closed. The revolution's first president, jurist Manuel Urrutia, complained of the turn toward communism and resigned. Although, the United States was the first country to recognise Castro after his guerilla movement seized power, within months, his radical economic reforms and rapid trials of Batista supporters unsettled the United States. Washington began working to oust Castro by fair means and foul: officially cutting U.S. purchases of sugar, the island's economic mainstay, whilst the Central Intelligence Agency plotted to kill him. When it pressured him, Castro fought back, confiscating $1 billion in U.S. assets, promising to seize American properties "down to the nails in their shoes." and inviting Soviet aid and trade. In a September 1960 trip to the United Nations, Castro, as Cuba's new prime Minister, bear-hugged Soviet Premier Nikita S. Krushchev, though he also met a future foe, then Vice-President Richard Nixon on the same trip. The next month, President Eisenhower slapped a trade embargo on Cuba - later strengthened by President John F. Kennedy - banning virtually all U.S. exports to the island except for food and medicine. Washington severed diplomatic ties with Havana on Jan. 3, 1961. On April 16, 1961, as U.S. pressure mounted and Cuba turned increasingly to the Soviet bloc, Castro declared his revolution to be socialist. One day later, on April 17, with President Kennedy now in the White House, 1,400 Cuban exiles trained on Eisenhower's orders stormed Cuba's south coast. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a humiliating disaster for Washington and it's Cuban allies. The popular uprising the exiles hoped for never occurred, and a hesitant United States provided little air cover. Pinned down by Castro's forces, more than 1,100 were captured as Castro's troops crushed the invasion within a few days. The next major confrontation brought the world close to nuclear conflict - it was known as the Cuban missile crisis. On Oct. 22, 1962, Kennedy announced that aerial reconnaissance had shown Soviet nuclear missiles were present in Cuba. After a tense week of backroom diplomacy, Krushchev agreed to pull out the weapons. Castro was livid that he wasn't consulted, but won a critical concession: the United States pledged not to invade Cuba. Meanwhile, the revolutionaries reshaped Cuba. They opened 10,000 new schools, wiped out chronic illiteracy, and built a universal health care system generally regarded as the best in Latin America. Castro nationalised industry and the sugar and tobacco plantations, and established a heavily collectivised, ultimately inefficient farm system. Deprived of $1 billion in U.S. trade, Castro relied on sugar and nickel to obtain Soviet-bloc oil and manufactured goods. Soviet economic subsidies eventually reached US $4 billion a year, according to U.S. estimates. Castro built a rigid one-party political system, cobbling revolutionary groups into a single movement that became the new Cuban Communist Party, with him as first secretary. Labour unions lost the right to strike. The Catholic Church and other religious institutions were harassed. Neighbourhood "revolutionary defence committees" kept an eye on everyone. In 1964, Castro acknowledged holding 15,000 political prisoners, a number that dropped to about 330 by early 2006, according to activists. Castro duelled with Washington as he transformed his Caribbean island nation 90 miles (145 kilometers) south of Key West, Florida, into a Marxist state, first as a Soviet ally and then on its own. As he reshaped his country, Castro became a beacon of solidarity for activists across the Third World as he backed revolutionary movements in Latin American and Africa. In it's most far-reaching intervention, Cuba, backed by the Soviet Union, sent thousands of troops to Angola in the mid 1970s to aid the marxist-oriented Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) that ruled after independence in 1975 in it's war against right-wing rebels backed by South Africa, the United States and Zaire. US Administration after US administration denounced his foreign "adventurism." His international prestige reached a peak with his 1979-1982 chairmanship of the movement of nonaligned nations. But it was quickly tarnished by his support for the Soviet military occupation of Afghanistan. In 1980, people desperate to leave the island poured into foreign embassies. Castro opened the floodgates and let 125,000 unhappy countrymen flee to Florida by boat through Mariel port. Among them were many convicts and mental patients - later called "Marielitos" - put on the boats before then-President Carter decided to block the route. In August 1994, tough economic times were blamed in part for a new Cuban exodus in summer 1994, with an estimated 30,000 taking to the sea in rafts. This led the United States to reverse its long-standing "open door" policy towards Cuban immigrants. The 1980s and early 1990s brought a further string of setbacks for Castro. The then-American President Ronald Reagan adopted a tough anti-Castro line, and in 1983 ordered a U.S.-led invasion of Grenada to oust a pro-Cuba leadership. Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinistas, in power since the 1979 revolution, held a 1989 election against Castro's advice and lost. El Salvador's leftist guerrillas laid down their arms in 1992 and lost elections two years later. And socialism's collapse in Eastern Europe sent Cuba's economy into a tailspin and forced Castro into policies he disdained: an opening to foreign capitalists, limited private enterprise. The economy, aided by a tourism boom, slowly recovered in the second half of the 1990s, though Castro fretted about the influence U.S. dollars had on his egalitarian society. Despite U.S. laws tightening the embargo in 1992 and 1996, the end of the Cold War also ended some of the hostility Cuba had faced. Castro re-established relationships with many Latin American and European countries that found the U.S. embargo anachronistic in a diplomatic offensive capped by the historic January 1998 visit of Pope John Paul II. At least one of Castro's battles even gained the support of a majority of Americans. After a little boy named Elian Gonzalez was rescued off South Florida in late 1999, polls showed most Americans siding with Elian's father in Cuba - and thus Castro - in the battle to return the motherless child to his native Cuba. Castro won a resounding victory over his Cuban exile enemies in June 2000 when Elian's father returned home with his boy after winning a seven-month battle against Miami relatives who fought for custody of the child, maintaining they could give him a better life off the communist island. Exiles from the island include a daughter, Alina Fernandez Revuelta, who fled to the United States in 1993, and Castro's younger sister, Juana, who became a U.S. citizen and reviled him as "a monster." But many who stayed behind lionised Castro and saw in him a successor to Jose Marti, Cuba's independence hero. Fearless and a fiery orator, he stirred in many a new sense of national pride. Castro also maintained a relationship with former staunch allies and the non-aligned as the 21st century began, as Russia's President Putin was hosted in Havana in late 2000 and made trips to both Libya and Iran in 2001. New American interest in Cuba under U.S. President Bill Clinton helped pass a law in late 2000 allowing the first direct sales of American food to the island in four decades. But after George W. Bush assumed the presidency shortly afterward, the United States tightened travel and trade restrictions and studied ways to ensure a democratic transition in a post-Castro Cuba. Yet Castro resisted U.S. demands for multiparty elections and his security services continued to harass his opponents. Castro ignored Jimmy Carter's suggestions for democratic reforms when the former American president visited the island in May 2002. At the end of Carter's visit Castro declared, "All my life I believed in change. I promised, because we are always changing, but changing towards the future. We are looking ahead not backwards, all those have gone backwards in corruption and other things. We want to go forwards not backwards." In March 2003 a Cuban government crackdown imprisoned 75 government opponents accused of receiving money from US officials to undermine the island's system - a charge the activists and the US government denied. Cuba received worldwide condemnation when the dissidents got prison terms of up to 28 years, but Castro was unapologetic. Fifteen of the original 75 were out on medical parole by late 2005. In December 2004 the US Interests Section in Havana put up Christmas decorations that included a reference to dissidents jailed by Fidel Castro's government. The trimmings included a Santa Claus, candy canes and white lights wrapped around palm trees - and a sign reading "75," a reference to the 75 Cuban dissidents jailed the year before. Cubans got a forewarning of life after Castro on June 23, 2001, when he fainted during a speech in the searing sun. Talk of Castro's death had long been taboo, and Cubans expressed shock, then grief, then terror of what the future could hold. On October 2004 Cuban President Fidel Castro's advancing age and ultimately his mortality were resoundingly brought home after he fractured a knee and arm when he tripped and fell at a public event. AP Television News footage of Castro's fall showed the Cuban leader tripped on a concrete step after descending the stairs from the stage after a speech and fell forward, hard on his right side. Cubans watching on state television did not see the fall, only several security men running off to the side. Aides and security agents immediately surrounded the president and helped him to a folding chair. "I will do what is possible to recover as fast as possible, but as you can see I can still talk," Castro told television viewers, sweating profusely into his olive green uniform from the pain. "Even if they put me in a cast, I can continue in my work." The Cuban leader laughed off persistent rumours that his health was failing, most recently a 2005 report that he had Parkinson's disease. On 26 July 2006, the Cuban President celebrated Cuba's Revolution Day by attending a rally of party faithful. That was the last time Castro was seen in public. Five days later, on July 31, 2006, Castro stunned the nation and the world when he announced he had undergone surgery and was provisionally ceding his powers as head of the government and the Communist Party to his brother Raul, five years younger, and for decades the nation's number 2. At the end of that month, Castro underwent emergency intestinal surgery and his brother Raul Castro became acting leader of the country. While Castro himself was not seen in public, video of him meeting his chief ally, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, appeared on television while Chavez was on a trip to Havana for a meeting of the 14th Annual Non-Aligned Summit, which the Cuban leader was unable to attend. By end October 2006 the Cuban leader appeared on national television looking particularly frail after having undergone surgery. Castro's actual medical condition was kept a state secret, fuelling internal and external speculation as to his precise physical state. Cuban officials insisted he was on the road to recovery. Cubans marked his 80th despite their leader's absence. During an event held at the Karl Marx theatre an announcer read out a message from Castro. "Dear friends, I say goodbye with great sadness for not having had the chance to thank you personally and hug each and everyone of you." In early 2007, a Spanish newspaper, El Pais, quoting a doctor who had treated the ailing Castro, reported that he was "gravely ill". Speculation about his impending death was again rife, but within weeks Cuban state television showed him looking healthier in the company of Hugo Chavez. Castro spoke with some of his old vigour to his great ally, "I told the doctor 'I am going to try', this is far from being a lost battle." In September of 2007, Cuban television aired an hour long taped interview showing a healthier but still frail looking Castro responding to persistent rumours of his death circulating primarily in Miami. "(They were saying) that I was on my deathbed, that I was dying the day after tomorrow. No one knows what day one is going to die, " he said. In December 2007, the ailing President said in a letter read on state television that he did not intend to cling to power forever or stand in the way of a younger generation. Castro's famous words as he came ashore to Cuba from Mexico in December, 1956 as a young revolutionary were purportedly, "'I am Fidel Castro and I have come to liberate our country."
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Germany Torture - Group sues to have Rumsfeld, others investigated on war crimes charges
NAME: GER TORTURE 20061114Ixx TAPE: EF06/1086 IN_TIME: 10:46:13:07 DURATION: 00:03:58:00 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/DoD DATELINE: Various - Recent/FILE RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST: Pool FILE: Washington, DC, US - January 26, 2001 1. Donald Rumsfeld taking oath as US Secretary of Defence Pool FILE: Gardez, Afghanistan - September 7, 2003 2. Rumsfeld getting food in troop canteen DoD FILE: Manhattan, Kansas, US - 9 November 2006 3. Various of Rumsfeld at podium during first extended remarks after announcing his resignation AP Television FILE: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Date Unknown 4. Exterior fence of Camp Delta 5. Close-up of fencing 6. Detainees in prison, filmed through fence 7. US flag flying above fence AP Television Berlin, Germany - 12 November 2006 8. Set up shot of President of Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York, Michael Ratner 9. SOUNDBITE (English): Michael Ratner, President of Centre for Constitutional Rights in New York: "I think the circumstances have changed. One is, of course, Rumsfeld is no longer in office. The extent that he could have that kind of political pressure, he doesn't any longer. But secondly, I think that the facts have become even more strong, the facts are even stronger than they were in 2004 and one of the big cases we have of course is the al-Qahtani case. Al-Qahtani was a man who the US alleged is al-Qaida, who is in Guantanamo and exposed was the entire torture log of al-Qahtani over a period of two-months." AP Television FILE: Abu Ghraib, Iraq - 2 September 2006 10. Checkpoint with two Iraqi soldiers on guard 11. Tilt up interior of empty prison 12. Various of Iraqi soldier checking cells AP Television Berlin, Germany - 12 November 2006 13. SOUNDBITE (German): Wolfgang Kaleck, German attorney leading the litigation: "Janis Karpinski is practically our star witness, because she is the highest military officer ready to provide her insights to us and to the prosecuting office, which would be ready to hear from her. Janis Karpinski was ready to provide testimony in the US, in the court martial process against her soldiers, but nobody wanted to question her." AP Television - AP Clients Only FILE: Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, US - 1 June 2006 14. Set up shot one-time commander of all US military prisons in Iraq, Army Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, pointing at photograph of Abu Ghraib 15. Close-up shot Karpinski speaking AP Television Berlin, Germany - 12 November 2006 16. SOUNDBITE (German): Wolfgang Kaleck, German attorney leading the litigation: "In many countries, Germany included, the prosecutors are influenced by political elites. In Germany, the Federal Prosecutor's office is dependant on the instructions of the Justice Ministry. Last time (referring to 2004 attempt) we even filed a complaint with the UN Special Representative for Justice Independence. We believe that the process in 2004/2005 was illegally influenced by the US government." AP Television Baghdad, Iraq - 12 November 2006 17. Wide shot street scene 18. Various of newspaper stall, newspapers on display 19. Close-up of headline reading (Arabic) ''Lawsuit against former US Secretary of Defence on 12 torture issues'' 20. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Abdel-Hassan Abdul-Rudha, Vox pop: "I expect such measures as long as there is an independent judiciary in the US and if he (Rumsfeld) is convicted, he will face the same fate of other US officers who were involved in prisoner abuses." 21. People looking at newspapers 22. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): Hussein Faris, Vox pop: "Rumsfeld committed several crimes in Iraq, the most important one and which is known to the Iraqi people, is the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse and torture of detainees." 23. Street scene STORYLINE: Civil rights activists said they would file a law suit on Tuesday asking German prosecutors to investigate outgoing US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and a host of other officials on allegations of war crimes for their alleged roles in abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The 220-page suit is being filed by US and German attorneys under a German law that allows the prosecution of war crimes regardless of where they were committed. It alleges that Rumsfeld personally ordered and condoned torture. Michael Ratner, President of New York's Centre for Constitutional Rights, which is behind the litigation, said one of the goals behind the law suit was to send a strong message that providing a safe haven for torturers was not acceptable. The suit is brought on behalf of 12 alleged torture victims; 11 Iraqis held at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and Mohamad al-Qahtani, a Saudi being held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who has been identified by the US as a would-be participant in the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US. Captured in December 2001 along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, al-Qahtani would not crack under normal questioning, so Rumsfeld approved harsher methods. After FBI agents raised concerns, military investigators began reviewing the case and in July 2005 said they confirmed abusive and degrading treatment that included forcing al-Qahtani to wear a bra, dance with another man, stand naked in front of women and behave like a dog. Still, the Pentagon determined "no torture occurred." Though German prosecutors already declined to investigate a more limited suit in 2004, the attorneys involved think they have a better case this time armed with documents from 2005 congressional hearings on the al-Qahtani case. Rumsfeld's resignation means prosecutors may be under less political pressure to shun the case, they argue. "I think the circumstances have changed, one of course is that Rumsfeld is no longer in office. The extent that he could have that kind of political pressure, he doesn't any longer," Ratner said. They also have former US Army Brigadier-General Janis Karpinski, the one-time commander of all US military prisons in Iraq, as a witness on their behalf. "Janis Karpinski is practically our star witness," said Wolfgang Kaleck, the German attorney who is leading the litigation. He said having someone to testify from within the apparatus was necessary to shed light on who ordered and conducted the interrogation methods, as the plaintiffs could only testify on the methods employed. "She is the highest military officer ready to provide her insights to us," Kaleck said. Pentagon spokeswoman Cynthia Smith and Frank Wallenta, spokesman for German federal prosecutors, both said they could not comment because the suit had not yet been filed. In addition to Rumsfeld, the suit names US Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales, former CIA director George Tenet, former commander of all US forces in Iraq Lieutenant-General Ricardo Sanchez and eight others, alleging that they all either ordered, aided, or failed to prevent war crimes. A case could not be brought to the International Criminal Court, because the United States is not a member, Ratner said. The case could not be pursued through the UN because the US has veto power, he added. Though Ratner admits it is unlikely Rumsfeld will ever spend time in a German prison, a successful case here could put him in the position of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who has been dogged by questions abroad about his alleged involvement in a plot in the 1970s and 1980s to eliminate Latin American dissidents.