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TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/0278 IN_TIME: 20:02:41 LENGTH: 01:25 SOURCES: POOL RESTRICTIONS: No Access Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat U-S President Bill Clinton says his planned visit to Pakistan later this month shouldn't be seen as an endorsement of Pakistan's military dictatorship. The White House announced the trip this week after intense internal debate. Speaking on the south lawn of the White House on Thursday, Clinton told reporters that America's interests would be best served by maintaining contact with the Pakistani government. U-S President Bill Clinton plans to stop in Pakistan after a five-day visit to India later this month. White House officials say the Pakistan visit will be limited to just a few hours, but will include a meeting with army chief General Pervez Musharraf, the nation's military ruler. The Clinton administration debated for weeks as to whether or not the president should go to Pakistan. Finally, Clinton decided that it would be in America's best interests for him to go. SOUNDBITE: (English) "It would be a mistake not to go, but it would be a grave mistake for people to think my going represents some sort of endorsement of the non-democratic process which occurred there. That's not true." SUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, US President Clinton said the United States would have greater influence on the future direction of Pakistan, in terms of restoring democracy and avoiding dangerous conflicts in South Asia, by cooperating and keeping channels open. SOUNDBITE: (English) "It is a recognition, in my judgement, that America's interests and values will be advanced if we maintain some contact with, or communications with, the Pakistani government. And I think that our ability to have a positive influence on the future direction of Pakistan, in terms of the restoration of democracy, in terms of the ultimate resolution of issues on the Indian subcontinent and in terms of avoiding further dangerous conflicts, will be greater if we maintain our cooperation. After all, Pakistan was our ally throughout the Cold War. Since I've been president, Pakistan on more than one occasion has helped us to arrest terrorists." SUPER CAPTION: Bill Clinton, US President The White House says Clinton will use his visit to urge a timetable for returning Pakistan to civilian rule. SHOTLIST: Washington DC, USA - 9 March 2000 1. US President Bill Clinton and congressional leaders walking out 2. Cutaway 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton US President 4. Cutaway 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, US President 6. Wide shot of Clinton speaking XFA?

TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/0340 IN_TIME: 13:23:48 - 16:00:44 // 19:07:19 - 19:45:44 LENGTH: 04:18 SOURCES: US POOL RESTRICTIONS: No access Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat U-S President, Bill Clinton, arrived at Chaklala Airbase in Pakistan on Saturday for the final leg of his tour of the Indian subcontinent. He met his counterpart, Muhammed Rafiq Tarar, at the Presidential Palace in Islamabad as well as the country's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf. In an address to the nation later he gave guarded indications that he was not happy with the country's current lack of democratic rule and touched on the issues of nuclear testing and the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir. President Clinton arrived in Pakistan amidst tight security. As an extra security measure Clinton had departed India in an unmarked jet - the small jet with Presidential livery landing shortly ahead of him. Airforce One landed a short while later and the President disembarked to the warm welcome which has characterised his trip to the region. First stop was a meeting with Pakistani President Muhammed Rafiq Tarar, at which Clinton was accompanied by U-S Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright. Then a meeting with General Musharraf, followed by an address to the people on Pakistan Television. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We share your disappointment that previous democratic governments in Pakistan did not do better for their citizens. But one thing is certain, democracy cannot develop if it is constantly uprooted before it has a chance to firmly take hold. Successful democratic government takes time and patience and hard work. The answer to flawed democracy is not to end democracy, but to improve it." SUPERCAPTION: U-S President, Bill Clinton SOUNDBITE: (English) "Of course no-one from the outside can tell Pakistan how it should be governed. That is for you, the people of Pakistan to decide and you should be given the opportunity to do so. I hope and believe you want Pakistan to be a country where the rule of law prevails. A country where officials are accountable. A country where people can express their points of view without fear. A country that wisely forsakes revenge for the wounds of the past and instead pursues reconciliation for the sake of the future." SUPERCAPTION: U-S President, Bill Clinton SOUNDBITE: (English) "Are you really more secure today than you were before you tested nuclear weapons? Will these weapons make war with India less likely or simply more deadly? Will a costly arms race help you to achieve any economic development? Will it bring you any closer to your friends around the world, closer to the partnerships you need to build your dreams?" SUPERCAPTION: U-S President, Bill Clinton SOUNDBITE: (English) "Will endless costly struggles build good schools for your children? Will it make your cities safer? Will it bring clean water and better health care? Will it narrow the gaps between those who have and those who have nothing?" SUPERCAPTION: U-S President, Bill Clinton SOUNDBITE: (English) "We cannot and will not mediate or resolve the dispute in Kashmir. Only you and India can do that, through dialogue. Last year the world watched with hope as the leaders of India and Pakistan met in Lahore on the road to better relations. This is the right road to peace for Pakistan and India and for the resolution of the problems in Kashmir. Therefore I will do all I can to help both sides to restore the promise and the process of Lahore." SUPERCAPTION: U-S President, Bill Clinton SOUNDBITE: (English) "And I pray for our continued friendship. For peace. For Pakistan. Zindabad. (TRANSLATION: "Long Live Pakistan") SUPERCAPTION: U-S President, Bill Clinton SHOTLIST: Islamabad, Pakistan, March 25, 2000 XFA 1. Wide shot press gathered at airport, zoom in to Pakistani and U-S flags on building with security of roof. 2. Closeup security man with weapon. 3. Midshot security and press. 4. Midshot pan to follow Airforce One taxiing on runway. 5. Midshot press. 6. Wideshot Airforce One on tarmac with Presidential motorcade. 6. Midshot Clinton exiting plane and meeting and greeting waiting dignitaries. 7. Wideshot terminal building pan to tracking shot with motorcade. 8. Midshot tracking motorcade arriving at Presidential building. 9. Midshot tracking motorcade driving to entrance of Presidential palace. 10. Closeup soldier's face, pullout to midshot of soldiers with weapons. 11. Midshot security escorting Presidential entourage to palace. 12. Wideshot of Presidential palace. 13. Photo opportunity inside Presidential palace with Clinton, Tarar and military officer. 14. Closeup Pakistani President, Muhammed Rafiq Tarar. 15. Closeup U-S President, Bill Clinton. 16. Cutaway Albright. 17. Closeup U-S President, Bill Clinton. 18. Closeup Pakistani President, Muhammed Rafiq Tarar. 19. Midshot Clinton, Tarar and military officer. 20. SOUNDBITE (English): U-S President, Bill Clinton 21. Cutaway of Clinton 22. SOUNDBITE (English): U-S President, Bill Clinton 23. Cutaway of Clinton 24. SOUNDBITE (English): U-S President, Bill Clinton 25. Cutaway of Clinton 26. SOUNDBITE (English): U-S President, Bill Clinton 27. Cutaway of Clinton 28. SOUNDBITE (English): U-S President, Bill Clinton 29. Cutaway of Clinton 30. SOUNDBITE (English): U-S President, Bill Clinton?

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TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/0307 IN_TIME: 04:08:25 - 10:17:50 // 13:30:36 LENGTH: 03:05 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: No Access Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat XFA Observers and analysts predict that United States President Bill Clinton will have a difficult time persuading either India or Pakistan to cut back on their nuclear weapons programs. President Clinton arrives in India on Sunday for a week-long South Asia trip that will also include a short visit to military-ruled Pakistan. Nuclear testing in 1998 - first by India and then by Pakistan - shook the Indian subcontinent and the world. In a recent report to Congress, the CIA's Director said the two countries only "narrowly averted a full scale war" over the disputed territory of Kashmir last spring. America is treading a diplomatic fine line between the two countries. The latest Indian army casualty in what India says is an ongoing war with Pakistani-backed militants in Indian-administered Kashmir. 26-year-old Captain Omkarnath Rao was shot dead in a gun battle with militants near the line of control with Pakistani-administered Kashmir a few days ago - his body has just been brought back to the Indian capital. President Clinton's visit comes at a time of heightened tensions in South Asia. Last week he called the Kashmir line of control the most dangerous place on earth. During the Kargil conflict last year in which India fought to repel Pakistani-backed fighters who occupied mountain peaks in the Kargil sector of Indian-administered Kashmir - hundreds of Indian soldiers died. Tens of thousands of troops have been deployed in the area since. India says the incursion was planned and carried out by Pakistani regular army soldiers. Pakistan denies this and says the fighters were militants acting alone. The Kargil conflict raised anti-Pakistan public feeling in India to fever pitch. A huge float at the annual army parade was dedicated to the soldiers who lost their lives retaking the mountain peaks. What worries the international community is that rising hostilities may spill over into a catastrophic nuclear conflict. India went public on its nuclear weapons program in May 1998 - conducting a series of underground tests. The government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee said it was strengthening the nation's defences and giving the country new self-confidence. President Clinton had another view. SOUNDBITE: (English) "India's action threatens the stability of Asia, and challenges the firm international consensus to stop all nuclear testing. So again I ask India to halt its nuclear weapons programme and join the 149 other nations that have already signed the comprehensive test ban treaty. And I ask Pakistan to exercise restraint to avoid a perilous nuclear arms race." SUPERCAPTION: Bill Clinton, U-S President But despite America's close relationship with Pakistan during the Cold War, Pakistan's then Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, proceeded with retaliatory nuclear tests. Analysts in India say America must now take an active interest in the region. SOUNDBITE: (English) "They realise that despite all their objections about our nuclear and missile weaponisation, it has made a qualitative change in the U-S attitude towards us. Even if they themselves deny it, they take us more seriously now." SUPERCAPTION: J.N. Dixit, Former Indian Foreign Secretary It's the troubled region of Kashmir which causes the biggest problem for the U-S. It has to tread a fine line. India says it's facing a war backed by Pakistan in which militants are killing Indian soldiers in the streets of Indian administered Kashmir. India says it will only sort out the issue with Pakistan, while Pakistan is begging the international community, led by the U-S, to mediate. America has expressed a desire to do so, much like the role it has played in Northern Ireland. SOUNDBITE: (English) "After the end of the Cold War, it's been very clear to the Indian decision-makers that a cooperative positive relationship with the U-S is important. But because of the difference over the nuclear issue, and Kashmir, it's not been possible to build a serious relationship. Now I think, in the last few years, India and the U-S have managed to reduce this salience, or the weight of these two issues in the overall relationship -- and I think now they are beginning to look for a broader engagement." SUPERCAPTION: C. Raja Mohan, Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu Newspaper For India, the hijacking of one of its airliners to Afghanistan as the world celebrated a new millennium represented the worst face of what it called Pakistani terrorism. For Pakistan it was an example of Indian propaganda and hatred -- it denied any involvement. For everyone else - it was a reminder that militant groups have thrived in the region since the war in Afghanistan which began in 1979. India's call to let the militants go in return for the release of the hostages was a source of national shame in India. Many felt publicly humiliated by what they regarded as hijackers organised by Pakistan. SOUNDBITE: (English) "There is no bowing down to terrorism -- now or ever again." SUPERCAPTION: Jaswant Singh, Indian Foreign Minister President Clinton is arriving in South Asia with this incident fresh in the minds of both nations. SHOTLIST: Various India - Recent and File, Various Kashmir - File, Kandahar, Afghanistan - File, Washington DC and Annapolis, Maryland - U-S - File New Delhi, India, - March 13 2000 1. Various of Indian army ceremony -- last post played for soldier killed in Kashmir Kargil sector, Kashmir - June 1999 2. Wide of artillery guns firing, pans left 3. Close up of gunners 4. Wide of mountains occupied by Pakistani-backed forces under shellfire New Delhi, India - January 26 2000 5. Various of Kargil float at India's Republic Day parade New Delhi, India - May 17 1998 6. Wide of journalists watching government video about nuclear tests 7. Close up of screen showing video footage of India's May 11th 98 nuclear tests Pokaran, Rajasthan state, India - May 20 1998 8. Wide of Indian Prime Minister Vajpayee visiting nuclear test site 9. Close up of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee waving Annapolis, Maryland, United States - May 22 1998 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) President Clinton Washington DC, United States - December 2 1998 11. Clinton and Nawaz Sharif shaking hands at the White House Delhi, India - March 2000 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) J.N. Dixit, Former Indian Foreign Secretary Srinagar, Kashmir - February 2000 13. Mid shot two Indian soldiers lie shot dead in central market 14. Wide of soldiers advancing in market area 15. Wide showing car on fire, audio of gunfire Delhi, India - March 2000 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) C. Raja Mohan, Diplomatic Editor, The Hindu newspaper Kandahar, Afghanistan - December 31 1999 17. Wide of hijacked Indian airliner on tarmac at Kandahar airport 18. Close up windows of plane being opened 19. Hijacker unloads equipment shortly before escaping 20. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jaswant Singh, Indian Foreign Minister 21. Wide of vehicle convoy containing hijackers leaving airport?

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TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/0311 IN_TIME: 04:08:58 - 07:24:59 - 10:13:42 LENGTH: 04:23 SOURCES: APTN RESTRICTIONS: All No Access Internet FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat XFA The Indian capital, Delhi, is being prepared for the first visit by an American President in 22 years. For the Indian public, there's fascination but also mixed feelings about the role Mr Clinton might play in regional affairs. Delhi is going to be a little greener and cleaner for a week or so. The hotel where President Clinton will be staying is being given a face lift and security is tight. The route to be taken by the presidential convoy to and from meetings in the city is being spruced up for presidential eyes. The forthcoming visit is dominating headlines in India, with articles ranging from speculation about American security gadgets to protect the President, through to reminiscing about previous Presidential visits - President Eisenhower in 1958, President Nixon in 1969 and Jimmy Carter in 1978. For much of the Cold War, Pakistan was clearly the preferred country in Washington, partly because of the close ties India maintained with the Soviet Union. Most people feel it's been too long since an American President came to the world's largest democracy. SOUNDBITE: (English) "It's a great opportunity for India. We should make the most of it. Whether it's business, or defence, or the relations with America, we should look forward to making the best of it." SUPER CAPTION: Sandeep SOUNDBITE: (English) "My feeling is good. After a long time the President of America is coming to visit us. Definitely it's a very good feeling." SUPER CAPTION: Raveni SOUNDBITE: (English) "He should have come much much before but it's never too late." SUPER CAPTION: Rajesh India's national archives of film and photographs have put on an exhibition of U-S-India relations over the years. There's a stunning series of images, showing Presidents and their first ladies doing the kind of things that President Clinton will enjoy, such as elephant rides and visits to the Taj Mahal. Relations have moved on since the Cold War days and America has said it wants this visit to open a new chapter in the relationship between the two countries. SOUNDBITE: (English) "It reminds me so much of the history we don't take time to reflect on. I think it's also a measure of the challenge in terms of the new chapter that we hope to write as we look forward." SUPER CAPTION: Richard Celeste, U.S. Ambassador to India However, in spite of excitement surrounding his visit, some Indians are worried about America's relationship with neighbouring enemy Pakistan. SOUNDBITE: (English) "The visit itself indicates he is still towards Pakistan which is pretty wrong with the stand it's taking on our borders and internal insurgency and things - I feel it is a little wrong." SUPER CAPTION: Jyoti Many people in India still associate Bill Clinton with the Monica Lewinsky affair, although it seems largely forgotten in the United States. It inspired Indian artists, and fascinated the public. SOUNDBITE: "He's quite a nice person and everyone knows about him - he's quite a romantic person." SUPER CAPTION: Rajesh Clinton leaves for South Asia on Saturday, stopping initially in Bangladesh before spending five days in India. He concludes the trip with a brief stop in Pakistan - the first President to visit that country since 1969. SHOTLIST: Delhi, India - March 16/17, 2000 and File March 17 1. Various of man working on Sheraton Hotel sign 2. 'Parking reserved for US delegation' sign 3. Group of men with dogs 4. Close up of guard dog 5. Various unloading turf from lorry 6. Plants ready to be planted 7. Man squatting and planting pansies 8. Various fountain and workmen 9. Man planting plant 10. Woman with hose 11. Wide of government building 12. Workmen painting road 13. Men painting concrete fence pillar 14. SOUNDBITE: (English): Sandeep 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Raveni 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rajesh Delhi - March 16 17. Wide of people looking at photo display 18. Close up of black & white photos 19. Wide of group including US Ambassador 20. Archive footage of US President Eisenhower's address to the Indian Parliament in 1958 21. 'Two great democracies' sign 22. Close up of US Ambassador's wife 23. Wide of group including Richard Celeste and the Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh 24. Photo of Ronald Reagan 25. Photo of Taj Mahal 26. Photo of Jacqueline Kennedy on elephant 27. Photo of Jacqueline Kennedy and Gandhi - pan up 28. SOUNDBITE: (English) Richard Celeste, U.S. Ambassador to India 29. Photo of Hillary Clinton and Indian politician 30. Photo of Bill Clinton and Indian politician 31. Photo of Chelsea and Hillary Clinton at Taj Mahal - pan down to another photo 32. SOUNDBITE: (English) vox pop File - October 27, 1998 33. Wide of exhibition 34. Painting of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky naked with White House in background 35. Wide of exhibition 36. Picture of naked woman sitting in front of Clinton 37. Boy at exhibition 38. Painting of Clinton with naked woman emerging from his head March 17 39. SOUNDBITE: (English) vox pop 40. Wide of arch in Delhi 41. Man up ladder replacing glass in lamp?

Datar, Thatta, Pakistan - September 15, 2024: Devotees gathered around to attend ALAM (flag hoisting ceremony) which is being underway at courtyard of shrine of the sufi saint Jamil Shah Datar Girnari in Datar, Thatta. The shrine is burial place of the saint where he lived his last. The saint had also spent times in Junagadh city of Gujarat, India, where he used to worship God alone in the Girnar mountain range and thus a "CHILLA", the memorial place for the saint, was established there as shrine which is respected and overwhelmingly frequented by both Indian Muslims and Hindu followers.

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NAME: IND BUSH 3 20060228iX TAPE: EF06/0182 IN_TIME: 10:36:31:05 DURATION: 00:04:23:24 SOURCES: VARIOUS DATELINE: Various, 28 Feb 2006/ Recent RESTRICTIONS: see script SHOTLIST AP TELEVISION NEWS Mumbai, India - 28 February 2006 1. Mid shot of crowd with child holding anti-Bush banner (US President George W Bush) 2. Crowd shouting anti-Bush slogans and waving black flags 3. People fixing picture of Bush on dog 4. Protestors burning flags 5. Men hanging Bush effigy 6. Frantic crowd beating effigy 7. Anti-Bush posters being drawn. ++QUALITY AS INCOMING++ DDI Washington, DC, USA - 24 February 2006 8. Set up shot of US President George W Bush 9. Interviewer Amitabha Charkabarti 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W Bush, US President: "Well, I tell them it is in the interests of the world that India have a nuclear power industry. On the other hand, it is also very important for India to understand our concerns about making sure that the civilian programme is separate from the military and there is the IAEA safe guards. And again, (SOUNDBITE CONTINUES OVER CUTAWAY TO AMITABHA CHARKABARTI) we are breaking some new ground so I'm not surprised that it is difficult to reach a consensus and we will keep trying and working at it. The key thing is though that the people of India understand that our relationship is a vital relationship and it's vital on a variety of fronts. 11. Wide of Bush talking to Charkabarti AP TELEVISION NEWS New Delhi, India - 27 February 2006 12. Exterior of Maurya Sheraton hotel where Bush and his entourage will stay 13. Police vehicle outside hotel 14. Indian and US flags 15. Soldiers walking in hotel complex 16. Sign reading: "No entry" - pan to soldier at entrance FILE: New Delhi, India - 21 March 2000 17. Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee shaking hands with former US President Bill Clinton New Delhi, India - 27 February 2006 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) K Subrahmanyam, Strategic analyst: "Last presidential visit was all about Clinton's very suave and attractive personality. There was not much that was done in terms of tangibles during Clinton's visit. But in this visit, a lot of tangibles are going to be...I mean... achieved." New Delhi, India - 24 February 2006 19. US Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns and Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran shaking hands 20. Cameramen 21. Wide of delegation level talks New Delhi, India - 28 February 2006 22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shyam Saran, Indian Foreign Secretary: "We need to make sure that there are no ambiguities which may create difficulties for us in the future. So, as I said, we still have some, a short distance to cover. We, if necessary, we will of course continue the negotiations beyond the forthcoming visit." FILE: Washington, DC, USA - 18 July 2005 23. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh walking on South Lawn of White House, inspecting troops 24. US and Indian First Ladies 25. Bush and Singh walk past crowd on lawn DOORDARSHAN New Delhi, India - 27 February 2006 26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister: "No part of this process would affect or compromise, our strategic progress." AP TELEVISION NEWS FILE: India - Recent 27. Various of shopping mall 28. Various of call centre New Delhi, India - 27 February 2006 29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Montek Singh Ahluwalia, co-chairman of the India-US Economic Dialogue: "Engagement with the US is not a sort of event-driven thing which hinges on any particular day. The fact is that for the last few years, the US and India have been building a much stronger economic engagement than in the past. That is to a large extent a reflection of the changes to economic policy undertaken in India since the 1990s. Under the present administration, there is no doubt that this engagement has intensified." FILE: Tangdhar, Indian-administered Kashmir, near Line of Control - July 2004 30. Mountain 31. Soldiers on patrol 32. Barbed wire fence STORYLINE: US President George W Bush departed on Tuesday for India and Pakistan, a trip designed to cement two crucial US alliances and possibly hammer out a landmark agreement to share civilian nuclear technology with India. Bush kicks off his five-day visit to the region in India, where he will be greeted by business and government officials eager to boost trade and military ties - and by crowds of protesters, thousands of whom demonstrated in Mumbai on Tuesday. The crowd in Mumbai burned US, Danish and Israeli flags and protesters carried placards which read: "Father of terrorism, Bush". India is a nation of more than one (b) billion people and the dominant religion is Hindu, yet it has one of the world's largest Muslim populations. Dozens of protests have been planned by Indian communist politicians and Islamic leaders for Bush's visit this week. Communists and Muslim groups have criticised New Delhi for backing a US move to report long-time ally Iran to the International Atomic Energy Agency over Tehran's nuclear programme. The communists, who are key allies of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government, have also drawn up protest plans for Thursday at India's Parliament, a few kilometres (miles) from where Bush and Singh will meet in New Delhi. Since Bush took office in 2001, India and the US have made dramatic steps toward forging a strategic partnership after decades of Cold War animosity, a growing closeness that's based as much on trade, as it is on political philosophies. A key step in that direction, many in the business community believe, is a landmark nuclear agreement to provide India with much-needed nuclear fuel and stand as the cornerstone of the emerging alliance between New Delhi and Washington. Talks to finalise the deal have been held up over which of India's nuclear facilities are to be designated as civilian and which are to be considered military. Speaking in a pre-trip interview given to Indian television, Bush has expressed hope that talks on finalising a civilian nuclear agreement with India would move forward during his visit. Bush said it was "very important for India to understand our concerns about making sure that the civilian programme is separate from the military and there is the IAEA safeguards." But there is opposition to the deal from legislators in India and the United States. In New Delhi, opponents claim the United States is attempting to put too many of India's civilian nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards - a move they suspect is America's way of trying to weaken India's nuclear weapons programme. Critics of the deal on Capitol Hill say it undermines the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which India has not signed. India argues that since it began its nuclear energy programme in the 1950s, and it poses no danger. Indian foreign secretary Shyam Saran told reporters Tuesday that if the agreement was not finalised during Bush's visit, talks would continue after the visit. India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had told legislators on Monday that his government would not compromise the country's national security to seal a nuclear deal with the United States. Analysts say while Bush's visit to India will be judged by whether he seals the nuclear deal with New Delhi, its success also depends on whether he finds a new footing with the burgeoning economic power. Bush is targeting the estimated 300 (m) million middle-class Indians who he hopes US companies can export goods and services to. India's economy is growing fast and, last year, US exports to India grew by more than 30 percent. Some regional observers point out that this emphasis on trade and consumerism is at odds with the vast impoverishment that many millions of other Indians live with day to day. Security is tight in the Indian capital ahead of Bush's arrival on Wednesday. More than 5,000 snipers, commandos and US marines will guard the US president during his three-day visit. Only four other US presidents have visited India and Pakistan, and Bush's trip, following President Bill Clinton's visit in 2000, is further indication that India holds intense interest for America. The United States is urging Pakistan and India to build on ties forged after a devastating October earthquake to create a lasting peace in the troubled Kashmir region, which both countries claim. Bush says he plans to use his trip to encourage both countries' leaders to continue peace talks.

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AP-APTN-1830 North America Prime News -Final Sunday, 17 January 2010 North America Prime News +Haiti Aftermath 3 04:45 AP Clients Only WRAP Airport, mass in damaged cathedral ADDS US people leaving Haiti Elderly 02:25 AP Clients Only REPLAY Elderly starving residents abandoned in nursing home after quake US Haiti 02:22 See Script REPLAY Sunday talk shows on Haiti, officials on airport situation Afghanistan Holbrooke 01:54 AP Clients Only REPLAY Presser by US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan Iraq Ali 2 01:52 Part No Access Iraq WRAP Al-Majid gets death penalty for Halabja attack; sentencing +GRAPHIC+ Spain Politician 02:43 See Script REPLAY Spanish lawmaker comments after FBI uses his photo for bin Laden poster Chile Voting 2 03:11 Pt No Access Chile WRAP Chileans cast votes in presidential election, Bachelet +Ukraine Election 9 03:17 AP Clients Only WRAP Yushchenko sot; Donetsk, monks, troops vote ADDS exit poll B-u-l-l-e-t-i-n begins at 1830 GMT. APEX 01-17-10 1357EST -----------End of rundown----------- AP-APTN-1830: +Haiti Aftermath 3 Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:+Haiti Aftermath 3- WRAP Airport, mass in damaged cathedral ADDS US people leaving LENGTH: 03:51 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Creole/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 633661 DATELINE: Port au Prince, 17 Jan 2010 LENGTH: 03:51 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) 1. Wide of evacuees lined up on runway 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevan Hanson, US Coast Guard Lieutenant: "The medical treatment will be better there. The living conditions are going to be better. Just to get them out of here." 3. Two boys in foreground, other evacuees behind them 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Colleen Hedglin, American escorting children being evacuated: "It's a gift right now. We're leaving lots of good friends behind them. I'm going to come back." (Question: You're going to come back?) "I have to." 5. Evacuees heading to Coast Guard plane 6. Coast Guard official and evacuees 7. Woman and child and other evacuees waiting 8. Hedglin and children getting on plane 9. Wide of plane with evacuees waiting (FIRST RUN 1430 ME EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) 10. Pan from Continental airline plane to workers organising shipping boxes 11. Workers organising boxes 12. Slow pan of workers and equipment 13. Helicopter preparing to take off 14. Pan of front loader moving supplies past workers 15. Soldiers on tarmac with helicopter taking off and coast guard plane taxiing in background (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) 16. Wide of shattered Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, car under rubble in foreground 17. Close of broken stained glass window, pull out to show remains of cathedral 18. Pan of congregation 19. Close of young congregant 20. Man directing song 21. Wide of congregation singing 22. Close of woman singing 23. Close of woman's hand counting rosary 24. Close of woman's face, pulls out 25. Father Marie-Eric Toussaint leading prayers 26. Congregation praying 27. Close of woman holding rosary 28. Congregants taking communion 29. Close of communion chalice 30. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Father Marie-Eric Toussaint, Catholic Priest: "We tell them to live with faith because it is a difficult situation to live through, but they have to trust God because he is there to help them to rebuild Haiti and the community." 31. Top shot, pan from Toussaint to congregation STORYLINE US Coast Guard officials loaded 50 earthquake survivors on a plane bound for Santo Domingo on Sunday, while Haitians in the quake-devastated capital of Port-au-Prince attended Sunday Mass in a partially collapsed cathedral. From the Dominican capital, the evacuees were expected to travel on to other destinations. Coast Guard Lieutenant Kevan Hanson the evacuees are being ferried to Santo Domingo to get them in "a better condition." "The medical treatment will be better there. The living conditions will be better. Just to get them out of here," he said. Many of the evacuees were children. Colleen Hedglin was escorting children to safety. She described the evacuation as "a gift." But said she would have to return. "We're leaving lots of good friends behind. I'm going to come back." As the main delivery point for aid, the airport was clogged with planes and personnel. Workers unload planes that make it in, while helicopters and other planes land and takeoff. The airport is a choke point for supplies, with the international effort straining its capacity. The aid was slowly reaching survivors as rescue crews battled against time to pull out a shrinking number of people still alive under the ruins. Among the ruins of Port-au-Prince's Roman Catholic cathedral, Haitians were giving thanks for simply being alive at Sunday Mass. Preaching to a small crowd of survivors inside the cathedral's remaining walls after Tuesday's magnitude-7.0 earthquake, Father Marie-Eric Toussaint said he advisor his congregation "live with faith because it is a difficult situation to live through, but they have to trust God." Congregants responded with particular fervour to the priest's invocation "The Lord Be With You," responding with "And also with you. May the Lord be with All of us." As Catholic and Protestant worshippers across the city met for their first Sunday services since the magnitude-7.0 quake, many Haitians were still waiting for food and water and some took vengeance against looters. Haitians seemed increasingly frustrated by a seemingly invisible government and rescue workers were exasperated by the struggle to get aid through the small, damaged and clogged airport run by US military controllers, and to get it from the airport into town. Doctors Without Borders said Sunday that a cargo plane carrying a field hospital was denied permission to land at the airport and had to be rerouted through the Dominican Republic - creating a 24-hour delay in setting up a crucial field hospital. Nobody knows how many died in Tuesday's quake. Haiti's government alone has already recovered 20-thousand bodies - not counting those recovered by independent agencies or relatives themselves, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told The Associated Press. The Pan American Health Organisation now says 50-thousand to 100-thousand people perished in the quake. Bellerive said 100-thousand would "seem to be the minimum." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called the quake "one of the most serious crises in decades." Yet President Rene Preval has made no broadcast address to his nation, nor has he been seen at any disaster site. 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APTN APEX 01-17-10 1418EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Haiti Elderly Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:Haiti Elderly- REPLAY Elderly starving residents abandoned in nursing home after quake LENGTH: 02:25 FIRST RUN: 1730 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: French/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 633654 DATELINE: Port au Prince, 17 Jan 2010 LENGTH: 02:25 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Pan from hospice sign to elderly people 2. Mid of elderly woman sitting on ground 3. Close-up of elderly woman 4. Mid of elderly people sheltering from sun under tree 5. Mid of hospice administrator Jean Emmanuel talking to patient 6. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Emmanuel, hospice administrator: "The priority is to help feed our elders, because they will die of hunger, old men were killed during the earthquake. Yesterday an old man died of hunger, he was a survivor of the earthquake but he died of hunger afterwards." 7. Wide of body under sheet 8. Close-up of foot and flies 9. Wide of street scene, bed next to street 10. Mid of elderly man in wheel chair 11. Wide of man in wheel chair and body on ground 12. SOUNDBITE (French) Jean Emmanuel, hospice administrator: "Now our old people survive, but some of them cannot even breathe normally. I do not think that they will survive another day without drinking or eating." 13. Wide of elderly in wheelchairs, people helping 14. Mid of elderly man being washed 15. Close-up of elderly man being washed 16. Wide of person being pushed in wheelchair 17. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Lucien Phileas, hospice patient: ++NON VERBATIM++ "If we do not eat we'll die, if you do not drink ...." 18. Mid of elderly woman lying down 19. Close-up of elderly woman's hand 20. SOUNDBITE (Creole) Marie Ange Leve, hospice patient: ++NON VERBATIM++ "We need medication..." 21. Mid of people lying down 22. Wide of elderly people gathered under tree STORYLINE: There was no food, water or medicine on Sunday for the 85 surviving residents of the Port-au-Prince Municipal Nursing Home, just a mile (1 1/2 kilometres) from the airport where a massive international aid effort was taking shape. One man has already died, and administrator Jean Emmanuel said more would follow soon unless water and food arrive immediately. The dead man was Joseph Julien, a 70-year-old diabetic who was pulled from the partially collapsed building and passed away on Thursday for lack of food. On Sunday his body was still laying on a mattress close to those who were still alive. With six residents killed in the quake, the institution now has 25 men and 60 women camped outside their former home. Only some have a mattress in the dirt to lie on. One resident said some of them had pooled their money to buy three packets of pasta, which the dozens of pensioners shared on Thursday, their last meal. Since there was no drinking water, some didn't touch the noodles because they were cooked in gutter water. Many residents were wearing diapers that hadn't been changed since the quake. The diapers were beginning to attract rats. Nobody knows how many died in Tuesday's quake in Haiti. Haiti's government alone has already recovered 20-thousand bodies - not counting those recovered by independent agencies or relatives themselves, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told The Associated Press. The Pan American Health Organisation now says 50-thousand to 100-thousand people perished in the quake. Bellerive said 100-thousand would "seem to be the minimum." 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APTN APEX 01-17-10 1400EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: US Haiti Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:US Haiti- REPLAY Sunday talk shows on Haiti, officials on airport situation LENGTH: 02:22 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/ABC STORY NUMBER: 633653 DATELINE: Washington DC - 16/17 Jan 2010 LENGTH: 02:22 ABC THIS WEEK - NO ACCESS N AMERICA / NO ACCESS INTERNET / COURTESY ABC "THIS WEEK" AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: ABC THIS WEEK - NO ACCESS N AMERICA / NO ACCESS INTERNET / COURTESY ABC "THIS WEEK" 17 January 2010 1. Dr Rajiv Shah, Director USAID, in studio interview 2. Mid shot of news anchor 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Rajiv Shah, Director USAID "We... immediately after this happened, the President pulled everyone together and said look I want you all to work together. I want you to move quickly and I want you to be aggressive and be coordinated and that's exactly what we did." 4. Shah and news anchor 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Rajiv Shah, Director USAID "I mean that happened in parallel. We didn't wait. And in terms of engaging the military and the response that happened from the very beginning. The reason we are going to have all of these military assets there that will expand our distribution capability this coming week is because we acted to make that happen immediately after this disaster occurred." 6. News anchor speaking in live hook-up with Lieutenant General P.K. "Ken" Keen 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant General P.K. "Ken" Keen, Military Deputy Commander, USSOUTHCOM "And we are going to have to address the situation of security. As you've said we've had incidents of violence that impede our ability to support the government of Haiti and answer the challenges that this country faces, suffering the tragedy of epic proportions." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY 16 January 2010 8. US President Barack Obama walking to podium with former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush ABC THIS WEEK - NO ACCESS N AMERICA / NO ACCESS INTERNET / COURTESY ABC "THIS WEEK" 17 January 2010 9. Former Presidents Clinton and Bush with ABC host 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bill Clinton, former US President, UN Haiti envoy "But people have to understand, not only was the city levelled and others as well, west, the Parliament building was wrecked, the Presidential palace was wrecked. As of yesterday, there was still missing parliamentarians, still missing government ministers. I mean the country, the structure of the country was taken down and I think the United States has done a good job and I think the international community has done a good job. The UN structure was taken down. The biggest loss of life in a single day in UN history so, President Bush and I were talking before, people get frustrated by this but I think if you just, within two or three days the thing will be in much better order." 11. Three shot of Bush, Clinton and host 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, former US President: "We've got to deal with the desperation and there ought to be no politicisation of that." 13. Three shot of Clinton, Bush and host 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, former US President: "The question, the fundamental question for the country is "Do we care?". Beyond the storm, or earthquake, do we care? And the answer is, "I think we should". And I think we ought to care from a humanitarian perspective and I also think from a strategic perspective because it makes sense to have a stable democracy in our neighbourhood." 15. Two shot of Clinton and Bush STORYLINE: US officials said Sunday that relief efforts were focussed firmly on getting food, water and medical supplies to victims and survivors simultaneously in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating magnitude 7 earthquake. Speaking on ABC's "This Week" Sunday show, Rajiv Shah, who leads the US Agency for International Development, said President Obama had called on his agency and the military to work in parallel to gets efforts mobilised aggressively and that initial efforts were also focused on trying to find survivors in the rubble. Lieutenant General Ken Keen of the US Southern Command, speaking from Haiti, called the situation a "a disaster of epic proportions with tremendous logistical challenges." He told viewers that while more infrastructure was arriving in to the country, security had become a great concern. "As you've said, we've had incidents of violence that impede our ability to support the government of Haiti and answer the challenges that this country faces", he said. Officials believe that 100-thousand or more people died in the quake that struck the impoverished country on Tuesday. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton both refuted any attempt to politicise the government's response to the Haiti earthquake. Bush said that he doesn't know what critics are talking about when they claim Obama is trying to score political points with a broad response to Haiti's woes. The most vocal critic has been conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh who urged people not to donate and said he wouldn't trust that money donated to Haiti through the White House Web site would go to the relief efforts. He said people contribute enough by paying income taxes. Clinton stressed that the infrastructure of Haiti had been completely destroyed and key government buildings had collapsed. He added that once the search and rescue efforts was wound down, relief efforts would become more coordinated and that the situation would then improve over the next few days. With the outpouring of donations, US officials have been urging Americans to make sure their contributions flowed to legitimate organisations. Former President George W. Bush, speaking of Haiti's despair, said Americans should care about what happens for humanitarian and national security reasons. The Haitian government meanwhile has set up 14 distribution points for food and other supplies, while US Army helicopters are scouting locations for more. Aid groups have opened five emergency health centres since the quake occurred and the UN says it's already feeding 40-thousand affected by the disaster. 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APTN APEX 01-17-10 1332EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Afghanistan Holbrooke Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:Afghanistan Holbrooke- REPLAY Presser by US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan LENGTH: 01:54 FIRST RUN: 1330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 633642 DATELINE: Kabul, 17 Jan 2010 LENGTH: 01:54 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Wide of US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, taking seat at conference room 2. Mid of Holbrooke and interviewer 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Holbrooke, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan: "The people who demand that the foreign troops leave Afghanistan before they talk about peace are actually asking for surrender. Let us not be naive about this. In the long run, foreign troops will leave Afghanistan. We don't want to occupy Afghanistan, we are here to help you." 4. Cutaway of photographer 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Holbrooke, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan: "The majority of the people fighting with the Taliban are not supporters of (Taliban leader) Mullah Omar, they are not supporters of the ideology of al-Qaida, they don't even know who al-Qaida is. And yet they fight because they have been misled by false information. They have been led to believe false things." 6. Mid of journalist asking question 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Richard Holbrooke, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan: "As for the people on what you call the blacklist, you know there are several lists and I have not read the lists carefully, because a lot of the names don't mean much to me. Some of the people on the list are dead, some shouldn't be on the list and some are amongst the most dangerous people in the world and I would be all in favour of looking at the list on a case by case basis. To see if there are people on the list who are on it by mistake and should be removed or in fact are dead." 8. Close of writing on notepad 9. Mid of Holbrooke leaving conference room STORYLINE US Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke told reporters in Kabul on Sunday that foreign troops would eventually pull out of Afghanistan but not in a way that suggested abandoning their mission. Holbrooke was speaking on his return from a trip to the Swat valley on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It was his sixth visit to Afghanistan in the past 12 months. He told reporters that "the people who demand that the foreign troops leave Afghanistan before they talk about peace are actually asking for surrender." He also said that he supports a proposal to lure fighters with no strong allegiance to militants away from the insurgency and reintegrate them into Afghan society. "Let us not be naive about this. In the long run, foreign troops will leave Afghanistan. We don't want to occupy Afghanistan, we are here to help you," he explained. He also said he believed the support base for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and for al-Qaida was limited and based on deception and what he called "false information." Holbrooke, who had a heated meeting last year with Afghan President Hamid Karzai over the fraud-stained Afghan presidential election, spoke at town hall-style event in the Afghan capital of Kabul where about 40 academics, videographers, representatives from non-governmental organisations, radio broadcasters and others were invited to ask Holbrooke questions. Their inquiries ranged from questions about reintegration and corruption to US economic assistance and the Pakistani intelligence service's involvement in violence in the region - a question Holbrooke declined to answer. Holbrooke also said he talked with Karzai on Sunday about a plan the government is crafting to offer jobs, vocational training and other economic incentives to tens of thousands of Taliban foot soldiers willing to switch sides after eight years of war. Asked if he would favour removing individuals, such as Mullah Omar or Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, from a United Nations sanctions list, Holbrooke said he could not "imagine what would justify such an action at this time, and I don't know anyone who has suggested that." However he said that "would be all in favour of looking at the list on a case by case basis. To see if there are people on the list who are on it by mistake and should be removed or in fact are dead." The UN Security Council imposed sanctions against the Taliban in November 1999 for refusing to send Osama bin Laden to stand trial on "terrorism" charges in connection with two 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa. The sanctions - a travel ban, arms embargo and assets freeze - were later extended to al-Qaida. In July 2005, the council extended the sanctions again to cover affiliates and splinter groups of al-Qaida and the Taliban. But questions have been raised about the fairness of the list and the rights of those subject to punitive measures to argue their case for being removed. Last month, the council approved new measures to make sure that UN sanctions target the right people, companies and organisations for links to al-Qaida and the Taliban. The sanctions committee is reviewing all 488 individuals and entities on the list. 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APTN APEX 01-17-10 1334EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Iraq Ali 2 Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:Iraq Ali 2- WRAP Al-Majid gets death penalty for Halabja attack; sentencing +GRAPHIC+ LENGTH: 01:52 FIRST RUN: 1230 RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Iraq TYPE: Arabic/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/Al-Iraqiya STORY NUMBER: 633624 DATELINE: Baghdad, 17 Jan 2010/FILE LENGTH: 01:52 ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: EDIT CONTAINS GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DEAD BODIES++ AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY AL-IRAQIYA - NO ACCESS IRAQ SHOTLIST ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1230 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) AL-IRAQIYA - NO ACCESS IRAQ 1. Former Iraqi official Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as "Chemical Ali", in dock listening to sentence being read by Judge Aboud Mostafa 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Judge Aboud Mostafa: ++Partly overlaid with al-Majid responding to sentence++ "Ali Hassan al-Majid was sentenced to death by hanging (Al-Majid: "Thanks to God, Thanks to God")...for the crime of murder as a crime against humanity." 3. Mid of judges bench 4. Former Iraqi Defence Minister, Sultan Hashim al-Taie, in dock 5. Mostafa speaking 6. Iraq's former Director of Military Intelligence, Sabir Azizi al-Douri 7. Lawyers taking notes (FIRST RUN 0930 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY 8. Various of traffic on Baghdad streets 9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Adnan Farhan, Baghdad Resident: "I think Chemical Ali deserved to be executed a long time ago, because the Baath (party) has committed many crimes and continues to do so today. So I think that carrying out this execution will curb these crimes and atrocities." 10. Traffic on street 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ansam al-Mahdawi, Baghdad Resident: "I think it is an unfair sentence. They were officials directed by a regime leading the country. Even now, we are all being directed by a regime or whatever political organisation or entity is in charge." (FIRST RUN 0930 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY FILE: Halabja - March 1988 (exact date unknown) 12. Aerial of destruction after gas attack 13. Various of dead bodies in street following gas attack ++GRAPHIC++ STORYLINE Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as "Chemical Ali", was convicted on Sunday of crimes against humanity and received a death sentence for his involvement in the 1988 poison gas attack on Halabja. Families of some of the victims in the Baghdad court cheered when the guilty verdict against al-Majid was handed down in a trial over one of the worst poisonous gas attacks against civilians. The attack left 5,600 people dead. Al-Majid has already received previous death sentences for atrocities committed during Saddam's rule, particularly in the government's suppression of the Kurds in the late 1980s. One Baghdad resident on Sunday welcomed the court's ruling, while another described the sentence as "unfair," saying al-Majid was simply following orders. Other officials in Saddam's regime received jail terms for their roles in the attack on Halabja, a Kurdish town near the Iranian border. Former Defence Minister Sultan Hashim al-Taie faces 15 years in prison, as does Iraq's former director of military intelligence, Sabir Azizi al-Douri. Farhan Mutlaq al-Jubouri, the former head of military intelligence's eastern regional office, was sentenced to 10 years. The jail terms were handed down following guilty verdicts on charges that included crimes against humanity. 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APTN APEX 01-17-10 1335EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Spain Politician Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:Spain Politician- REPLAY Spanish lawmaker comments after FBI uses his photo for bin Laden poster LENGTH: 02:43 FIRST RUN: 1230 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: Spanish/Nat SOURCE: AP PHOTOS/ATLAS/DoS TV STORY NUMBER: 633638 DATELINE: Madrid, 16 Jan 2010 LENGTH: 02:43 US STATE DEPARTMENT - AP CLIENTS ONLY AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE ATLAS AGENCY - NO ACCESS SPAIN SHOTLIST AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE Date and Location Unknown 1. STILL photo of al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden, not digitally aged 2. STILL of bin Laden, digitally enhanced to make him look older, wearing turban and beard 3. STILL of bin Laden, digitally enhanced to make him look older, with no beard and no turban ATLAS AGENCY - NO ACCESS SPAIN Madrid - 16 January 2010 4. Spanish politician, Gaspar Llamazares walking up to speak to reporters 5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gaspar Llamazares, Politician: "In the first instance, this matter of using my image in the cut and paste picture of bin Laden without a beard would be comical if weren't an issue that affected the safety and freedom of every citizen. It's comic because it illustrates the extremely basic standards among intelligence and security services which we've noticed recently in the US and now have experienced first hand not only in the CIA, but also within the FBI." US STATE DEPARTMENT - AP CLIENTS ONLY Date and Location Unknown 6. Internet page showing digitally aged photos of al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden ATLAS AGENCY - NO ACCESS SPAIN Madrid - 16 January 2010 7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gaspar Llamazares, Politician: "No. From what I've seen there have been no explanations given. They've not had the grace to give any explanation either to myself or to the Unidad Left." (Question: How did you feel when you heard the news. I suppose...?) "In the first instance I didn't believe it. I thought it was a joke. But it was no longer the 28th December (Saint's Day - when typically people in Spain play jokes on each other) and later, when I realised it was not a joke and that it was serious, I took it seriously and decided to act seriously." US STATE DEPARTMENT - AP CLIENTS ONLY Date and Location Unknown 8. Internet page showing digitally aged photos of bin Laden ATLAS AGENCY - NO ACCESS SPAIN Madrid - 16 January 2010 9. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gaspar Llamazares, Politician: "They have not said anything. They have not said anything to us, the ones who have been affected. The least they could do... the least they could have done was a phone call and a convincing explanation. But until now there have been less than excuses." AP PHOTOS - NO ACCESS CANADA/FOR BROADCAST USE ONLY - STRICTLY NO ACCESS ONLINE OR MOBILE Date and Location Unknown 10. Sequence of all three STILL photos of bin Laden ATLAS AGENCY - NO ACCESS SPAIN Madrid - 16 January 2010 11. UPSOUND (Spanish) Gaspar Llamazares, Politician: "It would not occur to me to go to, or have anything to do with the United States at this time. It wouldn't occur to me to travel to the United States. I had reservations before about going there but now I don't have reservations, I am convinced that I wouldn't be able to enter the country and that I would run into difficulties." (Question: If they invited you on a friendly basis) "No idea. Under these circumstances I think it would be unlikely. The security of Bin Laden seems not to be in any danger but mine does." 12. Llamazares walks away from cameras STORYLINE A Spanish lawmaker said he was horrified to learn that the FBI (US Federal Bureau of Investigation) used an online photograph of him to create an image showing what al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden might look like today. The digitally enhanced image of bin Laden - made to show what he would look like today as an older man - reportedly used Spanish lawmaker Gaspar Llamazares' photo and appeared on a wanted poster updating the US government's 1998 photo of the al-Qaida leader. FBI spokesman Ken Hoffman acknowledged to the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that the agency used a picture of Llamazares taken from Google Images. In a statement on Saturday, the agency would say only that it was aware of similarities between their age-progressed image and that of an existing photograph of a Spanish public official. The wanted poster appeared on the State Department website rewardsforjustice.net, listing a reward of up to 25 (m) million US dollars. The FBI said the photo of bin Laden would be removed from the website. Llamazares, former leader of the United Left party, was elected to Spain's parliament in 2000. The photograph of him reportedly used to make the wanted poster originally appeared on posters for his 2004 general-election campaign. He told reporters in Madrid on Saturday that he found the whole thing hard to believe at first. "In the first instance I didn't believe it. I thought it was a joke. But it was no longer the 28th December (Saint's Day - when typically people in Spain play jokes on each other) and later, when I realised it was not a joke and that it was serious, I took it seriously and decided to act seriously," he explained. Llamazares said he planned to ask the US government for an explanation and said he reserved the right to take legal action. He also said he was concerned to see the government resorting to what he called sloppy techniques, especially in the light of recent security alerts such as the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a Detroit-bound airplane. Bin Laden, who is wanted in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington DC and the 1998 US embassy bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, is believed to be hiding in the lawless Pakistan frontier bordering Afghanistan. His exact whereabouts have been unknown since late 2001, when he and some bodyguards slipped out of the Tora Bora mountains after evading air-strikes, special forces and Afghan militias. 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APTN APEX 01-17-10 1337EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Chile Voting 2 Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:Chile Voting 2- WRAP Chileans cast votes in presidential election, Bachelet LENGTH: 03:11 FIRST RUN: 1530 RESTRICTIONS: Pt No Access Chile TYPE: Spanish/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/CH7 STORY NUMBER: 633651 DATELINE: Santiago - 17 Jan 2010 LENGTH: 03:11 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY CHANNEL 7 - NO ACCESS CHILE SHOTLIST ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 17 JANUARY 2009) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Santiago 1. Presidential candidate Sebastian Pinera emerging from voting booth and walking over to ballot box 2. Cutaway of photographers 3. Pinera casting his ballot, with sons Cristobal (left) and Sebastian standing behind him 4. Close of ballots 5. Pinera shaking hands with unidentified man and showing his ink-stained thumb to media, hugs his wife, Cecilia Morel, before leaving poling station ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 17 JANUARY 2009) CHANNEL 7 - NO ACCESS CHILE Santiago 6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Sebastian Pinera, Chilean Presidential Candidate: "Tonight we are going to celebrate a big triumph but we are going to celebrate it as democrats do, the men of good will, with joy and hope but also with unity. The triumph is the triumph of democracy." 7. Chilean president Michelle Bachelet emerging from voting booth and casting her vote 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Michelle Bachelet, Chilean President: "As with all the election days in Chile I am convinced that this one as well will be quiet and normal. I call the Chilean people to go and vote early and wait with tranquillity in their homes for the results. This is a very competitive election but once again Chile will show its democratic capacities." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 17 JANUARY 2009) CHANNEL 7 - NO ACCESS CHILE La Union 9. Various of presidential candidate and former president Eduardo Frei casting his ballot (FIRST RUN 1230 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2009) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Santiago 10. Exterior of polling station 11. Couple reading information outside polling station 12. Security outside polling station 13. Wide interior of school where of polling station is being prepared 14. Close of ballot box 15. Various of woman casting her vote 16. Close of ballot box with ballots inside 17. Various of woman registering with polling station officials 18. Woman walking into polling booth 19. Cutaway of officials 20. Woman casting vote STORYLINE Chile's presidential election on Sunday could come down to a nerve-racking, vote-by-vote count after a late surge by former President Eduardo Frei made his race against billionaire Sebastian Pinera too close to predict. Pinera led every poll until Frei and outgoing President Michelle Bachelet repeatedly invoked the legacy of Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship, raising fears of a retreat on human rights if the centre-right Pinera gains power. The theme shook up the well-organised campaign of Harvard-trained economist Pinera, which had focused on economic growth, jobs and change in a country led by a coalition of centre-left politicians for 20 years. Pinera said the government was spreading lies to frighten voters. Flanked by his sons Cristobal and Sebastian, Pinera cast his ballot in the capital Santiago, hugging his wife, Cecilia Morel, as he left the polling station. "Tonight we are going to celebrate a big triumph but we are going to celebrate it as democrats do, the men of good will, with joy and hope but also with unity. The triumph is the triumph of democracy," Pinera said. Bachelet also voted in Santiago, telling reporters that the election was "very competitive." Frei, meanwhile, cast his ballot at a school in the city of La Union, nearly 900 kilometres (559 miles) south of Santiago. With Frei and Pinera agreeing on most government policies - a reflection of the remarkable economic, social and political success that has given Bachelet nearly 80 percent approval ratings as she ends her five-year term - human rights became the wild card. Bachelet, herself a torture victim, steadfastly supported judicial efforts to resolve crimes against humanity during the 1973-1990 dictatorship, and more than 700 former military and security officials have been put on trial. But efforts to resolve dictatorship-era rights abuses remain a painful topic around Latin America, and aggressive moves are not always popular. Voters in Uruguay rejected an initiative to overturn that country's amnesty laws last year, even as they elected a former rebel as president. Amnesties also remain in force in Brazil, and while Argentina overturned its amnesty laws, rights trials there have become highly politicised. The issue came to the forefront of Chile's presidential campaign last month when a judge concluded that Frei's father, a Pinochet critic, had been secretly poisoned to death. Bachelet raised it again by inaugurating Chile's Museum of Memory less than a week before the vote. And Frei pressed it hard in Wednesday's televised debate, forcing Pinera to acknowledge that "part of my sector committed errors" during the dictatorship by denying human rights violations even as thousands of Pinochet's opponents were tortured or killed. The ruling coalition "may have committed errors, but not horrors," Frei countered, noting that the death of his father would never have been investigated had the amnesty proposal Pinera made as a senator been approved. The 60-year-old Pinera said no former Pinochet Cabinet members would serve in his Cabinet, but angry supporters quickly forced him to take back the promise. The key question is whether fears of a retreat on rights cases run deep enough to persuade voters who stayed home during last month's first-round election to show up on Sunday. Most of those who abstained are leftists, and if enough of them vote this time, Pinera would lose his edge. Pinera's 15-point lead in December dropped to 1.8 percent, according to a nationwide poll published on Wednesday by the independent firm Market Opinion Research International, which showed him leading by 50.9 percent to 49.1 percent for Frei. But the 3 percentage point error margin made the race anybody's guess. Both sides ordered party representatives to scrutinise Sunday's vote count, and to challenge questionable paper ballots. Pinera had lawyers staff a hotline for challenges, and Frei's campaign was focusing its watchdog efforts on precincts where Pinera had a first-round advantage. Pinera put his PhD in economics to use popularising credit cards in Chile, growing a fortune that now includes a large share of Chile's main airline, a leading television channel and the country's most popular soccer team. He said the government has "run out of gas," and that he would create a (m) million jobs and double the Chile's median income of 12-thousand US dollars a year. Frei's 1995-2000 term was rather unremarkable and many leftists preferred the more dynamic Marco Enriquez-Ominami, who came in third in the first round and tepidly endorsed Frei last week, saying the right should be kept from the presidency. Chile's population is nearly 17 (m) million, but only 8.3 (m) million are registered to vote, and fewer than 760-thousand new voters have been added in the last 21 years under a system that makes voting mandatory for life for those who register. Frei has promised to make a priority of Enriquez-Ominami's proposal to make registration automatic and voting optional. 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APTN APEX 01-17-10 1338EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: +Ukraine Election 9 Sunday, 17 January 2010 STORY:+Ukraine Election 9- WRAP Yushchenko sot; Donetsk, monks, troops vote ADDS exit poll LENGTH: 03:17 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Ukrainian/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/POOL STORY NUMBER: 633659 DATELINE: Various - 17 Jan 2010 LENGTH: 03:17 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY NATIONAL EXIT POLL POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST (FIRST RUN 1130 NEWS UPDATE - 17 JANUARY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kiev 1. Wide pan of street and polling station 2. Wide of people entering polling station 3. Mid of polling station officials 4. Wide of monks going to polling station officials to get ballot papers 5. Mid of two monks 6. Mid of monk coming out voting cabin and putting his ballot in voting box 7. Close of ballot falling inside voting box, tilt down 8. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vladimir Kotsaba, Monk: "We hope that God will send that well-deserved person who will be able to lead our country out from that difficult condition that we have. For this we pray our God." (FIRST RUN 1230 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kiev 9. Wide of incumbent presidential candidate, Victor Yuschenko approaching press 10. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Victor Yushchenko, Ukrainian President: "I regret that Georgia, and our beloved Georgian people are being used for manipulations in Ukraine, and it once more proves who in reality our political leaders are and in which direction they are heading." 11. Wide of Yushchenko leaving (FIRST RUN 1130 NEWS UPDATE - 17 JANUARY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Donetsk 12. Wide of mine 13. Mid interior of polling station 14. Mid of man casting ballot 15. Woman arranging food and drinks on table 16. Close of lard 17. Pan of food and drinks on table 18. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Nikolai Sergeychuk, Voter from Donetsk: "He (Yanukovych) has done everything for Donetsk and went to Kiev to make order there, but Yulia (Tymoshenko) does not let him to put everything in order." 19. Mid of people in hallway (FIRST RUN 1330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Sevastopol 20. Sevastopol skyline with harbour 21. Sailors coming out of voting booth and casting votes 22. Close-up of vote being cast 23. Pan of polling station interior 24. Mid of ballot boxes 25. Wide of interior of polling station 26. Zoom out of exterior of polling station ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS - 17 JANUARY 2010) NATIONAL EXIT POLL POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY Kiev 27. Members of Democratic Initiative Fund announcing exit poll results 28. Democratic Initiative Fund members 29. SOUNDBITE (Ukrainian) Elko Kucherev, Director of Democratic Initiative Fund: "The results are as follows: Yanukovych, Viktor - 31. 5; Tymoshenko, Yulia - 27. 2 percent; Tigipko, Sergei - 13.5; Yatseniuk, Arseniy - 7.8 percent, Yushchenko, Victor 6.0 percent." 30. Mid of exit poll announcement STORYLINE Disillusioned Ukrainian voters appear to have given archenemy of the 2004 Orange Revolution a first-place finish in the initial round of presidential voting on Sunday, setting up a showdown with the heroine of the Orange movement, an exit poll showed. Early predictions suggest the pro-Russian opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych will finish first in the hard-fought contest and Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko will finish second, clearing the path for a runoff between the pair sometime next month. The two candidates stood on opposite sides of the barricades during the peaceful mass demonstrations that kicked out a reputedly corrupt government in 2004, when Yanukovych had the backing of the Kremlin and Orange forces denounced Russian interference. Both candidates now say they will abandon efforts to join NATO and pledge to repair ties to Russia, the region's dominant power. Among those casting their vote in the capital Kiev on Sunday was monk Vladimir Kotsaba who said he hoped the election would bring a more positive future to the country. "We hope that God will send that well-deserved person who will be able to lead our country out from that difficult condition that we have. For this we pray our God," he said. President Viktor Yushchenko, elected in 2004 with 52 per cent of the vote, appeared at a polling station in Kiev although exit polls are predicting he'll take just six percent of the vote. The National Exit Poll is by a consortium of groups that conduct up to 13-thousand interviews outside 240 polling places and has a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points. Yushchenko was hospitalised with a massive dose of the chemical dioxin during the 2004 race, and his poison-scarred face became a symbol of defiance to tyranny for (m) millions around the world. Five years later, he is widely seen as an ineffective leader for failing to curb corruption and modernise Ukraine's economy. In Donetsk and in the Black Sea harbour city of Sevastopol, a southern Ukrainian city on the Crimea peninsula, many voters cast their ballots yet kept expectations low. One recent poll showed a majority of voters were concerned the election could be rigged. A suspicious Yuschenko reacted angrily to the arrival of electoral observers from neighbouring Georgia - at least 152 to the eastern city of Donetsk - on Saturday. "I regret that Georgia, and our beloved Georgian people are being used for manipulations in Ukraine, and it once more proves who in reality our political leaders are and in which direction they are heading," he said. Foes of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko released a tape this week of a purported conversation between her and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, in which he supposedly said he was sending 2,000 "battle-ready" observers to monitor the race. In a December opinion poll, only 34 per cent of Ukrainians said that they expected the election to be fair overall, while 57 per cent said the results could be manipulated or were certain to be stolen. As part of an international effort to bolster confidence in the election, foreign observers have fanned out across Ukraine to monitor voting in this country of 46 (m) million people with 36.6 (m) million registered voters. 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AP-APTN-1830 North America Prime News -Final Friday, 12 February 2010 North America Prime News US Clinton 7 01:56 Pt No NAmerica/Internet WRAP Former president leaves hospital after heart proceedure, arrival home ++Haiti Ceremony 2 02:51 AP Clients Only NEW Religious ceremonies a month after earthquake, Preval +Afghan Offensive 04:29 AP Clients Only WRAP Elders want quick offensive; preps for assault; conflict over deaths NKorea UN 02:48 APTN Clients Only/Pt No Access NKorea REPLAY UN envoy leaves NKorea after bid to persuade NKor to resume talks China UN NKorea 01:16 AP Clients Only REPLAY UN envoy's presser following four-day visit to North Korea Pakistan Blast Amath 00:46 AP Clients Only REPLAY Aftermath of suicide bombs, at least 15 dead, damage, coffins ++Canada Oly Torch 02:02 AP Clients Only NEW Schwarzenegger and Coe carry Olympic torch in Vancouver UK Canada Oly 01:36 AP clients only REPLAY London celebrates start of Winter Olympics in Vancouver US UK McQueen 2 03:38 AP Clients Only WRAP Models, designers, celebrities pay tribute to British designer ++Brazil Carnival 01:36 AP Clients Only REPLAY Official opening of Rio carnival, mayor hands key to King Momo B-u-l-l-e-t-i-n begins at 1830 GMT. APEX 02-12-10 1358EST -----------End of rundown----------- AP-APTN-1830: US Clinton 7 Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:US Clinton 7- WRAP Former president leaves hospital after heart proceedure, arrival home LENGTH: 01:56 FIRST RUN: 1730 RESTRICTIONS: Pt No NAmerica/Internet TYPE: Natsound/MUTE SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/NNS STORY NUMBER: 636882 DATELINE: Various 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 01:56 NNS (FOX - WNYW) - No Access North America or Internet AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1730 NEWS UPDATE - 12 FEBRUARY 2010) AP Television - AP Clients Only New York, NY 1. Marble column outside Columbia Campus New York Presbyterian Hospital's Milstein building, slow pan to the street showing media outside the hospital 2. Mid of main entrance to Milstein Hospital Building ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1730 NEWS UPDATE - 12 FEBRUARY 2010) NNS (FOX - WNYW) - No Access North America or Internet New York, NY 3. Former President Bill Clinton walking through the lobby of the hospital, shaking hand of Dr. Allan Schwartz, Cardiologist - Columbia Campus New York Presbyterian Hospital, walking out to SUV (FIRST RUN 1330 NEWS UPDATE - 12 FEBRUARY 2010) NNS (FOX - WNYW) - No Access North America or Internet ++MUTE AT SOURCE++ 4. SUV driving away from the hospital as Clinton rolls window down and waves, followed by the vehicle driving away ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1730 NEWS UPDATE - 12 FEBRUARY 2010) AP Television - AP Clients Only Chappaqua, NY 5. Clinton's home in Chappaqua 6. Close up of windows in the Clinton home in Chappaqua ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1730 NEWS UPDATE - 12 FEBRUARY 2010) NNS (FOX - WNYW) - No Access North America or Internet Chappaqua, NY ++MUTE AT SOURCE++ 7. Aerials of the convoy transporting Clinton as it arrives at his Chappaqua home followed by an overhead shot of Clinton exiting his SUV and walking into the house STORYLINE: Former US President Bill Clinton was recovering at his suburban home on Friday after leaving a Manhattan hospital where he underwent a heart procedure. Clinton adviser Douglas Band said in a statement that Clinton left New York Presbyterian Hospital "in excellent health." "He looks forward in the days ahead to getting back to the work of his Foundation, and to Haiti relief and recovery efforts," it said. Three black sport utility vehicles with tinted windows arrived around 7:45 a.m. (1245 GMT) on Friday and pulled through the high gates at the Clintons' home in Chappaqua, about 35 miles (55 kilometres) north of New York City. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said that Clinton's wife, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is at the home. Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman and a close friend of the Clintons, told CBS television that he expects Clinton will get back to work quickly. Clinton, 63, could be back at work as soon as Monday, cardiologist Allan Schwartz said previously. Clinton had quadruple bypass surgery at the same hospital more than five years ago, and returned on Thursday to have a clogged heart artery opened after suffering discomfort in his chest. Two stents resembling tiny mesh scaffolds were placed inside the artery as part of a medical procedure that is common for people with severe heart disease. Schwartz said tests had showed that one of the bypasses from the surgery was completely blocked. Instead of trying to open the blocked bypass, doctors reopened one of his original blocked arteries and inserted the two stents. The procedure took about an hour, and Clinton was able to get up two hours later, Schwartz said. There was no sign the former president had suffered a heart attack, and the new blockage was not a result of his diet, Schwartz said, describing Clinton's prognosis as excellent. Hillary Clinton travelled from Washington to New York to be with her husband. She left the hospital at about 11:30 p.m. (0430 GMT) without speaking to reporters. Clinton's daughter, Chelsea, was also with him at the hospital. 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APTN APEX 02-12-10 1348EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: ++Haiti Ceremony 2 Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:++Haiti Ceremony 2- NEW Religious ceremonies a month after earthquake, Preval LENGTH: 02:51 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Natsot SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 636883 DATELINE: Port-au-Prince, 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 02:51 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Wide exterior of Notre Dame University Nurses school 2. Edmond Mulet, UN Special Representative in Haiti, arriving at service 3. Various of Haitian President Rene Preval arriving and greeting officials 4. Various of stage as ceremony starts with clerics from the Haitian main religions, Catholics, Evangelicals and Voodoo 5. Various of officials at ceremony with President Preval sitting next to Prime Minister Bellerive 6. Mid of crowd at ceremony 7. Mid of church leaders on stage 8. Wide pan of crowd at ceremony in front of National Palace 9. Mid of people with raised arms 10. Mid of men carrying woman overcome with emotion out of crowd 11. Mid of people watching during sermon 12. Close up of woman's face 13. Various of waving arms 14. Various of church leaders on stage singing 15. Mid of church leaders on stage singing 16. Various of crowd singing along and waving arms STORYLINE: Thousands of Haitians prayed on Friday in a national day of mourning, one month after a magnitude-7.0 earthquake killed more than 200,000 and left the Caribbean country struggling for survival. Leaders of Haiti's two official religions - a Catholic bishop and the head of the Voodoo priests, both robed in white - joined ministers from Protestant denominations for a prayer service near the shattered National Palace. Parishioners filled churches in Port-au-Prince's Petionville suburb and set up loudspeakers so those in the streets could follow. Others stood on debris that used to be a Catholic Church and an evangelical church to remember victims hurriedly and anonymously buried in mass graves outside the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince. Hundreds of people gathered. Men wore black armbands of mourning, girls white dresses. Among them were earthquake amputees in wheelchairs, casts and on crutches. President Rene Preval wept during the service, his wife trying to console him. "The pain is too heavy. Words cannot explain it," Preval said. The president later asked people to support the government, though he did not refer to the many small demonstrations this week demanding that he resign. People raised their hands to the heavens as they sang. Those killed in the 12 January quake included church leaders, missionaries and children studying at faith-based schools. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, Joseph Serge Miot, was among those who perished. Some Haitians have been asking if God had abandoned their country, the world's first black republic, founded in 1804 following a slave rebellion. After the quake, some Voodoo followers have converted to Christianity, some enticed by steady aid flows through evangelical missions, others out of a fear of God. Since the quake, Scientologists, Mormons, Baptists, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses and other missionaries have flocked to Haiti in droves, feeding the homeless, treating the injured and preaching the Gospel in squalid camps where some one (m) million people now live. In many of them, trucks with loudspeakers blast evangelical music while missionaries talk to families under tarps. The US Agency for International Development channels hundreds of (m) millions of dollars in overseas aid each year through faith-based groups, though there is no definitive tally of how much of the aid for Haiti comes through Christian groups. 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APTN APEX 02-12-10 1350EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: +Afghan Offensive Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:+Afghan Offensive- WRAP Elders want quick offensive; preps for assault; conflict over deaths LENGTH: 04:29 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Eng/Pashto/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/NATO TV STORY NUMBER: 636880 DATELINE: Various, 10 & 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 04:29 ++CLIENTS NOTE: IGNORE EDIT SENT EARLIER AND REPLACE WITH THIS ONE WHICH HAS HAD AUDIO AND/OR VIDEO LEVELS CORRECTED++ ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE: SHOTS 21 - 24 WERE FILMED BY A CAMERAMAN EMBEDDED WITH US AND AFGHAN FORCES++ AP TELEVISION NEWS - AP CLIENTS ONLY NATO TV - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1830 NORTH AMERICA PRIME NEWS) NATO TV - AP CLIENTS ONLY Exact location unknown, Helmand Province - 10 February 2010 1. Various of British, Afghan and Estonian troops 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Nick Lock, Commander - Royal Welsh Battle Group: "And this mission is a historic mission. We are really at a point, a tipping point in the future of the campaign." 3. Various of soldiers listening 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Nick Lock, Commander - Royal Welsh Battle Group: "Now we're going into an area which has been under Taliban control for quite some time. And the people are heavily intimidated in that area. So it will take time for them to grow in confidence and to engage with us and our Afghan partners. But we need to get to grips with the population, to get them to understand that we are here to stay this time. And, that we are going to provide the security and infrastructure that is required to ensure that they can get on and live their lives in peace as they've wanted to do for quite some time." 5. Wide view of soldiers listening 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Nick Lock, Commander - Royal Welsh Battle Group: "I'm sure we'll have a huge success on this operation. Make sure we're partnering with our Afghan colleagues and we'll get this job done and done to the best of our abilities." 7. Wide of soldiers listening (FIRST RUN 1430 EUROPE PRIME NEWS) AP TELEVISION NEWS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Lashkar Gah, Helmand province - 12 February 2010 8. Wide of Lashkar Gah 9. Various of Afghan police 10. Wide of police searching cars arriving from Marjah 11. Various of displaced people from Marjah on trucks and cars 12. Close up of family on the back of truck 13. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Qari Mohammad Nabi, Marjah resident "They (Taliban) don't allow families to leave. Families can only leave the village when they are not seen while leaving." 14. Mid of police stopping a mini-bus coming from Marjah 15. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Bibi Gull, Marjah resident "We were not allowed to come here. We haven't brought any of our belongings. We just tried to take ourselves out of there. Three of my sons are still in the village and the other three have come with me." 16. Haji Mohammad Anwar, Chief of Helmand provincial council, 17. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Haji Mohammad Anwar, Chief of Helmand provincial council "The governor asked the people, with the approval of the interior minister, to establish a council from the religious elders to get in touch with the Taliban, in order to guarantee the lives of those who want to lay down their weapons and don't want to fight." 18. Mid of police searching truck 19. Mid of policeman 20. Wide of vehicles carrying refugees from Marjah and surrounding villages (FIRST RUN 1130 NEWS UPDATE) AP TELEVISION NEWS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Outskirts of Marjah, Helmand province - 12 February 2010 21. Cut away of hands cleaning gun 22. Mid shot of soldier cleaning gun 23. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lieutenant Colonel Brian Christmas, Battalion Commander of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines "Well we're here to introduce GIRoA (Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) and NA (National Army) forces to Marjah in order to rid the Taliban as well as to bring government to Marjah, like schools, hospitals, security and again to get rid of the Taliban." 24. SOUNDBITE: (English) Captain Josh Winfrey, Lima Company Commander of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines "A lot of IED's (Improvised Explosive Device) - that's the primary threat. Varying reports on what the enemy actually looks like within the district but I'm expecting some fairly significant resistance, especially within the first few days that we're go in." (FIRST RUN 1330 NEWS UPDATE) AP TELEVISION NEWS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Gardez, Paktia province - 12 February 2010 25. Wide of the house where two men and three women were found dead 26. Mid of Afghan police and US soldiers at entrance to house 27. Wide of the house 28. US soldiers inside the room taking photographs of bodies 29. Blood stain on the ground 30. Pair of lady's shoes 31. US soldiers in the room tilt down to bodies 32. Tilt up from blood stain on ground to Afghan policeman's face 33. Various of relatives crying 34. Various of villagers chanting against the US and the Afghan government STORYLINE Thousands of Afghan soldiers and police are to join NATO troops in an upcoming offensive in southern Afghanistan, playing their biggest role in any joint operation of the nine year Afghan war. The pending attack on the Taliban-held town of Marjah in Helmand province will be a crucial test for the NATO strategy of transferring more responsibility to the Afghans so foreign troops can go home. Exact numbers of NATO to Afghan troops earmarked for the assault - named "Operation Moshtarak" ("Operation Together" when translated from the Dari language) - have not been disclosed for security reasons but are expected to far exceed the ten-to-one ratio of Americans to Afghans during the major offensive in Helmand province last summer. Earlier in the week, Lieutenant Colonel Nick Lock of the Royal Welsh Battle Group spoke to troops preparing for battle. He urged them to make sure they partnered up and worked well with Afghan troops in dealing with the civilian population. "So it will take time for them to grow in confidence and to engage with us and our Afghan partners. But we need to get to grips with the population, to get them to understand that we are here to stay this time," he said. On Friday, roads leading out of the besieged town 380 miles (610 kilometres) southwest of Kabul were jammed as hundreds of civilians defied militant orders and fled the area ahead of the anticipated US-Afghan assault. Many said they had to leave quickly and secretly to avoid recrimination from Taliban commanders. US commanders have not revealed when the main attack will take place but first signalled their intention to attack several weeks ago, hoping civilians would seek shelter. Those who made it to the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, 20 miles (30 kilometres) to the northeast, said they had fled without their belongings and that members of family had been left behind. "We were not allowed to come here. We haven't brought any of our belongings; we just tried to get ourselves out," said Bibi Gul, an elderly woman who arrived with three of her sons. She left three more sons behind in Marjah. Police searched the vehicles as they arrived for any signs of militants. Provincial spokesman Daoud Ahmadi said about 450 families - an estimated 2,700 people - had already sought refuge in Lashkar Gah and that local authorities were preparing to shelter up to seven thousand families over the coming days. Marjah is a major supply base for the Taliban insurgents and a centre of their opium-poppy business. Up to 1,000 militants are believed to be holed up there. As the NATO and Afghan forces move in, the biggest danger is likely to be the number of land mines and bombs hidden in the roads and surrounding fields. The US military has been quoted as describing the area as possibly the largest minefield that NATO has ever faced. "A lot of IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) - that's the primary threat," said Captain Josh Winfrey, Lima Company Commander of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines. A Taliban spokesman - Mohammed Yusuf - has dismissed the significance of Marjah, describing the planned attack as "more propaganda than military necessity." He has at the same time been quoted by the SITE Intelligence Group which monitors militant Internet traffic as saying the insurgents would strike back with explosives and hit-and-run tactics. Operation Moshtarak may prove to be decisive not least because of its potential influence on relations between the foreign military and civilian populations. Civilian deaths during military operations are a hot-button issue in Afghanistan, and US commanders have issued strict orders to limit the use of force when civilians are at risk. Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has also called on NATO to stop night raids into private homes because they offend Afghan culture and help turn people away from the government and its allies. According to NATO, on Thursday a joint Afghan-NATO force killed several insurgents during a raid on a compound in Paktia province and discovered the bodies of two men and two bound and gagged women. The killings have sparked fierce public outcry as stricken relatives blame US soldiers for the deaths. In a statement, NATO forces said the operation took place on Thursday night in the Gardez district after the joint force received reports of militant activity at a compound near the village of Khatabeh. The statement also said several insurgents died in the ensuing fire fight. Also, that "a large number of men, women, and children" exited the compound and were detained by the joint force. But a man who identified himself as Hamidullah accused US forces of killing innocent victims, saying he had been in the home at the time of the incident, as some 20 people gathered to celebrate the birth of a son. He said a group of men he described as US special forces surrounded the compound and gunned down one man when he came out into the courtyard to ask why. Then they killed a second man, Hamidullah said. The rest of the group were forced out into the yard, made to kneel and had their hands bound behind their back, he said, breaking off crying without giving any further details. Afghan officials confirmed on Friday they were investigating the deaths in a home near the provincial capital of Gardez. It is understood that one of the men who was killed worked for the police, while the other worked for the attorney general's office. The Interior Ministry sent a team on Friday to Paktia to investigate the incident, indicating the high level of concern over new allegations of civilian casualties. 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APTN APEX 02-12-10 1429EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: NKorea UN Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:NKorea UN- REPLAY UN envoy leaves NKorea after bid to persuade NKor to resume talks LENGTH: 02:48 FIRST RUN: 0930 RESTRICTIONS: APTN Clients Only/Pt No Access NKorea TYPE: Mandarin/Natsot SOURCE: APTN/KRT STORY NUMBER: 636806 DATELINE: Pyongyang - 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 02:48 KRT - No Access North Korea APTN - APTN Clients Only SHOTLIST: KRT - No Access North Korea Pyongyang - 12 February 2010 1. Wide of library building 2. Mid of Under Secretary General to the UN, B. Lynn Pascoe and officials listening to explanation of library 3. Various of Pascoe and officials looking at a group of students working with computers 4. Wide pan of students working with computers 5. Mid of Pascoe listening to explanations 6. Pascoe in library looking at books, pan to bookshelves APTN - APTN Clients Only Pyongyang - 12 February 2010 7. Wide of Pyongyang Maternity Hospital 8. Pascoe arriving, getting out of car and greeting officials from hospital 9. Wide of room inside hospital 10. Wide of Pascoe and UN delegation listening to introduction of hospital 11. Close up of baby 12. Pascoe with hospital officials and delegation 13. Wide of mothers sitting on beds with babies 14. Mid of Pascoe talking to mothers, pan to mothers 15. Wide of Pascoe getting out of car at Pyongyang airport, speaking to reporter 16. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) B. Lynn Pascoe, Under Secretary General to the UN: "Very satisfied. We have discussed a lots of issues." 17. UN delegation walking down the stairs of airport terminal 18. Pascoe shaking hands with North Korean officials 19. Pascoe and his party getting on airport bus 10. North Korean officials watching Pascoe departing 21. Bus driving towards plane STORYLINE: UN Special Envoy B. Lynn Pascoe concluded a four-day trip to North Korea Friday that may yet precede an historic visit by a top North Korean nuclear envoy to the US next month. Pascoe, the highest-ranking UN diplomat to visit North Korea since 2004, met with several senior government officials during his visit, including North Korea's No. 2, to convey a message from the UN Secretary General Bank Ki-Moon to leader Kim Jong Il. Prior to his departure on Friday, he was also taken on a tour of Pyongyang's Maternity Hospital. Later, he told reporters at Pyongyang airport he was "very satisfied" with the talks that had taken place. According to South Korea's Yonhap news agency, reported from Beijing, a top North Korean nuclear envoy is now set to visit the US next month for rare bilateral talks. Diplomats are pushing to revive negotiations on ending Pyongyang's nuclear program. The report cited an unidentified source and suggested North Korea's Kim Kye Gwan would travel to Washington in March. A meeting between the North Korean envoy and US officials would be a strong sign that the push to get the disarmament talks back on track was gaining traction. It would also confirm a warming in relations between the US and North Korea. North Korea, believed to have enough weaponised plutonium for at least half a dozen atomic bombs, walked away from disarmament-for-aid negotiations last year during a standoff over its nuclear and missile programs. After tightened sanctions and financial isolation, the impoverished nation has reached out to Washington, Seoul and Beijing in recent months. North Korea wants sanctions eased and a peace treaty formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War if it returns to the talks. 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APTN APEX 02-12-10 1359EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: China UN NKorea Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:China UN NKorea- REPLAY UN envoy's presser following four-day visit to North Korea LENGTH: 01:16 FIRST RUN: 1430 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 636861 DATELINE: Beijing - 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 01:16 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Wide interior shot of press conference 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Pascoe, UN Special Envoy: "Well, the attitude right now as I said was that they certainly were not happy with the sanctions, and they were certainly not eager to - not ruling out - but not eager to return to the six-party talks, so we'll see where that comes." 3. Wide cutaway media 4. SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Pascoe, UN Special Envoy: "I don't really want to get into the middle of negotiating the details. We will tell the other members of the six-party talks what we heard and then we will stay out, unless anybody asks us to be involved, and as haven't been asked to be involved yet." 5. Med cutaway media 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Lynn Pascoe, UN Special Envoy: "It was about a forth of what we would estimate a really good programme should be, at the point that takes mostly humanitarian issues. There is some development but not much. It's mostly humanitarian. And we need the programme to be going up, not down, to help the kids, that's all." 7. Wide pull out shot of end of press conference STORYLINE: A news report said a top North Korean nuclear envoy would visit the United States for rare bilateral talks next month, as diplomats pushed to revive negotiations on ending Pyongyang's nuclear programme. South Korea's Yonhap news agency, citing an unidentified source, reported Friday that plans call for North Korea's Kim Kye Gwan to travel to the US in March. UN political chief, Lynn Pascoe, said after concluding a four-day trip to North Korea on Friday that he was unaware of plans for Kim to travel to the US. Pascoe, the highest-ranking UN diplomat to visit North Korea since 2004, said he met North Korea's president and foreign minister, but the North Korean side did not seem prepared to immediately return to the international disarmament talks. "Well, the attitude right now as I said was that they certainly were not happy with the sanctions, and they were certainly not eager to - not ruling out - but not eager to return to the six-party talks, so we'll see where that comes," Pascoe said. 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APTN APEX 02-12-10 1351EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Pakistan Blast Amath Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:Pakistan Blast Amath- REPLAY Aftermath of suicide bombs, at least 15 dead, damage, coffins LENGTH: 00:46 FIRST RUN: 1130 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Urdu/Natsot SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 636817 DATELINE: Bannu - 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 00:46 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Wide, pan right of scene of suicide attacks, showing police officers and damaged buildings 2. Tracking shot of coffins being carried 3. Mid shot of coffins laid out, draped in Pakistani flags 4. Wide of people praying in front of coffins 5. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Ameer Haider Khan Hoti, Chief Minister for Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) "There is a price to pay for war, and we have already paid this price, and we have to pay this price again in the future. Yesterday's attack on the police barracks was another instance where we have paid the ultimate price." 6. Wide of people praying in front of coffins STORYLINE: Fifteen people are reported dead, including at least nine policemen, after a double suicide bombing in the northwest Pakistan town of Bannu on Thursday. Thirty people were also wounded in the attacks, including Bannu's police chief, according to hospital officials. Officials say the second blast went off as rescuers responded to the first blast, a militant tactic rarely seen before in Pakistan. On Friday, police officers stood guard at the scene of the attack, in front of a row of badly damaged buildings. Close by, funerals were held for several of the officers killed. A large crowd gathered around their flag-draped coffins and offered prayers. The Chief Minister for Pakistan's northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) attended the funerals, saying that the bomb victims were "the price to pay" for war with militants. Militants have carried out numerous attacks on security forces over the past several years to undermine the public's confidence in the already-weak state. No group immediately claimed responsibility for Thursday's blasts, which were carried out by attackers on foot outside a gate to the police complex, but suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban. The city of Bannu lies just outside North Waziristan, a major militant stronghold. There is growing certainty that the militant group's top commander, Hakimullah Mehsud, died from wounds sustained in a US missile strike in mid-January. The Taliban have denied he is dead, but so far have failed to offer proof that he is alive. A potential succession struggle in the wake of Mehsud's death could temporarily weaken the Pakistani Taliban but is unlikely to cripple its ability to carry out deadly attacks. The Pakistani military has pursued the group but many of its militants are believed to have fled to North Waziristan and other areas in the tribal belt or just outside it. The US has pushed Pakistan to do what it can to root out militants on its soil who threaten Pakistan's own stability and American and NATO troops across the border in Afghanistan. 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 02-12-10 1352EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: ++Canada Oly Torch Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:++Canada Oly Torch- NEW Schwarzenegger and Coe carry Olympic torch in Vancouver LENGTH: 02:02 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 636877 DATELINE: Vancouver, 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 02:02 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Wide of crowd at Vancouver's Stanley park 2. Illuminated Olympic rings on barge in harbour 3. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger arriving, mobbed by fans and cameras 4. Placard reading (English) 'The Torchinator' 5. Schwarzenegger carrying torch through crowd 6. Police escort 7. Schwarzenegger at end of his run 8. Fans watching 9. Schwarznegger posing for photos 10. Schwarzenegger walking to car, waving 11. Sebastian Coe, London 2012 chairman with torch 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sebastian Coe, Chairman, London 2012: "Great honour and it's a great thrill, but a big responsibility too, and a lot of attention, but these guys have done a fantastic job and it's just great to be here." 13. Wide of torch run along sea wall STORYLINE: Fans have mobbed California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as he carried the Olympic torch on the final day of the Vancouver Winter Games torch relay. Hundreds turned out at dawn to cheer Schwarzenegger as he carried the torch through part of Vancouver's waterfront Stanley Park. The choice of Schwarzenegger to carry the torch sparked some controversy, as he has admitted past steroid use. He handed the torch to the chairman of the London 2012 summer Olympic Games, Sebastian Coe. "It's a great thrill, but a big responsibility too, and a lot of attention, but these guys have done a fantastic job and it's just great to be here," Coe said. Later on, about 150 protesters gathered in the Downtown Eastside area amid hundreds of Olympic fans waiting for a glimpse of the flame. A dozen mounted police stopped the placard-carrying protesters from surging ahead and confronting the relay. The convoy quickly changed the route and continued. This is the 106th and final day of the cross-Canada relay. 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APTN APEX 02-12-10 1410EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: UK Canada Oly Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:UK Canada Oly- REPLAY London celebrates start of Winter Olympics in Vancouver LENGTH: 01:36 FIRST RUN: 1230 RESTRICTIONS: AP clients only TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 636818 DATELINE: London, 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 01:36 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of Trafalgar Square with Olympic ice sculpture 2. Various of ice sculpture 8. Close up of Canadian flag 3. Canadian High Commissioner Jim Wright with London Mayor Boris Johnson 4. Wright and Johnson pose with ice hockey sticks 5. UPSOUND: (English) Jim Wright, Canadian High Commissioner: "Good luck Vancouver!" 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Boris Johnson, London Mayor: "This is London to Canadians everywhere. Have a fantastic winter games and good luck Vancouver!" 7. Close up of Johnson wearing winter Olympic gloves 8. Various of Wright and Johnson 9. Wide of Canadian High Commission building with sculpture in foreground 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jim Wright, Canadian High Commissioner: "I think it's tremendously important. After Canada hosts in 2010, it's London in 2012, so we've been working very closely with the London organisers, including the Mayor's office, to ensure that the Canadian experience at Vancouver and Whistler is passed onto the people of London. It's a great opportunity to share some legacy." 11. Wide of square, tilt down from Nelson's Column STORYLINE: London marked the start of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver with celebrations in Trafalgar Square on Friday. Canadian High Commissioner (ambassador) Jim Wright joined London Mayor Boris Johnson to unveil an ice sculpture of the five Olympic rings. The four-metre sculpture is part of a package of events including giant screens from which Londoners will be able to view the opening stages of the Winter Olympics. London hosts the Summer Olympics in 2012. Wright said Canada was working closely with London to ensure that its experience of the Winter Games would be passed onto the London Olympic organisers. 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 02-12-10 1354EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: US UK McQueen 2 Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:US UK McQueen 2- WRAP Models, designers, celebrities pay tribute to British designer LENGTH: 03:38 FIRST RUN: 1530 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 636859 DATELINE: Various - 11/12 Feb 2010/File LENGTH: 03:38 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: (FIRST RUN 1130 NEWS UPDATE, 12 FEBRUARY 2010) New York, US - 11 February 2010 1. Pan from road to venue for New York Fashion Week 2. Close up of model Heidi Klum speaking to reporters 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Heidi Klum, Model, TV personality: "It's really, it's very unfortunate, I mean what a truly amazing person and so out there and so full of ideas, how to dress us all, it's very, very sad." 4. Tilt up of actress Kristin Chenoweth twirls on carpet 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kristin Chenoweth, Actress: "I think it's a gentle reminder for all of us that even when we have our own loss in our life, that we can continue and I think he must have been in a spot where he felt he couldn't and that makes me sad because the world has lost this amazing talent. But, I just, my heart goes out to his family." 6. Zoom out from designer and TV personality Kimora Lee Simons speaking to reporters 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimora Lee Simons, designer and TV personality: "He is a great, a wonderful, original talent, a really creative person. He does things that I will only dream to do one day." (FIRST RUN 1130 NEWS UPDATE, 12 FEBRUARY 2010) London, UK - 11 February 2010 8. Wide of cinema 9. Mid of actor Ashton Kutcher 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ashton Kutcher, Actor: "It's a huge loss for the fashion industry as a whole and my heart goes out to his friends and colleagues, it's tough. I didn't know him personally. It's a tough loss for the industry " 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Jessica Alba, Actress: "A huge fan, he's amazing and it's, it's very, very sad. And I feel for his family." 12. Wide of Kutcher on red carpet (FIRST RUN 1130 NEWS UPDATE, 12 FEBRUARY 2010) New York, US - 11 February 2010 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Nadia Masri, Editor-in-Chief, fashionvisionboardgirl.com: "Also, I know March 7, it's close, about a month away from marking the anniversary of the suicide of Isabella Blow and that's basically the woman that took him from his graduate show and basically plucked him out and said this is gonna be the next big designer." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE, 12 FEBRUARY 2010) London, UK - 12 February 2010 14. Wide tilt down exterior of home of Alexander McQueen 15. Various of doorway with floral tributes 16. Tilt down exterior Alexander McQueen store in Old Bond Street 17. Close up of various floral tributes inside shop 18. Various exterior Selfridges department store 19. Various of interior and signs for McQueen concession at Selfridges 20. Various of McQueen designs on sale in store 21. SOUNDBITE (English) Anne Pitcher, Buying and Merchandising Director and Selfridges: "He won't disappear, he'll be with us forever. And you know the reaction we've seen today and yesterday from our customers who want to buy a little piece of McQueen I think is testament to exactly that, a memory or a momento of his ability and his creativity." ++NEW (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE, 12 FEBRUARY 2010) FILE: Paris, January 16 2000 22. Various of Givenchy catwalk show 23. Alexander McQueen takes bow STORYLINE: Stars at New York Fashion Week and celebrities in London have paid tribute to British fashion designer Alexander McQueen who was found dead at his home on Thursday. McQueen's death came days after he posted anguished online remarks about the death of his mother. He was 40. The circumstances pointed to a possible suicide, but there was no confirmation from police or McQueen's publicists. Authorities said the death was not suspicious, apparently ruling out foul play. They did not indicate how McQueen was discovered. McQueen's mother died on February 2. Some fashion experts speculated that his mood may have also been clouded by pressure to outdo himself again next month at his catwalk show in Paris. Nadia Masri, Editor-in-Chief of fashionvisionboardgirl.com, said he a close relationship with his mother, but added that the anniversary of the death of a close friend Isabella Blow was approaching. Masri said Blow took McQueen "from his graduate show and basically plucked him out and said this is gonna be the next big designer." News of his death broke at the start of New York Fashion Week and sent shock waves through the Bryant Park tents. A presentation of McQueen's secondary label, McQ, had been scheduled for later on Thursday, but it was quickly cancelled. Model Heidi Klum called McQueen "a truly amazing person," adding that his death was, "very, very sad." Designer Pamella Roland agreed, saying that he was, "going to be very, very missed." Another designer, Kimora Simmons, said the fashion industry had lost a true original. McQueen helped spark a renaissance in London fashion, helping to revive it after the long-dormant period that followed the punk explosion in the 1970s. He was also responsible for one of history's most famous "wardrobe malfunctions." He designed Janet Jackson's Super Bowl outfit, which fell open while she was singing, revealing one of her breasts. In the usually glad-handing fashion world, McQueen was known as a private man who shunned the limelight. He turned down most interview requests and did not cultivate a cult of personality or try do develop an air of mystery about his work. McQueen was the youngest of six children born to a taxi driver and a teacher. He received his early fashion training at the Central St. Martin's College of Art and Design, long recognised for its fashion-forward approach and encouragement of Britain's talented young designers. He learned the finer points of traditional men's tailoring at two famous, conservative Savile Row houses: Anderson and Sheppard, and Gieves and Hawkes. After his Savile Row stint, McQueen started to develop his trademark, more theatrical designs, working with several other brands before first starting his own label in 1992. He quickly earned a reputation for innovation. The company he founded was purchased by the Gucci Group, and he retained creative control of his own brand. There were plans for stores in Paris, Milan and London, as well as Manhattan and San Francisco. His runway shows were always a highlight during the Paris ready-to-wear fashion week. One of his previous collections included a show built around the concept of recycling, with models donning extravagant headwear made out of trash. His last collection, shown in October in Paris, featured elaborate and highly structured cocktail dresses. Critics raved. He was named British Fashion Designer of the Year four times, and was recognised by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003, when she made him a Commander of the British Empire for his fashion leadership. Meanwhile, McQueen's London store closed its doors out of respect for the iconic fashion designer and floral tributes were left outside his store on Old Bond Street and the shop's flag was flying at half mast. However, McQueen's creations are still being sold in U.K. department store Selfridges. Anne Pitcher, Buying and Merchandising Director of Selfridges, said McQueen's fans have rushed to buy his designs. "You know the reaction we've seen today and yesterday from our customers who want to buy a little piece of McQueen I think is testament to exactly that, a memory or a momento of his memorability and his creativity," she said. 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 02-12-10 1355EST ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: ++Brazil Carnival Friday, 12 February 2010 STORY:++Brazil Carnival- REPLAY Official opening of Rio carnival, mayor hands key to King Momo LENGTH: 01:36 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Portuguese/Nat SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 636879 DATELINE: Rio de Janeiro - 12 Feb 2010 LENGTH: 01:36 SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of Rio de Janeiro City Palace 2. Mid of band playing 3. Rio de Janeiro Mayor Eduardo Paes (in centre holding plaques) with King Momo (whose real name is Milton Rodrigues), Carnival Queen and his Princesses 4. King Momo with Paes 5. Cutaway of media 6. Paes handing symbolic key to King Momo 7. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Milton Rodrigues, Rio de Janeiro's King Momo "I declare that, at this moment, carnival in Rio de Janeiro is officially open. Our carnival is a window to the world, I am very proud to be here. Let's enjoy this carnival safely and thank God for the fact that we are here. Long live Rio de Janeiro!" 8. Mid of Salgueiro samba school drummers 9. Tilt up of Carnival Queen dancing 10. Paes singing Salgueiro samba 11. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Eduardo Paes, Rio de Janeiro Mayor: "It is the joy of the spontaneous party of the carioca (Rio de Janeiro residents). This city is special, and I will be enjoying all of the festivities on the Avenue (referring to Sambadrome) until Ash Wednesday." 12. Tilt up of princesses dancing 13. Wide of Paes with carnival gathering STORYLINE: Rio de Janeiro's carnival was officially declared open on Friday when city mayor Eduardo Paes handed a symbolic key to the city over to this year's Carnival King Momo. The ceremony at City Palace marked the King's brief reign over Rio which traditionally lasts until Ash Wednesday - 17 February. While Paes says he will sing and dance along with the crowds he is also backing a zero tolerance campaign this year that has challenged Rio's everything-goes reputation. The campaign Paes calls "shock of order" will clamp down hard on people caught using roadside gutters as toilets - always tolerated in the past. Beach football is now only permitted after 5 pm (1900 GMT), while Help Disco - Rio's world-famous waterfront pickup club for legal prostitutes - has been closed to make way for a museum dedicated to Brazilian music, film and photography. Violence is still the city's biggest security concern, with at least seven suspected drug traffickers and a policeman killed on Thursday in a shootout in a slum in northern Rio. King Momo - whose real name is Milton Rodrigues - said on Friday that he was hoping for a peaceful, safe and enjoyable week-long party. 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WHITE HOUSE: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON NEW DELHI, INDIA PARLIAMENT SPEECH 11:53:18 COURTYARD WALK HEAD ON 13:08:14 WALK IN 13:20:05 CLINTON TO PODIUM - ZOOM IN 13:56:32 PODIUM HANDSHAKES 13:56:58 CLINTON WAVES, SITS 13:57:38 PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS 14:14:21 CLINTON UP AISLE 14:14:52 SCARF 14:19:59 OTS CLINTON HANDS TOWARDS DOOR THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY (Now Delhi, India) March 22, 2000 For Immediate Release REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE INDIAN JOINT SESSION OF PARLIAMENT Parliament New Delhi, India 11:10 A.M. (L) 13:18:24 THE PRESIDENT; Mr, vice President, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker; members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, I am privileged to speak to you And, through you, to the people of India. I am honored to be joined today by members of my Cabinet and staff at the White House, and a very large representation of members of our United States Congress from both political parties 13:18:58 We're all honored to be here and we thank you for your warm welcome (Applause) 13:19:09 I would also like to thank the people of India for their kindness to my daughter and my mother-in-law and, on their previous trip to my wife and my daughter (Applause) 13:19:26 I have looked forward to this day with great anticipation. This whole trip has meant a great deal to me, especially to this point, the opportunity I had to visit the Gandhi memorial, to express on behalf of all the people of the United States our gratitude for the life, the work, the thought of Gandhi, without which the great civil rights revolution in the United States would never had succeeded on a peaceful plane (Applause) 13:20:26 As Prime Minister Vajpayee has said, India and America are natural allies, two nations conceived in liberty, each finding strength in its diversity, each seeing in the other a reflection of its own aspiration for a more humane and just world. 13:20:31 A poet once said the world's inhabitants can be divided into " those that have seen the Taj Mahal and those that have not." (Laughter) Well, in a few hours I will have a chance to cross over to the happier side of that divide. But I hope, in a larger sense, that my visit will help the American people to see the new India and to understand you better. And I hope that the visit will help India to understand America better 13:21:09 And that by listening to each other we can build a true partnership of mutual respect and common endeavor 13:21:18 From a distance, India often appears as a kaleidoscope of competing, perhaps superficial, image is it atomic weapons, or ahimsa? A land struggling against poverty and inequality, or the world's largest middle-class society? 13:21:29 Is it still simmering with communal tensions, or history's most successful melting pot? Is it Bollywood or Satyajit Ray? Swetta Chetty or Alla Rakha? Is it the handloom or the hyperlink? 13:22:00 The truth is, no single image can possibly do justice to your great nation. But beyond the complexities and the apparent contradictions, I believe India teaches us some very basic lessons 13:22:17 The first is about democracy. There are still those who deny democracy is a universal aspiration who say it works only for people of a certain culture, or a certain degree of economic development. India has been proving them wrong for 52 years now. 13:32:40 Here is a country where more than 2 million people hold elected office in local government a country that shows at every election that those who possess the least cherish their vote the most 13:22:56 Far from washing away the uniqueness of your culture, your democracy has brought out the richness of its tapestry, and given you the knot that holds it together. 13:23:10 A second lesson India teaches is about diversity. You have already heard remarks about that this morning. But around the world there is a chorus of voices who say ethnic and religious diversity is a threat; who argue that the only way to keep different people from killing one another is to keep them as far, apart as possible, But India has shown us a better way 13:23:40 For a the troubles you have seen, surely the subcontinent has seen more innocence hurt in the efforts to divide people by ethnicity and faith than by the e-efforts to bring them together in peace and harmony 13:23:58 Under trying circumstances, you have shown the world how to live with difference, You have shown that tolerance and mutual respect are in many ways the keys to our common survival. That is something the whole world needs to learn 13:24:18 A third lesson India teaches is about globalization and what may be the central debate of our time. Many people believe the forces of globalization are inherently divisive; that they can only widen the gap between rich and poor. That is a valid fear, but I believe wrong 13:24:46 As the distance between producers large and small, and customers near and far become less relevant, developing countries will have opportunities not only to succeed, but to lead in lifting more people out of poverty more quickly than at any time in human history 13:25:09 In the old economy, location was everything. In the new economy, information, education and motivation are everything -- and India is proving it 13:25:26 You liberated your markets and now you have one of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world. At the rate of growth within your grasp, India's standard of living could rise by 500 percent in just 20 years 13:25:41 You embraced information technology and now, when Americans and other big software companies call for consumer and customer support, they're lust as likely to find themselves talking to an expert in Bangalore as one in Seattle (Applause) 13:26:04 You decentralized authority, giving more individuals and Communities the freedom to succeed. In that way, you affirmed what every successful country is finding in its own way: globalization does not favor nations with a licensing raj, it does favor nations with a panchayat raj. And the world has been beating a path to your door. 13:26:29 In the new millennium, every great country must answer one overarching question, how shall we define our greatness? Every country -- America included -- is tempted to cling to yesterday's definition of economic and military might. 13:26:59 But true leadership for the United States and India derives more from the power of our example and the potential of our people. 13:27:09 I believe that the greatest of India's many gifts to the world is the example its people have set "from Midnight to Millennium." Think of it: virtually every challenge humanity knows can be found here in India. And every solution to every challenge can be found here as well: confidence in democracy; tolerance for diversity; a willingness to embrace social change. 13:27:37 That is why Americans admire India; why we welcome India's Leadership in the region and the world; and Why we want to take our partnership to a new level, to advance our common values and interests, and to resolve the differences that still remain. 13:27:56 There were long periods when that would not have been possible. Though our democratic ideals gave us a starting point in common, and our dreams of peace and prosperity gave us a common destination, there was for too long too little common ground between East and West, North and South. 13:28:22 Now, thankfully, the old barriers between nations and people, economies and cultures, are being replaced by vast networks of cooperation and commerce. With our open, entrepreneurial societies, India and America are at the center of those networks. We must expand them, and defeat the forces that threaten them. 13:28:49 To succeed, I believe there are four large challenges India and the United States must meet together -- challenges that should define our partnership in the years ahead. 13:29:04 The first of these challenges is to get our, own economic relationship right. Americans have applauded your efforts to open your economy, your commitment to a new wave of economic reform, your determination to bring the fruits of growth to all your people. 13:29:23 We are proud to support India's growth as your largest partner in trade and investment. And we want to see more Indian and more Americans benefit from our economic ties, especially in the cutting edge fields of information technology, biotechnology and clean energy. 13:29:41 The private sector will drive this progress, but our job as governments is to create the conditions that will allow them to succeed in doing so, and to reduce the remaining impediments to trade and investment between us. 13:29:57 Our second challenge is to sustain global economic growth in a way that lifts the lives of rich and poor alike, both across and within national borders. Part of the world today lives at the cutting edge of change, while a big part still exists at the bare ,edge of survival, Part of the world lives in the information age. 13:30:29 Part of the world does riot even reach the clean water age. And often the two live side by side. It is unacceptable, it is intolerable; thankfully, it is unnecessary and it is far more than a regional crisis. whether around the corner or around the world, abject poverty in this new economy is an Affront to our common humanity and a threat to our common prosperity. 13:31:00 The problem is truly immense, as you know far better than I. But perhaps for the first time in all history, few would dispute that we know the solutions. We know we need to invest in education and literacy, children can have soaring dreams and the tools to realize We know we need to make a special commitment in developing nations to the education of young girls, as well as young boys. Everything we have learned about development tells us that when women have access to knowledge, to health, to economic opportunity and to civil rights, children thrive, families succeed and countries prosper. 13:31:42 Here again, we see how a problem and its answers can be found side by side in India, For every economist who - preaches the virtues of women's empowerment points at first to the achievements of India's state of Kerala -- I knew there would be somebody here from Kerala (laughter and applause.) Thank you. 13:32:12 To promote development, we know we must conquer the diseases that kill people and progress. Last December, India immunized 140 million children against polio, the biggest public health effort in human history. I congratulate you on that. (Applause.) 13:32:41 I have launched an initiative in the United States to speed the development of vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS -- the biggest infectious killers of our time. This July, when our partners in the G-9 meet in Japan, I will urge them to join us. 13:33:04 But that is not enough, for at best, effective vaccines are years away. Especially for AIDS, we need a commitment today to prevention, and that means straight talk and an and to stigmatizing. 13:33:20 As Prime Minister Vajpayee said, no one should ever speak of AIDS as someone else's problem. This has long been a big problem for the United States, it is now a big problem for you. I promise you America's partnership in the continued struggle. (Applause.) 13:33:45 To promote development, we know we must also stand with those struggling for human rights and freedom around the world and in the region. For as the economist Amartya Sen has said, no system of government has done a better job in easing human want, in averting human catastrophes, than democracy. 13:34:07 I am proud America and India will stand together on the right side of history when we launch the Community of Democracies in Warsaw this summer. 13:34:17 All of these steps are essential to lifting people's lives. But there is yet another. With greater trade and the growth it brings, we can multiply the gains of education, better health and democratic empowerment. That is why i hope we will work together to launch a new global trade round that will promote economic development for all. NOT ON TAPE One of the benefits of the World Trade Organization is that it has given developing countries a bigger voice in global trade policy. 13:35:20 Developing countries have used that voice to urge richer nations to open their markets further so that all can have a chance to grow. That is something the opponents of the WTO don't fully appreciate yet. 13:35:34 We need to remind them that when Indians and Brazilians and Indonesians speak up for open trade, they are not speaking for some narrow corporate interest, but for a huge part of humanity that has no interest in being saved from development. Of course, trade should not be a race to the bottom in environmental and labor standards, but neither should fears about trade keep part of our global community forever at the bottom. 13:36:05 Yet we must also remember that those who are concerned about the impact of globalization in terms of inequality, in environmental degradation do speak for a large part of humanity. 13:36:16 Those who believe that trade should contribute not just to the wealth, but also to the fairness of societies; those who share Nehru's dream of a structure for living that fulfills our material needs, and at the same time sustains our mind and spirit. 13:36:35 We can advance these values without engaging in rich-country protectionism. Indeed, to sustain a consensus for open trade, we must find a way to advance these values as well . That is my motivation, and my only motivation, in seeking a dialogue about the connections between labor, the environment, and trade and development. 13:37:01 I would remind you -- and I want to emphasize this -- the United States has the most open markets of any wealthy country in the world, we have the largest trade deficit. We also have had a strong economy, because we have welcomed the -products and the services from the labor of people throughout the world. I am for an open global trading system. But we must do it in a way that advances the cause of social justice around the world. (Applause.) 13:37:39 The third challenge we face is to see that the prosperity and growth of the information age require us to abandon some of the outdated truths of the Industrial Age. As the economy grows faster today, for example, when children are kept in school, not put to work. Think about the industries that are driving our growth today in India and in America. Just as oil enriched the nations who had it in the 20th century, clearly knowledge is doing the same for the nations who have it in the 21st century. The difference is, knowledge can be tapped by all people everywhere, and it will never run out. 13:38:26 We must also find ways to achieve robust growth while protecting the environment and reversing climate change. I'm convinced we can do that as well. 13:38:38 We will see in the next few years, for example, automobiles that are three, four, perhaps five times as efficient as those being driven today. Soon scientists will make alternative sources of energy more widely available and more fordable. Trust for example, before long chemists almost certainly will unlock the block that will allow us to produce eight or nine gallons of fuel from bio-fuels, farm fuels, using only one gallon of gasoline. 13:39:11 Indian scientists are at the forefront of this kind of research -- pioneering the use of solar energy to power rural communities developing electric cars for use in crowded cities; converting agricultural waste Into electricity. 13:39:29 If we can deepen our cooperation for clean energy, we will, strengthen our economies, improve our people's health and fight global warming. This should be a vital element of our new partnership. 13:39:44 A fourth challenge we face is to protect the gains of and development from the forces which threaten to undermine them. There is the danger of organized crime and drugs. There is the evil of trafficking in human beings, a modern form of slavery. And of course, there is the threat of terrorism. Both our nations know it all too well. 13:40:12 Americans understood the pain and agony you went through during the Indian Airlines hijacking. And I saw that pain firsthand when :[ met with the parents and the widow of the young man who was killed on that airplane. (Applause.) We grieve with you for the Sikhs who were killed in Kashmir -- (applause) -- and our heart goes out to their families. We will work with you to build a system of justice, to strengthen our cooperation against terror. (Applause.) 13:40:59 We must never relax our vigilance or allow the perpetrators to intimidate us into retreating from our democratic ideals. 13:41:09 Another danger we face is the spread of' weapons of mass destruction to those who might have no reservations about using them. I still believe this is the greatest potential threat to the security we all face in the 21st century. It is why we must be vigilant in fighting the spread of chemical and biological weapons. 13:41:34 And it is why we must both keep working closely to resolve our remaining differences on nuclear proliferation. 13:41:43 I am aware that I speak to you on behalf of a nation that has possessed nuclear weapons for 55 years and more. But since 1988, the United States has dismantled more than 13,000,nuclear weapons. 13:42:00 We have helped Russia to dismantle their nuclear weapons and to safeguard the material that remains. We have agreed to an outline of a treaty with Russia that will reduce our remaining nuclear arsenal by more than half. 13:42:20 We are producing, no more fissile material, developing no new land-, or submarine-based missiles, engaging in no new nuclear testing. 13:42:30 From South America to South Africa, nations are forswearing these weapons, realizing that a nuclear future is not a more secure future., Most of the world is moving toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. That goal is not advanced if an country, in any region, it moves in the other direction. 13:42:30 I say this with great respect. 13:42:57 Only India can determine its own interests. Only India -- (applause) -- only India can know if it truly is safer today than before the tests. Only India can determine if it will benefit from expanding its nuclear and missile capabilities, if its neighbors respond by doing the same thing. Only India knows if it can afford a sustained investment in both conventional and nuclear forces while meeting its goals for human development. These are questions others may ask, but only you can answer. 13:43:41 I can only speak to you as a friend about America's own experience during the Cold War. We were geographically distant from the Soviet Union. We were not engaged in direct armed combat. Through years of direct dialogue with our adversary, we each had a very good idea of the other's capabilities, doctrines, and intentions. We each spent billions of dollars on elaborate command and control systems, for nuclear weapons are not cheap. 13:44:16 And yet, in spite of all of this -- and as I sometimes say jokingly, in spite of the fact that both sides had very good spies, and that was a good thing -- (laughter) -- in spite of all of this, we came far too close to nuclear war. We learned that deterrence alone cannot be relied on to prevent accident or miscalculation. And in a nuclear standoff, there,is nothing more dangerous than believing there is no danger. 13:44:51 I can also repeat what I said at the outset. India is a leader, a great nation, which by virtue of its size, its achievements, and, its example, has the ability to shape the character of our time. For any of us, to claim that mantle and assert that status is to accept first and foremost, that our actions have consequences for others beyond our borders. Great nations with broad horizons must consider whether actions advance or hinder what Nehru called the larger cause of humanity. 13:45:31 So India's nuclear policies, inevitably, have consequences beyond your borders: eroding the barriers against the spread of nuclear weapons, discouraging nations that have chosen to foreswear these weapons, encouraging others to keep their options open. 13:45:49 But if India's nuclear test shook the world, India's leadership for nonproliferation can certainly move the world. 13:46:00 India and the United States have reaffirmed our commitment to forego nuclear testing. And for that I thank the Prime minister, the government and the people of India. But in our own self interest -- and I say this again -- in our own self-interest we can do more. 13:46:19 I believe both nations should join the Comprehensive an Treaty; work to launch negotiations on a treaty production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons; strengthen export controls. 13:46:33 And India can pursue defense policies in keeping with its commitment not to seek a nuclear or missile arms race, which the Prime Minister has forcefully reaffirmed just in these last couple of days. 13:46:49 Again, I do not presume to speak for you or to tell you what to decide. It is not my place. You are a great nation and you must decide. But I ask you to continue our dislodge on these issues. And let, us turn our dialogue into a genuine partnership against proliferation. If we make progress in narrowing our differences, we will be both more secure, and our relationship can reach its full potential. 13:47:21 I hope progress can also be made in overcoming a source of tension in this region, including the tensions between India and Pakistan. I share many of your government's concerns about the course Pakistan is taking; your disappointment that past overtures have not always, met with success; your outrage over recent violence. 13:47:44 I know it is difficult to be a democracy bordered by nations whose governments reject democracy. 13:47:52 But I also believe 13:47:55 I also believe India has a special opportunity, as a democracy, to show its neighbors that democracy is about dialogue, it does not have to be about friendship, but it is about building working relationships among people who differ. 13:48:16 One of the wisest things anyone ever said to me is that you don't make peace with your friends. That is what the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, told me before he signed the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, with whom he had been fighting for decades. 13:48:41 It is well to remember -- I remind myself of it all the even when I have arguments with members of the other party in my Congress -- (laughter) -- you don't make peace with your friends. 13:48:56 Engagement with adversaries is not the same thing as endorsement. It does not require setting, aside legitimate grievances. Indeed, I strongly believe that what has happened since your Prime Minister made his courageous journey to Lahore only reinforces the need for dialogue. (applause) 13:49:24 I can think of no enduring solution to this problem that can be achieved in any other way. In the end, for the sake of the innocents who always suffer the most, someone must and the contest of inflicting and absorbing pain. NOT ON TAPE Let me also make clear, as I have repeatedly, I have certainly not come to South Asia to mediate the dispute over Kashmir. Only India and Pakistan can work out the problems between them. 13:49:50 And I will say the same thing to General Musharraf in Islambad. 13:49:55 But if outsiders cannot resolve this problem, I hope you will create the opportunity to do it yourselves, calling in the Support of others who can help where possible, as American diplomacy did in urging the Pakistanis to go back behind the line of control in the Kargil crisis. (Applause.) 13:50:23 In the meantime, I will continue to stress that this should be a time for restraint, for respect for the-line of control, for renewed lines of communication. 13:50:35 Addressing this challenge and all the others I mentioned will require us to be closer partners and better friends, and to remember that good friends, out of respect, are honest with one another. And even when they do not agree, they always try to find common ground. 13:50:57 I have read that one of the unique qualities of Indian classical music is its elasticity. the composer lays down a foundation, a structure of melodic and rhythmic arrangements, but the player has to improvise within that structure to bring the raga* to life. 13:51:17 Our relationship is like that. The composers of our past have given us a foundation of shared democratic ideals. It is up to us to give life to those ideals In this time. The not have to be the same to be beautiful to both of us. 13:51:41 But if we listen to each other, and we strive to realize our vision together, we will write a symphony far greater than the sum of our individual notes. 13:51:52 The key is to genuinely and respectfully listen to each other. If we do, Americans will better understand the scope of India's achievements, and the dangers India still faces in this troubled part of the world. 13:52:09 We will understand that India will not choose a particular course simply because others wish it to do so. It will choose only what it believes its interests clearly demand and what its people democratically embrace. 13:52:24 If we listen to each other, I also believe Indians will understand better that America very. much wants you to succeed. Time and again -- (applause) -- time and again in my time as President, America has found that it is the weakness of great nations, not their strength, that threatens our vision for tomorrow. 13:52:51 So we want India to be strong; to be secure; to be united; to be a force for a safer, more prosperous, more democratic world. Whatever we ask of you, we ask in that spirit alone - After too long a period of estrangement, India, and the United States have learned chat being natural allies is a wonderful thing, but it is not enough. 13:53:23 Our task is to turn a common vision into common achievements so that partners in spirit can be partners in fact. We have already come a long way to this day of now beginnings, but we still have promises to keep, challenges to meet and hopes to redeem. 13:53:51 So let us seize this moment with humility in the fragile and fleeting nature of this life, but,absolute confidence 4n the power of the human spirit. Let us seize it for India, for America, for all those with whom we share this small planet, and for all the children that together we can give such bright tomorrows. Thank you very much. (Applause.) END 11:45 A.M. (L)

Aerial view of smog covering the city of Lahore in Pakistan (BBC News 10pm bulletin - 18/11/24 - AEXZ288W)

WHITE HOUSE: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON NEW DELHI, INDIA PARLIAMENT SPEECH 11:53:18 COURTYARD WALK HEAD ON 13:08:14 WALK IN 13:20:05 CLINTON TO PODIUM - ZOOM IN 13:56:32 PODIUM HANDSHAKES 13:56:58 CLINTON WAVES, SITS 13:57:38 PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS 14:14:21 CLINTON UP AISLE 14:14:52 SCARF 14:19:59 OTS CLINTON HANDS TOWARDS DOOR THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY (Now Delhi, India) March 22, 2000 For Immediate Release REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE INDIAN JOINT SESSION OF PARLIAMENT Parliament New Delhi, India 11:10 A.M. (L) 13:18:24 THE PRESIDENT; Mr, vice President, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker; members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, I am privileged to speak to you And, through you, to the people of India. I am honored to be joined today by members of my Cabinet and staff at the White House, and a very large representation of members of our United States Congress from both political parties 13:18:58 We're all honored to be here and we thank you for your warm welcome (Applause) 13:19:09 I would also like to thank the people of India for their kindness to my daughter and my mother-in-law and, on their previous trip to my wife and my daughter (Applause) 13:19:26 I have looked forward to this day with great anticipation. This whole trip has meant a great deal to me, especially to this point, the opportunity I had to visit the Gandhi memorial, to express on behalf of all the people of the United States our gratitude for the life, the work, the thought of Gandhi, without which the great civil rights revolution in the United States would never had succeeded on a peaceful plane (Applause) 13:20:26 As Prime Minister Vajpayee has said, India and America are natural allies, two nations conceived in liberty, each finding strength in its diversity, each seeing in the other a reflection of its own aspiration for a more humane and just world. 13:20:31 A poet once said the world's inhabitants can be divided into " those that have seen the Taj Mahal and those that have not." (Laughter) Well, in a few hours I will have a chance to cross over to the happier side of that divide. But I hope, in a larger sense, that my visit will help the American people to see the new India and to understand you better. And I hope that the visit will help India to understand America better 13:21:09 And that by listening to each other we can build a true partnership of mutual respect and common endeavor 13:21:18 From a distance, India often appears as a kaleidoscope of competing, perhaps superficial, image is it atomic weapons, or ahimsa? A land struggling against poverty and inequality, or the world's largest middle-class society? 13:21:29 Is it still simmering with communal tensions, or history's most successful melting pot? Is it Bollywood or Satyajit Ray? Swetta Chetty or Alla Rakha? Is it the handloom or the hyperlink? 13:22:00 The truth is, no single image can possibly do justice to your great nation. But beyond the complexities and the apparent contradictions, I believe India teaches us some very basic lessons 13:22:17 The first is about democracy. There are still those who deny democracy is a universal aspiration who say it works only for people of a certain culture, or a certain degree of economic development. India has been proving them wrong for 52 years now. 13:32:40 Here is a country where more than 2 million people hold elected office in local government a country that shows at every election that those who possess the least cherish their vote the most 13:22:56 Far from washing away the uniqueness of your culture, your democracy has brought out the richness of its tapestry, and given you the knot that holds it together. 13:23:10 A second lesson India teaches is about diversity. You have already heard remarks about that this morning. But around the world there is a chorus of voices who say ethnic and religious diversity is a threat; who argue that the only way to keep different people from killing one another is to keep them as far, apart as possible, But India has shown us a better way 13:23:40 For a the troubles you have seen, surely the subcontinent has seen more innocence hurt in the efforts to divide people by ethnicity and faith than by the e-efforts to bring them together in peace and harmony 13:23:58 Under trying circumstances, you have shown the world how to live with difference, You have shown that tolerance and mutual respect are in many ways the keys to our common survival. That is something the whole world needs to learn 13:24:18 A third lesson India teaches is about globalization and what may be the central debate of our time. Many people believe the forces of globalization are inherently divisive; that they can only widen the gap between rich and poor. That is a valid fear, but I believe wrong 13:24:46 As the distance between producers large and small, and customers near and far become less relevant, developing countries will have opportunities not only to succeed, but to lead in lifting more people out of poverty more quickly than at any time in human history 13:25:09 In the old economy, location was everything. In the new economy, information, education and motivation are everything -- and India is proving it 13:25:26 You liberated your markets and now you have one of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world. At the rate of growth within your grasp, India's standard of living could rise by 500 percent in just 20 years 13:25:41 You embraced information technology and now, when Americans and other big software companies call for consumer and customer support, they're lust as likely to find themselves talking to an expert in Bangalore as one in Seattle (Applause) 13:26:04 You decentralized authority, giving more individuals and Communities the freedom to succeed. In that way, you affirmed what every successful country is finding in its own way: globalization does not favor nations with a licensing raj, it does favor nations with a panchayat raj. And the world has been beating a path to your door. 13:26:29 In the new millennium, every great country must answer one overarching question, how shall we define our greatness? Every country -- America included -- is tempted to cling to yesterday's definition of economic and military might. 13:26:59 But true leadership for the United States and India derives more from the power of our example and the potential of our people. 13:27:09 I believe that the greatest of India's many gifts to the world is the example its people have set "from Midnight to Millennium." Think of it: virtually every challenge humanity knows can be found here in India. And every solution to every challenge can be found here as well: confidence in democracy; tolerance for diversity; a willingness to embrace social change. 13:27:37 That is why Americans admire India; why we welcome India's Leadership in the region and the world; and Why we want to take our partnership to a new level, to advance our common values and interests, and to resolve the differences that still remain. 13:27:56 There were long periods when that would not have been possible. Though our democratic ideals gave us a starting point in common, and our dreams of peace and prosperity gave us a common destination, there was for too long too little common ground between East and West, North and South. 13:28:22 Now, thankfully, the old barriers between nations and people, economies and cultures, are being replaced by vast networks of cooperation and commerce. With our open, entrepreneurial societies, India and America are at the center of those networks. We must expand them, and defeat the forces that threaten them. 13:28:49 To succeed, I believe there are four large challenges India and the United States must meet together -- challenges that should define our partnership in the years ahead. 13:29:04 The first of these challenges is to get our, own economic relationship right. Americans have applauded your efforts to open your economy, your commitment to a new wave of economic reform, your determination to bring the fruits of growth to all your people. 13:29:23 We are proud to support India's growth as your largest partner in trade and investment. And we want to see more Indian and more Americans benefit from our economic ties, especially in the cutting edge fields of information technology, biotechnology and clean energy. 13:29:41 The private sector will drive this progress, but our job as governments is to create the conditions that will allow them to succeed in doing so, and to reduce the remaining impediments to trade and investment between us. 13:29:57 Our second challenge is to sustain global economic growth in a way that lifts the lives of rich and poor alike, both across and within national borders. Part of the world today lives at the cutting edge of change, while a big part still exists at the bare ,edge of survival, Part of the world lives in the information age. 13:30:29 Part of the world does riot even reach the clean water age. And often the two live side by side. It is unacceptable, it is intolerable; thankfully, it is unnecessary and it is far more than a regional crisis. whether around the corner or around the world, abject poverty in this new economy is an Affront to our common humanity and a threat to our common prosperity. 13:31:00 The problem is truly immense, as you know far better than I. But perhaps for the first time in all history, few would dispute that we know the solutions. We know we need to invest in education and literacy, children can have soaring dreams and the tools to realize We know we need to make a special commitment in developing nations to the education of young girls, as well as young boys. Everything we have learned about development tells us that when women have access to knowledge, to health, to economic opportunity and to civil rights, children thrive, families succeed and countries prosper. 13:31:42 Here again, we see how a problem and its answers can be found side by side in India, For every economist who - preaches the virtues of women's empowerment points at first to the achievements of India's state of Kerala -- I knew there would be somebody here from Kerala (laughter and applause.) Thank you. 13:32:12 To promote development, we know we must conquer the diseases that kill people and progress. Last December, India immunized 140 million children against polio, the biggest public health effort in human history. I congratulate you on that. (Applause.) 13:32:41 I have launched an initiative in the United States to speed the development of vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS -- the biggest infectious killers of our time. This July, when our partners in the G-9 meet in Japan, I will urge them to join us. 13:33:04 But that is not enough, for at best, effective vaccines are years away. Especially for AIDS, we need a commitment today to prevention, and that means straight talk and an and to stigmatizing. 13:33:20 As Prime Minister Vajpayee said, no one should ever speak of AIDS as someone else's problem. This has long been a big problem for the United States, it is now a big problem for you. I promise you America's partnership in the continued struggle. (Applause.) 13:33:45 To promote development, we know we must also stand with those struggling for human rights and freedom around the world and in the region. For as the economist Amartya Sen has said, no system of government has done a better job in easing human want, in averting human catastrophes, than democracy. 13:34:07 I am proud America and India will stand together on the right side of history when we launch the Community of Democracies in Warsaw this summer. 13:34:17 All of these steps are essential to lifting people's lives. But there is yet another. With greater trade and the growth it brings, we can multiply the gains of education, better health and democratic empowerment. That is why i hope we will work together to launch a new global trade round that will promote economic development for all. NOT ON TAPE One of the benefits of the World Trade Organization is that it has given developing countries a bigger voice in global trade policy. 13:35:20 Developing countries have used that voice to urge richer nations to open their markets further so that all can have a chance to grow. That is something the opponents of the WTO don't fully appreciate yet. 13:35:34 We need to remind them that when Indians and Brazilians and Indonesians speak up for open trade, they are not speaking for some narrow corporate interest, but for a huge part of humanity that has no interest in being saved from development. Of course, trade should not be a race to the bottom in environmental and labor standards, but neither should fears about trade keep part of our global community forever at the bottom. 13:36:05 Yet we must also remember that those who are concerned about the impact of globalization in terms of inequality, in environmental degradation do speak for a large part of humanity. 13:36:16 Those who believe that trade should contribute not just to the wealth, but also to the fairness of societies; those who share Nehru's dream of a structure for living that fulfills our material needs, and at the same time sustains our mind and spirit. 13:36:35 We can advance these values without engaging in rich-country protectionism. Indeed, to sustain a consensus for open trade, we must find a way to advance these values as well . That is my motivation, and my only motivation, in seeking a dialogue about the connections between labor, the environment, and trade and development. 13:37:01 I would remind you -- and I want to emphasize this -- the United States has the most open markets of any wealthy country in the world, we have the largest trade deficit. We also have had a strong economy, because we have welcomed the -products and the services from the labor of people throughout the world. I am for an open global trading system. But we must do it in a way that advances the cause of social justice around the world. (Applause.) 13:37:39 The third challenge we face is to see that the prosperity and growth of the information age require us to abandon some of the outdated truths of the Industrial Age. As the economy grows faster today, for example, when children are kept in school, not put to work. Think about the industries that are driving our growth today in India and in America. Just as oil enriched the nations who had it in the 20th century, clearly knowledge is doing the same for the nations who have it in the 21st century. The difference is, knowledge can be tapped by all people everywhere, and it will never run out. 13:38:26 We must also find ways to achieve robust growth while protecting the environment and reversing climate change. I'm convinced we can do that as well. 13:38:38 We will see in the next few years, for example, automobiles that are three, four, perhaps five times as efficient as those being driven today. Soon scientists will make alternative sources of energy more widely available and more fordable. Trust for example, before long chemists almost certainly will unlock the block that will allow us to produce eight or nine gallons of fuel from bio-fuels, farm fuels, using only one gallon of gasoline. 13:39:11 Indian scientists are at the forefront of this kind of research -- pioneering the use of solar energy to power rural communities developing electric cars for use in crowded cities; converting agricultural waste Into electricity. 13:39:29 If we can deepen our cooperation for clean energy, we will, strengthen our economies, improve our people's health and fight global warming. This should be a vital element of our new partnership. 13:39:44 A fourth challenge we face is to protect the gains of and development from the forces which threaten to undermine them. There is the danger of organized crime and drugs. There is the evil of trafficking in human beings, a modern form of slavery. And of course, there is the threat of terrorism. Both our nations know it all too well. 13:40:12 Americans understood the pain and agony you went through during the Indian Airlines hijacking. And I saw that pain firsthand when :[ met with the parents and the widow of the young man who was killed on that airplane. (Applause.) We grieve with you for the Sikhs who were killed in Kashmir -- (applause) -- and our heart goes out to their families. We will work with you to build a system of justice, to strengthen our cooperation against terror. (Applause.) 13:40:59 We must never relax our vigilance or allow the perpetrators to intimidate us into retreating from our democratic ideals. 13:41:09 Another danger we face is the spread of' weapons of mass destruction to those who might have no reservations about using them. I still believe this is the greatest potential threat to the security we all face in the 21st century. It is why we must be vigilant in fighting the spread of chemical and biological weapons. 13:41:34 And it is why we must both keep working closely to resolve our remaining differences on nuclear proliferation. 13:41:43 I am aware that I speak to you on behalf of a nation that has possessed nuclear weapons for 55 years and more. But since 1988, the United States has dismantled more than 13,000,nuclear weapons. 13:42:00 We have helped Russia to dismantle their nuclear weapons and to safeguard the material that remains. We have agreed to an outline of a treaty with Russia that will reduce our remaining nuclear arsenal by more than half. 13:42:20 We are producing, no more fissile material, developing no new land-, or submarine-based missiles, engaging in no new nuclear testing. 13:42:30 From South America to South Africa, nations are forswearing these weapons, realizing that a nuclear future is not a more secure future., Most of the world is moving toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. That goal is not advanced if an country, in any region, it moves in the other direction. 13:42:30 I say this with great respect. 13:42:57 Only India can determine its own interests. Only India -- (applause) -- only India can know if it truly is safer today than before the tests. Only India can determine if it will benefit from expanding its nuclear and missile capabilities, if its neighbors respond by doing the same thing. Only India knows if it can afford a sustained investment in both conventional and nuclear forces while meeting its goals for human development. These are questions others may ask, but only you can answer. 13:43:41 I can only speak to you as a friend about America's own experience during the Cold War. We were geographically distant from the Soviet Union. We were not engaged in direct armed combat. Through years of direct dialogue with our adversary, we each had a very good idea of the other's capabilities, doctrines, and intentions. We each spent billions of dollars on elaborate command and control systems, for nuclear weapons are not cheap. 13:44:16 And yet, in spite of all of this -- and as I sometimes say jokingly, in spite of the fact that both sides had very good spies, and that was a good thing -- (laughter) -- in spite of all of this, we came far too close to nuclear war. We learned that deterrence alone cannot be relied on to prevent accident or miscalculation. And in a nuclear standoff, there,is nothing more dangerous than believing there is no danger. 13:44:51 I can also repeat what I said at the outset. India is a leader, a great nation, which by virtue of its size, its achievements, and, its example, has the ability to shape the character of our time. For any of us, to claim that mantle and assert that status is to accept first and foremost, that our actions have consequences for others beyond our borders. Great nations with broad horizons must consider whether actions advance or hinder what Nehru called the larger cause of humanity. 13:45:31 So India's nuclear policies, inevitably, have consequences beyond your borders: eroding the barriers against the spread of nuclear weapons, discouraging nations that have chosen to foreswear these weapons, encouraging others to keep their options open. 13:45:49 But if India's nuclear test shook the world, India's leadership for nonproliferation can certainly move the world. 13:46:00 India and the United States have reaffirmed our commitment to forego nuclear testing. And for that I thank the Prime minister, the government and the people of India. But in our own self interest -- and I say this again -- in our own self-interest we can do more. 13:46:19 I believe both nations should join the Comprehensive an Treaty; work to launch negotiations on a treaty production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons; strengthen export controls. 13:46:33 And India can pursue defense policies in keeping with its commitment not to seek a nuclear or missile arms race, which the Prime Minister has forcefully reaffirmed just in these last couple of days. 13:46:49 Again, I do not presume to speak for you or to tell you what to decide. It is not my place. You are a great nation and you must decide. But I ask you to continue our dislodge on these issues. And let, us turn our dialogue into a genuine partnership against proliferation. If we make progress in narrowing our differences, we will be both more secure, and our relationship can reach its full potential. 13:47:21 I hope progress can also be made in overcoming a source of tension in this region, including the tensions between India and Pakistan. I share many of your government's concerns about the course Pakistan is taking; your disappointment that past overtures have not always, met with success; your outrage over recent violence. 13:47:44 I know it is difficult to be a democracy bordered by nations whose governments reject democracy. 13:47:52 But I also believe 13:47:55 I also believe India has a special opportunity, as a democracy, to show its neighbors that democracy is about dialogue, it does not have to be about friendship, but it is about building working relationships among people who differ. 13:48:16 One of the wisest things anyone ever said to me is that you don't make peace with your friends. That is what the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, told me before he signed the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, with whom he had been fighting for decades. 13:48:41 It is well to remember -- I remind myself of it all the even when I have arguments with members of the other party in my Congress -- (laughter) -- you don't make peace with your friends. 13:48:56 Engagement with adversaries is not the same thing as endorsement. It does not require setting, aside legitimate grievances. Indeed, I strongly believe that what has happened since your Prime Minister made his courageous journey to Lahore only reinforces the need for dialogue. (applause) 13:49:24 I can think of no enduring solution to this problem that can be achieved in any other way. In the end, for the sake of the innocents who always suffer the most, someone must and the contest of inflicting and absorbing pain. NOT ON TAPE Let me also make clear, as I have repeatedly, I have certainly not come to South Asia to mediate the dispute over Kashmir. Only India and Pakistan can work out the problems between them. 13:49:50 And I will say the same thing to General Musharraf in Islambad. 13:49:55 But if outsiders cannot resolve this problem, I hope you will create the opportunity to do it yourselves, calling in the Support of others who can help where possible, as American diplomacy did in urging the Pakistanis to go back behind the line of control in the Kargil crisis. (Applause.) 13:50:23 In the meantime, I will continue to stress that this should be a time for restraint, for respect for the-line of control, for renewed lines of communication. 13:50:35 Addressing this challenge and all the others I mentioned will require us to be closer partners and better friends, and to remember that good friends, out of respect, are honest with one another. And even when they do not agree, they always try to find common ground. 13:50:57 I have read that one of the unique qualities of Indian classical music is its elasticity. the composer lays down a foundation, a structure of melodic and rhythmic arrangements, but the player has to improvise within that structure to bring the raga* to life. 13:51:17 Our relationship is like that. The composers of our past have given us a foundation of shared democratic ideals. It is up to us to give life to those ideals In this time. The not have to be the same to be beautiful to both of us. 13:51:41 But if we listen to each other, and we strive to realize our vision together, we will write a symphony far greater than the sum of our individual notes. 13:51:52 The key is to genuinely and respectfully listen to each other. If we do, Americans will better understand the scope of India's achievements, and the dangers India still faces in this troubled part of the world. 13:52:09 We will understand that India will not choose a particular course simply because others wish it to do so. It will choose only what it believes its interests clearly demand and what its people democratically embrace. 13:52:24 If we listen to each other, I also believe Indians will understand better that America very. much wants you to succeed. Time and again -- (applause) -- time and again in my time as President, America has found that it is the weakness of great nations, not their strength, that threatens our vision for tomorrow. 13:52:51 So we want India to be strong; to be secure; to be united; to be a force for a safer, more prosperous, more democratic world. Whatever we ask of you, we ask in that spirit alone - After too long a period of estrangement, India, and the United States have learned chat being natural allies is a wonderful thing, but it is not enough. 13:53:23 Our task is to turn a common vision into common achievements so that partners in spirit can be partners in fact. We have already come a long way to this day of now beginnings, but we still have promises to keep, challenges to meet and hopes to redeem. 13:53:51 So let us seize this moment with humility in the fragile and fleeting nature of this life, but,absolute confidence 4n the power of the human spirit. Let us seize it for India, for America, for all those with whom we share this small planet, and for all the children that together we can give such bright tomorrows. Thank you very much. (Applause.) END 11:45 A.M. (L)

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WHITE HOUSE: PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON NEW DELHI, INDIA PARLIAMENT SPEECH 11:53:18 COURTYARD WALK HEAD ON 13:08:14 WALK IN 13:20:05 CLINTON TO PODIUM - ZOOM IN 13:56:32 PODIUM HANDSHAKES 13:56:58 CLINTON WAVES, SITS 13:57:38 PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS 14:14:21 CLINTON UP AISLE 14:14:52 SCARF 14:19:59 OTS CLINTON HANDS TOWARDS DOOR THE WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF THE PRESS SECRETARY (Now Delhi, India) March 22, 2000 For Immediate Release REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT TO THE INDIAN JOINT SESSION OF PARLIAMENT Parliament New Delhi, India 11:10 A.M. (L) 13:18:24 THE PRESIDENT; Mr, vice President, Mr. Prime Minister, Mr. Speaker; members of the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, I am privileged to speak to you And, through you, to the people of India. I am honored to be joined today by members of my Cabinet and staff at the White House, and a very large representation of members of our United States Congress from both political parties 13:18:58 We're all honored to be here and we thank you for your warm welcome (Applause) 13:19:09 I would also like to thank the people of India for their kindness to my daughter and my mother-in-law and, on their previous trip to my wife and my daughter (Applause) 13:19:26 I have looked forward to this day with great anticipation. This whole trip has meant a great deal to me, especially to this point, the opportunity I had to visit the Gandhi memorial, to express on behalf of all the people of the United States our gratitude for the life, the work, the thought of Gandhi, without which the great civil rights revolution in the United States would never had succeeded on a peaceful plane (Applause) 13:20:26 As Prime Minister Vajpayee has said, India and America are natural allies, two nations conceived in liberty, each finding strength in its diversity, each seeing in the other a reflection of its own aspiration for a more humane and just world. 13:20:31 A poet once said the world's inhabitants can be divided into " those that have seen the Taj Mahal and those that have not." (Laughter) Well, in a few hours I will have a chance to cross over to the happier side of that divide. But I hope, in a larger sense, that my visit will help the American people to see the new India and to understand you better. And I hope that the visit will help India to understand America better 13:21:09 And that by listening to each other we can build a true partnership of mutual respect and common endeavor 13:21:18 From a distance, India often appears as a kaleidoscope of competing, perhaps superficial, image is it atomic weapons, or ahimsa? A land struggling against poverty and inequality, or the world's largest middle-class society? 13:21:29 Is it still simmering with communal tensions, or history's most successful melting pot? Is it Bollywood or Satyajit Ray? Swetta Chetty or Alla Rakha? Is it the handloom or the hyperlink? 13:22:00 The truth is, no single image can possibly do justice to your great nation. But beyond the complexities and the apparent contradictions, I believe India teaches us some very basic lessons 13:22:17 The first is about democracy. There are still those who deny democracy is a universal aspiration who say it works only for people of a certain culture, or a certain degree of economic development. India has been proving them wrong for 52 years now. 13:32:40 Here is a country where more than 2 million people hold elected office in local government a country that shows at every election that those who possess the least cherish their vote the most 13:22:56 Far from washing away the uniqueness of your culture, your democracy has brought out the richness of its tapestry, and given you the knot that holds it together. 13:23:10 A second lesson India teaches is about diversity. You have already heard remarks about that this morning. But around the world there is a chorus of voices who say ethnic and religious diversity is a threat; who argue that the only way to keep different people from killing one another is to keep them as far, apart as possible, But India has shown us a better way 13:23:40 For a the troubles you have seen, surely the subcontinent has seen more innocence hurt in the efforts to divide people by ethnicity and faith than by the e-efforts to bring them together in peace and harmony 13:23:58 Under trying circumstances, you have shown the world how to live with difference, You have shown that tolerance and mutual respect are in many ways the keys to our common survival. That is something the whole world needs to learn 13:24:18 A third lesson India teaches is about globalization and what may be the central debate of our time. Many people believe the forces of globalization are inherently divisive; that they can only widen the gap between rich and poor. That is a valid fear, but I believe wrong 13:24:46 As the distance between producers large and small, and customers near and far become less relevant, developing countries will have opportunities not only to succeed, but to lead in lifting more people out of poverty more quickly than at any time in human history 13:25:09 In the old economy, location was everything. In the new economy, information, education and motivation are everything -- and India is proving it 13:25:26 You liberated your markets and now you have one of the 10 fastest growing economies in the world. At the rate of growth within your grasp, India's standard of living could rise by 500 percent in just 20 years 13:25:41 You embraced information technology and now, when Americans and other big software companies call for consumer and customer support, they're lust as likely to find themselves talking to an expert in Bangalore as one in Seattle (Applause) 13:26:04 You decentralized authority, giving more individuals and Communities the freedom to succeed. In that way, you affirmed what every successful country is finding in its own way: globalization does not favor nations with a licensing raj, it does favor nations with a panchayat raj. And the world has been beating a path to your door. 13:26:29 In the new millennium, every great country must answer one overarching question, how shall we define our greatness? Every country -- America included -- is tempted to cling to yesterday's definition of economic and military might. 13:26:59 But true leadership for the United States and India derives more from the power of our example and the potential of our people. 13:27:09 I believe that the greatest of India's many gifts to the world is the example its people have set "from Midnight to Millennium." Think of it: virtually every challenge humanity knows can be found here in India. And every solution to every challenge can be found here as well: confidence in democracy; tolerance for diversity; a willingness to embrace social change. 13:27:37 That is why Americans admire India; why we welcome India's Leadership in the region and the world; and Why we want to take our partnership to a new level, to advance our common values and interests, and to resolve the differences that still remain. 13:27:56 There were long periods when that would not have been possible. Though our democratic ideals gave us a starting point in common, and our dreams of peace and prosperity gave us a common destination, there was for too long too little common ground between East and West, North and South. 13:28:22 Now, thankfully, the old barriers between nations and people, economies and cultures, are being replaced by vast networks of cooperation and commerce. With our open, entrepreneurial societies, India and America are at the center of those networks. We must expand them, and defeat the forces that threaten them. 13:28:49 To succeed, I believe there are four large challenges India and the United States must meet together -- challenges that should define our partnership in the years ahead. 13:29:04 The first of these challenges is to get our, own economic relationship right. Americans have applauded your efforts to open your economy, your commitment to a new wave of economic reform, your determination to bring the fruits of growth to all your people. 13:29:23 We are proud to support India's growth as your largest partner in trade and investment. And we want to see more Indian and more Americans benefit from our economic ties, especially in the cutting edge fields of information technology, biotechnology and clean energy. 13:29:41 The private sector will drive this progress, but our job as governments is to create the conditions that will allow them to succeed in doing so, and to reduce the remaining impediments to trade and investment between us. 13:29:57 Our second challenge is to sustain global economic growth in a way that lifts the lives of rich and poor alike, both across and within national borders. Part of the world today lives at the cutting edge of change, while a big part still exists at the bare ,edge of survival, Part of the world lives in the information age. 13:30:29 Part of the world does riot even reach the clean water age. And often the two live side by side. It is unacceptable, it is intolerable; thankfully, it is unnecessary and it is far more than a regional crisis. whether around the corner or around the world, abject poverty in this new economy is an Affront to our common humanity and a threat to our common prosperity. 13:31:00 The problem is truly immense, as you know far better than I. But perhaps for the first time in all history, few would dispute that we know the solutions. We know we need to invest in education and literacy, children can have soaring dreams and the tools to realize We know we need to make a special commitment in developing nations to the education of young girls, as well as young boys. Everything we have learned about development tells us that when women have access to knowledge, to health, to economic opportunity and to civil rights, children thrive, families succeed and countries prosper. 13:31:42 Here again, we see how a problem and its answers can be found side by side in India, For every economist who - preaches the virtues of women's empowerment points at first to the achievements of India's state of Kerala -- I knew there would be somebody here from Kerala (laughter and applause.) Thank you. 13:32:12 To promote development, we know we must conquer the diseases that kill people and progress. Last December, India immunized 140 million children against polio, the biggest public health effort in human history. I congratulate you on that. (Applause.) 13:32:41 I have launched an initiative in the United States to speed the development of vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS -- the biggest infectious killers of our time. This July, when our partners in the G-9 meet in Japan, I will urge them to join us. 13:33:04 But that is not enough, for at best, effective vaccines are years away. Especially for AIDS, we need a commitment today to prevention, and that means straight talk and an and to stigmatizing. 13:33:20 As Prime Minister Vajpayee said, no one should ever speak of AIDS as someone else's problem. This has long been a big problem for the United States, it is now a big problem for you. I promise you America's partnership in the continued struggle. (Applause.) 13:33:45 To promote development, we know we must also stand with those struggling for human rights and freedom around the world and in the region. For as the economist Amartya Sen has said, no system of government has done a better job in easing human want, in averting human catastrophes, than democracy. 13:34:07 I am proud America and India will stand together on the right side of history when we launch the Community of Democracies in Warsaw this summer. 13:34:17 All of these steps are essential to lifting people's lives. But there is yet another. With greater trade and the growth it brings, we can multiply the gains of education, better health and democratic empowerment. That is why i hope we will work together to launch a new global trade round that will promote economic development for all. NOT ON TAPE One of the benefits of the World Trade Organization is that it has given developing countries a bigger voice in global trade policy. 13:35:20 Developing countries have used that voice to urge richer nations to open their markets further so that all can have a chance to grow. That is something the opponents of the WTO don't fully appreciate yet. 13:35:34 We need to remind them that when Indians and Brazilians and Indonesians speak up for open trade, they are not speaking for some narrow corporate interest, but for a huge part of humanity that has no interest in being saved from development. Of course, trade should not be a race to the bottom in environmental and labor standards, but neither should fears about trade keep part of our global community forever at the bottom. 13:36:05 Yet we must also remember that those who are concerned about the impact of globalization in terms of inequality, in environmental degradation do speak for a large part of humanity. 13:36:16 Those who believe that trade should contribute not just to the wealth, but also to the fairness of societies; those who share Nehru's dream of a structure for living that fulfills our material needs, and at the same time sustains our mind and spirit. 13:36:35 We can advance these values without engaging in rich-country protectionism. Indeed, to sustain a consensus for open trade, we must find a way to advance these values as well . That is my motivation, and my only motivation, in seeking a dialogue about the connections between labor, the environment, and trade and development. 13:37:01 I would remind you -- and I want to emphasize this -- the United States has the most open markets of any wealthy country in the world, we have the largest trade deficit. We also have had a strong economy, because we have welcomed the -products and the services from the labor of people throughout the world. I am for an open global trading system. But we must do it in a way that advances the cause of social justice around the world. (Applause.) 13:37:39 The third challenge we face is to see that the prosperity and growth of the information age require us to abandon some of the outdated truths of the Industrial Age. As the economy grows faster today, for example, when children are kept in school, not put to work. Think about the industries that are driving our growth today in India and in America. Just as oil enriched the nations who had it in the 20th century, clearly knowledge is doing the same for the nations who have it in the 21st century. The difference is, knowledge can be tapped by all people everywhere, and it will never run out. 13:38:26 We must also find ways to achieve robust growth while protecting the environment and reversing climate change. I'm convinced we can do that as well. 13:38:38 We will see in the next few years, for example, automobiles that are three, four, perhaps five times as efficient as those being driven today. Soon scientists will make alternative sources of energy more widely available and more fordable. Trust for example, before long chemists almost certainly will unlock the block that will allow us to produce eight or nine gallons of fuel from bio-fuels, farm fuels, using only one gallon of gasoline. 13:39:11 Indian scientists are at the forefront of this kind of research -- pioneering the use of solar energy to power rural communities developing electric cars for use in crowded cities; converting agricultural waste Into electricity. 13:39:29 If we can deepen our cooperation for clean energy, we will, strengthen our economies, improve our people's health and fight global warming. This should be a vital element of our new partnership. 13:39:44 A fourth challenge we face is to protect the gains of and development from the forces which threaten to undermine them. There is the danger of organized crime and drugs. There is the evil of trafficking in human beings, a modern form of slavery. And of course, there is the threat of terrorism. Both our nations know it all too well. 13:40:12 Americans understood the pain and agony you went through during the Indian Airlines hijacking. And I saw that pain firsthand when :[ met with the parents and the widow of the young man who was killed on that airplane. (Applause.) We grieve with you for the Sikhs who were killed in Kashmir -- (applause) -- and our heart goes out to their families. We will work with you to build a system of justice, to strengthen our cooperation against terror. (Applause.) 13:40:59 We must never relax our vigilance or allow the perpetrators to intimidate us into retreating from our democratic ideals. 13:41:09 Another danger we face is the spread of' weapons of mass destruction to those who might have no reservations about using them. I still believe this is the greatest potential threat to the security we all face in the 21st century. It is why we must be vigilant in fighting the spread of chemical and biological weapons. 13:41:34 And it is why we must both keep working closely to resolve our remaining differences on nuclear proliferation. 13:41:43 I am aware that I speak to you on behalf of a nation that has possessed nuclear weapons for 55 years and more. But since 1988, the United States has dismantled more than 13,000,nuclear weapons. 13:42:00 We have helped Russia to dismantle their nuclear weapons and to safeguard the material that remains. We have agreed to an outline of a treaty with Russia that will reduce our remaining nuclear arsenal by more than half. 13:42:20 We are producing, no more fissile material, developing no new land-, or submarine-based missiles, engaging in no new nuclear testing. 13:42:30 From South America to South Africa, nations are forswearing these weapons, realizing that a nuclear future is not a more secure future., Most of the world is moving toward the elimination of nuclear weapons. That goal is not advanced if an country, in any region, it moves in the other direction. 13:42:30 I say this with great respect. 13:42:57 Only India can determine its own interests. Only India -- (applause) -- only India can know if it truly is safer today than before the tests. Only India can determine if it will benefit from expanding its nuclear and missile capabilities, if its neighbors respond by doing the same thing. Only India knows if it can afford a sustained investment in both conventional and nuclear forces while meeting its goals for human development. These are questions others may ask, but only you can answer. 13:43:41 I can only speak to you as a friend about America's own experience during the Cold War. We were geographically distant from the Soviet Union. We were not engaged in direct armed combat. Through years of direct dialogue with our adversary, we each had a very good idea of the other's capabilities, doctrines, and intentions. We each spent billions of dollars on elaborate command and control systems, for nuclear weapons are not cheap. 13:44:16 And yet, in spite of all of this -- and as I sometimes say jokingly, in spite of the fact that both sides had very good spies, and that was a good thing -- (laughter) -- in spite of all of this, we came far too close to nuclear war. We learned that deterrence alone cannot be relied on to prevent accident or miscalculation. And in a nuclear standoff, there,is nothing more dangerous than believing there is no danger. 13:44:51 I can also repeat what I said at the outset. India is a leader, a great nation, which by virtue of its size, its achievements, and, its example, has the ability to shape the character of our time. For any of us, to claim that mantle and assert that status is to accept first and foremost, that our actions have consequences for others beyond our borders. Great nations with broad horizons must consider whether actions advance or hinder what Nehru called the larger cause of humanity. 13:45:31 So India's nuclear policies, inevitably, have consequences beyond your borders: eroding the barriers against the spread of nuclear weapons, discouraging nations that have chosen to foreswear these weapons, encouraging others to keep their options open. 13:45:49 But if India's nuclear test shook the world, India's leadership for nonproliferation can certainly move the world. 13:46:00 India and the United States have reaffirmed our commitment to forego nuclear testing. And for that I thank the Prime minister, the government and the people of India. But in our own self interest -- and I say this again -- in our own self-interest we can do more. 13:46:19 I believe both nations should join the Comprehensive an Treaty; work to launch negotiations on a treaty production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons; strengthen export controls. 13:46:33 And India can pursue defense policies in keeping with its commitment not to seek a nuclear or missile arms race, which the Prime Minister has forcefully reaffirmed just in these last couple of days. 13:46:49 Again, I do not presume to speak for you or to tell you what to decide. It is not my place. You are a great nation and you must decide. But I ask you to continue our dislodge on these issues. And let, us turn our dialogue into a genuine partnership against proliferation. If we make progress in narrowing our differences, we will be both more secure, and our relationship can reach its full potential. 13:47:21 I hope progress can also be made in overcoming a source of tension in this region, including the tensions between India and Pakistan. I share many of your government's concerns about the course Pakistan is taking; your disappointment that past overtures have not always, met with success; your outrage over recent violence. 13:47:44 I know it is difficult to be a democracy bordered by nations whose governments reject democracy. 13:47:52 But I also believe 13:47:55 I also believe India has a special opportunity, as a democracy, to show its neighbors that democracy is about dialogue, it does not have to be about friendship, but it is about building working relationships among people who differ. 13:48:16 One of the wisest things anyone ever said to me is that you don't make peace with your friends. That is what the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, told me before he signed the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, with whom he had been fighting for decades. 13:48:41 It is well to remember -- I remind myself of it all the even when I have arguments with members of the other party in my Congress -- (laughter) -- you don't make peace with your friends. 13:48:56 Engagement with adversaries is not the same thing as endorsement. It does not require setting, aside legitimate grievances. Indeed, I strongly believe that what has happened since your Prime Minister made his courageous journey to Lahore only reinforces the need for dialogue. (applause) 13:49:24 I can think of no enduring solution to this problem that can be achieved in any other way. In the end, for the sake of the innocents who always suffer the most, someone must and the contest of inflicting and absorbing pain. NOT ON TAPE Let me also make clear, as I have repeatedly, I have certainly not come to South Asia to mediate the dispute over Kashmir. Only India and Pakistan can work out the problems between them. 13:49:50 And I will say the same thing to General Musharraf in Islambad. 13:49:55 But if outsiders cannot resolve this problem, I hope you will create the opportunity to do it yourselves, calling in the Support of others who can help where possible, as American diplomacy did in urging the Pakistanis to go back behind the line of control in the Kargil crisis. (Applause.) 13:50:23 In the meantime, I will continue to stress that this should be a time for restraint, for respect for the-line of control, for renewed lines of communication. 13:50:35 Addressing this challenge and all the others I mentioned will require us to be closer partners and better friends, and to remember that good friends, out of respect, are honest with one another. And even when they do not agree, they always try to find common ground. 13:50:57 I have read that one of the unique qualities of Indian classical music is its elasticity. the composer lays down a foundation, a structure of melodic and rhythmic arrangements, but the player has to improvise within that structure to bring the raga* to life. 13:51:17 Our relationship is like that. The composers of our past have given us a foundation of shared democratic ideals. It is up to us to give life to those ideals In this time. The not have to be the same to be beautiful to both of us. 13:51:41 But if we listen to each other, and we strive to realize our vision together, we will write a symphony far greater than the sum of our individual notes. 13:51:52 The key is to genuinely and respectfully listen to each other. If we do, Americans will better understand the scope of India's achievements, and the dangers India still faces in this troubled part of the world. 13:52:09 We will understand that India will not choose a particular course simply because others wish it to do so. It will choose only what it believes its interests clearly demand and what its people democratically embrace. 13:52:24 If we listen to each other, I also believe Indians will understand better that America very. much wants you to succeed. Time and again -- (applause) -- time and again in my time as President, America has found that it is the weakness of great nations, not their strength, that threatens our vision for tomorrow. 13:52:51 So we want India to be strong; to be secure; to be united; to be a force for a safer, more prosperous, more democratic world. Whatever we ask of you, we ask in that spirit alone - After too long a period of estrangement, India, and the United States have learned chat being natural allies is a wonderful thing, but it is not enough. 13:53:23 Our task is to turn a common vision into common achievements so that partners in spirit can be partners in fact. We have already come a long way to this day of now beginnings, but we still have promises to keep, challenges to meet and hopes to redeem. 13:53:51 So let us seize this moment with humility in the fragile and fleeting nature of this life, but,absolute confidence 4n the power of the human spirit. Let us seize it for India, for America, for all those with whom we share this small planet, and for all the children that together we can give such bright tomorrows. Thank you very much. (Applause.) END 11:45 A.M. (L)

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AP-APTN-1830 North America Prime News -Final Sunday, 2 May 2010 North America Prime News US Times Sq 6 03:14 PART NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INT REPLAY AP pix as Taliban claims responsibility; intv with hot dog vendor; Napolitano ++Internet Pakistan Taliban 01:18 See Script NEW +GRAPHIC+ Purported Pakistani Taliban msg claims responsibility for NYC bomb attempt ++US Iran 01:27 See Script NEW Clinton says Iran is in violation of nuclear non-proliferation treaty EU Greece 3 05:02 AP Clients Only REPLAY Eurozone ministers discuss Greece bailout; roundtable; Merkel Italy Pope 2 02:29 AP Clients Only REPLAY Pope Benedict XVI visits Turin, views Shroud Germany Video 00:34 AP Clients Only REPLAY Police investigate after officer seen in AmVid kicking protester in the head ++EU Greece 4 03:03 AP Clients Only NEW Juncker says aid plan for Greece will be euros 110 billion over 3 years Iraq Blasts 2 02:48 Part No Access Iraq WRAP At least 1 dead, 100 injured in double bomb attack; scene of blasts MidEast Talks 2 02:47 AP Clients Only WRAP Israeli PM welcomes progress toward peace talks; Hamas reax B-u-l-l-e-t-i-n begins at 1830 GMT. APEX 05-02-10 1456EDT -----------End of rundown----------- AP-APTN-1830: US Times Sq 6 Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:US Times Sq 6- REPLAY AP pix as Taliban claims responsibility; intv with hot dog vendor; Napolitano LENGTH: 03:14 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: PART NO ACCESS NAMERICA/INT TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/ABC STORY NUMBER: 644503 DATELINE: New York, 2 May 2010 LENGTH: 03:14 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/ INTERNET SHOTLIST: AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY 1. Wide of Times Square 2. People on street 3. Police from New York Police Department on street 4. Pan of electronic billboards ABC - NO ACCESS NORTH AMERICA/ INTERNET 5. Mid shot of Janet Napolitano and TV anchor 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security Secretary: "Well, right now we have no evidence that it is anything other than a one-off, but we are alerting state and local officials around the country, letting them know, what is going on, the forensics are being done. As leads evolve or develop, they will all be tracked down. This is getting attention - FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), Department of Homeland Security, New York City police - everybody is on it." AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY 7. Pan of Times Square 8. Tourists shopping at street stall 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Duane Jackson, street vendor who notified the police: "The mounted police came by and we directed them to the car saying, you know, 'we don't know whose it is.' And then shortly after that, the smoke started coming out of the car, you know and I was like, 'whoa', you know. And they were saying, "Did anybody call the fire department?" And of course, the fire department had been called at that particular point. And maybe about three or four minutes after that, that's when we first heard the popping sound and it was like firecrackers going off, and black smoke, and that's when everybody just ran down the street, you know. I took off, everybody took off." 10. Police crossing the road 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Duane Jackson, street vendor who notified the police: "If somebody comes into Kennedy Airport right now and doesn't read the newspapers or look at television and comes to Times Square, they would assume, it's business as usual, nothing happened. And that's the resilience of New York and the resilience of Times Square. I mean, you know, every day there's a whole new group of tourists that come in from all over the world and that's what we thrive on." 12. Various of people sitting in street cafe 13. People shopping at street stall 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Latoma (no last name), tourist from Indiana "Not at all. I think there's enough security out here this morning, police are everywhere. I think if they're going to try something, there's nothing I can do about it. So, I'm not going to let it, I'm not going to be fearful of it, I'm just going to get out here and enjoy what I can enjoy while I'm here and be happy." 15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Earl Morriss, tourist from Seattle: "Hey, that's the world today, it's like, I've been to a lot of other places in the world where a terrorist attack happened while I was there or shortly afterwards. In Moscow, I was in front of a hotel that a week later, peoples' heads got blown off. It's a sad state of affairs, but you know, that's just the world." 16. Police on street 17. Wide of street cafe in Times Square STORYLINE: The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility in a video released on Sunday for the attempted car bomb attack in Times Square in New York City according to a monitoring website. Police found an "amateurish" but potentially powerful bomb in a smoking sport utility vehicle parked in Times Square - one of the city's main tourist destinations, authorities said on Sunday. Several hours after the incident, the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility in a video released on Sunday for the attempted car bomb attack. Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets near the Broadway theatres for 10 hours after two vendors alerted police to the suspicious vehicle, which contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon (19-litre) gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. The bomb appeared to be starting to detonate but malfunctioned, a top police spokesman said on Sunday. Firefighters and witnesses said they heard a popping sound from inside the vehicle. In one minute video allegedly released by the Pakistani Taliban, the group says the attack is revenge for the death of its leader Baitullah Mehsud and the recent killings of the top leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq. The video was uncovered on Sunday by the US-based SITE intelligence Group, which monitors militant websites. Before the announcement from the Taliban, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that officials are treating the incident as a potential extremist attack. "As leads evolve or develop, they will all be tracked down. This is getting attention - FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), Department of Homeland Security, New York City police - everybody is on it," she added. A T-shirt vendor and a handbag vendor alerted police at about 6:30 pm (2230 GMT) the height of dinner hour before theatre goers head to Saturday night shows. Duane Jackson, a 58-year-old handbag vendor, said he noticed the car and wondered who had left it there. Jackson said he looked in the car and saw keys in the ignition with 19 or 20 keys on a ring. He said he alerted a passing mounted police officer. "That's when we first heard the popping sound and it was like firecrackers going off, and black smoke, and that's when everybody just ran down the street, you know. I took off, everybody took off," he said. He didn't think the car had been there for more than 10 or 15 minutes. A white robotic police arm broke windows of the SUV to remove any explosive materials. US President Barack Obama, praised the quick response by the New York Police Department, a White House spokesman said. Officials said the device found on Saturday was crudely constructed, but Islamic militants have used propane and compressed gas for years to enhance the force of explosives. Those instances include the 1983 suicide attack on the US Marines barracks at the Beirut airport that killed 241 US service members, and the 2007 attack on the international airport in Glasgow, Scotland. In 2007, the US military announced that an al-Qaida front group was using propane to rig car bombs in Iraq. The Pakistani Taliban is one of Pakistan's largest and deadliest militant groups. It has strong links to al-Qaida and is based in the northwest close to the Afghan border. The group has carried out scores of bloody attacks inside Pakistan in recent years, mostly against Pakistani targets, but it has made no secret of its hatred toward the United States. If the claim of responsibility is genuine, it would be the first time the group has struck outside of South Asia. Last year, its then commander, Baitullah Mehsud, vowed to "amaze everyone in the world" with an attack on Washington or even the White House. But Mehsud also reportedly said his men were behind a mass shooting in March 2009 at the American Civic Association in Binghamton in April 2009. That claim turned out to be false. 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 05-02-10 1444EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: ++Internet Pakistan Taliban Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:++Internet Pakistan Taliban- NEW +GRAPHIC+ Purported Pakistani Taliban msg claims NYC car bomb attempt LENGTH: 01:18 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: SITE STORY NUMBER: 644515 DATELINE: Unknown date and location LENGTH: 01:18 ++PLEASE NOTE THIS VIDEO CONTAINS SOME GRAPHIC IMAGES OF DEAD BODIES++ SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP - AP CLIENTS ONLY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS HAS NO WAY OF INDEPENDENTLY VERIFYING THE CONTENT, LOCATION OR DATE OF THIS VIDEO PLEASE DO NOT OBSCURE ON-SCREEN LOGO AND CREDIT SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP IN ANY ACCOMPANYING VOICE-OVER SITE INTELLIGENCE GROUP IS A WASHINGTON-BASED MONITOR OF MILITANT WEB SITES THE TRANSLATIONS OVERLAID ARE NOT AP TRANSLATIONS SHOTLIST ++VIDEO SUBTITLED IN ENGLISH THROUGHOUT. PLEASE NOTE: THE TRANSLATIONS OVERLAID ARE NOT AP TRANSLATIONS++ 1. Slate reading (English) "Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) Claim of Times Square Attack. May 2, 2010 SITE Intelligence Group" 2. Text in gold letters on a black background celebrating the "jawbreaking blow to Satan's USA." UPSOUND: Unidentified speaker 3. Various of dead bodies, some purported to be slain militants, according to speaker. Second image (man with red background) is of slain Al Qaida leader in Iraq Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Image of woman is alleged al-Qaida associate Aafia Siddiqui seen in the custody of Counter Terrorism Department of Ghazni province in Ghazni City, Afghanistan in 2008. UPSOUND: Unidentified speaker 4. Various of purported NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) meeting UPSOUND: Unidentified speaker 5. Graphic montage of various images, including picture of US President Barack Obama UPSOUND: Unidentified speaker STORYLINE The Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility in a video released on Sunday for the attempted car bomb attack in New York City's Times Square. Despite the claim of responsibility, New York City's police commissioner said there was no evidence of a Taliban link to the failed car bomb. In the 1 minute, 11 second video allegedly released by the Pakistani Taliban, the group says the attack is revenge for the death of its leader, Baitullah Mehsud, and the recent slayings of leaders of al-Qaida in Iraq - Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri - killed by US and Iraqi troops last month north of Baghdad. An unidentified speaker on the tape also says the attack comes in response to American "interference and terrorism in Muslim Countries, especially in Pakistan," and cites US missile attacks in Pakistan's tribal areas that have targeted Taliban leaders hiding there. If the claim of responsibility is genuine, it would be the first time the group has struck outside of South Asia. It has no known global infrastructure like al-Qaida. In at least one past instance, the Pakistani Taliban has claimed responsibility for an attack it played no role in. The claim, which was posted on militant websites and uncovered by the US-based SITE Intelligence Group, could not be immediately confirmed. The tape makes no specific reference to Saturday's failed attack in New York; it does not mention that it was a car bomb or where the attack took place. At the start of the video, a text in gold letters on a black background celebrates the "jawbreaking blow to Satan's USA." As the speaker delivers the message, images of the purported slain militants referred to flash across the screen. English subtitles are provided at the bottom of the screen. The video also includes a 2008 still of alleged al-Qaida female associate Aafia Siddiqui seen in the custody of Counter Terrorism Department of Ghazni province in Ghazni City, Afghanistan. Siddiqui was accused of grabbing a US Army officer's rifle in Afghanistan in July 2008 and firing at US soldiers and FBI agents. The voice also calls on NATO countries to oppose "evil US policies" and "sincerely apologise for the massacres in Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistani tribal areas." The video was uncovered Sunday by SITE, which monitors militant websites. The claim came a day after police in New York found a potentially powerful car bomb that apparently began to detonate but did not explode in a smoking sport utility vehicle in Times Square. Thousands of tourists were cleared from the streets for 10 hours after two vendors alerted police to the suspicious vehicle, which contained three propane tanks, fireworks, two filled 5-gallon gasoline containers, and two clocks with batteries, electrical wire and other components, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban is one of Pakistan's largest and deadliest militant groups. It has strong links to al-Qaida and is based in the northwest close to the Afghan border. The group has carried out scores of bloody attacks inside Pakistan in recent years, mostly against Pakistani targets, but it has made no secret of its stance against the United States. Last year, its then commander, Baitullah Mehsud, vowed to "amaze everyone in the world" with an attack on Washington or even the White House. But Mehsud also reportedly said his men were behind a mass shooting in March 2009 at the American Civic Association in Binghamton in April 2009. That claim turned out to be false. 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APTN APEX 05-02-10 1623EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: ++US Iran Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:++US Iran- NEW Clinton says Iran is in violation of nuclear non-proliferation treaty LENGTH: 01:27 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: See Script TYPE: English/Nat SOURCE: NBC STORY NUMBER: 644514 DATELINE: Washington DC - 30 Apr 2010 LENGTH: 01:27 NBC - Meet the Press - Must On-Screen Courtesy 'Meet The Press' - No Archive SHOTLIST 30 April 2010 ++AIRED FOR THE FIRST TIME ON 2ND OF MAY++ 1. Wide of US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton on "Meet the Press" 2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State: (overlaid with wide cutaways) "I don't know what he's (referring to Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) showing up for because the purpose of the Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference is to reiterate the commitment of the international community to the three goals: disarmament, non-proliferation, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. So the vast majority of countries are coming to see what progress we can make." 3. Clinton on set of "Meet the Press" 4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State: "If Iran is coming to say we're willing to abide by the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), that would be very welcome news. I have a feeling that's not what they're coming to do. I think they're coming to try to divert attention and confuse the issue. And there is no confusion. They have violated the terms of the NPT. They have been held under all kinds of restrictions and obligations that they have not complied with by the IAEA, the International Atomic Energy Agency, by the UN Security Council. So we're not going to permit Iran to try to change the story from their failure to comply and in any way upset the efforts we are in the midst of, which is to get the international community to adopt a strong Security Council resolution that further isolates them and imposes consequences for their behaviour." 5. Clinton on "Meet the Press" STORYLINE: US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said in an interview aired on Sunday that it is clear that Iran is in violation of a treaty designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. The United Nations is holding a conference this coming week on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is expected to address delegates ahead of Clinton on Monday. Clinton told NBC's "Meet the Press" that his trip was an effort to divert attention and confuse people about Iran's violation of the treaty. She says the UN conference was designed to make clear the global commitment to disarmament, peaceful nuclear energy and limiting the spread of nuclear weapons. "I don't know what he's showing up for because the purpose of the Non-proliferation Treaty Review Conference is to reiterate the commitment of the international community to the three goals: disarmament, non-proliferation, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. So the vast majority of countries are coming to see what progress we can make," she said in an interview filmed on Friday but aired on Sunday. Clinton said it would be welcome news if Ahmadinejad was coming to say Tehran would abide by the Non-proliferation Treaty. But she said she had "a feeling that's not what they're coming to do." "We're not going to permit Iran to try to change the story from their failure to comply and in any way upset the efforts we are in the midst of." Delegates from 189 nations will convene on Monday for a twice-a-decade marathon of diplomacy and deal making over the 40-year-old treaty designed to check the spread of nuclear weapons worldwide. Ahmadinejad is expected to address the delegates ahead of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday, the opening day of the conference at the United Nations. The presence of Ahmadinejad, the only head of state taking part, ensures sharp words will fly over Tehran's nuclear programme and Israel's reported secret bombs, as well as over treaty outsider North Korea and the huge US and Russian nuclear arsenals. Iran last year rejected a UN-backed plan that offered nuclear fuel rods in exchange for most of Iran's stock of lower-level enriched uranium. Beyond meeting Iran's needs, the US and its allies saw the proposal as delaying Iran's ability to make a nuclear weapon by stripping it of much of the enriched uranium it would need for such a project. Tehran denies seeking such arms, insisting it is enriching only for an envisaged network of power-generating nuclear reactors. The main stumbling block has been Tehran's refusal to ship the bulk of its low-enriched uranium abroad, a condition insisted upon by the West as key to slowing Iran's accumulation of enriched uranium and thereby any bomb-making capacities. 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APTN APEX 05-02-10 1505EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: EU Greece 3 Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:EU Greece 3- REPLAY Eurozone ministers discuss Greece bailout; roundtable; Merkel LENGTH: 05:02 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Various/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/EBS STORY NUMBER: 644507 DATELINE: Various - 2 May 2010 LENGTH: 05:02 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY EBS - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 02 MAY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Brussels, Belgium 1. Wide exterior of European Union (EU) Council headquarters, the Justus Lipsius building 2. Various of German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble arriving at Eurogroup meeting 3. Schauble being greeted by French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde 4. SOUNDBITE (French) Christine Lagarde, French Finance Minister: "European citizens from the Eurozone, including the citizens of France, will of course see their money back. Why is that? Because they are bilateral loans. So France is going to lend Greece at a well determined interest rate and this loan will be reimbursed, the capital and with interest. Is this the tutelage of the Greek economy? Yes and no. From one side there are very precise commitments made by the Greek government and on the other hand there are controls which can be exercised by the (European) Commission and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to make sure that these commitments are respected." 5. EU monetary affairs commissioner, Olli Rehn arriving 6. Cutaway of cameras 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Luc Frieden, Luxembourg Finance Minister: "I think that what the Greek government decided this morning is very impressive. It'll be very tough for the Greek people and it is in our interest, the interest of the common Eurozone, that we now give the bilateral loans, otherwise the markets will doubt the seriousness of the European Union to act. I think the Eurozone is ready to act." 8. Greek finance minister George Papaconstantinou arriving 9. European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet arriving (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 02 MAY 2010) EBS - AP CLIENTS ONLY Brussels, Belgium 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Jose Manuel Barroso, EU Commission President: "Greece has approved a very credible and solid package. I just now spoke on the phone with (Greek) Prime Minister Papandreou to pay tribute to its determination. We believe this is the only way for Greece to assure stability and prosperity of the Greek people. The European Commission considers that the conditions are now met for the activation of the European mechanism for financial assistance to Greece. We want also to make it clear that all needs of Greece will be met on time." 11. Frieden, Schaeuble talking with other officials 12. Lagarde shaking hands with officials 13. Lagarde speaking with Frieden and Schaeuble 14. Various of Portuguese Finance Minister Fernando Teixeira dos Santos 15. Trichet arriving for round table meetings with Italian Finance Minister Giulio Tremonti 16. Tremonti seated at table 17. Various of Papaconstantinou (FIRST RUN 1630 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 02 MAY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Bonn, Germany 18. Angela Merkel, German Chancellor and Felipe Calderon, Mexico President arriving for news conference 19. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor: "I welcome that the Greek government, the ECB (European Central Bank), the commission and the IMF managed to negotiate (agreed on) a programme and also to get the approval of the Greek cabinet. I had telephone conversation with the Greek Prime Minister and I think, and I made clear, that it is a very challenging programme." 20. Cutaway of photographer 21. SOUNDBITE (German) Angela Merkel, German Chancellor: "We will now certainly work, if the agreement of the Finance Ministers will be made in Brussels today, that the aid measures of the other European states can be pushed through accordingly. If the finance ministers find an agreement today, the German government will hold talks in the cabinet tomorrow and will then inform the heads of the parties and fractions in the German Bundesrat (Upper House of Parliament) and then we will start to hold talks, so that we might be able to find a national agreement by Friday if there are positive developments." 22. Merkel and Calderon shaking hands, leaving (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 02 MAY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Athens, Greece 23. Greek flag flying, seen through tree branch 24. Medium of people walking in Syntagma Square 25. SOUNDBITE (English) Platon Monokroussos, Greek economist: "The new austerity programme will be painful for the domestic economy as it will place a heavy burden on disposable incomes, especially for public sector employees. On the more positive side, and assuming rigorous implementation of the package, the measures will assist the government to tackle long-standing imbalances in the domestic economy and eventually bring the economy towards a more sustainable growth path." 26 . Street scene in Athens STORYLINE Greece outlined strict new austerity measures required by an international bailout and Germany said on Sunday there was a good chance it would approve its part of the euro-zone and International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue before next weekend. The finance ministers of the 16 European Union (EU) nations that use the euro were holding an emergency meeting in Brussels to discuss the plan - the first-ever bailout of a euro-zone country - under which euro- zone countries and the IMF will extend loans to Greece over three years. The exact amount of the three-year package will be agreed on during the meeting, but is expected to be about 120 (b) billion euro (160 (b) billion US dollars). Germany, the euro zone's largest economy and Greece's toughest critic, will be the largest contributor of loans, but has been reluctant to release funds. Before entering the eurozone meeting, German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble outlined the reasons why the Eurozone was offering financial assistance to Greece. Chancellor Angela Merkel had insisted Greece needed to implement more austerity measures - a move which the country made on Sunday. Berlin needs to pass the issue through parliament before it can approve activating its part in the rescue. Merkel will meet on Monday with her Cabinet and parliamentary party leaders to set the process in motion. Merkel's Christian Democrats and their coalition partners, the Free Democrats, hold a majority in parliament. Speaking in the German city of Bonn, while holding talks with Mexico President Felipe Calderon, Merkel said she was pleased that the Greek government, the ECB, EU commission and the IMF had managed to a agree on a "very challenging programme." Merkel and Calderon were meeting ahead of the official opening of the Petersberg Climate Dialogue summit. Christine Lagarde, the French Finance Minister, attempted to reassure European citizens on Sunday that this was simply a loan and they were guaranteed to get their money back. "They are bilateral loans. So France is going to lend Greece at a well determined interest rate and this loan will be reimbursed, the capital and with interest," she added. Luc Frieden, Luxembourg Finance Minister, said the Greek government should be commended for their efforts as they had done what was asking of them by the Eurozone. "It'll be very tough for the Greek people and it is in our interest, the interest of the common Eurozone that we now give the bilateral loans, otherwise the markets will doubt the seriousness of the European Union to act," he added. A senior International Monetary Fund official said the IMF's executive board was meeting in Washington to consider how much aid to grant Athens under a massive rescue loan package. The meeting coincides with the emergency talks in Brussels among eurozone finance ministers. The IMF's Poul Thomsen told reporters in Athens it would take at least a week for Greece to start receiving funds. He praised Greece's "draconian reforms." The lead European Union negotiator in Athens insisted the aid package would not serve as a "blueprint" for other eurozone countries with troubled finances. Earlier Sunday, Greece outlined strict measures, including cuts in civil servants' salaries and pensions, and tax increases, as part of an agreement reached late Saturday night with the IMF and EU. The measures aim to cut the deficit to below 3 percent of gross domestic product, within EU limits, by 2014. The deficit currently stands at 13.6 percent. EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso described the aid as "decisive" in getting Greece back on track and protect the financial stability of the 16 nations using the euro currency. "We believe this is the only way for Greece to assure stability and prosperity of the Greek people. The European Commission considers that the conditions are now met for the activation of the European mechanism for financial assistance to Greece. We want also to make it clear that all needs of Greece will be met on time," he added. The Greek announcements also won praise from the EU's monetary affairs commissioner, Olli Rehn. It remains unclear whether Sunday's meeting in Brussels will be enough to give final approval for Athens to start receiving the money or whether a summit of eurozone heads of government will be required. Greece has 8.5 (b) billion euro (11.3 (b) billion US dollars) worth of a 10-year bond maturing on May 19. Papaconstantinou said savings worth 30 (b) billion euro (39.9 (b) billion US dollars) through 2012 would be achieved through public service and pension pay cuts, higher taxes and a streamlined government. Annual holiday bonuses will be capped at one thousand euros (1,330 US dollars) per year for civil servants and scrapped for those with gross monthly salaries over three thousand euro (3,995 US dollars), he said. Pensioners' bonuses will also be capped at 800 euro (1062 US dollars) and cancelled for those paid more than 2,500 euro (3,330 US dollars). Salary cuts will not extend to the private sector, as had been widely feared. Greeks receive their annual pay in 14 salaries, receiving extra at Christmas, Easter and for their summer vacations. Taxes would also be increased, including further hikes on fuel, alcohol and tobacco. The top bracket of sales tax rises from 21 percent to 23 percent. Papaconstantinou said his country's debt would reach 140 percent of GDP (gross domestic product) in 2013 and start falling from 2014, while economic output is set to contract by 4 percent in 2010 and by 2.6 percent in 2011 before it starts recovering slowly beginning in 2012. The new austerity measures were seen as essential for the EU and IMF to unblock the rescue package, which Athens asked for last week and which will see other eurozone countries and the IMF extend loans to Greece. Papaconstantinou said the government hoped to be able to return to borrowing on the market soon, but that the plan would allow the government breathing space to implement its austerity program and put its finances in order. Earlier, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced his government had reached an agreement in tough negotiations with the IMF and EU on the measures. Papandreou called on Greeks to make "great sacrifices" to avoid a catastrophe, and said the country's problematic civil service would bear the brunt. There will also be deep cuts in defence spending and hospital procurement, the prime minister said. In Athens, Platon Monokroussos, a Greek economist said the new austerity package would be painful but would eventually lead the country to a more sustainable growth path. Monokroussos said the package announced by the country's finance minister would place a burden on disposable incomes especially for public sector employees but would help the government overcome imbalances in the domestic economy and would eventually lead to growth. "On the more positive side, and assuming rigorous implementation of the package, the measures will assist the government to tackle long-standing imbalances in the domestic economy and eventually bring the economy towards a more sustainable growth path," he added. Some economists believe that Greece's adjustment will be painful, but no more so than when the country devalued its then currency, the drachma, twice in the 1980s and once in the 1990s. 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APTN APEX 05-02-10 1444EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Italy Pope 2 Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:Italy Pope 2- REPLAY Pope Benedict XVI visits Turin, views Shroud LENGTH: 02:29 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Italian/Natsound SOURCE: Vatican TV STORY NUMBER: 644509 DATELINE: Turin, 2 May 2010 LENGTH: 02:29 VATICAN TV - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST 1. Exterior of Turin's Cathedral 2. Pull out from dome to the wide of the Cathedral's exteriors 3. Various of Pope Benedict XVI entering the Cathedral 4. Wide of the altar and the Shroud 5. Close-up pan right of the Shroud 6. Pope praying 7. Zoom in of Pope meditating 8. Zoom out of nuns praying 9. Wide of Pope praying 10. Pope making sign of the cross and getting up 11. Wide of Pope speaking 12. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Pope Benedict XVI, leader of the Catholic church: "What does the Shroud tell us? The Shroud talks through blood, but blood is life. The Shroud is an icon written in blood; the blood of a man who was whipped, crowned with thorns, crucified and injured on his right side. The image of the Shroud is the image of a dead man, but the blood talks of life." 13. Wide of pope giving blessing 14. Mid of Shroud 15. Various of Pope leaving the church 16. Wide exterior of Turin's Cathedral STORYLINE Pope Benedict XVI took a break on Sunday from dealing with the clerical sex abuse scandal to pray before the Shroud of Turin, the linen with an image of a crucified man on it that some believe is Christ's burial cloth and others dismiss as a medieval fake. Benedict did not definitively declare the Shroud that of Jesus Christ, but said it was "an icon written in blood; the blood of a man who was whipped, crowned with thorns, crucified and injured on his right side." In a meditation delivered after praying for four minutes before the Shroud, the pope said the relic should be seen as a photographic document of the "darkest mystery of faith" - that of Christ's crucifixion and resurrection. The 14-foot-long, 3.5-foot-wide (4.3-metre-long, 1 metre-wide) cloth has gone on public display for the first time since the 2000 Millennium celebrations and a subsequent 2002 restoration. Kept in a bulletproof, climate-controlled case in Turin's cathedral, it has drawn nearly 2 million (m) reservations from pilgrims and tourists eager to spend three to five minutes viewing it. At the start of a Mass, Turin archbishop Cardinal Severino Poletto welcomed Benedict to join those who have silently prayed before the sepia-toned cloth. The Shroud bears the figure of a crucified man, complete with blood seeping from his hands and feet, and believers say Christ's image was recorded on the linen's fibres at the time of his resurrection. Benedict's visit to the holy relic is a bit of a respite from meetings with bishops to discuss resignations from inside their ranks over sex abuse by priests of children and the bishops' failure to report it to civil authorities. In the past week, Benedict met with German bishops to discuss one high-profile resignation and he has another such meeting planned Monday with Belgian bishops. In between, he met with five Vatican investigators who reported on an eight-month probe into the Legionaries of Christ; the Vatican announced Saturday that Benedict would appoint a personal delegate to lead the discredited order and reform it after revelations that its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least one child. While the visit to Turin is a break of sorts, it's not without its own controversies: The Vatican has tiptoed around the issue of just what the Shroud of Turin is, calling it a powerful symbol of Christ's suffering while making no claim to its authenticity. A Vatican researcher said late last year that faint writing on the linen, which she studied through computer-enhanced images, proves the cloth was used to wrap Jesus' body after his crucifixion. But experts stand by carbon-dating of scraps of the cloth that determine the linen was made in the 13th or 14th century in a kind of medieval forgery. That testing didn't explain how the image on the Shroud - of a man with wounds similar to those suffered by Christ - was formed. However, some have suggested the dating results might have been skewed by contamination and called for a larger sample to be analysed. 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APTN APEX 05-02-10 1445EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Germany Video Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:Germany Video- REPLAY Police investigate after officer seen in AmVid kicking protester in the head LENGTH: 00:34 FIRST RUN: 1630 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Natsound SOURCE: AMATEUR VIDEO STORY NUMBER: 644504 DATELINE: Berlin, 1 May 2010 LENGTH: 00:34 AMATEUR VIDEO - AP CLIENTS ONLY ++CLIENTS NOTE: AP CANNOT INDEPENDENTLY VERIFY THIS VIDEO++ SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of demonstration 2. Demonstrators running from police line 3. Close of police running after demonstrators, one officer stumbles over a fallen protester as the next officer is seen kicking him in the head as he runs past, the protester is then lifted to his feet by onlookers STORYLINE: Berlin police are investigating an officer who was caught on video kicking a black-clad protester in the head as police broke up a mass of demonstrators at Saturday's May Day protests. Berlin police superintendent Dieter Glietsch said on Sunday that footage of the helmeted officer kicking the protester - who had stumbled to the ground and caused another officer to lose his footing - was caught on internal video. But another amateur video, shot by someone in the crowd and posted on the internet site YouTube, also showed Saturday's incident. In the video, a young man stumbled to the pavement as police moved forward at a brisk pace. He was caught underfoot by one officer, who stumbled, while the next policeman can be seen lifting his right leg and striking the man's head with his boot. AP Television could not independently verify the contents of the video. Police have not yet identified the officer seen delivering the swift kick nor the person who was struck. The video showed the protestor lifted to his feet by others in the crowd, police have appealed for the victim and any witnesses to come forward. 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APTN APEX 05-02-10 1445EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: ++EU Greece 4 Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:++EU Greece 4- NEW Juncker says aid plan for Greece will be euros 110 billion over 3 years LENGTH: 03:03 FIRST RUN: 1830 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/French/Natsound SOURCE: EBS STORY NUMBER: 644508 DATELINE: Brussels - 2 May 2010 LENGTH: 03:03 ++CLIENTS PLEASE NOTE STORYLINE UPDATED 2030 GMT++ EBS - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: 1. Wide of podium 2. Panel sitting down for news conference 3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jean-Claude Juncker, Eurogroup President: "In the context of a three year joint programme with the IMF, the financial package made available: 110 (b) billion euros to help Greece meet its financial needs with euro area member states ready to contribute for their part 80 (b) billion euros of which up to 30 (b) billion euros in the first year." 4. Cutaway of reporter 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olli Rehn, EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner: "I am indeed grateful that the eurogroup has today decided to endorse this programme. The Commission strongly supports the economic programme of fiscal consolidation and structural reforms announced today by the government of Greece on the basis of our agreement last night. The steps being taken, while difficult, are necessary to restore confidence in the Greek economy." 6. Wide of podium 7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Olli Rehn, EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner: "If implemented effectively, and I am certain it will be, the programme will lead to a more dynamic economy that will deliver growth jobs and prosperity for Greece and the Greek people that they need in the future." 8. Cutaway of reporter 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) George Papaconstantinou, Greek finance minister: We are fully aware that this is a programme that is not going to be easy. It is not going to be easy on Greek citizens, despite the efforts that have been made and will continue to be made to protect the weakest in society. We are absolutely convinced that this is a necessary programme." 10. Wide of podium 11. SOUNDBITE: (French) George Papaconstantinou, Greek finance minister: "We have made an enormous effort not to touch on the lowest salaries in the public sector, nor the lowest pensions in the public and the private sectors." 12. Cutaway of reporter 13. SOUNDBITE: (French) Jean-Claude Juncker, Eurogroup President: "I almost lost my patience during this process but I realise our processes are complicated, that there are cultural differences in the euro area. Not everyone is the same, we have to respect parliamentary procedures, internal political discussions and the public has to have things explained to it. Different questions are put in different countries." 14. Wide of podium STORYLINE: Finance ministers from the 16 countries that use the euro agreed on Sunday to rescue Greece with 147 (b) billion dollars in loans over three years to keep it from defaulting on its debts. The loan package with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is also aimed at keeping Greece's debt crisis from spreading to other financially weak countries such as Spain and Portugal - just as Europe is struggling out of a painful recession. In return, Greece had to agree to an austerity programme that will impose painful spending cuts and tax increases on its people for years to come. The plan will still need approval by some countries' parliaments. But the head of the eurogroup, Luxembourg's Jean-Claude Juncker, said Greece will get the first funds by May 19, when Athens has 8.5 (b) billion euros (11.3 (b) billion US dollars) worth of a 10-year bond maturing. Fears that the money might be held up by objections in powerful eurozone member Germany - where the Greek bailout is not popular - sent shudders through bond and stock markets last week. But European Union President Herman Van Rompuy called for a special summit of the euro countries on May 7 to "conclude the whole process" once national parliaments deal with the issue "in the next few days." Berlin needs parliament to approve its part in the rescue but Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and Chancellor Angela Merkel said that could be wrapped up by Friday. Juncker said the eurozone would contribute 107 (b) billion dollars to the package, with 40 (b) billion of that to be made available his year. The rest of the money would come from the Washington, DC-based IMF. EU Monetary Affairs Commissioner Ollie Rehn said the loans from other eurozone countries to Greece would carry an interest rate of around five percent. Because the interest rate is higher than the one those countries face themselves on the market, they could make money out of the rescue package. But the rate is significantly lower than Greece would face if it tried to borrow on the international market, where it has seen its borrowing costs spiral because of investor fears it would default. Athens has said the plan will allow it breathing space to implement harsh new austerity measures it announced earlier on Sunday to bring its economy into order. The new measures Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou announced earlier in Athens include cuts in civil servants' salaries and pensions, and tax increases that aim to cut the deficit to below 3 percent of gross domestic product, within EU limits, by 2014. The deficit currently stands at 13.6 percent. He said savings worth 40 (b) billion dollars through 2012 would be achieved through public service and pension pay cuts, higher taxes and streamlining government. Annual holiday bonuses will be capped at 1,330 dollars per year for civil servants and scrapped for those with gross monthly salaries over 3,995 dollars, he said. Pensioners' bonuses will also be capped at 1,068 dollars and cancelled for those paid more than 3,330 dollars. Salary cuts will not extend to the private sector, as had been widely feared. Greeks receive their annual pay in 14 salaries, receiving extra at Christmas, Easter and for their summer vacations. The IMF and EU said the bailout and austerity programme were tough and would help Greece out of its troubles, but warned it would take years. "The steps being taken, while difficult, are necessary to restore confidence in the Greek economy and to secure a better future for the Greek people," said a joint statement by Rehn and IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn. "We are confident that Greece will rise to the challenge and succeed." Many economists say that while a bailout would keep Greece from defaulting in the next year or two, its meagre prospects for economic growth mean it will have difficulty paying off its debt pile over the long term. 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 05-02-10 1632EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: Iraq Blasts 2 Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:Iraq Blasts 2- WRAP At least 1 dead, 100 injured in double bomb attack; scene of blasts LENGTH: 02:48 FIRST RUN: 1530 RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access Iraq TYPE: Mute/Commnentary/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION/Al Mosuliyah TV STORY NUMBER: 644502 DATELINE: Mosul/Irbil, 2 May 2010 LENGTH: 02:48 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY MOSULIYAH TV - NO ACCESS IRAQ ++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ SHOTLIST: (FIRST RUN 1530 NEWS UPDATE - 02 MAY 2010) MOSULIYAH TV - NO ACCESS IRAQ Mosul ++MUTE++ 1. Wide of bus hit by blast 2. Close of blood stains and blast debris including woman's shoe, on floor of bus 3. Various of blood stained seats and blast debris inside bus 4. Pan of damage to second bus hit by blast 5. Various of blood stains and debris inside second bus 6. Zoom out from damaged bus to Iraqi solders standing near by 7. Officials at blast site 8. Tracking shot of buses, Iraqi soldier's gun in foreground ++COMMENTARY++ (FIRST RUN 1330 EUROPE PRIME NEWS - 02 MAY 2010) AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY Irbil 9. Wide of Irbil General Hospital 10. Cutaway of hospital door, sign reading (Arabic/ English) 'Emergency Management Centre' 11. Injured man on stretcher being brought into emergency room 12. Injured woman on stretcher 13. Injured man being helped into hospital 15. Wide of people inside hospital 16. Various of wounded victims lying in hospital beds 17. Injured man being tended to by nurse, Christian priest standing nearby 18. Close up of face of injured woman 19. Various of injured person on hospital bed 20. Iraqi officials visiting the injured 21. Medical and security staff inside hospital STORYLINE: Two bombs exploded minutes apart in the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Sunday, killing at least one bystander and injuring around 100 others, a security official said. The attack began with a roadside bomb that exploded around 7:30 am (4:30 am GMT) and appeared to target buses carrying Christian students to the Mosul University. Moments later, a car bomb exploded nearby. A shop owner in the area was killed in the attack, according to Abdul-Rahim al-Shammari, the head of the provincial council's security committee. The injured included students and other civilians, he said. Video from local broadcaster Mosuliyah TV, taken in the aftermath of the blasts, showed two severely damaged buses with blood stains and debris littering their interiors. At least 17 people with serious wounds were taken to a hospital in Irbil, in the Kurdish autonomous region, said a medical doctor who works at the hospital. Sunni Muslim insurgents have frequently targeted members of Iraq's Christian minority, especially in Mosul, which is home to a large Christian community. Some extremist Sunnis consider Christians to be non-believers and supporters of the Shiite-led government they oppose. The US-based National Council of Churches sent a letter last week to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton calling on her to urge Iraqi officials to do more to protect Iraq's Christian community. The organisation said they were particularly worried now as Iraq struggles to seat a government after the March 7 parliamentary elections. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bloc narrowly lost to a coalition led by secular challenger Ayad Allawi, but the prime minister has challenged the results. The ensuing political vacuum has left many observers worried that violence will rise as political battles spill over into the streets. 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APTN APEX 05-02-10 1444EDT ------------------- END -- OF -- ITEM ------------------- AP-APTN-1830: MidEast Talks 2 Sunday, 2 May 2010 STORY:MidEast Talks 2- WRAP Israeli PM welcomes progress toward peace talks; Hamas reax LENGTH: 02:47 FIRST RUN: 1230 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: Various/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 644497 DATELINE: Jerusalem/Gaza - 2 May 2010 LENGTH: 02:47 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: (FIRST RUN 0930 AMERICAS PRIME NEWS - 02 MAY 2010) Jerusalem 1. Wide of Israeli President Shimon Peres meeting with Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Shimon Peres, Israel's President: ++AUDIO QUALITY AS INCOMING++ "We are very close to begin the proximity talks. It took a bit longer than we hoped for and the problems are not yet solved, but at least a way how to handle them is open." 3. Exterior of Israeli Prime Minister's office 4. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arriving at cabinet meeting 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Uzi Landau, Israeli Minister of Energy and Infrastructure: "We wish to see people who are prepared to talk, not those who are setting each time new conditions. One should be very concerned to listen to the Palestinian Authority." 6. Israeli Cabinet Minister Avishai Braverman talking to media 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Avishai Braverman, Minister of Minorities: "The most important issue for Israel is to move as soon as possible, not only to proximity talks, to direct talks with the support of the United States, Europe, the moderate Arab countries, Mubarak (referring to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak), Egypt, in order to have two states. Essentially most of the West Bank will go to Palestine, certain small areas - with most of the settlers - will stay in Israel, and we will work on all the other issues." 8. Wide of Israeli Cabinet meeting 9. Pan of meeting (FIRST RUN 1230 NEWS UPDATE - 02 MAY 2010) Gaza City, Gaza Strip 10. Various of Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, arriving and taking his seat at news conference 11. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader in Gaza: "We regret the Arab Committee decision of giving Arab backing to resuming the negotiations which are called indirect negotiations. I can't explain the difference between direct or indirect negotiations. All this aims to do is to trick the Palestinians into returning to the negotiation table. Regretfully, this comes during a dangerous Israeli decision which is continuation of judaising Jerusalem, continuation of building settlements and lately the decision of deporting Palestinians from their land." 12. Cutaway of media 13. Haniyeh leaving news conference STORYLINE Israel's prime minister on Sunday welcomed Arab nations' endorsement of indirect, US-brokered peace talks with the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu's office said the prime minister still awaited a formal Palestinian statement on the resumption of peace talks, but renewed his willingness to restart them "at any time and at any place" while insisting they begin "without preconditions." Israeli President Shimon Peres, meanwhile, expressed optimism about the developments whilst meeting visiting Danish Foreign Minister Lene Espersen. "It looks like we are very close to begin the proximity talks," he said in Jerusalem. "It took a little longer than we hoped for and problems are not yet solved but at least the way to handle them is open." Israeli and Palestinian officials said they expect the talks to begin by early next week, and one Israeli official said the dialogue would go beyond formalities and include preliminary discussions on "core issues" in the decades-long conflict. Details on the exact timing and scope of the talks were still being finalised on Sunday, a day after the 22-member Arab League gave the Palestinians the green light for negotiations. At the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jersualem, one Israeli cabinet minister outlined what he expected would be the result of the talks. "Essentially most of the West Bank will go to Palestine, certain small areas - with most with most of the settlers - will stay in Israel, and we will work on all the other issues," Avishai Braverman, the Minister of Minorities said. US Mideast envoy George Mitchell is scheduled to return to the region at the end of the week, and the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) plans to announce the formal resumption of talks on Saturday. The last round of peace talks broke down in late 2008, reportedly when the sides were close to an agreement. Netanyahu's predecessor, Ehud Olmert, was in office at the time. The Palestinians have refused to sit down with Netanyahu until he agrees to freeze all Jewish housing construction in the West Bank and east Jerusalem - areas they want for an independent state along with the Gaza Strip. Netanyahu has imposed a 10-month slowdown in the West Bank but has refused to include east Jerusalem in the order. The indirect talks, with Mitchell shuttling between the two sides, are seen as a compromise. Indirect talks were set to begin in March when - during a visit by Vice President Joe Biden - Israel announced plans for building new Jewish housing units in an east Jerusalem neighbourhood. The decision drew fierce criticism from the United States and led to the worst rift between the two allies in decades. The Arab League's endorsement gives Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas critical backing to sell the indirect talks to a sceptical Palestinian public. An Israeli government official said he hoped the talks would lead to direct peace negotiations that ultimately touch on all the contested issues between the parties - such as final borders, refugees and the status of Jerusalem. However Abbas' rivals in the militant Islamic Hamas movement, which seized control of Gaza from Abbas' forces nearly three years ago, rejected the Arab League endorsement. Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader in Gaza, told a group of workers he met at the Hamas labour ministry on Sunday that the decision by the Arab League was aimed at tricking the Palestinians to return to the negotiation table. "Regretfully, this comes during a dangerous Israeli decision which is continuation of judaising Jerusalem, continuation of building settlements and lately the decision of deporting Palestinians from their land," he said in Gaza City. In an interview with the Palestinian daily Al-Ayam, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said President Barack Obama assured him that the Americans were "committed not to allow any provocative measures from any party" - an apparent reference to Israeli building in east Jerusalem. Municipal officials in the city claim Netanyahu has already unofficially frozen Jewish housing construction in east Jerusalem, despite his public claims to the contrary. Abbas said that despite the obstacles ahead he remained hopeful. 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UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SELECT COMMITTEE ON BENGHAZI FULL COMMITTEE HEARING PUBLIC HEARING 4 - FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY CLINTON Members Republicans Trey Gowdy, Chairman (SC-04) Susan Brooks (IN-05) Jim Jordan (OH-04) Mike Pompeo (KS-04) Martha Roby (AL-02) Peter Roskam (IL-06) Lynn Westmoreland (GA-03) Democrats Elijah Cummings, Ranking Member (MD-07) Adam Smith (WA-09) Adam Schiff (CA-28) Linda Sanchez (CA-38) Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) WITNESS: Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton 10:01:46 GOWDY: Good morning. The committee will come to order. The chair notes the presence of a quorum. Good morning. Welcome, Madam Secretary. Welcome to each of you. This is a public hearing of the Benghazi Select Committee. Just a couple of quick administrative matters before we start. Madam Secretary, there are predetermined breaks, but I want to make it absolutely clear we can take a break for any reason or for no reason. If you or anyone, just simply alert me, then we will take a break and it can be for any reason or for no reason. To our guests, we are happy to have you here. The witness deserves to hear the questions and the members deserve to hear the answers. So proper decorum must be observed at all times -- no reaction to questions or answers, no disruptions. Some committees take an incremental approach to decorum. I do not. This is your one and only notice. Madam Secretary, the ranking member and I will give opening statements and then you will be recognized for your opening statement. And then after that, the members will alternate from one side to the other. And because you have already been sworn, we will go straight to your opening. So I will now recognize myself and then recognize Mr. Cummings, and then you, Madam Secretary. 10:03:03 Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods served this country with courage and with honor. And they were killed under circumstances that most of us could never imagine. Terrorists poured through the front gate of an American facility, attacking people and property with machine guns, mortars, and fire. It is important that we remember how these four men died. It is equally important that we remember how these four men lived and why. They were more than four images on a television screen. They were husbands and fathers and sons and brothers and family and friends. They were Americans who believed in service and sacrifice. Many people speak wistfully of a better world, but do little about it. These four went out and actually tried to make it better and it cost them their lives. So we know what they gave us. What do we owe them? 10:04:18 GOWDY: Justice for those that killed them. We owe their families our everlasting gratitude, respect. We owe them and each other the truth -- the truth about why we were in Libya, the truth about what we were doing in Libya, the truth about the escalating violence in Libya before we were attacked and these four men were killed, the truth about requests for additional security, the truth about requests for additional personnel, the truth about requests for additional equipment, the truth about where and why our military was positioned as it was on the anniversary of 9/11, the truth about what was happening and being discussed in Washington while our people were under attack, the truth about what led to the attacks, and the truth about what our government told the American people after the attacks. Why were there so many requests for more security personnel and equipment, and why were those requests denied in Washington? Why did the State Department compound and facility not even come close to meeting proper security specifications? What policies were we pursuing in Libya that required a physical presence in spite of the escalating violence? Who in Washington was aware of the escalating violence? What precautions, if any, were taken on the anniversary of 9/11? What happened in Washington after the first attack? And what was our response to that attack? What did the military do or not do? What did our leaders in Washington do or not do, and when? Why was the American public given such divergent accounts of what caused these attacks, and why is it so hard to get information from the very government these four men represented, served and sacrificed for? Even after an Accountability Review Board and a half dozen congressional investigations, these and other questions still lingered. These questions linger, because previous investigations were thorough. These questions lingered because those previous investigations were narrow in scope, and either incapable or unwilling to access the facts and evidence necessary to answer all relevant questions. So the House of Representatives, including some Democrats I hasten to add, asked this committee to write the final accounting of what happened in Benghazi. This committee is the first committee to review more than 50,000 pages of documents, because we insisted that they be produced. This committee is the first committee to demand access to more eyewitnesses, because serious investigations talk to as many eyewitnesses as possible. This committee is the first committee to thoroughly and individually interview scores of other witnesses, many of them for the first time. This committee is the first committee to review thousands of pages of documents from top State Department personnel. This committee is the first committee to demand access to relevant documents from the CIA, the FBI , the Department Of Defense and even the White House. This committee is the first committee to demand access to the emails to and from Ambassador Chris Stevens. How could an investigation possibly be considered serious without reviewing the emails of the person most knowledgeable about Libya? 10:07:57 This committee is the first committee, the only committee, to uncover the fact that Secretary Clinton exclusively used personnel e- mail on her own personal server for official business and kept the public record, including emails about Benghazi and Libya, in her own custody and control for almost two years after she left office. You will hear a lot today about the Accountability Review Board. Secretary Clinton has mentioned it more than 70 times in her previous testimony before Congress. But when you hear about the ARB, you should know the State Department leadership hand picked the members of the ARB. The ARB never interviewed Secretary Clinton. The ARB never reviewed her emails. And Secretary Clinton's top adviser was allowed to review and suggest changes to the ARB before the public ever saw it. There's no transcript of ARB interviews. So, it's impossible to mow whether all relevant questions were asked and answered. Because there's no transcript, it is also impossible to cite the ARB interviews with any particularity at all. That is not independent. That is not accountability. That is not a serious investigation. You will hear there were previous congressional investigations into Benghazi. And that is true. It should make you wonder why those investigations failed to interview so many witnesses and access so many documents. If those previous congressional investigations were really serious and thorough, how did they miss Ambassador Stevens' emails? If those previous investigations were serious and thorough, how did they miss Secretary Clinton's emails? If those congressional investigations really were serious and thorough, why did they fail to interview dozens of key State Department witnesses, including agents on the ground who experienced the attacks firsthand? 10:09:55 GOWDY: Just last month, three years after Benghazi, top aides finally returned documents to the State Department. A month ago, this committee received 1,500 new pages of Secretary Clinton's emails related to Libya and Benghazi, three years after the attacks. A little over two weeks ago, this committee received nearly 1,400 pages of Ambassador Stevens' emails, three years after the attacks. It is impossible to conduct a serious fact-centric investigation without access to the documents from the former Secretary of State, the ambassador who knew more about Libya than anybody else and testimony from witnesses who survived the attacks. 10:10:40 Madam Secretary, I understand there are people frankly in both parties who have suggested that this investigation is about you. Let me assure you it is not. And let me assure you why it is not. This investigation is about four people who were killed representing our country on foreign soil. It is about what happened before, during and after the attacks that killed them. It is about what this country owes to those who risk their lives to serve it. And it is about the fundamental obligation of government to tell the truth always to the people that it purports to represent. Madam Secretary, not a single member of this committee signed up to investigate you or your email. We signed up to investigate and therefore honor the lives of four people that we sent into a dangerous country to represent us. And to do everything we can to prevent it from happening to others. Our committee has interviewed half a 100 witnesses. Not a single one of them has been named Clinton until today. You were the secretary of state for this country at all relevant times. So, of course, the committee is going to want to talk to you. You are an important witness. You are one important witness among half a hundred important witnesses. And I do understand you wanted to come sooner than today. So let me be clear why that did not happen. 10:12:24 You had an unusual email arrangement which meant the State Department could not produce your emails to us. You made exclusive use of personal email and a personal server. And when you left the State Department, you kept the public record to yourself for almost two years. And it was you and your attorneys who decided what to return and what to delete. Those decisions were your decisions, not our decisions. It was only in March of this year we learned of this email arrangement. And since we learned of this email arrangement, we have interviewed dozens of witnesses, only one of whom was solely related to your email arrangement. And that was the shortest interview of all, because that witness invoked his fifth amendment privilege against incrimination. Making sure the public record is complete is what we serious investigations do. It's important and remains important that this committee have access to all of Ambassador Stevens' emails, the emails of senior leaders and witnesses and it is important to gain access to all of your emails, Madam Secretary. Your emails are no less or no more important than the emails of anyone else. It just took us a little bit longer to get them and it garnered a little more attention in the process. I want you to take note during this hearing how many times congressional Democrats call on this administration to make long awaited documents available to us. They won't. Take note of how many witnesses congressional Democrats ask us to schedule for interview. They won't. We would be closer to finding out what happened and writing the final definitive report if Democrats on this committee had helped us just a little bit pursue the facts. But if the Democrats on this committee had their way, dozens of witnesses never would have been interviewed, your public record would still be private. Thousands of documents would never be accessed and we wouldn't have the emails of our own ambassador. That may be smart politics, but it is a lousy way to run a serious investigation. There are certain characteristics that make our country unique in the annals of history. We are the greatest experiment in self- governance the world has ever known, and part of that self-governance comes self-scrutiny, even of the highest officials. 10:15:05 GOWDY: Our country is strong enough to handle the truth and our fellow citizens expect us to pursue the truth wherever the facts take us. So this committee is going to do what we pledged to do and what should have been done, frankly, a long time ago, which is interview all relevant witnesses, examine all relevant evidence, and access all relevant documents. And we're going to pursue the truth in a manner worthy of the memory of the four people who lost their lives and worthy of the respect of our fellow citizens. And we are going to write that final definitive accounting of what happened in Benghazi. We would like to do it with your help and the help of our Democrat colleagues, but make no mistake, we are going to do it nonetheless. Because understanding what happened in Benghazi goes to the heart of who we are as a country and the promises we make to those that we send into harm's way. They deserve the truth. They deserve the whole truth. They deserve nothing but the truth. The people we work for deserve the truth. The friends and family of the four who lost their lives deserve the truth. We're going to find the truth because there is no statute of limitations on the truth. With that, I would recognize my friend my Maryland. 10:16:38 CUMMINGS: The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Madam Secretary, I want to thank you very much for being here today to testify before Congress on this very important issue. This is your third time. This week, our chairman, Mr. Gowdy, was interviewed in a lengthy media profile. During his interview, he complained that he was, and I quote, he "has an impossible job." That's what the chairman said -- "impossible job." He said it's impossible to conduct a serious, fact-centric investigation in such a, quote, "political environment." I have great respect for the chairman, but on this score he is absolutely wrong. In fact, it has been done by his own Republican colleagues in the House on this very issue, Benghazi. The Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee conducted an extensive, bipartisan, two-year investigation and issued a detailed report. The Senate Intelligence Committee and the Senate Homeland Security Committee also conducted a bipartisan investigation. Those bipartisan efforts respected and honored the memories of the four brave Americans who gave their lives in Benghazi: Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty. The problem is that the Republican caucus did not like the answers they got from those investigations, so they set up this select committee with no rules, no deadline, and an unlimited budget. And they set them loose, Madam Secretary, because you're running for president. Clearly, it is possible to conduct a serious, bipartisan investigation. What is impossible is for any reasonable person to continue denying that Republicans are squandering millions of taxpayer dollars on this abusive effort to derail Secretary Clinton's presidential campaign. In the chairman's interview, he tried to defend against this criticism by attempting to cast himself as the victim. And he complained about attacks on the credibility of the select committee. 10:19:48 CUMMINGS: His argument would be more compelling if Republicans weren't leading the charge. As we all know, Representative Kevin McCarthy, Speaker Boehner's second in command and the chairman's close friend admitted that they established the select committee to drive down Secretary Clinton's poll numbers. Democrats didn't say that. The second in command in the House said that, a Republican. Republican Congressman Richard Hanna said the Select Committee was, quote, "designed -- designed to go after Secretary Clinton." And one of the chairman's own, hand-picked investigators, a self- proclaimed conservative Republican, charged that he was fired in part for not going along with these plans to, quote, "hyper-focus on Hillary Clinton," end of quote. These stark admissions reflect exactly what we have seen inside the Select Committee for the past year. Let's just look at the facts. Since January, Republicans have canceled every single hearing on our schedule for the entire year except for this one, Secretary Clinton. They also canceled numerous interviews that they had planned with the Defense Department and the CIA officials. Instead of doing that, they said they were going -- what they were going to do, Republicans zeroed in on Secretary Clinton, her speech writers, her I.T. staffers and her campaign officials. This is what the Republicans did, not the Democrats. When Speaker Boehner established this Select Committee, he justified it by arguing that it would, quote, "cross jurisdictional lines." I assume he meant we would focus on more than just secretary of State. But, Madam Secretary, you are sitting there by yourself. The Secretary Of Defense is not on your left. The director of the CIA is not on your right. That's because Republicans abandoned their own plans to question those top officials. So, instead of being cross jurisdictional, Republicans just crossed them off the list. Last weekend, the chairman told the Republican colleagues to shut up and stop talking about the Select Committee. What I want to know is this. And this is a key question. Why tell the Republicans to shut up when they are telling the truth, but not when they are attacking Secretary Clinton with reckless accusations that are demonstrably false? Why not tell them to shut up then? Carly Fiorina has said that Secretary Clinton has blood on her hands. Mike Huckabee accused her of ignoring the warning calls from dying Americans in Benghazi. Senator Ryan Paul said Benghazi was a 3 a.m. phone call that she never picked up. And Senator Lindsey Graham tweeted, where the hell were you on the night of the Benghazi attack? Everyone on this panel knows these accusations are baseless, from our own investigation and all those before it. Yet Republican members of this Select Committee remain silent. On Monday, the Democrats issued a report showing that none of the 54 witnesses the committee interviewed substantiated these wild Republican claims. Secretary Clinton did not order the military to stand down, and she neither approved nor denied requests for additional security. I ask our report be included in the official report for the hearing. Mr. Chairman. GOWDY: Without objection. 10:24:15 CUMMINGS: What is so telling is that we issued virtually the same report a year ago. Same report. When we first joined the Select Committee, I asked my staff to put together a complete report and database setting forth the questions that have been asked about the attacks and all of the answers that were provided in the eight previous investigations. I asked that this report also be included in the record, Mr. Chairman. GOWDY: Without objection. 10:24:52 CUMMINGS: The problem is that rather than accepting these facts, Republicans continue to spin new conspiracy theories that are just as outlandish and inaccurate. For example, the chairman recently tried to argue that Sidney Blumenthal was Secretary Clinton's adviser on Libya. And this past Sunday, Representative Pompeo claimed on national television that Secretary Clinton relied on Sidney Blumenthal for most of her intelligence on Libya. Earlier this week, the Washington Post fact checker awarded this claim four Pinocchios, its worst rating. Here is the bottom line. The Select Committee has spent 17 months and $4.7 million of taxpayer money. We have held four hearings and conducted 54 interviews and depositions. Yes, we have received some new emails from Secretary Clinton, Ambassador Stevens and others. And yes, we have conducted some new interviews. But these documents and interviews do not show any nefarious activity. In fact, it's just the opposite. The new information we obtained confirms and corroborates the core facts we already knew from eight previous investigations. They provide more detail, but they do not change the basic conclusions. It is time -- it is time, and it is time now, for the Republicans to end this taxpayer-funded fishing expedition. We need to come together and shift from politics to policy. That's what the American people want, shifting from politics to policy. We need to finally make good on our promises to the families. And the families only asked us to do three things. One, do not make this a political football. Two, find the facts. Three, do everything in your power to make sure that this does not happen again. And so we need to start focusing on what we here in Congress can do to improve the safety and security of our diplomatic corps in the future. And with that, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. GOWDY: The chair thanks the gentleman from Maryland. Madam Secretary, you are recognized for your opening statement. 10:27:28 CLINTON: Thank you Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Cummings, members of this committee. The terrorist attacks at our diplomatic compound and later, at the CIA post in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11, 2012, took the lives of four brave Americans, Ambassador Chris Stevens, Sean Smith, Glen Doherty And Tyrone Woods. I'm here to honor the service of those four men. The courage of the Diplomatic Security Agency and the CIA officers who risked their lives that night. And the work their colleagues do every single day all over the world. I knew and admired Chris Stevens. He was one of our nation's most accomplished diplomats. Chris' mother liked to say he had "sand in his shoes," because he was always moving, always working, especially in the Middle East that he came to know so well. When the revolution broke out in Libya, we named Chris as our envoy to the opposition. There was no easy way to get him into Benghazi to begin gathering information and meeting those Libyans who were rising up against the murderous dictator Gadhafi. But he found a way to get himself there on a Greek cargo ship, just like a 19th- century American envoy. But his work was very much 21st-century, hard-nosed diplomacy. 10:29:21 CLINTON: It is a testament to the relationships that he built in Libya that on the day following the awareness of his death, tens of thousands of Libyans poured into the streets in Benghazi. They held signs reading, "Thugs don't represent Benghazi or Islam," "Sorry, people of America, this is not the behavior of our Islam or our prophet," "Chris Stevens, a friend to all Libyans." Although I didn't have the privilege of meeting Sean Smith personally, he was a valued member of our State Department family. An Air Force veteran, he was an information management officer who had served in Pretoria, Baghdad, Montreal and the Hague. Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty worked for the CIA. They were killed by mortar fire at the CIA's outpost in Benghazi, a short distance from the diplomatic compound. They were both former Navy SEALs and trained paramedics with distinguished records of service including in Iraq and Afghanistan. 10:31:05 As secretary of State, I had the honor to lead and the responsibility to support nearly 70,000 diplomats and development experts across the globe. Losing any one of them, as we did in Iraq, Afghanistan, Mexico, Haiti and Libya, during my tenure was deeply painful for our entire State Department and USAID family and for me personally. I was the one who asked Chris to go to Libya as our envoy. I was the one who recommended him to be our ambassador to the president. After the attacks, I stood next to President Obama as Marines carried his casket and those of the other three Americans off the plane at Andrews Air Force Base. I took responsibility, and as part of that, before I left office, I launched reforms to better protect our people in the field and help reduce the chance of another tragedy happening in the future. What happened in Benghazi has been scrutinized by a non-partisan hard-hitting Accountability Review Board, seven prior congressional investigations, multiple news organizations and, of course, our law enforcement and intelligence agencies. So today, I would like to share three observations about how we can learn from this tragedy and move forward as a nation. 10:37:56 First, America must lead in a dangerous world, and our diplomats must continue representing us in dangerous places. The State Department sends people to more than 270 posts in 170 countries around the world. Chris Stevens understood that diplomats must operate in many places where our soldiers do not, where there are no other boots on the ground and safety is far from guaranteed. In fact, he volunteered for just those assignments. He also understood we will never prevent every act of terrorism or achieve perfect security and that we inevitably must accept a level of risk to protect our country and advance our interests and values. And make no mistake, the risks are real. Terrorists have killed more than 65 American diplomatic personnel since the 1970s and more than 100 contractors and locally employed staff. Since 2001, there have been more than 100 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities around the world. But if you ask our most experienced ambassadors, they'll tell you they can't do their jobs for us from bunkers. It would compound the tragedy of Benghazi if Chris Stevens' death and the death of the other three Americans ended up undermining the work to which he and they devoted their lives. We have learned the hard way when America is absent, especially from unstable places, there are consequences. Extremism take root, aggressors seek to fill the vacuum and security everywhere is threatened, including here at home. That's why Chris was in Benghazi. It's why he had served previously in Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jerusalem during the second intifada. Nobody knew the dangers of Libya better. A weak government, extremist groups, rampant instability. But Chris chose to go to Benghazi because he understood America had to be represented there at that pivotal time. He knew that eastern Libya was where the revolution had begun and that unrest there could derail the country's fragile transition to democracy. And if extremists gained a foothold, they would have the chance to destabilize the entire region, including Egypt and Tunisia. He also knew how urgent it was to ensure that the weapons Gadhafi had left strewn across the country, including shoulder-fired missiles that could knock an airplane out of the sky, did not fall into the wrong hands. The nearest Israeli airport is just a day's drive from the Libyan border. Above all, Chris understood that most people in Libya or anywhere reject the extremists' argument that violence can ever be a path to dignity or justice. That's what those thousands of Libyans were saying after they learned of his death. And he understood there was no substitute for going beyond the embassy walls and doing the hard work of building relationships. 10:37:15 Retreat from the world is not an option. America cannot shrink from our responsibility to lead. That doesn't mean we should ever return to the go-it-alone foreign policy of the past, a foreign policy that puts boots on the ground as a first choice rather than a last resort. Quite the opposite. We need creative, confident leadership that harnesses all of America's strengths and values, leadership that integrates and balances the tools of diplomacy, development and defense. And at the heart of that effort must be dedicated professionals like Chris Stevens and his colleagues who put their lives on the line for a country, our country, because they believed, as I do, that America is the greatest force for peace and progress the world has ever known. My second observation is this. We have a responsibility to provide our diplomats with the resources and support they need to do their jobs as safely and effectively as possible. After previous deadly attacks, leaders from both parties and both branches of government came together to determine what went wrong and how to fix it for the future. That's what happened during the Reagan administration, when Hezbollah attacked our embassy and killed 63 people, including 17 Americans, and then in a later attack attacked our Marine barracks and killed so many more. Those two attacks in Beirut resulted in the deaths of 258 Americans. It's what happened during the Clinton administration, when Al Qaida bombed our embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people, wounding more than 2,000 people and killing 12 Americans. And it's what happened during the Bush administration after 9/11. Part of America's strength is we learn, we adapt and we get stronger. 10:39:53 CLINTON: After the Benghazi attacks, I asked Ambassador Thomas Pickering, one of our most distinguished and longest serving diplomats, along with Admiral Mike Mullen , the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff -- appointed by President George W. Bush -- to lead an accountability review board. This is an institution that the Congress set up after the terrible attacks in Beirut. There have been 18 previous accountability review boards. Only two have ever made any of their findings public -- the one following the attacks on our embassies in East Africa, and the one following the attack on Benghazi. The accountability review board did not pull a single punch. They sound systemic problems and management deficiencies in two State Department bureaus. And the review board recommended 29 specific improvements. I pledged that by the time I left office, every one would be on the way to implementation and they were. More Marines were slated for deployment to high-threat embassies. Additional diplomatic security agents were being hired and trained. And Secretary Kerry has continued this work. But there is more to do and no administration can do it alone. Congress has to be our partner, as it has been after previous tragedies. For example, the accountability review board and subsequent investigations have recommended improved training for our officers before they deploy to the field. But efforts to establish a modern joint training center are being held up by Congress. The men and women who serve our country deserve better. 10:41:56 Finally, there is one more observation I'd like to share. I traveled to 112 countries as secretary of state. Every time I did, I felt great pride and honor representing the country that I love. We need leadership at home to match our leadership abroad, leadership that puts national security ahead of politics and ideology. Our nation has a long history of bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy and national security. Not that we always agree, far from it, but we do come together when it counts. As secretary of state, I worked with the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to pass a landmark nuclear arms control treaty with Russia. I worked with the Republican leader, Senator Mitch McConnell, to open up Burma, now Myanmar, to democratic change. I know it's possible to find common ground because I have done it. We should debate on the basis of fact, not fear. We should resist denigrating the patriotism or loyalty of those with whom we disagree. So I'm here. Despite all the previous investigations and all the talk about partisan agendas, I'm here to honor those we lost and to do what I can to aid those who serve us still. My challenge to you, members of this committee, is the same challenge I put to myself. Let's be worthy of the trust the American people have bestowed upon us. They expect us to lead, to learn the right lessons, to rise above partisanship and to reach for statesmanship. That's what I tried to do every day as secretary of state and it's what I hope we will all strive for here today and into the future. Thank you. 10:44:02 GOWDY: Thank you, Madam Secretary. I did not cut off your opening at all, nor would I think about doing so because the subject matter is critically important and you deserve to be heard. I would just simply note that, and I don't plan on cutting off any of your answers -- our members have questions that we believe are worthy of being answered, so I would just simply note that we do plan to ask all of the questions, and whatever precision and concision that you can give to the answers, without giving short shrift to any of the answers, would be much appreciated. And with that, I would recognize the gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Roskam. 10:44:44 ROSKAM: Good morning, Secretary Clinton. Jake Sullivan, your chief foreign policy adviser, wrote a tick - tock on Libya memo on August 21, 2011. And this was the day before the rebels took Tripoli. He titles it, quote, "Secretary Clinton's Leadership on Libya," in which he describes you as, quote, "a critical voice" and, quote, "the public face of the U.S. effort in Libya and instrumental in tightening the noose around Gadhafi and his regime." But that didn't come easy, did it? Because you faced considerable opposition, and I can pause while you're reading your notes from your staff. 10:45:22 CLINTON: One thing at a time, Congressman. ROSKAM: OK. That didn't come easy, did it, that leadership role and that public face and so forth that I just mentioned? 10:45:37 CLINTON: (OFF-MIKE) this is an issue that the committee has raised. And it really boils down to why were we in Libya; why did the United States join with our NATO and European allies, join with our Arab partners to protect the people of Libya against the murderous planning of Gadhafi. Why did we take a role alongside our partners in doing so. There were a number of reasons for that. And I think it is important to remind the American people where we were at the time when the people of Libya, like people across the region, rose up demanding freedom and democracy, a chance to chart their own futures. And Gadhafi... ROSKAM: I take your point. 10:46:23 CLINTON: ... Gadhafi threatened them with genocide, with hunting them down like cockroaches. And we were then approached by, with great intensity, our closest allies in Europe, people who felt very strongly -- the French and the British, but others as well -- that they could not stand idly by and permit that to happen so close to their shores, with the unintended consequences that they worried about. And they asked for the United States to help. We did not immediately say yes. We did an enormous amount of due diligence in meeting with not only our European and Arab partners, but also with those were heading up what was called the Transitional National Council. And we had experienced diplomats who were digging deep into what was happening in Libya and what the possibilities were, before we agreed to provide very specific, limited help to the European and Arab efforts. We did not put one American soldier on the ground. We did not have one casualty. And in fact, I think by many measures, the cooperation between NATO and Arab forces was quite remarkable and something that we want to learn more lessons from. 10:47:42 ROSKAM: Secretary Clinton, you were meeting with opposition within the State Department from very senior career diplomats in fact. And they were saying that it was going to produce a net negative for U.S. military intervention. For example, in a March 9th, 2011 email discussing what has become known as the Libya options memo, Ambassador Stephen Mull, then the executive secretary of the State Department and one of the top career diplomats, said this, "In the case of our diplomatic history, when we've provided material or tactical military support to people seeking to drive their leaders from power, no matter how just their cause, it's tended to produce net negatives for our interests over the long term in those countries." Now, we'll come back to that in a minute. But you overruled those career diplomats. I mean, they report to you and you're the chief diplomat of the United States. Go ahead and read the note if you need to. (CLINTON LAUGHTER) 10:48:39 CLINTON: I have to -- I have to... ROSKAM: I'm not done with my question. I'm just giving you the courtesy of reading your notes. CLINTON: That's all right. ROSKAM: All right. 10:48:51 They were -- they were pushing back, but you overcame those objections. But then you had another big obstacle, didn't you, and that was -- that was the White House itself. There were senior voices within the White House that were opposed to military action -- Vice President Biden, Department of Defense, Secretary Gates, the National Security Council and so forth. But you persuaded President Obama to intervene militarily. Isn't that right? 10:49:21 CLINTON: Well, Congressman, I think it's important to point out there were many in the State Department who believed it was very much in America's interests and in furtherance of our values to protect the Libyan people, to join with our European allies and our Arab partners. The ambassador, who had had to be withdrawn from Libya because of direct attacks -- or direct threats to his physical safety, but who knew Libya very well, Ambassador Cretz, was a strong advocate for doing what we could to assist the Europeans and the Arabs. 10:49:52 CLINTON: I think it's fair to say there were concerns and there were varying opinions about what to do, how to do it, and the like. At the end of the day, this was the president's decision. And all of us fed in our views. I did not favor it until I had done, as I said, the due diligence speaking with not just people within our government and within the governments of all of the other nations who were urging us to assist them, but also meeting in-person with the gentleman who had assumed a lead role in the Transitional National Council. So it is of course fair to say this is a difficult decision. I wouldn't sit here and say otherwise. And there were varying points of view about it. But at the end of the day, in large measure, because of the strong appeals from our European allies, the Arab League passing resolution urging that the United States and NATO join with them, those were unprecedented requests. And we did decide in recommending to the president there was a way to do it. The president I think, very clearly had a limited instruction about how to proceed. And the first planes that flew were French planes. And I think what the United States provided was some of our unique capacity. But the bulk of the work militarily was done by Europeans and Arabs. 10:51:22 ROSKAM: Well I think you are underselling yourself. You got the State Department on board. You convinced the president, you overcame the objections of Vice President Biden and Secretary of Defense Gates, the National Security Council. And you had another obstacle then, and that was the United Nations. And you were able to persuade the Russians, of all things, to abstain, and had you not been successful in arguing that abstention, the Security Council Resolution 1973 wouldn't have passed because the Russians had a veto. So you overcame that obstacle as well, right? Isn't that right? 10:51:57 CLINTON: Well congressman, it is right that doing my due diligence and reviewing the various options and the potential consequences of pursuing each of them, I was in favor of the United States joining with our European allies and our air partners and I also was in favor of obtaining U.N. Security Council support because I thought that would provide greater legitimacy. And that of course, our ambassador to the U.N. was very influential and successful in making the case to her colleagues. But this was at the behest of the president once he was presented with the varying argument. ROSKAM: And you presented the argument... 10:52:37 CLINTON: Congressman, I have been in a number of situation room discussions. I remember very well, the very intense conversation over whether or not to launch the Navy SEALS against the compound we thought in (inaudible) that might house bin Laden. There was a split in the advisers around the president. Eventually the president makes the decision. I supported doing what we could to support our European and Arab partners in their effort on a humanitarian basis, a strategic basis, to prevent Gadhafi from launching and carrying massacres. ROSKAM: There was another obstacle that you overcame and that was the Arabs themselves. Jake Sullivan sent you an email, and he said this, "I think you should call. It will be a painful 10 minutes. But you will be the one who delivered Arab support." And that's a Jake Sullivan email of March 17th to you asking you to call the secretary general of the Arab League. So to put this in totality, you were able to overcome opposition within the State Department. You were able to persuade the president. You were able to persuade the United Nations and the international community. You made the call to the Arabs and brought them home. You saw it. You drove it. You articulated it. And you persuaded people. Did I get that wrong? 10:54:01 CLINTON: Well, congressman, I was the secretary of state. My job was to conduct the diplomacy. And the diplomacy consisted of a long series of meetings and phone calls both here in our country and abroad to take the measure of what people were saying and whether they meant it. We had heard sometimes before from countries saying, well, the United States should go do this. And when we would say, well, what would you do in support of us, there was not much coming forth. This time, if they wanted us to support them in what they saw as an action vital respective to their respective national security interests, I wanted to be sure they were going to bear the bulk of the load. And in fact, they did. What the United States did, as I said, was use our unique capacities. As I recall, if you want if you monetary terms, slightly over a billion dollars or less than we spend in Iraq in one day, is what the United States committed in support of our allies. We asked our allies to do a lot for us Congressman, they had asked is for us to help them. ROSKAM: My time is expiring. Let me reclaim my time. Let me reclaim my time because it's expiring. Actually, you summed it up best when you emailed your senior staff and you said of this interchange, you said, "It's good to remind ourselves and the rest of the world that this couldn't have happened without us." And you were right, Secretary Clinton. Our Libya policy be couldn't have happened without you because you were its chief architect. And I said we were going to go back to Ambassador Mulls' warning about using military for regime change, and he said, "Long-term things weren't going to turn out very well. And he was right. After your plan, things in Libya today are a disaster. I yield back. 10:55:45 CLINTON: Well, we'll have more time I'm sure to talk about this because that's not a view that I will ascribe to. GOWDY: Thank the gentleman from Illinois and I recognize the gentleman from Maryland. 10:55:54 CUMMINGS: Thank you very much Madam secretary, and again I want to thank you for being here. I want to start with the No. 1 question that Republicans claim has not been answered in eight previous investigations. Yesterday the chairman wrote an op-ed and he said, this is his top unanswered question about Benghazi. And it is, and I quote, "Why our people in Libya and Benghazi made so many requests for additional security personnel and equipment and why those requests were denied?" I'll give you a chance to answer in a minute. Secretary Clinton, as you know, this exact question has been asked many times and answered many times. Let's start with the accountability review board. Now you, a moment ago you talked about Admiral Mullen. But you also appointed another very distinguished gentlemen, Ambassador Pickering. And of course Admiral Mullen served under Republican administrations. And Ambassador Pickering, who I have a phenomenal amount of respect for, served 40 years, as you know, as part of our diplomatic core. He served under George H.W. Bush and also served as U.N. Ambassador under -- he also served under Reagan. Now, I'm just wondering -- let me go back to that question. Why our people in Libya and Benghazi made so many requests, and then, I want you to comment. There seems to be an implication that the ARB, Accountability Review Board, was not independent. And I think the chairman said they were hand-picked by you, of course, that's done by law. But I'm just -- would you comment on those two things, please? 10:58:03 CLINTON: Yes. I'd be happy to. Now, as I said in my opening statement, I take responsibility for what happened in Benghazi. I felt a responsibility for all 70,000 people working at the State Department in USAID . I take that very seriously. As I said with respect to security requests in Benghazi back when I testified in January 2013, those requests and issues related to security were rightly handled by the security professionals in the department. I did not see them. I did not approve them. I did not deny them. Ambassador Pickering and Admiral Mullen make this case very clearly in their testimony before your committee and in their public comments. These issues would not ordinarily come before the secretary of state. And they did not in this case. As secretary, I was committed to taking aggressive measures to ensure our personnel's and facilities were as safe as possible. And certainly when the nonpartisan critical report from the accountability review board came forward, I took it very seriously. And that's why I embraced all of their recommendations and created a new position within the Diplomatic Security Bureau specifically to evaluate high- risk posts. 10:59:43 CLINTON: I think it's important also to mention, Congressman, that the Diplomatic Security professionals who were reviewing these requests, along with those who are serving in war zones and hot spots around the world, have great expertise and experience in keeping people safe. If you go on CODELs, they are the ones who plan your trip to keep you safe. They certainly did that for me. But most importantly, that's what they do every day for everybody who serves our country as a diplomat or development professional. And I was not going to second-guess them. I was not going to substitute my judgment, which is not based on experience that they have in keeping people safe, for theirs. And the changes that were recommended by the accountability review board are ones that we thought made sense and began quickly to implement. 11:00:40 CUMMINGS: Now, the ARB., after conducting, Madam Secretary, more than 100 interviews, identifies a specific employee at the State Department who denied these requests. It was Deputy Assistant Secretary Of The Bureau Of Diplomatic Security Charlene Lamb. And again, she did come before the Oversight Committee. The ARB report was very critical of her. It was also critical of her two supervisors. Principal deputy assistant secretary and the assistant secretary for Diplomatic Security. The Oversight Committee found the same answer as the ARB. It found that this official denied these requests. It found no evidence that you approved or denied them. The problem is Republicans just keep asking the same question over and over again, and pretend they don't know the answer. In 2013, the Republican chairman of five House committees issued a report falsely accusing you personally of denying these requests cable (ph) over your signature. The next day, the next day, the chairman of the Oversight Committee Darrell Issa, went on national television and accused you of the same thing. Can we play that clip, please? 11:02:11 (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. DARRELL ISSA, R-CALIF.: Secretary of State was just wrong. She said she did not participate in this. And yet only a few months before the attack, she outright denied security in her signature in April 2014. (END VIDEO CLIP) 11:02:37 CUMMINGS: Do you remember that, Madam Secretary? CLINTON: I do. 11:02:41 CUMMINGS: Well, when the Washington Post fact checker examined this claim, they gave it four Pinocchios. They called it a whopper. It turns out, that the Republicans had a copy of that cable, but didn't tell the American people that your so-called signature was just a stamp that appeared on millions of cables from the State Department every single year. Is that right? CLINTON: That's correct. 11:03:08 CUMMINGS: Now, Madam Secretary, my goal has always been to gather facts and to defend the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. Last year, I asked our staff to compile an asked and answered database. And this particular issue was answered thoroughly. On Monday, we put out another report and this issue was addressed yet again. But the Republicans want to keep this attack going, so they are now trying to argue that we have new emails that raise new questions. The truth is that we have reviewed these emails, and they don't contradict previous conclusions. They confirm them. They corroborate them. We have reviewed emails from Ambassador Stevens. And they show that he asked Charleston Lamb for more security. Nothing we have obtained, not the new interviews or the new emails changes the basic fact we have known for three years. Secretary Clinton, let me ask one final question, and please take as much time as you want to answer this. There is no evidence to support the Republican claims that you personally rejected security requests. So, some have a argued that since you knew the danger was increasing in Libya, you should have been in there making detailed decisions about whether this would be 5, 7, or even 9 security officers at any given post. Madam Secretary, I know you have answered it over again. You might just want to elaborate and just I'll give you -- I have a minute and seven seconds. 11:04:49 CLINTON: Well, thank you, Congressman. I think there has been some confusion, and I welcome the opportunity to try to clarify it to the best of my ability. With respect, as you rightly point out, the claims that were made about the cables, I think you have explained the fact, which is that it is the long-standing tradition of the State Department for cables from around the world to be sent to and sent from the State Department under the signature, over the signature of the secretary of State. It's a -- it's a stamp. It's just part of the tradition. There are millions of them, as you point out. They are sorted through and directed to the appropriate personnel. Very few of them ever come to my attention. None of them with respect to security regarding Benghazi did. Then the other point, which I thank you for raising so that perhaps I can speak to this one as well. There is, of course, information that we were obtaining about the increasingly dangerous environment in Libya. Across the country, but in particular in Eastern Libya. And we were aware of that. And we were certainly taking that into account. There was no actionable intelligence on September 11th, or even before that date, about any kind of planned attack on our compound in Benghazi. And there were a lot of debates, apparently, that went on within the security professionals about what to provide. Because they did have to prioritize. The Accountability Review Board pointed that out. The State Department has historically, and certainly before this terrible accident, not had the amount of money we thought necessary to do what was required to protect everyone. So, of course, there had to be priorities. And that was something that the security professionals dealt with. I think that both Admiral Mullen And Ambassador Pickering made it very clear that they thought that the high threat post should move to a higher level of scrutiny. And we had immediately moved to do that. CUMMINGS: Thank you. GOWDY: Thank the gentleman. The chair will now recognize the gentlelady from Indiana, Ms. Brooks. 11:07:19 BROOKS: Good morning, Secretary Clinton. CLINTON: Good morning. BROOKS: Thank you for being here today. In drawing on what you just said, that very few, but no requests for Benghazi came to your attention, I'd like to show you something. This pile represents the emails that you sent or received about Libya in 2011, from February through December of 2011. This pile represents the emails you sent or received from early 2012 until the day of the attack. There are 795 emails in this pile. We've counted them. There's 67 emails in this pile in 2012. And I'm troubled by what I see here. And so, my questions relate to these piles. In this pile in 2011 I see daily updates, sometimes is hourly updates from your staff about Benghazi and Chris Stevens. When I look at this pile in 2012, I only see a handful of emails to you from your senior staff about Benghazi. And I have several questions for you about this disparity, because we know from talking to your senior advisers, that they knew, and many of them are here today seated behind you, they knew to send you important information, issues that were of importance to you. And I can only conclude by your own records that there was a lack of interest in Libya in 2012. So, let's first focus, though, on this pile and what was happening in Libya in 2011. We had an ambassador to Libya, Ambassador Cretz. But you have told us -- and you told us in your opening, you hand-picked Chris Stevens to be your special representative in Benghazi, and you sent him there. And by your own emails, most provided last February, a few provided just a few weeks ago, they show that in March of '11 -- so, we're in March of '11, you had Chris Stevens join you in Paris, where you were meeting with the leader of the Libyan revolution. And after Paris, that is when, as you talked about Chris Stevens went into Benghazi I believe in April 5th of 2011 on that Greek cargo ship. How long was he expected to stay? What were Chris Stevens's orders from you about Libya and about Benghazi specifically? 11:09:59 CLINTON: Chris Stevens was asked to go to Benghazi to do reconnaissance, to try to figure out who were the leaders of the insurgency who were based in Benghazi, what their goals were, what they understood would happen if they were successful. It was, as I had, the hard-nosed 21st century diplomacy that is rooted in the old- fashioned necessary work of building relationships and gathering information. BROOKS: How long was he anticipated to stay in Benghazi, do you recall? 11:10:35 CLINTON: There -- it was open-ended. We were, in discussing it with him, unsure as to how productive it would be, whether it would be appropriate for him to stay for a long time or a short time. That was very much going to depend upon Chris' own assessment. We knew we were sending someone who understood the area, who understood the language, who understood a lot of the personalities because of the historical study that he used to love to do. And we were going to be guided by what he decided. 11:11:12 BROOKS: I'd like to draw your attention to an email. It's an email found at Tab 1. It's an Op Center email that was forwarded to you from Huma Abedin on Sunday, March 27th that says at the bottom of the email -- so the current game plan is for Mr. Stevens to move no later than Wednesday from Malta to Benghazi. But the bottom of the e- mail says the goal of this one-day trip is for him to lay the groundwork for a stay of up to 30 days. So just to refresh that recollection, I believe initially the goal was to go in for 30 days. Were you personally briefed on his security plan prior to him going into Libya? CLINTON: Yes. 11:11:56 BROOKS: Because at that time, if I'm not mistaken -- I'm sorry to interrupt -- Gadhafi's forces were still battling the rebels, correct? CLINTON: That's right. BROOK: And so what were -- were you personally briefed before you sent Mr. Stevens into Benghazi? 11:12:12 CLINTON: I was personally told by the officials who were in the State Department who were immediately above Chris, who were making the plans for him to go in, that it was going to be expeditionary diplomacy. It was going to require him to make a lot of judgments on the ground about what he could accomplish and including where it would be safe for him to be and how long for him to stay. And I think the initial decision was, you know, up to 30 days and reassess. But it could have been 10 days, it could have been 60 days depending upon what he found and what he reported back to us. BROOKS: And possibly what was determined about the danger of Benghazi. Who were those officials? CLINTON: Well, there were a number of officials who were... BROOKS: That were advising you on the security specifically? 11:13:04 CLINTON: Well, with respect to the security, this was a particular concern of the assistant secretary for the bureau in which Chris worked. BROOKS: I'm sorry. What was that person's name? CLINTON: Assistant secretary Jeff Feldman. BROOKS: Thank you. 11:13:19 CLINTON: And it was also a concern of the assistant secretary for diplomatic security, as well as other officials within the State Department. And I think it's fair to say, Congresswoman, this was, we all knew, a risky undertaking and it was something that was, as I said in my opening statement, more reminiscent of the way diplomacy was practiced back in the 19th century. Because we didn't have is the Internet. We didn't have instantaneous communication. You would send diplomats and envoys into places and not hear from them for maybe months. This was obviously not of that kind, but it was not that different in degree from what we had done before. And it was a risky undertaking and one which Chris volunteered for and was anxious to undertake. 11:14:06 BROOKS: And it was so risky -- I'd like to pull up another e- mail from the Op Center that forwarded to you from Ms. Abedin Sunday, April 10th. So he had been there about five days. And it indicates that the situation in Ajdabiya had worsened to the point where Stevens is considering departing from Benghazi. This is within five days of him going in. Were you aware of that concern in the first five days that he had gone in? CLINTON: Yes. BROOKS: And did anyone share that with you and -- did share that with you? 11:14:32 CLINTON: Yes. We were aware because we were -- we were really counting on Chris to guide us and give us the information from the ground. We had no other sources. You know, there was no American outpost. There was no, you know, American military presence. Eventually, other Americans representing different agencies were able to get into Benghazi and begin to do the same work, but they, of course, couldn't do that work overtly, which is why we wanted a diplomat who could be publicly meeting with people to try to get the best assessment. But it was always going to be a constant risk, and we knew that. BROOKS: And so let me go back to the risk in 2011 because there was a lot of communication, again, once again from your senior staff, from the State Department to you or from you in 2011. And in fact, that is when Gadhafi fell. He fell in 2011. But then when we go to 2012, Libya, Benghazi, Chris Stevens, the staff there, they seem to fall off your radar in 2012, and the situation is getting much worse in 2012. It was getting much worse. And let me just share for you in your records that we have reviewed, there is not one email to you or from you in 2012 when an explosive device went off at our compound in April. There's not a single email in your records about that explosive device. So my question is, this was a very important mission in 2011, you sent Chris Stevens there. But yet when your compound is attacked in 2012, what kind of culture was created in the State Department that your folks couldn't tell you in an email about a bomb in April of 2012? 11:16:25 CLINTON: Well, Congresswoman, I did not conduct most of the business that I did on behalf of our country on email. I conducted it in meetings. I read massive amounts of memos, a great deal of classified information. I made a lot of secure phone calls. I was in and out of the White House all the time. There were a lot of things that happened that I was aware of and that I was reacting to. If you were to be in my office in the State Department, I didn't have a computer, I did not do the vast is majority of the work on my email. And I bet there are a lot of Sid Blumenthal's emails in there from 2011 too. BROOKS: Well, we'll get to... 11:17:07 CLINTON: And so I think that there were -- I don't want you to have a mistaken impression about what I did and how I did it. Most of my work was not done on emails with my closest aides, with officials in the State Department, officials in the rest of the government, as well as the White House and people around the world. BROOKS: And thank you for sharing that because I'm sure that it's not all done on emails, Madam Secretary, and there are meetings and there are discussions. And so then when your compound took a second attack on June 6th, when a bomb blew a wall through the compound then, no emails, no emails at all. But I am interested in knowing who were you meeting with, who were you huddling with, how were you informed about those things? Because there is nothing in the emails that talks about two significant attacks on our compounds in 2012. There was a lot of information in 2011 about issues and security posture and yet nothing in 2012. 11:18:02 CLINTON: Well, I'd be happy to explain. Every morning when I arrived at the State Department, usually between 8:00 and 8:30, I had a personal one-on-one briefing from the representative of the Central Intelligence Agency who shared with me the highest level of classified information that I was to be aware of on a daily basis. I then had a meeting with the top officials of the State Department every day that I was in town. That's where a lot of information, including threats and attacks on our facilities, was shared. I also had a weekly meeting every Monday with all of the officials, the assistant secretaries and others, so that I could be brought up to date on any issue they were concerned about. During the day, I received hundreds of pages of memos, many of them classified, some of them so top secret they were brought into my office in a locked briefcase that I had to read and immediately return to the courier. And I was constantly at the White House in the situation room meeting with the national security adviser and others. I would also be meeting with officials in the State Department, foreign officials and others. So there was a lot going on during every day. I did not email during the day and -- except on rare occasions when I was able to. But I didn't conduct the business that I did primarily on email. That is not how I gathered information, assessed information, asked the hard questions of the people that I worked with. 11:19:35 BROOKS: It appears that leaving Benghazi -- with respect to all of that danger, leaving Benghazi was not an option in 2012. And I yield back. 11:19:43 CLINTON: If I could just quickly respond, there was never a recommendation from any intelligence official in our government, from any official in the State Department, or from any other person with knowledge of our presence in Benghazi to shut down Benghazi, even after the two attacks that the compound suffered. And perhaps, you know, you would wonder why, but I can tell you that it was thought that the mission in Benghazi, in conjunction with the CIA mission, was vital to our national interests. GOWDY: The gentlelady from Indiana yields back. The chair will now briefly recognize Mr. Cummings and then Ms. Duckworth. 11:20:24 CUMMINGS: Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. I just want to clarify, when I was asking Secretary Clinton a question a moment ago, I mentioned an email that had gone from Ambassador Chris Stevens to Deputy Secretary Lamb. What I meant to say was a cable. And I just wanted to make sure the record was clear. GOWDY: The record will reflect that. Ms. Duckworth? 11:20:46 DUCKWORTH: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Secretary Clinton, I'm pleased that you finally have the opportunity to be here. Before I start my line of questioning, I just want to clarify with regard to the April-June, 2012 incidents. I believe that the procedure that the State Department had for these types of incidents was to actually hold what are called emergency action committee hearings on the ground immediately. And in fact, there were at least five on the records for June alone, on the ground in both Tripoli and Benghazi. And that is the correct procedure for handling such instances. Is that not correct? CLINTON: That's correct. 11:21:27 DUCKWORTH: Thank you. Secretary Clinton, my focus and my job on this committee is to make sure that we never put brave Americans like Ambassador Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty ever on the ground again anywhere in the world without the protection that they so rightly deserve. Having flown combat missions myself in some dangerous places, I understand the dedication of our men and women who choose to serve this country overseas. I have a special affinity for the diplomatic corps because these are folks who go in without the benefit of weapons, without the benefit of military might, armed only with America's values and diplomatic words and a handshake, to forward our nation's interests globally. And so I am absolutely determined to make sure that we safeguard in the name of our heroic dead our men and women in the diplomatic corps wherever where they around the world. So, the bottom line for me, I'm a very mission-driven person, the bottom line for me with respect to examining what went wrong in Benghazi is clear. Let's learn from those mistakes and let's figure out what we need to do to fix them. I've only been in Congress not quite three years, almost three years. And in this time, I've actually served on two other committees in addition to this one that has looked at the Benghazi attacks, both Armed Services and Oversight and Government Reform. So I've had a chance to really look at all of these documents. One of the things that I saw, and I'd like you to -- discuss this with you, is that the Department of State and the Department of Defense at the time seems to have not had the most ideal cooperation when it came to threat or security analysis. I do know, however, that over the past decade, they've established a tradition of working together on the ground in dangerous regions that has increased over time. However, as a member of the Armed Services Committee, which also looked at the Benghazi attack, I'm concerned that the interagency cooperation between State and DOD was not sufficient in the weeks and months leading up to the September 11, 2012 attacks. For example, joint contingency planning and training exercises, if we had conducted any joint interagency planning and training exercises, this may have actually helped State and DOD to identify and fix existing vulnerabilities in the temporary mission facility in Benghazi. Moreover, regular communications between AFRICOM, which is the DOD command, and the special mission Benghazi, could have facilitated the pre-positioning of military assets in a region where there were very real questions over the host country's ability to protect our diplomatic personnel. Secretary Clinton, within the weeks of the terrorist attack in Benghazi happening, following that, I understand you partnered with the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to establish and deploy five interagency security assessment teams to assess our security posture and needs at at least the 19 high-threat posts in 13 different countries. In fact, Deputy Secretary Nize (ph) testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in December of 2012 that the State Department and DOD ISAT initiative created a road map for addressing emerging security challenges. Why did you partner with the Department of Defense to conduct such a high-priority review? And was it effective in addressing the shortfalls inn Benghazi and applying it for other locations? 11:25:00 CLINTON: Congressman -- Congresswoman, thank you very much, and thanks for your service, and particularly your knowledge about these issues rising from your own military service and the service on the committees here in the House. It's very challenging to get military assets into countries that don't want them there. And in fact, that has been a constant issue that we have worked, between the State Department and the Department of Defense. The Libyans made it very clear from the very beginning they did not want any American military or any foreign military at all in their country. And what I concluded is that we needed to have these assessments because even if we couldn't post our own military in the country, we needed to have a faster reaction. I certainly agree 100 percent with the findings of the Armed Services Committee here in the House and other investigations. Our military did everything they could. They turned over every rock. They tried to deploy as best they could to try to get to Benghazi. It was beyond the geographic range. They didn't have assets nearby because we don't have a lot of installations and military personnel that are in that immediate region. So following what happened in Benghazi, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dempsey and I, agreed to send out mixed teams of our diplomatic security and their top security experts from the Defense Department to get a better idea of the 19 high-threat posts. And that's exactly what we did. And it gave us some guidance to try to have better planning ahead of time. I know Admiral Mullen testified that it would be beyond the scope of our military to be able to provide immediate reaction to 270 posts. But that's why we tried to narrow down. And of course, we do get help from our military in war zones. The military has been incredibly supportive of our embassy in Kabul and our embassy in Baghdad. But we have a lot of hot spots now and very dangerous places that are not in military conflict areas where we have American military presence. So we wanted to figure out how we could get more quickly a fast reaction team to try to help prevent what happened in Benghazi. 11:27:40 DUCKWORTH: Thank you. So this ISAT process that the joint teams at DOD and State that goes out, and initially looked at the 19 posts, that's great that they come back with a report. It's kind of like, you know, the seven reports do this, and now we have another committee. We can keep having committees to look into Benghazi, but we never act on them. It doesn't help our men and women on the ground. And that's what I'm focused on. 11:28:03 DUCKWORTH: So what I want to know is, with these ISATs, so they came back with their recommendations to you. Have they been resourced? Are they institutionalized? Is -- what has been done with this process so that it's not a snapshot in time in reaction to Benghazi attack? And I want to make sure that, you know, at the very least, we're continuing that cooperation, or at least there's some sort of institutionalization of the review process to make sure that if it's not those 19 posts, if the shift now is there's 20 posts or some other posts. What has been done to make sure it's institutionalized? 11:28:37 CLINTON: Well, that was one of the changes that I instituted before I left. And I'm confident that Secretary Kerry and his counterpart, Secretary Carter, at the Defense Department are continuing that. Because I think it was very useful. Certainly, it was useful for our security professionals and our diplomats to be partnered in that way with the Defense Department. You know, historically, the only presence at some of our facilities has been Marines. And as you know well, Marines were there not for the purpose of personnel protection. They were there to destroy classified material and equipment. And so part of the challenge that we have faced inn some of these hot-spot, dangerous areas is how we get more of a presence. And after Benghazi, we were able to get Marines deployed to Tripoli. So this is a constant effort between the State Department and the Defense Department, but it's my strong belief that the ISAT process has been and should be institutionalized and we should keep learning from it. 11:29:46 DUCKWORTH: I'd like to touch on the quadrennial reviews. Again, coming from Armed Services, even as a young platoon leader out in, you know, in a platoon, we got and read the defense quadrennial review, which is a review that happens on a periodic basis, that gives the individual soldier an idea of what the Defense Department is trying to do. And I understand you initiated something similar in the State Department. CLINTON: Right. 11:30:16 DUCKWORTH: And this goes to -- there's been discussion already about the culture at the State Department, especially when it comes to security. I found that the Department of Defense Quadrennial Defense Review is really good at instilling culture throughout the department. Can you talk a little bit how and why you decided to do the review for the State Department? Was it useful? Is it useful? Is it getting out there? Is it a waste of time, and we shouldn't be wasting money on it and we should be doing something else? 11:30:44 CLINTON: Well, I hope it's not the latter. I learned about the Quadrennial Defense Review serving on Armed Services Committee in the Senate during my time there. I agree with you completely, Congresswoman. It is a very successful road map as to where we should be going. And I'm impressed as a platoon leader, it was something you too into account. So, when I came to the State Department, there had never been anything like this done, there was no road map. And the State Department, USAID would come up and fight for the money they could get out of Congress, no matter who was in charge of the Congress, every single year. It is one percent of the entire budget. And it was very difficult to explain effectively what it is we were trying to achieve. So it did institute the first ever Quadrennial Diplomacy and Diplomacy And Development Review. And one of the key questions that we were addressing is, what is this balance between risk and reward when it comes to our diplomats and our development professionals? Because the first thing I heard when I got to the State Department was a litany of complaints from a lot of our most experienced diplomats that they were being ham-strung. That the security requirements were so intense, that they were basically unable to do their jobs. And of course, then, from the security professionals, who were all part of this, what we call the QDDR, they were saying, we don't want you to go beyond the fence. We can't protect you in all of these dangerous circumstances. How you balance that -- and it is a constant balancing of risk and reward, in terms of what we hope our diplomats and development professionals can do. So, it has been twice now. Secretary Kerry, in his tenure, has done the second QDDR. And I hope it becomes as important and as much of a road map as the QDR has for our Defense Department and our military services. DUCKWORTH: Thank you. I'm out of time, Mr. Chairman. GOWDY: Thank you the gentle lady from Illinois. The chair will now recognize the gentlelady from Alabama, Ms. Roby. 11:32:49 ROBY: Good morning. CLINTON: Good morning. 11:32:51 ROBY: Secretary Clinton, some I colleagues have focused on your relationship with the Ambassador Chris Stevens, and why you sent him into Benghazi in 2011 as part of your broader Libya initiative. But it's not so clear from everything that we've reviewed that you had a vision in Benghazi going forward into 2012 and beyond. It appears that there was confusion and uncertainly within your own department about Libya. And quite frankly, Secretary Clinton, it appears that you were a large cause of that uncertainty. And we have seen all the day-to-day updates and concern early in 2011. And I heard what you said to my colleague, Ms. Brooks. And I'll get to that in a minute. But showing that Libya, and for that matter Benghazi, belonged to you in 2011. It was yours, so to speak. And from your own records that we have, we saw a drop in your interest in Libya and Benghazi in 2012. Not only do the records show your drop in interest in Benghazi, it was even noticed by your own staff. I want to point this out to you -- I say this, because I want to point you to an e-mail in early February 2012, between two staffers at your Libya desk that says, you didn't know whether we still even had a presence in Benghazi. Let's not use my words. Let's use theirs. This can be found at tab 31. The e-mail says -- and it is dated February 9, 2012. One writes to the other about an encounter that she had with you. Quote, "Also, the secretary also asked last week if we still have a presence in Benghazi. I think she would be upset to hear, yes, we do. But because we don't have enough security, they are on lockdown," end quote. And I say this is very troubling to me because it raises several issues that I would like to ask you about. I'm struck by the first part, quote, "The secretary asked last week if we still have a presence in Benghazi." Now, you pointed out to Mrs. Brooks in her last line of questioning, based on the e-mail stacks here, that you engaged in a lot of conversations and briefings. So, I'm assuming that this conversation with this member of your staff took place in one of those briefings. But then she sent this e-mail asking about this. So, how can this be that two of your staffers are e-mailing about whether or not you even knew if we had a presence in Benghazi in 2012, with all your interest in Libya in 2011, including your trip in October of 2011? And that months later, we come to find out you didn't even know we had a presence there? 11:35:53 CLINTON: Well, I can't comment on what has been reported. Of course, I knew we had a presence in Benghazi. I knew that we were evaluating what that presence should be, how long it should continue. And I knew exactly what we were doing in Libya. And I think it's important. Since you have very legitimate questions about what we were doing. You know, the United States played a role in the first election that the Libyan people had in 51 years. It was a successful election by every count. And they voted for moderates. They voted for the kind of people they wanted to govern them. We had a very successful effort that the United States supported, getting rid of Gadhafi's remaining chemical weapons, which we led and supported the United Nations and others in being able to do. We were combating the proliferation of weapons. That's one of the reasons why there was a CIA presence in Benghazi, because we were trying to figure out how to get those weapons out of the wrong hands, and get them collected in a way and destroyed. And in fact, we began reducing those heavy weapon stocks. We were working on providing transition assistance to the Libyans. I met with the Libyans. I telephoned with the Libyans. I saw the Libyans all during this period. And it was hard. Because a lot of them knew what they wanted, but they didn't know how to get from where they were to that goal. And we did an enormous amount of work. My two deputies, Tom Nides and Bill Burns, went to Libya. Other officials in the State Department went to Libya. So there was a constant, continuing effort that I led to try to see what we could do to help. Now, one of the problems we faced is that the Libyans did not really feel that welcome a peace-keeping mission. They couldn't welcome foreign troops to their soil. That made it really difficult. And it didn't have to be American troops, it could have been troops from anywhere in the world under a U.N. Mandate that might have helped them begin to secure their country. 11:38:05 ROBY: Secretary Clinton, if I may, I hear what you're saying, but this e-mail says something very, very different. 11:38:11 CLINTON: Well, I -- you know, I can't speak to that. I can just tell you what I was doing, and I was doing a lot. ROBY: Sure. But these -- this was your staff. And I... (CROSSTALK) ROBY: If they had this conversation with you, why would they make it up? But I want to move on. This e-mail, you know, makes me wonder about the vision for Benghazi, because they're asking if you -- they're saying that you asked if we still had a presence. But if you -- you know, we look at the second part of the e-mail, quote, "And I think she would be upset to say, yes, we do," I... 11:38:46 CLINTON: Congresswoman, I'm sorry. I have no recollection of, or no knowledge of -- of course... ROBY: Well, please turn to tab 31, because it's right there. 11:38:51 CLINTON: Well, I trust that you have read it. But I also tell you that we had a presence in Benghazi. We had members of the administration and Congress visiting Benghazi. So, of course, I knew we had a presence in Benghazi. I can't speak to what someone either heard or misheard. But I think what's important, and I understand that the underlying point of your request question is, what were we doing about Libya? And after Gadhafi fell. ROBY: Right. And I've heard that first part. 11:39:17 CLINTON: And that's what I'm trying to explain to you about what we were doing. ROBY: Yes, ma'am. I want to get to the second part of the email that suggests that we were in lockdown, that you would have been upset to know yes -- heard the first part of your answer -- but that we were in lockdown. And you've said on numerous occasions, including in your opening statement, on point number one, you know, America must lead and we must represent in dangerous places, quote, "They can't do their jobs for us in bunkers." And essentially what we know is that there weren't the required number of security on the ground in order for the individual to even move about the country to provide you with what you have reiterated on numerous occasions as being very important at that time, which is political reporting. 11:40:03 CLINTON: Well, could -- could you tell me who is -- who are the names on this email that you're talking about? ROBY: Sure. I can. Turn to tab 31. You have a book in front of you. It is Alice Abdallah and I'm going to pronounce it wrong, Enya Sodarais (ph)? Is that correct? 11:40:24 CLINTON: They were not on my staff. I'm not in any way contradicting what they think they heard or what they heard somebody say. But the people that I know... ROBY: Can you tell me who they were if they were not on your staff? 11:40:35 CLINTON: They were not on my -- they were in the State Department, along with thousands of other people. They were not part of the secretary staff. But I get what you're saying, Congresswoman. And I want to focus on this. I think it's a fair and important question. The facility in Benghazi was a temporary facility. There had been no decision made as to whether or not it would be permanent. It was not even a consulate. Our embassy was in Tripoli. Obviously much of the work that we were doing was going through the embassy. There was a very vigorous discussion on the part of people who were responsible for making a recommendation about Benghazi as to what form of consulate, what form of facility it should be. Chris Stevens believed that it should be a formal consulate. But that was something that had to be worked out. And there had not yet been a decision at the time that the attack took place. So it was not a permanent facility. And, you know, there were a number of questions that people were asking about whether it could or should be. ROBY: I want to drill down on the security issue. But I also want to say it's frustrating for us here on this panel asking these questions to hear you in your opening statement talk about the responsibility you took for all 70 plus thousand employees, yet I read you an e-mail between two of those employees and it seems as though you're just kind of brushing it off as not having any knowledge. 11:42:06 CLINTON: I'm just saying I have no recollection of it and it doesn't correspond with the facts of what we were doing on a regular basis. ROBY: Well if we talk for just a minute about the security, I have a few seconds left. In 2011, during the revolution, then envoy Stevens had 10 agents with him on the ground in Benghazi. And then we know in 2012 where the security situation had deteriorated even further, there were only three agents assigned to Benghazi. Again, can't even move anybody off of the facility to do the necessary political reporting. And my question is, you know, why did you not acknowledge, because of your interest in 2011, the importance of having those security officers there to do what was so important to you, which was the political reporting? Then in 2011, 2010, and when an am bass doctor was there, three, and he brought two of his own the night of the attack, which would meet the requisite five, but there was really only three there at any given time. So if you could address that, again, I'm running a little short on time. 11:43:17 CLINTON: Well, he did have five with him on September 11th and... ROBY: Well, he brought two, right? He brought two with him, there were three there, and there were... 11:43:27 CLINTON: Right. But the point was they were personal security. So they were there to secure him. So yes, he did bring two. When he got there, he had five. ROBY: Can you address the discrepancy? 11:43:38 CLINTON: The day before September 10th he went in to Benghazi. He went to a luncheon with leading civic leaders, business leaders in Benghazi. So he felt very comfortable. It was his decision. Ambassadors do not have to seek permission from the State Department to travel around the country that they are assigned to. He decided to go to Benghazi by taking two security officers with him and having three there, he had the requisite five that had been the subject of discussion between the embassy and the State Department security professionals. I'm not going to in any way suggest that he or the embassy got everything they requested. We know that they didn't from the Accountability Review Board, from investigations that were done by the Congress. We know that there were a lot of discussions about what was needed, particularly in Benghazi. And that the day that he died he had five security officers. A lot of security professionals who have reviewed this matter, even those who are critical, that the State Department did not do enough, have said that the kind of attack that took place would have been very difficult to repel. That's what we have to learn from, Congresswoman. There are many lessons going back to Beirut, going back to Tehran and the take over of our embassy and going all the way through these years. And sometimes we learn lessons and we actually act and we do the best we can. And there's a perfect, terrible example of that with respect to what happened in Benghazi. ROBY: Certainly. And my time has expired. We will certainly never know what the outcome would have been if there had been more agents that night. I yield back. 11:45:37 CLINTON: Well, that's not what the professionals, that's not what the experts in security have concluded, if you have read the Accountability Review Board... ROBY: I have read it Secretary Clinton. And it says that security was grossly in adequate. 11:45:48 CLINTON: Well, it said that there were deficiencies within two bureaus in the State Department which we have moved to correct and it also pointed out that the diplomatic security officers that were there acted heroically. There was not one single question about what they did. And they were overrun. And it was unfortunate that the agreement we had with the CIA annex and when those brave men showed up that it was also not enough. ROBY: Certainly. We'll discuss this more. I have to yield back. GOWDY: The gentle lady's time has expired. The chair will now recognizes the gentleman from Washington. 11:46:31 SMITH: Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you Madam Secretary for being here. Just to clarify, you knew we had a presence. 11:46:37 CLINTON: Of course I knew, I knew, Congressman, of course. SMITH: Going back to your earlier question, you were also aware of those two attacks on your compounds even though you didn't e-mail about it. CLINTON: Yes, I was aware. 11:46:47 SMITH: And that I think sort of points out, I mean, after 17 months and $4.7 million, as the ranking member pointed out in his opening statements, and as we've seen today, you know, this committee is simply not doing its job. And I don't really think it should have been formed in the first place. But what we have heard here is well, first of all, an obsession with email. The idea that two fairly junior level staffers might not have gotten something wrong in what they heard or the information in an e-mail might, in fact, not be accurate, are certainly not things that should be news to anybody. But it is the obsession with the e- mails that takes us off what should have been the task of this committee. I also find it interesting that Mr. Obi's (ph) final comments were to quote the ARB report. Yes, the ARB report I think was very good. I think we absolutely had to have it. I think it was appropriate for the committees and Congress to do the investigations they did. But all of that begs the question as to why we've spent the $4.7 million we have spent on this. And even in the chairman's opening remarks, it was primarily a defense of the committee's existence. Not any new information. Not here's what we, in those 17 months and $4.7 million have figured out that is new and different. Nothing. In fact, we have heard nothing. Even in today's hearing. Not a single solitary thing that hasn't already been discussed repeatedly. So we have learned absolutely nothing. Yes, we have uncovered a trove of new information. In this age, I don't think there's ever an end to e-mails. We could probably go on for another two years and we'd find more. The question is what we found anything substantively that tells us something different about what happened in Benghazi? And the answer to that question is no. Look, I didn't think this committee should have been formed in the first place. But if it was going to be formed, the least we could do is to actually focus on the four brave Americans who were killed, why they were killed, and focus on Benghazi. And we have not. Mr. Roskam's questions I found to be the most interesting. Basically -- I don't know, it was like he was running for president. He wanted to debate you on overall Libya policy as to why we got in the first place. And that's debatable. And I think you will argue that quite well. But that's not about the attack on Benghazi. That's not about what we could have done in Benghazi to better protect them. So again, I think we have seen hat this committee is focused on you. And I'm the ranking member of the Armed Services committee. I don't see the Department of Defense here. I don't see the CIA here. There were many, many other agencies involved in this. And yet yours has been the one they have obsessively focused on. And I think that's a shame for a whole lot of reasons. 11:49:46 SMITH: For one thing, this committee, as it has been in the news the last several weeks, has been yet one more step in denigrating this institution. And I happen to think this institution needs more support, not less. So I wish we would stop doing that. And I -- you know, you mentioned Beirut, and that was the first though that occurred to me when this happened, was a Democratic Congress at the time did a fair and quick investigation of what was an unspeakable tragedy -- two separate suicide bombings four months apart. And there was clearly inadequate security. But the focus there was not on partisanship, not on embarrassing the Reagan administration, but in actually figuring out what happened and how we can better protect Americans. Now, I wonder if I could just ask questions about what I think is the central issue, and that is how do we have that presence in the world that you described in what is an increasingly dangerous world? Because as I've traveled to Pakistan and Afghanistan, Yemen and other places, I'm consistently amazed by the willingness of our diplomatic corps to put their lives at risk. And I wonder how do you balance that very difficult decision. Because frankly, what I've heard more often from that diplomatic corps is that they chafe at the restrictions. I mean, I remember vividly being in Peshawar, which is, you know -- I mean, I didn't like the ride from the airport to the embassy, which was 10 minutes, and we were there for, I don't know, a few hours and then out. You know, the State Department personnel, they live there and went out amongst the community. How do you try and strike that balance of, you know, being present and at the same time meeting the security obligations? And then most importantly, who drives that decision? Because it seems to me in most instances it is driven by the diplomatic corps there. If they take risks, it's because they've decided to do it. They're there. They know the security situation certainly better than the secretary and better than most everybody else. What is the proper way to strike that balance going forward to protect our personnel and still fulfill their mission? 11:51:53 CLINTON: Congressman, I think that is the most important question, and I would certainly welcome Congressional discussion and debate about this because it's what we tried to do -- going back to Congresswoman Duckworth's question, what we tried to begin to do in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, the first one that was ever done, because that's exactly what we were facing. You know, we have had diplomats and development professionals in war zones now for a number of years. We've had them in places that are incredibly unstable and dangerous because of ongoing conflicts. It is, I think, the bias of the diplomacy corps that they be there because that's what they signed up for. And they know that if America is not represented, then we leave a vacuum and we lose our eyes and our ears about what people are thinking and doing. It is certainly the hardest part of the job in many of our agencies and departments today. And it was for me in the State Department. That's why I relied on the security professionals because by the time I got there in 2009, the diplomatic security professionals had been taking care of American diplomats in Iraq, in Afghanistan, in Pakistan for years. And they had learned a lot of the lessons and they were forced to make tough decisions all the time. You mentioned Peshawar, one of clearly the high threat posts that the United States maintains a presence in. But when you think that since 2001 we've had 100 of our facilities attacked, if we were to shut them all down, if we were to pull out from all of them, we would be blinding ourselves. So it's a constant balancing act. What are the risks and what are the rewards for opening, maintaining and/or closing a site. I don't know that there's any hard and fast rule that we can adopt. We just have to get better at making that assessment, Congressman, and your question really goes to the heart of it. When you were as a member of Congress in Peshawar, you were guarded by our diplomatic security professionals. They had to assess was it safe enough for a member of Congress to come, how do we get him from the airport to the embassy. It won't surprise you to hear we've had attacks there as so many other places around the world. And that is a heavy responsibility, and the diplomatic security professionals get it right 999 times out of a thousand. And it's deeply distressing to them when anything goes wrong. We have lost non-Americans with some of these attacks on facilities. We've lost our locally-employed staff. They never want to see any successful attack, so they have to be -- they have to be right 100 percent of the time, CLINTON 11:55:00 the terrorists only have to be right once. And, you know, that's why this is really at the core of what I tried to do before even I got the Accountability Review Board, going back to the QDDR, to come up with a better way of trying to make those assessments. SMITH: Madam Secretary, if I may, just two final points. I mean, so the bottom line is Benghazi on 9/11/2012 was not the only dangerous place in the world where our security personnel were and where these difficult decisions had to be made. CLINTON: Right. SMITH: And the other point I want to make before my time expires, now this was in 2012, so we were only a couple of years into this, but Secretary of Defense Ash Carter just I think yesterday wrote an editorial in the Wall Street journal about the impact of five years of budget uncertainty on the DOD's ability to function. I mean, for five years, we have gone through C.R.s, threatened government shutdowns, one actual government shutdown, and constant budget uncertainty. Now, my area is the Department of Defense. I know how it's impacted them. They basically from one week to the next barely know what they can spend money on. Now, one of the criticisms is that there should have been more security, but if you don't have a budget, if you don't have an appropriations bill, how does that complicate your job as secretary in trying to figure out what money you can spend? 11:56:22 CLINTON: Well, it makes it very difficult, Congressman. And this is a subject that we talked about all the time, how do you plan. How do you know -- you know, you have so many diplomatic security officers in so many dangerous places, how do you know what you're going to have to be able to deploy and where are you going to have to make the choices. That's why the prioritization, which shouldn't have to be, in my view, the responsibility of the officials in the State Department or the Defense Department to try to guess what makes the most sense. We should have a much more orderly process for our budget. And I will say again, as secretary of State, the kind of dysfunction and failure to make decisions that we have been living with in our government hurts us. It hurts us in the obvious ways, like where you're going to deploy forces if you're in DOD or where we're going to send security if you're in the Department of State. But it hurts us as the great country that we are, being viewed from an abroad as unable to handle our own business. And so it has a lot of consequences. And it's something that I wish that we could get over and have our arguments about policy, have our arguments about substance, but get back to regular order, where we have the greatest nation in the world with a budget that then they can plan against as opposed to the uncertainty that has stalked us now for so long. SMITH: Thank you, Madam Secretary. So the bottom line is Congress needs to do its job. CLINTON: Right. I agree with that. 11:57:59 GOWDY: The gentlemen yields back. And I'll be happy to get a copy of my opening statement for the gentleman from Washington so he can refresh his recollection on all the things our committee found that your previous committee missed. And with that I'll go to the gentleman from Georgia, Mr. Westmoreland. 11:58:13 WESTMORELAND: Thank you. Madam Secretary, I talk a little slower than everybody else, so... CLINTON: I lived in Arkansas a long time. I don't need an interpreter, Congressman. WESTMORELAND: So some of the questions I'm asking you can just get a yes-or-no answer, that would be great. But I do want you to give us a full answer. But Mr. Smith from Washington mentioned there was no new facts brought out in some of these interviews, and I want to just say that I think he was at one interview for one hour. I have been at a bunch of those and there has been a lot of new facts that's come out. One of the things he said, it doesn't -- that you knew about these two incidents that have been mentioned previously. It's not a matter if you knew about them, it's a matter of what you did about them. And to us, the answer to that is nothing. Now, you say you were briefed by the CIA every morning that you were in Washington; is that correct? CLINTON: That's correct. WESTMORELAND: Did they ever mention to you Assistant Acting Director Morrell wrote in his book that there were scores of intelligence pieces describing in detail how the situation in Libya was becoming more and more dangerous. Did you ever read any of these pieces? 11:59:38 CLINTON: Yes. As I've previously stated, we were certainly aware that the situation across Libya was becoming more dangerous, and that there were particular concerns about eastern Libya. WESTMORELAND: Did you read the piece that was Libya, Al Qaida establishing sanctuary? CLINTON: I'm aware that was certainly among the information provided to me. WESTMORELAND: There was another particular piece that was talked about after the IED attack that AFRICOM wrote. Al Qaida expands in Libya. Were you familiar with that? 12:00:19 CLINTON: I can't speak to specific pieces, Congressman, but I was well aware of the concerns we all had about the setting up of jihadist training camps and other activities in Libya, particularly in eastern Libya. WESTMORELAND: You -- you were briefed, in I think the CIA, between January and September of 2012, at over 4500 pages of intelligence. Were you aware of how many pages of intelligence? And I know you had a specific division, I guess, of the State Department under you that was called Intelligence and Research. CLINTON: Mm-hmm. WESTMORELAND: Did they keep you up to speed on all these 400 cables or different things that they were getting? Did they keep you up to speed on that, that you were aware of them? 12:01:10 CLINTON: Congressman, I can't speak to specific reports. But I can certainly agree with you that I was briefed and aware of the increasingly dangerous upsurge in militant activity in Libya. WESTMORELAND: And so what did you do to make sure that our men and women over there were protected, knowing how much the threat had grown, especially in Benghazi, because a lot of people say that really, in the summer of 2012, the security in Benghazi was worse than it was during the revolution. 12:01:54 CLINTON: Well, Congressman, with respect to not only the specific incidents that you referenced earlier, but the overall concerns about Benghazi, I think I stated previously, there was never any recommendation by anyone, the intelligence community, the Defense Department, the State Department officials responsible for Libya, to leave Benghazi. Even after the two incidents that you mentioned. Because, in part, as I responded to Congressman Smith, we had so many attacks on facilities that, as I said, went back to 2001, that certainly also happened in other parts of the world while I was there. Each was evaluated, and there was not a recommendation. Furthermore, there was not even, on the morning of September 11, while Chris Stevens and Sean Smith were at the compound, Chris had spoken with intelligence experts. There was no credible, actionable threat known to our intelligence community... WESTMORELAND: Yes, ma'am. CLINTON: ... against our compound. WESTMORELAND: Reclaiming my time, you said that the -- Ambassador Chris was pulled out of Tripoli because of threats on his life. 12:03:16 CLINTON: There were threats from people associated with Gadhafi after the publication...

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