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knowing for sure what's next. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com on november 26, 2008 the world watched in horror i grew up in mumbai, and she
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luckily she was out of town for the entire 60-hour ordeal. my sister lives across the street from the other hotel taken over, the trident. fired at the gunman from there. my nieces kept some of the shells as souvenirs. the mumbai attacks should worry us all. a handful of lightly armed men with little training were able to throw one of the world's great cities into total chaos, a small group with little connection to al qaeda expanded its ambitions seeking greater international attention through greater acts of cruelty. what you're about to watch is unique. all terrorist attacks so far have been reconstructed or recounted from the point of view of the survivors, witnesses and first responders. this time you are with the terrorists. you will hear the voices of the young men on the ground in mumbai. you will hear their masters in
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pakistan. and you will also see the victims, men, women and children and hear from those who survived. it is the first 360-degree view of terrorism. november 26, 2008, an organization determined to surpass al qaeda as the world's most feared terrorist group sent ten gunmen to mumbai, india's biggest city. their mission was to kill and keep on killing. to stage a spectacle so terrifying that the world could no longer ignore lashkar-e-taiba, the army of the righteous. indian intelligence intercepted the terrorists' cell phone conversations with their commanders in pakistan. >> they were very calm, not shouting, not excited.
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they were doing their job as a matter of fact. >> one gunman was captured alive. for the army of the righteous, it was a test run for future operations, not just in india, but perhaps elsewhere. their method of attack could easily be adapted to any american city. no hijacked airliners or sophisticated weaponry, just ten young men with mobile phones and
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assault rifles programmed to kill and die on command. this is the inside story of the attack on mumbai told by its victims and by the terrorists themselves in hours of intercepted phone calls. at dusk, ten gunmen arrive
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off mumbai on a hijacked fishing trawler. the crew is killed, the captain left alive to navigate. later that night indian intelligence would monitor calls between the terrorists in mumbai and a group of older men who were remote controlling the operation from across the border in pakistan, india's long-time enemy. under cover of darkness they landed in a fisherman's slum next to one of the wealthiest parts of mumbai. splitting up into teams of two they said their last good-byes and hailed taxis to take them to
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their targets which were all close by. the first pair of gunmen made for one of mumbai's best-known bars. they left behind a bomb in their taxi, set to explode in an hour's time. >> they came from a taxi and they were talking on the phone for a long time. >> a grenade ripped through the bar.
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the gunmen emptied their automatic weapons then reloaded to finish off the people who couldn't run away.
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11 people died at the leopold cafe and 28 people were wounded. at the same time another pair of gunmen were approaching mumbai's railway station, chatrapati shivaji terminus better known as victoria terminus or vt. again, one of them left a bomb in the taxi. he was ajmal asmir kasab, who later that night would be captured and interrogated.
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at the station kasab and his accomplices mingle with those they had come to kill. they were ordinary people from every part of india, traveling to a wedding, a village, a temple. workers laden with holiday gifts, muslim families heading home for the festival of eid. at seven minutes to 10:00, kasab and his men opened their backpacks and took out assault rifles. from the start, the police
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were confused and disorganized.
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from the start, the police were confused and disorganized. they did nothing to stop the killing. for 15 minutes they stood watching the massacre then most of them ran away and hid. one who didn't was sudam pandarko. the second in command at the station, police inspector shashank shindai, rallied his men. >> the policemen were outgunned. pankdarko carried an ancient rifle with bullets and another a pistol. another officer was unarmed.
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>> as kasab and ishmael headed
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for the exit, a policeman grabbed a rifle from a terrified comrade. it jammed. when kasab returned fire, in desperation, the policeman hurled a plastic chair. now the gunman fired through the station windows shooting down a plainclothes policeman. the wednesday night traffic passed by, the drivers oblivious to the horror inside. an hour and a half had passed since kasab and ishmael had come ashore with their eight accomplices. now they walked out of the station and melted into the darkness. with the terrorists gone, the railway police rush out of hiding, weapons at the ready. kasab and ishmael had killed 52 people at the station and wounded more than 100.
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they don't know. is it a terrorist planned by some big organization? we don't know. is it planned by the underworld? we don't know. >> the police had no plan or training for such an attack. mumbai's most famous detective, the joint commissioner found himself unexpectedly in charge of the control room. he didn't know who the gunmen were or where they would attack next. >> we received calls from our mobiles that it appears that they are moving towards the police headquarters. so, you know, in addition to
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looking at the control room one also had to fortify this complex. >> now the bombs kasab and his colleagues had planted in their taxis exploded killing the drivers and their passengers. >> there was a taxi blast at two places. there were also numerous -- there is an attack on the four seasons. so we felt that the whole city was under a siege and under attack. >> amidst the chaos the anti-terrorist police began scanning cell phone frequencies in the hope of intercepting any calls the gunmen might be making. with hundreds of thousands of voices on the airwaves, their chances were almost zero. but earlier that year undercover agents had fed a batch of 35 sim cards to the pakistani terrorist group lashkar-e-taiba. intelligence officers discovered
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three of the sim cards had been activated that night. suddenly they were listening in on conversations between the terrorists and their masters. >> the gunmen were calling an internet number bought from a company in new jersey using money transfers from pakistan. once indian intelligence locked on to the controllers' internet number, they could listen to all the gunmen's calls. little use was made of them but
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the authorities would intercept a total of 284 calls. most involved a single controller identified only as brother wasi. his grip on the young gunmen would not loosen until they were dead. ♪ nothing artificial. just real roasted turkey. salt. pepper. carved thick. that's the right way to make a good turkey sandwich. the right way to eat it? is however you eat it. panera. food as it should be.
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as scores of people were being gunned down at the railway station, another pair of clean-cut pakistani boys in their early 20s blasted through the entrance of one of mumbai's top five-star hotels, the trident oberoi. the lead gunman was fahadulla, who wore black. farr. fahadulla and his accomplice killed nine staff and three guests in the lobby.
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then they headed for the hotel restaurants. at tiffen, a popular eatery, fahaddula murdered 13 diners. rashe kiani was shot five times and left for dead beside her family and friends. >> the whole place was very silent. i couldn't see my friends. whenever i tried to look, i also saw shihad. she was in the same position from the time she got shot and so was my cousin and his wife. i tried to nudge my cousin's leg because i was close enough to do that. i think i succeeded, but he didn't move. >> bewildered by the ferocity of
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the attack, the police made no organized attempt to storm the hotel. rishma kiani would lie bleeding on the floor of the tiffen restaurant for the next 16 hours before she was finally rescued. hearing the gunfire, hotel guests bolted their doors. fear drove some of them on the window ledges. the terrorists detonated a bomb in the tea lounge and rounded up survivors from the hotel restaurants. a group of 15 were marched to the top of the service staircase. among them was a turkish businessman and his wife. >> the one in black fahadulla told the woman to go up the stairs so we were pressed there like in a crowded bus. and all of a sudden he raises his gun, and at that moment my wife screamed out, stop, stop,
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he's from turkey. he's from istanbul. he's muslim or something like that, and he made that gesture, fahadulla. i threw myself face down and he started to shoot and all the bodies were falling on me. and i was buried under the bodies from my waist down. >> fahadulla left five people alive, saifi, his wife and three other women. the other ten had been gunned down on the narrow landing. >> you can hear them, some of them were not dead yet. you can hear the sounds of their last -- i don't know. and we had to, you know, step over those people. >> i said, look, i step on the back of this man then on the neck of that man and i will hold your hand. i ushered four women over the
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bodies, and i told them not to slip on the blood. it was blood and such slippery. i have never known that blood can be so slippery. >> at the same time as the attack on the trident oberoi, two backpackers had strolled into the taj, the most exclusive hotel in the city. each carried an assault rifle, a pistol, hand grenades, hundreds of bullets and enough dried fruits and nuts to last a couple of days. they began killing anyone in their sights. they were soon joined by the two terrorists who had just killed
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11 civilians at the leopold cafe a block away. the newcomers narrowly avoided bullets meant for a hotel guest. the two pairs joined forces in the lobby by the swimming pool. there were now four gunmen inside the taj.
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they headed to the upper floors to switch on their phones and receive fresh instructions from brother wasi. >> the gunmen, youngsters from villages in pakistan, seemed mesmerized by the opulence of their surroundings.
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>> once they set some rooms on fire, the four terrorists began searching for more guests to kill. amid and tersha were about to hold that wedding reception at the hotel. >> we seen a couple of dead bodies and we heard a couple of people outside of our room talking in a strange language. >> the next thing we heard was them dragging a lady out from the room next door. and she was shouting. she was shouting a lot. and then the next thing we heard, like, she was pushed into the room and she was shot. >> they didn't just shoot her a couple of times. they constantly kept shooting at her. >> she was crying in pain as if she was asking for some kind of help. but there was nothing that could
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be done. >> finally the taj hotel, mumbai's most iconic landmark, was ablaze. brother wasi and his fellow controllers was watching live on international tv channels. it was an image brother wasi knew would travel around the world.
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earlier that night a handful
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of police officers had crept into the taj, guided by hotel security staff they headed for the cctv monitoring room. they were led by deputy commissioner. >> we have seen four terrorists on the sixth floor. and they are wearing this dress and that dress. we went to the control room. >> for several hours the cops in the taj watched the terrorists on cctv. they were able to relay to headquarters exactly where the terrorists were and what they were doing. as the fire took hold the
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policemen were driven from the hotel. the naval commandos still hadn't come. poor communication and leadership meant the mumbai police missed vital chances to stop the terrorists during the crucial first hour when most of the killing happened. the mumbai police chief failed to take charge of the situation. instead he left his lead investigator to run the control room, a man more used to dealing with the aftermath of a terrorist attack. >> we are used to a blast occurring. we go to the spot, clear the area, sanitize the area, collect
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evidence and begin our investigation. >> by attacking multiple targets the terrorists had hoped to plunge the police into chaos. they succeeded completely. >> we were prepared for a terror strike but maybe at one location. four or five locations simultaneously then going into hotels and taking hotels, all these things contributed to, you know, making the situation very, very difficult one. >> barely a stone's throw from police headquarters, kasab and ishmail, the two gunmen who had slaughtered passengers at the railway station were looking for somewhere to regroup. they drifted down a back street, towards a row of shacks. >> leaving him to die on the floor of his shack, the gunmen jumped over a gate into the women's hospital next door.
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alerted by the gunfire at the nearby railway station, 450 patients, relatives and staff had locked themselves in the wards. a civil servant had also heard the gunfire and thought the hospital would be a safe place to hide. >> on the stairs he bumped into ishmail, kasab's accomplice. >> now the gunmen roamed the corridors, testing doors, looking for hostages.
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in one of the locked silent wards, a woman was about to give birth.
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>> her daughter would be born safely an hour after the terrorists had left. meanwhile, the head of mumbai's anti-terrorist squad had arrived near the hospital. over the next 40 minutes he and two other senior police commander would make repeated calls for armed backup. it never came. finally he and his colleagues drove down a back street to cut off the terrorists' likely escape route from the hospital. the three commanders rode in the front of a jeep, four policemen squeezed in the back. but the gunmen had already left the hospital and were looking for a car to hijack. harroun was one of the cops in the back of the jeep. >> the gunman pulled the terribly wounded police
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commanders from the front of the jeep and took over their vehicle. >> the gunman pulled the terribly wounded police commanders from the front of the jeep and took over their vehicle. the bodies in the back jammed the rear door shut.
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[ gunfire ] >> back outside the hospital, the wounded police commanders lay dying, undiscovered just 200 yards from police headquarters. >> we could hear the firing at the hospital. it's very close. it's just behind this complex. >> orders had been given to send
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armed backup to the commanders at the hospital, but the police were in meltdown and orders did not lead to action. the three dead commanders were well-known names in mumbai. >> when the information came to the control room that the three commanders are dead, that moment then everything stands still. a few, you know, one or two seconds, i think they will haunt me for the rest of my life. they were some of the best officers, i would say, in the country. these are the people who are leaders. the challenge before the leadership at that time was motivating the men to continue the fight, to continue facing the terrorists.
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it wasn't until later that night when the sole surviving gunman was captured that the police would find out who their enemy was. an organization founded 15 years before with support from pakistani intelligence to help
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reclaim the disputed territory of kashmir from india. a group that was now trying to transform itself into a standard-bearer of global jihad. >> lashkar-e-taiba, the army of the righteous. successive pakistani governments had turned a blind eye to its training camps, its thousands of fighters, its new global ambitions. >> it wasn't the first time
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>> it wasn't the first time lashkar-e-taiba had attacked mumbai. they had exploded bombs before, killing hundreds but attracting little international attention. this time it would be different. now lashkar-e-taiba was showing its supporters in pakistan and the middle east that it could stage a spectacle the whole world would watch. er >> less than a mile from the burning taj, at the oberoi
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hotel, there were hostages still being held together with three other hostages. >> i was trying to take care of the young lady, the singapore lady because she was very scared. >> a 28-year-old lawyer was in mumbai for a one-day seminar. >> i put her in my daughter's shoes and i thought if she would have been on a business trip alone and what would have happened? >> they took us out of the room, made us all lean on the wall and they were talking on the phone and they said, go away from the wall. >> all of a sudden they just shot those women, three women. >> and that young singapore girl, she was crying so loud that she knew that they were being shot. it was terrible.
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i still hear her screams. >> and i was, let's pray for those people, and we started to pray. >> and we both raised our hands and read the same sura from the koran which is spoken for the dead, so they were shocked, the terrorists. >> i said to my husband, they are going to kill us also. now is our turn. >> they said to go into the room. she said, no, let them shoot us here. i said, no, we don't go. you kill here. we leaned on the same wall. and fahadulla said, no kill. you brothers. go in. >> and they left. we didn't believe it. you don't believe it. >> as the eight gunmen launched their attacks on the hotels and the railway station, the fifth pair had threaded their ways
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through the alleyways of south mumbai to a jewish study center, nariman house. brother wasi reminded the two gunmen that killing a jew was worth far more to them than killing a guest at the taj hotel. the center was run by rabbi gabrielle holtzberg and his pregnant wife rivkah. their 2-year-old son had been put to bed. the neighbors heard what happened when the rabbi and his wife confronted the gunmen. >> the two gunmen killed the rabbi, his wife and two houseguests. they took two women hostage. then they turned their attention
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to the crowd gathering outside. >> brother wasi turned to his superiors for direction. one of the regular civilians they shot was this woman's son. >> three miles away, kasab and his accomplice ismail, the pair who had massacred travelers at the railway station, drove into
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a police roadblock. ismail was shot dead at the wheel of their hijacked car. >> at 1:00 a.m., four hours after he had come ashore in
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mumbai, the police took kasab under armed guard to a nearby hospital where they began taping his interrogation. he said his father had in effect sold him to lashkar-e-taiba, the army of the righteous at their branch office in his village. blaf 4
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the whole idea is to shoot those as soon as possible and the strategy -- >> kasab's capture had been reported on tv. now his masters wanted him back. the gunmen inside nariman house forced one of the hostages to call the israeli consulate.
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then they made her speak to brother wasi in pakistan. >> i have already talked to them. i was talking to them just a few seconds ago and they are making their phone call. and they said to leave the line free. they are calling the prime minister and the army in india. from the embassy in dell high-level. >> brother wasi had promised norma he would release her and the other hostage in exchange for kasab. >> don't worry. just sit back and relax and just wait for them to come back, okay. >> yes, sir. >> and save your energy for good days. maybe you're gonna celebrate your sabbath with your family. >> brother wasi briefed the gunman on what to say to the indian government.
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he warned him not to let slip that the rabbi and his wife had already been murdered. >> as the terrorists waited for the indian government to call, the holtzbergs' 2-year-old son wandered among the bodies, including those of his mother and father. the little boy's nanny, who had hidden inside the house overnight later snatched him and escaped.
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after much delay, 400 commandos had arrived from delhi to take over the security operation. they began to engage the terrorists. on the 18th floor of the oberoi, the commandos cornered fahadulla and his fellow gunmen. by now they had murdered 35 people at the hotel. [ gunfire ]
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>> the next time brother wasi called, fahadulla was still hiding in the bathroom. [ gunfire ]
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[ gunfire ] [ sirens ] >> it was 10:00 p.m., 24 hours into the attack, and the call from the indian government to nariman house had still not come. again, brother wasi turned to his superiors.
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>> for an hour the gunman hesitated. finally brother wasi's patience ran out. [ gunfire ] >> friday dawned, 36 hours into
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the attack. brother wasi told the gunmen at nariman house it was time to die. >> nine hours after the jewish hostages were murdered, the commandos finally attacked. [ gunfire ]
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[ gunfire ] >> an hour later, the gunman spoke to brother wasi for the last time.
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brother wasi's work was done. for three days the terrorists he directed had dominated the world's headlines. the identity of brother wasi and the other controllers still has not been established. in his interrogation kasab, the sole surviving gunman, named the mastermind of the operation. zaki-ur rehman lakhvi, the head of the lashkar-e-taiba, has been arrested by the pakistani authority.
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his trial is being held in secret. kasab has confessed his part in the attack. if convicted, he may be hanged. >> we broke him psychologically. we realized we had told him if you commit jihad and you die for the cause, there is a scent emanating from your dead body, there is a glow on the face. so we asked him who told you this? he said the instructors told us this is what happened. they had seen people who died fighting for jihad. this is what happens. we did take him to the morgue and we showed him the nine dead
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bodies there. the shock on his face i think it dawned on him that whatever he had done he was taken for a ride by the instructors and there was no truth whatsoever in what they had told him. >> the joint commissioner, the mumbai chief of police, has been moved from his post and given responsibility for police housing. 170 people died in the attack on mumbai. many were muslims, including 12-year-old afroz.
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with more than 2,000 offices in towns and villages, lashkar-e-taiba, the army of the righteous, is deeply embedded in pakistani society.
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it remains close to its backers within the pakistani intelligence services. pakistan has an arsenal of nuclear warheads and is one of america's key allies. during the attack, a lashkar-e-taiba controller had briefed one of the mumbai gunmen on what to say when the media called.
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>> we have just been warned by the terrorists that the main film is yet to come. the horror we have seen is simply the trailer. how worried should we be? let me give you some background. the group responsible for these attacks, lashkar-e-taiba, was created to wage war in kashmir, the territory that has been under dispute between india and pakistan since 1947. lashkar was assisted from the start by the pakistani military. while that support has waned, there is little evidence that pakistan's generals are making any serious effort to shut down what has become a vast organization within their country. lashkar's stated goals go beyond kashmir to the imposition of islamic rule in all of south asia. its pamphlets are filled with attacks on hindus and jews. like al qaeda which began with limited goals and some state support, it could be morphing into something larger and much more sinister. but terrorism is waged by individuals. we saw these young peasant boys
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who had little education and no prospects in their country. they are the ones who enlist for the jihad. so we have political and ideological forces on one hand and the simple despair of young men on the other. the two have combined to create a deadly mix. the only way this movie will end well is if we tackle both sides of this problem. we need to get the military and foreign policy right. but we also need to help change the sense of hopelessness and the culture of hate that exists in these societies. we need to help these young men you just watched embrace life rather than death. type 2 diabetes doesn't care who you are.
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>> hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you're watching "cnn newsroom" live from los angeles. i'm isha sesay, the headlines this hour. u.s. president barack obama is resuring americans it's safe to travel this thanksgiving holiday. he said the latest intelligence hasn't turned up any specific or credible threat. and he says the u.s. government is working overtime to keep the country safe. doctors without borders causes u.s. forces grossly negligent after the u.s. military released its findings into last month's deadly hospital attack in afghanistan. the u.s. says the air strikes were meant to hit a suspected
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taliban site in kunduz. 30 people were killed. an independent investigation has been called for. we're seeing a second night after a release of graphic videos showing the death of a danger. a police officer was charged with first degree murder after shooting him 16 times during a confrontation. these protests come more than a year after that deadly shooting. rosa flores shows us the video captured that night. >> reporter: the final moments of a chicago teen's life down to 16 shots, fired by police officer jason van dyke. 16 shots in 15 seconds according to court records. it all unfolds on the night of october 20 on last year. it was all caught on the dash cam video released by chicago police. at 9:57.25, laquan mcdonald is walking in the middle of the
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street after allegedly slashing the tire of a car. he is holding a knife in his right hand. soon, eight police officers roll on scene. >> five seconds later, officer van dyke and his partner park their vehicle and immediately draw their weapons. >> as we pause the video, you can clearly see the two officers on the left side of the screen with guns drawn. according to the police union spokesperson at the time of the shooting, next donald lunged at the officers. '. >> going at one of the officers. at that point, the officer defends himself. >> reporter: but the cook county prosecutor said the video showed differently. >> he abused his authority. i don't believe the force was necessary. >> at 9:57.33, mcdonald is seen moving slightly away from the officers, but three seconds later -- >> officer van dyke has taken at
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least one step towards mcdonnell with his weapon drawn. >> reporter: as we pause again, you see mcdonald is about ten feet from the officers, still walking away when van dyke starts unloading his .9 millimeter pistol. mcdonald's arm jerks, his body spins and then falls to the ground. the camera angle changes, taking the police officer out of frame. two seconds after the first shot at 9:57.38, two puffs of smoke around mcdonald's body. >> these puffs of smoke were later identified as clouds of debris caused by the fired bullets. >> reporter: the 16th shot is fired at 9:57.51 according to court documents. only 21 seconds after van dyke arrived on scene and 15 seconds after the first shot was fired. >> van dyke's partner reported there was a brief pause in the shots when he looked at van dyke
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and saw that he was preparing to reload his weapon. >> reporter: the officer's attorney says he was acting in self-defense. as for jason van dyke, he's being held without bond pending a judge watching that chilling video. rosa flores, cnn, chicago. u.s. president barack obama is sharing his thoughts about this deadly shooting. here's what he posted on facebook. like many americans, i was deeply disturbed by the footage of the fatal shooting of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. this thanksgiving, i ask everybody to keep those who suffered tragic loss in our thoughts and prayers, and to be thankful for the overwhelming majority of men and women in uniform who protect our communities with honor. well, this case comes amid waves of violence that plagued the chicago south side for dpek kads. cently anderson cooper spoke to spike lee about his film set in the chicago deadly streets. a social activist was also part
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of the discussion. this interview happened just days after 9-year-old tyshaun lee was gunned down in an alley. police think killed because of his father's gang ties. >> what do you think it is about it here that makes it so bad? >> all i can say is that there's a growing hopelessness that i've over the last number of years, and it's at a level i've never seen before. and a sense that nothing is changing, nothing is getting better. >> how many years have you bchb here? >> 40 years iive eve been living in this building. i've seen the ups and the downs over the years. >> when i asked a young sixth grade girl what do you want to be when you grow up? she said alive. >> you've heard people said that to you? >> oh, yeah. i had a third grader after this 9-year-old boy got killed say
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walking over to the gym. i heard about the young boy that got murdered, got killed, am i safe? >> you refer to this as a self-inflicted general size. -- genocide. >> here's the thing. i'm all for black lives matter, i can't breathe, don't shoot. i'm shot speaking on the behalf of african-americans. this is my own belief. we can't be out there going yeah, yeah, but when brothers kill themselves, mum is the word. no one is saying nothing. it's got to be both ends. >> it's not enough to focus on black lives matter movement. >> you can focus on it but you can't ignore that we're killing ourselves, too.
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and that's what this film addresses. we can't ig gore that. >> how do you address that? >> we have to fight the killing of our children, whether it is a racist cop, whether it is a george zimmerman vigilante or whether it is black on black crime. murder is wrong, killing is wrong. no matter whose hand it is and the race of the hand it is. and so we just try to fight that from that standpoint, that whenever -- so we fight against racial profiling and police brutality, but also when a child is killed in this city and the police say we have no leads, we put up rewards, like we did with tyshaun lee. >> but a lot of times, people do not come forward. >> absolutely. they don't. and that's a problem. >> i back the fear element, but some place we have to understand
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conscious has to trump fear. it used to be that a snitch was somebody who committed a crime and then pointed the finger at somebody else in order to get a lesser sentence. it's not gotten to the ideas that anybody who talked to police, anyone who witnessed a crime and talks to police about what they saw gets that label. and that label is a -- that's a bad word in communities thought america. nobody wants to be labelled a snitch. >> you put yourself in danger. you're labelled by certain groups in the community. and we can't deny from this, the broken bridge between law enforcement and the community. it's bad. >> if they do say something and say i'll do this anonymously and their name is out there on the street that they said this, now there's just a lack of trust for
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the police. we can't walk away from it. that's real. we have to understand, that bridge is broken. >> great conversation there. we're going to take a quick break coming up. pope francis is getting set to celebrate his first maz since arriving in africa. these are live pictures from nairo nairobi, kenya. a live report after the break. people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on.
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>> welcome back, everyone. pope francis is about 30 minutes away from celebrating mass in kenya at the university of nairobi. let's bring you live picture nous so you can take in the sights and the sounds. a live look at the campus right now where the crowds have gathered. there are expectations of up to a million people attending this mass. kenya with a large catholic population. in fact, africa is a place where catholicism is growing the fastest. this is the pope's first trip to africa and there's so much excitement celebrating this visit, especially there in kenya. this mass about to get under way at the university of nairobi
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will have chants and prayers held in different languages. it's going to be a nav louse affair. incredible scenes expected. let's bring in cnn's robyn crill who's there. extraordinary numbers expected to attend this mass. >> extraordinary indeed. we had to fight to get in through what i can only imagine is thousands of people this morning. people packed inside, not being allowed in at first. finally the doors were open and i have to say that pope francis arrived in his po mobile just a short while ago. he drove up to the podium where he will be addressing the kenyan crowd here at the university of nairobi. tremendous excitement in the air. so many people talking about how excited they are to see the pope, what it means for the country, what it means for kenya that a world leader of his
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stature and indeed a world leader that is preaching tolerance and peace here in kenya at a time when kenya is at war with terror. >> and robyn, worth pointing out that this thursday has been declared a national public holiday. and in contrast to president obama's trip to kenya a short time ago, this time around the government of kenya urging people to come out on to the streets to welcome the pope as warmly as possible. during president obama's visit, they were told to stay home. during this visit, they're being urged to come out in numbers. that's why you see such a strong crowd today and such an electrifying atmosphere. the pope taking a black honda
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from the airport. he talks about austerity, being a man of the people, going to the peripheries of one's diocese to reach everyone. and he's especially focused on poverty, of which there are so many poor people here in kenya today. the sermon will be about the youth. that's why it's being held at nairobi university. the pope was initially not going to make kenya part of his tour until he heard about the attack on garisi university where 147 students were killed. according to kenyan bishops, the pope was so moved by that story of nonmuslims being gunned down in a university in a most horrific way that he decided he wants to come to kenya, make kenya one of his stops to try and preach religious tolerance. during this time, he'll be talking to interfaith leaders, to members of the muslim community, the hindu community, c.a.r. on his third leg of the trip. he will be visiting a mosque refugee camp.
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he's really who doesn't mind getting his hands dirty. and i might add it's been raining nonstop since the ponti pontiff touched down yesterday. and rain is often seen as a sign of a blessing. >> stirring scenes there for this mass which will get under way shortly. let me ask you this. in addition to the message of tolerance and trying to bridge religious divides, the pope also touched on the issue of corruption in remarks he made wednesday. how are those going over with ordinary kenyans? >> ordinary kenyans are sick of corruption. and the papers are full of various stories every day of fat cats, as it were, lining their pockets in some way. so that's why the pope throughout -- and he's been just as critical on corruption in his
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and organization in the vatican. these are sorts of things that he's trying to instill if you're a man of god or a woman of god. i think it sent a clear message. a lot of kenyans thought it was amazing he took such a simple honda four-door car yesterday. most didn't notice it was him until they saw his face waving from out of the window. that mass will get under way in a couple of minutes. robyn kriel in nay roe by,
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kenya, thank you. and next on "cnn newsroom live" from l.a. she thought about calling it quits. good thing for pop singer adel she didn't. it turns out she has it all with her new album. we will explain.
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>> hello, everyone. it took three days for adel to shatter sales records. she told 2.5 million copies of her album. simon burke explains why so many people are buying the record rather than streeling it. ♪ >> reporter: the week isn't even over yet and adele is already saying "hello" to first week album sales in all of history. the powerful lyrics and soaring voele calls for the album's first single are propelling her third studio album "25" her age when riding these songs, to hit these record-breaking heights. now forecast to sell nearly 3 million albums in the u.s.
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alone, adele's easily saying bye-bye-bye to the previous fastest record selling hollers. in sync's albums "no strings attached" which sold 2 .4 million in its first week 15 years ago. the record bosses, no doubt pleasantly surprised, but likely nobody more stunned than the singer herself. adele considered walking away from the spotlight after her last record "21" which sold more than 11 million copies, faring she would never repeat the sales and critical acclaim. she thought it might be better to leave it all behind on a high note. ♪ never mind i'll find someone like you ♪ >> 21 was a breakup album, she says. she calls "25" a makeup record. i'm making up with myself, making up for lost time, making
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up with everything i ever did and never did. >> and the album sales are easily making up for any money adele would have made for spot fi, taking taylor swift's game plan one step further. it's a strategy that's clearly driving people to buy the album. >> the fact that adele rejects streaming place hearse in the 1% of the 1% of the music industry. it has become its own music industry status symbol. >> adele doesn't just do sad songs. she can also make us song. joining in with a group of adele impersonators on the bbc. she sung her way from 19 to 21, and now 25 is taking her right into the record books. samuel burke, cnn london.
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>> what an incredible talent. i'm simply in awe. i'm isha sesay. want to show you more live pics from nairobi, kenya. pope francis is about to celebrate mass. much more on that and all the day's news coming up after the break. what makes this simple salad the best simple salad ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple veggie dish ever? heart healthy california walnuts. the best simple dinner ever? heart healthy california walnuts.
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>> why russia is calling the shootdown of their jet a planned coordination. >> and the pope's message to the faithful on the first stop of his tour of africa. >> we will have live reports on those stories from moscow, paris and nairobi. i'm rosemary church. >> and i'm errol barnett. also, how to feed the world's hungry from an easy to view app. thank you for joining us for our two-hour black of cnn newsroom.

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