Here, this is pretty damn interesting, even allowing for the 12 minute discrepancy:
CNN:
quote:SHOW: CNN LIVE TODAY 12:00
July 20, 2001 Friday 2:32 PM Eastern Time
Transcript # 072009CN.V75
SECTION: News; International
LENGTH: 902 words
HEADLINE: Protester Killed in Genoa, Italy
BYLINE: Natalie Allen, Alessio Vinci, Garrick Utley
HIGHLIGHT: A man was killed in Genoa, Italy, during violent clashes with police near the G8 summit security zone. So far it is not clear whether he was shot by police or killed in the midst of the chaos caused in particular by a group of anarchist protesters who are armed with bricks and Molotov cocktails.
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Anti-trade protesters battle police today on the streets of Genoa, Italy, site of this year's Group of Eight Economic Summit. At least one person was killed during violent clashes near the summit security zone. It is unclear how the protester died. Some say he was shot to death. Others say he was hit by a rock or a brick.
We have more now on what happened to him and what's going on there with this violence that has erupted from our correspondent, Alessio Vinci, who is there on the streets of Genoa -- Alessio?
ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good evening, Natalie. We don't have, still, any official report about how this young demonstrator was killed. We don't have many much information about who he is, exactly. However, we understand he's a young man in his mid 20s, and again, as you said, there are some reports here which suggest that this young demonstrator was shot. One of the leading newscast here in Italy has broadcast some video and some pictures that suggest that he was shot. However, we have not been able to independently confirm that report, that indeed he was shot.
One thing I can tell you is that we've been following those demonstrations throughout this day, and they have been extremely chaotic and violent. And therefore it is going to be very difficult for eyewitnesses to establish whether this demonstrator was indeed shot or just was killed in the midst of the violent clashes with the police.
I also want to stress now that those demonstrators are just part of a small group of anarchists who have come here, who appear to have come here specially prepared to fight with the police forces. They are well-equipped. They have Molotov cocktails, they have sticks, they have bricks. They use all kinds of weaponry that they can in order to offend and to provoke the police forces. Back to you, Natalie.
ALLEN: All right. Alessio Vinci, thank you. And as far as the summit, there was a new commitment today from the world's richest nations in the war against AIDS. Leaders announced the creation of a billion dollar fund to help fight AIDS around the world.
STEPHEN FRAZIER: While that work goes on inside, though, the concern is about the crowds outside. The Pentagon thinks it has the answer when it comes to crowd control. It has been testing a system which helps to manage angry mobs safely.
Here's CNN's Garrick Utley.
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GARRICK UTLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They are the human eruptions that dare to shake authority. And like the laws of nature, for every riotous action, there is an equal and often more powerful reaction. It happened in Tiananmen Square when tanks and bullets killed those who dared challenge the state. It happened in the United States at Kent State.
(on camera): For those empowered and armed to maintain law and order and control, a demonstration that runs riots can be a frightening thing. Which leads to the question: How do you control, but not kill?
(voice-over): How about firing electromagnetic waves from an antenna or a gun? The Defense Department calls its newest idea an "active denial system."
COL. GEORGE FENTON, DIRECTOR, PENTAGON: We can influence your motivational behavior in approximately two seconds. Mission complete. You with me?
UTLEY: Tests of electromagnetic waves create intense heat on the skin off a single person or a mob. The Pentagon says this is not like sticking people in a microwave. The waves don't go beyond the skin surface.
FENTON: The millimeter waves stimulates the water molecules in the upper skin layer, the nerve centers if you will, to give the sensation of pain. And that's the effect that we want. It's a repel effect. We want to push somebody back.
UTLEY: And pushing threatening people back is what those in authority have done since the first club whacked the first angry demonstrator. As in any arms race, there have been constant improvements in the growing arsenal of nonlethal weapons. There is tear gas, first used in the first World War. Then came water. Amazing, how powerful it can be when shot through the barrel of a cannon. More recently, rubber and bean bag bullets are being shot from guns.
And now, in the 21st century, we will have the perfected weapon that you can't see, can't touch. But oh, how you will feel this electronic truncheon. Even though those electromagnetic waves, set at 120 degrees, will be, we are assured, safe.
DR. MICHAEL MURPHY, PENTAGON SCIENTIST: We have tested 72 humans that have had over 6,500 exposures. It's research like that that has led us to the confidence that we can employ this safely.
UTLEY (on camera): Safely, if those who control the new weapon don't turn the heat up too high. And of course, what the military calls an "active denial system" will likely be called something more pungent and colorful if you are hit by it.
(voice-over): Still, as Tiananmen Square and other tragedies have shown us, almost any weapon is preferable to the gun. And even the guns and bullets that stop a protest cannot kill the spirit that lies behind it.
Garrick Utley, CNN, New York.
Compare to this:
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July 20, 2001, Saturday, BC Cycle
20:45 Central European Time
SECTION: International News
LENGTH: 732 words
HEADLINE: 6TH ROUNDUP: Police shooting casts pall over G8 summit
DATELINE: Genoa, Italy
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Anti-globalists vowed to take to the streets again on Saturday after police shot dead a protester during riots which overshadowed the first day of the G8 summit in Genoa.
The Group of Eight's grim agenda of global economic woes, HIV/AIDS and poverty were all but eclipsed by bloody street violence.
As leaders met in the Italian port city's 13th century Palace of the Doges, palls of tear gas and smoke rose from burning cars and petrol bombs.
Ignoring pleas from leaders for restraint, organizers of the anti-globalist protests said demonstrations would continue on Saturday, the second day of the three-day annual G8 summit.
Vittorio Agnoletto, leader of the Genoa Social Forum umbrella group for the protests, said a "massive peaceful protest" would begin at 2 p.m. (1200 GMT).
But it was unclear how activists - enraged by the death of a 20- year-old rioter - would remain under control.
A series of dramatic photos put on the Internet from the Reuters news agency showed the masked rioter trying to throw what appears to be a fire extinguisher into the back of an open police truck.
An officer can be seen aiming a pistol at the man at short range. Further pictures show the man lying in a pool of blood on the ground with what looks like a bullet hole in his head.
A final photo shows the Carabinieri Land Rover backing over the crumpled body and the police officer trying to shield his face from cameras.
Other eyewitnesses confirmed the events shown in the pictures.
The fatal shooting and carnage, which injured at least 100 people, cast a dark shadow over the G8 meeting. Shocked leaders and non-governmental groups urged protesters to halt the violence.
Italian President Carlo Azeglio Ciampi said: "I am shocked and deeply saddened by this young life which has been wasted. I turn to protesters and urge them to stop this blind violence immediately."
U.S. President George W. Bush called the shooting "tragic" and "highly regrettable".
The leading British charity group Oxfam warned that "violent disruption of international meetings ... certainly doesn't help the poor."
"It drowns out the voice of many thousands of peaceful and serious people."
Nobel Prize winning doctors' group Medecins Sans Frontiers said violence distracted from the real issues of justice. "We take a sharp distance from every kind of violence ... be if from the side of the radical demonstrators or the side of the police."
French President Jacques Chirac called for a dialogue with protesters who were voicing what he termed real anxieties. "I am not talking about troublemakers but people who have concerns that must be heard," said Chirac.
Friday's clashes were triggered after protesters tried to storm a barricaded security zone where G8 leaders were meeting.
In the ensuing chaos a supermarket and gas stations were looted and several banks were attacked. Cars were set ablaze as people fled clouds of tear gas and bursts from water cannon.
The battles pitted some of the estimated 120,000 protesters who have converged on Genoa and the 20,000 police and paramilitary personnel protecting the meeting.
Shielded by the militarized cordon, G8 leaders discussed poverty, hunger and the HIV/AIDS crisis with six developing nation leaders and United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
The G8 members are Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and the United States.
Thanking the G8 for having pledged over 1 billion dollars to a global fund to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis, Annan stressed that "much, much more" was needed to fight the killer disease.
A further 7 billion to 10 billion dollars was needed to combat HIV/AIDS, which has to date infected an estimated 36 million people and claimed 22 million lives, Annan said.
Those attending are leaders Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Abdelaziz Bouteflika of Algeria, Alfa Omar Konare of Mali, El Salvador's Francisco Flores and Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh.
Shrugging off fears expressed by G8 summit host and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that this would have to be the last G8 summit of its kind, Canada's Jean Chretien said the annual big country pow-wow would go on.
"There will be no cancellation of the G8," said Chretien, whose country will host the meeting next summer. |
