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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:02:28:00

only then do they explode to devastating effects. they deny using any weapons in combat. what do we make of the so-called candy or perfume bombs? a rebel spokesman said they resemble a pretty bottle that explodes when it is picked up. when asked, cnn contributor and retired general russell andre, asked him to take a closer look of the pictures and tell us what the rebels are up against, also a warning for gadhafi's troops. take a listen. >> general, start with the photographs. the photographic evidence, so to speak. the first one is a man hold be shrapnel. wrap does this photo tell you? >> well, that looks like some replica of what we call, a dual purpose, improvised conventional munitions. developed during the cold war by, primarily by the u.s. to be used against large formations. tanks and people on the ground.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:08:30:00

terrorizing his people. he's blowing them up with advanced munitions and now he's putting -- if he is putting these candy bombs on the street, they're designed to terrorize people as much as they are to cause damage, and this looked like some type of improvised device they have put on the ground to terrorize the people. and the soldiers that are doing this need to know that the world is going to catch them and they're going to be prosecuted. we go now to our top story this is hour. killer storm system has now claimed 26 lives throughout the southeast and midwest with its deadiest toll tonight in north carolina. nine people died from a series of tornado. three of the victims were caught in their mobile homes. early reports are more than 80 tornadoes hit the state breaking a record from 1984. just three days after an air-traffic controller in this

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110417:05:28:00

what do we make of the so-called candy or perfume bombs. a rebel spokesman said they resemble a pretty bottle that explodes when it was picked up. when asked cnn contributor general honore he had a warning. let's start with the photographic evidence. the first one, the first one is a man holding shrapnel. what does this photo tell you? >> well, don, it looked like some replica of what we call dpicm which is a dual purpose improvised improved conventional munitions. developed during the cold war by -- primarily by the u.s. to be used against large formations. tanks and people on the ground. they would shoot them from -- we would shoot them from aircraft, artillery, and in this case they would be shot from mortars.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110416:02:37:00

libya is not using these weapons. he also reiterated what he's been saying for a very long time, that the libyan army apparently tries to do everything to prevent civilian casualties and it can't use these munitions simply because the world is watching, he said. that, of course, something that we've heard from the libyan government before in other cases that has been seen later on the untrue. >> an excellent point there. general marks, help somebody out there watching who is not familiar with a cluster bomb, doesn't understand what it can do. >> cluster bombs are designed primarily been used against armored or tanki mechanized formations. you have one explosion that releases a number of submunitions have that. so it covers a very broad area and it forces these mechanized

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110416:00:31:00

exploded munitions obtained by a new york times reporter, the cluster munitions are inaccurate by design, bursting in the air then reigning 21 small bombs over a large area below. one strike killed eight civilians standing in a bread line. today before the cluster bombs were reported, president obama joined in a letter with british prime minister and french president that was sent to newspapers in coalition countries and read, as long as gadhafi is in power, nato and partners must maintain their operations so that civil grans remain protected and the pressure on the regime builds. concern gadhafi must go and go for good. coming up, arizona tries to solve a problem that doesn't exist with its so-called birther bill. a bill sponsored by a man who met with donald trump. why will the american media waste so much time and money

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110416:05:35:00

time, that the libyan army apparently tries to do everything to prevent civilian casualties and it can't use these munitions simply because the world is watching, he said. that, of course, something that we've heard from the libyan government before in other cases that has been seen later on the untrue. >> an excellent pointhere. general marks, help somebody out there watching who is not familiar with a cluster bomb, doesn't understand what it can do. >> cluster bombs are designed primarily been used against armored or tank mechanized formations. you have one explosion that releases a number of submunitions have that. so it covers a very broad area and it forces these mechanized formations to go around and it channelizes its activity away from where these cluster bombs are located.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110416:17:36:00

sounds like tiny firecrackers going off, and they're extremely lethal particularly in civilians. number one, a far larger area and problems with duds and when they lay on the ground. often times children will pick them up and they will he' explode. >> jamie: i hate to think about that and obviously the human rights organization, human watch is very concerned about this. even he's denying that it's going on. what is n.a.t.o. going to do about this? >> well, there's not much we can do about it because sadly, these munitions are proliferated across the world and many n.a.t.o. countries and in fact, we use, have used them in the past and we used them and don't use them in iraq and afghanistan for the very reasons i just mentioned, and so, gaddafi's got money and he is he' bought munitions for the last 40 years and stock piled them in the musicians codes and n.a.t.o. strike from the area and if he wants to he'll continue to use

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20110415:22:06:00

these are munitions that are launched in the air, and while in the air they release clusters of bombs, smaller explosives that land and disintegrates to molden metal on contact. they're designed to take out runways to prevent aircraft from landing and taking off. obviously, when you use them in urban areas like misrata they pose a grave danger for civilians. it's interesting to see how the international community reacts, and i think the opposition will point to developments like this to call for nato to step up their efforts. >> thank you. nato foreign ministers were discussing the libyan crisis at a meeting in berlin, germany today. the secretary of state hillary clinton was there and she was questioned on a story cnn reported yesterday about new information from u.s. officials that iran is now helping syria crack down on protestors. >> we do not see any evidence yet that iran instigated such

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110402:14:37:00

another good morning to you and glad you are back. what were you doing in libya? >> i was just looking around. leave it at that. >> there we go. let's talk about what you found while you were looking around. in terms of the rebels and their ability to fight back gadhafi's forces and do this without nato coalition help. is that even possible to consider? >> not really. the rebel forces that you see on the ground now are lacking in something. command, control, communications and logistics. the discussion about arming the rebels versus not -- they got weapons and munitions. arming the rebels is not the issue that needs to be focused on. air power alone is not going to win the fight for them. what they have to have is training and a guidance for the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20110401:15:35:00

for the president there to be ousted. this is having several effects on the government. one, it's the focus of their attention and two, it's pulled the security forces out of some of the disparite regions line the al bivment a -- albian province into the capitol. places like this have been tenuous at best and al-qaeda has seen it as one of its areas that are developing in order to cement its operations there. when we look into that southern part you have to see this in the context of a series of events that appear to lay the ground work for this declaration. right now you're seeing the aftermath of that explosion at a munitions dump at the abian province early they are week, the belief of those in the intelligence community is that al-qaeda members as well as local tribes worked together to take over that ammunitions dump and that after this event they took over a local

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