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(CNN) -- An Arizona man lay handcuffed and non-responsive on the floor of a Walmart on Black Friday, as his emotional grandson stood nearby.

Jerald Newman, 54, spent Friday night in a Maricopa County jail hours after being arrested for allegedly resisting arrest and shoplifting, according to the county sheriff's department.

But the suspect's family members, as well as at least one witness, said the man is innocent and that the treatment was unnecessary.

Newman's daughter said that she, her father and other family members were in the packed Buckeye, Arizona, store soon after it opened late Thursday night.

"They were just letting people in; there was nowhere to walk," Berneta Sanchez told CNN. "And teenagers and adults were fighting for these games, taking them away from little kids and away from my father."

The grandson, Nicholas Nava, told CNN affiliate KNXV that Newman had grabbed one video game and put it under his shirt so that others jostling for the game didn't take it from him. One person alerted a police officer, who then approached Newman.

David Chadd, a CNN iReporter from Las Vegas, was among those shopping for video games set up in the Walmart's grocery section in a mass of people. He said Newman "was not resisting" arrest as he was led away from the crowd by a police officer.

The officer, Chadd said, then suddenly hooked the suspect around the leg, grabbed him and "slammed him face first into the ground."

"It was like a bowling ball hitting the ground, that's how bad it was," he said.

That was around when Sanchez said she heard of the altercation from across the store and ran toward her father.

"I was fuming," she recalled upon seeing her father on the floor. "They wouldn't let me near him at all, they were telling me to stay back."

Video, recorded by Chadd and later posted on CNN's iReport, shows an apparently unconscious Newman head-down on the floor in a pool of blood. As he's turned over, Buckeye police officers appear to attempt to revive him -- at which point his face, covered mostly in blood, is revealed.

Several voices, apparently those of fellow shoppers, are heard saying, "Why would you throw him down so hard? All he did was shoplifting and you threw him down like that?" Another person says, "They threw him down. He wasn't doing anything wrong."

Two citizens then appear to come to Newman's aid by applying paper towels to the man's nose. Chadd estimated that Newman was knocked out for about 10 minutes, all the while gushing blood and handcuffed.

Walmart spokeswoman Ashley Hardie said the retail giant was aware of the incident.

"We are concerned whenever there is an incident involving a customer at one of our stores," Hardie said. "We are in contact with the local police and are sharing any information we have with them."

Members of the Buckeye Police Department did not immediately respond to CNN calls Friday for comment. Assistant Chief Larry Hall told KNXV that Newman struggled after getting hurt, saying he was aggressive and escalated the situation.

"There's a whole other side to this story that wasn't videotaped," Hall said. "There is nothing, on the surface, (that) deems our officer acted inappropriate at this time."

The Buckeye incident was one of a few such incidents involving police and shoppers at the chain's stores nationwide.

Sanchez said that Newman was "emotional" when she talked to him, briefly, on Friday from a hospital where he was treated before being sent to jail.

"He was complaining of his pain, and he was angry," she said.

She described her father as "a really nice man," noting he is a custom furniture-maker who preaches through the California prison system. He has raised his grandson from birth and, even while in the hospital, Sanchez said the boy was her father's chief concern.

Family members are hoping for a call from law enforcement, informing them that they can pick up Newman, Sanchez said. Until then, she said her mother plans to talk to a lawyer Saturday to work on expediting the man's release.

Whatever happens, Sanchez vowed that next year she won't be shopping in the wee hours of the Friday morning after Thanksgiving.

"I will never leave my house again on Black Friday, because I don't want to put my daughter through that again," she said, noting her daughter was there to see police standing over her bloody grandfather. "I'd rather stay home. And if they have Black Friday, they need more security."

CNN's Marlena Baldacci and Greg Morrison contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- An Ohio distributor is recalling about 6 million Chinese-made tire valve stems after concluding that some of them were improperly made and could increase the risk of accidents.

An Ohio distributor is recalling 6 million Chinese-made car tire valve stems.

Tech International, the part's Johnstown, Ohio-based distributor, estimates that just 8,600 of roughly 6 million of those valves are defective.

The valve is a replacement snap-in tire valve -- Model No. TR413 -- manufactured between July and November 2006.

It was imported by Tech International from manufacturer Shanghai Baolong Industries Co. in Shanghai, China, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

According to the recall, the rubber part of the valve may crack after being in use for about six months, causing a gradual loss of tire pressure.

Continuing to drive on underinflated tires can cause them to burst, possibly leading to crashes.

Tech International told the NHTSA that the company doesn't have records of the final purchasers of the valve stems.

According to the company, the defect was identified after "a small number" of the valves were reported by customers and one distributor to have failed.

The samples were shipped to China, and, in March, Baolong concluded that some valves could be defective.

"The cause of the defect is likely improper mixing of the rubber compound in the manufacturer's facility," Tech International wrote in a letter to the transportation safety authority.

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DONETSK, Ukraine (CNN) -- A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm wrapped around him in a tight embrace, tears streaming down their faces. It was the first time since 1942 they had seen each other, when she was 17 and he was just 7.

Siblings Wssewolod Galezkij and Irene Famulak were separated in 1942 when Nazis took her to a labor camp.

That was the night the invading Nazis came to take her away from her Ukrainian home.

"I remember it well because I kissed him good-bye, and he pushed me away," she said of her brother. "I asked, 'Why did you do that?' And he said that he doesn't like kisses."

"The Nazis told my mother that I was being taken to work in a German labor camp for six months. But it was, of course, much longer. I was there for years."

Both siblings survived the Holocaust and grew up on different sides of the Iron Curtain, not knowing the fate of the other.

But after 66 years apart, Famulak, 83, was reunited with her long lost 73-year-old brother, Wssewolod Galezkij. They held each other close this time, cherishing the moment.  Watch siblings hug for first time in seven decades Â»

"I don't believe anyone has ever known such happiness. Now, I truly believe I can die satisfied," Galezkij said.

Famulak made the long journey to Donetsk in eastern Ukraine from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, after being contacted by the American Red Cross. The organization told her they had located her only surviving sibling.

Famulak said she spent World War II in a labor camp in Munich, Germany, working in the kitchens. She had been taken to the camp with her older sister. When it was liberated in 1945, Famulak stayed in Germany for several years, eventually emigrating to the United States in 1956.

She never saw her parents again after that day in 1942 when Nazis separated her from her family. She and her brother still have no idea what happened to their mother and father. Some of their siblings lived through the war, but later died; others, they never heard from again after being separated.

But her younger brother never gave up hope of tracking his sister down. He, too, was sent to a German labor camp, but after the war, he moved back to Ukraine, then a republic of the Soviet Union.  See photos of the "needle in haystack" reunion Â»

Under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, information on lost relatives was kept sealed, and Galezkij said it wasn't until reforms in the late 1980s, followed by the Soviet collapse, that he started making progress in finding his sister.

Even then, it took him more than 17 years to locate her in the United States. He broke down in tears as he spoke of his overwhelming happiness at finding her.

"When the Red Cross told me they had found her in America, it was such a joy," he said, sobbing.

In fact, he had to be taken to the hospital because he was so overcome when he first learned she was alive. At this week's reunion, there was a doctor on hand at the airport as a precaution.

Back in the United States, there were tears, too.

Linda Klein, the director of the American Red Cross Holocaust and War Victims Tracing Center, said the volunteer who helped the siblings find each other got caught up in the emotion herself.

"When I showed her the picture, she stood there and wept," Klein said. "She was beside herself."

Klein's group has reunited 1,500 families since it began work in 1990. She said the former Soviet Union released records in 1989 of concentration camps it liberated, greatly helping organizers find information on Holocaust victims.

The organization has 100 volunteers -- a third of them Holocaust survivors, Klein said. The group also helps families find information about their loved ones who died during the Holocaust. They have brought together more than 50 families this year. All of their work is free. She says it's often like "looking for a needle in a haystack."

"We're playing beat the clock right now," she said, adding, "It's about families that one day they were together and then they were apart."

"When a connection is made, there are just smiles all around."

That was the case for this family in Ukraine. Years of trauma, of separation, of not knowing what happened to loved ones, have been replaced by celebration.

In a picturesque orchard overlooking rolling fields, Galezkij, his wife and their neighbors laid out a feast for his American sister. As the vodka flowed, he told her how he had survived for a lifetime without her.

"He says he always thought he'd see me someday. He dreamt lots about me," Famulak said, as she sat next to her brother.

"And he wrote a song for me. When he went to sleep, he sang every night and cried."

With that, Galezkij, weakened by illness and age, burst into song. But this time, he sang the words with pure joy.

CNN's Michael Sefanov and Wayne Drash contributed to this report.

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text: It

text: was

text: the

text: first

text: time

text: since

text: they

text: had

text: seen

text: each

text: other

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text: was

text: and

text: he

text: was

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text: Siblings

text: Wssewolod

text: Galezkij

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text: Irene

text: Famulak

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text: separated

text: in

text: when

text: Nazis

text: took

text: her

text: to

text: a

text: labor

text: camp

text: That

text: was

text: the

text: night

text: the

text: invading

text: Nazis

text: came

text: to

text: take

text: her

text: away

text: from

text: her

text: Ukrainian

text: home

text: I

text: remember

text: it

text: well

text: because

text: I

text: kissed

text: him

text: good

text: bye

text: and

text: he

text: pushed

text: me

text: away

text: she

text: said

text: of

text: her

text: brother

text: I

text: asked

text: Why

text: did

text: you

text: do

text: that

text: And

text: he

text: said

text: that

text: he

text: does

text: n't

text: like

text: kisses

text: The

text: Nazis

text: told

text: my

text: mother

text: that

text: I

text: was

text: being

text: taken

text: to

text: work

text: in

text: a

text: German

text: labor

text: camp

text: for

text: six

text: months

text: But

text: it

text: was

text: of

text: course

text: much

text: longer

text: I

text: was

text: there

text: for

text: years

text: Both

text: siblings

text: survived

text: the

text: Holocaust

text: and

text: grew

text: up

text: on

text: different

text: sides

text: of

text: the

text: Iron

text: Curtain

text: not

text: knowing

text: the

text: fate

text: of

text: the

text: other

text: But

text: after

text: years

text: apart

text: Famulak

text: was

text: reunited

text: with

text: her

text: long

text: lost

text: old

text: brother

text: Wssewolod

text: Galezkij

text: They

text: held

text: each

text: other

text: close

text: this

text: time

text: cherishing

text: the

text: moment

text: Watch

text: siblings

text: hug

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text: first

text: time

text: in

text: seven

text: decades

text: Â

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: believe

text: anyone

text: has

text: ever

text: known

text: such

text: happiness

text: Now

text: I

text: truly

text: believe

text: I

text: can

text: die

text: satisfied

text: Galezkij

text: said

text: Famulak

text: made

text: the

text: long

text: journey

text: to

text: Donetsk

text: in

text: eastern

text: Ukraine

text: from

text: Philadelphia

text: Pennsylvania

text: after

text: being

text: contacted

text: by

text: the

text: American

text: Red

text: Cross

text: The

text: organization

text: told

text: her

text: they

text: had

text: located

text: her

text: only

text: surviving

text: sibling

text: Famulak

text: said

text: she

text: spent

text: World

text: War

text: II

text: in

text: a

text: labor

text: camp

text: in

text: Munich

text: Germany

text: working

text: in

text: the

text: kitchens

text: She

text: had

text: been

text: taken

text: to

text: the

text: camp

text: with

text: her

text: older

text: sister

text: When

text: it

text: was

text: liberated

text: in

text: Famulak

text: stayed

text: in

text: Germany

text: for

text: several

text: years

text: eventually

text: emigrating

text: to

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: in

text: She

text: never

text: saw

text: her

text: parents

text: again

text: after

text: that

text: day

text: in

text: when

text: Nazis

text: separated

text: her

text: from

text: her

text: family

text: She

text: and

text: her

text: brother

text: still

text: have

text: no

text: idea

text: what

text: happened

text: to

text: their

text: mother

text: and

text: father

text: Some

text: of

text: their

text: siblings

text: lived

text: through

text: the

text: war

text: but

text: later

text: died

text: others

text: they

text: never

text: heard

text: from

text: again

text: after

text: being

text: separated

text: But

text: her

text: younger

text: brother

text: never

text: gave

text: up

text: hope

text: of

text: tracking

text: his

text: sister

text: down

text: He

text: too

text: was

text: sent

text: to

text: a

text: German

text: labor

text: camp

text: but

text: after

text: the

text: war

text: he

text: moved

text: back

text: to

text: Ukraine

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text: a

text: republic

text: of

text: the

text: Soviet

text: Union

text: See

text: photos

text: of

text: the

text: needle

text: in

text: haystack

text: reunion

text: Â

text: Under

text: Soviet

text: leader

text: Josef

text: Stalin

text: information

text: on

text: lost

text: relatives

text: was

text: kept

text: sealed

text: and

text: Galezkij

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: n't

text: until

text: reforms

text: in

text: the

text: late

text: followed

text: by

text: the

text: Soviet

text: collapse

text: that

text: he

text: started

text: making

text: progress

text: in

text: finding

text: his

text: sister

text: Even

text: then

text: it

text: took

text: him

text: more

text: than

text: years

text: to

text: locate

text: her

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: He

text: broke

text: down

text: in

text: tears

text: as

text: he

text: spoke

text: of

text: his

text: overwhelming

text: happiness

text: at

text: finding

text: her

text: When

text: the

text: Red

text: Cross

text: told

text: me

text: they

text: had

text: found

text: her

text: in

text: America

text: it

text: was

text: such

text: a

text: joy

text: he

text: said

text: sobbing

text: In

text: fact

text: he

text: had

text: to

text: be

text: taken

text: to

text: the

text: hospital

text: because

text: he

text: was

text: so

text: overcome

text: when

text: he

text: first

text: learned

text: she

text: was

text: alive

text: At

text: this

text: week

text: 's

text: reunion

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: doctor

text: on

text: hand

text: at

text: the

text: airport

text: as

text: a

text: precaution

text: Back

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: there

text: were

text: tears

text: too

text: Linda

text: Klein

text: the

text: director

text: of

text: the

text: American

text: Red

text: Cross

text: Holocaust

text: and

text: War

text: Victims

text: Tracing

text: Center

text: said

text: the

text: volunteer

text: who

text: helped

text: the

text: siblings

text: find

text: each

text: other

text: got

text: caught

text: up

text: in

text: the

text: emotion

text: herself

text: When

text: I

text: showed

text: her

text: the

text: picture

text: she

text: stood

text: there

text: and

text: wept

text: Klein

text: said

text: She

text: was

text: beside

text: herself

text: Klein

text: 's

text: group

text: has

text: reunited

text: families

text: since

text: it

text: began

text: work

text: in

text: She

text: said

text: the

text: former

text: Soviet

text: Union

text: released

text: records

text: in

text: of

text: concentration

text: camps

text: it

text: liberated

text: greatly

text: helping

text: organizers

text: find

text: information

text: on

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text: victims

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text: organization

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text: third

text: of

text: them

text: Holocaust

text: survivors

text: Klein

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text: The

text: group

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text: families

text: find

text: information

text: about

text: their

text: loved

text: ones

text: who

text: died

text: during

text: the

text: Holocaust

text: They

text: have

text: brought

text: together

text: more

text: than

text: families

text: this

text: year

text: All

text: of

text: their

text: work

text: is

text: free

text: She

text: says

text: it

text: 's

text: often

text: like

text: looking

text: for

text: a

text: needle

text: in

text: a

text: haystack

text: We

text: 're

text: playing

text: beat

text: the

text: clock

text: right

text: now

text: she

text: said

text: adding

text: It

text: 's

text: about

text: families

text: that

text: one

text: day

text: they

text: were

text: together

text: and

text: then

text: they

text: were

text: apart

text: When

text: a

text: connection

text: is

text: made

text: there

text: are

text: just

text: smiles

text: all

text: around

text: That

text: was

text: the

text: case

text: for

text: this

text: family

text: in

text: Ukraine

text: Years

text: of

text: trauma

text: of

text: separation

text: of

text: not

text: knowing

text: what

text: happened

text: to

text: loved

text: ones

text: have

text: been

text: replaced

text: by

text: celebration

text: In

text: a

text: picturesque

text: orchard

text: overlooking

text: rolling

text: fields

text: Galezkij

text: his

text: wife

text: and

text: their

text: neighbors

text: laid

text: out

text: a

text: feast

text: for

text: his

text: American

text: sister

text: As

text: the

text: vodka

text: flowed

text: he

text: told

text: her

text: how

text: he

text: had

text: survived

text: for

text: a

text: lifetime

text: without

text: her

text: He

text: says

text: he

text: always

text: thought

text: he

text: 'd

text: see

text: me

text: someday

text: He

text: dreamt

text: lots

text: about

text: me

text: Famulak

text: said

text: as

text: she

text: sat

text: next

text: to

text: her

text: brother

text: And

text: he

text: wrote

text: a

text: song

text: for

text: me

text: When

text: he

text: went

text: to

text: sleep

text: he

text: sang

text: every

text: night

text: and

text: cried

text: With

text: that

text: Galezkij

text: weakened

text: by

text: illness

text: and

text: age

text: burst

text: into

text: song

text: But

text: this

text: time

text: he

text: sang

text: the

text: words

text: with

text: pure

text: joy

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Michael

text: Sefanov

text: and

text: Wayne

text: Drash

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who helped bring them together?

answer: e voluntee

text: e voluntee

question: When were the siblings separated?

answer: 1942

question: what did the brother say

answer: he doesn't like kisses."

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question: Who met for the first time?

answer: A frail Irene Famulak clutched her brother on the airport tarmac, her arm

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question: what did the American Red Cross volunteer do

answer: o helped the siblings find each othe

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question: What separated them?

answer: Nazis took her to a labor camp.

text: Nazis took her to a labor camp.

question: What group separated the brother and  sister?

answer: Nazis

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question: since when did the brother and sister not meet

answer: 1942

question: Where did they meet?

answer: airport tarmac,

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question: What year did the brother and  sister get separated?

answer: 1942


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(CNN)  -- A worldwide network of fraudsters conned thousands of people into buying fake golf clubs on eBay, a London court has heard.

Ebay was hit by a massive worldwide fraud in counterfeit golf clubs.

In allegedly the largest fraud uncovered by the online auction site, the counterfeit clubs, as well as clothing and other golf accessories, were sold "on a scale, it is believed, has never been seen before," prosecutors told Snaresbrook Crown Court.

The mastermind behind the million dollar operation, Greg Bellchambers, from east London, has already admitted fraud and conspiracy.

His six co-defendants, who deny playing a "crucial role" in the plot, are said to have assisted Bellchambers in managing accounts and acting as distributors in the scam.

Bellchambers sourced the "below-par" clubs in China and then marketed them on eBay as the original top of the line brands.

The fraud only came to light when a disgruntled customer complained to a local trading standards office in London about sub-standard Acushnet clubs and an investigation was launched.

When Bellchambers' home was raided, "a large quantity" of clubs were seized, with all of them fake apart from those which belonged to the 45-year-old.

Adam Davis, for the prosecution, said: "Nearly every major golf brand has been affected by the sale of counterfeit goods through the eBay accounts.

"It is the belief of the fraud investigation unit at eBay that this case represents the single largest counterfeiting conspiracy yet uncovered on their Web site."

Prosecutors claimed that many other people were involved, but proceedings have not been brought against them as they live abroad or there is insufficient information to identify them.

The trial of Bellchambers' six co-defendants is expected to last three months. All deny conspiracy.

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question: Who has admitted fraud and conspiracy?

answer: Greg Bellchambers,

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question: What is the court told?

answer: eBay,

text: eBay,

question: what does Ringleader Greg Bellchambers admitted?

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(CNN) -- The death of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was killed Thursday in his hometown of Sirte, Libya, is "an important step" for Libya, but don't expect the fighting to end right away, said CNN senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman. Wedeman, the first Western television reporter to enter and report from inside Libya during the war, talked about how Gadhafi's life ended and what his death means for Libya's future and the civil war.

Q: There are reports that Gadhafi was hiding in a hole, possibly a sewer or drainage ditch, like former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein before he was captured. It doesn't seem like Gadhafi's M.O. What do you make of this?

Ben Wedeman: We understood when he left Tripoli in August that he left with a large entourage, with lots of cash ... and a lot of weapons. And for him to end up basically in the same sort of spider hole that Saddam Hussein did seems a bit odd, a bit out of character.

When I was there, we were hearing all sorts of reports: that he was in Bani Walid -- that was the explanation for the level of resistance there -- that he was in an oasis in the southern part of the country, and that he could be in Sirte.

So it's a bit of a surprise the way he, in theory, met his end.

He was not somebody that people expected to really go this early. Let's not forget that Baghdad, for instance, in the case of Iraq, it fell in late April (2003) (and) Saddam Hussein was not caught until December of 2003.

It was expected that Gadhafi could be able to hold out a bit longer than this.

Q: What does Gadhafi's reported death mean to his loyalists, those fighting the National Transition Council? And how will the NTC fill the power vacuum left behind by Gadhafi, who ruled Libya for 42 years?

Wedeman:  I think perhaps his role as a leader of the anti-NTC insurgency may have been somewhat overstated. I was in parts of Libya where I spoke to lots of people who were opposed to the new rulers of Libya, but not necessarily great supporters of Moammar Gadhafi.

There is a worry that this new regime in Libya will be very slow, if (they) succeed at all, in moving to democracy. There's a worry that there's going to be a lot of revenge, a lot of, basically, lawlessness. Some of the times when we were told that these were Gadhafi loyalists fighting for the leader, it was wrong.

They were actually people defending their homes, afraid that their homes would be looted, and we have seen instances where looting has been a serious problem.

So Gadhafi ... was a rallying point for a certain element of the opponents of the new regime in Libya. But he wasn't necessarily leading all of them.

Q: Does that mean you think those loyal to Gadhafi will continue to fight even after his death?

Wedeman: We have to realize this has been a complete change of regime, and many of these people (in the NTC) have no experience running the country. Yes, it's an important step along the way, but the killing of Moammar Gadhafi certainly doesn't mean that it's going to be smooth sailing.

I mean, all you have to do is look around (Libya): Egypt , the revolution (took) only 18 days -- and months, months and months later, it's still a very unstable and uncertain place.

Libya has certain elements working in its favor: a smaller population, a better educated population, lots in the way of natural resources. But no, just because Moammar Gadhafi is gone -- we believe -- doesn't mean things are going to be rosy from here on in.

Let's not forget even in Iraq -- and there are huge differences -- the first few months after the fall of Saddam Hussein were relatively quiet. It's when the new people in power start to exercise that power at every level of society, things can get complicated. There's been a lot of talk about tribal differences (in Libya) We haven't really seen that play out ... but I would not in any sense bet my bottom dollar that Libya will be smooth sailing now that Gadhafi is dead.

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text: to

text: end

text: up

text: basically

text: in

text: the

text: same

text: sort

text: of

text: spider

text: hole

text: that

text: Saddam

text: Hussein

text: did

text: seems

text: a

text: bit

text: odd

text: a

text: bit

text: out

text: of

text: character

text: When

text: I

text: was

text: there

text: we

text: were

text: hearing

text: all

text: sorts

text: of

text: reports

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: Bani

text: Walid

text: that

text: was

text: the

text: explanation

text: for

text: the

text: level

text: of

text: resistance

text: there

text: that

text: he

text: was

text: in

text: an

text: oasis

text: in

text: the

text: southern

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: country

text: and

text: that

text: he

text: could

text: be

text: in

text: Sirte

text: So

text: it

text: 's

text: a

text: bit

text: of

text: a

text: surprise

text: the

text: way

text: he

text: in

text: theory

text: met

text: his

text: end

text: He

text: was

text: not

text: somebody

text: that

text: people

text: expected

text: to

text: really

text: go

text: this

text: early

text: Let

text: 's

text: not

text: forget

text: that

text: Baghdad

text: for

text: instance

text: in

text: the

text: case

text: of

text: Iraq

text: it

text: fell

text: in

text: late

text: April

text: and

text: Saddam

text: Hussein

text: was

text: not

text: caught

text: until

text: December

text: of

text: It

text: was

text: expected

text: that

text: Gadhafi

text: could

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: hold

text: out

text: a

text: bit

text: longer

text: than

text: this

text: Q

text: What

text: does

text: Gadhafi

text: 's

text: reported

text: death

text: mean

text: to

text: his

text: loyalists

text: those

text: fighting

text: the

text: National

text: Transition

text: Council

text: And

text: how

text: will

text: the

text: NTC

text: fill

text: the

text: power

text: vacuum

text: left

text: behind

text: by

text: Gadhafi

text: who

text: ruled

text: Libya

text: for

text: years

text: Wedeman

text: I

text: think

text: perhaps

text: his

text: role

text: as

text: a

text: leader

text: of

text: the

text: anti

text: NTC

text: insurgency

text: may

text: have

text: been

text: somewhat

text: overstated

text: I

text: was

text: in

text: parts

text: of

text: Libya

text: where

text: I

text: spoke

text: to

text: lots

text: of

text: people

text: who

text: were

text: opposed

text: to

text: the

text: new

text: rulers

text: of

text: Libya

text: but

text: not

text: necessarily

text: great

text: supporters

text: of

text: Moammar

text: Gadhafi

text: There

text: is

text: a

text: worry

text: that

text: this

text: new

text: regime

text: in

text: Libya

text: will

text: be

text: very

text: slow

text: if

text: they

text: succeed

text: at

text: all

text: in

text: moving

text: to

text: democracy

text: There

text: 's

text: a

text: worry

text: that

text: there

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: revenge

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: basically

text: lawlessness

text: Some

text: of

text: the

text: times

text: when

text: we

text: were

text: told

text: that

text: these

text: were

text: Gadhafi

text: loyalists

text: fighting

text: for

text: the

text: leader

text: it

text: was

text: wrong

text: They

text: were

text: actually

text: people

text: defending

text: their

text: homes

text: afraid

text: that

text: their

text: homes

text: would

text: be

text: looted

text: and

text: we

text: have

text: seen

text: instances

text: where

text: looting

text: has

text: been

text: a

text: serious

text: problem

text: So

text: Gadhafi

text: was

text: a

text: rallying

text: point

text: for

text: a

text: certain

text: element

text: of

text: the

text: opponents

text: of

text: the

text: new

text: regime

text: in

text: Libya

text: But

text: he

text: was

text: n't

text: necessarily

text: leading

text: all

text: of

text: them

text: Q

text: Does

text: that

text: mean

text: you

text: think

text: those

text: loyal

text: to

text: Gadhafi

text: will

text: continue

text: to

text: fight

text: even

text: after

text: his

text: death

text: Wedeman

text: We

text: have

text: to

text: realize

text: this

text: has

text: been

text: a

text: complete

text: change

text: of

text: regime

text: and

text: many

text: of

text: these

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: NTC

text: have

text: no

text: experience

text: running

text: the

text: country

text: Yes

text: it

text: 's

text: an

text: important

text: step

text: along

text: the

text: way

text: but

text: the

text: killing

text: of

text: Moammar

text: Gadhafi

text: certainly

text: does

text: n't

text: mean

text: that

text: it

text: 's

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: smooth

text: sailing

text: I

text: mean

text: all

text: you

text: have

text: to

text: do

text: is

text: look

text: around

text: Libya

text: Egypt

text: the

text: revolution

text: took

text: only

text: days

text: and

text: months

text: months

text: and

text: months

text: later

text: it

text: 's

text: still

text: a

text: very

text: unstable

text: and

text: uncertain

text: place

text: Libya

text: has

text: certain

text: elements

text: working

text: in

text: its

text: favor

text: a

text: smaller

text: population

text: a

text: better

text: educated

text: population

text: lots

text: in

text: the

text: way

text: of

text: natural

text: resources

text: But

text: no

text: just

text: because

text: Moammar

text: Gadhafi

text: is

text: gone

text: we

text: believe

text: does

text: n't

text: mean

text: things

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: rosy

text: from

text: here

text: on

text: in

text: Let

text: 's

text: not

text: forget

text: even

text: in

text: Iraq

text: and

text: there

text: are

text: huge

text: differences

text: the

text: first

text: few

text: months

text: after

text: the

text: fall

text: of

text: Saddam

text: Hussein

text: were

text: relatively

text: quiet

text: It

text: 's

text: when

text: the

text: new

text: people

text: in

text: power

text: start

text: to

text: exercise

text: that

text: power

text: at

text: every

text: level

text: of

text: society

text: things

text: can

text: get

text: complicated

text: There

text: 's

text: been

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: talk

text: about

text: tribal

text: differences

text: in

text: Libya

text: We

text: have

text: n't

text: really

text: seen

text: that

text: play

text: out

text: but

text: I

text: would

text: not

text: in

text: any

text: sense

text: bet

text: my

text: bottom

text: dollar

text: that

text: Libya

text: will

text: be

text: smooth

text: sailing

text: now

text: that

text: Gadhafi

text: is

text: dead

question: What did he speak about?

answer: how Gadhafi's life ended

text: how Gadhafi's life ended

question: Who spoke to CNN?

answer: Ben Wedeman:

text: Ben Wedeman:

question: When was the death of Moammar Gadhafi?

answer: Thursday

text: Thursday


text:
Pago Pago,  American Samoa (CNN) -- When an earthquake-triggered tsunami cascaded into this tiny island in late September, the result was 34 lives lost and untold millions in property damage. But a CNN investigation to air on tonight's "AC 360" has uncovered an array of unsettling facts that point to a single conclusion: this natural disaster was in many ways a man-made tragedy.

Public records show that the Department of Homeland Security had awarded millions of federal dollars in grants for disaster preparedness here, including the construction of an island-wide siren warning system. But all the federal funding was frozen in early 2007 after DHS inspectors found that the local American Samoan government had been diverting millions of those dollars for its own uses.

Birdsall Alailima, director of American Samoa's territorial office of Homeland Security from 2003 through 2007, now lives in southern Illinois, not far from St. Louis, Missouri. He showed CNN on a map exactly where on the island the sirens were to have been placed. Thirty towers in all, he said, with 30 sirens that could have been activated by the push of a single button.

"You're saying that the systems should have been in place?" CNN correspondent Drew Griffin asked him.

"Absolutely," Alailima said.

"And people died as a result?"

"Yes."

He's not the only one who thinks so. Federal sources told CNN they believe that had the warning system been built, the death toll would likely have been lower.

In American Samoa, however, territorial Gov. Togiola Tulafono, told CNN that he knew of no viable plan for the siren system.

"There was a study, I believe, but never a plan for a system," the governor said. "I was trying to get verification of what happened to that system, but I could not get the definite information."

Alailima said he was fired by the governor when the federal funding was frozen, and that the governor was aware of the preparations.

"I'm not going to fault them for freezing the funds," Tulafono said. "These are federal funds that they have oversight responsibility for and they saw fit to freeze the funds."

The governor told CNN he had tried to correct the problem by firing his entire homeland security staff. But, he said, that failed to solve the problem.

"All I'm saying is we have tried to work with them and have tried to get partial releases (of the money), and so far that hasn't happened."

A federal official calls the governor's statement "nonsense." American Samoa would have access to the frozen funds if it had agreed to pay back even some of the money it misused, said the official. The government and the governor refused, and the tsunami siren system was stopped, according to the official.

A spokesman for the governor's office later declined comment on the nature of the negotiations.

American Samoan government officials said they purchased another warning system -- radios that would have triggered alarms across the island. But during the CNN interview, Tulafono conceded that the system "was not in place" when the tsunami struck.

CNN has learned that the FBI is now conducting an investigation into exactly what did happen to the federal preparedness dollars sent to American Samoa. It was launched, sources tell CNN, by the Interior Department as its Insular Affairs office has federal administrative responsibility for the island.

The FBI investigation is only the latest and most recent attempt by the federal government to try to track what one federal official told CNN was "endemic" corruption on the island.

Here are only a few instances of the alleged corruption:

â¢ Both the current Samoan lieutenant governor and a former state senator are under federal indictment on allegations of fraud, bribery and conspiracy. A trial is pending in Washington because there are no federal courts on the island. Attorneys for both men have refuted the indictment in court filings and say their clients are innocent of all the charges.

â¢ An inspector general's report by the Department of Homeland Security issued in May 2007 cites numerous examples of American Samoan officials misusing federal grant money. The report's findings include the purchase of six flat-screen televisions for more than $25,000; purchase of executive leather chairs for $4,000; spending $77,000 on equipment no auditor could find; and extensive travel and entertainment charges, including money spent in Las Vegas, Nevada, by a Samoan official for a conference he was scheduled to have attended in Colorado.

â¢ The DHS letter freezing its funding was sent on January 12, 2007. The action was taken because "we have found that Homeland Security Grant funds have been diverted to uses by State government offices for other than the intended use of Homeland Security funds. This is not only in violation of public trust but In Lieu of agreement as well."

In the Samoan villages destroyed by the tsunami, stories of corruption are not new.

"The government here gets a lot of money from the U.S. federal government," Heinrich Tavai told CNN as he watched members of his Lofatonoa Pentacostal Church help in the clean up. "Every year, they get millions and millions of dollars. As you see, we look like a Third World country when we should be looking more like a U.S. territory."

In half a dozen villages either wiped out or badly damaged by the tsunami, CNN could find no visible evidence of local government assistance. Workers from a tuna fish processing plant were helping in one village; in another, students from an island community college were dredging rubbish out of a stream. Red Cross officials distributed tents in other villages. Children in another village were hauling furniture on their backs to help clear the debris.

When asked about the seeming lack of local government assistance, the governor told CNN, "Our departments are out there working and working very hard, and to say they haven't seen any assistance is totally false."

Since 1995, American Samoa has received nearly $2 billion in federal grants from nearly every federal agency. On average the 65,000-population -- the size of a typical American suburb -- receives about $250 million in federal money each year. Congressional sources tell CNN that oversight has always been a problem because of Samoa's isolation and the expense involved in even mounting an investigation.

"They can do half a dozen investigations in Wyoming or California for the amount just one investigation would cost in Samoa," a source told CNN.

Federal sources said they don't believe any official is getting rich off the U.S. Treasury. Instead, they said, federal funds -- including disaster-preparedness money that was to have gone to the warning system -- were instead used to create local government jobs in an economy almost totally dependent on U.S. federal grants.

Moreover, the source added, each federal agency may have many employees whose jobs are to allocate federal funds, but only a relative handful whose jobs are to "manage" or account for that money.

In an e-mail to CNN, an Interior Department spokeswoman said that in previous administrations "there were real issues of neglect and failed oversight that must be addressed quickly, thoroughly and responsibly."

"We will help the islands rebuild and recover," said Kendra Barkoff, "but taxpayer dollars will be invested with strong oversight and full accountability."

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text: Pago

text: American

text: Samoa

text: CNN

text: When

text: an

text: earthquake

text: triggered

text: tsunami

text: cascaded

text: into

text: this

text: tiny

text: island

text: in

text: late

text: September

text: the

text: result

text: was

text: lives

text: lost

text: and

text: untold

text: millions

text: in

text: property

text: damage

text: But

text: a

text: CNN

text: investigation

text: to

text: air

text: on

text: tonight

text: 's

text: AC

text: has

text: uncovered

text: an

text: array

text: of

text: unsettling

text: facts

text: that

text: point

text: to

text: a

text: single

text: conclusion

text: this

text: natural

text: disaster

text: was

text: in

text: many

text: ways

text: a

text: man

text: made

text: tragedy

text: Public

text: records

text: show

text: that

text: the

text: Department

text: of

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: had

text: awarded

text: millions

text: of

text: federal

text: dollars

text: in

text: grants

text: for

text: disaster

text: preparedness

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text: construction

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text: an

text: island

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text: siren

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text: But

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text: federal

text: funding

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text: frozen

text: in

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text: after

text: DHS

text: inspectors

text: found

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text: the

text: local

text: American

text: Samoan

text: government

text: had

text: been

text: diverting

text: millions

text: of

text: those

text: dollars

text: for

text: its

text: own

text: uses

text: Birdsall

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text: director

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text: American

text: Samoa

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text: territorial

text: office

text: of

text: Homeland

text: Security

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text: He

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text: map

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text: island

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text: sirens

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text: systems

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text: Alailima

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text: not

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text: only

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text: so

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text: sources

text: told

text: CNN

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text: warning

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text: Samoa

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text: Gov.

text: Togiola

text: Tulafono

text: told

text: CNN

text: that

text: he

text: knew

text: of

text: no

text: viable

text: plan

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text: the

text: siren

text: system

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text: study

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text: but

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text: plan

text: for

text: a

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text: governor

text: said

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text: verification

text: of

text: what

text: happened

text: to

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text: system

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text: I

text: could

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text: the

text: definite

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text: governor

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text: governor

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text: negotiations

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text: island

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text: CNN

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text: system

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text: the

text: FBI

text: is

text: now

text: conducting

text: an

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text: into

text: exactly

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text: federal

text: preparedness

text: dollars

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text: Samoa

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text: sources

text: tell

text: CNN

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text: Interior

text: Department

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text: Insular

text: Affairs

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text: island

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text: the

text: federal

text: government

text: to

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text: to

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text: federal

text: official

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text: CNN

text: was

text: endemic

text: corruption

text: on

text: the

text: island

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text: only

text: a

text: few

text: instances

text: of

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text: alleged

text: corruption

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text: current

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text: governor

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text: a

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text: senator

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text: indictment

text: on

text: allegations

text: of

text: fraud

text: bribery

text: and

text: conspiracy

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text: trial

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text: island

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text: indictment

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text: filings

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text: clients

text: are

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text: all

text: the

text: charges

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text: An

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text: general

text: 's

text: report

text: by

text: the

text: Department

text: of

text: Homeland

text: Security

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text: May

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text: examples

text: of

text: American

text: Samoan

text: officials

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text: 's

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text: purchase

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text: have

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text: Grant

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text: trust

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text: lot

text: of

text: money

text: from

text: the

text: U.S.

text: federal

text: government

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text: Tavai

text: told

text: CNN

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text: he

text: watched

text: members

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text: his

text: Lofatonoa

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text: Church

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text: U.S.

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text: villages

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text: badly

text: damaged

text: by

text: the

text: tsunami

text: CNN

text: could

text: find

text: no

text: visible

text: evidence

text: of

text: local

text: government

text: assistance

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text: a

text: tuna

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text: were

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text: village

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text: another

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text: island

text: community

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text: stream

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text: villages

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text: furniture

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text: about

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text: seeming

text: lack

text: of

text: local

text: government

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text: governor

text: told

text: CNN

text: Our

text: departments

text: are

text: out

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text: working

text: and

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text: and

text: to

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text: have

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text: any

text: assistance

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text: totally

text: false

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text: Samoa

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text: received

text: nearly

text: billion

text: in

text: federal

text: grants

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text: federal

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text: suburb

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text: in

text: federal

text: money

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text: year

text: Congressional

text: sources

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text: CNN

text: that

text: oversight

text: has

text: always

text: been

text: a

text: problem

text: because

text: of

text: Samoa

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text: isolation

text: and

text: the

text: expense

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text: an

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text: dozen

text: investigations

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text: California

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text: the

text: amount

text: just

text: one

text: investigation

text: would

text: cost

text: in

text: Samoa

text: a

text: source

text: told

text: CNN

text: Federal

text: sources

text: said

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: believe

text: any

text: official

text: is

text: getting

text: rich

text: off

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Treasury

text: Instead

text: they

text: said

text: federal

text: funds

text: including

text: disaster

text: preparedness

text: money

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text: was

text: to

text: have

text: gone

text: to

text: the

text: warning

text: system

text: were

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text: to

text: create

text: local

text: government

text: jobs

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text: an

text: economy

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text: on

text: U.S.

text: federal

text: grants

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text: source

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text: each

text: federal

text: agency

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text: many

text: employees

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text: jobs

text: are

text: to

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text: federal

text: funds

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text: only

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text: relative

text: handful

text: whose

text: jobs

text: are

text: to

text: manage

text: or

text: account

text: for

text: that

text: money

text: In

text: an

text: e

text: mail

text: to

text: CNN

text: an

text: Interior

text: Department

text: spokeswoman

text: said

text: that

text: in

text: previous

text: administrations

text: there

text: were

text: real

text: issues

text: of

text: neglect

text: and

text: failed

text: oversight

text: that

text: must

text: be

text: addressed

text: quickly

text: thoroughly

text: and

text: responsibly

text: We

text: will

text: help

text: the

text: islands

text: rebuild

text: and

text: recover

text: said

text: Kendra

text: Barkoff

text: but

text: taxpayer

text: dollars

text: will

text: be

text: invested

text: with

text: strong

text: oversight

text: and

text: full

text: accountability

question: what were the funds used for

answer: its own uses.

text: its own uses.

question: When is the investigation supposed to air?

answer: tonight's "AC 360"

text: tonight's "AC 360"

question: When are the results of the special investigation announced?

answer: on tonight's "AC 360"

text: on tonight's "AC 360"

question: What region did the storm hit?

answer: American Samoa

text: American Samoa

question: What number of people died in the tsunami?

answer: 34

question: how many people died

answer: 34

question: How many people died in last month's tsunami?

answer: 34