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Cnn price { August 19 2002 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/12192p-11521c.html http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ent_radio/story/12192p-11521c.html New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com CNN'$ terror tapes By STEPHEN BATTAGLIO DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Monday, August 19th, 2002 CNN's exclusive videotaped look at Al Qaeda activities came at a price. Executives at the cable news organization acknowledged Monday that a five-figure sum was paid to sources in Afghanistan for access to a hidden archive of 250 hours worth of video documenting Al Qaeda's terror training and its testing of chemical weapons of mass destruction. A longtime source in Afghanistan led CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson to the people with the tapes two weeks ago. Robertson, who has been reporting from Afghanistan for a year, would not characterize his sources or how the transaction for the tapes was done. But he said none of the money paid went to Al Qaeda. "From what I know about the people we were dealing with, absolutely not," Robertson told the Daily News. Paying for newsworthy video footage is a common practice in TV news. But television news executives said there was no bidding war for the video CNN aggressively packaged and promoted throughout the day under the title "Terror on Tape." CBS News showed some similar footage garnered from its own sources on "The Early Show" and "The CBS Evening News." CBS officials would not say whether the network paid for its tapes. Insiders at the news divisions of NBC and ABC said they were not aware the material existed. ABC News correspondent John Miller, the last American journalist to interview Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, recently went to Afghanistan for his network but said he had not been looking for any tapes. "I was aware of what I called 'Al Qaeda Productions,'" Miller told The News. "He has his own people shoot messages. I would probably have never believed there were 250 [hours]. It's a lot of material." Miller said Al Qaeda cameras were rolling as he conducted his interview with bin Laden. The correspondent even showed up briefly on one of the tapes excerpted on CNN and CBS yesterday. "Some of it is new and interesting stuff. The chemical stuff, the bomb-making stuff, it brings forward the story," Miller said of the CNN tapes. "We knew bin Laden had a chemical-weapons lab, but to see what appears in them, that's new." CNN and CBS each aired a viewer-discretion advisory for the portion of the footage that showed poison gas being tested on dogs. Robertson said CNN will air a tape today that shows a May 1998 gathering of bin Laden and the Al Qaeda leadership declaring war against the U.S. and the rest of the world. While the meeting had been reported on by several print journalists, it's the first video footage of what Robertson called Al Qaeda's "big moment in history." With Richard Huff

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