[Blitzer:] Our Carol Costello is monitoring stories incoming into THE SITUATION ROOM right now. Let's turn to Carol Carol, what do you have?
[Carol Costello, Cnn Correspondent:] Let's talk about a health scare, Wolf. Hundreds of airline passengers possibly expose to a rare drug- resistant form of tuberculosis. Government health officials say a man infected with the disease took two international flights this month one from Atlanta to Paris, the other from Prague to Montreal. They want to test passengers and crews from those flights, specifically people who were seated near that infected man. New fighting between Lebanese troops and Islamic militants holed up in a Palestinian refugee camp marking the end of a week-long truce. Lebanese partially pounded positions near the camp's ocean front in a possible attempt to keep the militants from fleeing by sea. Some Palestinian refugees have fled the fighting, but thousands remained trapped in the camp. A tragic discovery in a Texas trailer home. A 23-year-old mother and her four daughters discovered hanged in what appears to be a murdersuicide. But one of the young girls, just eight months old, survived and is listed in good condition. This happened in Weatherford, Texas. That's about 30 miles west of Fort Worth. The Bush administration is rejecting a sweeping European Union target for reducing carbon emissions. The White House point man attending meetings in Berlin says the U.S. isn't against reduction targets, but wants to focus on specific areas. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was also in Berlin, on her own climate focus trip, which also took her to Greenland, where she met with researchers studying climate change. That's a look at what's happening now Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Carol, thank you very much. He blew the whistle on an alleged terror plot targeting a U.S. Army base.
[Brian Morgenstern, Tipster:] It was it was more of a moral dilemma at that point. I thought about whether or not it should be reported.
[Blitzer:] Now, he's being called a hero. Find out why he say his doesn't feel like one. Also, stopping the genocide in Darfur the Bush administration launching some tough new tactics, but will they work? The deputy secretary of state, John Negroponte, here in THE SITUATION ROOM. We'll be right back.
[Commercial Blitzer:] To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, President Bush ready to nominate a new World Bank president. A senior administration official tells CNN he'll tap former Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zellick to replace Paul Wolfowitz, who resigned in a scandal over a promotion he arranged his girl friend. The president ready to make it official, the announcement of Zellick, tomorrow morning. Also, plans underway to increase the number of Iraqi refugees allowed into the United States. State Department officials say the new regulations could allow as many as 15,000 by the end of the year. Only 69 Iraqi refugees have been cleared to enter since last October. And in Venezuela, another day of angry protests. Thousands of people demonstrating against the president, Hugo Chavez, and his decision to take a popular TV station off the air. Now he's threatening to seize another one. I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in THE SITUATION ROOM. We told you recently about the charges against half a dozen suspects accused of plotting an attack on U.S. troops in New Jersey. Now the man who tipped the authorities to the alleged plot is going public. Let's turn to our justice correspondent, Kelli Arena Kelli, tell our viewers what you're learning.
[Kelli Arena, Cnn Justice Correspondent:] Well, Wolf, the alleged plot was to gun down as many soldiers as possible at the Army base in Fort Dix, New Jersey. And we heard a lot about the plan, but not the whole story about how it was stopped until now.
[Arena:] Government officials say the terror plot never got off the ground thanks to a store clerk who was copying a video for the defendants. The government says the men, taped while training in the Poconos, were calling for Jihad and shouting in Arabic, "God is great!" [BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM CNN's "
[American Morning") Morgenstern:] Well, I saw men at a shooting range with handguns, rifles and what appeared to me as fully automatic weapons.
[Arena:] Brian Morgenstern went public for the first time today, talking first with CNN about his decision to go to police with what he saw. He says the defendants seemed like ordinary guys. [BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM CNN's "
[American Morning") Morgenstern:] I thought about whether or not it should be reported. I actually waited that night and weighed out my decisions.
[Arena:] Morgenstern says he had no idea what the group was allegedly up to until criminal charges were announced.
[Morgenstern:] It was pretty surreal. It was amazing, what I was reading and what I was hearing on the news.
[Arena:] Circuit City, where Morgenstern works, says it completely supported his actions and Morgenstern says he's gotten letters from family members at Fort Dix thanking him. The government calls him a hero.
[Unidentified Male:] And that's why we're here today, thanks to the courage and heroism of that individual.
[Arena:] It's all a bit much for him to swallow.
[Morgenstern:] All I did was to pick up the phone and make a call. The true heroes in this are our government and our law enforcement people who led a 16-month investigation.
[Arena:] Five of the men that Morgenstern turned in face life in prison, if they're convicted. The sixth faces up to 10 years in president. They're expected to plead not guilty Wolf.
[Blitzer:] Thanks for bringing us that report, Kelli. Thank you. They strike brutally and they're name itself strikes fear. Janjaweed, it's Arabic, meaning a man with a gun on a horse. These militiamen, allegedly backed by the Sudanese army and air force, have killed more than 200,000 people and driven another two million from their homes in the Darfur region. In an effort to stop the slaughter right now, President Bush today imposed new sanctions against Sudan, saying that the government is "complicit in the bombing, murder and rape of innocent civilians." And joining us now the deputy secretary of state, John Negroponte. Mr. Secretary, thanks for coming in.
[John Negroponte, Deputy Secretary Of State:] Thank you.
[Blitzer:] All right. Let's talk about the president's announcement today. It's been four years. Hundreds of thousands of people have died over these four years. And a lot of people are complaining, what's taking so long? Why not get this job done? What's the big stumbling block in saving these people from genocide?
[Negroponte:] Well, the big stumbling block is the government of the Sudan, and that's why today the president announced these additional sanctions against both Sudanese companies and Sudanese individuals to bring further pressure to bear on the government of President Bashir to comply with their undertakings to the international community.
[Blitzer:] What about sanctions against other third-country companies that deal with Sudan? Because that seems where a lot of the pressure might have an impact.
[Negroponte:] Well, look, the focus of our effort at this particular time is to, first of all, impose additional bilateral, unilateral sanctions against Sudan. Secondly, to work with other members, like-minded members of the United Nations, to urge them to adopt similar types of measures. And thirdly, to prepare the ground now for yet another Security Council resolution that would impose multilateral additional multilateral sanctions on the Sudan.
[Blitzer:] Because it looks like China has this incredibly significant economic relationship with Sudan right now, helping to prop President Bashir in power, allowing him to support the Janjaweed to do what they're doing in Darfur. Here's what the Chinese special representative on African Affairs says. "The cooperation between China and Sudan is helpful for the development of Sudan's economy and will fundamentally help Sudan to address the conflicts and wars in Sudan. Willful sanctions and simply applying pressure are not conducive to the solution of the problem and will only make the issue more complicated." You can't be satisfied with the Chinese willingness to deal so robustly, economically with Sudan.
[Negroponte:] Well, they have joined us previously at the United Nations in sanctions against Sudan in a Chapter 7 resolution last August of last year to deploy peacekeeping forces to that country. And they have also agreed with us that the issue of Darfur is an important subject in the bilateral...
[Blitzer:] But their economic relationship is robust. The oil trade is propping up this government in Sudan.
[Negroponte:] Let me make this point. They have agreed with us, both in reply to conversations that President Bush has had with President Hu Jintao, the secretary with here Secretary Rice with her counterpart in Beijing, and mine with my counterpart that this is an issue on the bilateral agenda between us. And China has been counseling to the country of Sudan that it behooves it to seek to comply with its international obligations or it will ultimately have to suffer the consequences...
[Blitzer:] Because you know that there's pressure mounting domestically here in the U.S. to squeeze the Chinese to get the job done, including Mia Farrow, the actress, and even some members of Congress suggesting raising the possibility of boycotting the summer Olympics in Beijing unless the Chinese start to get tough with the government of Khartoum.
[Negroponte:] I'm aware of that. And again, as I say, we have elevated to an important place in our dialogue with China. And I don't think we should let this discussion that we are having right now detract from the fact that it is the government of Sudan itself that is principally and fundamentally responsible for these problems, and it is they must who must take the requisite steps in order to put an end to this humanitarian tragedy. It is they...
[Blitzer:] But let me get back to China.
[Negroponte:] Sure.
[Blitzer:] Excuse me for interrupting. How much time do they have to not just talk the talk, but walk the walk and start to take some substantive action to squeeze President Bashir in Sudan?
[Negroponte:] Well, you saw President Bush gave a speech about a month ago and he warned, forewarned of these sanctions. He was then he had been persuaded by Secretary-General Ban of the United Nations to lay their implementation while the U.N. secretary-general worked his diplomacy. But now we've gone and imposed these bilateral sanctions, and we are preparing to advocate and to promote within the Security Council these multilateral sanctions. So, I suppose you asked me how much time will China have. Well, soon, quite soon, we will be confronting them and other members of the Security Council.
[Blitzer:] Within days or weeks?
[Negroponte:] Well, I wouldn't want to put a precise time frame on it, but the president indicated today we're going to start working with other members of the Security Council right away to shape a new Security Council resolution.
[Blitzer:] Here's what Joe Biden, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, a Democratic presidential candidate, said on May 21st. "I think nations, at some point, cede their sovereignty. When they engage in the genocide, they forfeit their sovereignty. Were I to make the decision, I would impose a no-fly zone immediately and commit forces to stop the Janjaweed now." The Janjaweed, the rebels who are out there in Darfur committing this genocide, with the backing of the government in Khartoum. What do you think of Biden's statement? He's speaking out for himself.
[Negroponte:] Well, I think he points to the fact that there is great insecurity in the Darfur region, and it's one of the reasons that we, along with others, advocate increasing the size of the international peacekeeping presence there from some 5,000 troops, which is what it is now, to some 17,000 to 20,000. And that's exactly what it is we are asking President Bashir to accept forthwith, is this expanded African Union-U.N. hybrid peacekeeping force. And it should be allowed to be deployed to Darfur as soon as possible.
[Blitzer:] Because there is a sense of urgency that people are dying and the suffering, the tragedy in Darfur, continues full speed ahead right now. Is that right?
[Negroponte:] Despite the fact of a peace agreement last year which the government of Sudan signed, the number of internally displaced people is increasing, insecurity continues, and the government is is guilty of a number of different forms of very, very bad behavior, including bombing of villages, continued arming and support of these Arab militias, the so-called Janjaweeds, and a host of other activities.
[Blitzer:] You've got a tough job ahead of you. But let's hope this is resolved and resolved quickly. The deputy secretary of state, John Negroponte. Thanks for coming in.
[Negroponte:] Thank you very much.
[Blitzer:] And still ahead, it's illegal to buy a Cuban cigar, but it's OK for U.S. companies to sell more than $1 billion worth of food and agriculture products to Cuba. Mary Snow's standing by, she's checking out this apparent double standard. And underground in Iran. Our Aneesh Raman takes us places Americans rarely see. He's the only U.S. TV correspondent in Iran right now. Stick with us. We'll be right back.