[Susan Roesgen, Cnn Guest Anchor:] The ethics verdict is in. Will District Attorney Mike Nifong's zeal in the Duke Lacrosse case cost him his law license?
[Ben Wedeman, Nbc News Correspondent:] This is a taste of the mayhem to come. Fatah has now taken revenge on Hamas, destroying everything it can, burning their offices, killing their members.
[Roesgen:] CNN is there as Palestinian infighting reaches new levels. Plus, this soldier picks up where her best friend and husband left off. And
[Morehouse College Student:] Every time it happens, I feel like I want to tear up because I've never been in that position myself. So I see it. I listen. And it honestly hurts.
[Roesgen:] American students making an effort in South Africa. I'm Susan Roesgen, filling in for Fredricka Whitfield. And you are in the "CNN NEWSROOM." North Carolina District Attorney Mike Nifong is about to learn his fate. The prosecutor in the Duke Lacrosse case has been found guilty of serious ethics violations. A panel from the North Carolina State Bar has begun the penalty phase of the hearing. CNN's Susan Candiotti is with us live in Raleigh with more on the case Susan?
[Susan Candiotti, Cnn News Correspondent:] Hello, Susan. Embattled Attorney Mike Nifong may have said he made mistakes, he didn't do it on purpose and that he was terribly sorry. But that was not good enough and it did not impress the ethics panel, who found Mike Nifong guilty of the majority of the 19 ethics violations against him, that he grossly mishandled, they said, the Duke Lacrosse case, including failure to turn over critical DNA information and evidence that appeared to clear those players.
[Candiotti:] The prosecutor even said, at one point, that Mr. Nifong, in his words, did not act as a minister of justice but a minister of injustice. And here is the chairman of the panel.
[F. Lane Williamson, Disciplinary Committee Chairman:] Engage in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in violation of rule 8.4c of the revised rules of professional conduct. The answer is yes.
[Candiotti:] And now that he has been found guilty, now the penalty phase continues. They are hearing testimony and have heard testimony from a couple of parents of the players, including Dave Evans, the father of David Evans, one of the accused players who has been exonerated in all of this. He talked about the traumatic effect and impact this has had on their entire family, something he said that will haunt them the rest of their lives.
[Dave Evans, Father Of Duke Player David Evans:] He believes that when he dies, that it will be reported, no matter what else he did during his life, that he was one of the three Duke Lacrosse players who was accused of rape.
[Candiotti:] Of course, yet to come exactly how Mr. Nifong will be penalized. The ultimate sanction, losing his license. Susan, back to you.
[Roesgen:] OK, Susan, while you wait for that penalty to be announced, let's bring in our CNN Legal Analyst Avery Freeman. Avery, Susan just mentioned what the penalty might be. Besides disbarment, what are the other possible penalties in this case? Okay. We're having some technical problems bringing in Avery Freeman. Again, we'll stay on that case when they decide what they're going to do with District Attorney Mike Nifong. The other big story, the faintest trace of two missing American soldiers, declared dead by militants in Iraq, today the military announced that it has found the IDs of Specialist Alex Jimenez of Lawrence, Massachusetts, and Private Byron Fouty of Waterford, Michigan. Those ID cards turned up in an enemy safe house in Samarra more than 100 miles from where the soldiers were last taken, apparently kidnapped last month in a raid. We spoke today with Private Fouty's step-father.
[Gordon Dibler, Step-father Of Private Byron Fouty:] Well, our last conversation was on his birthday, April 17, and we he had been discussing his his desire to go in to being a medic. And I was real proud of him for that for wanting to be a healer. Our last actual words were that we loved each other.
[Roesgen:] And if you could send a message out today, what would you say?
[Dibler:] If I could send out a message today, that our hearts are anxiously waiting his return and that we love him very much and that his sisters and I are both waiting, with everything we have, and that his brothers and sisters that are helping support him are always thinking of him.
[Roesgen:] And now with more on that search, CNN's Karl Penhaul is embedded with American soldiers in Samarra. He joins us now live Karl?
[Karl Penhaul, Cnn News Correspondent:] The details that we're getting now about the discovery of these two ID cards sounds quite spectacular. This began as an intelligence-driven raid on June 9, last week, when a company of airborne paratroopers went in by helicopter to what was known to be an occasional safe house used by al Qaeda insurgents. There was a firefight there. We're told that four insurgents fled out of the house. At that stage, paratroopers breached the house and in it they found an Aladdin's cave of intelligence information. We've been told that they have found huge amounts of computer equipment, huge amounts of computer data. There is a lot of video devices. Seems this house was also being used as a production center for some of the video that these insurgents put out. There were also bundles of documents. It was when the soldiers took back this bundle of documents to base that they suddenly discovered the two ID cards of Specialist Alex Jimenez and Private Byron Fouty. It was at that stage that the battalion commander ordered a whole battalion back out into the field. They conducted a 72-hour search using forensics experts and search dogs to look for physical traces of these two missing soldiers. They were captured south of Baghdad on May 12. After that intense search, the company what the battalion commander told us is that there was no indication that the two missing soldiers were ever present in this region. What is surprising and has taken them all by surprise is these two ID cards were found there at all. The area of Samarra where they were found, about six miles south of the city of Samarra, in a rural area surrounded by orchards, is about 120 miles north of Usaf here in the Triangle of Death where these two soldiers were captured in combat Susan?
[Roesgen:] Karl Penhaul reporting live for us with the freshest information on the search of those two missing soldiers. Karl Penhaul embedded with our troops in Samarra. Meanwhile, Palestinians are trying to sort out their future now. This week's Hamas victory in Gaza has put Gaza and the West Bank on two very different and bloody paths. While Hamas is trying to consolidate its power in Gaza, the rival Fatah faction is trying to do the same thing in the West Bank. CNN's Atika Shubert has been following developments in Jerusalem.
[Atika Shubert, Cnn News Correspondent:] After a humiliating defeat in Gaza, Fatah forces are now exacting their revenge across the West Bank. [voice-over]: Fatah militant group the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade stormed into the Palestinian legislative counsel in Ramallah today attacking the offices of Hamas legislatures. Most Hamas lawmakers stayed home precisely to avoid these type of attacks. Still, Fatah gunmen attempted to apprehend the deputy speaker of Parliament, dragging him out before a crowd. But he was later released. This is the kind of lawlessness that the new Prime Minister Salaam Fayad will have to face with his new emergency cabinet. But he could get a boost if the United States decides to lift an embargo on the Palestinian authority in place now for more than a year. Palestinian President and Fatah Leader Mahmoud Abbas met with the U.S. counsel general today to discuss the lifting of the embargo. It was originally put in place because of U.S. and Israeli objections to the Hamas-led government. But now that President Abbas has dissolved that government, the U.S. has indicated that it may consider lifting those financial sanctions. In Gaza, meanwhile, Hamas leaders insist that they are still in charge and leading the Palestinian authority. And while Hamas forces have taken over the streets of Gaza, they have not been able to control rampant looting there, including the home of the late Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat. [on camera]: Now that the Palestinian territories had been divided in two, many Palestinians are asking, who's in charge and when will law and order be returned? Atika Shubert, CNN, Jerusalem.
[Roesgen:] Here's another look now at the fighting there. A burning building in the West Bank is a powerful symbol of the rage among the Fatah supporters fighting the rival Hamas. CNN's Ben Wedeman saw this attack firsthand and he brings us the story from the town of Nablus.
[Ben Wedeman, Cnn News Correspondent:] Fatah gunmen ransacked Hamas' media office in Nablus. Destruction, the theme of the day. Fatah answers their rampage in Gaza with its own. On the streets below, Fatah fighters warn this is only the beginning. We'll continue to do this until Hamas has been destroyed, says gunman Abu Scunda. This is the law here, delivered through the barrel of a gun. Blind rage smashing everything associated with Hamas. [on camera]: This is a taste of the mayhem to come. Fatah has now taken revenge on Hamas, destroying everything it can, burning their offices, killing their members. [voice-over]: This was the first Hamas supporter Nablus to be killed. 31-year-old Anees Salus. Relatives say he was grabbed as he left a mosque Thursday, bundled into a car and driven away. Mourners accuse Fatah of being behind the killing. Specifically, they blame Mohammad Da'lun, who was Fatah's strong man in Gaza before it was overrun by Hamas. No one is investigating how he was killed, Anees' father tells me. No one is investigating anything. A few hope the carnage will end soon. God willing, this was the last killing, says Nablus resident Abu Mohamed al-Halabi at the funeral, and we'll be brothers again. With anger on both sides, it doesn't look like the bloody conflict between Hamas and Fatah will be so easily buried. Ben Wedeman, CNN, Nablus on the West Bank.
[Roesgen:] Coming up in the "CNN NEWSROOM," a mysterious case in California, dead dolphins, killed not by any natural cause but by a gun. We'll be right back.