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and they needed me to translate my name 1st member and then they mare's it's just the whole firefight. on that particular morning different entities had. information that all seemed to be pointing to the same place a suspected bomb building. so. the multi-functional team went out. of. the compound was sort of isolated. as right outside the door the side of like a shower stall. they told me to stand there to kind of make sure nobody comes through. to the afghan nationals agree that they're going to walk in the door and they're going to learn to talk these council well as soon as they step through the entrance of the door
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they were cut down by such. fallen selection. then what i've described as a play on ball with hand grenades hand grenades just came flying over the wall. one of the 2 days preceding a. night and there was a throne inside the house. and something just exploded beside it. i got tossed i don't know 2 or 3 metres back. i got up and that's been the last my left eye and my right eye it was pretty badly damaged. and helicopters and airplanes started me. great opportunity to.
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3500 pound bombs dead center of that compound. gradually the guys started treating this as. containing things became quiet we moved down a little closer so we had a little bit quicker reaction time that they needed us guys start hearing breaking news that they were streaming and showing and stuff and i got scared i was thinking what should they do which they didn't know what to do. so i was just going to i was going to maybe just scare them away. and i just remember being. dumbstruck that there was somebody alive and that after all that bombing after all the war that's that we dropped in there somebody was still alive and.
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one was shot and killed immediately. after that on the internet. then i think that our turn the corner or we're shooting at the 4th i think and split when they won and. so he threw a hand grenade. i probably shouldn't even talk about it nobody claims to have seen me through the aid. and this soldier has as you know testified that i was under that debris and they couldn't have seen me so i always hold to the hope that you know i mean my memories were not truth. i reached down the move debris there's dead bodies land there.
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the body on top and gaping holes in the chest. and you could see down into the chest cavity and. this would all we think this one might be alive. the soldiers came in and they put me on the ground. see there are some rules the war. anyone would now become your responsibility so this wounded combatant person man child terrorist calling what you will you have to treat them in accordance with the law. could or said in perfect english just kill me now and then someone else replied. no you're going to live to tell all.
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i wish i could say i felt compassion for others at that time i really didn't they were the enemy and that's the way it is and that's how it has to be you know it's very easy for people who've never been or say oh you have to know you know you can't. the 1st time i saw him or he was really bad off he had a really large hole in his chest so it was just you know and. he had shrapnel all over his face. i don't know how he lived through it he was really gone. a soul the stitching all over his body he looked like. an autopsy had been performed on what he was a life. where i was 15 and their audience. was really creepy you look like some horrible went down there. people would fit me scream at me wanting
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them over a calling him a killer calling the scum bag they said that he was responsible for the death of an american soldier so they were filled with hatred they would tie me up to the bed. taking him out of the cell getting him. while his hands the shackled while he's got all these blooms and his shoulder on his chest to lift up crates of water pile them up kick them down again and make him palm up again and again. you could hear people screaming all the time. and then the guy would go for a few days and hear screaming screaming screaming and then he would come back. just . destroy person so you can only. imagine what happened to him. they always call me the monster diver very loud voice and you know i was basically yelling and throwing furniture around or going in
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there and performing a stage play in this is the character you have to be well you know i'm going to be that. he had a lot of tattoos the people that he did interior interrogate would come and tell me or stories. they were using stress positions the most common was to have them on their knees with their back straight but off their heels and their hands straight up in the air it's pretty painful your knees start really hurt your whole body hurts and. blows to the stomach slaps to the face trix in the ribs covered a mortar hadn't been truly cold. situations are just wrong controllable shaking of whole body doing everything but threatening them and then pours them are all grown up well in their minds take over. he come back tired exhausted. dazed. he was shaken very clearly by the interrogations. he's just a child who's mind that played with. sexual.
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abusers. who are drugged. humiliated or aborted darks sleep terror ation music is just. they throw off the whole book. the most tranquil i would see him was when he'd sit and read the koran with a voice that is almost or double just enough that he doesn't get punished. it put the rest of us to shame because people always trying to complain about something while the other end of us will explode completely. i remember just looking at him and there was the 1st time i ever really had any of the moral contemplation of how just a war is that this happens to a child that he gets wrapped up in something like this.
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the criteria to go to guantanamo i was speaking a western which. some general somewhere decided that hey if this big western language will they're up to no good it was way above my pay grade that was decided at then you know it's one of those things that again i thought it was ridiculous but it was my job and hayes are you going to get want on the. air with our shave their heads completely shaved to beards burn their uniforms that they're wearing their and put them into these blue jumpsuit and then they would get these goggles that had green duct tape on the house a lot of them they put those on they would put their most for a rifle range over their ears. of an mitts on their hands and then they would be double shackled on the hands want to around there were waist and leg share long leg shackles and then they would put them on the c. $130.00 or c. 17 and they were cargo strapped to the prisoners to the floor but handcuffed behind
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their back. for a while and human beings are doing to. the arm on the most dangerous. best trained best killers on the face of the are. terrorists there bob makers there are members of al qaeda the taliban and i think i know for certain is that these are bad people. there was nobody who sounded proud of having him in custody and it was always something that if you speaking to an interrogator who didn't like you it was something you could get back with other than the octogenarians that you have in custody you also got children like i'm
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a father and if he's in custody being treated this way and he's from a and neighborly allied nation like canada what hope do the rest of these people have in this one guard in guantanamo he would go out of his way just to humiliate me tag and i as we he was just trying to get me to do something cursed mean you know insult me. and he was really getting under my skin. then i thought you know i want to know who that guy is you know i'm going to stand up in the window and wait for him and know who he is so i can get back at him the next i get an opportunity and i just stood up at the door and i'm waiting and then i was thinking you know if i knew who that person is i'm going to allow him. i'm giving him more power of myself i'm giving him a place in myself that he doesn't deserve. he's not worth the meek hearing.
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we can all remember jim webb this guy is going through or the thing is if a person can inflict pain on another person and find pleasure and that. person must be going through a lot of problems like mental problems i don't know how you live with this conscious. he's probably living in the worst pain. these causing the it's temporary i'm very frustrated for a little bit but he's the one who's going to have to deal with this conscious later . you want to talk to our somebody. you know they so. they. want to go back. well not anything i think left that. i had about a young canadian kid who was detained abroad but it was not much information i
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wanted to do something i was just so offended the law could be so some thought. oh this is it is it is. it. is it is there are very. busy well i didn't really really well she you know my daughter but if you get a good medical care they threw on your lawyer. i was keen to see omar kind of this young kid that i had been fighting for for years and then i walk in to do so. and i see this boy sitting on the edge of a bed and this was cooled off with no windows there were no blankets on the bed
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making prisoners such as room out uncomfortable as part of the program. and he was twitching all over. and i just thought it was so incredibly wrong that when you know a young child to be to weigh in a coal. lineage. who was chained to a floor and looked like some throws and had tried broken. remember thursday night i really. everything is just a general memory gone time it's just you can i can tell you about a period but i can't see it would it be all times you were chained to the floor. you'd be locked in just
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a complete ironing th song. and. and i often thought. how do you propose that because i get a bit claustrophobic. i don't know what would have happened to me if i was close to 4 week. venus and soon i was leaving i think i knew what i said when i said i will be back and then you said anybody least. i think in the beginning has another guy who says he's he's here also me. and then i have hope or despair it's just another person you know i was in with the every i don't figure you'll come come in touch with us. and misused. including your father. i told you i think it would you know something that they cure visits. they are very
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for. the 1st few years a one ton of a i was just all over the place more severe and. ideologically i was just a mess i would be around a bunch of people outside acting like a talking snake and just doing everything they're doing and then they'd move me to a different place and i had to adapt to the new air neighborhood. or their systems are. they have. all of us as physicians particular psychiatrist and is senior officers.
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get too much experience with people who are highly manipulative so i ask myself when i met omar where's the manipulation not if. there's a manipulation where's the manipulation you don't get. why you care if you follow on a lot of the almost all of those ah yes. i don't want a lot of this all over the yes there was. always very i think ready. or is he a very. you know busy .
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as he was being questioned by the americans he was of course given water to train. but that he was not allowed to urinate and he had to have some point felt that he was going to splatter was going to burst and he was told to head to urinate on the floor and then after urinated on the floor he was told well now he had to clean it up bad that he was not given towels or allowed to take his shirt off but they had to in fact sort of roll around it to clean up the urine on the floor and that's what has been described as the human mop to. and i just couldn't believe what had happened to. you know out here so here's a young man younger than my own children who's been there at that point for 6 years. but. i say. tell me
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something that you help me that you show my government that your will even help us against a group of people who are bent on doing bad things. like. oh why why why you tell them. you know like. everybody recognized the prisoners and the soldiers those who are true to themselves those who are true understood that they're all roots. of children at war that the american military and everybody else is supposed to study and know we have over $1200.00 american soldiers killed in afghanistan and we've made a 15 year old boy pay for that. when
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these guys went to camp and they were making smores and learn how to tie knots there learn how to make bombs and kill americans of course he defended himself he just did not give any you know i i thought they were video simple kits but it turned to be the at once if you are in that situation would you have done i would farto i have the last drop of blood fall out of me too you know but he didn't buy it for 4 hours 3 of his friends who were with him and been killed used the only sole survivor what did you expect him to do when any kind of fire for happens anybody who's still standing is fair game because anybody who's not taking part in it's going to have cover when it's a war you're shooting at him why did he shoot at you if you kill 3 why can't he kill one many why is it why does nobody say you killed 3 of his friends what does everybody say he's killed an american soldier and we're going to hold terrorists accountable when they kill american military forces he's
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a terrorist when i took the job i came into it believing the whole worst of the worst montra you'll see evidence when we get into the courtroom of the smiling face of omar kotter you know as he builds bombs to kill americans. there's 18 years there is the one member. and i just took it as being fact and tell him no one got into more and you know this is part of talking. i heard different version of what happened. last time so it's for over a week. though is my memory more accurate a soldier who was. actually there. are one side over that person or the other side it really. does make a huge difference. it's a mockery of justice. we had to fix done from start to finish. no evidence of
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torture was permitted. there was a visitor of any defense. in order to conclude this is a rigged system. i think you have to infer that the president the congress neema prosecutors the judge the jury the convening authority the court a military commission to review the d.c. circuit court of appeals and the u.s. supreme court are all corrupt i felt like mickey mouse disney world you know they wanted to call this military justice by having a 2nd rate process. and so in order to call it military somebody had to put on the costume. the joke we used to make yet to lose to win because if you charged as a war criminal and convicted with a room with 7 people that have been convicted and sentenced 5 of the 7 aren't kuantan a mono so if you actually get charged and convicted as they were criminal you've
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got a 5 in 7 chance of going home. if you're never charged with a crime you could spend the rest of your life sitting at one time which is extraordinarily ironic i persuaded all mine to plead guilty to take a deal and wanted one of his 1st thought as far as the canadian public will believe i'm a terrorists and i said to him you know if he don't do it to me you spend the rest of your life here. but i was the only way out. which i decided twice and both times they just suspended it. so i knew that i was never going to be charged in the magic of isis the only way to get my case resolved is to take a plea deal. one unit one time when the rest to come back to canada
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there's no injustice that was done up until 2010 when we went down there for trial and offered a plea bargain that might have been an injustice because that was what i felt was a political decision they did not want him to be the 1st one they did the guantanamo child was the 1st one he had like that well for ever be a murderer. in my children my entire family or more carter is a well known supporter of the al qaeda terrorist network and a convicted terrorist. caught her family was viewed as canada's 1st family of terror and no one was really rallying to bring him home. for a family is their very opinionated and that's not always a smart thing. they've said things that. was not
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a very smart there that they should have said well if you didn't go and meet kids on the street well nothing to do with andy and time delay to die in your bed to die is he as a martyr yeah he answered and i know. you've been a symbol very very simple in a heap it's have it it's have it you know i've been me one time i'm all for 20 years and if there is any place where i was going to be brainwashed was in guantanamo where i only had. only one source and florence and that was not necessarily their healthiest and i think i did ok here i live in canada my family is only one 3rd of and 4 and. 5 but i have a 1000000 other and 4 and so all i don't think people should worry about my family
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if anybody's going to be. affected i think they may be affected by the truth of their. i hope so any race his notoriety or his fame or infamy what do you want to call it in kuantan a mole is one that's been created for him by those who are holding him he didn't do it himself he's nothing he's really done in incarceration in custody that has made his case more prominent than anybody else's his circumstances of what what's made that happen and his treatment and who he was when it started i.e. a being a child the child who grew into a man encountered him on knows nothing other than that you know you raise your children to own up to what they do you accept responsibility for it ask forgiveness and we don't conduct ourselves that way as a country and that's really just bewilders me. there's
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a saying that's attributed to gandhi is through our suffering they're going to see the error of their ways through our injustice they'll see the error of their ways and worse through mars' injustice that definitely i started to see there if you wish to know it was definitely here and he helped me in that sense in the sense of regaining my humanity it was was partially because or him i guess i want to thank him for that. after a decade long legal battle all marred catterick is back in canada. this whole transfer has been quite a shock to my system at least in one town of maule he had some come out camaraderie from fellow muslims. and the moment to ride on canadian soil. is an attempt to stab him you know have interest then i was able to negotiate his transfer to reverence and since he's arrived in edmonton he's a life has been miserable. this white supremacy just. as threatened but
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i have never met anybody who's been so abused and so abandoned by so many we should know better. than omar khadr. that this guy came up to me and he told me he killed that soldier and my family in the military and i'm going to punch you. there was a mistake on my door that opened that chance that you have seen the face. i try not to on the past. it was either that. or. be. you know who calls to in aid and misery and think of how bad life is but that's not going to get me anywhere i try to think about things that will hopefully make my life and hopefully the life of the people around me better.
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one more for me out to the families to be with you for a long time. and i really appreciate him. for 3 for the last 11 years. when he rises not to give me a pretty big bill very very private very good night and the problem with what i'm saying is people are just going to think that i am ph. you know you go through a struggle you go through a trauma you're going to be bitter you're going to hate some people it's just a normal thing to do and this guy i'm not having these natural emotions it's probably hiding something it's exceeded words and he's just trying to find his new balance a 0 it will be i'm sure it will be great for have to have a chat with you hey you. sure that's. what time did you get to see it you know like for. ott. i could see the
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whole the only place. that i was so i still feel that i want freedom i can just go on out i'm tempted to see how far i can go without sleep to. jilt clearly you've done that once before years ago it's not a good thing it could occur it's not always the difference a serious. how much to what all the oh you well know i was and are normally thought for it's. called me a. place to go before you know i said to me back it's really very much this is the real thing that will last increases to be the secret. might. be strange to.
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all. i've. been reading through forever. this is your for good you know you do intend kind of fuisz you are that means you got to be to bed by 10 o'clock. the blues album. does he know if. somebody says complained i here are going to wind up feeding you not. going to be sad about it 3 when you see my wife. you feel you don't hunger strike you. is just like everything must be true it's not i'm sorry i'm sorry. there are no secrets here. just the boat will. do just about right but.
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i have to plug it in less. 24 hours for 2 hours. but a very good around to. be asserted here and there then this is who i was really up to it. it's part of leslie goes further for that side of it it's just. what you're here there you dave. i don't wish people to love me i don't wish people to hate me i just wish for people to do steep turns. even though i don't like the big list of the. lot of ways louisa had. been the custom to just stay in the. same thing they have
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in bed with him in guantanamo. buildings are very close so when we look up there's always a building ready around somewhere so ready i almost forgot to list the sky was very low it's given larger. i would like to be given the chance i spent i don't know i don't. i don't 13 years and. police is here. if the cops are here they're going to want me to stand out there and. throw myself. welcome. to the big if we do know what they're for sure we show the best earth
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hope is that there were things going to go very well and i guess just to reassure us walder serve. not sure how you're feeling. your experiences but we are here to help so if we go away for 2 weeks hold them just and don't do the job well without food it's nice if you think of rice where someone is less than friendly or you do encounter some mention of worms there are some bumps that come up please do let us know and we came hope you noticed as best we can arrange that reward has to listen because. we're here to work with us from charlotte smith or carter they look to you they hear what it's like like today very thank you thank you very much thank you for taking the far it's good luck thank you. for the longest time. anybody is that i wish that i could just get out of prison and the next door on the street who nobody knows. nobody gives
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a steak and. that would be. discarded yeah i'm sure you know how to make it oh yeah sure how to wash dishes to tell you what a. goal of something in my life. what do you. think. it's abstract i don't have anything. mature this ticket like i like goodness i like. peas they like happiness i like joy so abstract ideas. i'm still new in the material world. and i have to figure out what the people who have you to write to be should be international usually out i like people who are beautiful things either.
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just make. them in a different room give them as. i would in to wish this experience on anybody but i have a hard time thinking about wishing that i haven't gone through this experience that people today say happy fairy cliff you can go back would you change anything i would change you know the firefight mary but within that teens a lot of things that i've come to know wonderful people i've come to know myself because of this experience. and it's a very hard trade for me. but things happen for a reason and sometimes you have to fall. to be able to appreciate standing upright it's been an incredible journey between
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you and us it's just. it's just the beginning. this guy's not going to be easy. you know he's a cutter these guys are stubborn streak in him you know that's what give me survive it. yes. so that's one of the basic skills i went to learn this photo from a window. my problem right now is i'm trying to do everything all at the same time.
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i don't know if i'm worried there is a plan just there were in that it's not going to just go into to experience everything. that's. in a few days and. call down and start taking thing is a little bit slow or. try to enjoy. here's the small things around. the effects of the incarceration i don't think they manifested in day to day life they manifested at night when you're alone with your thoughts and then they will come rushing back when you're not busy and that's when it happens and it still happens. from time to time the effect of that. but most people don't get to see that. i think for a moment it would might be quite different because. for a significant portion of life i think probably not the majority of his life he's
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been more present in the not so he will require a great deal most of what i know this is real but. being living prison for 12 years or 13 years and i've been carrying myself and in particular way for that long. and it's going to take some. of a not too long take some time to kind of ease up and. their guard down. no one of those days are just jumping to the good crawl under the bed ready and just cram as a. from
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inside the walls of a west african prison comes home. a chance to create to express emotion and take the 1st steps towards rehabilitation. a renowned choreographer has shared his passion for darkness inspiring prisoners to perform and to reach beyond the ill deeds of their past and the confines of their present to the dance of the us a witness documentary on al-jazeera. out of the northern caspian is just a very little area of low pressure this is circulation and not much has come. of it a few showers around to mess down his back is down and it's more or less form apart so throughout saturday that we got a northerly breeze indicating the attempt to change of season there's not much in the air frankly still 28 interim by 41 in baghdad dry as
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a bone across to afghanistan and fairly dry back to the coast and it's raining but a shower too may well develop in turkey or in cyprus is the circulation the tries to get going but otherwise it's still fairly dry and if anything with a change in the wind direction it's getting hotter again in iraq 45 in baghdad is well above where it should be that's visible further south no longer that northerly breeze blowing down the gulf not much breeze atoll around the gulf states are above 14 but the still the off shoot to the southwest monsoon bringing vast amounts of cloud to yemen to amman which is a prompt for potential thunderstorms of the high ground among it also in western side of yemen and western side of saudi arabia i would increase in tensions a hint that the heavy if is coming to an end the cloud will break and the drizzle will stop.
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big stories generate fountains of headlines it seems that much the media is still struggling with how to deal with it with different angles from different perspectives and you hold to can separate the spin from the facts again no doubt the misinformation from the journalism how careful must be your words but some tough stuff has to be said so some critics have to be made listening post on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks while the lunar lander has been tossed officials expect to receive images will be all but up with detailed coverage dangers refrain from black blood the wrong way before the war you could not even heard of dorian. from around the world his body will lie in state for a few days in huge movie theater at the national geo cities in the capital.
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on counting the cost of a technocrat and the defacto leader has been ousted well his replacement is saudi arabia's energy minister fit any better looking than struggle to get more for its oil plus the cost of adapting to a warming planet counting the cops on a. drones attack 2 majors saudi oil facilities yemen's who 3 rebels claim responsibility. on all by this and this is all to see a live from doha also coming up a statement morial for the zimbabwe's former leader robert mugabe is the nation dry . pulls with his divisive legacy. west african leaders meeting to discuss the
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growing security threats from groups linked to al qaida and i saw. the bahamas prepares for another tropical storm just days after how they can dorian cause devastation across the islands. drones are fit to saudi aramco oil facilities triggering a large explosions just days after the kingdom said the oil giant's much anticipated stop listing would happen very soon yemen's who the rebels have claimed responsibility for the attacks saudi arabia's interior ministry says one attack happened at the site. in the country's eastern province the other attack was at about 150 kilometers northeast of riyadh. the company says the processing plant is the largest crude oil stabilization plant
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in the world it's estimated it can process up to 7000000 barrels of crude oil a day this is the latest attack on saudi oil facilities claimed by hooty rebels in recent months and august 19th drones attack the oil and gas field the drones carried explosives and caused a fire at a natural gas processing plant another drone attack on may 14th targeted a 1200 kilometer pipeline for saudi crude oil the country's energy minister said the drones hit to pump stations causing minor damage and a fire. some of binge of it has examined the strategic importance of the politics of saudi oil here's some of that documentary. it seemed like a great idea the world's largest oil producing company pumping millions of barrels a day to become the world's largest ever traded stock on porsche can never at the place see it have been for you or to not. be asleep at the end
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because prince eager to make his mark as a reformer wanted to personally trade saudi aramco for of valuation of 2 trillion dollars look the venture failed to get off the ground and the prince's vision 2030 seems blurry. saudi aramco is almost like the basis of politics in saudi arabia they are always intrinsically tied everybody in saudi arabia in one way or another is a beneficiary saudi aramco. arabia it needs a strong rand paul and vice versa as well the history of saudi aramco is the history of saudi arabia transforming itself from an isolated tribal society into a global presence. well that was a taste of some of the events documentary on saudi aramco he's joining us live now here in doha good to have you with us it's clear from just that clip the saudi aramco is absolutely the heart of politics in saudi arabia how much damage does
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this do well rob saudi aramco is not an ordinary company it is a company which runs the country and this is one of the most important countries in the middle east so this is this is going to be a major blow you've seen the frequency and the intensity of the attacks that have been targeting will facilities in the past but what you see here and with the extent of the fire it looks like that they're getting better intelligence they're targeting specific areas of take for instance as you mentioned in your intro is one of the largest facilities about 70000. nearly a 1000000 barrels right 700000 barrels a day so this is going to be a major blow for oil production we don't know how much of the facility has been damaged we don't know how much of the facility is intact but this would bring down the oil production to a fraction of what it does now and you have to realize that saudi aramco is one of
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those companies which actually has a spear capacity of $2000000.00 barrels to give you an idea of what $2000000.00 barrels are iraq which is the 2nd largest producer in opec has a total capacity of a 1000000 barrels so that's how big saudi aramco is so it is going to have a major implication in not just saudi oil production but oil markets across the globe the timing of this is significant as well as no because as we mentioned before the saudi arabia was intending to float at least part of the company on the stock market what do you think that is going to do to potential investors well it is being on the cards for a few years now we don't know exactly if when and if saudi arabia was going to float this company the documentary that you just mentioned we discussed in detail that is going to be a very very complicated. process because like i said it's not an ordinary company this is the company which is at the heart of the kingdom this is a company which is bringing in revenues for the for the saudi royal family you cannot put it on
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a public stage because you open it to scrutiny and as we know that saudi saudi arabia and saudi oil futures have been very heavily guarded so it is obviously going to be a blow to all of the people who are thinking of investing in saudi aramco but we don't know whether it was going to happen in the 1st place and where it was going to happen its sources in saudi aramco have ruled out that it is going to happen in new york whether it's going to happen in london whether it's going to happen in riyadh whether it's going to happen at all and it also coming at a time where there's been major changes in the leadership of saudi arabia the oil minister has been to place the saudi aramco chief has been a place where it is there's a lot of changes that are happening in iran co and this is probably not the best of times where it's one of the one of its major facilities has come under attack you were talking about the fact that this gave the impression that the who these were getting better intelligence is it a surprise given the research that you've done the facilities in saudi arabia perhaps are not as well protected as they should be given the amount of warning
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that saudi arabia has been given for these it's eyes there's not much you can do to guard in oil facility in this day is the traditional security that you can put into place there. is security to check posts that you can put into place there anti-aircraft guns that you could bound the problem with small drones is because they're so small you you can actually see that the sophistication of hooty drones and there's a whole trajectory and that we've seen throughout this conflict since the saudis started this war in yemen that it has been getting better and it has been getting smaller it has been getting more accurate and this is something that we've seen in the fight against i salute that i still got this capability and with time they improved it because all it needs in is an operator and you can inflict a lot of damage on a large target where you cannot see these drones coming and you cannot detect them and when you do detect them it is probably too late osama thanks very much indeed. african leaders are gathering in form and zimbabwean president robert mugabe's
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states memorial tribute so being paid to the country's founding father who died last week in singapore aged 95 his burial will then take place in about a month's time ofter muslim is built at national he was a clerk in the 100 tosses joining us live from hadi just give us some indication about why in this burial is likely to take place. president a muslim and i was there that they will need to build the near my face a grave for robert mugabe the family says this is going to take time at least 80 days not involving who loves him with love they want to celebrate his life say that's a good out you have agenda to be back there in zimbabwe some people say officials knew the guy was going to die there why they built this place in the 1st place secondly who's going to pay for it is it going to be the family always going to the taxpayers money if the taxpayers' money how much is it going to cost this the
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country with the economy on its i mean you can do it. in public hospitals you get certain things in stores just sort of just a few in cash and he was struggling to make ends meet feel building the space look great that the you know they could probably go but it is not necessary. give us some indication of what's going to be happening in the stadium today. while it's the memorial service at the national sports stadium a 60000 feet of stadiums in a couple of hours a lot of people are expected to come some very important people are coming for example the main opposition leader nelson chamisa he thinks he'll come and over the years and lobby has had a very rocky difficult relationship with the opposition which i mean the opposition you don't think he's going to put it that is different than one out and cut in pay just big to mugabe didn't cancel heads of state coming from countries such as that big a king and it which will give me another. as well mainly from the acting continent
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i've been very important for many zimbabweans some of the. ruining a lot was a problem for me but i'm confident about the. people the hammock the can act in it liberates that helped him what mularkey will he help them congregate be independent from white minority usually the end of the year to the coming year to pay their respects they could take a couple of hours into the afternoon some leaders may actually get to meet you again meet the type of people to say the goodbye to mugabe a celebrate a man something with a great record waking when the official burial is going to be right now they're being told it could be at least in 30 days time. leaders in west africa are holding an emergency summit in book you know fossil on terrorism on top of the agenda is a review of the g 5 it's a security alliance formed to combat a sharp rise in cross border attacks from on the groups but what exactly is the g 5 and why are they being accused of failing to secure the region. chad mali and
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mauritania form the group in 2014 but over the next few years attacks from al-qaeda and i saw the philly 2 groups have risen dramatically in 2017 with help from friends a 5000 troop italian was set up but so far it's failed to make a major difference and it's a people have been killed and tens of thousands have been displaced since the beginning of this year this week alone at least 30 people have died in attacks in northern bookie to fossil catherine sawyer reports from the capital we're going to go. heads of state from this i arrive in one of the duke they's a security crisis in the region following an inside to see by armed groups allied to al qaeda and the islamic state of iraq and the levant fighters have carried out a series of attacks in book enough mauritania chide and. they scan some. and that this problem could spread beyond us to hell and to other coastal countries
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. we have said that there needs to be a link between development and security if we develop the affected areas there will be security and if we provide good security we can develop those areas this summit has been organized by west africa's regional bloc and has brought together presidents from the so help countries called jew 5 mandated to fight terrorism and illegal migration a crossbow does representatives from other west african countries affected by extremist groups like the boko haram are also here book enough fossil has seen increased attacks in recent years until a few years ago when book enough former president place come power it was removed from power in a right the country was largely safe but in 2016 on this street in the capital where the bugle and gone into the hotel.
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