and katar was skeptical about americans making promises. they had done that before and things blew up and americans rotated out to get a new cast of characters. he was skeptical at first and wanted to test patriquin by saying send me a couple hundred gallons of fuel, can you send the small shi'ah enclave in ramada a few truckloads of sugar to help you guys -- and patriquin would deliver these promises and sometimes have fights with fellow americans saying you got to make it happen. if you don't do what you say you are going to do you are not a man. we can't make promises we don't keep so that was -- by september and october and november and december a critical period in the awakening, these two guys were littered with the blood brothers. catarrh gave him an iraqi tribal name. come back here and keep the house and your mind and get you set up and patriquin said i am already married but thanks. patriquin wanted to come back to iraq after things had stabilized. >> with the sunni awakening have worked the way it did without the surge? how impor

right now the taliban have opened political office in the middle eastern country of katar.rough the afghan government for a loop. they felt they were being sidelined. they wanted to open offices in a more afghan friendly country. they hope the negotiations will take place in saud ya arabia ar. any kind of dialogue about negotiations is very premature because what they have is a sort of wish list of demands they sent to the afghan government. they say they will not go to that negotiation table until the demands are met. demands that include the release of taliban leaders and figures. >> if and when those negotiations do take place, part of the discussion will revolve around women's rights. i understand there was a situation that happened in northern afghanistan where a woman was killed because she gave birth to baby girl. >> reporter: unfortunately, this is the type of news we hear in afghanistan on a daily basis. it happened before the taliban, it happened during the taliban and it has continued to happen after the taliban. what many women here fear is the few rights they h

against al-qaeda, the core al-qaeda against al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula and uae and yemen and katar and on and on, and there's more reins in southeast asia, just tremendous strides, and we hope this global terrorism forum builds on those strides and the counterterrorism experts are able to exchange best practices and identify problems and design solutions in a way that we have not been able to before on a multilateral basis. >> the government after two bombings happen in damascus two weeks ago accused elements that the bombings came from lebanon. dune if al-qaeda has a presence in lebanon? >> i'll just say we've seen the reports, and i don't have a further comment on them. we know there's been sympathetic groups to al-qaeda in lebanon for many years. you may recall that the lebanese forces went into one of the refugee camps years ago to deal with a group that had an al-qaeda-like ideology, so it is certainly true there's elements like that in lebanon over the years, and whether that had anything to do what's going on in syria is another matter entirely. >> the fact sheet on the bure