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so it is not going across the tigris are fighting another war there at the borders. there have been discussions between the syrian opposition recently to resolve this conflict. but any decisions i think will be courted native with the-- will be coordinated with thegovernment of iraq. this will not be unilateral by the krg. -- will be coordinated with the government of iraq, any decisions. >> a few threat from al qaeda in iraq, i believe the numbers have gone from about five to 10 suicide bombings a month up to about 30 a month. that is a big escalation. what do you attribute to that escalation, and what is your government doing about it? >> thank you. that is why we are here basically, to seek more help and support. really, the al qaeda network and its affiliates are a real serious challenge, let's say, to the stability of iraq and of the region. also, we see this emerging between al qaeda in iraq and nusra in syria and other affiliate groups that are flourishing in this kind of circumstance. there is experience in combating al qaeda and iraq. it is technology and in

tigris is back on september 9. three nights a week we will open up our phones and take a look at facebook and read some of your tweets on issues we are talking about tonight and looking at what some members of congress are up to as they head back to their home districts. here is north kiacarolina democrat kay hagan. alan nunnelee. lots of these tweets from members of congress on what they are up to. if you are interested, over the august break. the way you can access some of his comments from members of congress, if you're on twitter, go to the list and you can choose and see what members are tweeting as they spent time back in their home districts. we want to look at the issues of the announcement today that the president would not be meeting with vladimir put in any upcoming g-20 summit, not in the bilateral meeting, the one-on- one meeting with vladimir putin in moscow. the state department has been talking about this for couple days. they talked about it today, and the issue of the meeting coming up on friday a

. >> people have been gambling since organized society was formed on the banks of the tigris and euphratesambling. and they will gamble as long as there is life on this planet. and that's a fact. >> no one's saying that people can't gamble. this is about government using gambling to prey on human weakness for profit. >> les bernal is head of the national organization stop predatory gambling. he and massachusetts state senator sue tucker have been fighting a move to bring casinos and slot parlors to the bay state. >> we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression, and the daily voice of government to most americans is, "we're gonna push casinos, and we're gonna push lottery tickets." >> well, but you have a situation where states are desperate. they're way over budget. they have to find revenue somewhere. they know people will gamble. >> as a revenue raiser, it defies every principle. it's regressive. in other words, it takes far more money out of lower-income people's pockets than higher-income. it is cannibalistic. in other words, it eats other forms of revenue. when you ha

they've been crossing at a new bridge over the tigris river.re already are more than 150,000 syrian refugees registered in iraq. wall street ended a tough week on a down note. the dow jones industrial average lost more than 30 points to close at 15,081. the nasdaq fell three points to close at 3,602. for the week, the dow lost 2.2%. the nasdaq fell 1.6%. bert lance, who served as budget director for president jimmy carter, has died. he passed away last night at his home in georgia. lance was a carter friend and political ally who headed the national bank of georgia. he went to washington in 1977 to take the budget post in the new carter administration. within a few months, he was forced to resign his position amid a banking scandal, but he ultimately was cleared of wrongdoing. bert lance was 82 years old. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to jeff. >> brown: the national security agency's eavesdropping programs were back in the news today. margaret warner has the story. >> warner: for weeks, president obama has said the n.s.a.

with the completion of this pontoon bridge over the tigris river, iraq in particular has seen a dramatic influx in recent weeks. the u.n. says the total number of syrian refugees from the more-than-two-year conflict is now approaching two million. today it announced that the number of syrian children who've been forced to flee their country has reached a new milestone. >> last year around this time we had 70,000 syrian refugee children. today we have reached one million and that tells us something about the escalation of this crisis and the problems >> warner: at the za'atari refugee camp in jordan-- home to 130,000 displaced syrians-- some of those children said they just want to go home. >> ( translated ): all i wish is that syria could become peaceful again. that's all i want, for the trouble to stop. this time next year i hope everything goes back to normal, to the way it used to be. >> ( translated ): i want to return to syria to live in peace and to go back to school. i want to be able to play with my old friends again, just like before. i want our country to be safe, safe enough t

going across the tigris are fighting another war there at the borders. there have been discussions between the syrian opposition recently to resolve this conflict. but any decisions i think will be courted native with the government of iraq. this will not be unilateral by the krg. be coordinated with the government of iraq, any decisions. >> a few threat from al qaeda in iraq, i believe the numbers have gone from about five to 10 suicide bombings a month up to about 30 a month. that is a big escalation. what do you attribute to that escalation, and what is your government doing about it? >> thank you. that is why we are here basically, to seek more help and support. really, the al qaeda network and are a realtes serious challenge, let's say, to the stability of iraq and of the region. also, we see this emerging between al qaeda in iraq and n ousra in syria and other affiliate groups that are flourishing in this kind of circumstance. experience in combating al qaeda and iraq. it is technology and on al qaeda. networks and fighting them. the counterterrori

we had a soldier that was missing in the tigris river for three weeks in 2003, and i deployed with ause which was not the place for it. but we were desperate. we need to recover the remains of a soldier because the time we didn't know if he was mia. we use the unmanned underwater vehicles in ways that they were never designed to be used. we broke one but it was worth it. because we had a possible soldier missing in action. .. and there are some really imaginative and smart people out there that thinks some of them are just high school grads or something and they come up with really good ideas so the flexibility of that is very helpful. >> there's also -- i will add on to that as well -- there has been a move in the last several years i personally got involved in an office with the secretary defense on an exercise for a thunderstorm to find a counter drug activities in the caribbean. we gave the system -- there was a large displacement of unmanned vehicles made by penn state -- to sub deveron 5 up in washington state. that's the kind of thing you want to do. you want not to have indust

so it's not sending anyone across the tigris to fight another war.l there has been discussions, i think, between the syrian opposition recently to resolve this conflict, but any decisions, i think, will be coordinated with the government of iraq. it will not be unilateral by the krg. .. >> that is why we are here, basically, to get more help and support because, really, al-qaeda and the network and affiliates is as real a challenge to the stability of iraq and to the region. we see the merging between al-qaeda, iraq, syria, and other affiliate groups. they are flourishing in this kind of circumstances. that said, they have experience in combating al-qaeda, iraq, and its intelligence on al-qaeda, their network, on fighting them. i think the counterterrorism technique, we have to benefit from this to better relations with the united states' security forces to enhance our abilities and capabilities, really in terms of technology, weapons because it's not -- it's not going to stop them, i think, al-qaeda, as such. we have our own failure. with the govern