his challenger, abdullah abdullah at 35%.e don't know what would have happened in a run-off, but it is true when an incumbent is below 42%, in a run-off he's in trouble. >> what kind of fraud are we talking about? what was going on in afghanistan? >> it was what i call wholesale fraud. there were large parts of the south of afghanistan where no voting took place at all, yet where hundreds of thousands of votes are recorded. just to look at a few key provinces, kandahar, the second to largest province in the country. we estimated that the turnout in kandahar was in the range of 10%. but the votes that were reported suggested a turnout in the city of 30%, the outer district, 60%, in some districts well over 100%. in kandahar probably ten times as many votes are recorded as people cast votes. >> now, you also talked about these very belligerent statements that hamid karzai is making. anti-american, antioch pags i- , and there are some who are saying he's playing to a feeling in afghanistan who is tired of just seeing foreigners

rafi the musician was there; he'd organized the entertainment.qm that's where najibullah met abdullah narrator: abdullah's owner and rafi sat nearby, listening to the interview. >> the afghan criminal justice system is not working, and that is a big issue. the only way to stop bacha bazi is if you prosecute people who actually commit the crime. and that's what we need because the laws are there in the books against this practice. >> narrator: najibullah went to see police authorities in takhar province to ask if those laws are being enforced. the deputy chief of police is mahmud al-hassan. >> narrator: but what about their own police officers, like satar khan, chief of the youth crime department? najibullah's camera had discovered officer khan in the audience watching the dancing at that illegal bacha bazi wedding party. not only that, he found the police department's chief investigator, jabar khan, there, too. ♪ ♪q >> narrator: four months had passed. shafiq had started his dancing lessons ahead of schedule. dastager had chosen as his tutor his own favorite dancer, imam. éjdtq) ]inki

the uae would probably now prefer to forget sheik abdullah 1999 tourism. i was hoping for a nod but i didn't get one. these days, sheik abdullah is a foreign minister and a key and valued interlocutor with the united states. successfully helping to guide the so-called one, two, three agreement through congress so that the uae can access u.s. technology and generate electricity from civil nuclear power plants. sadly, in terms of the u.s. trade deficit, the uae has selected south korean nuclear plants. i mention the saudi and uae visits to kahuta because they help define what we mean by nuclear security. and also help illustrate the way others see it as well. to ordinary people, i.e., not the likes of us policy wonks the term nuclear security seems like an oxymoron. it will be interesting to see how the white house explains the term to the public during next week's summit here in washington, d.c. i would suggest that to some states, nuclear security is the possession of nuclear weapons. to other states, it is the protection offered by allies such as the unit

abdullah abdullah who's a physician and his principle opponent.s is fairly well known among diplomats in kabul. these kinds of tirades he's produced are not rational. it can't be rational for him to say he's going to join the enemy of the united states. or to accuse the u.n. of fraud that he himself committed. now, there are reports in the palace -- from the palace that he uses drugs, hashish. i don't know the accuracy of that, but i have some confidence in the sources. >> let me ask you about our situation over there. we americans, we have fighting forces in the field over there who are in harm's way as we speak on post defending our interests over there. as you understand them, is it in our interest to continue to support the karzai government? >> that's not really the issue. what he said is offensive, but we're not in afghanistan to defend hamid karzai. but the larger problem is that in order for our strategy to work, which is a counterinsurgency strategy, we need to have a credible afghan partner and hamid karzai, who has been in office for ei

those include the president of armenia, the president of china , chancellor merkel of germany, king abdullah ii of jordan, the prime minister of malaysia. the prime minister of pakistan. president zuma of south africa. and the president of kazakhstan. in addition to the president's activities this evening, the -- at the white house the president will host a screening of the documentary film "nuclear tipping point," a film which focuses on today's nuclear dangers. the screening will be attended by four distinguished statesmen. formers secretary of state george schultz and henry kissinger, former senator sam nunn as well as film narrator dunn and colin powell. they share the personal experience that led them to write three "wall street journal" opinion editorials to reduce reliance on foreign oil and ultimately end them as a threat to the world. >> which -- >> that is -- i want to say 6:30 but i will double check. [inaudible] >> pakistan. >> hold on. let me see. the prime minister. i will admonish said note takers and i regret the error. with that i think we're done with our previously schedul

meantime, karzai's main political rival, abdullah abdullah, charged the afghan leader had tried to shift the focus from internal corruption. >> he thinks by give thaling message he has taken a populist stand, anti-foreigner. the people of afghanistan may be -- there might be wide spread illiteracy, povertyy in many, many areas. at the same time, to underestimate their awareness is a fatal mistake. >> holman: also today, three german soldiers were killed in a clash with taliban fighters in the north. more than 4,000 german troops are serving in afghanistan. in pakistan, the attorney general resigned today. he said the government has blocked him from investigating president asif ali zardari on charges of graft. and the pakistani parliament began work on a constitutional change to strip the president of the power to fire an elected government. in northern china, rescuers detected the first signs of life from inside a flooded coal mine. 153 miners have been trapped there since sunday. today, state television showed footage of rescuers banging on pipes, hoping to reach the miners, and then, c

now jordan under king abdullah's leadership like many arab countries is deeply supportive of president obama desire to establish peace are on the basis of the two states living side by side in peace and security. and we believe this is entirely doable. there is after all when it comes to peace nothing that is impossible. in 1995i was serving with the u.n. and former yugoslavia and by the time we reached the month of july i think we were convinced there would be conflict and bloodshed in bosnia for another ten years. the fighting was intense by that stage. the weaponry was plentiful, the hatred was apparent. we had exhausted every petition of peace agreement that alone also cease-fire and cessation of hostilities and we could not see a way out and if someone had said to us and six months the fighting would stop or of leased the killing would stop one can argue maybe the fighting has continued by other means. but the killing would stop. i don't think anyone would have believed it possible and yet it was possible. so we are firmly of the belief that were we to act decisively and seize the

convention center for a series of meetings, first with king abdullah of jordan. and then with the premier of china. a working dinner will occur this evening. vice-president biden is also holding a day of meetings, starting with the new zealand prime minister, and then later leaders from the united arab emirates and south korea. it is the largest meeting of foreign leaders at the u.s. naval observatory. at the capitol, the senate returns from their spring return -- recess, working on cover health insurance assistance and jobless benefits. then it convenes for general topics speeches at 2:00 p.m. eastern today, followed by a bill debate and voting at 5:30. live coverage on c-span2. the house returns tomorrow at 2:00. you can see live coverage of the house here on c-span. the state department told a briefing on the situation in courageous stand -- right now, more about the summit from today's "washington journal." author fredrick stanton making his first visit to "washington journal" with his new book "great negotiations: agreements that changed the modern world." w

. >> king abdullah, how did your bracket work out?> i had syracuse. >> so how long are you in town for? not long, got to get back to kiev. >> i'm pressed for time. will you be willing to send us all your highly-enriched uranium? >> let me think. okay. >> president hu, how's everything in beijing? >> gigantic and increasingly menacing. >> right. i knew that. >> that's probably not what anybody said. but the president did cram in ten meetings of various lengths in two days, all heavily protocoled. equal time for india and pakistan, and the delicate dance of telling the leaders they would not be meeting the president but the vice president. diplomacy and protocol sometimes result in abnormal and sometimes funny human behavior. but the manic schedule of sit-down meetings, the entire errant prize of bringing 47 world leaders to the united states to try to build an international consensus on anything represents something big. and fundamentally different about this american government. in the old days, which in this case began in 2001 and of

the iraqi vice president abdullah was your last week and heard this from the obama administration officials of the very top and the inclusive elections that we believe would be a credible fear transparent election process i think you saw vice president biden was very actively engaged over the past couple of days and talking about this where the u.n. assistance mission to iraq which is working on assisting the the elections has made clear to the iraqis i think that iraqi is, politicians themselves are looking at this in a different way. the risk is they end up -- the community that the iraqi themselves can endorse, that is a very real risk. we believe that the iraqi leadership is moving in the right direction on this issue now. >> could i ask you to just to elaborate on the question? i'm not sure i quite understand. thanks. >> sustainable stability of the u.s. effort if the u.s. has a free issue such as the elections of the president or policing the -- my question to ambassador feltman right now and in many other issues about but the elections and otherwise in the middle east. >> and the mid

gordon brown is not coming, kevin rudd is not coming, king abdullah is not coming from saudi arabia. >> abrupt, though. there have been a couple of abrupt things. >> the indonesians and australians thought it was abrupt when the president said, by the way, i'm not coming on this long, planned trip. the israeli government will be represented at a very high level. they share our deep concern about nuclear terrorism. they want to be at the table as we try to figure out how to make the world safer. >> doesn't make the relationship even more difficult at a difficult time? >> no, not at all. we have a deep and very close relationship between the united states and israel that goes back many years. that doesn't mean we're going to agree on everything. we don't agree with any of our friends on everything. somewhere a special relationship with great britain, close relationships with france, our oldest ally. it doesn't mean we agree on everything. i think somehow since we're living in a 24-7 news cycle with things popping every minute, a lot is made of a little instead of trying to step back an

coming up tonight on c-span, a speech by jordan's king abdullah.fter that, and author talks about the internet and blogging in iran. -- an author. and then, u.s. border security and the drug trade. tomorrow morning on c-span2, defense department officials and contractors testify to the commission of wartime contracting in iraq and afghanistan. that begins live at 9:30 eastern. and later, on c-span2, the nomination of the treasury department undersecretary. a vote to limit debate scheduled for 5:30 eastern. later in the week, democratic leaders hope to bring up eight regulations bill. see it live on c-span2. and the house returns. there is a measure that would repeal several d.c. gun control laws, give delegates voting rights in the house, and at another u.s. representative for utah. live gavel-to-gavel coverage is on c-span. king abdullah of jordan was in the u.s. last week for the nuclear security summit in washington. he also traveled to chicago and gave a speech on the israeli- palestinian conflict, security following withdrawal of u.s. troops i

anyway, we are sitting there having dinner and donner bohol comes abdullah, the head of what was known as the eye iranian revolution in iraq. i said what is he doing? his meeting with president bush. here is a person of fleet who is close to the iranians, the head of the shia revolution in iraq, not friendly with the united states, forget the anbar insurgency. this guy was really not friendly. plus add to that our body in iraq to we thought would bring democracy to iraq and is up being an agent of the iranian government. as jerry jones said to me not only are we losing the war, mark, we are on the wrong side. we were on getting this right. but we found a way to deal with the shiite insurgency. we were very effective with them and as the time has gone on i think that we have seen the shia and of the south not be pro-iranian. there was applied at that time and could close ties to the iranians these are iraqi nationals. they are not foresee speaking. they are nationals who happen to be shia, and today they are making political deals with the sunnis to stabilize the country and provide eco

. >> reporter: but in late november, the five-- ahmed abdullah minni, umar chaudhry, waqar khan, aman hassan yemer and ramy zamzam-- disappeared, without telling family or freinds of their plans. friends of their plans. amal khalifa, ramy zamzam's mother, said he did tell her he was going away to baltimore. he disappeared what in late november? >> i can't say he disappeared. he told me before he leave he's going somewhere and he takes two sets of clothes, a lot of jeans and shirts, to spare shampoos so everything and he says i'm going out, be out for a few days. >> reporter: did you believe him? >> i thought he may be going farther than baltimore, like florida, new york, you know, like young men this age. >> reporter: zamzam had been a promising dental student. but after the young men disappeared, a video was discovered featuring him. speaking to the camera. it prompted parents of the other youths to notify the fbi. the video is now in the hands of law enforcement, but officials have said it also showed scenes of war and declared "muslims must be defended." nihad awad, cair's executiv

we were sitting there having dinner and down the hallway comes abdullah hakim, the head of what was knows as the iranian revolution in iraq. i said, there is abdul aziz hakim. what is he doing? he is meeting with president bush. here is a person, the late abdul hakim who was really very close to the iranians, the head of the shia revolution in iraq. not exactly friendly with the united states. this guy was really not friendly with the united states plus add to that, the guy we thought was going to bring democracy to iraq and set being for all intensive purposes an agent of the iranian government. not only are we loosing this war, we are on the wrong side. we weren't getting this right. but we found a way to deal with the shia insurgency in the south. we were very effective with them as time has gone on, i think we have seen the shia in the south not be pro-iranian. they have been supplied by the iranians. at times they have gotten close to the iranians but these are iraqi nationalists. that is the great hope, that they are not farsi speaking iraqis. these are iraqi nationals that happen t

his majesty abdullah is very open to this. we have plans for a decentralization of jordan. to break it up into federal units where local unions would have their own budgets and be directly answerable to the people in terms of the provision of services. then we also built up over time and expertise in the indictments of legislation such that our parliament can be fully active. there was a great deal of concern when the last parliament convened that there were too many bills left not considered. the government believes strongly the parliament should at least look at them. if it did not like them, it could return them. but to leave them not attended raised a lot of concern. we're moving in the right direction. we are confident. we are constantly in touch with many of the think tanks. >> have you evaluate china's efforts to play a growing political and economic role in the arab world the? >> which that anymore about this. it is a part of the world which has long-excited interest by many great power. china is a country with whom we do business, of course. the country is growing

the president is hosting king abdullah ii of jordan and 45 other world leaders in a nuclear summit overhow about phil mickelson. taking home his third green jacket. he won the masters yesterday with guile and ice water in his veins. do we have the shot on 13 from yesterday? we don't have the shot from 13 from yesterday? this shot that won him the tournament? coming out of the pine needles between two georgia pines? landing softly on the green like it was on a string? and then the birdie? it was good stuff. >>> still to come in the newsroom, where are the jobs in this economy? would it surprise you to hear back in the factory? but it's not what you think. >> if i were only running the machine, it wouldn't be a very satisfying job. if i were only programming, it wouldn't be a very satisfying job. but when i get to do both, i couldn't make myself do anything different. >> the new hybrid job, part blue collar, part white collar. my special report on where the jobs are next. >>> i need you to reach out to the program. first of all, cnn.com/tony takes you directly to this, bam, our blog page.

what about king abdullah's decisions in the bay route decisions -- as anyone thought about what woulde fully involved in a normalization arrangement? what does it mean to respect the borders of 1967 in return for peace? these are questions that will require in the arab world profound soul-searching analysis that i find absent at this stage. do i believe that the leadership of arab nations, i mean the principal ones, of course, are capable of doing this? they can, but they have to find the opportunity. the opportunity can only be discovered when there is an active peace process. and then the questions are actually on the table and the challenges are before the leaders with their chance to make a decision becoming a reality. tough questions can be addressed at that time and answered. >> i would hazard a response on the first question, and that is, paraphrasing it, can the u.s., president obama, a substitute his own sense of leadership for that of leaders in the region? i would say that is really not the right question either. that he cannot, if you need totally, but he can exercise a le

. >> following last week's nuclear security summit in washington king abdullah traveled to chicago where he addressed the arab-american business communities he addressed jordanian security following withdrawal of u.s. troops in iraq and future of u.s. relations with his country. this is about 25 minutes. >> speak to large crowds. in fact, if we could properly gotten a large auditorium we would have filled that as we have every time. as marshall said you just finished two days of attending the summit with 40 some other countries. would you tell us from what, as much as you can about the summit and what you derived from it? and especially in relation to iran, if there was anything that was said about it. >> well, actually this is the first event of this kind i've ever attended. i think, what was a pleasant surprise to all the world leaders to come together on a very important subject. and from what i saw was the body language and the positive atmosphere from the day that, the minute that president obama opened the summit. it was very clear to everybody what president obama and medvedev did