abdullah doesn't want to talk to me anymore.utside the flagler beach police are racing into position. >> down, down! >> thinking he's going to run, the police come down hard. >> down! get on the ground. give me your arm. >> come on out, sir, step out of the vehicle. >> i didn't do anything. >> step out of the vehicle. >> at the police station, abdullah seems a little uncooperative at first. >> mohammed, mohammed, listen to me. >> okay, i'm sorry. >> we don't want you to make any sudden moves like that. >> officers find a large amount of cash. >> there's 100, 200, 9, 10, 1, 2, 3, 4, $1,400. >> inside the interrogation room after he's read his rights, abdullah doesn't want to speak to the police. >> i need my attorney. >> okay. >> detective liz williams of the flagler beach police department thinks abdullah's excuses were creative. >> his self-assurance was impressive. >> except for one thing, remember those pictures of the naked man? >> the images that show the genitalia, the head was cropped off. >> and that unique necklace he w

van when abdullah left, he said mr. president i understand what you're saying but i'm afraid. i'm afraid. man in his 80s, maybe 90s, trying to reform but such a long way to go. so it's very hard but one of the things i think the obama administration has an opportunity to do is to try to get these regimes that have some legitimacy to lead their people to a democratic future without having to go through the disruption of revolutionary change. >> can i -- >> please do. >> i want to make a couple comments. one is to offer further explanation on why there isn't a center, elliott started it and i want to add to what he was beginning to describe and the second point i want to make will relate to the last thing that steve was saying, there has been a lot of focus within the obama administration on precisely what you have been describing and indeed having precisely those kind of conversations which is you can see what's coming, get out in front of it and offering certain kind of suggestions. let me offer the first observation. m

general david petraeus who at its high was the set com commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact that a yemeni official said if saleh of self-help a terrorist will continue to lie and say the problems are ours and not yours so i think that was the first incident that really put this independent journalist washington's radar into their target sites ok but at the same time you know this isn't a case of some pentagon bureaucrats in reaching out there and trying to suppress information this is the president of the united states himself intervening in this case i mean for someone who's not familiar necessarily with the story that would it lead people to think that this guy with a done something really bad what evidence that has the u.s. has requiring that he remains behind bars so what there was famous for in yemen was doing interviews with people that were on the u.s. hit list the leaders of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and also with a u.s. citizen named don who are a lot the course was assassinated last september

yemen knew the whole thing was a sham of a setup he got a relatively light sentence five years ali abdullah saleh the president yemen is said approached by a very important figures and in yemen among them tribal leaders who really run the show there and they said you've got to release the. so solace is ok i'm going to pardon him he has the pardon prepared ready to sign it it leaks out to the yemeni press ali abdullah saleh gets a phone call from john brennan or one of obama's advisers for president obama himself and president obama separate very concerned about the release of this guy we don't know the full extent of what happened that phone call with the white house and state department back to interview the state department admit that obama in fact said the u.s. wants him to stay in jail and so the pardon was rescinded and he continues to rot away in a prison after having been convicted in a kangaroo court and it's he's in prison because barack obama wants a new person i mean it sounds outrageous jeremy and the question comes to mind as to why we haven't heard about this earlier i mean we

reports on the many who are still missing. >> this is why libya wants abdullah al-senussi back for trial. a mass grave outside tripoli, where at least 35 people are thought to be buried. protesters shot at the start of last year's uprising on the direct border of gaddafi former intelligence chief. no one has lost more than this man, who has not seen or heard from his five eldest son since they were abducted by gaddafi's police last summer -- his five eldest sons since they were abducted by gaddafi's police last summer. where are they now? do you know? >> i do not know. >> his son hopes the same fate has not fallen his -- hassan hopes the same fate has not be fallen -- befallen his brother. the cells are full of gaddafi loyalists. >> maybe he is somewhere, dead or alive. do not know. i have to know. >> as long as there is a chance his brother may be alive, he will try anything, here giving his dna to a central databank. there are 300 or four under people here from across libya -- or 30400 people here from across libya. the blank spaces where the dead have been identified. there is little

abu abdullah is a doctor from the city of homs. he recently came to lebanon after he was injured in a rocket attack while treating opposition forces in a makeshift clinic. he told us about one patient whom he tried to evacuate from homs. the convoy was stopped by syrian army soldiers and the wounded man was take on the a military hospital. two days later they called his family and told him to come pick up his body, abird flu abdullah said. his body was burned and had holes from nails in it. most people go to a field hospital like this one we visited last month. the conditions are basic and supplies are limited but the alternative-- military hospitals-- can be a death sentence. clarissa ward, cbs news, beirut. >> pelley: on this day after super tuesday here is where the republican presidential race stands. mitt romney won six of the ten states that voted yesterday. rick santorum three, newt gingrich one. so far, 22 states have voted. romney has won 13, santorum 7, gingrich two. it takes 1,144 delegates to clinch the nomination. romn

opposition leader abdullah abdullah said he fears that u.s.-afghan relations have reached a new low. >> it is no doubt that it is very harmful and it puts under question those american values which the free world is so much proud of. and that's the danger. >> reporter: that danger is now very real for u.s. troops on the ground here. the taliban called the americans "savages" and vowed to avenge the 16 civilian deaths. all this comes as the u.s. and afghanistan are trying to entice the taliban to the negotiating table to end the war. this latest incident gives the taliban hard-liners who oppose the talks more reason to resist. >> pelley: mandy, thank you very much. we're told tonight the suspect's family has been moved on to his home base here in the united states for their protection. the sergeant is attached to a brigade at joint base lewis- mcchord near tacoma, washington. troops from that base have been involved in other unjustified attacks recently, so we asked ben tracy to fill us in. >> reporter: iraq war veteran jorge gonzalez was shock

he is a cabinent minister, appointed by king abdullah and paid for by the state of saudi arabia. they pray on friday afternoon for the annihilation for infidel's christians and jews. mufftees in mecca and ma dena. our government considers it too sensitive. they are a strategic ally, we buy a lot of oil from them. we don't speak about it. one of the only professed christians native to saudi arabia was arrested this past week. >> it is such a double standard. in iran, pastor yousef nadarkhani is facing a death sentence. >> president obama should be using his pulpit to speak out to iran who are hostile to the united states, not an ally. you think about when mahmoud ahmadenijad came to new york and why they put homosexuals to death. he denied they had gays in iran. they want to hide this. they don't want to be known as persecutor persecutors. >> egypt has seen a lot of upheaval in the past year, how will that effect the church there. there is a significant christian church there. >> arab spring is turning into a very bitter cold winter for the christians. first in iraq, arabic secula

hillary clinton talked about iran and syria with king abdullah in saudi arabia. the saudis have promised to keep increasing their production to make up for the lack of iran oil exports. asian countries with the major exception of china have already cut back purchases from iran. if the sanctions lead to shortages, driving prices up at the pump, the white house could still decide to release oil for a strategic petroleum reserve for a short-term fix. especially in an election year. no decision on that yet, lester. >> thanks. >> i want to turn to the investigation of an american soldier accused of slaughtering 17 civilians in afghanistan. tonight, his lawyer is accusing the u.s. government of withholding vital information and afghans who say they witnessed the shooting claim staff sergeant robert bales did not act alone. all this playing out as thousands of troops from sergeant bales' home base plan to head to war. we get our report tonight from nbc's miguel almaguer. >> for the second stryker brigade, 4,200 men and women stationed at joint base lewis mcchord. >> ner

padilla -- abdullah. >> thank you. respected board, public safety committee members, i am a u.s. citizen. i am an arab american community leader and a human rights activist originally from yemen. i am an arab american that has lived in this country for over 15 years. in all my time here, i have lived among many other arab- americans, who along with me, are being mistreated for no reason, just because of the way we look at who we are. we are being harassed and mistreated by the law- enforcement authorities. they treated us as if we were second-class citizens. i am an arab-american. i have responsibilities and rights as a citizen in this country. i look forward to local policy that will respect my constitutional rights, local policy that will protect my basic human rights and dignity and respect my existence as a part of this nation. this act of discrimination is impacting our community's help by causing stress, fear, and fear impacting our community education, growth, and development. we are community members appeared we need to be able to turn to government agencies and law enfor

the king abdullah center for atomic and recognize o renewable energy, giving the charter to come up with a plan form or long-term energy plan for saudi arabia. k care only has about 15 employees in it so they mostly contracted out to a whole host of other people to look at it. they're proceeding and i think wisely, to canvas the globe for the best technologies for wind, solar and nuclear. so in the case of nuclear, they have signed mous with us, the brits, the french, the south koreans, the chinese and the russians. and they have to understand the technology available and then to identify the technologies that would be most appropriate for saudi arabia. so, no, they don't have a plan yet but they're headed in that direction and i think you'll probably see a balanced plan. that will focus, first, on solar. saudi arabia wants to become an energy country, not a petroleum country. and the university has been given the technical challenge with coming up with a plan to generate the equivalent of 8 million barrels a day in electricity from solar power. and saudi arabia has sun and they have a l

secretary of state hillary clinton is traveling to saudi arabia the sweet discuss with king abdullah how best to deal with the syrian crisis human rights movements however point out irony of discussing freedom in a country where protesting can be considered an act punishable by death. brings us this report on two faces of the saudi kingdom. a coronation bank made in beirut to spain for its refreshing breeze and its breezy ways it's a place where headscarves in minutes kurds don't come into conflict even when beyond once. with a reputation as the most liberal arab society lebanon is only becoming a refuge for the citizens of the region's most restrictive country thousands of saudis come to beirut every month what some call a free implication i was born in care say i suffered a lot there because it's it's too too too limited i have to cover my face my eyes my whole body what i'm hearing being over here please look at me it is here where many saudi women get a chance to walk the streets all by themselves and saudi man can indulge themselves in gambling in beirut's mainly casinos somethi

present he took office last month following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian army says troops have killed at least thirty members of the four armed lift this group it's one of the biggest sub strikes in five years according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for call the revolutionary armed forces of colombia group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. portugal is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport is severely disrupted with schools post and other state services also badly affected and it is processed protest was all denied by unions over thirty measures which triggered a seventy eight which were triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout this plan is locked into a three year program of cuts all of by the e.u. and the i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. also on our world update the rebels in the west african country

observers who are saying that this is probably because they were encouraged by the words of the stuff abdullah jill in october he said that the islamic law should be the basis of the future legal system of libya that is shari'a law compatible with the democratic principles you'd like to start listing the country. first of all the muslim brotherhood of the. political parties to express their points of view i think this is their natural right to do so and they have equal rights as if every other libyans as for mr leader when he express his point of view he has his point of view as an individual and his point of view inflicts only his feeling and his perspective you know but it's not. commanding or it's not this is certainly by in the for the rest of the society why do you consider the victory of the national transitional council and those who thought against the gadhafi regime and that victory play into islamists hands does that bother you. plus wait and see for the elections what the results are going to be i think the libyan case might be a different case from what took place we should turn to

of thousands of protesters have hit the streets of yemen to madiba ex-president put on trial ali abdullah saleh stepped down from office last month in exchange for prosecution is expected to leave yemen after resigning but many suspect he's still involved with the government working with friends and relatives in top military positions at least two thousand people have died since an uprising against him began last year. french intelligence has been criticized for failing to arrest the toulouse government before he killed seven people. surveillance for months across is prime minister says there was no prior record that the government posed a threat to society he was killed by police sniper on thursday after a thirty two hour siege outside his apartment filled himself killing a rabbi and three children at a jewish school as well as three soldiers in separate attacks. no more excuses for missing what's being late for class in brazil where microchips are to be stitched into school uniforms to keep tabs on people's home devices will be embedded including meaning there's no escape parents receiv

israelis are treated in the media and so on, and i suspect that this famous image from 2000 of mohammed abdullah, the iconic image of the palestinian boy who killed in gaza, the film footage of that, which is hugely controversial here in france because of the court case about it, i suspect this is going to come up as well. that kind of imagery is clearly radicalized him a lot, and it was used by him to justify what he did. >> i understand president sarkozy is meeting various groups in the course of the day. we've had something about a truce in terms of the election nearing, the election campaign. but immigration, nonetheless, a key issue within that campaign. how is all this likely to affect the campaign, do you think? >> i think there will be a concerted attempt by all concerned to completely isolate this and to make no link between it and the election. what mr. sarkozy will say will be three things, huge relief for the victims, huge relief and congratulations to the police, and then an appeal to everyone to regard this as an isolated act by an isolated man , to make sure that the muslim commun

president hadi took office last month but following a year of mass protests against his predecessor ali abdullah saleh. the colombian army says troops of killed at least thirty nine members of the far left group it's one of the biggest such strikes in five years this is according to the country's defense minister rebels are accused by the government of cocaine smuggling arms trafficking and bomb making for all the revolutionary armed forces of colombia a group has been at war with the state since one thousand nine hundred sixty four. forty two is being hit by a twenty four hour public sector workers strike against government spending cuts and tax increases transport it's severely disrupted with schools and other state services badly affected by the latest protest was organized by unions over government austerity measures triggered by a seventy eight billion euro bailout lisbon is locked into a three year program of cuts ordered by the e.u. and i.m.f. to reduce the country's huge debts. rebels in the west african country mali claim to have seized power and ousted the government in a coup they hav

well you know as dr bassam abu abdullah a professor of international relations at damascus university talked to the thanks ever so much for taking the time to be with us tonight syria's ruling party says islamic extremists have behind these latest string of attacks who do you think is responsible. good evening. the two dearest creations yesterday. we heard from these operations through important messages the first one to the syrian people who. were in millions in their last referendum because their new constitution their second message is to the syrian syrian people that they have been in the fifteenth of march in the streets. not only in syria about around the world so i think that the targets from these are parishes especially when you are talking about the christian neighborhood in the mosque. it was a strong message and they think that this kind of a persians it gives your impression that this is scar them with the. kind of operations we could see in my school or in many places in the middle of. their fear to the children this fear the kind of operation these people they are not l

rather than so because after rushing for the break up the stuff abdullah julio also sat the country's integrity would be defended by any means including force if needed and added so pan african news wire up day on me is a week said the current leadership is simply unable to realize or would have the other various factions it. doesn't look like they're going to be able to form any type of viable provisional government inside of libya. elections scheduled to take place a little on this year but when we have this type of regionalism that's going inside the country it's going to be ver difficult for them to do so these various rebel bands are that are warm in the country they are still now been brought under the control are beginning to see in tripoli they've attempted to disarm the militia groups this is now been successful of course we have the whole problem of the militias that are raiding are around and of course the other militias that are operating in tripoli and of course in the south in the south worse than the other groups are there turn to be more allied with the former regime o

yemen had a couple of weeks ago abdullah saleh stepped down. we don't call that state a shiia state. we shouldn't. it's nonsensical. in fact, he's from that sect. you have a very strong wahabi influence. saudi funded. saudi inspired. that's very -- you have all kinds of different religious sects. in the case of yemen, i think it would be a mistake to put the question of religious freedom front and center in the transition, because there's all kinds of other issues of power struggle left over from the unification which saw essentially the crushing of a largely secular south and very progressive voices there. not an atheist communist movement but a very secular, privatized religious communist movement. you saw a developed socialist leader from a yemeni socialist party assassinated in 2002 as an isla convention. one of the most contentious things that happens in the country, the wahabis will go into zadi mosques in the north and start praying in wahabi style. they're standing there quietly, but they're doing it and it's very contentious and politi

party's policy reporting right meantime abdullah but i want the editor of a london based arabic newspaper says that or we should be looking at the bigger picture of syria just being a stepping stone to the real goal of iran. i had a feeling that. syria from. the fall definitely it would be easier for the west and iran because it means they managed to secure the front. neutralize thousands of syrian messiahs syrian warplanes which actually would have to speak in any war against iran but in order to do that you have to invade syria to invade syria is very very complicated adventure could be very costly i have a feeling that the west is not intervening in syria because they are we could determine what they are going to do with programs are they going to bomb iran if the have decided to bomb i think they will bomb iran and seated together and hezbollah i think they will launch you know attack is war and i believe. it is the war will take place the question is when. and where you can see the full interview with our bell about an. editor in chief of a london based arabic newspaper that'll be ju

syrian authorities are pointing the finger of blame at islamic extremists for the latest attacks dr abdullah from damascus university believes there are clear signs that al-qaeda is responsible. for persians it gives your impression that this is. kind of operations there is. there is to. these terrorist groups a very very soon that he usually in your neighborhood after that is. province you see these thirty people all of you where are some of them won't. be some of them went to live by now and they've been in these kind of people they are tourists absolutely groups of people are going to any kind of opposition and i think everyone who are looking to us the truth understand this kind of extremism is not working in syria and. they want to punish all these here people. the latest blast in syria come ahead of a planned visit by u.n. teams to the country special envoy kofi anon is urging all sides to agree to a ceasefire and for dialogue to begin between the assad government and the opposition based political analyst dr omar now should be told us the bombings in damascus and aleppo or aimed in th

mubarak's and king abdullah's and so on which don't allow citizens to have significant voice in politics and policy and align with the united states and heavily dependent on u.s. foreign political and diplomatic support, that the u.s. has much greater influence in those kinds of policies than in policies which have popular sovereignty and in which governments are supposedly based on the will of the people. and there's one other thing that gets to the religious freedom and then i'll stop even though i could go for much longer. this is more of a question. it does seem to me possibly because the way the discourse of religious freedom by the united states was seen and received in egypt over -- in the past and so on as a kind of colonial discourse, as a kind of discourse that was insincere and that championed one group, egyptian christians primarily and so on at the expense of everyone else and i will be the first person to say that egyptian christians have -- have and continue and maybe increasingly suffer discrimination and deteriorated status post egypt revolution. but nevertheless, becaus

king abdullah, our best friend, very western but the regime is not legitimate i'm sorry to say.the fact that he doesn't have to perform pretend elections every four years and pretend that is what his basis of legitimacy doesn't mean he is widely popularly supported. i wonder if there are conversations there? i wonder if there are conversations with saudi arabia, the other give religion a bad name countries in the region? i would love to hear more stories from that. >> thanks. all right. >> you know, let me start. one of the problems you run into of course is that while it is true there are some times rulers who respond to these questions which they probably see as lectures by these stupid americans they respond by saying you don't know anything. you don't understand my country. that happens. but what happens with equal frequency is people saying, absolutely. you are right. i'm doing it. i'm with you. i'm ahead of you. when that is just, you know, pablum for us. now there was a period it looked if president salah was moving ahead with democracy. he had a reasonably free election.

going to help you except we're going to steal everything and leaving for dead somali prime minister abdullah mohammed ali said his government had little choice but to entice western companies to somalia by offering a slice of the country's natural resources which include oil gas and large reserves of uranium the same thing here we're trying to help the young struggling musician but destroying all other competitions whether it's mega box or it's you tube or anywhere else they don't want any of these struggling musicians actually have a choice but to use universal here to use b.p. your only option if you're an oil rich nation is you have to use b.p. or exxon those are the two that's your choice mubarak b.p. hollywood these are all dying old dinosaurs of the of the previous regimes and they're all falling as you mentioned the fish off the coast the fish stocks have been depleted through western overfishing and it's also the the coastal waters are totally polluted from toxic pollution that is just dumped there because there are no regulations so you'll have ships coming from italy dumping toxic

let's get some more details now on the situation in syria joining us is political analyst dr abdullah's live in ramallah thank you for coming on today of the syrian opposition has called for military intervention from the west and a no fly zone put in place just a day before meeting with kofi annan the u.n. special envoy to syria do you think these calls will be heard by nato states. i think it's headed since a long time we must understand that and we must realize that you know we're going to seriously see a long long time the. israeli grieving for the action the uncommitted voter i.d. and also to be in court about believe it one of the leaders of the terrorists in syria since eight years we are preparing for this big. for sure and i think that only the guy that they smuggled. i think what they need only just to see the nuclear weapons and that's it as you say as you say weapons have been coming in for upwards of eight years and this has been a long time in the making to just throw in president assad the syrian national council has also decided to the free syrian army how does this sit

cables that general david petraeus about the time was the commander had conspired with president ali abdullah saleh of yemen to cover up the u.s. role in those strikes in fact the yemeni official said. the trip will continue to lie the bombs are ours and not yours so i think that was the first incident that really put that in the kind of journalist washington's radar it is their target ok but at the same time you know this isn't a case of some pentagon bureaucrats sort of reaching out there and trying to suppress information this is the president of the united states himself intervening and in this case i mean. for someone who is not familiar necessarily with a story that went to lead people to think that this kind of thing done something really bad what evidence that's that the u.s. have and requiring that he remains behind bars so what i believe the hider with famous for in yemen was doing interviews with people that were on the u.s. hit with the leaders of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and also with the u.s. that it's been named anwar losey course would a fascinated last september in a

could offset gain by slowing their own oil output, one reason hillary clinton met with saudi king abdullah we are confident we can do it in a coherent fashion not to affect the market. >> white house officials repeatedly tried to deflect blame for high gas prices saying oil is a global commodity subject to international pressures. with iran's exports falling, 300-barrels a day in anticipation of sanctions, they have little sympathy for the political impact that the president faces. >> he finds himself in a difficult position of his own making. over time, he has made decisions to keep so much of our crude oil off the market. >> the president insists that production is up and doing all he can. on the energy front. he was required by law to decide on the sanctions today. so he will be weighing in again on the non-iranian oil supply in six months in october on the eve of the election. >> ed henry reporting from the white house. thanks for that. >> chris: unemployment rates fell in most states but labor department says rate declined in 2 states and rose in 8. unchanged in 13 states as well as w

she met with king abdullah yesterday. saudi arabia called for a more aggressive approach on syria including arming anti-government activists. >>> maybe you didn't win the mega millions, if you own stocks you're doing okay because the dow and s&p 500 wrapped up the best quarter in more than a decade. the dow is up 8.1% since new year's day. analysts credit consumer confidence and spending. >>> all right, maybe just grabbing a first cup of coffee. see how the weekend weather might be shaping up. >> i take it you didn't win the lottery. >> >> you either. >> i would have shared it. >> if i had won the lottery i would have ripped off my clothe and set my hair on fire. some decent weather in parts of the southeast, rain welcome to help us knock the pollen out, possibly severe weather in parts of the mid-mississippi valley, winds continue for portions of colorado and fairly potent storm system developing across the west coast. a lot to talk about randi, more coming up in a few moments. >>> talk more then. >>> a run down of stori