despite abdullah's efforts, the woman dies.r son utterly distraught. >> reporter: "don't die now, don't die today," he pleads. "answer me, mom, answer me! she's not dead. she's not dead," he says, as he collapses. abdullah is left wondering whether her life could have been saved if he'd reached her sooner. until recently, he worked at a bakery. now, like thousands of young syrians, he puts his life on the line. "i am not a hero. i am just like anyone else," abdullah tells us. and we're left to wonder, how many similar acts of courage go unrecorded every day in syria, and how many innocents are lost? arwa damon, cnn, aleppo. >> arwa damon reporting. there's a lot more happening tonight. isha's here with a "360 bulletin." >>> the taliban has taken credit for a suicide bombing in afghanistan that killed at least three people, including one american. the attack happened near kandahar's air field just hours after u.s. defense secretary leon panetta left the city. >>> for the first time we're getting a look at north korea's first app

. >> hussein abdullah was a player in dallas and hans is a player in atlanta. to an interview given earlier and hussein you said there was a tug of war going on inside of you and you realized when both of you spoke you realized the same thing was going on, and you decided to walk away from extremely lucrative football careers. how did the trip to mecca change your perspective, not only on your life but on the game of football as well? hussein? >> the trip to mecca, i mean it was beyond a beautiful experience and every time i reflect back on it, there's a new lesson i can learn. or when someone asks me a question and i tell a story, there's something new that always comes from a previous story that i didn't even realize before. it's really humbled me, it's really centered me, it's really opened my eyes to a lot of things. and my whole outlook on life is just been completely different now. and even in respects to turning back to football, you know, football to a lot of football players is everything, that's all we have growing up from a young age because a lot of

i am just like anyone else, abdullah tells us. and we're left to wonder, how many similar acts of courage go unrecorded every day in syria? how many innocents are lost? arwa damon, cnn, aleppo. >>> this is what's left of targets hit by syrian military artillery. we're talking about rockets or missiles. now u.s. military officials say syria is using more deadly types of munitions, even scud-type missiles against rebel positions. these are unguided short range missiles capable of carrying chemical weapons. nato sources say they have tracked several scud launches the last several days you all from damascus. syrian officials deny launching that type of missile. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is is in afghanistan today. he met with u.s. and afghan troops and commanders in kandahar to talk about the future of the protection force there. panetta told cnn the mission is fundamentally unchanged since it began more than ten years ago. target al qaeda everywhere. >> the mission of defeating and deterring al qaeda, i think, is well on th

his name is abdullah.d streets ignoring gunfire, risking his life to save a complete stranger. he is a ray of light in a sea of despair. this story may be hard for some of you to watch, but it is important, it needs to be told and it is a gripping, gripping tale. here's arwa damon, one of the most powerful things you will see today. take a look. >> reporter: a fighter slithers across the street. yards away a woman lies motionless. she's been shot by a sniper. her rescuer is not a relative, nor a neighbor. he's never met her. abdullah is just 17. he knew he had to save the woman or die trying. when we met him later, he tells us we had a feeling that she was still alive. we wanted to save her, to get her to a hospital. as he crawled closer, he can feel her hand. she is shaking. cover him, cover him someone shouts. other fighters have cover fire. i said to myself, if i die, it's god's will that i die next to this woman, he tells us. finally, he makes a run for it. and the rebels drag the woman back. the woman

the center is named for saudi king abdullah and is part of an arrangement between austria, saudi arabia spain, with strong support from the vatican. the center's board includes three christians, three muslims, one jew, a buddhist and a hindu. some have opposed the project arguing that saudi arabia practices a radical form of islam. >>> there was backlash after the church of england's failure last week to approve a measure that would have allowed women to serve as bishops. the current archbishop of canterbury rowan williams and his newly named successor, justin welby, both expressed their disappointment. some british politicians have suggested the church should lose its tax-exempt status for violating antidiscrimination laws. church leaders meeting this week called resolving the issue of female bishops a "matter of urgency." >>> meanwhile, at the vatican last weekend, six new cardinals received their red hats, and for the first time in many years the group did not include any italians or other europeans. the new cardinals came from colombia, india, lebanon, nigeria, the philippines and t

. >> gus: abdullah takes a knee. big bcs games taking place this weekend.orthern illinois beats kent state for the mac championship. stanford, we saw them last night in a terrific game against ucla. they go on the rose bowl. alabama in a tight one, goes to the national championship game after beating georgia. kansas state beats texas. they clinch the big 12 title outright and a bcs bid. florida state in a much closer game than anticipated, wins the acc championship and move on to a bcs bowl. congratulations to jimbo fisher and his crew. >> gus: martinez to the sideline. underthrows kenny bell. playing for pride right now if you're nebraska. trying to finish out. disappointing outcome. as the coaches always say, it's important to play to the final whistle. rex burkhead, not a lot of room around that right side. warren herring with the tackle. >> charles: we're talking now rose bowl, stanford/wisconsin. >> gus: what a game that could be. >> charles: this is the old through the looking glass and they see each other and it looks awfully familiar. it's good that

years of unrest in which up to eighty people have been killed and thousands of arrested hussain abdullahfrom americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain believe the situation will not change as long as the government remains backed by western powers. they are with the good talk but they never. do the walk and other wards it is simply they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to see the lock to reform the political situation however no such seed is there has been taken for example we still see attacks on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners released torture still taken place human rights by. list on the only b.s. is the human rights issue as the going to be a law we all just in the first place first the law of the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protests there to sell this is a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not illegal there is a clear double here double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially brain and syria w

violently enforcing their rally ban jailing several key human rights activists in the process hussein abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain say the situation in the gulf state won't change as long as the government would show its which itself as human rights feels it's backed by the west. only in bahrain when you protest peacefully you are artist and you are tortured and your rights are taken away from you the king came up with a law that basically banned any kind of peaceful protest that's in itself is a violation of international law so the violence is coming from one side and that is the side of the government. the government is the one has the and the government the one has. the prison the torture the city the extrajudicial killings that is a clear double clear double standard when it comes to u.s. foreign policy in the region especially rain and syria where the violations are committed and daily basis we. condemn nation from the united states . turning out of some other stories making headlines across the globe and attacking a police station in the eastern liby

reduced but this wasn't enough to calm activists who are calling on his immediate release hussein abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain so the situation will not change as long as the government is backed by the west. whenever they come under pressure from western allies like united states or the u.k. they are with the good talk but they never. do the walk and other wards it is simply they came under tremendous pressure from the united states to open up their political systems to start to see the lock to reform the political situation however no such serious steps has been taken for example we still see attacks on peaceful protests we still see political prisoners released torture still taken place human rights violations are in place on daily basis the human rights issue as they go into behind not allowing or just in the first place first the law of the king came up with a law that basically banned any peaceful protests there itself this is a violation of international law so when people challenge the law that's not illegal there is a clear double here double s

and nine drone strike in yemen that killed fourteen women and twenty one children is now in jail abdullah hyder shine was accused of aiding terrorists he was about to be released but the yemeni government reverse this decision after a call from the white house. because of the secrecy surrounding the program there is no way of knowing when the administration is out of targets and some fear washington might continue the bombings to maintain control in the region the challenge here is something similar to what happened in. former yugoslavia when when they were looking for targets. in serbia prior to the dayton accords and the military. planners came to to richard holbrooke and they said well you know honestly we've run out of targets we've bombed everything. in holbrooke so we have to keep this bombing up and they say we've already hit the start he said bomb them again find secondary target because they needed to keep up the pressure now my fear is that order to keep up the pressure on al qaeda or its associated organizations the united states will expand you know its definition of who is a

bottom line we have to get involved he was a little bit unclear but he did revert to something king abdullah has been saying which is that if syria does use these chemical weapons against their own people or their adversaries that will be a game changer now what they meant by game changer is not that jordan was going to you know basically get involved unilaterally and do something but that the international community that would be there sort of bottom line and they would say this point we have to do something about it interesting that using weapons as kind of the justification to intervene when it seems like a lot of countries do have weapons chemical weapons that you know you mentioned syria it is a huge concern of course the international community right now is that their biggest concern right now with jordan you know i can't say it's the biggest concern but it's definitely one of the biggest you know because the countries are so close and proximity to each other if it's syria flinches jordan is definitely going to feel it and just to give you an idea two of the impact of sort of having ha

syrian political activist years on abdullah says in order for rebels to prove they represent their country the national coalition must agree to hold talks when the opposition opposition the coalition now the national coalition rejects the russian offer and the progress made by the right here me this again raises a skepticism around their real intention to proceed with a peaceful solution to the crisis in syria the syrian coalition now has the decision to make probably an executive and important decision to make whether they want to proceed and join the talks abides by the geneva communique or still get stuck really down with the islamist governments that are supporting them and for them really for them to prove their credibility in syria and for them to prove that they represent a fragment of the syrian opposition or from the syrian population they have to get to get on board now if the turn comes to the united states to apply pressure on on the powers that many plates in the in the gulf and in the region especially its arche and the gulf countries really now reduce the flow and and. the i

and syria in a political activist dr abdullah says if the international community is worried about a chemical attack in syria it should look to the rebels not the government. recently there have been some troubling with us that we have seen on you tube and some other reports of of the hardest groups in northern syria assessing some chemical materials with the name of a turkish company on them and the background there was a music playing with have this chance it's very worrying they were conducting some experiments on the rabbits it's difficult to verify but if it is not a bluff then this is a this is very very worrying because judging by the effect of this gas there's a convulsing so it's it's a it's so nerve agent and this is a dangerous development perhaps if you look also at the fact that the united states has recently started listing parts of the syrian armed opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as there are organizations that say something that is probably aware that there are two of the of the armed opposition in syria and probably the seen most powerful part of the

military command in the latest western backed effort to topple the assad regime political activist abdullah thinks rebel militias could stage a chemical attack to discredit the government and pave the way for military intervention. the danger is that the west is aware of such materials in syria but at the same time it's going to be used against the syrian government as a pretext for intervention united states has recently. started listing us of the syrian on the opposition all of the armed opposition in syria as terrorists organizations that say something that is probably aware that part of the of the armed opposition in syria and probably they seem most powerful of the position of the nasr front and probably are possession of says such materials and probably are planning to use them. well north korea is expected to launch a rocket that it claims is carrying a scientific satellite later this month and that is according to a report in a south korean newspaper concerns of a possible delay appeared because of problems with a third stage rocket and you component is being moved to the test sites

man no in colombia known as abdullah two which of largest every citizen to pay a special tax to finance the government is not against its own people that we believe anyone who makes a million dollars or more must pay as revolutionary tax to the guerrillas so will love this tax and in areas where they grow coca plants and where people have nothing else except for the co-counsel we tax the car towers who make a lot of money on this business but we won't tax the village folk who own but if you have does of coca bush's age that is what everyone wants to do in relation between coca and the guerrillas in other areas where they have different businesses who also larry are tags differently but the reality in colombia is such that every institution across the country is involved in drug trafficking so wherever we go collecting our tax now always local drug dealers and cartel members to be found and they will have to pay us a war acquires money just like a con needs an engine to run. earlier this year that it would no longer kidnap people but if you individuals are still held captive by us what a

i am just like anyone else, abdullah tells us.ts of courage go unrecorded every day in syria, and how many innocents are loss? arwa damon, cnn, aleppo. >> so tough. our arwa damon has brought us some extraordinarily, truly extraordinary reporting, as one of the very few western journalists to get inside the syrian war zone. and this is just another example of her great work, wolf? >> she risks her life every single day to bring us these reports. >> amazing reports. >> and we're very proud of her, and thankfully, she's okay. >> yeah, yeah. >>> we're just getting this in, a readout on the president's meeting with the speaker of the house, for the fiscal cliff. the president and the speaker had a frank meeting in the oval office tonight. it lasted approximately 15 minutes. there will be no further readout of the meeting, but lines of communication remain open. so that's it. that's all we're getting, at least for now. although i suspect there will be leaks coming out fairly soon. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] how can power c

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if we found that the shooter's name was abdullah mutallab, and attending a mass, everything would beferent. the way it would rise, the policy conclusions that people come to, washington would now be on fire with policy discussions. with official policy discussions about -- and no one would say don't politicize the tragedy of someone named abdullah mutallab walking into a school. >> that's what honors the children and the mother of adam lanza who was killed. right before the first presidential debate, i went to virginia tech. colin goddard, one of the victims, one of the 33 who didn't die but has three bullets in him you today. took me through the place where he was shot up and where his teachers were killed at virginia tech. i was with him because the next day, president obama and mitt romney would be holding their first debate at the university of denver, and he was leading the campaign, to get the moderator, jim lehrer, the pbs host, to ask the question about gun violence. after all, the debate was taking place in colorado. you had oaurora about that. tens of thousands of signature

the first to respond to the incident is sheriff fred abdullah. >> we didn't hit him, we didn't strike him, nothing like that. i knew and i could just imagine the pain that he was going through, the hurt. >> i have done a lot of sentencing hearings, and i have had family members be terribly upset and terribly angry, but i had never seen a physical altercation between a victim's family member and the defendant. i was terrified for him that he might get hurt as the officers tried to subdue him. and my honest thought was that he might try to kill the defendant. >> others in the courtroom fear the same thing. >> i thought that this was going to be a disaster, and it was. i saw mr. swett's hand moving to try to get to the sheriff's weapon. the sheriff was able to restrain him, and he did not get his hand on the sheriff's weapon, which was holstered. >> clifford can't defend himself. he's handcuffed and remains silent during the struggle. >> he never moved. he never said a word. he never backed off. he never looked afraid. he just simply sat there. and even afterwards when they brought him b

to trade recognition for the establishment of the palestinian state, and that's the core of king abdullah's offer of the arab initiative in 2002 was to trade recognition for a return to the 67 voters or so much so. >> thank you for the brilliant presentation. his books outside. i'm sure he's willing to sign one if you buy one. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this book, in particular deals, i think, at its heart with several deserts, but, ultimately, the subtitle is "boom and bust in the new old west" so i'm looking at the way the economy affects our lives, the way the economy gets into our very bodies. it's a book that i wrote because i, my body, arrived in the desert under very particular circumstances in the winter of 1997 when i was broke, broken, and on drugs. i was in mexico city where i had been lucky enough to go under a book contract from new york. i got an advance from a new york publisher to write a book. it was a dream come true, and in mexico city, by november of 1997, i crossed the deadline, and i didn't have a word written, and i was broke. i called the only friend tha

i think abdullah had a lot of promise with his wife were present. it's an interesting counterfactual of what egypt would look like now if he had one. he was the only candidate whose it is the most liberals, let's get together with a common vision. and try to move away from this islamist long -- non-islamist cleavage. that's what was appealing to support. you could straddle all you want and i think it's admirable that people try to straddle, but i think at the end of the day that our real fundamental divides in egyptian politics, and i think they are in some sense unique from other transitions. if you look at the latin america transition they were largely based on economic polarization. that is difficult as lucy in venezuela. at least you can split the middle on economics. it is very difficult to split the middle on fundamental issues of identity. and the nature of the state. salafis and many islamists, most islamists believe the state should not be ideologically neutral, that the state should be a protector and promoter of a certain understanding of

i think there have been a number of reports over the last week about a warning by king abdullah of jordan, about an alliance of extremism, emerging across the region. and there are those that make the argument that the next battle over religion and politics in the middle east is going to be fought in institutions like al-azhar. so i'd really love to get each of your thoughts on that. shadi, do you want to start? >> yeah, sure. so pretty much the way this might look -- part of the problem is that this article, as khaled said, is vague, and it can be interpreted in different ways. and parliament can decide to operationalize it in different ways. but i think what we can expect is members of parliament essentially submitting controversial laws that have religions content to [inaudible] for an advisory opinion. the opinion will come back. it will be nonbinding, but salafi's, and to some extent the brotherhood, are going to use that advisory opinion to build support or to oppose a given law. and it will be difficult, i think, for salafi's in the brotherhood as self-proclaimed defenders of the i