>> nazir ahmed, the people's friend.e's wearing a pouch for his little parcels, but there's no little parcels left. the blood's still running and he's not been dead half an hour. see anything? >> ballistics could be tested. there's a bunch of bullets and stuff. no weapon, unless they've invented one you can flush down the bog. >> third person, now absent, with or without gun. a forced entry? >> mm-mm. >> witnesses? >> this neighborhood, gerry. have a guess. >> so no ws. >> gonna be all right, michael. you'll be back in business no time at all, mate. >> yeah, i want a uniform five inches from this boy the entire time he is in hospital. >> okay. >> can you hear me? what's his name? >> michael johns. >> is he taking any drugs of any kind? >> ah, the best money can buy. why? did you want some? that's a joke. >> will you shut up? i'll get to you in a minute. >> hey, you don't have to go calling me, woman. i got the poor friggin' kid out of there while you were [bleep] around with your boyfriends. >> he is a key witness in thi

[phone ringing] >> uh, buckets of ahmed. a little bit of michael. period. >> oh, pardy, you're such a laugh. >> these are the lists, are they, rachel? >> yeah, i'm just off to copy them now, boss. 46 names. >> good, copies for everyone, please. >> okay. >> and i want those checked personally, not by phone. personally. henry, is that for me? >> michael john's just discharged himself from hospital. >> oh. has he? well, he hasn't discharged himself from me. i want him monitored around the clock, and that's your job. right, mr. growse, what about the weapon? >> regional crime squads are fully briefed. >> has the street got a cache of arms anywhere? >> mm-hmm. >> several, according to my snout. >> call him. >> i can't do that. >> ask him where they are. >> boss, can i just say something here? i don't get what we're driving at with the street. i mean, the guy's a right [bleep], but why would he kill a soldier of his own outfit in a flat belonging to somebody he knows? >> well, it's a good question, but, um... let's just stay right in his face, breathe all

the news of today's hearing and the legal implications of the missing money, we're joined by azam ahmed. he's been covering the story for the "new york times." and jacob frenkel is a former federal prosecutor and securities and exchange commission enforcement lawyer. he has also represented individuals under congressional investigation, and is now in private practice with the law gentlemen, thank you both for being here. azzam ahmed, let me start with you, back to what senator pat roberts called a bomb that had been dropped into the hearing, this testimony. first of all, who is terrence duffy, the witness who presented that testimony? and what is cme-global? >> terrence duffy is the ceo of the cme group which is the exchange where mf-global does most or did most of its business. transacted most of its trade. they are also what is called a self-regulating... self-regulatory organization so they're responsible for regulating mf-global and ensuring that they comply with various laws. >> woodruff: what exactly did duffy testify today some. >> it was strange because initially it seemed like

woodruff: jacob frankel and azzam ahmed, we thank you both. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you.>> >> ifill: in russia tonight, more political turmoil and challenges to vladimir putin's power. margaret warner has that story. >> warner: it was a scene without precedence since putin came to power in russia 12 years ago. tens of thousands of people demonstrating saturday in moscow and other cities. >> people want fair elections. people feel that their vote was stolen. >> warner: the crowds accuse putin's united russia party of fraud in the parliamentary elections held december 4 and demanded they be recounted or rerun. they expressed growing anger over corruption and one-party dominance of the russian government. the protestors' unhappiness was galvanized last september when prime minister putin announced he would run for a third term as president next year. switching jobs yet again with the current president medvedev. in response, finance minister kudrin resigned and criticism swelled on russian internet sites. last month putin was booed by spectators at a martial arts event in mosco

abu ahmed has no doubts about what would happen if the government discovered his stockpile. they would kill me, he said, simply. but he says that he is ready to die for his cause. he showed us a video on his cell phone of a man he says was shot in the heart by a sniper. >> two weeks ago. >> reporter: two weeks ago. his is the only face we can show you from syria. >> pelley: charissa joins us now. charisa, you were traveling alone in syria and spending a good deal of time talking to people in the capital city damascus. i wonder, what is it like to live in damascus these days? >> reporter: i think it's almost schizophrenic, to be honest. you have pockets of people who are living in these bubbles of denial and pretending what is happening across the country is not going on. and then you have the majority of people who are just intensely frightened, and it's a fear that's ingrained deeply for the last 40 years. and that one man who i spoke to whose son was killed, whenever i would ask him anything even vaguely political his eyes would sort of shift back and forth as if he was lo

indicated that the man who had plotted the world trade center bombing in '93, the ringleader, ramzi ahmed yousef, he was about to move within pakistan, and there was a small window, a closing window, to catch him. and so, thinking there might be somebody at the fbi on a sunday morning, i called. >> narrator: o'neill had made his reputation investigating white-collar crime, drug rings, and abortion clinic bombings. >> i said, "who's this?" and he responded, "well, who the hell are you? i'm john o'neill." and i explained to him, i'm from the white house, and i do terrorism, and i need some help. and i told him our story on the classified phone line, and he went into action. >> narrator: in 20 years, he'd chased a lot of bad guys, but nobody like ramzi yousef. >> yousef is one of the most dangerous people on the planet, very smart. getting him and incapacitating him was a significant public safety issue, and john o'neill recognized that, was not about to take no for an answer anywhere before he was taken into custody. ( telephone dialing ) ( telephone rings ) >> white house. >> o'neill put t

the crash happened near samir ahmed's front yard. he said he tried to rescue the driver of that pickup truck. >> i went to the other side. someone said don't you have him, he's -- don't touch him, he's gone. >> reporter: neighbors say they lobbied the state for years to do something about that dangerous stretch of road. it's not known yet why the pickup crashed into the bus. >>> charges could be coming for a driver going too fast on 83 who caused a crash that killed a 5-year-old boy. it happened before 3:00 yesterday afternoon at the ramp of 83 northbound and 695. police say an suv driven by deafen mckeever didn't slow down fast enough and ran into the back of a car carrying the owen family. the 5-year-old died, police say speed was a factor. >>> disturbing new numbers about police officer deaths. the national law enforcement officers memorial fund says 2011 saw a 13% increase in the number of officers killed in the line of duty. 173 law enforcement officers were killed last year in gunfire, that was the majority of the reason for th

the gaza is three years since the israeli offensive but the battle is far from over the palestinians ahmed is going to call. routines rerun for the presidency to the parliamentary election that sparked mass protests is a landmark but it means in russian politics they are serious only twenty. and in about twenty minutes. to losing value this tuesday all the latest details and the full. twenty four hours a day you're watching out. with more than twenty people reportedly killed in fresh violence in syria fifty arab league monitors are heading to the most turbulent city of homs due to assess president assad's response to the anti-government protests but middle east experts. doubts the observers can be objective. you have to kind of look at the history of the arab league which today many many critics might refer to as the american league or the british league or the french league i don't think that it's an independent weed and i don't think that anyone or many i believe many people would agree with me when i say that it's not clear whether their interests are with the interests of the of the ar

but today, some observers were taken to a mosque where ahmed's body lay.they took photographs and spoke to some of those who claim to have witnessed the incident. with the ongoing arab league mission visit, state television announced the release of some detainees. >> authorities announce the release of 755 persons -- >> reporter: but human rights groups estimate as many as 40,000 are being held. this afternoon, the arab league mission had its first real taste of what is happening. the syrian regimeç says it's fighting armed terrorist gangs but hope the arab league can succeed in resolving syria's crisis nine months since this uprising started. neil connery. >>> now here's your "first look" at some of the other news going on around america today. north dakota firefighters went to the edge of an icy river all to make this life-saving grab. they rescued a black labrador after it slid past his owner's electric fence and went right into that freezing water. the dog is in good condition. >>> a texas man didn't get away with much of anything during a recent robb

meanwhile the trial of egypt's president resumed on wednesday after three months break egypt journalist ahmed says hosni mubarak's hearing as an attempt by the ruling elite to divert protesters from their battle against the current leader. well there is definitely a sense among especially among protesters that this trial is a mock trial basically designed to cool down the public opinion one of the reasons they are losing popularity is that the islamists like the mainly the muslim brotherhood did leave did leave the square because they're now move busy with the elections and the muslim brotherhood strategy now is to bring change through the parliament rather than through the street. so who really remains in the square now is activists with the moves socialist tendency. who did not do very well in the elections and they see they still perceive the street. the main lobbying. platform. the head of the arab league monitoring mission in syria says there is nothing frightening in the flashpoint city of holmes that came on the day damascus set free seven hundred fifty five people detained in the upri

square the center of the revolution and in front of the parliament building youth movement leaders like ahmed dravot are protesting and what they see as an empty vote offering no democratic mandate will be you. think you will not go inside your office to stop you and you have to go now. to make. two more rounds of voting still need to take place but the strong showing of the muslim brotherhood leaves little doubt that the islamic parties will have a significant majority in parliament for what it's worth although claims of a record sixty two percent turnout is already being questioned after a series of irregularities were reported the country's only female candidate for the presidency is not surprised. monitoring the election just. mistakes and. we have no way for democracy but the west has been quick to praise the election as an important step towards change although the americans are beginning to say well no the army must go back to barracks deep down they'll be perfectly happy to keep the army where it is illegal if you give one point three billion dollars a year to the egyptian army which

. >> ahmed says they use more than 20 pounds of fresh california lemons each week in everything from lemon bars to the rich and gooey lemon cake with lemon buttercream frosting. mm so, the next time you indulge in a lemon meringue pie or sip some lemonade, pay tribute to california lemons. after all, being a little bitter really never tasted so sweet, right? for "california country," i'm tracy sellers. >> oh, we got some more spinach. so that's in watsonville. here, we have some romaine lettuce from salinas. >> for jim mills, life is quite simply all about produce, and evey day, his sacramento warehouse receives tons of it from just about every region in the golden state. >> broccoli from salinas. over here, some artichokes from watsonville and castroville. fennel from a local farm over in yolo. >> but the bulk of this produce doesn't stax here very long. within a few hours, much of it is trucked out to restaurants and businesses in northern california, some delivered by mills himself. he spends hours on the road, visiting farmers and chefs, taking produce from one to the other, and

gone they have confirmed that the french and the british audience were certainly can delete ok mr ahmed so i'm afraid we can't quite pick apart all of those points that you raise there. thank you for those comments about almost all president of the arab lawyers association in the u.k. thank. a u.s. military court has a print pretrial hearings in the case of an alleged whistleblower bradley manning rejecting a defense request that the presiding officer steps down they claim has all the role investigating the founder of wiki leaks makes him finest private manning who served as an intelligence analyst in baghdad is accused of leaking classified military and diplomatic data to the whistleblower website he has already been held in detention for nineteen months and could face life in prison or even at death sentence if found guilty former cia officer ray mcgovern says the american people did need to know about those devices carried out by the u.s. army. these charges are greatly overwrought. gates's term so there has been no indication of serious damage to u.s. personnel or those who cooperat

as proof, the purported confession of a man named ahmed was broadcast. he said the vice president spoke to him through an intermediary. >> he told me i choose you to carry out serious tasks. and you are able to do them well. you should implement what i want. your interest and that of your family concern me. this means he warned me that if i won't implement such a mission, we will harm you and your family. i understood what he meant. i told him, yes, sir, at your disposal. >> woodruff: al hasmi who is sunni muslim angrily denied the charge today and he dared the government to try to arrest him in the kurdish city where he's taken refuge. the vice president also accused iraq's shiite prime minister nouri al-maliki of stoking barely controlled sectarian flames in a bid to consolidate power. >> al maliki is behind the whole issue. the country is in the hands of al maliki. all the efforts that had been exerted to reach national reconciliation and to unite iraq are now gone. yes, i blame al maliki. >> woodruff: it is a charge he leveled in an interview last ye

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that is with nobel prize winner ahmed zuel and nick chrstoff of "the new york times." let me welcome to the stage the 2011 top american leaders. [applause] ♪ [applause] >> and to hand out their awards, i would like to think the publisher of "the washington post, " and the director for center of public leadership. [applause] ♪ >> good morning everybody. crisscrossed the is the governor of new jersey at a former u.s. attorney. he has sharply reduced deficit since his tour began in 2009 working closely with a democratically controlled state legislature. with his unrepentant and unconventional approach, christy is not a traditional state leader. his willingness to yield the power of his bully pulpit, to cut thousands of public-sector jobs has and him as many enemies as it has friends. there is no denying his ability to get results. an editorial page writer of the jersey second-largest daily newspaper called the alliance between cory booker and chris christy the best example of consolidation of power and services seen in new jersey today. instead of working like two indepen

will cain university in ankara joins us live thanks for being with us this new year's eve is there ahmed let's start with tunisia it's nearly twelve months since president ben ali was forced to leave the country after the remote there what when and she knew since then and tunisians are they found me with their revolution. well the big change of course is that they who had an election to choose a new problem and the interim president that used a dramatic change because juries are still very secular culture a secular one party state of like two but on the other hand not everybody is so happy with the changes the ennahda islamic party won the law to share the vote they're not an absolute majority and in some places including city busy twitter the revolution began with the suicide. the opposition to the responses to surprisingly well i was people in tunisia nasty kind of conflict between. islam versus up to the saudi but also this affects the economy the force of tourism has been very dramatic because of the revolution and also because of the violence in libya and this means that a lot of tu

will cain university in ankara joins us live thanks for being with us this new year's eve is there ahmed let's start with tunisia it's nearly twelve months since president ben ali was forced to leave the country after the remote there what's been achieved since then and tunisia are they happy with their revolution. the big change of course is had to be much choose a new problem with the interim president. has to try to change because he seems to be you know for secretary of state for life. but on the other hand not everybody is so happy with the changes he. is running on the law to share the vote which are to be added some places to city because each one of the revolution began with the suicide. the opposition to the responses to surprisingly well people the truth is that nasty kind of conflict between. the two. but also this affects the economy the fourth of tourism to be very dramatic because of the revolution and also because of the violence in libya and this means that the real truth tunisians who hope for better things with the full open only a found that in the us since his former

ahmed is a broken man. his son was 12 when a roadside bomb went off as he he walked home from school in 2006. he hasn't walked since. >> translator: life at home is like hell now. his psychological state is not like that of other children who can go out tflt's painful to see these other children. >> reporter: those who think the war is over because the americans are going aren't living in today's iraq. nearly 200 iraqis died last month, more than 300 wounded in horrific ways. most of them innocents in the wrong place at the wrong time as bombs went off or gunfire erupted. a humble driver for the education ministry set off for work one morning last month. minutes later, a bomb stuck to the bottom of his vehicle exploded. the father of a 3-month-old child lost his leg, victim it appears of one of a series of such bombings of government workers, not high-profile people, anyone who works for the government. >> translator: i really don't know who did it or why, he tells me, bewildered. i'm not an important perso

. >> suarez: over the last decade, journalist and publisher ahmed benchemsi had his magazines, "telquel" and "nichane" seized, was dragged into court, and thrown in jail by the government. he now teaches at stanford university, and isn't buying the moroccan spring. >> if you dig a little bit, if you go beyond the veneer, it's not democratic at all. it just strengthens the absolute autocratic power. the thing with smokescreens is that they can last forever and they... by nature, they just disappear whenever the wind of protests starts blowing again. >> suarez: zineb belmkaddem is one of the leaders of the february 20 movement, morocco's grassroots answer to the democratic agitation across the arab world. she's skeptical about a real democratic transition when the man in the driver's seat is a king who can decide to stop the process whenever he wants. >> this is the arab spring, people have overthrown regimes. isn't it time for morocco to finally make that democratic transition? we are no longer going to wait. this is it, this is the opportunity. if we let this pass, it's over again for a

. >> suarez: over the last decade, journalist and publisher ahmed benchemsi had his magazines, "telquel" and "nichane" seized, was dragged into court, and thrown in jail by the government. he now teaches at stanford university, and isn't buying the moroccan spring. >> if you dig a little bit, if you go beyond the veneer, it's not democratic at all. it just strengthens the absolute autocratic power. the thing with smokescreens is that they can last forever and they... by nature, they just disappear whenever the wind of protests starts blowing again. >> suarez: zineb belmkaddem is one of the leaders of the february 20 movement, morocco's grassroots answer to the democratic agitation across the arab world. she's skeptical about a real democratic transition when the man in the driver's seat is a king who can decide to stop the process whenever he wants. >> this is the arab spring, people have overthrown regimes. isn't it time for morocco to finally make that democratic transition? we are no longer going to wait. this is it, this is the opportunity. if we let this pass, it's over again for a

>> ahmed chalabi and how seriously he put one over on the cia. >> off to boston for the massachusetts conference for women. will be fun. this afternoon. >> and we'll see you up there. also, "rolling stone's" year-end issue, great work as always, eric. if it's way too early, what time is it, mike? >> it's "morning joe." that's what it is. >> except right now it's time for chuck and "the daily rundown." >>> at batch of polls show newt gingrich's lead solidifying even pull eight way in some primary states. but it's the general election results in key swing states that have the former speaker smiling. mitt romney releasing the house with less than four weeks to the caucuses, deciding to take more shots at gingrich directly and through sur galts. but the strategy comes with risk. >>> and the clock keeps ticking down to a deadline for a deal on the payroll tax holiday. can republicans stay together and withstand the president's political pressure? it's thursday, december 8th, 2011. this is "the daily rundown." i'm chuck todd. we have sununu tsunami this morning. we'll explain that ahead. >>

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ahmed abbadi is the president of an islamic think tank, the mohammedia league of moroccan ulama, and a professor of islamic thought. >> we've been using very simple, i would even say simplistic metaphors, such as if there is someone who is spiritually weak and who broke into a house to steal, it would be better if he does his theft and leaves, or rob the house, and leave and go. don't kill. don't burn the house. if you do insist to have some dangerous sexual intercourses at least use condom because it would be that you are protecting yourself and your partners. we have some rules in our religion islam that you say please be always keen to push the greater damage even by a aller damage. >> reporter: prostitutes have been invited to workshops to talk and imams and theologians like farida zumorrod asked to listen. >> ( translated ): i met some of the female sex workers at a workshop. at first, they were frightened of us religious leaders, thinking we would attack them and call them whores, instead we learned how poverty pushed them into prostitution. >> we succeeded in having those who

as proof, the purported confession of a man named ahmed was broadcast. he said the vice president spoke to him through an intermediary. >> he told me i choose you to carry out serious tasks. and you are able to do them well. you should implement what i want. your interest and that of your family concern me. this means he warned me that if i won't implement such a mission, we will harm you and your family. i understood what he meant. i told him, yes, sir, at your disposal. >> woodruff: al hasmi who is sunni muslim angrily denied the charge today and he dared the government to try to arrest him in the kurdish city where he's taken refuge. the vice president also accused iraq's shiite prime minister nouri al-maliki of stoking barely controlled sectarian flames in a bid to consolidate power. >> al maliki is behind the whole issue. the country is in the hands of al maliki. all the efforts that had been exerted to reach national reconciliation and to unite iraq are now gone. yes, i blame al maliki. >> woodruff: it is a charge he leveled in an interview last ye

ahmed abbadi is the president of an islamic think tank, the mohammedia league of moroccan ulama, and a professor of islamic thought. >> we've been using very simple, i would even say simplistic metaphors, such as if there is someone who is spiritually weak and who broke into a house to steal, it would be better if he does his theft and leaves, or rob the house, and leave and go. don't kill. don't burn the house. if you do insist to have some dangerous sexual intercourses at least use condom because it would be that you are protecting yourself and your partners. we have some rules in our religion islam that you say please be always keen to push the greater damage even by a smaller damage. >> reporter: prostitutes have been invited to workshops to talk and imams and theologians like farida zumorrod asked to listen. >> ( translated ): i met some of the female sex workers at a workshop. at first, they were frightened of us religious leaders, thinking we would attack them and call them whores, instead we learned how poverty pushed them into prostitution. >> we succeeded in having those wh

as proof, the purported confession of a man named ahmed was broadcast. he said the vice president spoke to him through an intermediary. >> he told me i choose you to carry out serious tasks. and you are able to do them well. you should implement what i want. your interest and that of your family concern me. this means he warned me that if i won't implement such a mission, we will harm you and your family. i understood what he meant. i told him, yes, sir, at your disposal. >> woodruff: al hasmi who is sunni muslim angrily denied the charge today and he dared the government to try to arrest him in the kurdish city where he's taken refuge. the vice president also accused iraq's shiite prime minister nouri al-maliki of stoking barely controlled sectarian flames in a bid to consolidate power. >> al maliki is behind the whole issue. the country is in the hands of al maliki. all the efforts that had been exerted to reach national reconciliation and to unite iraq are now gone. yes, i blame al maliki. >> woodruff: it is a charge he leveled in an interview last ye