assad arrived with a car loaded with high-powered weapons for mondai. both targets were convicted and sent to prison, but assad said it ended any hopes of infiltrating what turned out to be the real al qaeda terrorists. >> one of the biggest problems when you target somebody is that your energy and focus is on that particular group. you know, unfortunately calls are made where you don't follow up on informatn that's given to you while you're working on something else. >> shortly after the attacks, assad says the fbi asked him if he could identify any of the hijackers, and he did. >> i was very upset, angry. i cried. >> you cried? >> i cursed on everybody. i destroyed half of my furniture. i went crazy. >> you were that close? >> it confirmed what my suspicions were correct. i was right. >> but because atta and his men were suspicious of the fbi undercover man and secretive, the fbi sent him after the easier target and the sure-thing case. >> you could have stopped the attacks? >> yes. i'm not 100%, i'm merely positive. >> assad has been highly praised f

yesterday prime minister designate assad hariri stepped down unable to form a national unity governmenthalf months after his election in june. after his mod pratt and relatively pro-western party won the largest number of seats in the lebanese parliament, mr. hariri posed the formation of a broad-based government that would even award a share of the cabinet post to hezbollah. yet hezbollah has been intent on thwarting these efforts to form a cabinet. despite the fact that the lebanese constitution confers on the prime minister and president the power to make cabinets appointments and irrespective of attempts to form a government, talks have broken down over the demand by hezbollah allied party that it retain the telecommunications ministry. this may appear to be a small and insignificant point of contention and surely not one that would prompt any incoming prime minister to abandon his post until we consider that hezbollah badly wants to retain control over telecommunications and surveillance in lebanon. hezbollah, of course, not only possesses a surveillance capacity and an independent

president, i ask unanimous consent to set assad the pending amendment. -- set aside the pending amendment. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. murray: we have a managers amendment at the desk. it is amendment 2402 as modified, 2405 modified and 2415. i ask unanimous consent the amendments be considered and agreed to en bloc and the motion to reconsider be laid on the table. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from arizona. mr. kyl: i ask further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. kyl: i ask unanimous consent to lay aside the pending amendment for the purpose of sending a motion to recommit with instructions to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: the senator from arizona, mr. kyl, moves to recommit the bill to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report back the same to the senate forth with -- mr. kyl: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that further reading of the motion be dispensed with

either way but i think it will stay out of the fight because president netanyahu should just tell assad if you do one thing, i'm going to put an armored division in damascus in four hours. and he can do that. brian: keep in mind, too, they did nothing when israel, a year ago just about, took out what was beginning to be their own nuclear facility. correct? >> precisely. in addition, remember in 2006 when they had the fight in lebanon and hezbollah fired. the fact is israel has different leadership. president netanyahu gets it. he understands -- brian: absolutely. >> the threat to their society. brian: and so do the rest nations and possible opponents. why does this matter so much to the world and so much to america? what comes through there? >> 40% of the world's oil comes through this strait. and the fact is people think that iran can can close it. i do not believe it. it would be a tough fight. but the united states navy and allied forces can keep it open. yes, there would be a lot of fighting there. in addition, it takes all the economic value from the iranians. they can't get their

yesterday prime minister designate assad hariri stepped down unable to form a national unity governmenthalf months after his election in june. after his mod pratt and relatively pro-western party won the largest number of seats in the lebanese parliament, mr. hariri posed the formation of a broad-based government that would even award a share of the cabinet post to hezbollah. yet hezbollah has been intent on thwarting these efforts to form a cabinet. despite the fact that the lebanese constitution confers on the prime minister and president the power to make cabinets appointments and irrespective of attempts to form a government, talks have broken down over the demand by hezbollah allied party that it retain the telecommunications ministry. this may appear to be a small and insignificant point of contention and surely not one that would prompt any incoming prime minister to abandon his post until we consider that hezbollah badly wants to retain control over telecommunications and surveillance in lebanon. hezbollah, of course, not only possesses a surveillance capacity and an independent

yesterday prime minister designate assad hariri stepped down unable to form a national unity government half months after his election in june. after his mod pratt and relatively pro-western party won the largest number of seats in the lebanese parliament, mr. hariri posed the formation of a broad-based government that would even award a share of the cabinet post to hezbollah. yet hezbollah has been intent on thwarting these efforts to form a cabinet. despite the fact that the lebanese constitution confers on the prime minister and president the power to make cabinets appointments and irrespective of attempts to form a government, talks have broken down over the demand by hezbollah allied party that it retain the telecommunications ministry. this may appear to be a small and insignificant point of contention and surely not one that would prompt any incoming prime minister to abandon his post until we consider that hezbollah badly wants to retain control over telecommunications and surveillance in lebanon. hezbollah, of course, not only possesses a surveillance capacity and an independen

yesterday prime minister designate assad hariri stepped down unable to form a national unity government some two and a half months after his election in june. after his mod pratt and relatively pro-western party won the largest number of seats in the lebanese parliament, mr. hariri posed the formation of a broad-based government that would even award a share of the cabinet post to hezbollah. yet hezbollah has been intent on thwarting these efforts to form a cabinet. despite the fact that the lebanese constitution confers on the prime minister and president the power to make cabinets appotmentsnd irrespective of attempts to form a government, talks have broken down over the demand by hezbollah allied party that it retain the telecommunicatns ministry. this may appear to be a small and insignificant point of contention and surely not one that would prompt any incoming prime minister to abandon his post until we consider that hezbollah badly wants to retain control over telecommunications and surveillance in lebanon. hezbollah, of course, not only possesses a surveillae capacity and an ind