. >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad.utanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. this locale is the historic center of baghdad book selling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. named after the famous 10th century classic poet, al-mutanabbi, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tobacco shops. it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi st

. >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad. mutanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded. this locale is the historic center of baghdad book selling, a winding street filled with bookstores and outdoor book stalls. named after the famous 10th century classic poet, al-mutanabbi, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. mutanabbi street also holds cafes, stationary shops, and even tea and tcc

this local is the historic center of baghdad book selling. a winding street filled with book stores and out door book stalls. named after the famous 10th century arab poet, this is an old and established street for book selling and has been for hundreds of years. book selling on this street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense we feel the street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. monthknabe street starts here. >> just before the street was eviscerated by a searing length of deaths and despair, delusion and destruction that destroyed more than the 30 lives. twisted more than the 100 souls who were bent and crippled amidst it's rage. just before the moment you were the proclamation, the prayer as they summoned and swore laugh, controlled, denied and affirmed. did you hear the words as they fell. for 2,000 years we have. what do you think. this says, map, border, resistance. truth. spirit, faith. doctrine, domaine. love, free, open, winds, cut. did you here the euphony of t

it has been the heart and soul of the baghdad literary and intellectual community. this tragedy is part of a wider and continuing tragedy, but one that we want to isolate and address, not only for the loss of lives but also for the implications underlying the destruction of a street where books were sold. book selling on mutanabbi street is no different from book selling here. we traffic in memory, ideas and dreams. in that sense, we feel that mutanabbi street starts at the front door of all of our book shops. mutanabbi street starts here. our first reader will be sinan anton. >> when i was torn by war, i took a brush immersed in death, and drew a window on war's wall. i opened it, searching for something, but all i saw was another war and a mother weaving a shroud for the dead man still in her womb. there was a photograph of an iraqi boy on the front page of the "new york times". he sat on the edge of the truck, 8 or 9 years old, surrounded by his family, his father, mother , and 5 siblings were asleep. his head was buried in his hands. all the clouds of the world

. >> in sadr city, baghdad -- his baghdad stronghold, they were out in force. the shiite militia fought a bitter sectarian war in the aftermath of the invasion. today, they sported a new uniform. they wore the colors of the iraqi flag, red, white, and black. allah is great in blazoned across the middle. there is a broader nationalist appeal. we are in this together. againsthi'ite with sunni the americans. muqtada al-sadr our made it clear that they are still a fighting force to be reckoned with. >> i know the iraqi government is under a lot of pressure from the american occupiers to allow them to stay in iraq. if they did not withdraw, we will reactivate the army. if the american states, that would change. we can still hit their bases, troops and equipment as long as they are in iraq. >> until january, muqtada al- sadr had spent much of the last two years in self-imposed exile, squeezed out by iraqi and u.s. military efforts. there had been a change of fortunes. his party did better than expected. now he is back. he has a growing sense of confidence. the americ

officials say there were at least eight blasts in baghdad.t in recent weeks that have raised concerns about iraq's ability to protect itself. the national park service wants to reduce the size of off leash areas for dogs at least 21 sites within the golden gate national recreation area. if the dog owners are not happy to.about it. park service said these changes are needed because the visitors who have conflicts with stocks and the parks been run down by the pets. she explains why many are worried about the proposal. >>nicole: nearly 400 dog owners march from ocean beach to the growth park. if there showing what would happen if the national recreation area goes through with plans to reduce the areas where jobs can be without a leash. if they think would overcrowd parts and put a strain on others who don't want to be around dogs. dodd activists eighth was 10,000 people vite visit these parts everyday's there for this plan would have a huge impact on city parks. he's worried about restricted access for dogs on local beaches. >> and will determi

. >> i got involved with smoke because of operation baghdad pets.national brought the dogs and cats from iraq to the u.s. for the troops and smoke was the first donkey. >> anything but easy. for 37 months, terry and smoke travelled from baghdad to turkey to germany landing at jfk airport this weekend. you know you're wondering, in the midst of war and all of the suffering, what makes this donkey special. because this donkey is special to a group of special americans. >> he's our battle buddy. not just some donkey we happened to decide to bring back. marines, like all americans, are suckers for animals. that's it. >> these marines made sure nobody, not even their donkey, was left behind. on the upper west side, don daylo, cbs-2 news. >>> coming up a little later on "the early show," the latest on the sexual assault charges against the head of the imf. plus the devastating floods in the south. the mayor of new orleans talks about how lessons from katrina can help his city be saved from rising waters. and a heated debate over president obama's decision

her twenty four year old son was killed in the street by a brick thrown during sectarian clashes in baghdad a northern flashpoint as years of syrian religious tension boil over so how can we know mubarak was a dictator maybe he was corrupt but at least we have been able to sleep and our children were alive we never saw the before we couldn't have even imagine something like this happening yes from this point of view i miss the old regime and many others glorify the january revolution among them the muslim brotherhood. and under mubarak jade's the country's only well organized political group with the president gone they moved from jail cells to this much rebuilding in central cairo the revolution given them a long awaited voice and. radicals are triggering the transitions of the revolution united people and they want to ruin that they don't want to see egypt strong and independent but i'm sure they will disappear after the parliamentary elections. in batteries pyros poorest district is home to millions of people surviving on just a couple of doors a day following the fear revolution egypt's

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remaining royal navy training to start having pulled out came the same day as multiple bombings had baghdad killing at least sixteen people the u.k. joined the american invasion of iraq in two thousand and three supposedly to destroy saddam hussein's alleged plotters of mass destruction which turned out to be no let's spend opposition to outside groups significantly in britain as a result one hundred seventy nine british military personnel died in the conflict and was drawn of most of u.k. forces got under way almost two years ago critics say british involvement failed to make iraq a faithful place with terror time still a regular occurrence and john lippert darby rather body counts research projects the k. has tended to ignore the casualties of this war. commentators of whatever political persuasion were for or against this conflict are kind of united in the. cultural treatment of iraq the cost of this and we believe that this will not be laid to rest properly until there is a fall and detailed inquiry into iraq you both sort of been caused whatever benefits may have accrued to some people

a series of explosions have hit the iraqi capital of baghdad leaving at least sixteen people dead it comes as the british really. harry operation has ended after more than eighty years in the country with the last group of royal navy training staff now having pulled out the u.k. during the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction but when w m d's were never found but one fell out of favor with the british public and even more so with the death of one hundred seventy nine soldiers during the conflict well most of the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago many experts say they feel to make iraq a safer place with terror attacks still happening there on of regular basis british antiwar activists john research the u.k. made a great mistake when it went into iraq. it's one of the worst political crimes that you can commit to take your country to war on the basis of lies to send one hundred seventy nine people to that. is a gross crime which should be treated in the same way that we would treat any ot

a series of explosions of hit the iraqi capital baghdad leaving at least sixteen people dead and this comes as the british military operations ended after more than eight years in the country the last group of all navy training staff poured out the u.k. joined the us invasion of iraq in two thousand and three under the pretext of destroying saddam hussein's weapons of mass destruction but when w m d's were never found the war fell out of favor with the british public even more so with the death of one hundred seventy nine soldiers during the conflict most of the u.k.'s military forces withdrew two years ago let's talk more about this with john's forbode he's co-founder of the surge project for iraq body count thanks for being on r.t. this sunday evening is pretty shaded with multiple civilian casualties maybe two hundred british was the talk and billions of pounds spent most of the yukos involvement in iraq really worth it. well the play is purely a symbolic moment i mean britain's real influence on this conflict ended back in two thousand and seven when it would do its combat troops

and as he took one of his last helicopter rides over baghdad, he urged the u.s.ongress to fund state department programs in iraq after the u.s. military leaves. >> gates: my worry is that we'll be penny wise and pound foolish; that we will have spent hundreds of billions, maybe a trillion dollars here, over 4,000 lives, 30,000 wounded-- we're like we're on the two-yard line, and i'd hate to see us not get across the goal line. and it's the state department that's going to take us across the goal line. >> couric: after the bush presidency, president obama asked robert gates to stay on to manage the war in afghanistan. he became the first defense secretary to serve under presidents from both parties. is this the hardest job you've ever had? >> gates: absolutely. we have been at war in two places every single day i've been secretary of defense. and i've been secretary of defense longer than world war ii lasted, longer than the civil war lasted. so it's been tough. >> couric: when you look back on these two major wars that you have had the responsibility to oversee,

damascus sending tanks there after baghdad this business is this isn't part of the public record of what the bush jr bush white house was saying that he wanted to go into damascus they are moving eastwards we see the attack libya they broke up sudan now they're looking at syria and lebanon pakistan is destabilized they're looking alternately at the. there's a lot of gas near near syria in the east and seriously are you saying that this movie is with is actually ultimately this is really a battle between china and the us and western interests are bringing china into this factor usa and if you look at world war one what happened before the attack germany all the chess pieces were before the war broke out all the chess pieces were put into place they were talking about the ottoman empire the baghdad constantinople railroad. right now they're positioning themselves the child was just like these problems i'm sorry this is why you have these problems right now in pakistan truth this is why the pakistani government the u.s. government are at each other's throats about osama bin laden they are m

remember when part of the strategy in baghdad was to get biometric data on not just people who had been arrested but really on whole communities, tracking both insurgency and building up a massive database of who is who in specific parts of iraq. now what would once have just been done with plain old fingerprints and i.d. cards is instead fingerprints integrated with retinal scans, integrated also with facial recognition software. facial recognition software, they tell us, was just used to positively identify osama bin laden's body after he was killed in pakistan that. technology also now being used for civilian purposes. we also had night vision technology before 9/11, but now we've got thermal detect night vision technology which they tell us is roughly the difference between having two cans and a string and having an iphone. companies like lockheed and raittion are developing exo skeletons for soldiers so when you do still have to use humans on the ground in situations that call for a lot of endurance or a lot of strength,ior flesh and blood human can be embodically enhanced with the

. >>> in baghdad tonight, they are mourning more than a dozen guards killed in an uprising in a baghdad prison, holding some of iraq's worst terror suspects. the fighting began when an insurgent leader rested a gun from a guard and escaped. other inmates seized grenades before order was restored. the ring leader was shot as he tried to jump into a car. >>> much more ahead on "world news" this sunday. those dramatic movie scenes of the s.e.a.l.s in action. how close do they come to a real life raid like the one you saw on bin laden's compound? >>> also here, how did one woman survive seven weeks stranded in the woods? and what was she going to leave behind for her children if she wasn't found? >>> and, on this mother's day, what these tiny children told me about their, well, giant wishes for their moms. to my grandkids, i'm nana. i'm friend, secret-keeper and playmate. do you think i'd let osteoporosis slow me down? so i asked my doctor about reclast because i heard it's the only once-a-year iv osteoporosis treatment. he told me all about it and i said that's the one for nana. he said re

suicide on top of all these kills and now you know, what a mar gin in old baghdad in the wrong place at the wrong time why you're mourning is going in one ear of the deaf tomorrow. and out the deafening utter. air cane. one, the sorrow these many months isn't because celebrities put eyes all over my body as i was in the u.s. again. not the other america. it comes from the footprint of a kick stab in my back. got riding a bus to a reading with some really destitute brothers and sisters in a 16, 3 office space. i am sitting in the rear of the bus reading a translation of the book of the concealed mystery. my eyes are risen from a black woman standing and talking on her cell phone. i voice decibeled, latino black and white workers. when i arrive, i accidentally grace her sleeve with an excuse me. she pushed me. shouts don't touch me with hate red and what the hell do you think you did to me. the eyes coiled and in denial or at once and set to spring. when my shoulders i bear a gentle but insistent arms and turning from a black man, you don't want to go here. here's your stop. he leads m

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you would not recognize baghdad, you would not recognize the green zone or the international zone. one thing you would not recognize about it is the iraqi security forces are firmly in the league. they have complete responsibility for security of the green zone, as they do for sadr city. so what you need to know, though, is you helped plant the seeds for the success we are enjoying today. your sacrifices over the years have added up and have really made the difference. host: louisville, kentucky, democrats line. caller: first of all, major, i would like to thank you and all the servicemen who have sacrificed for our country. the next thing i would like to say -- approximately how long did it take for us to really trained some of the people over there, you know, in afghanistan and iraq? next thing, i want everybody to remember, when our servicemen come home, they come first. no matter what we do, we are going to have to give everything -- all americans -- we cannot forget what they have done, and we need to give them every -- i do not care what it is, volunteer work, whatever -- jus

the simple fact is that the mongols were the first invaders of baghdad and they actually saw us as the new invaders. there had been the mongols that had conquered, there had been the british that they conquered and now they were us. the issue here is that if you were going to operate in the region, if we are going to invest and lose lives, and cost ourselves dearly and treasure, we at least ought to know the place we are going into and the fact is that we did not. we don't know because basically our educational system does not prepare us, and we have gone through reviews of textbooks that i've gone back to the 1970s. actually you go back to when i was a kid and some of you are my age and so you will recognize this, the history of civilization as we have studied it was a narrowly defined civilization. it actually started with stone age man and as i like to say the stone age man actually in the book, the stone age man was from southern france. we know a little bit more today but the idea back then was that if there was a first man, it had to be in europe. god in his infinite wisdom would

even eight years ago in that shop in baghdad people had enough awareness of photo shopping technology to dispute a photo. then the good you can accomplish by releasing one of these photos is diminished. you have to weigh that good against any potential bad consequences that could come from putting the photographs out. three years after the photos were released, the u.s. government did something like that again after they killed the leader of al qaeda in iraq al zarqawi. the iraq war has had a lot of strange press conferences. a lot of strange made for tv moments. whether it be the made for tv tearing down the tearing down of saddam hussein statue or the well choreographed tours of his palaces. there have been some bizarre scenes. one of the strangest made for tv moments of the entire iraq war was this one. remember this? this was the press conference back in 2006 when the u.s. made a huge show of revealing the photo that was taken of al zarqawi's face after he was killed. somewhat inexplicably officials chose to put the close up in an ornate gold-colored frame. all of the pageantry an

we went into an area near the baghdad stadium and came into our area and actually stopped about seventy five meters in front of my vehicle that tells you how far the vehicle came into our program. and. which is why we lit it up. we had three of the. victims in the right that there were expiring rapidly we pulled them out of the car and we started doing it for a state i called a corpsman the corpsman came and got the three bodies and took them back to the patel i and surgeon. called me came back dump the bodies on the side of the road and i went over to the corpsman i asked him i said what were you doing how can you bring in a back and need to get him out of your you need to get him back to an area where they can see the surgeon and corpsman there's nothing we can do for him so you can leave you know you can leave the bodies on the side of the road and i said yeah we want to see the new spouse or so i want to pass them up so they don't i'm on the side of the road and. the guys brother he come running over to him and he just said they're holding them well they roll around on the on the as

we went to an area near the baghdad stadium came into our area and actually start about seventy five meters from our vehicle that tells you how far the vehicle came into our perimeter. and. which is why we lit it up. we had three of the. victims in the red key that there were expiring rapidly and we pulled them out of the car and we started doing it for a state i called a corpsman the corpsman came and got the three bodies and so come back to the battalion and surgeon. corpsman came back dump the bodies on the side of the road i went over to the corpsman and i asked him i said what would you do and how can you bring him back and me to get him out you need to get him back to an area where they can see the surgeon the corpsman there's nothing we can do for him so. you can leave you know you can leave the bodies on the side of the road and i said yeah well you want to do steps or so i want to have compassion up so they built them on the side of the road and. and the guys brother you come running over to him and he's just sitting there holding them while they roll around on the. asphalt

an agreement between washington and baghdad, u.s. troops must leave that country by the end of the year. >> family members read names of the flight 93 memorial. it was the san francisco bound airline jet that crashed in shanksville, pennsylvania. passengers stopped the hijacking by storming the cockpit. union city memorial is in sugarlanding park . bears the names and home towns of each of the crew members and passengers on board of that jet. >> there is a frantic search for a missing college student. >> she vanished without a trace. michelle lee was last seen in kaiser hospital in hayward. vick lee has the latest on the search. >> police are tight-lipped about the investigation and so are friends and family members who tell us that police asked them not to talk to reporters. >> the university where michelle lee was enrolled spoke to us about their concerns. >> the disappearance affected all of us. class mates and teachers. >> michelle lee is expected to graduate with a nursing degree from a small private school based in oakland. the

disturbs me today i wish i could take that day back i'd give anything we went to an area near the baghdad stadium this came into our area and actually stopped about seventy five meters in front of my vehicle that tells you how far the vehicle came into our perimeter. and. we just we lit it up. we had three of the. victims in the right key that there were expiring rapidly and we pulled them out of the car and we started doing it for a state i called a corpsman the corpsman came and got the three bodies and took him back to the patel and surgeon. corpsman came back dump the bodies on the side of the road i went over to the corpsman asked him i said what we are doing how can you bring about a need to get him out of your you need to get him back to an area where they can see the surgeon the corpsman there's nothing we can do for him so. you can leave you know you can leave the bodies on the side of the road and i said yeah we want to do stuff. so i want to impact him up so they dumped him on the side of the road. and. you know and the guys brother he come running over to him and he just said

. >> this is sergeant frazier currently serving in baghdad, iraq.nt to wish everyone a happy memorial day and give a shut out to jeff gordon. hope you take it this weekend. god bless. [ female announcer ] experience dual-action power, with listerine® whitening plus restoring rinse. it's the only listerine® that gets teeth two shades whiter and makes tooth enamel two times stronger. get dual-action listerine® whitening rinse. building whiter, stronger teeth. >>> on this memorial day weekend americans remember our fallen heroes but for thousands of widows across the country every day is their memorial day. taryn davis lost her husband at 21. she wept on to build a sisterhood for those like her determined to turn grief in tri ump and survival. that's why this is this week's cnn hero. >> my husband michael was killed in baghdad iraq. even four years later people still don't really know how to react when you say, hi, i'm taryn and i am a widow. after the funeral i felt ostracized. everybody liked to write off my grief due to my young age. you're young, y

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. >> in solder city, baghdad's stronghold, supporters were out in force. they were members of the shiite militia that fought a bitter sectarian war in the aftermath of the invasion. today, they sport a new uniform. they wear the colors of the iraqi flag. red, white, and black. it was an attempt to turn divisive sectarian passed into a national appeal. we are in this together. there were no weapons in evidence. speaking to the bbc, muqtada al- sadr in made it clear that this was still a fighting force to be reckoned with. >> i know the iraqi government is under a lot of pressure from the american occupiers to allow them to stay on in iraq. if the americans do not withdraw, we will reactivate the army. if the american states, that would change. we can still hit their bases, troops, and equipment as long as they are in iraq. >> until january, muqtada al- of the lastent most two years in self-imposed exile. last year's election marked a change in his fortunes. his party did better than expected and he is back. the americans still have nearly 50,000 troops in i

. >> start with a poem i read after i learned that the rate of valum prescriptions in baghdad sky rocketed after the u.s. entry into that space. the title of the poem and it is the words the probably roost which is bitter. biting, cutting, sharp. bitan. once, she was a fearest dark girl who's tongue skipped top of meeting. teeth, teeth top of mouth like double dutch with the word that ment her thoughts cutting circles through the day. no chance she'd be the one to trip and break rhythm. then she could sit all day on her porch memorizing the trees. she could be still. the birds, winged through leaves like they didn't know anyone could hurt them. once she believed steam curled off asphalt when summer rains stopped with a prophecy. she believed this looked the way she would feel after touching a man. her body clean. and black. and right. something beautiful and painless rising up. i was talking with a friend about that idea of leaving places. and leaving places behind the title of this poem is stolen directly from this conversation in which he said there is a particular state that he would ne

. >> on march 5th, 2007, a car bomb was exploded on mutanabbi street in baghdad.utanabbi street is a mixed shia-suni area. more than 30 people were killed