. >> 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 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

>> guest: honestly the first time i had the idea in 2005 in baghdad.aid, wouldn't it be interesting to do something with general casey. hang out in the command and get general george casey. i thought wouldn't it be interesting to get inside the command and do an embedded in the same way accustomed to doing it with the troops with the grunts the solder on the -- solider on the ground. there's a firsthand reporting what they are saying on the ground. capturing their ideosink sei. how they speak their fear, their love, their desire. all this experience war for the low level grunteds. and that seeds grew over the years, and i thought about trying do do a profile on general david petraeus. i would end up doing it anyway. i saw general mccrystal was getting very interesting coverage and i just sensed there was a bigger story there. reading between the lines of some other profile. that's what i wanted to do. generation -- one of my model by a "rolling stone" writer that was one my model to try to do a generation kill did to the marine and the humvee to captur

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1991 war called the general war and then i was there for the invasion in 2003 and actually got to baghdad on april 12th and the place was in chaos but in a funny way it's never been quite as safe as it was a nurse first few weeks because it was stunned into the insurgency hadn't yet gotten its act together. and then i stayed true that through the summer and i wrote a book about the invasion and a different book and then i came back and let's see, in the summer of 06, i spent that on places in the man in baghdad before the surge and then after the surge by pri dissipated and most of the search operations in the province and there was a big fight in sadr city could spend a substantial amount of time in, so i feel like i have seen at the beginning of a surge, during the surge in afterwards and my most recent trip back had promised to maliki and all of the others didn't give me a lot of time. >> host: the author of "the endgame" the struggle for iraq from george w. bush to barack obama. also reporting on the war zones afghanistan, kosovo, chechnya and a panel was based in moscow for four year

and one of my colleagues "new york times" colleagues found one of the few remaining in baghdad. he wrote a story about it. he was so petrified about being found out that it was all worked through a series, i think he immediate area and he had to interview him in a indirect way. that's the climate there. the caller is right there's been persecution, not by the government, but, you know, there's a lot of secretary passions there. al qaeda is there and particularly in the northern part of iraq and the north province there's pockets of christians or sort of hanging in there. so, you know, that's definitely a problem that the united states and international community, you know, needs to be aware of, and in terms of the amount of turmoil we're seeing today in ish what would you compare it to from what we saw over the eight years when we were there? >> guest: right. it's many times better than it was prior to the surge for the level of violation is astronomical and the car bomb threats are incredible. there would be huge bombs going off on a regular basis calling large numbers of peopl

. >> the first time was 2006 in baghdad. he was the senator from illinois. he had to check that box, and i was a correspondent for newsweek at the time. i will be totally honest, and this is going to get me hate mail. i have never opposed for a picture with any other politician or celebrity i have interviewed, but senator obama was there, and i thought, i will take a picture with this guy, and we have a conversation about iraq. i never thought i would get a chance to ask him a question again, especially after he became president. this year there was an off the record straight session for the senior advisers at this bar in orlando. president obama shows up unannounced, and i have a chance to ask one question off the record. the question i wanted to ask, i did ask a question, but i did not ask about drones or civil liberties. it was also an example to me when i am trying to be hard, as critical as possible to do my job even in the moment you are meeting the president. it is not an easy thing to do. a lot of the journalists i was with swooned. i think that is c

these people hope that the shia and other iraqis will join their protests in baghdad. in a coordinated prayer, clerics called for help. >> , meat -- do you see with your eyes these crowds? tell the world that we came out because of injustice. our uprising is peaceful. >> protestors denied government claims that the mass rallies were sectarian. >> he called the protests thinking. he sphinx. >> there are no sectarian slogans. the prime minister is trying to harm these protests and their organizers. >> the government released women who were being detained. >> the protesters are not satisfied with the government decision to release, 14 female prisoners. they say it is not enough. why are also defying the prime minister to use force against them. >> the prime minister seems to have changed his tough tone. in a statement, he said the protesters have the constitutional right to demonstrate. he also called on his partners to help preserve civil peace. but he shifted the blame on to parliament, and called on it to do with protesters' demands. but the mass rally seemed to have e

general odierno did so as well when he was with petraeus in baghdad.they also brought in different point of view but it -- what was really striking to in the face of the surge, '07, the different voices you saw around american commanders. you know, and the sky, a pacifist, british, arab specialist, anti-american, anti-military, he was odierno's political adviser. if you ask general odierno why, because she makes me think carefully. she asks the right question. the other people you saw were also asking iraqis questions. sanchez was in a meeting once in baghdad, and he asked the iraqis a question about what to do in slaughter city. these were three guys from slaughter city. they started talking intensely to each other and said sorry for give offense but they said that's the first time an american has ever asked us what to do instead of telling us. it was four, five years into the war i think. three years into the war. so yeah, getting out and about is a great thing and decide i think of a good commander. [inaudible] spent i am not an expert on the german

it was already september 1st in baghdad. what is recorded as the end of the mission gets listed as september 2010. it was noft the end t the end og but it was what started in 2003 started to end. the page was turned. >> operation iraqi freedom is over. the people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country. >> when president obama spoke that night there were still 50,000 u.s. troops in iraq and 50,000 americans stayed in iraq for another 14 months until everyone left the following december. december 2011. when the mission changed from a combat mission to the trained advised mission then it wasn't operation iraqi freedom. it was the way that war came to an end an that's why it was worth interrupting wipeout and the other 8:00 p.m. programming. that's why it was worth flying out to baghdad to be there for that historic ending as the combat mission ended. that's what happened on august 31st and september 1st, 2010. today that's what the president said is going to happen this spring in afghanistan. that's same

and baghdad is eight hours. so when president obama started speaking in the united states at 8:00 p.m. on that night, august 31st, it was after midnight in baghdad. it was already september 1st in baghdad. and so what is recorded as the end of the u.s. combat mission in iraq gets listed in the history books as september 2010. it was not the end of everything in iraq for the united states when we went through that transition, but it was really when what started in 2003 finally started to end. the page was turned. >> operation iraqi freedom is over, and the iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country. >> when president obama spoke that night, there were still 50,000 u.s. troops in iraq, and 50,000 americans stayed in iraq after that night for another 14 months until everyone finally left the following december, december 2011. but when the mission changed from a combat mission to the train, advise, assist mission, then it wasn't operation iraqi freedom anymore. it wasn't that same wa

but i remember being with him in his living room in baghdad in 2008. .. about this with emma scott, one of the great experts who was an insider during this period. we did jerry little to stop them especially in 2010 under the obama administration when they took it very hands-off attitude basically saying we are not going to get involved in the outcome of the iraqi political debate. all we care about is having free and fair elections. to my mind, that is a mistake and it's proven to be a mistake in practice, because it's allowed a essentially the elements to seize power in iraq. but it's a mistake that wasn't made by our forebears in the days of the cold war. in the early days of the cold war the truman administration and eisenhower administration didn't take the attitude we don't care of communists come to power in france or italy or japan as long as the host the elections that's all they care about. that was in their attitude and they were willing to do things such as pouring american funds into the political campaigns which on some level may be seen as

analyst stephanie sanok worked in baghdad, and developed options for the iraq drawdown. she says between war fatigue and spending uts, even the middle option may be a reach. "my guess is, ou end up closer to the 6,000-person option than &pthe 10,000-peeson option." analyst jeff dressler argues 3 3 pentagon." lawwence, cnn, the pentagon." ,3 coming up in our 6 o'clock violent video games. games.the buy-back program -& going on in a connecticut community. 3&plaat year, he wassthe head -3 coach of the coltt.now, he's gameplanning to beet them in the plaaoffs.jim caldweel's - unique perspective on sunday's matchup. 33 ((break 3)) 3 vr 3 coming up in our 6 o'clock hour... a ffmous face... paught up in an uncomfortable interview..- word samuel-l-jackson tried to get a reporter tt say.

all of this happening just outside baghdad. officials say the attacks targeted a bus stop and a convoy carrying the head of a local university. in the first attack, a car bomb went off near a bus stop, killing several people. a second attack, roadside bomb exploded. several cars and buses were damaged or burned and there was damage to some houses. so far, we've learned no group has claimed responsibility for the bombings. we're waiting to get more updated information from the associated press and we will pass it along. back to you. >> thank you. time to cut about our other top story. that's the high level meetings taking place at the white house. >> vice president joe biden has been put in charge of the task force dealing with gun control. let's check in with john gonzalez outside the white house to learn more about the meetings the vice-president has scuttled for today. >> it's not clear this morning how heated the meeting will get but the nra and the vice president are on completely different spectrums, different sides of thi

we had a big headquarters at baghdad international airport. they would be out little teams, great has been 15 or so operators and one intel guide and a radio, and the problem was they would be out there getting information, getting a sense of the battle, but their physical pipe, their bandwidth back to us was pretty limited but they could sing enough, make phone calls. but when it came time to send imagery, big documents, it was painfully slow. so they didn't. similarly, when they tried to draw on those things from our headquarters, they really couldn't get and what might have one intel person forward and they're so busy they don't have time to leverage all the information that the headquarters intelligence, nor do they have time to send it. so as a consequence you had these two elements that are basically spinning on their own without really being joined into the fight. and then we would have things like you go out and come and element would to a raid and they would capture joe bag of donuts, however, and they would get phones, computer docum

he ran for parliament in one of seidin 2005 but i remember meeting with him in his living room in baghdad in 2000 where he was showing the fact that he had little money to run for re-election and little money with like-minded candidates where all the radical extremists in iraq were receiving copious funds from the quds force from the iranians and he said the iranians called him up and said how would he like $5 million or a similar amount? yes said no thank you, i'm opposed to what you stand for but there were few people in iraq that would turn down a offer like that from whatever source. would happen in iraq was the iranians basically had free run to assert their influence and we did very little to stop them, especially so in 2010. i was just talking about this with them its guy who was one of the great experts in iraq in the world who is an insider during this period. we did very little to stop them especially in 2010 under the obama's administration when they took a very hands-off attitude, basic a saying we are not really going to get involved in the outcome of the iraqi political deba

so you're there in baghdad, okay, and you got your guys and you're going in to a house. what's wrong with your back up being a very well trained american soldier who is a woman? why would that be wrong? >> in many scenarios, it wouldn't be wrong. >> bill: give me one that would be wrong. >> what you said, bill, if they're not physically capable. if you got a wounded southern or marine who needs to be dragged off or med vacked, can i count on that female soldier to do the same thing? if we were to lock at women in combat, we would have to make sure standards are not eroded. >> bill: so that's an interesting point. colonel, let me ask you a specific question. would you object then to the same basic training standards in the physical area, 'cause they're already the same in the mental areas. would you object to -- >> first of all, in most of the services, you do go through the same basic training. >> bill: no, but the standards are different. you know the standards are different of passing the tests. >> okay. there is the physical fitness test. the older -- that the older m

the first explosion was caused by a car bomb about 30 kilometers south of baghdad. no one has claimed responsibility. activists are reporting two large explosions on the outskirts of damascus. areas have come under heavy shelling for the second day in a row. one town, thousands of syrians fleeing the violence and up in camps and many have been nammaid for life. have more. >> this is inside syria. thousands of people forced to leave their homes. they have nowhere to go. there is fighting nearby and a can i get into turkey. the. so dangerous. eight cherries cannot deliver food and clothing. there is no infrastructure here. these people have to walk for hours to get drinking water. there is widespread anger among people that feel betrayed by the world. >> the international community has to do something. the regime is slowing us. >> this child was woken up by a deafening explosion. the doctors told his father he will not be able to hear again. he lost his hand in an air strike. he said conditions are very tough. they blame the syrian opposition for doing nothing to reli

chairman of the joint chiefs, martin dempsey said he realized when he got into his armored vehicle in baghdad in 2003. >> and i slapped a gunner on the wagon and she leaned down and said, i'm amanda, okay, so a female turret gunner protecting the commander and times have changed and something to do about it. and life as we know, there are no guarantees of success. not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier. but everyone is entitled to a chance. >> reporter: secretary panetta said that his eyes were opened when he was over at the cia and realized half of the intelligence force over there were women and he talked to the joint chiefs when he came over here to serve as defense secretary about what changes could be made, shep. >> shepard: jen, what are we hearing from women in the military? >> most have accepted this and are excited about it. what they've explained to us, this will allow them to get promoted. again, they're already doing many of these jobs. we spoke to the first female fighter pilot to fly in combat and she said that those who don't think that women are physically cap

seven people were killed south of the capital, baghdad. >> india remains in morning two days after theeath of a woman who's a gang rape earlier this month shocked the country. many hotels and clubs have closed down in respect of the woman. the rate and death triggered widespread demonstrations. >> rescue teams in colombia are searching for survivors after this varied parts of a road. they believed 20 people may be trapped under the road and there are unconfirmed reports of at least two dead. >> as mentioned, we're going to leave you with chancellor angela merkel's new year's address. >> think you for being with us and happy new year. -- thank you for being with us. these are small medical miracles. they are marks of our research's success. for this boy in this woman, research means hearing or a heartbeat. it means daily life and quality of life. for our country, research means jobs. if we can do something that others cannot, we preserve and create prosperity. that is why we are investing more than ever before in education and research. that is why we are building a germany into one of

you were leading soldiers right in baghdad in some of the heaviest fighting there. >> that's right.toon leader with the 101st airborne, i had 40 infantry men with me in baghdad in 2006. the week we returned from baghdad proud of our ' is when chuck hagel wrote an opinion column saying we could achieve no victory and the time for more troops and fighting there had passed. no one had told thrust in the previous months when we were fighting in baghdad that the time for fighting had passed, or that we continue achieve vehicle tree. jon: at the same time, chuck hagel is a form senator, as you know, the senate, the world's most exclusive club, they tend to treat their members and their former members with kid gloves. everybody seems to feel that chuck hagel if he's the guy that the president wants, chuck hagel is going to go on to confirmation. are you tilting at windmills here? >> certainly hope not, because the secretary of defense is one of the most important positions in the executive branch after the president and the vice president, if you look at chuck hagel's record in the senate

the car bombs around the iraqi camp was in baghdad. kelly 16 and wounded dozens more. at least one of the attacks happened when a bomber drove the car pool of explosives into an army checkpoint. the dow as wesleyan president's -- the venezuelan president hugo chÁvez is said to return home once he has completed his treatment in cuba. hugo chÁvez is said to be gaining strength after complications from an operation to treat an undisclosed cancer. you are watching bbc world news america. still to come, 40 years after a court to give women the right to choose, we take a look at why many abortion clinics have had to shut their doors. the british grandmother has been sentenced to death in indonesia after being convicted of trying to smuggle a large amount of cocaine to bali. her lawyer said on appeal that the british governor -- the lawyer said he would appeal and the british governor condemned the sentence. >> lynnae de standiford was expecting -- lyndsey standiford was expecting a verdict yesterday, but nothing like this. >> lyndsey standiford has been found guilty of impor

than 20,000 additional troops to iraq the vast majority of them, five brigades will be deployed to baghdad. now is the time to act. so you say men are superior drivers? yeah. then how'd i get this... [ voice of dennis ] ...safe driving bonus check? every six months without an accident, allstate sends a check. ok. [ voice of dennis ] silence. are you in good hands? >>> let's keep the good times rolling. spring thaw. well in effect across the country. how long is it going to last? when will it get cool again? >> one question that i can't answer there. we're actually going to see a lot of rain move into the gulf coast region, this is part of the system that's going to help push some of that warmer air into the weekend. but now it's all about the rain. across eastern texas. it comes with a lot of thunderstorms, too, we could see isolated tornadoes. down along the south coast of louisiana. freegt ground to cloud lightning. but notice how it's not moving eastward too quickly. it will sit over that area. temperatures today will be above average, it's already above average for our high temperature

we had a big headquarters at the baghdad international airport. there would be a team of 15 operators, an intel guy, and a tac-sat radio. their physical pipe, their bandwidth back to us was limited. they could send e-mail and make phone calls. when it came time to send imagery, send large documents, it was painfully slow, so they did not. similarly, when they tried to draw on those things from our headquarters, you really could not. we might have one intel person for it. they are so busy they don't have time to leverage all the information that the headquarters intelligence is making available, nor do they have time to send it. have these two elements -- you have these two elements not joined. an element would do a raid and capture whoever. they would get phone, computer documents, whatnot. those would be put in a bag, either a sandbag, one of the burlap sandbags, or a plastic garbage bag, and they would be shipped back to headquarters with a tag on them that says here is the stuff we captured. by the time it got back to the headquarters, it would

that is meant by a political crisis in baghdad. the parliament on saturday passed a law saying that any prime minister cannot run for a third term in and he cannot run a term for elections next year. the prime minister's office a that is unconstitutional. it may appeal to the supreme court. the city again came was it included a lot. brett has shown an amazing ability to withstand crisis for this combination of political crisis in bad debt and unrest on the crown. many people can lead to the unraveling of the government. >> knew the 70,000 are homeless. days of -- nearly 70,000 homeless. there inundating towns and villages. the trouble to one of the worst areas. this is one of the situations people are waiting to see. you how high the water levels as at the moment. some of them at the other belongings up on the rough. they were afraid if they go someone will come and fill the many people have left this town. people were waiting until it was safe enough to come back here. in the heat treating it could get worse. the death toll could

. >> 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

so baghdad says, look, we found oil. we'll not be as dependent on the kurdish region.o this conflict america has been missing in action and iran is going to fill those voids if we stay asleep against political islam and its interests. melissa: steven, you make the great point this means that we should be more dependent on ourselves than ever before. we nd the pipeline, but also pushes the focus to fracking and to shale. i worry especially with the president's speech yesterday and with the turnover that we're about to see at the department of energy that maybe we're going to see a crackdown on fracking and on shale here in the u.s. that really goes against our own self-interests. >> well, it really would. it really would be a shock, melissa if the president did many could out now especially after the governor who, by the way was against the excel pipeline but now he is for it. that pipeline is going over the same aquifer just in a different region of the at the end of the day they realize how important this is. u.s. crude oil production is up 25% over the past five year

iraq, a wave of attacks killed nearly 23 people and injured more than 80 as a car bomb in a central baghdadeighborhood killed five and wounded 25. seven people were killed and houses. explosions took place in two other cities. but egyptian president has played down the slide in the value of the egyptian pound to a record low. those comments come as central banks launched a new system of the foreign-exchange options to local banks to try to control the value of the egyptian pound. the u.s. secretary of state, hillary clinton, is being treated for a blood clot in a vain between her brain and skull. doctors caring for say she should make a full recovery. earlier this month, the veteran politician suffered a concussion after fainting and falling down. >> hillary clinton in belfast earlier this month, the end of a typically frenetic a foreign trip, for countries in five days. is thought to contracted a stomach virus. at home, she fell and suffered a concussion. she's now being treated at this new york hospital and has been told to avoid this sort of punishing travelled has taken her to more fore

. >> one blast was in the district of baghdad. a car bomb detonated near a market in several were injured in a suicide tykattack after thy drove a car full of explosives into a checkpoint. ban ki moon as a does not hold out much hope for a diplomatic solution in syria. there has been a fresh round of fighting in homs. >> these pictures are set to show a suicide attack in the town that killed at least 42 people. russia has started helping dozens of their citizens to leave syria. >> canada is investigating allegations that the coordinator of last week's attack at a gas plant in southeastern algeria was canadian. >> he held the canadian citizenship. have confirmed the death of 38 workers who were all foreigners except for one. gay activists in russia have been attacked in public as they have tried to stage a kissing and protest. >> the insulted several of the cadets and at least five of them were detained and brought to a police station. the kissing protest was organized to oppose legislation banning what they call a "gay propaganda.