he had gone up in beirut and his family was on the faculty. though he had made a distinguished career in the united states she went home in the early 80's to lead the school during the period of particularly difficult times when it was structured to to the civil war and the israeli encouragement in 1982, sitting with hammes the school was under assault, there wasn't a lot of personal danger, but he believed that going back and running the school and providing an example of leadership has taught the crisis, was the best to do for the institution that he loved me and he gave us by january of 1984. >> by who and how? >> of the fanatical wing of hezbollah. the islamic jihad but comprised the lebanese with shia who had been underprivileged excluded from the politics and economics of the country and our ideological affinity, and he had been radicalized by the israeli persian and south lebanon in the early 1980's. was a very toxic mix that led them to take the steps in the assassination. >> why was he targeted? >> because he was an american and very

brian vandaemark talks about american sheiks, beirut and its founding families. this is recorded at the united states naval academy. it's about ten minutes. on your screen now is brian vandeemark.j) his most recent american sheiks) to families, for generations an) the story of america's influence in the middle east. professor, who was daniel? >> he was the founder of what became the university of beirut. >> how did he go about doing that? >> a lot of american on to the real spirit. he also had the financial backing. the copper conglomerate that made the family wealthy in the 19th century. >> what was reverend list's goal in founding the american university in beirut? >> his initial view differed from what became his life's work. he arrived in the middle east in the 1850's and determined to convert muslims to christianity and very quickly realized that wasn't going to happen and it the way to make a connection was not to convert them but to educate them and to include their lives intangible concrete ways because that's what they responded to positively. and once h

>> the founder of what later became the american university of beirut. >> added he go about doing that? >> a lot of american entrepreneur real spirit. >> made the family quite wealthy. >> what was his goal in founding the american university? >> his initial goal differ from a became his life's work. he arrived in the middle east and 1850's determined to convert muslims to christianity and very quickly realized that wasn't going to happen and that's the way to make a connection was not to convert them, but to educate them and to improve their lives and tangible, concrete ways because that is with they responded to positively. once he had that in sight he ran with it and develop what they became the harvard of the middle east. >> is is still open? >> it is time indeed. weathered many tough years. it remains open and stay that way even through the tough times of the civil war. >> who owns it? who runs it? >> it is still run by a very impressive faculty of professors and administrators who are both middle easterners and americans. an age a biologist by training. and chaired one of the impo

blocked in beirut.it is one of those freed on wars, like those who fought in grenada, or panama, these wars that were quick to start and quick to forget those who fought in them. he came back and experienced symptoms of ptsd. i spoke to his wife. she said he was not the same after he got home. in the 1991 gulf war, he served in the persian gulf. that experience, serving in more a second time, caused all of his experiences of people gunned down in beirut, all of that got flooded in, got laird over these new wartime experiences, and he had a major breakdown. he lived homeless on the streets of for a decade. when he was not homeless, he was in jail finally, after this long experience of trauma that went on for some time, he ended up at a traditional housing program for homeless veterans in los angeles, and they helped to clean him up, and he found disability claim with the va. this was in 2006. then a year or two after that, finally, his claim landed on the desk of jamie fox. after all this, it was slated

ok thank you very much indeed thanks for your thoughts they're going to be joining us live in beirut. most companies saw on high alert as nationalists threaten riots we report from the heart of moscow about why a case involving a dead student and a mixed martial arts fighter may spill into violence. plus the u.s. is stepping up its presence in the arab world putting all its efforts into creating a proxy army in the region all that coming your way later in the program after the break. waves of corruption are rocking russia hundreds of millions of dollars vanished from apec building projects and russia's got a nice satellite project a real estate scandal has also led to the defense minister being fired note i said fire in russia we hear a lot about corruption scandals and the reaction is usually a firing or a forced resignation and maybe that would be ok another country but russia has big dreams in a big country that has big corruption spoiling all of those dreams a country can't survive with every infrastructural or scientific project is so dry from within whether the government is unw

kenya, tanzania, yemen iran and beirut.they hate terrorists apparently. >> rational finger pointing i don't understand. >> stephanie: absolutely. >> they're trying to turn it into his 9-11. it is ridiculous. >> stephanie: nice try. okay. hello cellest ina. >> caller: i enjoy your show greatly. >> stephanie: i enjoy your name greatly. >> caller: it is one you don't hear very often. >> stephanie: i know it. >> caller: i'm calling because i would like for the united states of america to really spend and -- stand and look in the mirror. we as black african-americans latinos are called minorities. we are not minorities. we are human beings. >> stephanie: thank you. they have to stop calling human beings illegals. >> illegal aliens. god has never created a human being as an illegal alien. and everybody got one heart. everybody got two eyes. two hands. so why are we supposedly minorities? and i think in this last election, if the republicans insist -- they're so christian they believe in god and all of that, god is not a hater. go

cross-talk egypt's president i'm joined by while escobar in cairo he is a blogger and a journalist in beirut we have franklin lamb he is director of the americans concern for middle east peace and in washington we cross to ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute or a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want while in cairo and i to go to you first of the president has been widely criticized for his decree expanding his power but others would say it was necessary that political shock therapy is necessary for egypt to move forward to transform how to react to that i don't think dictatorship is ever necessary to move forward as we've seen in the past the military has done the same thing and it's given granted itself powers and we've seen what they've done with these powers they've killed a lot of egyptians fellow defense and they have not lived up to their mandate so in light of that i can i cannot accept that being a dictator is a way to democracy and a man who is accepted to to give himse

for more on the latest violence in syria and diplomatic attempts to prevent it i'm joined live from beirut by showing the want to she's a commentator and political analyst covering the middle east well terror attacks have become a common rebel tactic in syria while they resorting to that. i don't i don't know that this is a new thing i mean certainly we've seen terror tactics employed from the start. a year and a half ago there was a need to sway popular opinion quickly and decisively and you often saw incidents where civilians of another sect were attacked or gas gas lines were blown up there were abductions i mean these are. things we saw of almost from the start i would say that there's certainly been an escalation of these activities this year at various points because there's been some frustration that that the assad regime and and the syrian government have not fallen as quickly as some of the other regimes in the region and and i mean it's important that we actually examine why the thing is but i think again we're seeing another escalation of activities because there is a change on

and i would think if your thoughts live from beirut political analyst to dr franklin lamb my pleasure my pleasure now israel's got itself militarily entangled on two fronts he is all in one day firing his first weapons into syria sunday just hours before hitting back at militants in gaza killing several civilians we got details about that just ahead. usually the police and occupy protesters are like oil and water but it led to they've come together to save the house of a former detective jacqueline barber unfortunately ms barbara lost a lot of money battling cancer and was facing eviction what she turned to occupy homes for help so far she's managed to stay in her home despite it being sold out from under her feet but the main thing is that her fight to stay in her home has become like a bridge between two groups who are usually at each other's throats the police and occupiers the thing is that cruel economic practices can. does saul even retired police like ms barber i know there are some irresponsible people who buy things they can't pay for and here the police have to do something

he is now back home in beirut. a development as senator mccain and lindsay graham are calling the results of this administration's failed foreign policies. >>> new developments in the consulate attack in libya. the white house said it never altered the cia's talking points, blaming the attack on al qaeda. former cia director petraeus told congress on friday the agency always knew that terrorism was involved. he's more. >> reporter: the mystery of who changeed the ci attacking -- on the libya attack deepens today as the white house weighs in and said no one there made the controversial changes. according to sources on capitol hill, former cia director general david petraeus told lawmakers on friday that the original cia unclassified memo said it was an al qaeda-linked terror attack. but that al qaeda part was excised in favor of a reference to extremist organizations. before, it was given to members of congress and administration officials. who made that change? the white house said that it only made one edit to the

let's go to nick paton walsh in beirut, chris lawrence at the pentagon.s start with you. the pictures of the roval of items from paula broadwell's house, i think, brings this scandal, which has so far been a sex scandal, kind of to a new level at least for me. why would they be at her home removing documents this late when we know that they discovered the original evidence of an affair back in the summer? >> well, it would suggest, soledad, that this was consensual. in other words, that paula broadwell consented to allow them to go in and get whatever they needed. because at this point, we don't believe this is some sort of criminal prosecution, at this point. it would seem that paula broadwell may be cooperating with the fbi. >> for what, though? cooperating on what front? i mean, she said she had an affair apparently, general petraeus said they had an affair. if it's all about a sexual relationship, it kind of starts there and ends there, doesn't it? so what are you getting out in boxes that -- that's where i'm kind of perplexed? >> because, remember, t

dc, beirut, baghdad, great reception. makes the whole thing kind of unbelievable. (laughter) anyway, hi a great thanksgiving. i celebrated the traditional manner with my family or as the indians call them maze. but folks we all know thanksgiving is just a preamble to the holiest day the year, black friday. when americans-- when americans come together to bow before their lord the wal-mart rollback guy. because jesus isn't the only one who is saved. and black friday, because black friday las biblical roots. that's when the three wise men got that killer buy gold and frankincense get one myrrh free, deal. and folks this year was a great one for retailers. >> sales broke records both on-line and in stores. a total of $247 million people shopped. that's a 9% increase over last year's numbers. each shopper spent on average $425-- $423, total spending over the four day weekend hit a record $59.1 billion. >> stephen: $59.1 billion. folks, i'm sure that's good for the economy. but frankly i'm worried that black friday is being ruined by commercialism. (laughter) nowadays i

. >> in soccer, the chair believes game including beirut- munich. -- bayern - munich. >> and one player is getting a lot of attention. >> they paid 40 million euro for him, the most in the history of the league. they now expect him to perform. he knows it will be a tough match. >> i know valencias going to be on the attack. the fans are here right behind your team. it's not going to be easy -- that's for sure. >> valencia also has a player with a good feel for his opponents. bell does has played for dortmund and he knows german football inside out. >> bayern munich has gone through tough a phase. they're released from this season and. but you can dance in champions league. they are well ahead in bundesleague as well. >> tonight's winner will have the best chance of reasoning -- -- the final 16 in the champions league. www.dw.de/education. >> the m23 rebel group in the democratic republic of congo has advanced into the city of goma. >> the u.s. has polled the rest of the staff from the city saved they control the airport in the city and peacekeepers would remain to protect civilians. >>

he had grown up in beirut. his parents had been on the faculty. though he had made a distinguished career for herself, she came home and it really is he during particularly difficult times. due to the israeli incursion of 1982. the city was a mass, school was under assault. but he loved school and he gave his life for the school. >> by whom and how? >> mostly by a group known as the islamic jihad. she had been previously excluded from politics and economics of the country. and they had ideological tendencies for the power in iran. he had been radicalized by south lebanon in the early 1980s. it was a very toxic mix that led them to take medical steps that climax in the assassination. >> why was he targeted? >> because he was an american. he was a very visible presence in the middle east and their is no more higher profiling and that in the american region than that. >> was the american university put in beirut on purpose and what was it like? >> it was and still is a very multicultural cosmopolitan international city where east meets west. then and

he had grown up in beirut. though he had made a very distinguished career for himself as a scholar of the middle east, he went home in the early

>> the founder of the university of beirut. >> how did he go about doing that? >> he went to a lot of american entrepreneurial spirit and the financial backing -- >> dodge cars? >> a copper conglomerate which was built in the nineteenth century. >> what was reverend louis's goal in founding the american university? >> it was different from his life's work. he determined to convert muslims to christianity, very quickly realized that wasn't going to happen and the way to make a connection was not to convert them but to educate them and improve their lives in tangible, concrete ways because that is what they responded to positively and once he had that in sight, he ran with it and developed what later became and remains the greatest university in the middle east, a harvard of the middle east, and it is an american institution. >> is it still open? >> is indeed. it has weathered many tough years in the lebanese civil war from 1975-1991, but it remains open first -- even for the tough times of the civil war. >> who owns it? who runs it? >> it is run by a very impress

i want to take you live right now to beirut, lebanon. our nick paton walsh joins us live by phone with the very latest on the attack. nick, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. this is a key really in aleppo, the commercial hub of syria. i was there about two months ago, and it's really where all the injured are brought from the air strikes, bombardment by the regime of that densely populated city. and it appears that late this afternoon it was hit by an air strike. some of the images show the real devastation that blast brought, bringing down to the ground the four to five story building that stands to the left-hand side, the hospital. now, witnesses describe how the initial rebel commander appears to be adjusted down to somewhere in the region of perhaps 15 or 20. which is that confusion gives you an idea, really, of how much pandemonium on the ground, developing that whole crossroads, where that hospital is based. and people struggling to work out the casualties, because the very building the dead are normally brought to has been

cnn's nick paton walsh was there and joins us live now with the latest in beirut.k, i don't know if there's any feeling on the ground from our reporters there who are having such trouble just reporting from that country, because we're not allowed in. whether the rebels feel as though this actually may happen sooner rather than later. the americans may come to their rescue with relationshweaponry. >> reporter: i think there are some who consider it's too little, too late. we have asked for substantial amounts of military aid. the u.s. has only provided nonlethal support so far and there are been reports the gulf states are loyal to the sunni majority in that rebel movement, maybe supplying arms. but i think if you ask most rebels now, they see the curve on their side, see themselves seizing weapons, caches, at quite a substantial rate, downing aircraft, too. and i think if the u.s. went and said, okay, we want to help you out, that may get a fairly chilled response from much of the rebel movement and certainly i think they may recognize this is programs a late in th

. >> we now finally have adam plets, the man behind the video via skype "right this minute" from beirut to tell us more about the process of making this incredible documentary. >> we're thrilled to have you on the show. first of all, what made you want to create this video? >> well, it came out in a conversation with syrian, they started telling afghans america put a man on the moon. the reaction from the guy he was speaking to was one of hysterical laughter. it got me thinking, what else might they not be aware of. >> were you surprised what you found out, even though you had a good idea what you may here? >> surprised to the extent. it's kind of understandable they wouldn't know about it, because these guys pretty much live in a media vacuum. that's pretty much the norm throughout afghanistan. you're away from the big cities. >> how did they react amp you told them what these photos were? >> a lot is lost in communication. what often happens they'd think i've actually in some way accusing the first people i showed the pictures to, they said, listen, we know nothing about this. we're j

deborah and mark tys travelled to beirut, lebanon, but they're still no closer to knowing what happenedeir son austin. last time austin spoke to his family was august 13th, when he was about to leave syria for lebanon. >> we had no idea who was holding austin and that is the primary reason that we have come to lebanon is to try to find out where austin is, and establish contact with him and bring him safely home. >> everyone we have spoken to and we have spoken to everyone we can has said the same thing, that they are unsure where he is, they don't know who he's with, where he is, we're hoping for answers and we're here appealing to the people in the region to have compassion on our family. to whom ever has our son right now, we ask you to treat him well, keep him safe, and return him to us as soon as possible. >> the tics say the syrian government told them it has no idea where their 31-year-old son is, but the couple was encouraged by an october youtube video showing him captive, but alive. >>> focusing on the battle in syria, the sides are now better defined. this is the leader of th

very advantaged and that's what prevents many russians from taking up business and foreigners from beirut bringing here their investment in summer president putin appointed a special business on the scene to take care of those who need out and some western media has already branded them a new anti corruption so how is it going to cope with entrepreneurs will he become the florist the right for asking the man himself mr barr is ticked off is a guest on the show. the russian finance ministry sounds over the last decade the country has become tremendously interactive to investors the fast growing economy and large consumer market promise great dividends nevertheless excessive bureaucracy corporate raids and illegal persecution are still among the most common problems last summer president vladimir putin created an institution to protect entrepreneurs rights the concept is. the business ombudsman boris to talk. with malicious attacks. however to go thank you very much for being with us today and the first question is it's been almost half a year just under six months since you've been appoint

cross-talk egypt's president i'm joined by while escobar in cairo he is a blogger and a journalist in beirut we have franklin lamb he is director of the americans concern for middle east peace and in washington we cross to ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute or a german cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want while and kyra i'd like to go to you first of the president has been widely criticized for his to create expanding his power but others would say it was necessary that political shock therapy is necessary for egypt to me.

it was under president reagan that 230 united states marines were killed in a barracks in beirut, lebanona terrible tragedy. people didn't call for the impeachment of president reagan. they said let's find out what happened, hold those responsible accountable. that's the same thing we should do here, and as we hold these hearings in the foreign relations commitee which i attended last week in a classify setting-- and the intelligence committees more and more information comes forward. we'll be able to make america safer and keep those who represent our country in dangerous places safer if we take an honest and objective view of what happened in beg. >> schieffer: all right, senator, we didn't have a lot of time this morning but i do want to thank you for coming by and giving that side of the story. i'll be right back with some thoughts of my own on another subject. i put away money. i was 21, so i said, "hmm, i want to retire at 55." and before you know it, i'm 58 years old. time went by very fast. it goes by too, too fast. ♪ but i would do it again in a heartbeat. [ laughs ] ♪ ♪ part of

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continually city leave the peace militias out of looking all supplies now throwing to the city of beirut this included minutes in food water and die that are left in the sixty's they are destroying almost with guns and bullets and use chemical we've been used to kill. to kill. all but he would eat this is against all the definition and knows this article name is evidence to humanity and i use difference and know if i do want to be a one night and this young fellow who tool to another school to. be able to do it here and do good he didn't do it there but isn't this a league of the united states is was trying to steal ability could do with their status with dumbass on the guns and stupidity done that if it were not if they know now that i was guided as i mean the government of libya do this to allies who believe in bieber. now leading bahraini your rights activist continues to await his fate the trial of the baylor job has been under arrest since july will resume in a month's time after thursday's hearings find out more by logging on to arkie dot com. now that new frontier astronomers disc

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unfortunate saying it damages hopes of peace but such rhetoric is only damaging washington says ramsey beirut editor at palestine chronicle dot com what hillary clinton has actually said can only be understood within the old context the u.s. is evil to get out of the rot it's political rot of many years partly the united states its is stuck in its own foreign policy of all it is incapable of adapting to a new middle east to the so-called arab spring to the new realities that are merging from the region it is still trying to side with the lobby is trying to back right or wrong along with you either that or trying to basically exist within within the american politics. it's embarrassing day for american foreign policy today yet they persist and they refuse to depart and leave that or start to school politics today was this this amazing historic chance for the rest of the international community to challenge the u.s. and israel and their dictates and to say in one or more years voice that we do support in principle the establishment of a palestinian state. the historic u.n. vote and prospects fo

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. >> he was on a navy destroyer ÷ engaged in battle off the coast of the beirut. couldn't find evidence he was in combat. >> i did a google search and verified his ship was actually in combat. >> jamie fox was a claims processor. >> i was new and i didn't know what to do. >> he never saw the file again, five months later forced out. the termination letter said she did not send a letter denying a claim. >> i was in shock and confused. >> fox filed a wrongful termination suit. the agency declined requests but in a deposition a former director did talk, and shed light on how it is run. saying it didn't matter it was right or wrong. >> they're interested in production. and getting the decisions done regardless of whether right or wrong. >> the attorney has successfully sued the va on behalf of vet trans. he doesn'tjjÑy represent round tree or fox. >> the center for investigative reporting analyzed a subset and found an error rate of 38%. and there is this the board says they made mistakes in 73% of cases saying it's a practice called top sheeting. a famous term that.

marines in beirut. >> now david petraeus will testify about the benghazi attack tomorrow, exactly a week after he resigned cite an extramarital affair. and there is word secretary of state hillary clinton will testify on benghazi next month. here is the latest from the pentagon on the petraeus scandal. first let's get to katherine who is live in washington. katherine, the scope of all of this is pretty unusual. >> well those two classified hearings bring together the government's top intelligence and law enforcement officials. what was clear was the president's comments on ambassador susan rice is really getting some traction. one republican alleging that, quote, the president misinformed and lied to the american people over the benghazi affair. what was also clear is that the president wants to promote ambassador susan rice. even though she said benghazi was a spontaneous attack when it seemed clear it was terrorism. >> president obama has the gal to float the name of secretary of state, the name of the person who is the actual vehicle used to misinform the person disash dasht american

. >> cnn's mohammed joins us now from beirut. seen a lot of n unintended consequences in the arab world. could assad's warning be more than luster? >> that's the key question, carol. one of the reasons that the civil war in syria is so concerning is because people have worried that it could stoke a regional conflict. you see evil rivalry in syria. the sunni countries in the country like saudi arabia, backing the opposition. then you have a shiite country like iran that's backing assad. now, because the sectarian lines within the syrian war are deepening, that's concerning to the international power players. what's going to happen in the region? will there be a congregation? will there be a wider conflict? that's what ominously assad seems to be suggesting here. in this interview he also said that he's no puppet of the west. it's very interesting these remarks emerge the day after british prime minister david cameron said he could be offered safe passage out of syria to end this civil war there. >> mohammed jamjoon reporting live

mohammed jamjoom joins us live from beirut.'s been at war for 20 months now, how do they even nooj paimanage to paint, expres carry on. >> reporter: it's very difficult for them. having spoken to them separately they all expressed that they struggled with the fact that they don't know if what they're doing is enough to actually help their society to help the people of syria. you saw the person for whom it's most raw. he had family members executed. but he's driven even more to paint, to express the chaos that he sees going on back home. all of them said, no matter even at times they think about putting down their paint bush, they're driven to continue because they feel that as artists they have to document when they're seeing and feeling back in syria. >> thank you so much. >>> basic health care, like over-the-counter drug, vaccines, something you can't think twice. in developing countries a fever can be deadly. mu musicians save lives across the globe. ah. fire bad! just have to fire roast these tomatoes. do you churn your own