. >> narrator: commander kalakub is part of a hard-core group of fighters called the central group. >> narrator: a farmer's son, kalakub says he was born in northern afghanistan. he left home at the age of 14 to fight the russians when they invaded his country in 1979. >> narrator: this time, he says the fight here is global. >> narrator: the special mujahids he's not supposed to mention are mainly arabs from yemen and saudi arabia. najibullah is told that they're members of al qaeda who team up with hezb-e-islami cells for operations. one of the hezb-e-islami fighters he focuses on is named arif. >> narrator: arif is an islamic scholar whose role, when not fighting, is to make sure everyone prays five times a day and learns the quran by heart. >> ( reciting from the quran in arabic ) >> narrator: when they fail, he's quick to let them know. 18-year-old fazl is one of the central group's newest recruits. >> narrator: and this is fedayee. he says he went to study at an islamic madrassa in peshawar, pakistan, for ten years, and only recently joined the group. although young, he's alread

groups, the central government should be made week so that the ethnosectarian groups don't fight over controlling it. most government functions include security the judicial system and social services could be in the nearly created ethnosectarian region. in those regions should not follow the provincial boundaries of iraq, that it has now. this would allow people to be policed and judged by people in their own group. the central government would only be allowed to create an open market among the various regions, and a representation overseas. some auto revenue or oil sharing would have to be hammered out to get the sunnis to accept the devolution of power to the regions. you might have to even move the boundaries around oil fields, etc. but in an imminent u.s. withdrawal which we don't have yet, might just catalyze the end of the stalemate on the oil. now contrary to conventional wisdom, my research shows that if countries are protection of the regional boundaries don't have to perfectly go on ethnosectarian lines. to avoid ethnosectarian violence you just have to avoid a large minori

the line is basically indicating that there are national -- reasons why national groups would rather see a highly centralizedsystem. >> it basically boils down to one stop shopping. that's why many people look to washington now instead of the states. you know, if i can't get what i want in state a or b or c, perhaps i can get the whole enchilada. if anything to washington and circumvent the states or preempt them. >> and then again if i can't get it as law, i can do it by rule or by taking and setting some money aside and saying we're going to move these things to change you. and there's really -- we'll write the rules as we go. >> and just one last comment in that vein -- i mean, there's nobody who doesn't recognize the arbitrary manner in which regulations and rulings were made under nclb even the inspector general found inappropriate activity in some of their decision-making processes. and very similar in any federal model that you're going to have there's going to be favorites and those who are going to benefit and those who are going to be disadvantaged. it's just -- unless the federal government wants

central district in baltimore at night on weekends is a bustling place. at 2:00 a.m. after the bars let out a couple was headed to their car when a group of men made advanced toward the woman. the man sought out the bank security officer. >> one of the suspects went to his vehicle, pulled out a handgun and fired multiple shots. we believe he was traying to strike our intended victim and the security guard trayed to intervene and was subsequently hit and killed. >> no! >> reporter: do you know him, james ball? >> yeah! >> reporter: some people who regularly pass by there knew ball. >> he is a lovely gentleman always trying to help people. anything he can do for you he would try to help. he's helped a lot of homeless people in this area, too. >> reporter: in the central district downtown, violent crime is rare. last year when there were several violent acts against innocent people at the inner harbor, mount vernon and the belvedere area, the police commissioner assigned more officers to the area. this murder surprised young city residents. >> i mean it is a beautiful area. i walk down to the harbor from mount vernon where i live. i just

. >> temper and is central in defining both how people vote and group dime and -- group dynamics.ccessful. there are the law professor types to roberts was denouncing the coup are sure they know the right answer and want to push it through. you can have a liberal and conservative pragmatist's. you can have justices like scalia who believe that text is all that matters. temperament matters a lot. >> when should say in response to that last question, up from the perspective of the court, that is the internal, institutional perspective, they will not resolve a political question. they will resolve a constitutional question. they did so in a way that had political consequences. to be fair to the court, in the issue of the two cases that were presented to them, all nine of the justices understood that they were not in deciding who should be president, but the constant to original question of the controversy within the politics -- but the constitutional question of the controversy within the politics. controversy within the politics. i think we have to give the court to sit back and thi

for a moment, is effectively the first cia or central intelligence agency but it was far more than that during world war ii. it was also for operations groups. they do with propaganda. we also dealt with research and analysis which took all the human intelligence that was out there and collated it and then analyze it. and it was sort of an entire agency that had everything under one umbrella. which in many ways, the brenner assignment as well as what's going on today, is a very back to future problem. we are dealing with human intelligence issues and everything else and a lot of people about it to did a need for an oss. again, a hall joins this agency and coasters by turning and is given the opportunity to form his own team. any forms a small team of about four men and they jump back the heinz alliance into northern italy to sever the path for the small passes that lead up to the past. that everything begins to go wrong even from the start. hall is given his own mission called operation mercury. he is gone in to try to sever these passes and then there's another submission attached to them. he's not given the radio off. her and he sets off

. >> temper and is central in defining both how people vote and group dime and -- group dynamics.i think the justices who have been willing to put their ideology aside have to spend more successful. there are the law professor types to roberts was denouncing the coup are sure they know the right answer and want to push it through. you can have a liberal and conservative pragmatist's. you can have justices like scalia who believe that text is all that matters. temperament matters a lot. >> when should say in response to that last question, up from the perspective of the court, that is the internal, institutional perspective, they will not resolve a political question. they will resolve a constitutional question. they did so in a way that had political consequences. to be fair to the court, in the issue of the two cases that were presented to them, all nine of the justices understood that they were not in deciding who should be president, but the constant to original question of the controversy within the politics -- but the constitutional question of the controversy within the poli

you just can't trust a group of legislators and in a centralized office in the middle of the country to know what is going on all throughout the country better than the people there know it themselves. as smith says, ordinary people can judge better in their own local situations than any legislator can do for them and i think that is a very important kind of message. it doesn't thrill of the will for the government. the government can do many important things but one has to ask one's self always should government do this? can this be better done by the private sector? that is something that smith always wanted to ask. >> host: massachusetts comedy thing. >> caller: good evening. i just finished reading the wealth of nations in a one volume paperback secure is a slightly technical question for either of the gentleman to read it is 1215 pages in that volume. what "the wealth of nations" suffer at all if the entire its position on silver or removed? thank you. [laughter] >> guest: there's a lot of passage is hard for the modern street. you should read the first chapter assignment at emi

central florida seaworld. as i mentioned a time ago, apparently the trainer for shamu or whatever they call shamu now got yanked into the tank and killed. and sadly, there was a whole group of people there watching, including women and children. and we have a guest on the line now. gary, whose wife and children were at shamu stadium when this happened. the reason she's not calling in, as you might imagine, how upset the kids would be if they just watched a whale kill a woman and that's what happened with your family. i'm so sorry. what has she told? >> fortunately the management at seaworld was pretty expeditious in getting people out of the viewing area and i don't know that they witnessed too much of what happened. so that thankfully wasn't at gruesome as it could have been but they were -- this didn't happen during the show. it was after the show. the one they call shamu. >>> yeah. >> the biggest whale there. she had literally charged one of the trainers who was on the side of the pool training and feeding shamu and apparently was upset, charged, pulled the trainer into the water and was thrashing around with the trainer and dragged her underneath the water. and -- >>

attacks we've seen over the last year from really these off shot terrorist groups makes harder to attack them if there's one central enemy. we may be shooting behind the rabbit here and it's moving faster than we thought. here's part of the testimony. >> solved with the recent rash of attacks last year both successful and unsuccessful, identifying individual terrorists, small groups with short histories using simple attack methods, is a much more difficult task. >> blair cited terror suspects like the christmas day bomber umar farouk abdulmutallab and also army major nadal hasan charged in the fort hood shootings. they wouldn't call them al-qaida members but warned inspired attackers that are outside the usually complex maneuver that the u.s. has trained against. authorities say abdulmutallab used a simple bomb while hasan used a gun in a base where he worked as a soldier making all their work a little bit harder, steve. >> caroline, he also talked a little bit about these living abroad. he talked about how the united states could assassinate american citizens if they need to. how does that work? >> very interestin

if it is not to the central power we must be very careful. we're careful about giving it to a group of individuals loren institution. we have now begun to correct that error, it is a broad front to it. an individual should not be given a certain legal power, we should not give it to anyone else, institution or group of individuals without careful thought. that is the lesson. >> brian in baltimore, good afternoon. >> i am thoroughly enjoying this conversation. i would love to hear your opinion about political correctness as we see more and more of it today in england and this country, the legal profession which helps perpetuate -- might make an interesting book but i would love to hear your opinion. >> i am very glad you asked that question. when communism was in power and in the late 1980s it was destroyed in eastern europe, i thought to myself this has been a horrible thing, our experience with communism and it shows how foolish human beings are to think of a system which can do so much damage and cause so much unhappiness. st. god we are getting rid of it but i wonder what is goin

peter sands, the group ceo of standard chartered bank, and last but certainly not least, jean-claude trichet, president of the european central bank. and attacking this topic with such a large and distinguished panel, we have divided the topic into really three broad areas. and we would propose to proceed through those three areas as follows. first, the focus will be on the financial sector. that's the area where perhaps the most government assistance and intervention has taken place. what next? what should be governments role in the financial sector, should the involvement the wound down, in what way, how, where do we go from here? second, the corporate sector. government has ownership stakes now in many companies. and again, what is the path forward, how should we rethink or restructure those stakes? and then finally and in some ways most broadly, the whole issue of economic and job growth. we are in a relatively fragile recovery growth is perceived to be slow in many parts of the world, we have lost millions and millions of jobs around the world. what should government be doing to assist in jumpstart economic growth and jo

the group of senior executives who remain as well as those who were recently hired are central to theerprises filling their important and challenging responsibility and in attempting to do so, the enterprises must operate with an uncertain future that will be the source of debate. as conserve or the, i believe it is critical to protect the taxpayer interests in the enterprises by ensuring that each company has experienced, qualified people managing the day-to-day business operations in the midst of this uncertainty. any other approach puts at risk the management of more that are $5 trillion in mortgage credit risk supported by the taxpayers. thank you and i'm pleased to answer questions. >> next, mr. scott alvarez. >> chairman frank, ranking member baucus. members of the committee. thank you for the opportunity. compensation arrangements soy several important and worthy objectives. for example, they help firms attract and resane skilled staff. however, compensation arrangements can also provide employees with incentives to take excessive risk s that arenot consistent with the long-ter

central america. funding for this initiative is $410 million. finally, these funds provide economic developments assistants around the world and provide basic services for people and support civil society and other groupso deserve the opportunity to participate in the political process. this is a large category. most of you see it as development and economic assistance, $5 billion, which includes $1.3 billion for economic and development assistance in the near east, such as yemen. the palestinian authority as well. in the sudan, it supports the comprehensive peace agreement. this budget also begins to rebalance the civilian and military roles. secretary gates is said one of the most important lessons from iraq and afghanistan is the role that reconstruction and government play in any success. this rebuild civilian capacity to fill this critical missions. for example, the budget includes $100 million for complex crisis fund that will enable the secretary of state to sponsor stability in countries that are coming out of crisis. this represents a transition from the department of defense and places the all party directly within state and usaid. similarly, our budget includes sufficient funds for the count

groups to al qaeda. you also indicated that pakistan's actions are motivated by a desire of course to counter india, which makes pakistan strategic view of india central our national security. i'm not convinced that the u.s. military operations in afghanistan are going to actually change islam abuts calculations in this regard. it's been something else going to have to happen to alter how they afflicted the region for the past 60 years? >> senator, in conversations with pakistani officials and their assessing them with intelligence, that intelligence experts, we think that historical foundation the site certainly provides the foundation and the heritage of what they go into these decisions way. but, they are constantly reevaluating what is happening on their western border, what i think general kani, one of the key leaders said yesterday that what he sees as important in afghanistan is that it be a friendly state and stable states india's offer for example training to afghanistan armed forces in order to achieve that. so while the pakistani threat coming from india is historically -- while historically while grounded in mind that the caller of pakista

groups, and worker advocates. a number of prominent business organizations have also endorsed commissioner smith, including the business council of new york, the manufacturing association of central the partnership for new york, the long island forum for technology, and the plattsburgh north country chamber of commerce. commissioner smith has endured a rigorous vetting process and has made herself available to answer over 50 questions from our friends from the other side of the aisle and met with all interested senators. i urge my colleagues to move quickly to confirm patricia smith for solicitor for the department of labor. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. dorgan: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from north dakota. mr. dorgan: madam president, i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vacated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. dorgan: madam president, we're approaching a one-year anniversary of the fatal crash of continental connection flight 3407 in buffalo, new york, and today the national transportation safety board is actually holding a public meeting to consider the final report t

groups to al qaeda. you also indicated pakistan's actions are motivated by a desire, of course, to counter india which makes pakistan's strategic view of india centralo our national security. i am not convinced that the u.s. military operations in afghanistan are going to actually change islamabad's calculations in this regard. isn't something else going to have to happen to alter how pakistan has looked at the region for the past 60 years? >> senator, in conversations with pakistani officials and through assessing them with intelligence, with intelligence experts, we think that that historical foundation that you cite certainly provides the foundation in their heritage of what they go into these decisions with. but they are constantly re-evaluating what is happening on their western border. what i think general kayani, one of the key leaders said yesterday that what he sees as important in afghanistan is that it be a friendly state and stable state. and he has offered, for example, training to afghanistan armed forces in order to achieve that. so, while the pakistani threat coming from india is historically -- well, historically well-grounded and l