for one thing in fallujah most reporters most mainstream reporters working for western media outlets were embedded with the u.s. troops surrounding the leader it was a deliberate strategy employed about pentagon because they want to avoid the kind of negative coverage that they received during the first april two thousand and four assault on fallujah when number images broke out particular to zero showed basic about six hundred civilians have been killed and he was at the time the first assault dismissed that as propaganda so the second time around in november when the group had the biggest of they made sure they have something like sixty our embedded reporters so obviously if you are embedded with a non it is carrying out a military assault you're going to get quite a different perspective than if you were amongst the. this is the people who are on the receiving end of salt and in the case of hamas. we have seen not that many reporters did not know that many of actually made it to homes with those that have been in homes so and so they've been giving it's not necessary question whic

. >> fallujah was like the o.k. corral, the wild, wild west. >> when i first joined the marine corps, that's what i thought i'd do as a marine. here's the enemy-- they're right there, go get 'iem, just going house to house. >> narrator: the marines took control of fallujah after four weeks of heavy, close-quarter combat, and kilo company had been in the thick of it all. >> kilo company in fallujah performed magnificently. they took heavy casualties, but they just kept going and going and going. >> narrator: now many of the same men were primed to face a similar situation in haditha. >> all our intel reports and everything had initially said that this was going to be, you know, a full-on, like, fallujah- type style clearing the city and whatnot. and so we were all amped up. >> narrator: but they were surprised by what they found. >> the night that the battalion set up to go push through haditha and start clearing it, all i heard was crickets. >> no one attacked us. no one did anything. we just... we found a abandoned

media's approach to iraq's crisis in fallujah ten years ago which saw american soldiers fighting with the government and against militant forces. still to come people first is a day of mass protests across the e.u. with tens of thousands rallying against austerity and economic hardship in paris five major unions organized a massive march to pressure brussels to tone down its austerity stance and instead focus on pro growth policies in the capital prague thousands of students are protesting against long planned but controversial university reforms even in the bureaucratic heartland of the e.u. thousands gathered to demonstrate against brussels insistence that cuts are the only way to financial. correspondent tom bowman is in athens with more on what's expected there. this iconic building behind me it's not become an icon for particularly good reasons but in the fretful parliament behind me and in the streets around that had been so full of ferment a day of protests today not a surprise a lot of people across the country in public sector unions there are doctors out on the street at the

urban war one of them now in history books the other still raging as we speak now in homes as in fallujah poorly armed insurgents faced off against a superior military well equipped soldiers armed with mortar snipers tanks and airpower and in both cases officials claims that only heavy handed force could bring peace laming in the violence on criminals and terrorists here's the chief military spokesman for the u.s. forces in iraq we will hunt down the criminals we will kill them or we will capture them and we will pass a far future and here is syrian president bashar al assad. our priority now is to regain security which our country has enjoyed for decades this can only be achieved by using the terrorists with an iron hand it will be seen for those who are using weapons to kill al civilians now in both countries that iron hand targeted a sunni muslim opposition in wars that took on increasingly sectarian tones in fallujah u.s. forces and the shia iraqi troops were seen as infidels in syria their religious wrath is aimed at assad's alawite forces according to some disparaging comments salah

on the city of homs but a few have joined similarities with footage of another conflict that of fallujah iraq which happened nearly ten years ago and saw u.s. troops fighting against insurgents. and off now explains that explores the parallels and differences shared by the two conflicts be warned you may find some of the forthcoming images in the report disturbing. well they now call homes the capital of the revolution just as they once called the capital of tear different conflicts that share more in common than actually meets the eye now each is the third largest city and its country in each the site of a bloody urban war one of them now in history books the other still raging as we speak now in homes as in fallujah poorly armed insurgents faced off against a superior military well equipped soldiers armed with mortar snipers tanks and airpower and in both cases officials claims that only heavy handed force could bring peace laming in the violence on criminals and terrorists here's the chief military spokesman for the us forces in iraq we will hunt down the criminals we will kill them o

siege of homes is brutal and horrific but it's difficult to see how it differs from the siege in fallujah back in two thousand and four. well they now call homes the capital of the revolution just as they once called palooza the capital of terror different conflicts that share more in common than actually meets the eye now each is the third largest city in this country and each the site of a bloody urban war one of them now in history books the other still raging as we speak now in homes as in fallujah poorly armed insurgents faced off against a superior military well equipped soldiers armed with mortar snipers tanks and airpower and in both cases of fishes claims that only heavy handed force could bring peace blaming the violence on criminals and terrorists here's a chief military spokesman for the u.s. forces in iraq we will hunt down the criminals we will kill them we will capture them it we will pass before if you lose you and here is syrian president bashar al assad. what the top priority now is to regain security which our country has enjoyed for decades this can only be achieved by

media's approach to iraq crisis in fallujah ten years ago which saw american soldiers fighting with the government and against militant forces. r.t. is coming to you live from moscow and fresh protests are brewing across greece as the government seeks to implement the drastic austerity measures that came with the latest e.u. bailout or the demonstrations that will be synchronous with those in spain where people are angry at their own draconian cuts bleak prospects more of what's happening there today let's go to both of our correspondents in athens and madrid. there and sara furthur good to see you both tomas start with you and we certainly have seen some intense protests in greece where certainly when the cuts were approved and what's expected now the being implemented at this point. well at the moment in greece rory you can see this iconic building behind me it's not become an icon for particularly good reasons but in that fretful parliament behind me and in the streets around that have been so full of ferment a day of protests today not a surprise a lot of people across the country i

the insurgents who were in fallujah playback they from their mosque had loudspeakers on a bus they play music back they played various religious music. heavy metal against islam as. it was also a demonstration of the perceived superiority of western culture the u.s. military believes that the musical bombardment helped on the mind the morale of the insurgents psychological operations and our except at the point where ever you want to board forward so if you have ups three or four groups going in with a battalion the reds report every day in a certain area each of those units like call for a team and then that will come down here in fort bragg will be tasked with we're sending a loudspeaker team so it does much more the main. the technology of these loudspeakers is becoming more and more sophisticated the latest models all compact powerful sound cannons they can bust ear drums schools nausea and can even make people unconscious vitamin c. medium bills these acoustic morhaime and. it's a powered loud speaker that works at very long distances with perfect clarity that is not what a normal

that is when we have drawn our line right now in terms of who can and cannot be an fallujah -- user on the system. that does include mta. it does include dpw, i believe and some of the other agencies that you would not think of as a strictly public safety agencies. supervisor avalos: for the purposes of homeland security, what they want to see a more restrictive definition of what the public safety function would be, or more expensive? >> it is hard to speak for homeland security. i can briefly speak for the other early builders of these networks. obviously, we feel that it is important to have an expansive definition as possible of the network. we believe it will be -- bring value in and out -- in a number of ways. we are advocating and lobbying for an expansive definition. from 0-- anne can talk about home security. >> there is a conference call and the cities who are involved in that. it is universal across the country there is an -- a desire to have the expanded definition. we have seen with the fed and other things attali different subject but similar experience. the definition of

. >> reporter: the marine anthony rorbah manned a gun in fallujah, but now plans to push a plow in california. >> coming out of the military is kind of like a shock. working with plants and soil really helped me connect emotionally to my environment around me. >> reporter: coming home from iraq, michael haynes was homeless for two years. >> if it wasn't for the farm, i honestly don't know where i'd be right now. >> reporter: today he owns his own hot sauce company. colin leads this new mission to turn swords into plow shares at archie acres. >> we are a supplier of organic produce and the next generation of leaders. >> reporter: a decorated marine, he suffered from post traumatic stress disorder after three tours in iraq. he was depressed and had difficulty sleeping. on the farm, encouraged by wife karen, he found solace in the soil, learning to reenter society. >> we decided to go into agriculture because that was a place where colin could get his bearings. >> reporter: the transition from military to civilian life can be a difficult one. some studies have the unemployment rate for recent ve

occupy wall street protester and author of the buck when i wished i was here this patch is from fallujah. and that's going to be the for now we'll see you right back here and half hour. a soulless substance. can attack like a well trained army. villages in ruins. for thailand where time stands still. all becomes a scene of nothingness. the mysterious sons of russia. are to. download the official anti application to your i phone or i pod touch from the i.q. snaps to. one jaunty life on the go. video on demand on teens and live broadcasts and already says feeds now in the palm of your. questions on the dot com. the folks. on his way to work every day that just love it vinnie nko walks by what will once the homes of his neighbors the houses a gone now there remains a covered with layers of sand and the people moved out a long time ago shit up don't they used to be a house right here where it all buried by the sand when you there were three other homes next to it another house was here. i remember it was turned on its side almost all price. yes that's my house there. though it's still standi

hidden perch up high, he protected marines and soldiers as they moved house-to-house in places like fallujahfor the head shot. that's not what you do. >> no, sir. i mean this is so much easier to miss than this is. always went for center mass. >> reporter: one particular shot thwarted an enemy ambush and became the stuff of legends. >> i saw the insurgent on top of the roof, and so the movement had me zoom my scope in on him, try to figure out what he was doing and then i saw he had rpg, they were trying to hide, stay outside of him. about the time i saw he was getting into attack position, i started the shot. >> he hit his mark. from 2100 yards, or 1.2 miles away. an unheard of distance that stunned even him. 2100 yards. lucky shot? >> extremely lucky shot. >> reporter: most of those he killed never saw him. >> when you're going to war, it's definitely not about being fair. every person i killed i have a clear conscience of because they were actively trying to harm americans, allies, or civilians. >> reporter: local insurgents nicknamed kyle the devil of ramadi, and placed a $20,000 bounty

the aclu fallujah title a lawsuit against the state in 2005 when georgia passed its photo id law. there were two years of litigation. the same claims made today by the aclu the there are literally hundreds of the lessons of people who will be unable to vote because they don't have a photo id and won't be able to obtain the free photo i.d. that every state has provided as a part of the law. it turned out the reason that it was dismissed by the federal judge was because -- i don't want to give you a lot of quotes that this is worth giving to you. this is from gove college of federal district court that dismissed the lawsuit. although they claim to know people who claim they lack of a lady, they failed to identify those individuals. the failure to identify those individuals is particularly acute in the light of the contention that a large number of georgia voters lack acceptable for the lady. the fact the plaintiffs in spite of their efforts have failed to uncover any one to the test of the fact that he or she will be prevented from voting from significant support from the conclusion