baldoni is deaf giuliana sgrena is in baghdad university she is there to interview refugees from fallujah who had found shelter in the mosque of the university thanks for holding back on terrorists and abducted. when i was kidnapped the first thing is to realize i get not being you because from these say you can decide if i is out there they need to know their leaders so from that they really depend on your child to be free or not to be. true immediately contacted diplomatic sources journalists to organize press conferences addressing merely journalists and use agencies from the arabic world into the trunk appear if we want to make them realize that she really and i was just a journalist and not a secret agent as some people might have thought that it. i had no no what i couldn't. know what that i would was. because. they they kept also my my watch and to beginning to ask because i didn't they had that i do what i meant was and then they said they need daddy as a proof of my life. and. so i was all is waiting for the day but i just don't know what it was. i went to bed but of course i cou

kevin sites was embedded with the american forces when he filmed such an atrocity in a mosque in fallujah. one specific marine went into that mosque. he saw the five insurgents in there and he began shooting them. again even though they were unarmed. began shooting them initially with his m. sixteen rifle and then when his m. sixteen g.m.t. pulled out his nine millimeter beretta and got it he started firing at them when. i see this marine out of my i say he's been faking he's dead he's faking he's dead . he's saying. and at that point he raises m. sixteen and i raised my camera at the same time and he squeezed the trigger off and fires directly into the man's head and i remember it very specifically i've seen a lot of people killed in coverage before in my past wars but i've never seen what i thought was an execution i suggested to my network that maybe we don't show the video in its entirety we only show portions of it that we mitigate the impact of the video by self censoring in some ways by not showing that videotape people were completely confused about what the intentions of the mari

i've been really affected by accounts of the battle at fallujah in november of 2004, and i spoke to a friend, and he encouraged me to go down to the hospital, and i did beginning in the summer of 2005. went down to bethesda and talked to some marines there, and i've continued that. i was just down a week, a week and a half ago to bethesda. i've been down somewhere between 25 and 30 times, i guess, over the last several years. i generally walk the floor and talk to people bed to bed and chat with them about their own experiences. i ask them how they were injured, and it's really quite a tale. but i guess i could reflect on all of the 300-plus kids i've probably spoken to and what happened to them and how did it happen to them. this led me to other involvement with veterans. i work with a couple of other old marines, senator webb and warner, when they're promoting the post-9/11 g.i. bill. i had a meeting with the two of them in february of 2008 urging them to include opportunities for veterans to go to private colleges, and we developed in senator warner's office the basic principle of

>> reporter: this is a picture of marine reservist tim aurora taken in 2006 while he served near fallujah, iraq. he saw some of the most intense fighting of the war. he returned wipth dee psychological wounds so severe he requested a service dog for companionship and comfort. >> i was thinking of suicide pretty much on a daily basis. >> reporter: is that intense still? >> now it's just how do i help others with it? is there anything i can help you with? >> reporter: aurora works at this call center at new jersey's university of medicine with 25 other veterans. it's called vets for warriors. it's a place veterans can call to talk confidentially with other vets. they get 300 calls a week here. does being a peer counselor help you? >> oh, yeah. it's helping yourself, having closure on your own issues, knowing that hopefully what you've gone through benefited you and now can benefit someone else. >> how old did you say he was? >> reporter: 40% of the callers are at risk of suicide. >> when they come home, they come home to their communities. they are not coming home to army bases or military

. >> this is a picture of tim aurora taken in 2006 while he served near fallujah, iraq.eservist. he saw some of the most intense fighting of the war. aurora returned with deep psychological wounds so severe he requested a service dog for companionship and comfort. >> i was thinking of suicide pretty much on a daily basis. >> is it that intense still? >> no. it's just how do i help others with it? >> is there anything i can help you with? >> aurora works at this call center at new jersey's university of medicine with 25 other veterans. it's called vets for warriors. it's a place veterans can call to talk confidentially with other vets. they get 300 calls a week here. >> does being a peer counselor help you? >> helping yourself, having closure on your own issues. knowing that hopefully what you've gone through benefited you and now can benefit someone else. >> how old did you say he was? >> 40% of the callers are at risk of suicide. >> when they come home, they come home to their communities. they're not coming home to army bases or military mental health centers. they're

night raid in in oakland for instance it doesn't look any different anymore from a night raid in fallujah they're dressed in black they're carrying automatic weapons command and control helicopters with searchlights and that's what happens when empires implode the non-democratic harsher forms of control that are used on the outer reaches of empire are margrave back into the heartland and that's the process that's underway as far as revolutions go i mean there's been lots of writing about revolutions is and it's not so much that things are so bad people just revolt it's more that expectations are no longer being met which causes populations revolt have you seen over the last thirty years a lowering of expectations by the corporate elites so that we have a pretty docile population that's short of those mass movements other than occupy which is crippled today that will bring about that sort of change that we need right now. well the political philosopher sheldon woolen argues that the two primary mechanisms which have traditionally ensured political past seventy are cheap mass produced consu

countless reports of rampant waste ranging from a one hundred million dollar water treatment system in fallujah that has cost three times more than originally projected while serving only a fraction of the people it was initially intended for waste is also easily easily spotted in the form of abandoned projects all around iraq that includes a forty million dollars prison built to hold thirty six hundred inmates instead that's it's vacant in the desert north of baghdad and then there was the one hundred sixty five million dollars children's hospital and that also goes on used in the south now in recent weeks we've heard talks and read headlines about how the department of defense may be forced to make cuts to defense spending but what does this actually mean is it possible that the days of military waste may be coming to an end well don't count on it and the reason being that although the former secretary of defense robert gates made a lot of efforts to try to reduce wasteful spending it's all to millie up to congress to approve a budget and with powerful corporations operating in the districts

reports of rampant waste here's a few examples one hundred million dollar water treatment system in fallujah that has cost three times more than initially projected only serving a fraction of the people initially it was intended for now waste is also easily spotted in the form of abandoned projects all over iraq that includes a forty million dollars prison build for thirty six hundred inmates instead that sits empty in the desert north of baghdad there was also that one hundred sixty five million dollars children's hospital and that also goes unused in the south now in recent weeks we've heard talks and headlines about the department of defense being forced to make cuts to defense spending so what does this mean now perhaps could it be possible that the days of military waste could be coming to an end well probably not and the reason is although former secretary of defense robert gates made efforts to reduce wasteful spending it is ultimately up to congress to approve a budget and with powerful corporations operating in the districts of many lawmakers well the interests of government contrac

communicate to the body information that came down regulates harmful chemicals that facilitate the fallujah levy of cancer cells and tumors and to help regulate compounds that are hostile to these alien cells. and it's been quite an amazing revelation because there was -- it was ignored in 1975 that cannabinol aids inhabited juan met cancer and was never picked up, never exploited. 1997 study of the national toxicology project found that the more thc rats and mice in just the longer they live with a decrease in tumors and so now we see that what happens is these chemicals -- the thc connects with the receptors and communicates with the receptors. these are mimics of the chemicals that we have come and the job is to maintain an environment that is hostile to the development of disease and to attack the process and interrupted and stop it when it gets a hold on us. what we find is really amazing cannabinoid to produce blood cells of the can feed themselves. it's called angiogenesis and a day cafe gen f three the cannabinoid also inhibited the ability of cancer cells to migrate and spread to o

. >> it was the heaviest fighting i've seen since iraq, since fallujah, new jersey, battles in iraq.ious, heavy urban warfare, people who fighting block to block, street to street. it was, really, really intense fighting. >> warner: so what kind of weaponry do the rebels have? >> the rebels, they only have kalashnikovs, a.k.-47s and r.p.g.s. they use these weapons to fight airplanes, jet fighters, migs. so there is no balance in terms of weapons. yet at the same time the syrian army, the government army that is i think totally demoralized, i was in situations where they could have totally crushed the rebels yet they were too scared to push down a street. >> warner: describe... so what's the dynamic like? do they fight for particular blocks? do they engage in the direct combat? >> after the initial push in aleppo when the rebels took over neighborhoods the government started pushing them back. so the government's strategy is shelling bombing by jet aircrafts and pushing in tanks. the rebels would retreat when they start fighting street to street, building to building, digging holes fr

we are not seeing fallujah goal under al qaeda command. it is a different situation. it does reflect what is going on in the region. probably some countries that were more helpful in terms of combating flows probably have other priorities right now. to some extent it is one of those externalities' of the arab spring or whatever we are calling in. it is pretty clear that with america gone, or the perception that somehow the with our troops gone, there is a sense among some people, including the extreme radical sunni, that somehow the country is once again up for grabs. >> when you look back that and think the invasion was about making it the u.s. state for, yet you have a large al qaeda presence that could present a transnational brett. we'll get to the next question about the positive and negative. >> i tnk chris gave you a fairly reasonable answer as to why those things occur. they were not eradicated in the intervening time. there were people who survived. others have infiltrated back then. is it possible now for recruits to be drawn from that population to other pl

for the 501c4 to spend politically and i'm not here to make fallujah judgments or recommendations for solutions as some are. but i don't think that the numbers really lie and there's a couple of three important reports that illustrates the shift here. the center for responsive politics and public integrity analyze. the source of their contributions outspend those that do buy 33 code to in 2010 and we are seeing that again in 2012. if you look at actual independent expenditures right now it's about 135 million on can pan. you cannot actually analyze these expenditures in the same way because it's these nonprofit groups and they don't disclose on the same level but the look to reports from groups that followed and broadcasts and tax records and all sorts of things and they came up with a dollar figure of 172 million so far so that tells you recognizing these are not definitive numbers but even in off the cuff back of the envelope estimate suggests undisclosed expenditures are now vastly outpacing the expenditures so to go back to the implications i think again without opposing the value

someplace where it is not supposed to be or a piece of data, a change in pattern on a road near fallujah that wasn't there yesterday. we are so much better now than we were say the beginning of the iraq war but there is still a lot of work to do. both big companies and little companies are continuing to develop capability so we can do this in an automatic way. >> it i was going to shift now maybe to discuss the innovation to have seen in the war zones where you know the looser controls on this and then you try to bring it home to the u.s. either homeland security or for that matter you know border security specifically at the airport and you know there are all these constraints, government puts all these rules about what data can be shared and what can't be shared. you have prices here that you don't have. i thought maybe brad could -- >> i think my company is a little bit different than the rest of these just because you have not heard of my company but we make the explosive detection systems that was talked about this morning. both for the checked baggage and for the explosives and nar

someplace where it is not supposed to be or a piece of data, a change in pattern on a road near fallujah that wasn't there yesterday. we are so much better now than we were say the beginning of the iraq war but there is still a lot of work to do. both big companies and little companies are continuing to develop capability so we can do this in an automatic way. >> it i was going to shift now maybe to discuss the innovation to have seen in the war zones where you know the looser controls on this and then you try to bring it home to the u.s. either homeland security or for that matter you know border security specifically at the airport and you know there are all these constraints, government puts all these rules about what data can be shared and what can't be shared. you have prices here that you don't have. i thought maybe brad could -- >> i think my company is a little bit different than the rest of these just because you have not heard of my company but we make the explosive detection systems that was talked about this morning. both for the checked baggage and for the explosives and nar

. -- fallujah more than once. in afghanistan and iraq and in almost every military operations be have had places and towns that we took it and they took it. we retook it and they retook it. that works overseas in a combat zone. you are not going to get to redo in cincinnati or on losing d.c. or wherever you come from, wherever your hometown is. they are not going to tolerate the american military not being able to respond properly and on time here in the united states. time here in the united states it. we swe saw that in spades in 2005 in hurricane katrina. we came that close from the u.s. military swinging and missing on louisiana and mississippi. we were lucky to recover that. it will shake the confidence of the nation and for any administration when the american military cannot properly respond at home. read read secretary paul mchale's paper. read this and think about what i just said. you will not be very comfortable when you read this. the trouble with this paper is it's true and it's factual and accurate.

his brothers, matthew and nicholas, stand watch near fallujah.colorado, their mother, cindy, stands watch, to, with worry and prayers. she told me all three of her sons and listed after september 11 because they recognized the threat to our country. -- of river sons in listed -- all three of her sons in listees ted. we are grateful to all the men and women who are standing guard on the front lines of freedom. a dad whose wife is deployed in iraq recently wrote about what he is learning as he struggles to rear his three children alone. i have learned from three loads of laundry. once you turn everything pink, it stays pink. i know what our soldiers' wives have known for generations. hope that, and grief, and perseverance. this time of war has been a time of great hardship for our military families. the president and i want all our men and women in uniform and their wives and husbands, mothers and fathers, sons and daughters, to know that we appreciate their sacrifice. [cheers and applause] and we know that it will mean a more peaceful future for o

of elections so i would just encourage them -- i don't know if you have your ownfacebook page or fallujah on twitter or something like that so they can see what you say to say give me a favor. when i posed something, take a look at it. just encourage them to engage. i would like to hear what you think. and try to engage them in what is obviously in the central element of being citizens of this country. >> thank you. >> line from a land of georgia. i know in the past you have health reform health care and i feel like one of the biggest mistakes in the administration was taking the requirement of the war to receive the welfare. cal do you feel this will affect the lower class and socially? >> it is the accomplishment of the republican revolution in 1994 was the passage of the 96 welfare reform act bill clinton signed against his will, really. he vetoed it twice before he signed it, and it did require work. why? because we know people can succeed without work, and it's sort of obvious unless your kid a trust fund bb -- baby you have to work to provide for yourself. what we saw in the great s

we are not seeing fallujah goal under al qaeda command. it is a different situation.does reflect what is going on in the region. probably some countries that were more helpful in terms of combating flows probably have other priorities right now. to some extent it is one of those externalities' of the arab spring or whatever we are calling in. it is pretty clear that with america gone, or the perception that somehow the with our troops gone, there is a sense among some people, including the extreme radical sunni, that somehow the country is once again up for grabs. >> when you look back that and think the invasion was about making it the u.s. state for, yet you have a large al qaeda presence that could present a transnational brett. we'll get to the next question about the positive and negative. >> i think chris gave you a fairly reasonable answer as to why those things occur. they were not eradicated in the intervening time. there were people who survived. others have infiltrated back then. is it possible now for recruits to be drawn from that population to other plac

we are not seeing fallujah the wonder al qaeda bouck the command.ut i think it does reflect what is going on in the region and probably some countries that were more helpful in terms of combating flows either foreign fighters were financial flow have other priorities right now, so i think it is to some extent one of those externalities' of the arab spurring or what ever we are calling it. but it's pretty clear -- sorry about that. it's pretty clear that with america agana or the perception that somehow with the troops gone there is the cents including the extreme radical sunni that the country is once again up for grabs. >> when you look back at that and think the invasion was about making the u.s. safer yet you've got this large al qaeda presence could present a transnational threat. we will get to the next question about the positives and negatives. >> sure. and i think chris give you a reasonable answer as to why those things occur and they were not a eradicated in the period. they were people that survived and there were others that had infiltra