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massive cases of stealing selling alcohol to iraqi forces of pride hariri and all sorts of the things that we know and we knew were going on when billions of dollars are involved in u.s. funds conducting this occupation these guys started to try to get the truth out and then were grabbed by the u.s. military interrogated apparently according to them and i certainly believe them. under the same methods of so-called enhanced interrogation that was approved all the way to the top not only rumsfeld we know cheney was behind this and bush said all of this was happening with his approval so of course the truth has got to come out and i really congratulate. donald fance and nathan or tell for fighting through to try to get this story out and i and as they said it is really important for other whistleblowers to come forward and controversy surrounds the current u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is trying to swim against the current of major cuts in government spending and claims and he will reductions after those already imposed would threaten that national security but also his military co

the rafik hariri center for the middle east. the center focuses on the links between political and economic change in developing concrete policy for suggestions for this change in the region. name for the slain lebanese prime minister, the central reflects his efforts to rise above the sectarianism and promote innovative policies to address economic and political liberalization, sustainable conflict resolution, and regional and promote regional greater regional international integration. the aim of the center through its analysis and projects is to more closely bind together the middle east to europe, russia and north america. furthermore the council's international security program has long been the leading center for analysis on nato, translate security. this program will evolve into the brent scowcroft center of international security next spring as we deepen our expertise in working with europe to address global security challenges including in the middle east. finally, the council africa center intel transform u.s. and euro

hariri who mentioned but i would like to hear and call these witnesses from all the governors hawks. [inaudible] and the current governor. the last request, your honor, that please rule on mauney request. on july 26th regarding the permission of the doctor in charge, of the german doctor who was afraid to come i presented this motion since july he and requested the court to kindly rule on that. the details are in this memorandum. thank you, your honor. >> the session is adjourned. bre >> we want to take a break from thone calls from viewers thisli morning to listen with the cairo bureau chief for "the washington post" to get an update on the egyptian president egyptian president hosni mubarak. welcome to "washington journal." in the associated press, at the egyptian judge stopped the live trial broadcast. bring us up to speed on what is going on with regards to the trial. and as we listen to you, we want to show the viewers' some footage we are getting from egypt tv. guest: the former president of egypt appears that for the second time in court today. the session ended with the judge

lebanese hezbollah as the officers implicated by the un special tribunal in the assassination of hariri's father, the former prime minister's father. that unease hezbollah times and trains -- lebanese hezbollah is armed and trained by iran's quds force. that is why we stay engaged in lebanon. it is not perfect. there are very tough tensions between israel and lebanon. we do not want walked out and leave a vacuum there. that teams are often not filled by very pleasant things in the middle east -- vacuums are often not filled by a very pleasant things in the middle east. in iraq, it has been instructive for me, ladies and gentlemen, over the last two or three months, to all of sudden realized as i read my intelligence reports and watched tv that i did not see it in the midst of the arab spring mobs in baghdad demonstrating and demanding a voice in their own affairs. i don't have all the answers for you, but i found it very fascinating that in that country, they do not feel like they have to demonstrate that the bank actually must feel that they do have a voice. they may not be happy the way

. >> i had interesting conversations with close leadership also assad hariri, also hezbollah and hamas. my impression -- what i heard gave me the impression who was going on in syria is not going to remain contained within the borders of syria. as it aggregates, it will spread out and eventually the key on the side of the turks in the north of syria and iran to protect it's own courts from the infection will have to come in and it will grow up into a confrontation. >> okay. one more thing. i read this slogan, christians to beirut, i read it in the "new york times" three weeks ago. and it was -- and they reported as it was heard in homes. >> okay. now our friend here saying that this is the -- protesters in syria are proxy fighters. do you want to comment on that? we'll take other comments from the audience. >> my experience in beirut was that the syrians who had fled were having a very uncomfortable time. the anti-regime, freedom seekers as you'd like to call them, knocks in the door at night. they were being intimidated and rounded up. i don't know where this is going to end. could i

michelle dunn, director of our rafik hariri center for the middle east will moderate the discussion.artment official who brings to the council both a rich understanding of the washington policy making process but also the forces driving the arab awakening. during her time at the carnegie endowment where she was editor of the arab reform bulletin and co-chair of the working group on egypt, michelle has recognized the trends of change and their imple educationers in the region long before mubarak fell in egypt. barry pavel who holds the arnold chair at the council and directs its international security program will moderate our second discussion on nato and the atlanta community. he has played leadership roles in the development of a broad range of national security and defense strategies and policies across the path three -- the past three administrations including serving at the white house as special assistant to the president and senior director for defense policy and strategy on the national security council staff and having many senior pentagon positions. i'm also particularly de