he wanted to know not only, "is there a connection between saddam hussein and bin laden?", but, "we want there to be a connection between the two." >> narrator: the cia officers believed there was no evidence of a connection. >> no, never. we never found any indication that zarqawi was in baghdad working for saddam or linked up with saddam. >> narrator: the vice-president and his chief of staff, scooter libby, pushed back. >> it was pretty intense. we were lined up on one side of the table, vice-president cheney and scooter libby were on the other side. and they walked in with a lot of questions and being very skeptical as to the intelligence that we had been gathering up to that point. >> narrator: cheney seemed to want zarqawi to be the link between saddam hussein and osama bin laden. >> the vice-president's frustrated. his questions are all about zarqawi, his connection to saddam, and whether or not they had discussed 9/11, and if saddam had participated. >> narrator: bakos says the vice-president didn't like the answer. >> we tried to explain over and over again that i

the word of the event reaches king hussein. in his rhetoric, he was anti-israel, as any current generation -- as any arab leader of his generation was, but he did have open channels to the british and american embassies, he would meet with israeli emissaries abroad. in linking the same learned of the death of the three soldiers he sat down and he wrote a personal letter of condolence to the israeli prime minister. in the letter he said, i was in grief to hear about the death of the three soldiers, let's work together to combat the terrorist threat. and he passed the letter to the american embassy, which brought it to its contra part -- counterpart in tel aviv. to the ambassador of israel. now he was an unusual man. he was a big man. a very big guy. a strange man. he lived with his bachelor sister. all of his life. but he was a beloved ambassador, he had been there for nine years, long time to the in office. and he knew the country well. he received the letter of condolence from king hussein in the afternoon of november 11. and

international what do you think of the prospect of saddam hussein's former operatives leading leisel. well i believe the this could be a probability especially that isis was in first infiltrate the actually by ford motor company saying regime elements especially after the fall of the regime because the. some bumpus and relied heavily. on consent related heavily on the tribes of western iraq and on the sudanese of. western iraq so after the fall of the regime there was that reshuffling all of the political structure in. iraq as to integrate mainly the shia on the kurds into the state. institutions and the americans dismantled the army. and in this month and all other institutions. that were dominated by the ba'ath regime this. coupled with the breaking up the spread it all of these people especially after they were captured and put in prisons and the humiliation they were subjected to like in the case of abuja for example in two thousand and three made them ripe for being invested in especially by saudi arabia and by radical groups coming from saudi arabia so that's why they got tried

blige. >> trevor: turns out saddam hussein was a big fan of mary j.lige. ♪ i'm going down ( laughter ) remember how awkward hillary clinton was looking last year when mary j. blige was singing to her? that would have been saddam's dream. ♪ it ain't no secret ♪ it ain't no secret ( laughter ) snits not uncommon for dictators and strong men to be fans of pop divas. all performed at parties for dictators. muammar gaddafi was a fan of mariah carey. ♪ and you will always be my baby ♪ ♪ 'do-da and vladimir putin listens to -- ♪ dust it off and try it again > ( laughter ) enough about the old school dictators. let's talk about future hall of famers. last reek week was probably one of the worst weeks of donald trump's presidency which is something we say every week now. trump's presidency is basically like global warming, every week is the worst and republicans are trying to hard to deny it. we know former f.b.i. director james comey testified in the senate that trump pressured him into dropping the flynn thing. the other side came out the very next day. >> i

saira hussein baogada, centro legal asitico..cuando estaba en la estacin de la polica ellos lo arrestaron el senor pedro luego fue trasladado a un centro de detencin en martnez donde paso dos meses hasta que pudo salir bajo fianza. estas fueron sus palabras en una entrevista con telemundo 48 en ese entonces. pedro figueroa vctima de arresto ilegal no pues imagnese dos meses encerrado cuando a uno lo sacan wow se siente tan feliz y maravilloso. el inmigrante tena una orden de deportacin de 10 aÑos atrs. pero no haba cometido ningn crimen. por lo que sus abogados dedujeron que fue la polica de san francisco quienes lo entregaron a ice rompiendo as el compromiso de ser una ciudad santuario.en enero entablaron una demanda que pronto podra terminar en un acuerdo de compensacin de 190 mil dlares. saira hussein baogada, centro legal asitico.. esperamos que con este acuerdo que nunca ocurre a otra persona otra vez sus abogados esperan que este caso sirva para reafirmar el convenio de san francisco de ser una ciudad que protege a todos lo

hussein, good seeing you again. hussein: welcome to jacksonville. -how are you? -lemonis: good. this is pete. -hussein: pete, how are you? -lemonis: from sweet pete's. and this is allison. -allison: hi. nice to meet you. -hussein: it's a pleasure. let's go. lemonis: the jacksonville jaguars were second in the nfl with concession growth last year, and that presents a real opportunity. peter: oh, my gosh. that is awesome. lemonis: there are close to 70,000 people that come to events here, not only nfl games. peter: that is so cool. lemonis: we're gonna have access to the entire stadium. we'll be able to sell into the private suites. peter: are you kidding me? there's like cabanas here. lemonis: we'll also be able to sell in the concession area. hussein: so, i was thinking this sort of area. these are portable carts. they come in all shapes and sizes. lemonis: and we're also being given access to the club level. i think the biggest benefit with the club level, they're the decision makers that come from the corporations that are sponsors at the stadium. our goal is to meet those dec

to miley both served as security officials under saddam hussein after the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transformed into islamic state let's to discuss this with military analyst. thanks for joining us to use the good to have you with us what do you think the prospect of saddam hussein's former operatives leading also. i mean from a very tactical perspective it could make sense as you said earlier a new introduction when the army of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency it is use forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of them are not ideological supporters of vices or radical islam but they're feeling aggrieved that they're out of the iraqi government u.s. was very heavy handed again to sunni tribes so they could make sense somebody could fill the void after both daddy but a lot of the scene near tactical fighters have always been. and members of saddam's former republican guard looking back at two thousand and three an

-hussein: hi. hussein. -lemonis: hussein? -hussein: yes. nice to meet you.lemonis: nice to meet you. so this is it right here? this is all of overtone? -brad: this is it. -lemonis: how big is this place? -we're small. -brad: 1,250 square feet. lemonis: okay. so you're doing it simple. -this is an acoustic panel. -brad: yeah, and it's actually a functioning piece of artwork. -lemonis: oh, it's like fabric. -brad: right. that's actually a recycled cotton-denim blend applied to a wooden frame with acoustic foam inside. lemonis: and what does it actually do? does the sound bounce off of it? brad: no. it passes through the canvas and is absorbed by the foam. lemonis: hello? [ laughter ] brad: this is our sound diffuser. -lemonis: this makes the room... -brad: quieter. lemonis: and this makes the room -- brad: this will help to kind of keep -some liveliness in the space. -lemonis: okay. what i think's cool is how aesthetically pleasing it is. so you do custom stuff, as well. brad: yeah. the printing process is called sublimation. and so, unlike a t-shirt, where it

but one thing i want to bring up again is what that live guest that we had on, ali hussein, hussein ali, was telling us that was significant. if this attack had taken place even a few minutes earlier, it would have been so much deadlier. because the hundreds of people that had gathered at the mosque to say their evening prayers had done so and were largely leaving the area. women, children on-site, elderly, he mentioned one gentleman in a wheel chair that was on the scene. so this could have been a far deadlier incident than it actually turned out to be, richard. that's something that really struck me quite deeply. >> yeah, and it did as well. it's a great interview that you had with hussein ali. he expressed those details to us, that sort of saving grace, if you will, the silver lining to this, had it been moments earlier, it would have been very, very difficult. we have ten injured at least right now. that number would have been much, much larger, unfortunately. lucy calf november, thank you so much. i know you have a lot to do there on-scene. we'll take a short break here on msnbc. s

here is saddam hussein sending all the smoke signals that he has weapons of mass destruction becausehe wantss to keep iran at bay. we think everything is about us and we never acknowledge maybe some of it is about the regional politics. when we give weapons or sell weapons to saudi arabia, there will be for every action a reaction. there will be significantly more pressure on iran to come forward and have more weapons. what does it do to our ally, israel? there have been reports that israel believes every time we give a dollar to saudi arabia they need to respond with a dollar and a half. a quote from one of their government ministers saying he worries about their qualitative edge. i have a quote from a colleague of mine, friend of mine who is a rabbi and friend of the constitution. .. the president's intentions, we must proceed with great caution due to the challenges and the history of the region. at this time i don't see the benefits of the arms deal for the united states or israel. this is coming from someone who believes with every fiber of his being that israel should be defend

by the end i add algy widely both served as security officers under saddam hussein and following the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sun the insurgency part of which later transformed into islamic state. well let's discuss this issue further with nicholas davis got on our hands the american invasion and destruction of iraq thank you very much indeed for joining us this evening well the speculation over isolator abu bakar al baghdadi is replacement as we just heard if his death from a russian as strike is confirmed was related contenders off or operatives of saddam hussein i mean what do you think about that. while i think in the big picture it's not really going to make much difference who replaces baghdadi . essentially where we're going to still be dealing with. what with an endless proliferation of these jihadi groups. you know whatever form it takes it's assuming that. the us led. forces are able to recapture mosul and graca albeit at the expense of tens of thousands of civilian casualties. i as we've seen. the people that the us is fighti

more easily because the facts are there for everyone to see we had eight years of war with saddam hussein he initiated the war the saudi regime provided him with up to two hundred billion dollars to help them obtain chemical weapons from western governments and that's a stated fact so in with regards to pilgrimage of course the saudis have a history of killing iranians just a year two years ago the saudis killed six hundred iranian pilgrims and never even expressed remorse or regret but most importantly.

naveed jamali is still with us, as well as jim cavenaugh, and naveed, you may have heard what husseini was telling the reporter lucy kafanov, and we have new detail which is new, and also what is new is the pictures on the left-hand side now that we have the sun in the sky, and we are getting pictures of what is actually on the ground. that is something that we did not have a little bit earlier. we can see the tent there which looks to be part of what law enforcement is using. you can get a sense of the lay of the land right now. and what is standing out to you coming from the not only hussein ali, but also the pictures that we are getting live there on the side of the screen, and the third thing that is new in the half hour is that we are hearing the word terror or terrorist being used in both descriptions coming from the mayor of london as well as the prime minister as a potential terrorist attack are the words that she used. >> well, you no, i will go with the third one first, richard. i think that terror or terrorism in the context that sit is bein used when you are looking at the

addition to that excuse me if i if you would allow me to continue this saudi regime supported saddam hussein after the revolution which invaded iran i think. your guest should look at history and then i think if we have a discussion that would go better we would move forward more easily because the facts are there for everyone to see we had eight years of war with saddam hussein he initiated the war the saudi regime provided him with up to two hundred billion dollars to help them obtain chemical weapons from western governments and that's a stated fact so in with regards to pilgrimage of course the saudis have a history of killing iranians just a year or two years ago the saudis killed six hundred iranian pilgrims and never even expressed remorse or regret but most importantly is the saudi regime being inherently weak is completely reliant on the united states and this without this so really the biggest blame goes to the united states what happened in libya couldn't have happened without the the united states what happened in syria the extremism that the saudis said that is in the others exp

they tried to sell to iraq under saddam hussein except saddam hussein wanted to pay on credit. he didn't want to pay on cash. it's a whole list, right. and so they have sold every system they've ever developed. in a containment scenario i would be very worried about horizontal proliferation. the last thing on going after nukes in a -- i hate to throw data at you, but we did a study where we actually surveyed experts, u.s. experts about this, and asked them what was the number one issue in a unification scenario in terms of the cross between priority and how much we knew, right. so the big blind spots are where you have high priority and we have no knowledge. those are the big blind spots. what we actually found surveying american experts was the number one issue was actually not wmd. the number one issue was domestic stabilization in north korea. not because we don't care about the nuclear issue but i think relative to domestic stabilization we feel like we know more about the wmd situation than we know about domestic stabilization in the north. it was an interesting finding ba

fossil fuel going to blame us as consumers in the west for propping up the dictates is from saddam hussein to the gulf persian gulf a doctor says surely no i don't blame consumers of course we don't want to send our money to ruthless autocrats and violent civil war years and oil producing states the problem is deep the problem is an old archaic law left over from the days of the atlantic slave trade that forces us to send our money essentially to whoever can control by force in foreign countries this old law in every country says that for the oil of other countries might makes right so for example years ago when gadhafi took over libya in a coup british law said it was legal to buy libya's oil from get off the and then years later when rebels took over some of those same wells british law every country's laws that it was legal to buy libya's oil for the rebels that's the law that puts us into business essential with whoever has the most guns overseas we are an educator why is it you think every time british servicemen and women or indeed all natures of his whether women i mean us to fight

august 2, 1990, saddam hussein invaded kuwait. this is a remarkable historical coincidence, that saddam hussein chose to go into kuwait on the same day the united states -- given that it's such a powerful coincidence, given the fact that gps is arguably -- the thing spaceade the war -- command and the ground antrollers did improvise considerable amount during the war. they altered some of the satellites orbit to give later time, greater availability in the satellite so the ground forces could use gps almost 24 , -- during the war on number of the satellites experienced problems. solar panels broke, mechanical arms the normally operate mechanically judge broke. these guys were in the control room in newly adjusting these things around the clock during the war, turning things off, the satellite women to the arts shadow. came, the u.s. had only two gps guided munitions. both of them or modified versions of existing web. the one on the left here was a new era christmas. it took the nuclear bomb off, cut -- but a conventional bomb on.

execution of saddam hussein and the the station -- disdain he shows for executions.order runnings orde through him. the other major character is a woman from theouth. she is also a person of indeterminate origin as far as india is concerned. now a kashmiri fighting with the national border. it is not conceptual. what happens is india as a society of such minute divisions , such institutionalized caste is a where mesh that oppresses people and holds them down in a grid. somehowf these stories are about people who just don't fit into that grid and who eventually create a little community and a kind of solidarity emerges, which is a solidarity of the heart. it is not memoranda i or academic discourse, but a solidarity that is human which is based on unorthodox kinds of love, not even sexual love or anything, just based on humanness. amigo you say the characters are kind of -- who don't fit into the grid, the places, the principal places where the novel delhi, andold kashmir. so is the focus -- did you focus on these places also because they stand somehow outside the gri

military, you are familiar etc., whichqi war, led to the toppling of saddam hussein.any would say this laid the foundation for what has happened, the islamic state group and all of the fighting necessary to get the situation and control. can you talk about the mistakes that were made? >> yes. one of the biggest problems in afghanistan and iraq is the lack of continuity. even though the u.s. has been there for a long time doesn't mean we have been doing it right from the beginning. >> what mistakes were made? >> we take a horse, a proxy to partner with and it alienated sunnis, kurds, and christians. sunnisn we empowered the to rise up against al qaeda only to have that same shia government that we empowered dismantle that effort and put them in prison. now we are working with the iranian proxies on the ground. the only time we got iraq right was 2007 and 2008. and thatt, we left, led to the security void that led to isis. even know we have been there for 10 to 13 years, if you'd change strategy every year, you'll never get anywhere. >> to talk about the situation now,

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precision guided missiles but they figure out that it's not a big resistance movement and saddam hussein a lot more forces. it is a largely, can internal and it comes mainly from the southeast, from kuwait but the south does play a significant role in diversionary operations, in the west they set up a tank unit that is designed to make it look like there's a lot more things coming and in the north the south supports the kurds which forces saddam to move some of his forces to the west and north, hence away from the defense of baghdad. it works out. well for soft here too. now, as we all know the difficult part in the rack and afghanistan was not taking the regime down but figuring out what happened "after words". in the immediate afterword of the rack, we saw chaos and this rise of an insurgency that is fueled by a saddam hussein and so calm are called in to do man hunting and find saddam and his sons and they do track down both of them and here is saddam after he is captured by the special operators and he's hurt initially that the decapitation strike is going to put a lid that it will f

us senate against the war in iraq or in two thousand and three i did say that if you remove saddam hussein you get and the key civil war and not democracy i was. not only ali by the way but the second should be friends mr gates was a ganster of the attack on the daffy in libya believing the americans actually listened to the talents and the talents said that if you remove gadhafi you don't get democracy you get our hundred tribes fighting each other for ever and that's what we have in libya so in other words where we have discovered between moscow and washington we have learned something in the muslim world you either have the faith to ship or anarchy therefore i don't think there is any interest in the movie any more dictators the problem is syria is that makes it hard hard to be critical you told me back in two thousand and eleven that real politics is in the pacific and not in the middle east and it's now twenty seventeen and it's been six years since the war in syria broke out question u.s. led coalition of more than a dozen countries are fighting isis there to still stick to their opi

among those reportedly killed by the shelling was hussein abbas, along with his brothers and sisters. in a major diplomatic crisis in the persian gulf, saudi arabia, bahrain, egypt, yemen, libya, and the united arab emirates have broken off relations with qatar, accusing qatar of backing militant groups, including isis and al qaeda. qatar has denied the accusations. the united arab emirates has suspended all fights and sea travel to and from qatar. saudi arabia has also closed all ports between the two countries. back in the united states, thousands of people demonstrated saturday at dozens of "march for truth" rallies to demand an independent congressional commission to investigate possible collusion between the trump campaign and alleged russian interference in the 2016 election. protests were held in nearly every single u.s. state. this comes as former fbi director james comey is slated to testify to the senate intelligence committee on thursday. trump fired comey in part over the fbi's investigation into the trump campaign's ties to russia. despite speculation over the weekend, it

that army defeated saddam hussein. without direct israeli assistance. as we recall, the united states insisted not only that israel not be part of the anti-saddam coalition, but that it refrain from retaliating militarily against iraq, even when iraq fired missiles into israel. this second yet, in response to a bid for hostile hegemony in the middle east, israeli military power was crucial. for a decade before saddam to -- invasion and occupation of kuwait. conducted aome -- raid on its nuclear facilities, theyor at the ceric three destroyed it. at the end of the 1991 war, americans discovered saddam had come closer, much closer to getting a nuclear weapon than the western intelligence communities had believe. what is really done a decade saddam/1991,21 -- saddam hussein may have well had nuclear weapons, in which case the crisis would have proceeded differently and not to the advantage of the united states. now, this -- the israeli role in bolstering american interest has been largely unappreciated. the reason is, it is by its nature, invisible. israel

baby and i add maybe both served to security officials under saddam hussein and following the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transformed into a islamic state military analyst thanks thinks a disaster could be avoided if the u.s. led coalition didn't destroy iraq institutions when they're on the of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency against u.s. forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of them are no ideological supporters of isis and radical islam but this feeling grief that the iraqi government have to us is very heavy handed again to sunni arabs trying certainly united states and united kingdom ignoring all the advice given to them about dismantling the iraqi state specially the rocking the train security forces because one thing getting this destroyed you are the state system that. led to this disaster. you know the news this hour there has been a number of protests in central london members of the english defense league took to the str

can you imagine if a comedian on the right had a cut off head of barack hussein obama? he would have been tarred and feathered in the streets. we would still be talking about it today. this is why these things are going on. this man was a bernie sanders of socialists. and i'll tell you something, i'm seeing signs on tv that he held. you went up to a congressman or aide and he asked that aide, who is out there playing? republicans or democrats? this was a targeted hit. host: linda, we don't want to get ahead of the investigation. want to be careful with the facts that are put out there. we're still waiting for more from the police and we'll certainly continue to bring that to you in the hours and days ahead as this continues. california, line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning. i want to say that my thoughts and prayers are with the people hat were attacked. i think not only was the injured, injured, but it must have been horrifically traumatic ust to be there. i agree with the people that say we're all americans. it.we should get over and realize that

and i add algy might both served as security officials on the saddam hussein and following the us led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transformed into a islamic state military analysts come all i'm saying so disaster could be avoided if the u.s. led coalition didn't destroy iraqi institutions when they're on the of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency against us forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of them are not ideological supporters of isis some radical islam but they feel aggrieved that they're out of the iraqi governments and that the u.s. was very heavy handed again to sunni arab tribes certainly united states and united kingdom ignored all the advice given to them about the. managing the iraqi state specially the iraqi military and security forces was one thing getting rid of saddam which destroyed you on the state system that he had led to this disaster. now there have been more protests in central london members of the english defense leagu

when it was itself exposed to a military attack by an arab state saddam hussein's iraq i think it's created regional alliances to prevent that sort of thing happening again on don't think that the iranians themselves who are i think realistic the whole have a more grandiose ambition than that you know it christopher you know it's interesting how western media the western narrative is that you know the movies are out of control there are there are crazy and you know they're rational no no they're not i mean they're very they're probably one of the most rational of the group they want their regime to survive they want their sovereign state to survive and if you demonized ental sleeper decades by the west well why wouldn't you want to extend your influence i mean everybody needs to hedge their bets here i mean what i'm just saying is that overall is that the west creates its own problems in the middle east it should get out of the middle east and let the middle east take care of itself we would probably have fewer wars and probably a lot fewer arms go ahead christopher. well i think i think fi

nine while independent organizations report a minimum of four hundred columbia legal fellow rahma hussein helped research more than a decade of u.s. practice and said that for more than half the measures we evaluated u.s. transparency was either none for slight the government's almost complete failure to name civilian casualties killed was particularly concerning the report claims the families of those killed experience prolonged suffering because of uncertainty and injustice when the u.s. does not officially acknowledge their loss or explain the strikes left wondering why the u.s. killed mother in pakistan yes len saeed been a shock son in yemen in fact the study finds the u.s. only names western civilians killed in these strikes though the vast majority are of course from the country that's been hit it proposes three specific actions the government can take knowledge and explain every civilian or unlawful death and naming those killed were leasing all government investigations into specific strikes and explaining why the government believes the strikes are legal it also comes with a per

both to security officials under saddam hussein after the u.s. led invasion of iraq in two thousand and three they both joined the sunni insurgency part of which later transferred into islamic state but mr thinks the disaster could be avoided if the u.s. that coalition didn't destroy iraqi institutions when they're on the of saddam was disbanded a lot of the baath is for disgruntled to join the sunni insurgency has used forces and also against iranian backed militias a lot of the no ideological supporters advice is radical islam. but this feeling green the iraqi government saying that the u.s. was very heavy handed if you had to say they are trying certainly united states and united kingdom need all the advice given to them about dismantling the iraqi state specially being walking on a train security forces because one thing getting us down destroyed you want to stay a system that had led to this disaster. seeing as another day of protests members of the english defense league took to the streets to find out of spite of islamist terror attacks. g