we met with you in kuwait, we met with you in iraq and i have no qualms about that. i have a lot of opinions that i want to share and i have. but as for alert that came in from the commission, to our president, i have not seen that. >> it was signed by the two cochairs, myself and mr. shays and i accept that you haven't seen it but like i said, if you take a singular message back from this, we are trying to engage in constructive dialogue and we are going to ask, for is from you, mr. methot and no disrespect and you both are knowledgeable about the company but we'll be asking the same thing. and there is a reason. it impacts us and we'd like to get a feel for it. it is really important to us. so, if you could take that back, i'll be glad all morning -- we have a hearing tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon to e-mail that to you. >> okay. >> all right. thanks, that's it. >> mr. thibeault -- >> oh, another five minute, thanks for giving me your five minutes, buddy. >> okay, mr. methot, i am -- mostly would like to give you questions for the record after wards. i think you are

the emirates, maybe kuwait, they can't shield themselves.think others like egypt oral jeer yarks i don't think they can shield themselves for long. >> thank you. and now for the final word we'll turn to our author, josh muravchik. >> thank you, mark. >> push the button, josh. >> oh, thank you. there were four questions, and i have quick answers. to the gentleman from somalia about the u.n. human rights council, the u.n. human rights council was created because the u.n. commissioner of human rights was such a disaster, and the human rights council has proved to be even a bigger disaster, and i don't think there's any solution to that because the very principle of the u.n. is that all member states are equal, those that defend human rights and those that violate human rights even in the most egregious ways. and the best that i can imagine to do would be, you know, there is this die after now, ephemeral thing. if it would grow stronger, the most useful thing it could do would be to create its own human rights council made up only of governments

kuwait's chief fire officer said this was one of the main causes of the high death toll. [speaking in native tongue] >> the dead had only one exit, he said, which caused a stampede when the fire broke out, leading to the death of more victims. these tents like the necessary authorized safety equipment. tents that we authorize are equipped with multiple fire exits. >> more than 70 guests were taken to the hospital with burns, several described as being in serious condition. investigators believe faulty wiring on equipment to keep food warm could have caused the blaze. and the up hole industry was described as highly flammable. kuwait has now banned the use of wedding tants. >> and a pilot was killed during an air show rehearse alin russia. two russian air force fighters crashed near moss company. two plits are listed in good condition. five people were seriously injured when one jet slammed into a house. officials belief it could have been caused by pilot error. police say a gunman used a semiautomatic weapon to kill his brother and three others. he killed a 22, 25 and 15-

in the case of rhola she led the fight for the last decade for political rights for women in kuwait. if you look across the middle east, to -- kuwait is a market that has more elements of democracy than almost any other or perhaps in any other country in the region. there's a relatively free press and there is a parliament that has genuine powers and is from a genuine elections except that dreary recently it was for men only. and rhola led the fight to give women political rights to vote and hold office, and that fight reached its culmination in 2005 with the passage of law that a most elegant piece of legislative drafting it amended the existing election law in 28 by deleting one word. the word "man." and by that stroke of the pen, women had completely the same political rights as man immediately on the spot there was a press conference and reporters asked rola what are you going to do now? and she replied run for office, of course. and she did. and she came close, but lost. and this year she actually came close but lost twice, but this year the parliament was deadlocked. the dissol

in kuwait with respect to the press in egypt, keeping a very flawed palestinian authority government accountable over a period of years to increasingly also, these liberal activists are networking with one another across the region in a way that they weren't able to do effectively 10 years ago. drafting and signing joint statement. coming together at conferences on reform in alexandria or your heart, they would. coming together to confront their governments like the form for the future. so whereas 10 years ago feminists like wajeha al-huwaider were entirely isolated in their feelings and inner struggles, and indeed that sense of isolation comes through so strongly in josh's narrative of her life. today, aspiring women politicians in kuwait, saudi arabia, oman, and the united arab emirates have this lightspeed network of mobile phone calls, e-mails, text messages. they are constantly in touch with one another relating antidotes, incidents, bucking each other up when the chips are down. so it seems to me that there is something fundamental that has changed with respect to the position

kuwait's leaders say the suspects confessed to a planned attack on that base as well as one on kuwaitose a security agency. we're told they planned to load a truck with fertilizer, chemicals, and gas cylinders and tried it into the camp. keep in mind, the country is a close ally of the united states since 1991, when the gulf war liberated kuwait from occupation. a little bit further east to afghanistan now where three american soldiers were killed by roadside bombs. taliban and surgeons used more roadside bombs recently as they aggressively moved out of their traditional strongholds -- taliban insurgents. this has been one of the deadliest months for the united states during this conflict. this, just nine days before the country's second presidential elections. >> in recent days, violence across afghanistan has hit record levels. virtually every part of the country has had some type of security incident over the past few months, and it has been extremely deadly for american and international troops. last month, as you said, it was a record 75 international and american troops killed,

plot to attack an american base in kuwait.ck. >>> it's 46 minutes past the hour right now. we're tracking breaking news right now. according to the associated press, officials in kuwait are saying they foiled a terrorist attack on a u.s. base in their country. and they say the group behind it was linked to al qaeda. they also say that the plot was only in its planning stages. right now we bring in cnn national security analyst peter bergen in kabul this morning. thanks for joining us on the phone. peter, i want to ask you this. they claim it was in the planning stages, they arrested about half dozen people and they confessed to buying a truck that they intended to load with fertilizer, chemicals, and gas cylinders and then ram it into the camp. you've been to that camp in kuwait, what do you make of this? >> reporter: well, this, kiran, is a major facility in kuwait, it is used as a major logistical supply point for iraq. it is termed temporary base because of the sensitivities that the united states understands about permanen

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while he was a soldier in iraq's invasion of kuwait in 1990. the painting is supposedly a picasso original called "the naked woman." in the police video officers are seen holding it up to the camera to see picasso's signature. in addition to that signature, the back of the painting has a tag on it which says it was sold by the louvre to the museum of space, space, space, space, space, kuwait. it you're keeping track of this heist at home, note that the tag has the louvre and the museum of kuwait all in lower case. like it's an e.e. cummings poem or text or something. several other words on the tag are misspelled. also the louvre doesn't actually sell anything that's in its collection and the louvre has never had a pi casso. but other than that, this is totally the "abu thomas crown affair." >>> left politically convenient revisionism. cloud the real legacy of senator edward m. kennedy. we refer you to a keynote speech he made on april 7, 1968 at the alaska democratic convention, it met that year in sitka, alaska. originally senator rob kennedy

while he was a soldier in iraq's invasion of kuwait in 1990.nting is supposedly a picasso original called "the naked woman." in the police video officers are seen holding it up to the camera to see picasso's signature. the back of the paint hag a tag on it which says it was sold by the louvre to the museum of space, space, space, space, space, kuwait. it you're keeping track of this heist at home, note that the tag has the louvre and the museum of kuwait all in lower case. like it's an e.e. cummings poem or text or something. the other words on the tag are misspelled and the louvre doesn't actually sell anything that in its collection, and the louvre has nover had a picasso. but other than that, this is totally the "tom crown affair." who do not refill their prescriptions on time. readyfill at cvs pharmacy automatically refills my prescriptions and reminds me to pick them up. you mean, reminds me to pick them up. [ chuckles ] stop by your local cvs pharmacy to ask if readyfill is right for you, and get a $25 coupon book. >>> left politically co

they're in the 45th fires brigade and just spent ten months on duty in iraq and kuwa kuwait. >> got toim for a short period on his leave and just ready for him to be back home in my arms. >> an amazing feeling to be back home and be in a place where i'm safe and where i'm around my family. >> well, welcome home, guys. the first -- not only the first celebration for the guard members. they're going to have another one this afternoon. >>> the pentagon won't be forced to buy four new jets to fly top government officials around. house leaders dropped plans to add to the air force's budget for them even though the pentagon didn't ask for them. robert gates said they weren't needed. john murtha had said they were needed because the older ones have expensive maintenance and safety issues. >>> long lines in the heart of atlanta today as thousands of homeowners waited for a chance to lower their mortgage payments. the neighborhood assistance corporation of america, haca, is a federal subsidy program helping homeowners who are going through a rough time. borrowers can get mortgages restructured

i will have to talk to the transition team for kuwait to get you that answer, sir. >> all right.o this particular issue you're completely unaware of? >> i've heard of many different challenges, but i've never heard of that type of an issue, sir. >> thank you. i'm done. >> just a quick one to mr. ballhouse, are you aware of the issue? >> no, sir, i'm not. >> okay. >> my question is sort of a follow on to what commissioner irvin said --er vin said, and i'd like mr. ballhaus to respond in a more general way. but when contractors turn over, it's common for the incoming contractor, of course, to hire a lot of personnel from the outgoing, the existing contractor. i assume that both in your estimating and labor systems you'd include assumptions about how many of those folks that you would plan to hire. in preparing your cost proposals and after a ward of the -- award of the transition plan, what extent did you assume that you would hire the outgoing contractor's work force? and what obstacles, if any, did you encounter in kuwait, and how did it affect the assumptions in your cost and la

." >>> auorities in kuwait toay say they may have prevented a terrorist attack on the in american milary base in that peran gulf country. they said they had aested six memberof an al qaeda-linked group who had confessed out plans to bomthe camp and the hequarters of kuwait's security agey. ciintended to load truck intended to load truck with fertizer, chemicals and gas cylinders and ram itnto the heavily arded camp. >>> sectary of state hillary clinton spent a second day toy in the demratic republic of congo. a country with vast tural reurces that for years has been plagued by civil war d sexual violence, an issue that we'll be takin an exnsive view tonig. today, clion visited a clinic and a large regee camp in the stern town of goma, where sh pledged $17 milln to deal with seal abuse. yesterday, s spoke about the issue at a university of kinshassa. >> i hope that here the drc there will be a ncerted effort to demand justice for womewho are violeny attacked and to make sure that their attkers are punishednd i hope that studentsill take the lead in is to speak out because thes e fundament

an al qaeda-linked group who had confessed about plans to bomb the camp and the headquarters of kuwait's security agency. officials said the group intended to load a truck with fertilizer, chemicals and gas cylinders and then ram it into the heavily guarded camp. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton spent a second day today in the democratic republic of congo. a country with vast natural resources that for y been plagued by civil war and sexual violence, an issue that we will be taking an extensive view tonight. today, clinton visited a clinic and a large refugee camp in the eastern town of goma, where she pledged $17 million to deal with sexual abuse. yesterday, she spoke about the issue at a university of kinshassa. >> i hope that here in the drc there will be a concerted effort to demand justice for women who are violently attacked and to make sure that their attackers are punished. and i hope that students will take the lead in this to speak out because these are fundamental human rights. >>> on tonight's "blogwatch," we found a letter to clinton on what she would see in congo from

horrible story out of kuwait. authorities think faulty electrical wiring, buffet equipment. the chairs were made of very flammable materials. it moved very fast. the fire official said the fire lasted just three minutes. 58 people who were injured are still in the hospital. seven have severe burns. >>> it looks like tomorrow may not be a commuter's nightmare in san francisco if talks to avoid the rails city on track. they made progress with management. they are facing a 7% pay cut and reduced holiday pay. they had threatened to strike tomorrow, a move that would leave thousands of commuters stranded. >>> a woman, her daughters and granddaughter kidnapped in oregon have now been rescued by california police. police say the girls estranged father kidnapped the family and planned to take them to mexico. he apparently stopped at this motel in bakersfield, california. the two daughters, ages 20 and 15, convinced their father to get some food. cops were patrolling the area and the girls flagged them down. their father i

military base in kuwait. we have new information coming into "the situation room" on that alleged plot and how it was uncovered. >>> pakistan delivers a warning to the former president. try to return to pakistan, and risk arrest. we're going to tell you why the government in islamabad is getting tough on musharraf and how he's firing right back. >>> and mexican cartels, now trafficking in drugs and humans. they're smuggling people across the border and killing anyone that gets in their way. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." >>> the heated health care debate leading to shouts, shoves and now a swastika. david scott from georgia discovered the symbol spray painted on a sign outside his office today. the democratic lawmaker recently held a community meeting, which included a very contentious exchange about the president's health reform plans. cnn's t.j. holmes has more. t.j., is there definitely a link between the swastika, the vandalism, and the position that the congressman is taking? >> report

to liberate kuwait and scott speicher had moved off the map. i have touched this action four times in the last 18 years. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, i also was part of a group that was going to go in and survey the site in the clinton administration when intelligence said that potentially scott speicher had sent a code letter out saying he had proof of life, that he had lived, that he had ejected. we were part of a mission that was going to go in and survey the site. chairman of the joint chiefs as reported in your previous reporting canceled that mission. >> we haven't heard anything from -- there were other missions, you said, at least four you were trying to go into there. we haven't heard anything from the current or former administration as to what you're talking about, but here is what i want to know from you. even though these remains have been found at the crash site, do we know for sure that this is where he died and did he die at the time of this crash or could he have been placed there years later? maybe some of the people

to liberate kuwait and scott speicher had moved off the map. i have touched this action four times in the last 18 years. >> what do you mean by that? >> well, i also was part of a group that was going to go in and survey the site in the clinton administration when intelligence said that potentially scott speicher had september a co sent a code letter out saying he had proof of life, saying he was ejected. we were that is right of a mission that was going to go in and survey the site. chairman of the joint chiefs canceled that mission. >> we haven't heard anything from -- there were other missions, you said, at least four you were trying to go into there. we haven't heard anything from the current or former administration as to what you're talking about, but here is what i want to know from you. even though these remains have been found at the crash site, do we know for sure that this is where he died and did he die at the time of this crash or could he have been placed there years later? maybe some of the people who said they spotted him, maybe

military base in kuwait.ese want to be insurgents had purchased a truck and that they were planning and packing it with pesticides and chemicals to make a bomb so that they could drive it into the base. it is not clear if it would have succeeded. rick: icy reports that military strikes have resumed in pakistan. -- i see reports that military strikes have resumed in pakistan. what can you tell us about that? >> the taliban spokesman confirmed that they were near the to the masood, and that the leader of the taliban, who they say is still alive, was killed in an airstrike. rick: do we know anything more about him? is he dead or alive? >> the military has been clear that they are 90% sure that he is dead. they will not say 100% until they can offer dna evidence. they have everything but that proved. they are trying to get a tissue sample or a body. this is a propaganda tool for the taliban, they are not offering any proof either. if he is dead, -- it would be a blow to the taliban. rick: thank you, courtney. jan

democratic congresswoman kathy castor of tampa, florida became the latest glad kuwaiter to face the lions in the coliseum of healthcare reform. tempers flared when doors closed on most of the 1,500 who tried to attend. one man's shirt was riped are after she reaffirmed her support for a public healthcare plan. >> don't do it! >> in st. louis county, kenneth gladdeny was cursed and thrown to the ground at a forum on aging featuring russ carnaghan. police arrested six people for suspicion of assault, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest. even the aarp, the powerful retirees lobby is, enduring a summer of discontent. >> you're not going to the meeting then i will just continue. >> do you work for us or we work for you? >> senator claire mccaskill urged everyone to chill, my word, not hers. >> i hope everybody takes a deep breath, quits yelling, both sides. >> the senate's number two democrat claimed the insurance industry is jamming up the protests. >> they want a little clip on youtube to disrupt a town meeting and to sell the congressman running for his car. that doesn't help. >> it w

we study the one in kuwait.was hell and everyone agreed one of the few agreements on all corporate sites and the government side, they all agreed afghanistan would be held to have to transition so i am curious about your plans and also the process of becoming a government contractor. are you going to follow the route over the water falls into, or are you going to take the trouble of learning government contracting and set things up right? they both thought they would neither of them did. questions for the record. mr. walter, i have a request for you to provide information. the last page as this chart. i am not going to question you in detail about it. just the range of movement of kbr people. it looks like a big movement, this that? until you look, it is the area between 20,021,000 it is not even the whole area. it is like a very small movement. now, what we would like is if you would arrange that mr. sternly could get the weekly briefing that you already gave the pco on personnel. this is one-- not one maury gi

happened in a tribal area west of kuwait city yesterday.only took three minutes for the fire to consume the wedding tent. at least 76 others injured, some of them seriously. officials say faulty electirica wiring may have sparked that fire. >>> taiwan's typhoon disaster is shifting into a political one. the country's president is accepting blame for the slow responsibility to help all of the survivors. the u.s. is sending food and portable shut errs and other aid in the meantime. john voss is monstering the rescue and other political fallout. >>> the military helicopters are bringing in the last of the stranded villagers to some of their relatives and friends who have been waiting today, there is relief. for others, there is the anguish of not knowing. help us, please save my children. i've been waiting four days already says this woman. at & at times, anger, especially as local officials. they said it was safe and we didn't need to evacuate. no there's not even a road to get back, he says. and the man who is the focus of much of the nation

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military is confirming that an al qaeda plot to attack an american base in kuwait has been foiled.ially announced that its personal had stopped the mans and arrested six kuwaiti nationals. officials say the group was planning to attack state security offices in other government buildings. in iraq, forces are settling into a did different routine now that come combat troops have withdrawn from the sit tizz. david piper shows us what these changing times are like in u.s. >> for years, u.s. forces have been on the offensive. now with the june 30th agreement in place, they are out of the towns and cities in this country and many soldiers spend their time back at the bases. it is their job to protect the 12,000 people coordinating refurbishing iraq. >> it doesn't mean we're done. it doesn't mean somebody could cox in with a bottle of money and extra trained people and cause something to happen. it's not sustainable. >> outside the base, it can still be dangerous. further along this road to the nearby city of nazarea, christopher hill and his staff recently survived a roadside bomb attac

we cited your kuwait task order. i think that was your first substantive logcap iv task order.sed a two cost about $125 million or i think you would call it the kuwait ao are, right? perform an old contractor of $125 million. you awarded it to one of the new contractors for 44% less, 75, 74 billion. we were thrilled that we thought the benefits of competition are coming to pass. did you ask dcaa to do a proposal audit on network? >> for the preaward? >> yes. >> no, we did not. >> did you, april stephenson, did your organization do an audit on that? >> the preaward, no, sir. >> okay. jeff, i'm going to ask you to tell us what is going on here. because we read in the statement that now shortly after award, and i want to know exactly after a war, when was it awarded to dyncorp? >> when was the award? i will have to get back. i do whenever. >> would you ask one of the staff in the audience? >> i think about five or six months ago. >> whenever the award to the contractor come in until you i've got a new number for? >> i think what several months after the initial award and there was

, a kuwait-based contract?ot an american-based contract out of the kuwait command which was not just -- might have been helpful in afghanistan or not but a great way to ride the invasion that he turned out to have been planning? >> are you speaking of gls, sir, or dyncorp? >> the one that spider marks was on? >> no, sir. i don't think so. i think gls came in to existence -- they formed just for this linguist effort. >> why dyncorp bought it up -- i'm now using a very dubious publication called forbes and i'm going to ask you on wall street goes to a fair statement. this month forbes -- as the conflicts in iraq and afghanistan boomed, dyncorp process speaker. -- prospered. 53% of its revenue comes from the battlefields. 51% joint owned ventured secured a multiyear contract to supply 9,100 linguists to translate for u.s. soldiers in iraq amid a worldwide recession, forbes says. that contract helped boost dyncorp's revenues by 45%. is that all consistent with your understanding? >> yes, sir. i was reading their pr

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. >>> a suspect in kuwait has confessed to starting a fire at a wedding that killed 43 women and children during that fire ripped through a wedding tent wiin three minutes. investigators believe the groom's first wife said that buyer using two kerosene-soaked rags. the 23-year-old confessed and a bright escaped unharmed. >>> residents are on edge in georgia as the search continues for a missing 38-year-old mom. they say she was taking a walk and talking with her boyfriend on a cell phone when she told them a car was falling car. her boyfriend heard a scuffle and her voice screaming. her family says she has firearms and self-defense training and they are hoping that will make a difference. >> we will be here as long as it takes. we have absolutely no plans of r stoppingher o g.arch s area seer awha where anotherom wotan disappeard last year. the last woman was murdered and her killer was caught and is currently behind bars. >>> michael vick says he is disgusted that he was involved in running a dogfighting ring. during an interview, he said he blames only himself for his decisions. >> you

the only growing segment among religious americans are those who self identified and unof a fill kuwaited with any denomination. >> people are roptsing out, because they feel like they're giving more than they are getting in a lot of mainstream churches. >> it is limiting when you define yourself as a certain thing, whether that's buddhist, christian. >> organized faiths say they're aware of the trend and are taking action. the united methodist church has launched a $20 million campaign to get people back into the pews, including slick television ads and volunteers handing out i-tunes gift cards in times square. the roman catholics have a similar effort aimed at bringing young people into the church, and the as a results, ty say, have been nothing short of miraculous. >> people are coming back by the droves, in many cases for less than $2 a soul. we're asking people to rethink their understanding of church and why they participate in church, and we are also offering many different ways to become involved. >> but experts say this kind of outreach carries a risk, as glitzy marketing might o

. >>> a day of joy and celebration turns tragic in kuwait as more than 40 people die in a fire at a wedding. flames started inside a tent. 35 women and 6 children were killed and almost 60 others are in the hospital. it was only women there because the men attend separate wedding parties. no word on what caused the fire. >>> two russian air force fighters collide mid-air, killing one 've the pilots. it happened during a practice for an upcoming air show. all 3 pilots ejected from the jets. the commander was found dead. 5 people were also hurt when one of the jets hit a home. >>> federal health officials need to talk about the upcoming flu season and how to distribute the h1-n1 vaccine. the question is whether to distribute it to everybody right away or just to certain people. the vaccine should be available in october. pregnant women, infants and at-risk groups will most likely be the first to get the shot. >> i think we're doing a great job at getting ready. i think by the time we need to be ready, we will be ready. >> the university of maryland school of medicine is taking part in the tri

we studied the one in kuwait, it was hell.ryone agrees that on all corporate and afghanistan was going to be hell to have a transition. i'm curious about your plans. are you going to follow the root into the water falls or are you going to learn government contracting and set things up right? they both thought they would. never of them did. okay. questions for the record. i have a, mr. walter, i have a request for you to provide information to mr. sternly. the last page has this chart. i'm going to go into detail. it's the range of movement of kbr people. looks like a big movement. until you took it's the area of 20,000 and 21,000. and it's not even the whole area. it's like a very small movement. now what we would like is if you would range that mr. sternly would get the weekly briefing that you already give the pco on personnel. this is not any more work, the briefing you already give, and talk the personnel people on the par, not you, although you are welcome to somebody in the room. it's not that. we want to unction it, he

the iraqis fleeing kuwait city had jammed highway 80 as they tried to get back to safety. mike and his soldiers arrived upon the scene just four hours after the road was attacked by sorties of coalition aircraft. vehicles were smoking, some licked by orange flame. the orange stank of burning fuel and flesh. he described the sight there were prayer rugs, televisions, candles, silver war, women's dresses and war booty that had been panicked. in the backseat of an old green car mike discovered the body of a kuwaiti hostage. his hands bound behind his back. blood and chunks of brain splattering the car's apoll industry. his faced a peaceful expression by his side was a photograph of a lovely woman bending over birthday cake next to a toddler. mike wasn't sure if the man had used the photo in a failed attempt for mercy while he pleaded for his life or he simply begged to see it before he was shot. i never asked mike about anything he'd seen in combat before that or after. i didn't feel it was within my rights to press him for details and womanly intuition guided me to soothe ra

it took just six weeks for american and allied forces to drive iraqi forces out of occupied kuwait at a loss of 148 american lives. but for 18 years the fate of one naval aviator who never returned from the war's opening salvo has hung in limbo amid questions of whether he was killed or captured. tonight the mystery of what happened to lieutenant commander michael scott speicher is solved, and for his family the anguish of not knowing is over. our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski has the extraordinary story. >> reporter: in the hours of the first gulf war january 17th, 1991, navy lieutenant commander scot speier was shot down. at the pentagon defense secretary dick cheney declared spiker dead. >> as of 0900 this morning washington time there's been a single american aircraft lost. >> reporter: but the u.s. military never found speicher's body until now. last week iraqi civilians led u.s. marines to speicher's remains. one iraqi said bedouins found him dead near the crash site shortly after his jet went down and then buried him nearby. military pathologists have now positively i

leave there and how we will make sure our troops aren't attacked as they drive that road back to kuwait with the equipment. what equipment do you take? what equipment do you leave? >> that's a huge expense. tens of billions to 20s of billions of dollars about pulling all of the u.s. equipment out of there. >> what do we leave them with because that's a matter of capability that we have to worry about. that's worth potentially losing american lives over as you pull out. more you take out, the longer it is you are going. and we are ripe to be attacked as we withdraw. >> i suspect we will leave the iraqi army standardly well equipped. >> whether or not the neighbors want that or specifically because of that reason. >> my thoughts are more expensive to clean the stuff. and bring the material back. it it might be worth leaving it there or dumping it in the sea. >> let's jump over into the interesting point. that's remediation costs are something that has many people in the pentagon worried about what the total end cost will be. let's not go to iraq -- let's go to gchtion and pakistan. that's

shortly after that hearing, we did assess what the staffing needs both in iraq, kuwait, afghanistan.i call that the in-theater effort. and just recently, we have opened an office in afghanistan. we'll have two offices. we'll have the iraq branch offices until the drawdown is complete and audits are no longer necessary in that area and we have the office that will be opening in afghanistan and we're coordinating with centcom on the logistics that's necessary for that. we've also approved and have a manager in afghanistan right now along with an audit team, although, it's not as the office is set up, it is on a temporary travel basis. we are shifting as need be. on your question regarding the operations audits, we have initiated 15 operations audits split between iraq, kuwait, afghanistan. in iraq, it's mostly focused on the drawdown and do we have too many people doing too little work. in afghanistan, it is the control of various things such as the transition of equipment and property. we anticipate we will be spending in 2010 over 12,000 hours on operations audits. >> thank you. one

there's saudi arabia, there's kuwait. this is a big, big challenge itself. and there, has been progress made but i don't think they're tending their guard adequately. one of the reasons that the civil war backed off was because they cut a deal with the sunni awakening counsels. they're not tending them. these are individual cease-fire agreements around the country -- >> who are not tending them, the iraqi government. >> the maliki government isn't but u.s. is the big defender of the sunnis at this point. sunni extremists who basically lost their base supporters and trying to get on initiatives, attack back and provoke the sunnis again and unless the shiite-dominate government tends the sunnis. gives these jobs they promised, get their pensions you have a really serious problem that it could reig night. >> do you agree is with that depiction? >> everything that carla said is true but it doesn't answer question that you raised. i have two kid, 8 and 5. we have two occupations, at age 8 and 5. at some point, raises nations and kids. the question is when to let

. >>> rather gruesome story out of kuwait tonight. an act of revenge may be responsible for the horrific deaths of 41 women and children. they were celebrating a wedding when a fire tore through the tent they were in. this was the groom's second marriage, and a source close to the police tells abc news that it appears this was arson and the groom's first wife is the prime suspect. >>> one quick sports note. the world's fastest human shattered his own world record today in per lain. y usain bolt ran 100 moments in 9.58 seconds. it was the biggest change in the record since electronic time keeping was introduced back in 1968. >>> am coming up here on "world news" this sunday, a bolly wood super star held for questioning at an american airport after he says his name came up on a watch list this has become an international incident now. >>> the vatican's controversial investigation into convents in the united states. why are america's nuns being singled out? it's our "closer look" tonight. >>> and, race at the national parks. why do so fe

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