all who are able to come in to kuwait without a visa. but very shortly in his life khalid shaikh mohammed is about 4 years old at the time and his father dies and he searched for the death records. apparently his father died in 1969 and the kuwaitis simply didn't keep records of resident foreigners, births, deaths, foreigners. it just wasn't interesting of them. so we have this account of his father's death and it's very sparse and there's no official transcripts to back it up. his father dies and there's no welfare state. there's no organized charity in kuwait for foreigners at the time. so his mother takes a job of washing the bodies of the dead, female bodies of the dead, and preparing them for burial. it's a very low status, low-incomed job but it enables her to eek out a living. at the time she has nine children. khalid shaikh is the fourth male. years pass on and khalid shaikh is doing very real at cool. a good student. a somewhat bookish boy. and the families decides they don't have any money at all that they need to back one son

we see trees in kuwait there behind walls. here there were trees everywhere. more surprising and more strange and more putting than the trees were the people in what they were doing. he was sitting in lawn chairs on their front lawn, visible from the road, growing up, playing with kids, taking a hosted wishes us a different window. what surprised them with so much of american family life had been in public. this is not the kind of thing that would happen in the arab world. the more time he spent in north carolina, the more he was persuaded that americans are really backward. they did things that should be private and public. they trusted each other very quickly and they didn't go out at night. after darkest and most social locations that have been in many arab countries. in the next states, and murphysboro at the time, they had one pizza parlor, no cars. the pizza parlor closed at 9:00. the town was asleep. so far from an ip and aladdin and friendly, it was so fhm. it is the day when americans are busy. so he was more and more alienated by america because it w

and kuwait the only ones that really have the capability of driving prices down how much they can drive them down that's a whole nother issue but they are the only ones that can these other countries like iran and iran it's only role here is to act in an opposite to saudi arabia and yes i think there's politics associated with it and yes i think that the relationship between saudi arabia and the united states is one that probably doesn't favor well with the iranians and several of the other more price works within opec so i think there is some politics here and i think that iran is trying to assert itself by bringing this contingency go ahead jump in. you know there's a lot of politics going on here in iran and saudi arabia have very different interests in that iran really needs all the money you can get to really pay off its population witness what happened last spring witness what's happening with the economy and so any rigged any decline in prices really threatens to undermine the stability of the regime in a way that the saudis are not threatened by slight price decreases and furthe

and kuwait i in a position to put up two and a half million beggars to market which is equivalent to what they're putting in but we have seen the price actually been very much affected by this and this affair has now gone down as i mentioned before to below ninety dollars per barrel which is almost one year low pretty much what do you make of the current price doesn't really reflect supply and the night when things like this happen the market reacts the speculators coming in to start making completions and the city try to to be on the side of course with the price goes down but when things that are down in the alleged victim has happened in the market was there but i don't do is that the price of oil you can talk about a fixed price nobody tries to fix the price doesn't try to fix the price we talk about that rate to believe a range of between eighty and one hundred dollars a but it is reasonable both of consumers and producers and there's no good the price keeps reasonably within this limit there is no need for anybody to panic that is plenty of oil it is those sort of the way it's

envoy to iraq april glaspie tell saddam hussein that if he invaded kuwait the u.s. would consider the internal affair and not get involved. so much for april's assurances hussein took bush senior's q. and gave bush the excuse he needed to have his own war although we're short only a few days. clinton went to war in kosovo a war that was very popular but is still being debated and then george w. bush came to power thanks to the supreme court in two thousand and like reagan bush had plans to start a war for political capital but he told his biographer mickey herskowitz back in one thousand nine hundred nine. before you even started running for president if you became president he was going to invade iraq to earn enough political capital or privatized social security. but then i'm eleven happened instead and instead of a one time war as bush had intended he and his handlers like donald rumsfeld dick cheney opted for a perpetual war a war on terror it would last as long as his presidency was. so afghanistan half of iraq happened and countless other covert military actio

watched opec whether war between two of its member countries iran and iraq as well as the invasion of kuwait in one nine hundred ninety and one fraught meeting is scarcely enough to december's half century old organization or is it will seem december when the twelve members need to prove they can still serve its proport a function of ensuring a stable well market charney for across party. ok dominic if i can go to you first in london is ok in crisis because every since. there's no crisis and opec there's no crisis in opaque everything is fine it sounds like they're protesting a bit too much what is the state of opec right now. well i think i don't know if i would call it a crisis i would just call it a. further questioning of saudi arabia you know doing what they want to do i mean for the last some years it's almost been everything that kids don't in opec and saudi arabia actually does it because they have the capability of supplying more oil to the market and they've basically been getting consensus from opec. at this stage of the game it seems that the more price hawks within opec those th

. >> got iraq out of kuwait without occupying the place for the next 12 years and he had one small problem and this is that he raised taxes when he promised he wouldn't. and he lost his job. >> stephen: did he sign this? >> he did, indeed, yeah. >> stephen: did you wave this bloody shirt during that campaign to bring that guy down? >> i didn't need to. the american people did. >> stephen: did you show the american people the shirt? (laughter) did you distribute this to everyone in america? how do they get this? >> the media lets people know and voters know. so we share the pledge, obviously. since you took the pledge three years ago when you were looking to possibly run for president.... >> stephen: looking to run a run? i ran for president, sir. (laughter) and it was only... (cheers and applause) and it's only that i was not allowed to that obama's not in office today. (laughter) >> since then we now have 236 members of the u.s. house who've made the commitment not to raise taxes. 41 senators and for that reason... 13 governors as well as 1,200 state legislators. >> stephen: can people sa

there was pro-american graffiti on the walls of the embassy in kuwait. to give you a sense of the steam -- what esteem americans were held at the time. i think you've seen a waning of american influence and mixed signals. u.s.-supported some of these leaders who were unpopular. there was always a sense of a choice between an autocratic leaders like mubarak in egypt or islam as extremists. it has gotten very hard, for the u.s. to make clear its position. i will say that i think this administration -- if this hadn't administration -- but this administration had decided to back the bar, he would still be in power. hi think lingering in the state department and in the white house's-was the lack of intervention that occurred when the iranian people tried to interfere effused back and they were pretty well squashed by the iranian regime. i think you have to look at european interests. and it was really the french and the british wanted an ally as they go to go in and do something against gaddafi. there were people let the pentagon advising against this. each c

to kuwait met to map out a post-gadhafi libya. they poured millions of dolls into an international fund to help the rebels. he said that the end of gadhafi may come sooner than we think. >> delegates believe that gadhafi's days in power are numbered. hillary clinton says that the closest allies are seeking talks on a transfer of power. >> we are putting the economic and political pressure on gadhafi. his isolation is growing. the list of officials that have abandoned him are growing. >> at a nato meeting in brussels, germany said that it was willing to help with reconstruction and the defense minister did not rule out sending troops if there was a u.n. mandate. >> we are hopipi for a solution that does not involve a military presence. perhaps helping to set up new security forces. if things turn out differently, and when -- we will examine constructively what is needed. >> there are calls for the end of german involvement in the air campaign over libya. >> the president of senate gaul is calling on moammar gadhafi to step down. he

iraq in one thousand nine hundred one the united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain. oman and the united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia nine hundred ninety nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo all bay nia area macedonia hungary bosnia and croatia following us vonnie to afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and djibouti following us bombing at invasion of iraq in two thousand and three the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the is the ultimate purpose of many of these wars we used to think of military bases being built in order to wage the wars and i think increasingly we see the wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the bases and to have a more. herman presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some of. what we have in here is video games. and. some of the things that go. visit him and move to one to five test ha

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they're supposed to go to afghanistan but now they're going to kuwait to help with iraq. these are trainers that were going to go to afghanistan. why were they reassigned and can you assure the american people that the drawdown has not already begun? >> the recommendation came in from general petraeus and general mattis with respect to their arrival time which was beyond the first of july. they were in final training, headed to a afghanistan. the recommendation came in the in light of the fact that we were going to start withdrawing troops this summer, that we would have to make decisions. they were in a good position for us to make a decision whether they should be diverted or not. based on the conditions on the ground with respect to where general petraeus was, he, then, made a recommendation to general madison and it was a decision here in the end which diverted these units in a timely way. it was to try to take care of them, not get them headed in one direction and then have to point in another direction. based on the overall plan which was to draw down some number of

we have no contracts with first kuwait in saudi arabia or in indonesia. we have contracts with a licensed and certified american firm, aurora, which acquired those contracts when it acquired the business of walsh international which sold those contracts back to the american company. it is correct that first kuwaiti is a subcontractor of aurora, but we have no contracts with first kuwaiti. that is simply factually incorrects. our contract is with an american company. the contract in indonesia is about the -- >> i didn't mention anything about end knee stha. >> can i finish my answer to your question, sir? >> we have no contracts with them. on the $132 million. we have asked the office of the inspector general on several occasions to provide us with a line-by-line break down of how they arrived at that $132 million figure. we cannot proceed against a contractor without specific details. the case would be thrown out in any court that i can imagine. we cannot just send them a letter saying send me a check for $132 million. we have to have the details. we aske

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have done this right after hurricane katrina in 2005 and then in 1990 and in 1991 after iraq invaded kuwait. here in the bay area, gas prices still on the higher side. oakland 3.85 a gallon, in san jose 3.86 a gallon, and in san francisco, 3.95 a gallon. so people will certainly look forward to saving money on gas to spend that money elsewhere. but despite this drop in gas prices, aaa expects about 1 million fewer travelers on the road for the holiday weekend. back to you. >> thank you. everyone trying to save a buck and perhaps staying home. kristy seifkin in redwood city, thank you. >>> a big earthquake in alaska sent people scrambling for higher ground. the magnitude 7.2 quake off the aleutian islands struck just after 8:00 last night triggering a tsunami warning for part of the alaskan coast and sirens went off in dutch harbor. warning was cancelled last night. there was never any tsunami threat for california or the west coast. >>> as long as there are no more shark sightings, stinson beach in marin county will re- open to swimmers and surfers today. they say beach-goers will be allowe

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