political as well as military el. . on the political side they have several different things that in their mind fall under political struggle. one of these is deception and deception and political action. they link these thins together. deception is a big part of how the north vietnamese are going to mask what they're doing in south vietnam. they do a very good job of this. we fall for it. in december of 1960 they set up the national liberation front. this was an effort to bring together various antidiem groups under a communist umbrella. during the war the north denies these are puppet groups or that they're being united under communism. later they said, yeah, we did t. we fooled you. again, both the military and political moves that they're making in the south, they try to make it look like a lot is coming from the south and they try to make it look like the military resistance in south vietnam, the insurgency, is something that comes just from the south though it's not. it's something that the wholly owned subsidiary

plenty of fire power in its military who are willing to kill their own people instead of standing up with them. >> virginia is next. tony. independent line. >> caller: hi. i am form el military. you're sort of disingenuous there. this is a pro israel lobby pushes against irandown. thank you. >> guest: i may be wrong thanks buttite knock disingenuous. >> host: you're on, sir, go ahead. >> caller: i'm kevin. i have a question. i understand what they're doing in syria is wrong. and i don't agree with killing their own people. what about all of the people in africa that have all of these dictatorships that killed million0s people and the united states sit back and watch and don't do anything about it. my other question, you said that syria is backed by iran and isn't syria also backed by china and russia? >> guest: i will tell you i think we're all ashamed about the slaughter we saw in africa, certainly throughout the 90s and parts of the 2000s and that enough wasn't done. but we are the united states of america. we are a north america. we have a lot of allies around the world but we tend to get involved when we're asked and we tend to get involved when there's a region

el ite army unit. they say civilians were argeted, civilians killed. we were told to shoot at anything that movies. civilian or military. >> orders were given to tell people we executed, "this is the price of freedom you are fighting for." people were killed for no reason. >> the people of baba amr say they are victims of a crime. the outside world will wnat proof. -- want proof. briefly, they defied the regime. the uprising was crushed. there is international outrage but no agreement on how to bring this to an end. bbc news, outside of homs. >> the terrible cost of an uprising. as the white house deals with syria, all eyes were on a meeting between obama and benjamin netanyahu. mr. obama said both countries agree diplomacy with iran was best. this was not repeated publically by netanyahu. >> some think the israeli prime minister is headed for war. the international atomic watchdog post serious concerns about the military dimension to the nuclear program of iran. they had a deliberate showing of agreement but the stress was very different. barack obama said that there was a window of opportunity. >> when i say that all

safety in north, especially guatemala, el salvador and honduras, they threaten to overwhelm law enforcement and spread violence and halt the spread of these military groups. to address this growing threat, last year the president implemented a strategy to combat transnational organized combat organized crime. in spaurpt of this strategy, it was developed. >> a plan to disrupt maritime traffic in the arrival zones in central america. we trained central america's military to support the organization. and u.s. supports international efforts by providing network analysis of their operations. in the caribbean under the caribbean base and security organization, we are enhancing the capability of our caribbean partners and we will extends our support to peru as they combat this with the other country cans. that -- u.s. southern command is working to build partnerships by promoting information sharing with regional and inter agency organizations. we are strengthening our military engagement programs and activities with our counter parts acrosses latin america. we work to stren lth enassistance and disaster relief capacities and we are ready the to respond

countries in the region especially in the northern part -- guatemala, honduras, el salvador -- have asked their militarieso support their law enforcement capacities to address this situation. and as i talk with those militaries, they clearly understand their role. they understand that they have limited authority, their job is to support law enforcement. but they focus on what the government have asked them to do in the these situations. so we see enormous challenges as we look across the region then in helping support. and so that's where i see our reality is as we focus and approach this issue. it is the reality that militaries are being asked to come in and support this activity, so how do we help train, how do we help them work so that they can better integrate and coordinate with law enforcement activities? as you look in the international waterways and air space, the caribbean and eastern pacific, that has been a traditional role for the united states military to support activities. joint interagency task force south celebrated its 23rd anniversary this past year. an interagency group, law enforcemen

they say he was taken by syrian military intelligence four days ago. his name is haddi el citizen living with his mother in damascus since he was 3 years owed and attending a private school there. the state department says they are aware of the situation and are working to confirm the report. joining me this morning from toledo, ohio, are haddi's brothers. nice to see you gentlemen. thank you for talking with us. why want dough begin with you, hamza, first. tell me about the details you know out of syria regarding your brother. >> okay. currently it's been really sketchy, the information. what we do know is on monday, the 27th, when he was walking with a couple of his friends to a cell phone store, he was basically abducted by -- by, you know, people in an unmarked vehicle, plain clothed individuals. and apparently they put him in the vehicle and just, you know, sped away. and that's all we know currently. it's just been -- >> hadnan, why do you think it's been syrian military intelligence that has grabbed your brother? >> based on the sources that we have in syria. that's

el araby in cairo. annan said hostilities must stop immediately and he called on the syrian government to allow u.n. humanitarian aid activities in the country. some arab nations still support militaryervention. annan says that would only make the situation worse. >> i hope that no one is thinking very seriously of using force in this situation. >> annan will be the first u.n. special envoy to visit syria since anti-government protests began a year ago. >>> thousands of people have joined the opposition over the last year. now a senior government official has resigned eed and defected. deputy oil minister abdo hussameddin announced his resignation on youtube. he's the highest ranking official to leave the assad administration since the uprising began. hussameddin said he served 33 years in various government positions. he said he doesn't want to end his life servicing the crimes of the region. he urged his colleague to abandon what he called a ship. analysts say he may have been reaching out to members of the president's allawi muslim sect. many hold key government posts. >>> next we go to patchari raksawong in bangkok. >> in myanmar it has emerged that a convoy transporting aung sa

el where about the attack and about the immediate aftermath? >> reporter: quite a bit, brian. good evening. our pentagon correspondent jim miklashefski was told by u.s. military officials that on the night of the shooting, a search party went out looking for the missing 38-year-old staff sergeant. he was first spotted from the air, either by a drone or a helicopter. they saw him crawling through an open field on his belly, heading back to the base. they tracked him from the air. as soon as he got to the base, he was confronted by soldiers, asked specifically about the shooting. at that stage, he said i did it. he was taken into custody, disarmed. he demanded to speak to a lawyer and after that has refused to cooperate any further. as for why, it's still unclear. there are reports that he was having marital difficulties, that he had recently received a letter, not a good one, from his wife. and u.s. officials say they do have reason to believe that alcohol may have been involved. but whatever the reason, now afghanistan has to deal with this. afghan president hamid karzai today tried to make amends for the u.s. troops keeping him in power. he sent a delegation

el salvador and honduras. they threaten to overwhelm law enforcement capacities. in an effort to reduce violence and halt the spread of these criminal groups, these countries have deployed their militaries in support of law enforcement organizations to address the growing threat. last year they implemented the strategy to combat transnational organized crime in support of this tragedy, u.s. southern command developed and implemented a program to interrupt illicittrafc in the d in south america and the afsh zones in central america. we helped train our partner militaries to support the law enforcement organizations. u.s. southern command supports efforts by providing network analysis of transnational organizations and their operations. in the caribbean under the based security initiative, we develop a regional maritime plan to enhance the capabilities of our partners. in south america we will stain our support to columbia and to peru as they fight terrorist groups in these countries. success in combating transnational organized crime is enhanced by fostering enduring partnerships with international and enter agency organizations. that's my second topic this morning. u.s. southern command

law enforcement, countries and the region especially in the northern part, baala, el salvador, have asked their militariesto support their law enforcement capacities to address the situation and as i talk with those militaries, they clearly understand their role. the understand that they have limited authority of their job as to support law enforcement put the focus on the government asked them to do in these situations. so we've seen enormous challenges as we look across the region than in helping support and so that is where i see our reality as we focus and approach this issue. it is the reality that the mother trees are being asked to come in and support so how do we help them work so they can better integrate and coordinate with law enforcement? as you look to the international waterways and aerospace and caribbean in the eastern pacific that has been a traditional role for the united states military to support activities and joined the task force southcom and sabrue this anniversary last year an interagency group law enforcement, military plus partner nations working together to address this common

el paso. when you gotta have mexican. >>> president obama says u.s. troops will stay in afghanistan despite the massacre of afghan civilians. the militaryasing very little information about the 38-year-old gunman. >> we don't know his name, but know he's a staff sargeant in the military 11 years and married with two children. >> the president says he's spoken to afghanistan's president and expressed condolences in no way is representative of enormous sack tigss -- sacrifices it does signify the importance of us transitioning so we can get our troops home. >> abc 7 is live now from the oakland federal building with calls for the us to us get out of afghanistan. mark? >> there is this long time opponent of the war is pushing for a withdrawal of troops. photos show the carnage. 16 afghans including nine children, three women, gunned down in the middle of the night. >> they killed a child, says this mother. officials believe a rogue army staff sargeant left his base, twont a village and shot victims at random. >> this just speaks to why we must hurry and end this war in afghanistan. there is no military solution. >> congress woman barbara l

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>> each country has to decide what is in the standpoint of el salvador they have passed more than half of the militaryngaged in supporting law enforcement activities and their supporting the operations of prisons because you know as well as supporting law enforcement, and what i see is it is the security. homicide rate is one measure. i think we need to look at other definitive measures also, but that isn't the only measure, and i think the best understanding of that is what put pressure on some of these organizations do would become more violent rather than less and i guess the other impact i would see is by a understand some of these organizations are starting to focus on attacking the police and the military because the impact they are having on their operations. that's not a very positive measure but it shows the impact of their security and folks on the streets. not again this is sent from a law enforcement standpoint and the cooperation but goes back and forth to help them out. that is an area that we need to do more working and figuring out what are the exact metrics that help us understand whe

el salvador, and honduras. transnational criminal organizations threatened to overwhelm law-enforcement capacities. in an effort to reduce violence and halt the spread of these groups, these countries have deployed their militaries in support of law enforcement organizations. last year the president implemented a strategy to combat transnational crime. u.s. southern command developed and implemented a strategy to disrupt trafficking in south america and arrivals tons of central america. in central america we train our partner militaries to support the law enforcement organizations. u.s. southern command supports interagency international efforts by providing network analysis of transnational criminal organizations and their operations. we are developing a regional maritime interdiction plan to enhance the capability of our caribbean partners. in south america, we will sustain our support to colombia and peru as the fight narco terrorist groups in these countries. bau.s. and a command is working to build partnerships by enhancing cooperation and promoting information sharing with interagency operations. we are strengthening our partitions through traditional military engagement programs and activities with our co