in morocco, family law reform has been achieved after years of struggle. women were even imprisoned for their advocacy. today they have new rights with regard to divorce and child custody. adjudication of such matters is no longer the jurisdiction of religious courts, but rather civil courts. there were powerful voices who tried to keep women from their rights by misapplying religion to justify their opposition. the women in morocco fought back, in effect reclaiming their religion, and when the king announced the new reform, he cited koranic verses to support the new law. today that law is being taught to lawyer and judges so it can be implemented and enforced, and to all moroccan women, particularly those in the rural areas, so that they can know about the remedies to which they are now entitled. in yemen, a very young girl was married off at the age of 9 to a man her grandfather's age. he was violent and abused her physically. she found her way to the courthouse. everyone towered over the child. she was ignored for several hours. and finally a female law

they were lighter skinned north africans from morocco and tunisia. now we've seen an african coming at us. an african from nigeria. one of the things that scarce our intelligence -- scares our intelligence community the most is there are at least 30 german converts to islam who are believed to have moved to the tribal areas of pakistan and may be undergoing training now who will come at us, looking nothing like what we expect. chris: why are they doing these clever mind tricks to get around our thinking? what do they want -- >> they want to hit us. chris: what do they want us to do in the short run? >> because they've seen from 9-11 that attacks on the united states destabilize us. they rock us more than they might have thought. and look, we're still recovering from the 9-11 attacks. and they want to get in and do it again. our great fear, the fear in the intelligence community is they'll come at us with weapons like a dirty bomb, weapons that raise the level of danger, just take it to a whole new level. that scares the heck out of people. >> i think

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in morocco, family law reform has been achieved after years of struggle. women were even imprisoned for their advocacy. today they have new rights with regard to divorce and child custody. adjudication of such matters is no longer the jurisdiction of religious courts, but rather civil courts. there were powerful voices who tried to keep women from their rights by misapplying religion to justify their opposition. the women in morocco fought back, in effect reclaiming their religion, and when the king announced the new reform, he cited koranic verses to support the new law. today that law is being taught to lawyer and judges so it can be implemented and enforced, and to all moroccan women, particularly those in the rural areas, so that they can know about the remedies to which they are now entitled. in yemen, a very young girl was married off at the age of 9 to a man her grandfather's age. he was violent and abused her physically. she found her way to the courthouse. everyone towered over the child. she was ignored for several hours. and finally a female law

with respect to al qaeda,with a morocco to go after those individuals.with respect to al qaeda, the strategy was and still is destroy al qaeda where it sits. with respect to international organizations and drug networks you started to see the d.a. engage more globally. at the national security council they started a program to go after high value international marketers of weapons. that was because the famed merchant of death, the sanctions buster, the individual responsible for shipping weapons all over the world including africana and afghanistan was ultimately arrested in thailand. there are ways of disrupting these high network and high-value individuals as a way of disrupting potential networks. but it was very difficult. >> good morning. i am from septic university in boston. you mentioned globalization has increased over 20 years and with this increased globalization chinese hegemonic status has increased as a result of that. do you believe china could become a u.s. rival compared with that of the u.s.s.r. to the united states and do you believe i

the law is interpreted in many different ways from morocco to indonesia. why take the least progressive implication rather than the more aggressive when? these are political choices that governments make that it's not an issue of tradition, religion or custom. tradition and custom change over time. governments have to be pushed to move alongside with the. we need to spot them to. >> followed up on that, one of the criticism that we've about amnesty international is that it spans and has more reports directed towards open government, democratic government, that it does towards closed governments. >> amnesty international covers over 150 countries in its annual report, for example. so we do work very in depth work on about 70 countries of the world, and we do keep an eye on another 70, 75 countries in the world. so we have a very wide range of countries that we cover. so don, to sweden. we are looking at human rights abuses, human rights performances, all these governments. yes, democratic government get very sensitive when we point out to human rights abuse

now, shirley law is interpreted in many different ways from morocco to indonesia. why take the least progressive interpretation rather than the more progressive one? these are choices, these are political choices governments make so it is not an issue of tradition, religion or custom. tradition and custom change over time. they evolves and governments have to be pushed to move along side with it and that is where popular mobilization of the kind happening in iran is commendable and we need to support that. we need to support the women of iran. >> following on that one of the criticisms that we have heard about amnesty international is that it has spent -- it has more reports directed toward open government, space governments than it does toward close government's. >> welcome amnesty international covers over 150 countries in its annual report for example. so we do work very in debt and about 70 countries in the world, and we do keep an eye on another 77 countries of the world, and so we have a very wide range of countries that we cover. so done to sweden. we are lo

something that i was shocked to discover, roosevelt's french was very good, called up the governor of morocco and said we really would like you to continue keeping these quotas against the jews in place. could you give them a little quota according to the population? we don't want the situation in germany where 50% of the lawyers and doctors were jews. it was something like 4% of the professions occupied by jews. this is the first time i have seen proof that roosevelt had internalized the nazi propaganda and was still running the war with those ideas in his language which to me was a great job. the abandonment of the jews documents exactly what american policy did to keep jewish immigration from coming to the u.s.. i hadn't realized that it was in so many minds, you had this kind of thinking going on and the americans made a deal or were trying to make a deal, when it was kidnapped by the germans. they were making a deal and the same questions were raised by the american left. are we going to maintain fascist governments throughout liberated countries? it fell to pieces because the germans in

shocked to discover, that roosevelt who was french was very good, actually called up the governor of morocco, and said, you know, we really wouldn't like you to continue keeping all of these quotas against the jews in place, which had been told. could you give them a little according to the population will, and then roosevelt said we don't want to have a situation as we had in germany where 50 percent of the lawyers and doctors were jews. as we notice something like something like 4 percent of the professions were occupied by jews. to me this is the first time i've actually seen proof in these conversations that roosevelt had internalized a nazi propaganda and was still running the war with those ideas in his mind which to me anyway was a great shock. i hadn't realized the rot had spread into so many minds, that you had this kind of thinking going on. and then of course, the americans made a deal or were trying to make a deal, with the italian fascists when mussolini was kidnapped. by the germans. they were making a deal. and again, the same questions were raised by pm and by the american le

the assistant secretary for african affairs met today in morocco, all of his counterparts from francee regional security and our ideas on how to seek a peaceful resolution to the political situation in danny -- in gettuinea. we support a civilian government leading to free and fair transparent democratic elections. and finally we have an official in honduras today and tomorrow. meeting with various sectors of including the president-elect lobo, continuing to move the process for. -- forward as we approach the inauguration of the president on january 27. and we continue to work with those parties on the expeditious formation of the establishment of a truth commission. with that -- one final point. this afternoon the secretary will participate in the white house meeting as the present reviews not only steps taken in the aftermath of the december 25 attempted bombing of the airliner and working across enter agency to prepare ideas on how we can make the system more effective. >> let's start with honduras. isn't it beside the point now, when you're going to implement the san jose process,

when hulett double whole stretch of the broad middle east from morocco in the west to pakistan on the east every single country with the exception of the center of saudi arabia has been occupied by at least one western army over the last 200 years and more. it conditions how they think about us and how they react to us and i think a lesson that i have observed over many years in this region is if you are contemplating major decisions and no decision is more major than they military intervention, you really have to understand the region in which you are proposing to intervene in men's own terms its history, its culture, the areas around, how they will react to fully understand all those complexities and to understand that when you intervene militarily you are sitting in motion forces the will produce consequences you can't possibly foresee so you need to know as much as you possibly can and be ready to accept considerable amount of risk over the things that you don't understand. more narrowly we have learned a lot from iraq both before and after 2003. i think our process of developing

six weeks in morocco, i met with civil society activists.magnify how change comes from within and how it depends on activists who create the spatece within which they can create development and democracy. outside governments and global civil society cannot impose change, but we can promote and bolstering it and defend it. we can encourage and provide support for local grassroots leaders, providing a lifeline of protection to human rights and democracy activists when they get in trouble for raising sensitive issues and voicing dissent. using tools like our global human rights defenders fund which has provided targeted, legal, and relocation assistance to 170 human rights defenders around the world. we can stand with the defenders publicly, as we have by sending a high-level diplomatic mission to meet with [unintelligible] and as i have from guatemala to egypt, talking with leaders who are working to try to change their societies from within. we can amplify the voice is of advocates working on these issues by shining a spotlight on their progr

morocco, they've had relations. -- relationshipses.at's been damaged and i think diplomatic and since the gulf stone report was released, clearly, there's been diplomatic damage to israel. and the fact is that -- i think in the final analysis it hasn't -- it's been catastrophic for everybody. and so we passed -- i think the credibility of the united states congress has been hard. since operation -- >> sorry to interrupt you. >> you put me on a roll. sorry. [laughter] >> i know it's hard to stop talking especially the numbers are indeed quite shocking. just to illustrate -- >> before i go can i make a quick announcement. forgive me. next week a doctor who lost three of his children and a niece will be on capitol hill on january 20th. you're all invited. he's alive and teaching at the university of toronto but his children are casualties. and we also are preparing a resolution filled with quotes from american public officials on the need to address the humanitarian conditions. so with that, i just -- >> we'll come back to you. this is no

when you look at the whole stretch of the broader released from morocco in the west to pakistan in theery single country there with the exception of the center of saudi arabia has been occupied by at least one western army over the last 200 years or more. it conditions how they think about it and react to us. a lesson i have absorber over many years in this region is, if you're contemplating major decisions -- and no decision is more major than a military intervention -- you really have to understand the region in which you are proposing to intervene in its own terms. its history, culture, the areas around it, how they will react. to fully understand all those complexities. and to understand that when you intervene militarily, you are setting in motion forces that will create consequences you cannot possibly foresee. you need to know as much as you possibly can, and be ready to accept a considerable amount of risk over the things you do not understand. more narrowly, i think, we have learned a lot from iraq both before and after 2003. i think our process of developing intelligence esti

so, you see a very deep focus, for instance, in algeria, molly -- mali, libya, tunisia and morocco, andf course, somalia. host: easton, pennsylvania. robin the republican line. caller: thank you to c-span and thank you, sir, for your service to the country. there are many who are of the thought with regards to the war in afghanistan and pakistan that we should pull out because that area of the world is known as the burial ground of civilizations and the men and women who are dying so nobly their should better be brought home and surrounded our country with much tighter border security. thank you. guest: thank you. i have been a focus on africa for so long that in the periphery i look at afghanistan, pakistan. i understand, it is a difficult political question. look -- i honestly believe that we have to continue to go after the threat. i think general mcchrystal said it perfectly -- the conflict will be won by persuading the population and not by destroying the enemy. so it is a delicate balance, again, that in effect of the u.s. military has to be involved but we have to do it in a very

. >> morocco, grease, italy. >> united kingdom. >> italy. >> he likes to travel. >> macedonia. >> austria columbia. >> that was free internet so we were trying to show that sense of accessibility of the candidate with a phone number. go to my web site and tell me what you think. he really captured him. it helped that steve james was an actor. in addition to being involved in a dairy farm in upstate new york he was an actor so he was comfortable on camera. our job is to make sure every candidate is comfortable on camera. that is it for the ads. any questions? >> to follow the other candidate, that has proven very useful in many campaigns. how do you go about doing that? i am curious about the logistics. >> you have to be a special person to be willing to put up with it. the thing is you don't try to shoot your windows in. if you are following the opponent around in public settings, you should not be obnoxious. you don't want to create an event. some trackers will do that. they will become nasty to the opponent. ask some questions as they come out of an event. a lot of trekkers get to know

morocco, they've had relationships and has been damaged and i think diplomatically since the goldstone report has been released clearly there has been diplomatic demonstrations -- damage to israel. the practice that i think the final analysis has been catastrophic for everybody. and so we passed i think -- the credibility of the united states congress has been harmed since the operation. >> sorry to interrupt -- we will come back. >> you put me on a roll. >> it's hard to stop talking especially the numbers are in the quite shocking. just to illustrate -- >> before i go can make a quick announcement? were give me. next week the doctor who lost three of his children and a niece who will be on capitol hill on january 20th, you're all invited, and he is alive in teaching at university of toronto but his children are casualties. we also are preparing a resolution filled with quotes from american public officials on the need to address humanitarian conditions so with that i just -- >> we will come back to you, this is not your last chance to speak. [applause] i just wanted to illustrate a fi

then on december 3, 2009, junta leader was shot in the head by an aide and flown to morocco, where he remained for nearly six weeks. in his absence, the acting junta leader announced a transition government would be form and the opposition had been invited to select a prime minister but despite a political agreement between the junta and the opposition being signed this past weekend, the situation in guinea remains extremely fradgeig. -- tradge ill. details about the formation of a transition government and the return to civilian rule remain unclear. the mere rumor that the former junta leader would return prompted the current junta leader to threat ton resign. the problems in guinea continue to threaten our -- threlten the peace in liberia and sierra leone. it also provides a harbor for truck traffickers who exploit west africa's ungoverned areas. ranking member ros-lehtinen has introduced this resolution, that expresses grave concern over the deterioration of security in guinea and calls on china to cancel its $7 billion deal with guinea. it urges member states of the united nations

so, you see a very deep focus, for instance, in algeria, molly -- mali, libya, tunisia and morocco, andcourse, somalia. host: easton, pennsylvania. robin the republican line. caller: thank you to c-span and thank you, sir, for your service to the country. there are many who are of the thought with regards to the war in afghanistan and pakistan that we should pull out because that area of the world is known as the burial ground of civilizations and the men and women who are dying so nobly their should better be brought home and surrounded our country with much tighter border security. thank you. guest: thank you. i have been a focus on africa for so long that in the periphery i look at afghanistan, pakistan. i understand, it is a difficult political question. look -- i honestly believe that we have to continue to go after the threat. i think general mcchrystal said it perfectly -- the conflict will be won by persuading the population and not by destroying the enemy. so it is a delicate balance, again, that in effect of the u.s. military has to be involved but we have to do it in a very s