. >> my book on morocco is a micro dynamics. it is a book that studies the sources of the moroccan monarchy and the reason for its survival for centuries. iraq and monarchy has witnessed a long, a remarkable longevity because the dynasty, not to be confused by the al dynasty or ruling family in syria, two different families. but in this current dynasty has been known since 1641, the 17th century. so my book looks at the causes, survival, especially post-independence air from 1956, under french colonial rule from 1956 again come my book looks at how the monarchy managed to create a new form of religious the base on its traditional and religious power. used in codifying what i call in my book ritual power. for example, the monarch is ask them to be the commander the faithful, it will have certain endowed blessed moroccan. the monarchy every year, you know, throws grandiose spectacle of allegiance. so i look at these rituals and symbols of power, how it's a stage in morocco, manufactured and produced them and reproduce them in orde

the americans and the french and the brits have been talking to the islamists in egypt and morocco and other places. the reality is that the islamists are here to stay. the reality is the islamists will take ownership of this seat of power from egypt to morocco and jordan. >> is this what democracy in the new middle east will look like? >> remember, the inspiration and the example is not iran. iran is seen as a failed model. the theocracy that exists in iran. turkey served as an inspiration and as an example. the reason is because turkey has been able to marry western-style democracy with authenticity, which is islamic identity. turkey is one of the most important growing economies in the world. islamist seem to be traveling a similar journey to their turkish counterpart. that is why more and more western foreign policy opinion is coming to realize that the islamists do not present a threat. >> when we look over the border at syria, is egypt still the poster child of the arab spring? >> no, not at all. the political struggle in syria has turned into armed conflict. my fear is not that

another reason morocco morocco could weather the storm so far because there were largely reforms performbuy them monarchy to pacify the population and managed to take away that anxiety to repackage our constitutional changes from july and the product to words democracy. nothing has changed despite the fact the monarchy launched constitutional changes it was modified and approved overwhelmingly but looking at those changes the configuration but the monarch stove has tremendous powers with control over foreign policy or the military. powers of decreed. the prime minister has certain powers with policy-making that could be subjected to the discretionary the dough. -- the tow but another reason why it could rise to the uprising but the february 20th movement was set by divisions and arguments with its own leaders and discredited by the regime as the movement to topple or change the configuration of the state. i don't think that was accurate the part of the movement because now it has been reduced to a rise it every week but not sizable to create any challenges. i was in morocco last year and

think they will certainly benefit from the developed in the region but not to the same extent as moroccosia, or egypt. >> algeria still sees sporadic protests, but the hope for reform in the fear of instability and appeared to have insulated the country from a regime change. the president's 13-year rule has survived the arab spring, for now at least. >> for the very latest on of the voting has been going, let's go to our correspondent in algiers. can you fill us in, how was the turnout for this vote, and is there any idea where is headed? >> yes, i was out today at polling stations, and turnout seemed to be pretty low. i spent half an hour in a polling station in the capital, and in that time, not one single voter came in to cast their ballot. we do not have any idea yet of what the turnout was or which parties have managed to gain seats in parliament. but the feeling is that the islamist party will have gained some seats in this vote, which is in line with what we have seen in morocco and tunisia at this point. >> we will stay on the theme of his long radical islam has been making inroa

you have a country like morocco. just think about it. a country like morocco has 220 troops in kosovo and participated in operation unify pr protector because it now looks at nato as a source, what you may call a hub, of an international global security network that you want to be associated with in order to deal with the challenges that you can do by yourself. and increasingly we see in nato where it's not just partners like sweden and finland who have long seen this as their national place but partners in the middle east. remember, operation unify protector, four north african and middle eastern countries participated and afghanistan. 22 kcountries from mongolia to singapore to el salvador and conga have forces in afghanistan to be part of an international operation. so that's part of what nato's mission has to be. part of that being there as a source of stability in this unpredictable world building these partnerships that are necessary in order to deal with the security challenges that are more global and more difficult to tackle unl

the islamists in tunisia as well and morocco. turkey is an example. that islam and capitalism are not incompatible and also the reality is there is harmony between authenticity, identity and western democracy. >> rose: sunni shi'a. >> this is the new poison. this is flag that threatened to destroy the arab world from yern to bahrain to lebanon to syria to iraq it's doing a great deal of harm. it started as a political struggle, a struggling for freedom. it has taken now more and more sectarian connotations. it has spilled over into lebanon in the last few days in tripoli and beirut iraq remains... say you have you about the prime minister of iraq. he's seen as a sectarian politician. bahrain, the political struggle in bahrain has also turned sectarian. even though there are no differences between shi'a and sunni the two major... i mean camps with within islam, this is political because both iran and saudi arabia are using directly the sectarian card to mobilize their followers so even though the struggle is political and ideological it has taken on se

i've interned with abc news but i'm interested in going to morocco and trying to cover how the arab spring has played out there and if there's going to be more disruption i guess. >> up next the commencement ceremony at stnch mary's college afmaryland. the mayor address it had class of 2012. she was the youngest person ever elected to the baltimore city council prior to becoming mayor. here's her speech to the 44 students. >> good morning. i can say i have never seen a group of people more excited about a green door. so thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you on this absolutely beautiful day. i was promise bid your president there would be a few people from baltimore. are there any people from baltimore here? thank you very much. now my nerves are gone. i know there's some hometown folks in the crowd. so today is the culmination not just of the last four years but of a lifetime of hard work for the students who are here today. and after these celebration i promised the students an address, a commencement address of no less than 90 minutes. and i intend to keep my word. so get c

i am interested in going to morocco can covering how the arab spring has played out there. >> of next, the commencement ceremony at st. mary's college of maryland. baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake addressed the class of 2012 in mid-may. she was the youngest person ever elected to the baltimore city council. here is her speech on the campus town house green. it is about 15 minutes. [applause] >> good morning. i can say i have never seen a group of people more excited about a green door. thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you on this absolutely beautiful day. i was promised by president there would be a few people from baltimore. are there any people from baltimore? thank you very much. now my nerves are gone, i know there are some hometown folks in the crowd. today is a culmination not just of the last four years, but of a lifetime of hard work for the students who are here today. i promised the students a commencement address of no less than nine minutes. and i intend to keep my word, so get comfortable. to the graduates, i want to congratulate you on completing y

. >> next we went to morocco.vor for us, kathie lee. >> incredible. >> a little bit of custom when they poor mint tea they need to keep a straight arm and bring it right up nice and high. >> beautiful. >> remember that day you came in totally drunk? >> that was crazy. >> just one time. >> that was morocco. then we went on to thailand where contestants had to do all this crazy stuff. they had to take over a street stall and cook for the locals. they did something like this. i'm serving with this my favorite thai beer. >> i love that. all day long. >>> tomoow

it will take ownership to morocco and jordan and libya as well. >> is this what democracy in the middle east will look like? >> remember, the example is not iran. iran is seen as a failed model, the theocracy that exists. turkey serves as an inspiration. the reason why turkey serves as an example, as lamas in egypt and other places, they have been able to marry western-style democracy with authenticity. and also, turkey is one of the most important economies in the world. islamists seem to be traveling a similar journey, and that is why more and more policy opinion is coming to realize the islamists represent a threat. >> when we look at syria, is egypt still the poster child of the arab spring? >> not at all. as your reporters have just said, the political struggle has turned into armed conflict. the rock has set in. my fear is not just syria is at war now, the civil war will escalate into a sectarian war. in the next few weeks in the next few years, actually. >> you looked at america's reaction to all this. what do you think of president obama's response generally to the arab spring?

an osprey crashed in morocco during a drill last month, killing two soldiers onboard. u.s. and japanese government officials considered deploying the aircraft temporarily at a base on the mainland to ease safety concerns. it was then to be used at futenma. they abandoned that plan in the face of opposition from potential host sites. u.s. military leaders now plan to start regular flights from futenma starting in october. >>> for many islanders, the return of okinawa offered the promise of peace. but many say it marked the beginning of more hardship. former governor led the drive in the 1990s to get the bases out of okinawa. nhk world spoke with him about his disappointments and his hopes. >> reporter: now 86 years old, he served as the okinaw governor from 1990 to 1998. after surviving the war, he d devoted himself to studies at yusts in okinawa, tokyo, and the united states, to try and understand why his islands had to make such a great sacrifice. during his tenure as governor, the okinawan people's -- in 1996, after a series of negotiations with the pentagon and tokyo oda

. >> one of the first countries that acknowledged or accepted the american independence was morocco. muslim slaves built the industry that this country's economy is based on. you got to connect with that. >> we were talking earlier about the salad bowl or the melting pot. have you thought about that? >> they're all the same or exactly alike but in actuality it's more like a salad bowl. we have each ethnicity represented in its own group and we have each culture represent represented. we're still different. >> i can't say how many times i've heard people say i'm tired of hearing about that melting pot because it sounds like you want us to drain out who we are so we can become like everybody else and almost robotic. that's not what's intended. >> that's the strength of america. in france, their idea of integration is you give up who you are and become a frenchman. that's integration and that's why the immigrants of that country are not immigrating into that society where as in america, the way we see it is you bring who you are to the table and weave that into the fabric of what it mea

this solar impulse, as it is called, took off from switzerland and is heading to morocco. quick stop in madrid and it is flying with no fuel. just solar power. itm news talked with the crew about how this whole thing will go off. >> to be able to go to 9,000 meters and more energy we collect even in the batteries so that's very impressive, that's very different. >> the thing goes -- get this -- 44 miles per hour. >> that's it? 44 miles per hour? >> it's really pushing boundaries there! >> but look at the size of this plane. it's got a huge, huge wingspan. it's built outof composite. it is very, very lightweight. >> what i can't understand is how they get it off the ground without thrust and all that incredible speed that we are used to in a 737. >> let's say it is a leisurely flight. >> imagine though if somebody goes wrong and you're only going 44 miles per hour that high up, you got a lot of time to just glide down. >>> this hamster has some mad acting skills. >> he reacted like slow motion. it's like he grabs himself, fell over. >> see why he deserves an academy award.

an osprey crashed in morocco during a drill last month, killing two soldiers on board. to ease safety concerns, the two governments at one time considered deploying the aircraft temporarily at a u.s. base on mainland japan. it was then to be used at futenma but it was abandoned in the face of intense opposition from potential host sites. the u.s. military now plans full fledged use of osprey aircraft at futenma from october after some trial flights. strong opposition is expected to continue in okinawa. >>> tokyo electric power company has reported a second consecutive year of net loss for the fiscal year that ended in march. the operator of the crippled fukushima nuclear power plant has also announced a new management team. tepco said on monday that its net loss came to about $9.8 billion in fiscal 2011. it blamed the loss on fuel costs for thermal power generation. they climbed by more than $10 billion from the previous business year. for the current business year, the company is hoping to slash the loss to about $1.3 billion by raising electricity rates for companies

and when he was in morocco, he says that interrogators started to bring him photographs of people.and saying, "these are the people that you're going to testify against." he was moved to a place that a cia. secret prison called the dark prison in afghanistan. and they kept rehearsing him on what his testimony was going to be. >> doug, there's one document from august 2002 written by john yoo, it's titled, "standards of conduct for interrogation." and it says, they laid out a blueprint for getting around the ban on torture. asserted that abuse becomes torture only if it results in organ failure, death, or years of mental torment. and then only if the torturer specifically intends to -- >> torturer. >> -- inflict such extreme bad damage. what do you make of that? >> it's an extraordinary memo, because, it's got sort of a circular logic to it. that it's really only torture if we say it's torture. and if we say it's not torture, it's not torture. then if you look at the specifics of what it says is allowed, things like walling, the behavior's so thuggish and so clearly torture. >> and

what is happening in yemen, we have to know what is happening in fatah, pakistan, somalia, algeria, morocco, because in each of these places, there are pieces of the al qaeda that are operating and are seeking to attack us domestically. one of the key areas of insight into these activities is our ability to intercept conversations in a variety of media today. and with that intercepted conversations get a picture and an idea of what plotting is occurring overseas. if you take that away from us, take that pictures away us, if you take away the ability to gather this kind of information, we will be defenseless until a person crosses our borders. and we cannot allow that to happen. knl well, thank you very much. one of your legacies, of course, is going to be that you have put in place a very large intelligence component within the fbi, i gather it's above 10,000 people now working in intelligence. what is the actual number? >> we have approximately 3,000 analysts, but all of our 14,000 agents now in the intelligence community, you call them collectors. they're collecting, whatever they do, the

so, when you see what's sweeping across that part of the world, you go in to morocco you'll see head scarves, probably compared to five, ten years ago enormous change. towards that approach in their country. you look at libya, unclear where that's going to be. you look at tunisia, it's unclear where that's going to be and the problem is, as the turmoil takes place the people who are best organized and know what they want are the people that probably are the least likely to move those countries toward free systems and egypt is important and they are vastly more important than any other pieces of it. >> you mentioned that libya and tunisia but you didn't mention syria. can you comment on syria? >> well, it's of a kind. here we've got the country that works closest with iran that contributes the most to terrorism acts against the united states and against the free countries that is causing the most difficulty in lebanon. is that a country that would be vastly better off if assad and this -- he is a member of the alowite sect, a minority sect. one can say the world will be a better place

the regimes installed the support of the aged care of monarchies in the gulf cooperation council morocco and jordan. says in the light of this one and good syria we should be very clear about those likely targets you know which are they succeed in syria likely targets afterwards would include nations like you know gerry of. the french president says paris is also considering military intervention in syria and it comes as a disappointment to those who hoped francois hollande would reverse his predecessor as aggressive foreign policy and focus on problems at home are just as are syria has more. new president but not soon rhetoric just two weeks into his post. ben ali i heard bernard enrile very mention of military intervention in it but it is not really doubt it. it's with. a comment that came in response to the massacre in syria. from the leader of a country that led the implementation of a no fly zone over libya last year critics have pointed out that there was no real choice between french president francois launch and his predecessor nicolas sarkozy but for those who thought they had v

whether it abbott net or what have you, victims in all 50 states, it may have started in romania or morocco or what have you. consequently the old way of allocating responsibility to the office -- generally the first u.s. attorney who happens to get the subpoena in to the grand jury doesn't work in this environment. so what we're working with in the bureau is putting together a distributed -- >> if you don't mind me interjecting, plus in those cases you really don't have a criminal case, you have a civil effort to shut it off which russ doc and core flood did bill yachbtly but it's hard to tee it off in the structure when there's no criminal case -- >> we look at it as national security -- i mean, this is one of the problems that you have in cyber. at the time of a cyber intrusion you do not know whether it's a state actor, you don't know whether it's organized crime or organized crime working for a state actor, or an individual or group of individuals who are not necessarily organized but distributed, the anonymous type of attacks. or lastly, the 18-year-old who is particularly adapt and w

for more on the latest mideast crises to morocco, deputy senior advisor for middle east policy to presidentr vice president at apco worldwide, and as well a blogger on many cites as well as huffco and you have just written a very hard critique of the obama administration's policies in syria. tell us why you think they are so wrong and what we should be doing? >> the biggest problem we have in syria from my own interpretation elliot is we have subcontracted, essentially a policy first to the arab league then the turks and we're about to do it again with the russians what happened in syria will have far greatest interests than what we could possibly have in libya. >> we did subcontract libya to nato and the arab league. it was part of leading from behind syria has not had any success so far. what is the difference and what should we be doing? >> they are completely different situations. he had no real strategic interest other than humanitarian interest in libya, we have a far greatest interest in libya. and yet because of the way we approached this at the un we have in effect blocked ourselve

streets i just had a very very animated discussion with jack the cab driver a really nice fellow from moroccowho told me not as nice words that michael bloomberg and and why p.t. police commissioner ray kelly are our jerk well bloomberg has called them his own personal army and you know tensions are definitely high with the four point six million dollar donation that was received from j.p. morgan chase the n.y.p.d. there's numerous lawsuits going on pending against the n.y.p.d. for their grievances. violations against the first amendment and against the civil disobedience acts. that's been happening and you're really quickly to wrap of the segment i'm wondering if you could mention or just describe your thoughts about the n.y.p.d. actually entering activists homes last night to try to get more information about what was going on today it's kind of ridiculous really it's a shame that the news broke so late yesterday evening that enough people weren't able to fully get the coverage that deserved but yeah i believe there was at least five incidents according to the new york civil liberties union