area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with that policy these and west are united and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arab. serving the interests of the united states. demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. what from this new front here is coming into the brain of the world oil. one of the material that is making the truly great contribution to our modern civilization. and. one of the reasons the reason for that primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control over the major energy resources of the world the embassy it's being built inside baghdad it is a city like no other embassy in history or in the world they're not building the embassy. in syria rank in the huge basins around with an intention to leave they're building them with an intention to maintain control. since two thousand and three the u.s. has built dozens of military bases in iraq in two thousand and eight the u.s. and ir

after president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is a vital interests of the united states and to protect that flow will use any means necessary. military force to that end he said we will need military bases in the persian gulf area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with that policy east and west are united in pioneering a new running tear of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arabs. serving the interest of the united states. and demonstrating the high quality of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new frontier is coming into the trade of the world oil. one of the material that is making the truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one of the reasons the reason for primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure us control over the major energy resources of the world the embassy that's being built inside baghdad is a city like no other embassy in history of the world they're not building the embas

you consider yourself the mightiest power in the persian gulf. how do these two notions reconcile with each other?" and they said, "banana republic? what is a banana republic?" then i had to go into this, you know, the long lecture of what a banana republic is, because in persian it sounded very funny. >> hinojosa: you would allow yourself to push back against your interrogators sometimes. not often. what gave you that kind of like... that strength at that moment, to say, "i am going to push back; i am going to point out the silliness in their own thought"? >> there was so much one can take, you know. i'm a very rational person. and for days and days and days you hear... you sit there and hear a lot of nonsense. at some stage you can't take it anymore, and therefore that's when i would push back, really, and i would say, "okay, i think you are wrong. i think you don't understand how these things function in the real world." >> hinojosa: would you say it kind of like that, in that kind of a tone? >> sure, sure. >> hinojosa: of a stern mother almos

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bahrain a small island state in the persian gulf in sween audi/ -- saudi arabia and iran, protests there, protests again the government, violence, mass aest ares and so on. and the issue there is that saudi arabia backs the bahraini government, sent troops to help the bahraini government but the majority population in bahrain is shiite and therefore has ties to iran. which has a minority shiite population. and there is a strong suspicion in bahrain that iran is actually tomenting discontent, stoking up the protests against the government and so on. this has been a flashpoint in this very sensitive area because that is where a lot of the oil is actually proud. where a lot of the oil travels there through the persian gulf that caused a great deal of political tension inside of opec as well. >> warner: this is the first opec meeting since the arab uprising began around at rab world. how much of that was a factor maybe in another way. for instance saudi really wanting to pump in some oil right now? >> yeah, absolutely. that is another factor for quite a lot of countries. saudi a arabia happy

you ask princes ahead with plans to build a base in the persian gulf time committers and yemen and the cia has been tasked with north that time despite they they undermine their big blame for the deaths of hundreds of civilians in afghanistan and pakistan. and on to egypt details emerge around seven thousand people arrested in the country since president mubarak was toppled the interim military leadership promises during the trials of civilians and to increase the power to civilian courts achievement widescreen claimed as evidence prisoners have been tortured. right now the rest of both general. has divided public opinion in serbia some believe it holds c.e.u. membership while others accuse the government of the training a national hero and journalist sygate known all. covered the boldness of in the war in the mid ninety's shares his memories of the conflict the general with. the spotlight is coming up next. oh yeah welcome to spotlight. on r t alderney today my guest on the show is going to. bosnian serb general accused of genocide and mass murder in the bosnian war of ninety ninety t

dangerous outpost and he's planning to step up drone attacks on the country establishing a base in the persian gulf specifically for that purpose especially now when bin ladin swoop placement i am and also ari is not to be building are already significant presence in yemen. the u.s. had been cooperated with yemeni counterterrorism forces in targeting al qaida but they've since left the field preoccupied instead with the nationwide turmoil against the sollie regime that means the americans are likely to have a freer hand going it alone with the cia to take a central role because the agency is not subject to the accountability the u.s. military is legally under expect more bombs to fall on yemen when the u.s. starts to hit people who are members of the new arabian peninsula then i think the real worry is that it expands this war to the point where so many people join up with al qaeda their security in. yemen over the killing of scores of civilians by the drone strikes in one attack there the american military presumably at an all kind of training camp ended up killing dozens of women and children in

current unrest in yemen to seize power the cia is also reportedly building a secret base in the persian gulf to target militants and as auntie's a guy nature can says introducing cia spooks will move the operation into the legal shadows. the decision to task the cia with tracing down given marks a major escalation of america's covert war in yemen which is not really covert it's one of the on an undeclared wars that the u.s. is waging against terror but up to this day in yemen it's been the u.s. military that was running the show that was carrying out the drone strikes sort of thing cooperation with the yemeni counterterrorism units but now with the power vacuum and all the political turmoil in yemen the cooperation is falling apart and according to u.s. officials because the cia operates under different legal authorities than the military the cia will have quote greater latitude to carry out strikes no matter what the political climate they are greater latitude in other words they don't have to ask anybody's permission to bomb the country the yemeni leader who is now out of the country after

central asia are getting one listening to it and lead the bases contacts to the middle east and the persian gulf so the chinese strategically this means two things escape from iraq and iraq a straits and spatial her most different will straight in that in the middle east switches they can escape these two bottlenecks which i met last fall through by the us navy let's put it this way to say actually they can rely more on iran states or asia and only russia for their energy needs and it succeeding it's a long term strategy biggest stresses in their five year plans and this strategy goes on until the end of the twenty first century so yes russia and china will endeavor russia sees d.s.t.o. as a jew strike they'd seek roddy very important in terms of not only countering the battery of nature but countering american influence and you regime as a whole and china still seems the su as a truly in economic cooperation mechanism so you reticence to create a stack on the ground that would undoubtedly amaze the u.s. immediately no it's a very central to our strategy as well and it's not only related to cent

target al qaeda militants well there have been reports of a secret cia base being built in the persian gulf with the sole purpose of taking down anti-american terrorists if they manage to win through with yemen's power struggle well it's thought that over one hundred people have been killed in the past two weeks and witnesses on the ground say they could have a lot more civilians than is being admitted in the u.k. attack helicopters and commando squads are being prepared for a possible deployment in the country a british m.p. jeremy corbyn believes the west is doing the direct opposite of what you have a need for stability. if the west goes in with starts bombing on behalf of unclear who and i think that will make the situation markedly worse yemen has huge poverty and social support this country in the region its median age population is less than a i mean has the greatest social discrepancies of any country in the whole region the last thing it needs is more bombing what it needs is peace what it needs is people coming together and it needs overseas aid to help develop any government or p

of course the last thing is this secret cia base for trains that we hear is being built in the persian gulf region we're getting reports of that all the time and that is in case the yemeni government falls to al qaida and al qaeda no longer permit these drone attacks in the country they need a base with which from which to fly they are really very much more involved in terms of both the u.s. and the u.k. . it's reporting from london while other news now from around the world in our world update a nato air strike has hit a blast in the libyan turn the key one hundred fifty kilometers from the capital tripoli libyan state t.v. reports of these twelve passengers have been killed there are no further details of the incident and nato was not immediately available to comment on this and we'll bring you more details on this development as we get them here at r.t. . to start intelligence says at least fifteen alleged serjeant's have been killed in the u.s. drone attack in northwest pakistan a series of strikes targeted a suspected militant compound near the main town in pakistan itself was it a sta