to my right sat richard perle. i don't know if you know who richard perle is but he was on his cell phone most of the ride trying to convince leslie stahl to do an interview of saddam hussein and ask them why he bombed the twin towers. and when he finished talking to leslie stahl, he would call the pentagon and explain what he was doing, trying, i think the phrase he used was -- [inaudible]. a commercial. don't focus. anyway, i got off the train watching history being made, the fear that we all had as americans, a new fear was being given a face. and that face was the face of saddam hussein. not to say islam. when we got off the train i got on the subway to go to nyu. the subway was empty because it went under the former twin towers. so there were only two other people on the subway with me, and one was a welder who is going to the cleanup site, no longer rescue site by the cleanup site, and the other one was a friend of his. and they were talking about why this had happened. so they were engaged in the process of

i'm afraid we've got to leave it there time's account has got to get through thank you very much richard perle is there a freelance journalist and author of a new book on turkey entitled at scarface i think it makes now for a full briefing of how turkey's troubles have developed from the outset we invite you to head to our web site r.t. dot com we'll find coverage and analysis not dates twenty four seventh's. reporting next the death of a young left wing activist who was brutally beaten by skinheads and spurred a wave of protest and fear through french society the teenager's murders also pushed thousands of anti fascist protest out onto the streets tesoro said the reports from paris tonight. the police in france are investigating a case where an eighteen year old left a student was killed had died from injuries after being attacked by what police are calling a group of skinheads members of extremist fringe of far right parties and france has been a seeing a violent protests in recent months with the legalization of gay marriage coming to the forefront of the political discussion let's get some

behind me sat down john mccain and to my right sat richard perle.u know who he is. but he was on his cell phone most of the ride. he was trying to convince leslie to do an interview of saddam hussein and asked him why he bombed the twin towers. then he called the pentagon to explain what he was doing. i think the phrase he used while come i can't remember for sure. anyway, i got off the train feeling that i was watching history being made. the fear that we all had as americans was being given a face. that face was the face of saddam hussein. and he got off the train and we got onto the subway to go to nyu. so there were only two other people on the subway with me and one of them was a welder who is going to cleanup site. it was no longer a rescue site the cleanup site. the other one was a friend of his and they were talking about why this had happened. so they were engaged in the process of trying to give our fear a face as well. explanations that they had whether that's because of the jews. agreed that turns new york into a symbol of capitalism and