on the show just talking about it in general terms he's fired now what do you see that saudi arabia iraq afghanistan i mean you see this in totalitarian regimes of course i knew this was the case and that's where we're coming out of the maze of well as forbes says i like sente because he challenges orthodoxy and a thoughtful way aside from the illuminating monetary debate sparked by jaitley as a guest on the crisis report the forced resignation of an economist is both interesting and disturbing well if they're there they're fake libertarians out there in the u.s. people who call themselves libertarian are not they're fake they're fake austrian school appearance and the whole i mean room school is bogus and from here to sunday the whole all those guy. are the fake ideologues that are fueling the basis of the jamie diamond's the the alan greenspan is a lloyd blankfein the terrorism so let's move on to this next headline max group occupy protester accused of bank robbery for holding your being robbed sign an occupy easton protester faces an attempted bank robbery charge following an arrest at an organi

saudi arabia and the other against saudi arabia and -- against south korean, i do not know what we would do. tavis: there is one big hole to your theory. one of those wars between iraq and afghanistan was unnecessary. it was fraudulent and should not have been done in the first place. it was not that the budget was too small. somebody lied to the american people in the first place. they spend one trillion dollars they should not have spent in the first place. >> the iraq war was a mistake, but that is done. we are out of there now, so the question is what will we do now if we had two wars break out at the same time? the north korean are armed to the teeth, and so are the iranians. what if they launched attacks on our allies at the same time? we would have on hard time stopping them without using nuclear weapons, and i do not think we want to use nuclear weapons. i do not think there is such a thing as being too prepared to defend the interests of the united states. tavis: i think there is a notion of being too prepared. how many new see you need? how many times over the do -- how many nukes do you need? how many times over the you need to blow up the world? >> during the 1950's, we

. >> narrator: gaith met fighters who he believed were from somalia, afghanistan, iraq, and saudi arabia. but he wasn't allowed to interview them on camera. >> the whole day was very strange. we passed army checkpoints, we drove through the desert, we were met by the fighters, and now we are in a city. it's a real city, it's an actual city. people are living in the city, people are having their normal life, as we're going to see. yet at the same time, this is al qaeda. this is not even, you know, taliban and al qaeda. this is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and they just control a whole city. >> narrator: gaith was shown these pictures, filmed by al qaeda. local people had been summoned to the town's theater. it showed al qaeda fighters attacking a major army base near jaar. almost 200 yemeni soldiers were reported killed, and dozens of prisoners were believed to be held in jaar. jalal al marqashi, the top al qaeda commander in this region, was shown visiting the prisoners. >> it's unconceivable for a small unit of 60 fighters to achieve this kind of victory. i really wanted to see, d

iraq and afghanistan. chad protesters in bahrain and saudi arabia are search for mass rallies in their countries united in their call against what they see as discrimination by the ruling elite activists are also demeaning the demanding rather the release of political prisoners crackdowns on dissent has been gallery force in the gulf states teenage protester and a soldier work killed in clashes in saudi arabia on friday that's the latest violence in the country's predominantly shiite could teach over each other. dozens of equal rights activists were injured security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at them while a video leaked online magically shows government mercenaries driving cars demonstrators and leading figure in vaqueros largest opposition party believes monetary interests in the gulf states are more important to western politicians then human rights. this is part of. their mission and community will they won't do it so it will. not all of the human rights abuses when they consider the international . financial and economic. and other things. these are more much more. human rights and look

iraq and afghanistan. crackdowns on anti regime protesters are gathering force in the gulf states demonstrators in saudi arabia and bahrain have been calling for an end to a discriminations by the sunni monarchy for some eighteen months now protester and a soldier work killed in clashes and saudi arabia on friday it's the latest violence in the country's predominantly shiite qatif region and dozens of equal rights activists were injured as security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at them while a video leaked online allegedly shows government mercenaries driving cars demonstrators political analyst patrick henningsen says pa koreans being ignored because it's a washington ally. in bahrain what you have is a genuine brazing a genuine political movement potential revolution. that is being completely ignored for two reasons the main reason is a reign posed the united states fifth and they will sleep it's a very important strategic piece on the chess board especially in terms of looking towards potential aggression against iran so as bahrain has a role family that completely society locked down because it's

smuggling routes in iraq and they even laid the blame for that on saudi arabia specifically so i think we can assume that it's the same forces at play and it is now islamic militants in afghanistan the way one is provided with missiles by the u.s. with saudi backing to find soviet troops there yes on that later became a major headache for western antiterrorism agencies what's the likelihood of these weapons will fall into the wrong hands. well i suppose it depends how you define the wrong hands and there is the blowback theory of all of this of course that that really came out of the afghan conflict in the which was being funded both directly and indirectly through the cia and thus the al qaeda terrorist network is of blowback on the cia but when this happens over and over and over again we either have to assume that the officials in charge of these and counter terrorist organizations are completely ridiculously stupid or that they are actually doing this as part of a strategy of terror akin to what happened for example with. previous the operations like operation gladio in europe in the eighty's where and seventy's and sixty's and seventy's and eighty's where they were delibera

iraq or afghanistans. still a debate over syria. even more a debate over iran. i bet the day will come around the table we'll have a debate about saudi arabiaure in the middle east. >> wow. okay. richard haass, stay with us. we're going to actually -- can i take 30, alex right now? there is this chinese official's wife on trial for murder. >> this is so interesting. her husband, her husband was the head of one of the major chinese provinces in southwest china, people thought when the new che nice government was announced he could be a member of the standing committee. one of the eight people. >> sort of a real charismatic guy. >> some ways too carry massic. he was beginning to represent a little of a cult of personality and a little bit of a challenge to the fairly stayed politicians of china and the fact that his -- he got vulnerable his wife got involved with the western businessman clearly murdered him. his career is over. this has shocked the chinese political system. the most public political trial in decades. it's disrupted the smooth transition. it's another reminder that as china's economy begins to slow, even more rickety and uncer