harmain oregon from al harmain saudi arabian. al harmain saudi arabia was the thought as of 2004. it was closed down by the saudi arabian government. al harmain saudi arabia was close down in 2004. al harmain oregon remains an independent entity. if it was relayed it to al harmain saudi arabia, it would not exist as of this date. three of its four board members were related -- where members of al harmain saudi arabia. as of 2003, none of its board members were relate it to al harmain saudi arabia. two members had resigned in 2003. mr. -- had resigned in 2002. as of the first designation, there were no board members who were relate it to al harmain oregon with respect al harmain saudi arabia. we could have shown that al harmain oregon had no connection to anything that al harmain saudi arabia did. we were not able to make any of those arguments. why? because what they did was not provide notice of the charges. they dumped hundreds of pages of documents on us. those pages identified over 200 organizations and individuals as potentia

been statements released on bahrain there have been statements from bonking moon concerned about saudi arabian forces now in the country also statements from the human rights person at the u.n. who has said that they're very concerned about breaking international law concerned about reports of killings concerned about reports that hospitals have been taken over and about the possible human rights violations but beyond words we haven't heard much ok laurent thanks so much for filling us in. this month an eighty six year old man who lives here in d.c. heard banging on his apartment door before he could unlock it a group of police officers knock that door down and eighty six year old robert smith with it they didn't realize they have the wrong apartment they call the ambulance for smith and apparently they never even apologized for this mistake and rape there's another example of police brutality in america of excessive force where it's not need it but i don't see the media talking about it as a systemic problem rather than just a one off incident why didn't they even mention the international da

and the saudi arabians have sent troops into bahrain. so the middle east could blow up at a moment's notice. we could have a sudden rush in oil. >> reporter: nobody knows how stocks will open tomorrow, but it's safe to say investors here will be watching what happens overseas tonight. erika miller, "nightly business report," new york. >> susie: here are the stories in tonight's "n.b.r. newswheel." upbeat words from the federal reserve today. policymakers say the u.s. economic recovery is on "firmer footing" and conditions in the job market are beginning to improve. the fed made no mention of the events unfolding in japan, but confirmed its commitment to its $600 billion program to buy u.s. government bonds. we'll talk more about the fed with economist diane swonk and market strategist mike holland in just a moment. the u.s. slapped more sanctions on libya's government as moammar qaddafi continued his crackdown on the opposition. the treasury has frozen assets linked to libya's foreign minister. it also banned business with 16 companies t

stressed the need for maximum restraint words the forces on the ground now backed by one thousand saudi arabian troops who don't appear to be listening to critics say the talk doesn't amount to any help for the bahraini people it amounts to this absolutely there's a double standard in the way the u.s. deals with friend versus flow unlike libya rain is a strong u.s. ally in the oil rich persian gulf it's all about oil it's all but also all about geo political military strategy the u.s. has a lot of military assets in the persian gulf right now we want to make sure they stay there and u.s. interests coming at the cost of people's lives and at the cost of the values of human rights and democracy the u.s. claims to care so. much about and some of the brain blood is worthless and the meat and blood is more important it's just a political stand that goes it goes against everything we believe in in this country but you're looking at american old cio i'm sure you know the. protesters in the capital and that is where the united states stands on the issue tacitly behind auto kratz. or against them depend

in my opinion would be putting together pipe strands of plans and strategies for how to secure saudi arabian oil fields in the future because it's this this uprising is not going to go on if you look at what takes place every five hundred years the abrahamic faiths judaism christianity islam they go through big rummage sales and right now the the islamic world has is in a tri part civil war between theocrats which would be. al-qaeda types very extreme muslims and then you have the secularist libert liberals like saddam hussein could offie others and then you have young people globalized young people that are more liberal but they still want to be working and want to participate their country there's a tribe called civil war across the arab world within these groups and they're having that rummage sale very interesting there is how military analyst in our team bonner as always thanks for weighing in and have breaking it down for us if you. the economic collapse of two thousand and eight and was it in fact the collapse or implosion of the economy or was it the slow erosion and series of smalle

now in my opinion would be putting together strands of plans and strategies for how to secure saudi arabian oil fields in the future because it's this uprising is not going to go and if you look at what takes place every five hundred years that abrahamic faiths judaism christianity islam they go through sales and right now the the islamic world has is in a tri part civil war between theocrats which would be. and. types very extreme muslims and then you have secularist liberty liberals like a slam hussein khadafi others and then you have young people globalized young people that are more liberal but they still want to be working and want to participate in a country there's a tripod part civil war cost the arab world within these groups and they're having to rummage sale a very interesting take i'm going to tell another terry analyst in our to you as always thanks for weighing in and kind of breaking if down for us here. all right let's turn now to the economy for a great many people it's become a system that's broken in part a result of the two thousand and eight financial collapse so here's

sympathy as freedom fighters by the government and the media but if the saudis sought to overturn the saudi arabian monarchy they would be called insurgents and guerrillas or whatever other name would work to dehumanize them and get people to support yet another war and as always we thank you for giving us your input on these issues and here's our next topic for our viewers we just discussed p.j. crowley stepping down after he spoke out in defense of bradley manning calling his imprisonment counterproductive ridiculous and stupid now this is a rare moment we saw a bomber himself take esteemed side when it comes to the treatment of bradley manning so we want to know what you think crowley's firing says about washington stance on leakers do you think that president obama has now taken ownership of the abusive treatment of bradley manning and you can respond to us on facebook twitter and you tube and who knows your response just might make it on air and also to come tonight for information is coming out of japan after last week's worth. they canceled on me i confusion in the media over what's really o

and as i mean we're going to have to go and intervene on behalf of the saudi arabian people and not talk raney people should we go and extend it to china that united nations where do you attribute a gracious i mean i think the united nations may have to i mean that's part of their mission that's part of the security council's mission if people are being massacred anywhere that's why we have a security council that's why we have article forty two of the in the security you in charter it says you can authorize and that means forty one people who were killed and even today for instance up into the by the exactly the same sort of measures in yemen as well as bahrain as well as saudi arabia soon we're going to be deeply enmeshed out the middle east but i think the big question we really have to come back and look at is a question of process within the united states within the united states there's all this happened because barack obama goes to the security council and gets a resolution and the united states under the u.s. constitution the war powers are very carefully divided between congress

and he said, we need to do this by convincing the saudi arabians to increase their supply of oil on the world market. "that's going to mitigate the price increase." and he said further -- quote -- "we're hoping market forces will take care of this." close quote. i at least give secretary chu and the obama administration marks for this breakthrough understanding that supply is a big part of the equation. in fact, it's half of the supply and demand equation that yields price. also recently the white house chief of staff, bill daley, made a comment that also went to supply. he said this weekend on some of the weekend talk shows, that we need to consider opening up the stratigic petroleum reserve to put more product on the market, to increase supply. also to stop the prices, to stop the ever increasing prices. i give mr. daley and the obama administration credit for finally realizing -- and it is a bit of a breakthrough -- that supply is a big part of the issue. but, madam president, where i disagree, where i want a further breakthrough, is that they need to focus on domestic supply that we

a saudi arabian man has pleaded not guilty in texas to charges he plotted to blow up targets in texas and new york city. khalid aldawsari was arraigned in federal court in lubbock today. he'd been a college student there when he was arrested in february. agents traced online purchases of explosive chemicals and found a makeshift lab in his apartment. if convicted, aldawsari faces a possible life sentence. the trial is set for may 2. in economic news, consumer spending rose last month, but, the commerce department said much of the gain went to pay sharply higher gasoline prices. and on wall street, stocks began the week on a losing note. the dow jones industrial average lost more than 22 points to close below 12,198. the nasdaq fell 12 points to close at 2730. germany chancellor angela merkel played down a stinging election defeat today tied to the nuclear scare in japan. on sunday, the anti-nuclear greens won power in a state where merkel's christian democrats had governed since 1958. voter fears over what's happened in japan was the dominant issue. before the election, merkel had ord

it could become a saudi arabian area of not only rivalry but conflict. >> rose: the majority of shiitesere put into a comfort zone with iran. so i have come to the easy question-- what about afghanistan? >> it's a headache. when i think about afghanistan i always have a difficult time thinking my way through the entire situation. the first thing that really worries me is the pakistan situation. we've been over that many, many times. but i guess the way i'd say it is pakistan is ambivalent about how to deal with militancy across the pakistan-afghanistan border and even their own country. that's issue number one. i do think we're make something progress on the military front, particularly, first of all, some success, military successes, with nato and other forces. and most important, it seems to me, improving the capacity of the afghan security forces, the army, and the police force and that's ultimately our exit ticket out of there. it remains to be seen where we can get enough of that accomplished by the 2014 date talked about and also there's the issue of cost. a force like this, we es

next to her is a saudi arabian activist and writer. e has lost several campaigns for women bought the rights in her area. she is committed to pursuing that. it is not an easy task in saudi arabia. next to her is the beloved and well-known founder of women to win an international. she has an incredible history from our own background that brought her to the united states and put her front and center of the international battle for women's rights. we all have been energized by what has happening -- but what has happened in egypt and before that, tunisia. you started before people started to take to the streets. what were you writing? what was her poetry? >> i have been blogging since 2006 for the dream of having egypt a democracy. by democracy, i mean equal rights for all including muslims and non muslims including men and women. i fought for civil rights and individual rights. thank god we are seeing this happen right now. >> what was it about january 26 that put people into the streets? you had been blogging. one of the organizing princ

. >>> the saudi arabian government cracking down on protests in their capital city. hundreds of police officers stopped demonstrators from protesting in the streets. they were calling for democratic reforms. >>> looking at wall street, stocks are mixed this morning. investors trying to predict the economic fallout from that huge earthquake in japan. stocks have fluctuated. they're mostly lower in the united states. right now stocks are down about a quarter of a percent. >>> we have a lot of information to pass along to you about traffic, a lot of precautionary measures being taken. let's check in with tara for an update. >> reporter: the boardwalk and wharf are shut down. the highway out of santa cruz is backed up. they are gauging the waves in oregon and then will make a decision whether to cancel bart service. also, some news from muni to pass along, 18, line 18 has been rerouted because of the great highway closure in san francisco. right now we're taking a live look at san mateo county. chopper 2 showing dozens of cars. you can see how many folks have driven out

next to her is a saudi arabian activist and writer. e has lost several campaigns for women bought the rights in her area. she is committed to pursuing that. it is not an easy task in saudi arabia. next to her is the beloved and well-known founder of women to win an international. she has an incredible history from our own background that brought her to the united states and put her front and center of the international battle for wo men's rights. we all have been energized by what has happening -- but what has happened in egypt and before that, tunisia. you started before people started to take to the streets. what were you writing? what was her poetry? >> i have been blogging since 2006 for the dream of having egypt a democracy. by democracy, i mean equal rights for all including muslims and non muslims, including men and women. i fought for civil rights and individual rights. thank god we are seeing this happen right now. >> what was it about january 26 that put people into the streets? you had been blogging. one of the organizing pri

one saudi arabian soldier has been killed. bahrain, unacceptable. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton has met for the first time with the leader of libya's opposition group, which has lost ground to gadhafi's forces. clinton offered possible economic aid, but stopped short of offering military help. the fighting has shut down the oil industry. >>> and that news is not helping gas prices here in the u.s. the national average is now $3.57 a gallon. that's up 5 cents in the last week alone. hawaii had become the first state to see average prices top $4. >>> for the second time in three days, there's been a deadly tour bus crash near new york city. this time, a bus traveling to philadelphia, hit a guardrail, then a concrete embankment, killing the driver and one passenger. >>> meanwhile, we learned the driver involved in saturday's bus trash near new york that killed 15 people, had a criminal record, including manslaughter, and a driving history, prompting calls for oversight of low-fare bus lines. that's a quick look at the ne

this changed after the saudi arabians sent troops into bahrain recently. then iraq in state media picked up because. the way that they have done it is not terribly helpful to the people in bahrain. the head of the guardian council that supervises iranian elections gave a sermon the other week in which he said that bahrain should resist the enemy until you die or win. this is the iranian pattern. they are perfectly happy to fight to the last arab. they will not put their own lives on the line unless iran is directly attacked. this is a cheap propaganda victory for them. i am not sure it is anything more. if we look to iran in relationships with the gulf, we see -- iranian relations across the persian gulf -- when we look at these relations, we see that there is a fair amount of variation. iran has had tense relations with saudi arabia and with bahrain. it has good ties with oman which has mediated between iran and the united states on several occasions. most recently, they help to get one of the american hikers that was jailed in iran freed from jail in ira

the cargo being intercepted in terms of the printers had to do with saudi arabian intelligence tippings off. the most recent example in texas might be the best example of home and working the way it was intended with a shipper notifying local officials in lubbock. >> the fact that you simply connect the dots is not accurate. there are lots of information, a cloud so to speak. you have to be able to discern patterns in the cloud and identify threats, and you have to have multiple layers of the society to recognize the threat and pass it on. on a christmas day bomber it was the passengers who took him down. we have done a number of things in response to that to tighten up on airline security, and we're still doing a lot in that area. it remains a key concern. and when you talk about the times square bomber, talk about free citizen involvement. -- when you talk about the times square bomber, talk about citizen involvement. recognizes a vehicle has smoke coming from it that is not normally in the area and calls it in. with respect to the suit in texas, i do not want to comment too much bec