providing help to migrant domestic workers in lebanon since 1994. the workers often find themselves victims of a judicial system that fails to protect them in a culture where abuse against them is endemic. >> it's serious enough because on average one worker per week is dieing in lebanon, most often by committing suicide or trying to, quote, unquote, escape from their employer. it's a terrifying statistic, and it has caused capitals in countries where these workers are coming from to take notice. one of the ambassadors of ethiopia told me i'm no longer running an embassy here. i'm running a morgue. >> reporter: there are an estimated 200,000 migrant workers in lebanon, a large number for a country with a population of just 4 million. abuses against them so common that the philippines, nepal and ethiopia have banned their citizens from coming to lebanon as migrant workers. although many are so desperate, they find a way around the ban. like hannah. she says she had no choice but to come to lebanon three years ago to support her family in ethiopia aft

she comes from the ukraine, he is from lebanon. they met in egypt a year ago and fell madly in love. >> and see how she swims. and then she touched me. >> his eyes. his eyes. >> they chose cyprus to get wed because there are no civil marriages in lebanon, but i have to marry and a civil ceremony for her marriage to be recognized in the ukraine. >> we need it the civil marriage for the ukraine and married in the church for but not. >> this couple has just arrived from tel aviv, just half an hour pause flight away. the mother of the bride is not jewish, which under orthodox jewish law means that the daughter is not jewish either and cannot marry at home. as in lebanon, israel does not allow civil marriages, although it does recognize them. >> they should change the law. i need to get married here. that is not fair. >> every year, hundreds of israelis make the trip to cyprus to get hitched, either because one partner is not jewish or not religious. the parents of this bride are atheists. >> she is lucky she is in a family that they di

she comes from the ukraine, he is from lebanon. they met in egypt a year ago and fell madly in love. >> and see how she swims. and then she touched me. >> his eyes. his eyes. >> they chose cyprus to get wed because there are no civil marriages in lebanon, but i have to marry and a civil ceremony for her marriage to be recognized in the ukraine. >> we need it the civil marriage for the ukraine and married in the church for but not. >> this c coupl has just arrived from tel aviv, just half an hour pause flight away. the mother of the bride is not jewish, which under orthodox jewish law means that the daughter is not jewish either and cannot marry at home. as in lebanon, israel does not allow civil marriages, although it does recognize them. >> they should change the law. i need to get married here. that is not fair. >> every year, hundreds of israelis make the trip to cyprus to get hitched, either because one partner is not jewish or not religious. the parents of this bride are atheists. >> she is lucky she is in a family that they d

believes was a terrorist group hezbollah in lebanon. he was being investigated. they said you went in the computer and got information and told him about it. then they also called you out for the marriage. tell me what happened. did you ever do that? >> i absolutely did not. you see that the director of the cia, the attorney general and also the secretary for homeland security have signed a memo to grant me back my u.s. person status. >> when you look at all the things you were involved with, which one do you look back and say i'm most proud of that? >> one case that stands out, one who dubbed himself the sniper of baghdad and described sniping and killing our american troops that would be going around the streets in baghdad. and having grown up and being shot at by a sniper in lebanon, this was very personal to me.

spies in lebanon have been captured by hezbollah over the last couple of months the u.s. embassy in lebanon is denying that news but not amisse officials are reportedly saying that it's true and it's incredibly damaging and effectively shutting down the agency's operations there a.b.c. is reporting that using the code word to meet at a beirut pizza hut could have been one of the things that gave them away kind of sounds like an amateur and coolish mistake but it's another intelligence mishap and it seems to be an increasing trend we spoke on the show many times before about the agency's changing role since nine eleven of turning into a killing machine on drone strikes carrying out assassination plots in pakistan to yemen and somalia and it's led many to ask if this change in culture is taking a toll on the cia's abilities and if that's the case their focus on terrorism now with immediate results be keeping them from finding threats of the future to discuss this is retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow at the center for advanced offense studies and packe

increase in illegal shipments of arms ammunition and military supplies from neighboring lebanon over the last few months but to discuss the dangers of this may pose i'm joined live from oxford by mark almond a professor of international relations i thank you for coming on the program today so the opposition accuses the syrian government of inciting violence or given all of these reports of arms supplies to rebel groups there who's the wolf in sheep's clothing from your point of view. well it lead to the big problem is now that i'm very serious open even the neighboring countries have been drawn into this cycle of violence and i had was a naive sometimes in the west where we in a dictator or a regime has no support and at the same time that opposition must in her and her because the only good well intentioned people there are groups that don't like assad's regime and some of them are other militantly committed to replacing a secular regime with a sunni fundamentalist regime and ironically the best which see syria as a geopolitical pawn in its game visibly iran may in some ways be will

in syria could spill over to lebanon. in 1996, israel fight a war with hezbollah guerrillas in lebanon. >>> a nato air strike that killed pakistani soldiers over the weekend may have been provoked by the taliban. nato called for bombs after tal dan forces attacked them. they believe the taliban was deliberately trying to provoke a cross-border fire fight that would damage pakistani-u.s. relations. pakistan has now shut down two border crossings used by u.s. troops to get supplies into afghanistan. >>> today euro zone finance ministers will meet to discuss the details of a bailout package to help italy or spain should they need aid. they're also likely to approve the next set of emergency loans for greece and ireland. president obama met with european union officials yesterday. he pressed to quickly resolve the debt crisis before it gets any worse. some economists believe without deep spending cuts, tax hikes, and bailouts, the european economy could collapse and spark a new global financial kriss. >>> asian stock markets

turkey as well as lebanon is being drawn into this the wider forces from saudi arabia which under the trouble and we really begin to see a religious civil war between sunni muslims and christians and jews there are some analysts our political analyst and historians we've spoken to who suggested when it comes to the arab spring that were going on for quite some time now when it comes to these are civil wars as you put it war in tribal factions or perhaps this would work to the advantage of the west or speaking of the west and possibly exacerbating a situation here in the region remains a tense in the middle east and in northern africa could explode at any time and we're not getting reports that the u.s. is going to supply a cache of weapons and munitions to the united arab emirates good idea that. well of course states helped overthrow colonel gadhafi we might have had no. on the ground but he had special agents of the sudden a category four. and i think there is a danger now that we could see the same kind of mixture of intervention civil war. which in the short term may bring about a

believes was a terrorist group hezbollah in lebanon. he was being investigad.

believes was a terrorist group hezbollah in lebanon. he was being investigated. they said you went in the computer and got information and told him about it. then they also called you out for the marriage. tell me what happened. did you ever do that? >> i absolutely did not. you see that the director of the cia, the attorney general and also the secretary for homeland security have signed a memo to grant me back my u.s. person status. >> when you look at all the things you were involved with, which one do you look back and say i'm most proud of

spies in lebanon have been captured by hezbollah over the last couple of months the u.s. embassy in lebanon is denying that news but anonymous officials are reportedly saying that it's true and it's incredibly damaging and effectively shutting down the agency's operations there a.b.c. is reporting that using the code word pizza. pizza hut's could have been one of the things we gave them away kind of sounds like an amateur and foolish mistake but it's another intelligence mishap and it seems to be an increasing trend we spoke on the show many times before about the agency's changing role since nine eleven of turning into a killing machine drone strikes carrying out assassination plots from pakistan to yemen and somalia and it's led many to ask if this change in culture is taking a toll on the cia's abilities and if that's the case my focus on terrorism now with immediate results be keeping them from finding threats in the future or discuss this is retired lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer senior fellow at the center for advanced defense studies and pack america he's also

believes was a terrorist group hezbollah in lebanon. he was being investigated. they said you went in the computer and got information and told him about it. then they also called you out for the marriage. tell me what happened. did you ever do that? >> i absolutely did not. you see that the director of the cia, the attorney general and also the secretary for homeland security have signed a memo to grant me back my u.s. person status. >> when you look at all the things you were involved with, which one do you look back and say i'm most proud of that. >> thne

the syrian regime because it's its rival and it supports its rivals has a lot of the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny hundred entries which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seen as a cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris to the ground. it's a quick look now at some other international headlines in brief twenty five minutes past the hour here in moscow israeli troops use tear gas and water cannons to drive away palestinian protesters and foreign activists in the west bank have been demonstrating against the seizure by israeli settlers of a local spring which is normally a bone of contention between the opposing sides in a separate incident dozens of palestinians gathered near the settlement of a thought claiming their land has been illegally occupied by israelis. potence independence day celebrations turned violent when hundreds of protesters attacked police in warsaw at least ten officers reportedly injured some seriously in the clashes rup least were

and forces are capable of attacking israel from iran iran also has allies in the region in iraq in lebanon among palestinians and elsewhere and that would create significant problems for israel so i don't believe. we'll attack iran unless of course it receives a green light from the united states is just very briefly why is it that iran is not capable of convincing the international community that it is not developing nuclear weapons it really has failed to do so why isn't it being more and more transparent now the pressure is on it. well in my view the reason that iran is not completely transparent is because it is trying to buy time and to buy time for god it wants to put itself in a position that is if it decides to make the nuclear weapon in self defense and as a deterrent or a short period of time it can do that iran is not there yet and the best estimate is that iran will be able to do it maybe by two thousand and fourteen or two thousand and fifteen so the delay in some of the response of iran to question the international atomic energy agency and the ambiguity is basically meant to

doing it for money but of course somebody is paid and i think there's grounds for thinking that in lebanon for instance the explosive situation there is being made worse by the fact that one faction of politics the sunni muslim factions actually little more promise to have also backed by the saudis for israel's interests see the fall of the syrian regime because it's its rival and it supports its rivals has a lot of the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seeing there are cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris with a barrel of a gun. and i'll be back with a recap of our top headlines in about thirty minutes but first for those of you eager to come to the russian capital for business we have the ultimate guide my scalp is up next. the story. dynamic. my co. look for. us. every week. they're all three. to the southwest of the capital he comes from the. highways. traveling by car traffic. greatly t

and i wasn't aware of my other option, the political asylum given the war in lebanon. i was eligible to apply for political asylum, but i wasn't aware of that option. >> and that was one thing that came as part of this whole situation when you were accused of using an fbi computer illegally. huh a brother-in-law who prosecutors say was a sympathizer of what the u.s. believes was a terrorist group hezbollah

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amid an increase in illegal shipments of arms ammunition and the military supplies from neighboring lebanon over the last few months a professor of international relations are mark almond says that syria falls victim to lebanese political games. the people doing smuggling may be doing it for money but of course somebody is paying and i think there is ground thinking that in lebanon for instance the explosive situation there is being made worse by the fact that one faction of politics the sunni muslim factions prime minister hariri also backed by the saudis for instance is rancher see the full syrian regime because it's its rival and it supports its rivals has a law on the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seeing there are cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris with. you with r.t. now the former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko now faces new criminal charges this time of tax avoidance r

the syrian regime because it's its rival and it supports its rivals has a law on the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a resolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seeing there are cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris with the barrel of a gun. just out on in twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow the former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko now faces new criminal charges this time that of tax avoidance it relates to when she was leading one of the country's biggest energy corporations back in the one nine hundred ninety s. now just last month she was sentenced to seven years behind bars for exceeding her powers while signing gas contracts with russia or in two thousand and nine many countries condemned the case against him a shanker saying it was politicized. the reports it seems that in ukraine history is bound to repeat itself. it all started with this man viktor yushchenko fist fights in parliament street protests and d

of the syrian regime because its its rival and its supports its rivals has alarmed the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a resolution in syria bring her a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seen as a cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris for the barrel of a car. is not only twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow a former ukrainian prime minister yulia tymoshenko now faces a new criminal charges by this time that her tax avoidance it relates to when she was leading one of the country's biggest energy corporations back in the one nine hundred ninety s. now just last month she was sentenced to seven years behind bars for exceeding her powers while signing gas contracts with russia her in two thousand and nine many countries condemned the case against him a shanker saying it was politicized that i.c.r.c. reports it seems that in ukraine history is bound to repeat itself. it all started with this man before you fist fights in parliament in our street protests and des

of the syrian regime because its its rival and it supports its rivals has alarmed the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seen as a cynical people who are going in the money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris for. the u.n. security council is reviewing palestine the u.n. membership in new york the motion was filed in september to not euphoria in the west bank and the deciding vote may come as soon as next week but he's always up palestine's chances. palestinians have resigned themselves to the fact that it's unlikely they going to get the two thirds majority they need in the united nations security council for the statehood good what this means is that they will not become full members of the united nations and the united states will not be forced to exercise its veto rights there are eight countries amongst the security council who have indicated that they will vote in favor of the palestinian bid these include russia china india s

this comes amid an increase in illegal shipments of munitions and military supplies from neighboring lebanon over the last few months professor of international relations are mark almond says that syria falls victim to lebanon's political games . the people doing struggling may be doing it for money or somebody is paying and i think there is grounds for thinking that in the interest of the explosive situation there is being made worse by the fact that one faction of politics the silly muslim factions prime minister hariri also backed by the saudis which is ranches see the fall the syrian regime because of its its rival and its supports its rivals has a lot of the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seen as a cynical people who do anything for money or also seen people who say the way to paris or the ground to come. here with r.t. now the former ukrainian prime minister yulia timoshenko now faces new criminal charges this time of tax avoidance relat

the people doing so may be doing it for money but if somebody is paid and i think there is ground in lebanon for instance the explosive situation there is being made worse by the fact that one faction of politics the sunni muslim factions with former prime minister hariri also backed by the saudis for instance. see the fall of the syrian regime because it's its rival and it supports its rivals has the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be. a religious minorities and so we are seeing that are cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris for the. up to date for the moment coming up to sixty minutes past the hour here in moscow with a recap of our top headlines in about forty minutes from now but in the meantime for those are eager to come to the russian capital the business we have the ultimate guide moscow out is coming up very shortly for you. maundering. historic. dynamic. kill. a. a trusted secretary that hello i walked into the show this week fargo wi

mulling an arms embargo something moscow strongly opposes let's get a perspective from neighboring lebanon dr jamal wakim a political analyst and professor at lebanese international university joining us now do you think further sanctions could have any impact on ending this violence. i don't think so this violence is instigated by foreign bowed. of course that is a complaint. by local forces however the people who voted in. that action against the regime financed. but mainly the us and by its allies that are using food they want to topple that is human no dude. line city to the american come to italy and the big good amount. strategy to contain the rising russian and chinese spy would they don't want for russia china to get access to the military and in order to get access to the indian ocean that's why. they were involved in change throughout the arab islamic world in order to hand over power to the muslim brothers and city and became the only exception that's right properly the baath regime in syria a secular regime ruined a neighbor the united states to install the muslim brothers and

. >>> meanwhile, for the first time in two years, several rockets were fired tuesday from lebanon into north israel. two buildings were damaged but no reported casualties. the israeli military says it returned fire across the border. a 34-day war was fought in 2006 between israel and iranian-backed hezbollah guerrillas based in lebanon while israeli/lebanese border has been quiet in recent years, some have worried about a possible spillover of tensions from the months old revolt in syria against president assad. >>> here's a look at some other stories making news "early today" in america. no santa didn't get the date wrong. rescuers were called to a rooftop in texas after a man locked himself out of his house and then got stuck trying to get in through the chimney. well, firefighters used a rope to hoist him out after the man's wife, who was waiting outside, eventually called 911. >>> one lucky kentucky man is very lucky to be alive after a powerful storm knocked a massive tree into his mobile home monday. the homeowner says the tree landed two feet away from where he was sitting in hi

of the syrian regime because its its rival and it supports its rivals has alarmed the christians in lebanon who don't wish to see a revolution in syria bring to power a sunny fundamentalist regime which will likely be hostile to the religious minorities and so we are seeing there are cynical people who do anything for money we're also seeing people who say the way to paris with. the u.n. security council is reviewing palestine's it for u.n. membership in new york the motion was filed in september too much euphoria in the west bank and the deciding vote may come as soon as next week. weighs up palestine's chances. palestinians have resigned themselves to the fact that it's unlikely they going to get the two thirds majority they need in the united nations security council for the statehood bid what this means is that they will not become full members of the united nations and the united states will not be forced to exercise its veto rights there are eight countries amongst the security council who have indicated that they will vote in favor of the palestinian bid these include russia china in

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iraq government are part of the syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon on how in gaza meanwhile the arab league has been pulling no punches and has announced a decision to suspend syria's membership for failing to meet the terms of its peace plan a move that syria has fervently denounced. were surprised that the arab league had already prepared a document which obviously came from american orders and they were asked to produce this document because serious positive response surprised them and their masters in america and the west. syria has also remain confident that china and russia would oppose the resolution to get militarily involved both countries have vetoed such a decision back in october the international community has gone to great lengths to draw a contrast between libya and syria mainly to avoid provoking iran but because syria is my sister tragically important to iran toppling saddam regime could also mean weakening these lawmakers public itself so the stakes are high both sides of the fence ok first of all i'd like to go to yasser in chicago i mean considering what we just h

as much as we don't agree with a police state in syria he is correct because the reverberations in lebanon in turkey iran s finest pakistan in afghanistan will be over rend us if there is an intervention so now libya two point zero is syria but it's a modified system. there won't be a direct intervention by nato but they are arming the syrian national council and the free syrian army via lebanon and via turkey and this has been confirmed by everybody including. make an admission in paris which is the best informed french daily that weekly newspaper it's a satirical paper and the turkish press everybody knows that this rule army is being armed by nato by qatar and by saudi outside of syria's borders but the most important point in my opinion now is the role of turkey because starcade they had a policy that they call zero problems with their neighbors that was stablish by their prime minister and now they're creating a problem with syria an effect they had an alliance it was still around that moscow's ankara and now this completely disappeared and al they are advocating destabilizing the mos

wide it begins in iran some elements in iraq government are part of the syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon on how. meanwhile the arab league has been pulling no punches as it has announced a decision to suspend syria's membership for failing to meet the terms of its peace plan a move that syria has fervently denounced. were surprised that the arab league had already prepared a document which obviously came from american orders and they were asked to produce this document because serious positive response surprised them and their masters in america and the west. syria has also remain confident that china and russia would oppose any one resolution to get militarily involved both countries have vetoed such a decision back in october the international community has gone to great lengths to draw a contrast between libya and syria mainly to avoid provoking iran but because syria is much distance equally important to iran toppling saddam regime could also mean we could mean these lawmakers public itself so the stakes are high both sides of the fence ok first of all i'd like to go to yasser in chi

parts of the global economy there are not integrated told to lean the global economy like parts of lebanon and especially syria and specially iran so it's breaking the alliance between the mosque hizbollah and iran it's a few traits in syria which is a key part of the neal conan idea of going i don't annoy each at a time and then break them all down and real men go to tehran still applies and of course oil because there's a started there hasn't been reported that because there's a syria and iraq are involved in the pipeline says well with the participation of iran so always the oil majors in the west they want to be part of this business as well but most importantly is the expression of nato nato wants to control them of the to raney and syria is a big big problem there is a russian naval base at the heart of sport made to once to get rid of this russian base by all means and the iranian navy they have docking rights at darts and says well so the eastern mediterranean is not part of the meat's only so they want to do every seeing and out of power to control the whole of dimity tourettes an

very wide it begins in iran some elements iraq government are part of a syrian regime hezbollah in lebanon on how in gaza meanwhile the arab league has been pulling no punches as it has announced a decision to suspend syria's membership for failing to meet a good terms of its peace plan a move that syria has fervently denounced. were surprised that the arab league had already prepared a document which obviously came from american orders and they were asked to produce this document because serious positive response surprised them and their masters in america and the west. syria has also remain confident that china and russia would oppose any resolution to get militarily involved both countries have vetoed such a decision back in october the international community has gone to great lengths to draw a contrast between libya and syria namely to avoid provoking iran because syria is much the strategically important to run toppling regime could also mean we can in these lawmakers public itself so the stakes are high both sides of the fence ok first of all i'd like to go to yasser in chicago i me

wide it begins in iran some elements in iraq's government are part of the syrian regime hezbollah and lebanon on how in gaza meanwhile the arab league has been pulling no punches it has announced this isn't to suspend syria's membership for failing to meet at the terms of its peace plan a move that syria has fervently denounced. were surprised that the arab league had already prepared a document which obviously came from american orders and they were asked to produce this document because syria's positive response surprised them and their masters in america and the west. syria has also remain confident that china and russia would oppose any u.n. resolution to get militarily involved both countries have vetoed such a decision back in october the international community has gone to great lengths to draw a contrast between libya and syria mainly to avoid provoking iran but because syria is much the strategically important to iran toppling saddam regime could also mean weakening these lawmakers public itself so the stakes are high both sides of the fence ok first of all i'd like to go to yasser i

iraq's government are part of the syrian regime has won on lebanon on how. meanwhile the arab league has been pulling no punches and has announced a decision to suspend syria's membership for failing to meet the terms of its peace plan a move that syria has fervently denounced. were surprised that the arab league had already prepared a document which obviously came from american orders and they were asked to produce this document because serious positive response surprised them and their masters in america and the west. syria has also remain confident that china and russia would oppose any u.n. resolution to get militarily involved both countries have vetoed such a decision back in october the international community has gone to great lengths to draw a contrast between libya and syria mainly to avoid provoking iran but because syria is much the strategically important to iran toppling the regime could also mean we can mean these lawmakers public itself so the stakes are high both sides of the fence ok first of all i think go to yasser in chicago i mean consi

line as much as we don't agree with a police state in syria he is correct because the river ations in lebanon in turkey in iran s finest pakistan in afghanistan will be over rend us if there is an intervention so now libya two point zero is syria but it's a modified system. there won't be a direct intervention by nato but they are arming the syrian national council and the free syrian army via lebanon and via turkey and this has been confirmed by everybody including. lincoln admission in paris which is the best informed french daily that weekly newspaper it's a satirical paper and the turkish press everybody knows that this rule army is being armed by nato by qatar and by saudi outside of syria's borders but the most important point in my opinion now is the role of turkey because starcade they had a policy that they call zero problems with their neighbors that was stablish by their prime minister and now they're creating a problem with syria an effect they had an alliance it was still around that moscow's ankara and now this completely disappeared and now they are advocating destabilizing the

if you can have a divide and conquer policy which says to let the christians will be kicked out of lebanon and the christians will be say kicked out of syria in the way that they have been kicked out of iraq and ironically a lot of them went to syria you can you can get a situation where all of these countries are are fatally weakened. way in which it's introduced is if you look at syria the main centers of trouble are on the turkish border the syrian border with jordan with iraqi kurdistan and then with lebanon and i think lebanon thanks to saad hariri may be the main one it isn't critical but we are running already very short a time when i'm so sorry we are running a long time but if i may with western powers calling for restraint on both sides in egypt why do they only take a one sided approach when it comes to what's going on in syria. well this is it's all the tactics of demagogy and the modulation of demagogy from one one minute to the next but what we have year in syria is a cynical media campaign because i've been in homs when you go to homs and you go to this neighborhood which is

they were a prominent family in lebanon, well known people, he was a graduate of princeton, university, well liked, not much of a businessman, but a very well known person. he grew up in a home that was not moriman rockwell. his mother, mary, was a fierce presence. she was -- she exerted dominance over the home. she was meantly and physically cruel. she attacked bruce's fall, randall, with whatever was at hand. it could be a broom, a fork. one night it was a skillet to the head that knocked him out, and she micromanaged bruce who she saw him as her prodigy. bruce's schoolmates who i interviewed, and i interviewed dozens of people who grew up with bruce in those years, schoolmates, teachers, others, townspeople in lebanon, and they said mary ivans had left a mark on bruce, a lasting and haunting mark, so from an early age, bruce, however, was, he was a scientifically gifted student, however, he was socially isolated. he never fit in for whatever reason, yet he craved and actually as he got older and older he demanded attention and approval, and those are two themes for the life of bruce

as much as we don't agree with a police state in syria he is correct because the reverberations in lebanon in turkey in iran s finest pakistan in afghanistan will be over rend us if there is an intervention so now libya two point zero is syria but it's a modified system. there won't be a direct intervention by nato but they are arming the syrian national council and the free syrian army via lebanon and via turkey and this has been confirmed by everybody including. lincoln admission in paris which is the best informed french daily that weekly newspaper it's a satirical paper and that thirty ish press everybody knows that this rule army is being armed by nato by qatar and by saudi outside of syria's borders but the most important point in my opinion now is the role of turkey because starcade they had a policy that they call zero problems with their neighbors that was stablish by their prime minister and now they're creating a problem with syria an effect they had an alliance it was still around that moscow's ankara and now this completely does appear an l.d.r. advocating destabilizing the mo

. >>> a group of cia informants in lebanon have been captured by hezbollah in what could be a crippling blow to the intelligence agency's surveillance of the terror organization in that region. concerns have now been raised that spies, who have spent months or years on the agency's payroll, could be tortured or killed. according to u.s. officials, the cia has us suspended espionage efforts no lebanon to see how the network has been damaged by hezbollah's counterintelligence tactics. >>> now here's a look at other stories making news "early today" in america. a brazen group of robbery suspects dragged a woman to the ground on a boston street as they tried to rip her purse away. the woman was followed, kicked and punched in broad daylight by five women and one man before she could get away with her belongings. police have not made any arrests. >>> a flash mob robbery executed inside a maryland 7-eleven has increased calls there for a teen curfew. one group stood in front of the countrier as a steady flow of approximately 50 people walked through the aisles just taking whatever they wanted

. >> in other news, the israeli army says the rocket fired from southern lebanon have landed in northern israel without causing casualties. the rockets landed in the western galilee region and the army responded but stocks on the launch area. it is the first time in months the rockets have been fired from lebanon and across the border were israel and hesbollah fought a war in 2006. the pentagon declined comment that the nato airstrike and may have been the case of mistaken identity. military sources are reported as saying that they throuought an encampment near the pakistani border contained escaped militants. hundreds of people protested against the the dedeaths. the younger sister -- she was a political novice who is grappling with thailand's worst floods in half a century. she is in the hospital. president obama ruled out any financial help. the comment came after a white house meeting with the president of the european commission. >> the united states stands ready to do our part to help fenthem resolve this issue. if europe is contracting or having difficulties, then it is much more

. >>> a group of cia informants in lebanon have been captured by hezbollah in what could be a crippling blow to the intelligence agency's surveillance of the terror organization in that region. concerns have now been raised that spies, who have spent months or years on the agency's payroll, could be tortured or killed. according to u.s. officials, the cia has us suspended espionage efforts in lebanon, in order to assess to what extent its the network has been damaged by hezbollah's counterintelligence tactics. >>> now here's a look at other stories making news "early today" in america. a brazen group of robbery suspects dragged a woman to the ground on a boston street as they tried to rip her purse away. the woman was followed, kicked and punched in broad daylight by five women and one man before she could get away with her belongings. police have not made any arrests. >>> a flash mob robbery executed inside a maryland 7-eleven has increased calls there for a teen curfew. one group stood in front of the counter as a steady flow of approximately 50 people walked through the aisles just t

it was fair, lebanon was and remains a town of middle americe else greg -- norman rockwell sketch. his father randall ivins was a pharmacist and a second-generation proprietor of ivins drugs established in 1893. they were very prominent family and well-known people. randall was himself a graduate of princeton university. he was well-liked, very generous to a fault, not much of a businessman but very gregarious person. bruce ivins however grew up in a home that was not norman rockwell. his mother mary ivins was a fierce presence. she was, she exerted tyrannical dominance over their home. she was mentally and physically cruel. she attacked bruce's father randall with whatever was at hand. it could be a broom, it could be a fort. one night it was a skillet to the head that knocked him out. she micromanage bruce who was, she saw him as her prodigy. versus schoolmates, and interviewed dozens of people who had been brought up with bruce in those formative years, schoolmates, teachers, other townspeople in lebanon and they told me that mary ivins had left a mark on bruce, a lasting and ha