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Question in particular. And so he took upon himself he took it upon himself to try to bring these parties together. And he was the man who actually had known Ali Hassan Salameh in his cairo days, even before he joined fatah and the plo and they were personal friends. So he was intermediary between ames and Ali Hassan Salameh. And he did this simply because he thought it was the right thing to do. So he was never, never an agent, although for 10 years he served acted as a virtual acts as agent as its called, a man who introduces the cia clandestine officer to other sources. And even after ames death, which devastated him, he did, he courageously went back to the middle east after the cia station chief was kidnapped in 1985, and he, in very dangerous circumstance, risked his own life and was almost killed in a car bomb attack, and to try to find a way to free the cia officer. Hes an extraordinary character, you know, but hes actually rather depressed and pessimistic these days about the
Evening activities for the very first time. The hours today are from 10 to 10. There may be people with their shot at this who change their days plans and come on down to the evening stuff. We are going to have a session called great books to great moodys were authors will talk about how their books made into those and what they thought about it. A graphic novel supersession with five very stellar grab novel us tonight. That star trek six but will have a poetry slam at 6 00 and a session with three dialogue about three stellar major literary figures in mexico youre celebrating their centennial this year. Well, booktv will be live again in right now until 7 p. M. Eastern time tonight. We are in the history and biography room. Some of authors that you see in there, doris kearns goodwin, and a just a minute or so to political writers are going to talk about the book that they came out with, hrc, about Hillary Clinton. This came out earlier in the year. It didnt get the attention that her
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From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. The escalatingh crisis in iraq. The Central Government is steadily losing control of its territory. Captured known as isis mosul and tikrit. Yesterday, it seized a city to the west of mosul. Graphic images emerged of a massacre carried out by isis as it continues its march toward baghdad. The administration has considered opening a dialogue with iran to assist in the reconciliation effort. Us, journalist robin and you are in iraq a month ago. Tommy what was going on and what happened to cause this to move so rapidly. It had been long planned and carefully thought out. Go ahead. This is the greatest threat we have had in the last century. The jihadis are well disciplined, wellfinanced, and welltrained. They have a game plan. I think they surprised the outside world largely because of the timing, the swift headway they made through northwestern iraq. Known, we have always for the past 2. 5 years, that this could happen, that they c