This sunday, happy may first. Happy may were finally there. Im annie yu. Im not feeling there quite yet. Not yet. Good to see you. Caityln roth of course is here us with and for a very important reason right off the top here. Boy, it is pouring outside. It really s i know, really battled the rain on my drive i in. Raindrops you can see the cameras northwest d. C. Down at the white hoution. Maybe president obama and michelle sleeping in after a late night and on this dreary morning first lady and president himself deserve that after a successful night which well talk about this morning. Storm tracker radar showing showers moving through. We have a lot of rain here and steady rain through the noon hor u yesterday gray skies and cool weather and we have that and the falling rain today. We can use a little rain out there and were certainly getting it this morning. Zooming in on the beltway in the district. You see mainly light rain gaithersburg to south. This is more widespread across the
The form of burning beheadings and raping, sometimes of children. Is a betrayal of the islamic tradition. It is forbidden in custom. It is forbidden in International Humanitarian law geneva conventions and previously to that or prior to that the haig regulations. And Human Experience it is forbidden period. What virtue or courage is there in beheading someone defenseless, raping a young girl . Does a person who calls themselves a fighter believe this is, this is a definition of courage . These people are an smile eighted annihilated conscience are so far outside of Human Experience. Young adherents seeking to join them must know what they purport to join is not some adventure. Its a road to destroyed, utterly criminal existence. If youre looking for some meaning in your life, do good deeds. That will be your salvation. This is the First Official trip for a high commissioner for human rights to washington in eight years. It has been important for me, and my office to reengage with the a
Adviser for reconciliation to iraqi forces in baghdad in 2008. Before we start, just a quick reminder, please put your mobile phones on vibrate. We are live on cspan today, apparently. So well start with mike knights. Thank you very much for coming today. Its great to see such a full room. And my colleagues on the panel with me, its a real honor to be alongside them. So im going to talk today about some of the themes coming out of our new study. The long haul rebooting u. S. Security corporation with iraq. And i want to go through the study in detail. What im going to do maybe is to try and pick out some of the i think the key issues and quandaries that come out of our Security Cooperation with iraqi state, with the kurdish peshmerga, and our coexistence at the moment alongside the Popular Mobilization units that play such a significant role in the war so far in iraq. Now, just to run through a couple of graphics quickly, which are in the study, which is available in pdf form online fo