The debate offer the u. S. Drone program in the region. Also b, is this the first time an american citizen has been killed by a drone attack outside of Anwar Al Awlaki who was an american who became a terrorist and taken out by a u. S. Drone strike. To be clear white house statement says counterterror operation. They do not specify that it was a drone strike. So we should hear from the white house and im reaching out now to specify what kind of operation this was. Was a drone strike aircraft or elements on the ground involved. Thats one thing we have to look into. Keep in mind all those things have inherent risks. Drone strikes killed civilians before. You mentioned al awlaki strike the one previous weve known before pesifying drone specifically. Keep in mind there was another operation on the ground in somalia with Ground Forces that killed not an american but an International Hostage from south africa. So all these options at the president s hands, all of them are risky in these cont
Has 20 mewnew weapons. Wolf blitzer is off, im brianna keilar. Youre in the situation room. We are following two major stories this hour. Our breaking news a u. S. Counterterror strike kills two al qaeda hostages one of them american the other italian. President obama says he taked full faublt fresponsibility for the deaths. The air strikes killed two other americans who were senior al qaeda operatives. A new protest targets Baltimore City hall. Officials call on workers to get out of the down town area as state troopers are called in. With anger growing over the death of freddie gray while in Police Custody and police Union Comments likening protesters to a lynch mob, where is this headed . Congressman peter king is standing by. We have our correspondents analysts and guests who will help us with these stories. We begin with the al qaeda strikes and jim acosta. President obama personally apologized to the families of those two hostages who were killed. And even made a phone call to th
Dirty business
January 21, 2021
It was early November morning when Kaveh Moussavi met with three unidentified men in the Nikko Hotel lobby. The discussions centered on valuable procurement contracts. According to Moussavi, these men were government officials and were demanding $1 million for the award of the contracts.
No, this is not Broadsheet and the meeting had nothing to do with Pakistan. This was Mexico in 1992, when Moussavi was acting as an agent for IBM and working on a 6.5 percent commission to help procure valuable radar and air navigation equipment contracts tendered by the Mexican government. Moussavi later broke the story to the Financial Times of how dirty officials in Mexico were fixing government contracts for bribes.