hospitals and medical staff into instrumentings of repression in the course of the efforts to crush the unprecedented mass protests and demonstrations. people wounded in protests or incidents related to the uprisings have been abused and assaulted in state-run hospitals including by medical staff and no some cases denied medical care. the report cites experiences from a number of wounded protesters including one shooting victim who said a doctor at a state-run hospital told him, i m not going to clean your wound. this is hard to say. i m waiting for your foot to rot so we can cut it off. that s supposedly a quote from a doctor. there s also a report of a doctor who was forced to flee syria after reporting a nurse torturing a young protester. i heard pain and i walk towards the noise, and a nurse was hitting the injury and swearing at him pouring antiseptic on the wound to cause the boy additional pain. there s three questions to answer. how much information are we recei
after i read this book i came across a few facts i want to run by you because i think it sets up the discussion pretty well. according to some data that i ve just seen there are over 1200 government organizations across the country involved in intelligence, counterterrorism and homeland security. we ve got about 850,000 people with top security clearances, and the intelligence budget since september 10th, 2001 is now 2.5 times the size, of 75 billion. and yet, if you read this book, you have to conclude that we are not intelligently assessing the islamist threat to this country. all of that having been said, what are we doing wrong? desk phone number one, first thing you for taking the time to be here to do this. number one, we cannot identify the enemy. terrorism is only a tactic to read there is a well-defined well-established ideology that motivates the terrorism. i described in the book i have sat down with al qaeda terrorists face-to-face. associates of osama bin laden w
will osama s followers retaliate? i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we re expecting the white house to reveal more information soon about the death of the terrorist code name geronimo. that would be osama gunned down by forces in a daring and secret mission that we first learned about from the president late last night. u.s. officials say dna test results today confirmed that it was indeed the al qaeda leader killed in a fortress-like mansion outside of the pakistani capital. right now we hear the chilling prospect that we may hear a final tape from the man who masterminded the most deadliest attack on u.s. soil. first, let s go to ed henry. ed, we ve already learned a lot about this operation. more details will surface. tell our viewers what we know. wolf, we re learning all kinds of new details about just how tense it was inside the white house situation room yesterday afternoon as all of this drama unfolded. it s also becoming clear that this white h
there is precedence. we re saying no, not even to our dear friend the 44th, no, we re laying down guidelines, and he yes, when we have honest disagreements, we want to talk about them. . he said keep me advised and i think that s what we have to do. so, in the spirit of keeping him advised, and not just congratulating him on all the things that i overwhelmingly like, i m just going to take a moment and describe to you the circumstances that i think he we fine ourselves in on this 24 the day of july in terms of healthcare and the political system itself. where are we? well, first of the healthcare bill is, unfortunately, in trouble, and i heard the president driving this morning out to being quoted on n.p.r. from chicago saying first of all, we got to do it right and then we got to get it done. well, yes, but i don t think it s being done right. not that it s not single payer, although the president may have well, he couldn t have been a single payer before me, but he wa