Minorities scattered across the middle east. In mean cases members of communities thousands of years old. Christians in lebanon, syria and egypt, jews, samaritans and the yazidis an off shoot from the ancient religion. As isil tightens its grip it brings a particular level of abuse against those who proclaim against all odds of their airport faith. This is the scene in early august. Thousands of yazidi trapped on mount sinjar, surrounded by isil fighters. The seen, which raised fears of genocide was one of the reasons president barack obama launched airstrikes against isil. I directed our military to take strikes at isil convoys should they move towards the city. In the past few days the Kurdish Fighting force, the peshmerga, has almost retaken the town of sinjar with the help of the yazidi fighters. While this will relief the yazidis, a new report out from Amnesty International called escape from hell, torture and sexual slavery of yazidi girls. Younger women and girls some as young a
And part of which was a reality. We also dealt very closely on the issues of detentions. This goes again to this issue of president karzai seeking to establish and to reinforce the sense that afghanistan was a sovereign country and to wrest from the United States and other countries the kinds of respect due to that country and due to its people, and as we negotiated a contentious mou for my turning over of several thousand afghan detainees to afghanistan, that process and that sense of sovereignty came home in a very real way for me. And then, unfortunately, when president karzai abrogated parts of the mou, i had to cease the turnover of detainees until such time i was sure that they werent going to be released ultimately to target us or afghan citizens of the afghans again. We also had a period of time where we worked very closely on night operations and special operations, and that resulted in a memorandum of understanding as well where we sought to move from being unilaterally engag
Jongun. We begin with developing news out of span stack. At least 43 people have been killed in a gun attack on a bus in karachi. The vehicle was carrying members of the community they belong to a branch of shia islam. Kamal hyder has the later from islambad. Reporter the deadly attack on the bus took place in peak rush hour in the morning in the city of karachi. The attackers targeting that bus in the eastern part of the city. According to the Inspector General of police, at least three motorcycles with six assassins on board stopped the bus then got on the bus and targeted these people at close range indiscriminately. Most of the People Killed on the bus belonged to the Community Cans an off shoot of the shia branch of islam and there has been at least five attacks against the Shia Community but pakistan is also a country that has seen deadly attacks against the majority Sunni Community the hindus, christians, the scurry forces as well. So this is not new for the southern port city o
Know that i am palestinian and often im told you dont look like a muslim so its sort of a double whammy that way. Originally my father is from tiberius and he left around 1948 he came to the states as a 16yearold in the 1950s and landed in chicago and ended up majoring in engineering and graduated from the university of illinois, champaign. And, my mother is from and she was very young in 1948 and her father was a Civil Engineer. He ended up being employed in kuwait and so my background if you will has my father going back to the oilrich gulf states seeking a job as a young man at around the age of 26 or 27 meeting my mother in kuwait and starting a family. I also grew up in dubai. Host so they didnt have an arranged marriage . Guest oh not at all. In fact he has a Civil Engineer was working on a home and he would watch her going in and out of the house often and he fell in love with her. So yes, they were eventually introduced by mutual friend. Host and then you came to america and ob
It will be a complicated audit. I would not be surprised, having gone through something similar myself with ambassador ida, that it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree, the question that were going to talk about today, president karzais legacy, will be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless, i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leading afghanistan in one way or the other for the last 13 years since december 2001. We thought here it was an appropriate moment while the election is being worked out to take stock of what has been accomplished in that time. By that i mean not only the state of the country that he will leave for the next president but also certain habits of govern he weing that adopted and has become the model for an entire generation of young people who have grown up during that time. One of the questions i imagine we will look at is was this the only way of govern iing . Another is the