Investigative journalist focusing on terrorism in the middle east region come at a moderator carla thorson, Senior Vice President of programs and World Affairs. We are recording tonight program so please take a moment to silence your cell phones. Im a Program Officer at World Affairs. If you enjoy two nights discussion and your interest in learning more about the organization i will be around after the program so please introduce yourselves. I would now like to turn over to our moderator, carla thorson. So good evening everyone and thank you for joining us. Its my great pleasure to introduce our guest this evening, jere van dyk, a journalist, author, and cbs news consultant who covers afghanistan and pakistan. He has authored a book called captive, my time as a prisoner of the taliban, and another work in afghanistan. Hes also written for such publications as the New York Times, newsweek and national geographic. And in 1981 1981 while workinga correspondent for the New York Times, he l
Once in a while. R] [inaudible] okay. Testing, one, two. And he has written several wonderful books. In harms way about the singing of the indianapolis. Horse soldiers, about the first batch of american troops who went into afghanistan after 9 11 on horses. Soon to be a Motion Picture which we might talk about a little later. And his new book, the odyssey of echo company which is about a subject thats been part of my life as well, the vietnam war. So im delighted to have a conversation about that and also about writing tonight. So doug, why dont we start, just sort of with how this idea sort of washed over you in the first place, for this book. Thank you for the nice introduction. Thank you everyone for being here this evening. The idea for the the odyssey of echo company came to me in afghanistan, which would have been our most recent foray into counterinsurgency in the 21st century with vietnam obviously in thevi 20th. I was standing in a a helicopter trying to go to the Pakistani Bo
Syrian fighters known as the white b g ill go iffy as the establishment of a kurdish corridor along its border has been deploying troops and tanks that are in preparation for a ground assault Stephanie Decker has more from antakya. The situation around the fitting is heating up there is been an increase in shelling from turkey into africa and also hearing reports that around fifteen thousand Free Syrian Army fighters these are the rebels inside syria supported by turkey are mobilizing towards the east of affluence and this is all in line with the political rhetoric thats been coming out of anger over the last week or so the last voice added to that the Defense Ministry on friday saying that the operation would happen that there should be no delay and that turkey had no choice but to rid of what they call terrorists along this border all of this very significant player is russia and this is why weve seen the chief of staff and also the target head of intelligence in moscow on thursday a
Reports from washington. This is not the anniversary any leader wants to have it was exactly one year ago when donald trump made this promise and became president we will face challenges we will confront hardships but we will get the job done he vowed government would work again its clear with this. It isnt republicans who control the congress and the white house lost four of their own members but picked up five democrats still not enough to pass the bill that means many nonessential Government Employees wont be coming to work on monday without a deal although most essential federal services will continue the employees just wont get paid until its over it came down to this a program that was in place to protect children brought into this country without documentation President Trump threw it out and said congress should fix it he promised to help if we do this properly dr you know its so far away from comprehensive Immigration Reform and if you want to take that further step ill take t
Glass has this update from couple. Afghan special forces have been clearing the hotel floor by floor trying to find the gunman and get and evacuate staff and guests from the Intercontinental Hotel the siege started about nine oclock on saturday night when at least four gunmen attacked the hotel its unclear how they got into the hotel that is something thats going to come under investigation the hotel was very busy on a saturday night a Wedding Party was ongoing we also know that a number of guests were in the hotel delegates for a conference to be held on sunday so a very busy time its unclear exactly how many people were in the hotel we know that several people were trapped at the time of the attack special forces entered the hotel to go after the attackers they turned off the electricity at the Intercontinental Hotel is a heavily guarded hotel one of the two five star hotels here in the Afghan Capital and its considered a rather safe place for foreigners and prominent afghans to gath