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derek had hired someone to kill kim. did you worry that they might think that you could have enlisted some help? no. hired someone? i knew that i could account for my whereabouts. i didn t know how they could think i was accomplice to something like that. he said he was an open book to investigators. in fact, when they asked if anyone else knew the layout of their home besides his pal lance, he gave them another name. josh beal. didn t have a whole bunch of construction experience and everything but i always needed someone to help clean up and straighten up the job sites and such. so he gave joshua work in the general contracting business he ran on the side, and later a place to stay. we saw a young man that needed some direction and we tried to help out. for a few months joshua lived
us into the situation right now? translator: the problem wasn t with the training. it was with the building of the army. it wasn t built in a way to face these challenges. it was built to be a conventional army. iraq is facing terrorism. we have one counterterrorism division. that is how it was built wrong. reporter: a mistake neither iraq or the region can see happen again no matter how checkered the battlefields are. you have the iraqi army, the iraqi police, the iranian advisers and the americans in the sky. i mean, it s a lot of moving parts of nations that aren t necessarily natural allies. it puts the government and yourself as minister of defense in a tricky position because you have to pal lance the different interests that are coming together in this one arena.
in the west bank. california high school is coming unfire for its sports team s name, the arabs. you can see the mascot in the youtube clip here. the american arab anti-discrimination committee sent a letter to the school accusing it of stereotyping and demanding a name change. the school says it s had the name since 1930s. the district and the group are meeting later this month to see if they can come up with some kind of resolution. hope they can. christmas coming early in venezuela by presidential order. imagine this, the president mass kicked off an early christmas season to help bring, as he puts it happiness for everyone. he lit the lights at presidential pal lance, announced workers getting early christmas presents. receive two-thirds of bonuses and pensions a month ahead of time. critics are saying he s trying to get more votes for elections
mr. mccain: after a year of bloodshed, the crisis in syria has reached a decisive moment. it s estimated that more than 7,500 lives have been lost. the united nations has declared that syrian security forces are guilty of crimes against humanity, including the indiscriminate shelling of civilians, the execution of defectors and the widespread torture of prisoners. bashar al-assad is now doing to homes what his father did to hamah. aerial photographs procured by human rights watch show a city that has been laid to waste by assad s tanks and artillery. a british photographer who was wounded and evacuated from the city described it as a quote , a medieval siege and slaughter, the kinds of mass atrocities that nato intervened in libya to prevent in benghazi are a reality in homes. indeed syria today is the scene of some of the worst state-sponsored violence since milosevic war of crimes in the balkans or russia s an n