sliver of land. the book, you focus on the terrorist group hezbollah portrayed, smuggling of antiquities. what fascinates me of you picking hezbollah, i think syria at moment could implode, is it a full-fledged civil war? we ll lead that to others to tell us when the civil war actually happened. what happens to syria? you spent time studying syria for a long period of time to do the book, deal with hezbollah, get facts right as you write the fiction. as you look at this doing research, what happens to syria when syria falls? assad s going to fall, we just don t know when. one of the things that drew me to dealing with the subject of antiquities in the book, and as i looked at the map of the middle east particularly that little slice of land along the eastern rim of the
details on what we ll see as loved ones say goodbye to the super star. iran is one step closer to being able to build a nuclear weapon. the iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad claim as breakthrough, claiming they ve now made their own nuclear fuel rods. but he says they re for peaceful purposes. this is much more than just a photo op, certain to case late already heightened tensions with israel. it could mean even higher gas prices for you. barbara starr is at the pentagon. barbara, it s a lot to make sense of. put all of this in context for us. well, good evening, jessica. when you look at those pictures coming out of iran today, there s a lot of facts and a lot of messages behind those pictures. what is the message? iran is saying that it has now made its first nuclear fuel rod. and the president of iran showed up to watch it going into a system there to be able to be inserted. but what does it really mean behind the scenes? is this a fuel rod that works? does it take
jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight. thanks. we got word tonight that police in tie land have arrested a terrorist suspect after officials learned of possible plots against western tourist there. the u.s. state department today warned american citizens in thailand to stay alert and keep a low profile in tourist hot spots. the tip came from the israelis the suspect is part of a terrorist group hezbollah. a second suspect escaped the country. police in thailand arrested the mastermind of the 2002 bali terror bombings which killed 200 people including several americans. we are learning executives recently told the feds they are willing to shut down some branches of bank of america if the bank runs into more money trouble that s according to the reporting of the wall street journal which is owned by the parent company of this network. apparently one of several possible emergency scenarios for bank of america gerri willis is with us now to
you re in the situation room . the first republican presidential contest is two weeks away and a top obama adviser says the democrats are counting on a long primary season slugfest between newt gingrich and mitt romney. every word from the candidates could make a difference. jim acosta is covering the final sprint of the caucuses. jim, we re seeing a possible shift in the romney campaign strategy. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, there may be a big momentum shift for mitt romney out here in iowa, wolf. he had a pretty good debate on thursday night against the gop field. he merged pretty much unscathed. he was not the subject of the attacks from the other candidates. that was really newt gingrich s role. he was beat up pretty good during that contest. and so mitt romney came into a city and he said he plans to take over the voters in the coming weeks. what concerns me is that we have in washington a class of people who spent their whole time i
since osama bin laden. the breaking news this hour, we re learning more about the air strike in yemen that killed anwar al-awlaki. first, a reminder of why this american born cleric was so dangerous. president obama says he took the lead in planning to murder americans. he s been linked to those terror suspects of the decade including the so-called underwear bomber, the accused ft. hood attacker, three of the 9/11 hijackers and the man who allegedly tried to blow up a car in times square in new york. we have in depth coverage of the mission to kill al-awlaki and the implications. first, to our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. several administration officials say it was a cia hit. the cia and pentagon had been working with the yemenese for nearly two years to kill anwar al-awlaki. we had always had tremendous concern that after getting bin laden, that someone like al-awlaki was a primary target because of his continuing efforts to plan attacks against the united stat