Its 28 year history. Im sumi so much got to thank you for joining us u. S. President donald trump is expected to make a statement in about an hours time reacting to irans missile attack on u. S. Bases in iraq iran has claimed that it has killed more than 80 americans boss the pentagon said initial assessment assessments have indicated that there were no u. S. Casualties now the missiles reportedly hit the air base in western iraq and another near the city of air bill irans revolutionary guard says the attack was in retaliation for the u. S. Assassination of general customs on money in baghdad last week. Is all about the use of all her posts not on the model to the house they were raining in state television. Claiming at least of the 15 misdiagnose fired by Iranian Forces have hit the. Base in iraq killing 18 u. S. Soldiers the numbers cannot yet be verified and so far there have been no reports of casualties from the United States or other Coalition Forces wont run with. This promised
And then dry them out the cia succeeded. That it didnt see the global jihad was coming i think is in retrospect a clear failure. Thats looking backwards. Thats a little unfair to the people at the time to make those decisions. And in just a couple of minutes i would like to open this up to questions. Looking out amongst the group, i see a number of people who are deeply knowledgeable and well get some good and even perhaps tough questions. I shouldve mentioned in introducing bruce something that many of you know, and that is that president obama asked bruce to chair a policy review on afghanistan and pakistan. So if you could kind of leave over this story to the Lessons Learned and maybe some lessons that were not learned in our own engagement in afghanistan. I think theres a lot of lessons. First thing i would say though is we are not fighting the soviets more. We did not invade afghanistan unprovoked. We did not go in and kill the communist leader of the country which we have helped
CHIBAYISH (Iraq), Dec 7 Mohammed Hamid Nour is only 23, but he is already nostalgic for how Iraq’s Mesopotamian marshes once were before drought dried them up, decimating his.