program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. i d like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. i m just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney and luke gates are also returning to the u.s. from egypt at this hour. syria is running out of allies. you can add the arab league to its list of critics. finance ministers from the league want to punish damascus for its crackdown on protesters. new video on youtube showed enthusiastic demonstration with syrians pledging with the league to hit the regime hardment something you don t normally see in public. proposed sanctions would include freezing government assets and those belonging to syrian
cnn s rez acehal joins me from islamabad. first off, what do we know in terms of specifics about the attacks? reporter: ted, the most detailed account we re getting is from pakistani officials. it s important to note that u.s. and nato officials have yet to say this is what happened. this is what pakistan is saying happened. essentially officials are saying in the early morning hours of saturday a nato air strike hit two military check posts on pakistani soil killing at least 24 pakistani soldiers. they say this incident happened in a place called mohmens, a district in the tribal region right along the afghanistan border. there s a lot of militant activity in this region. what you have often is pakistani troops, nato troops carrying out a lot of operations here but the agreement is for pakistan to stay on its side and fate toe to stay on its side. officials here say that s not what happened. these air strikes hit these two check posts on pakistani soil. not the first time
first off, what do we know in terms of specifics about the attacks? reporter: ted, the most detailed account we re getting is from pakistani officials. it s important to note that u.s. and nato officials have yet to say this is what happened. this is what pakistan is saying happened. essentially officials are saying in the early morning hours of saturday a nato air strike hit two military check posts on pakistani soil killing at least 24 pakistani soldiers. they say this incident happened in a place called mohmens, a district in the tribal region right along the afghanistan border. there s a lot of militant activity in this region. what you have often is pakistani troops, nato troops carrying out a lot of operations here but the agreement is for pakistan to stay on its side and nato to stay on its side. officials here say that s not what happened. these air strikes hit these two check posts on pakistani soil. not the first time this has happened, ted. last year, another nat
needed supplies just sit across the border. cnn s reza sayah joins me from islamabad with more. reza, first off, what do we know in terms of specifics about the attacks? reporter: ted, the most detailed account we re getting is from pakistani officials. and it s important to note that u.s. and nato officials have yet to say that this is exactly what happened. this is what pakistan is saying happened. essentially officials here are saying in the early morning hours of saturday a nato air strike hit two military check posts on pakistani soil, killing at least 24 pakistani soldiers. they say this incident happened in a place called mohmens, a district in pakistan s tribal region right along the afghanistan border. there s a lot of militant activity in this region. what you have often is pakistani troops. nato troops carrying out a lot of operations here. but the agreement is for pakistan to stay on its side and nato to stay on its side. but officials here in pakistan say that
free after being accused of throwing fire bombs during recent violent protests in cairo. we are monitoring their moves. also this morning, an american journalist, we ll get back to our jason carroll there in just a second. the other story i need to tell you about, also in egypt. someone you have seen on our air here at cnn a number of times. an american journalist who has appeared here with us says she was blindfolded, beaten and sexually assaulted by egyptian police. she is now free and speaking out. we will be live in cairo in just a minute. but, back home, here on this thanksgiving, our jason carroll, as you saw just a moment ago, he is monitoring things with us in new york. the macy s thanksgiving day parade about to kick off. i think we just heard our bonnie schneider report that, in fact, the weather will cooperate. so, is that the case? jason, you hearing me all right? happy thanksgiving to you. happy thanksgiving to you. can you see, can you see that sun shining on