Transcripts For ALJAZ The Feeling Of Being Watched 20240713

A day after more than 50 people were killed by Security Forces in one of the bloodiest days of violence since the antigovernment protests erupted in early october. It was just over a year ago that he was appointed Prime Minister as a consensus candidate between a rock political blogs. Throughout the streets on friday cheering singing even dancing optimism on full display oh shut up today the iraqi people are happy but we only consider this as a 1st step we demand the resignation of all lawmakers and we call on the judiciary to put them on trial immediately. The protesters making it clear that cosmetic changes will not suffice they are after a complete overhaul of the political system in iraq the mood here a general square has turned celebrates worry but all around us there are stronger reminders of those who have lost their lives during these protests here you see people who are praying for the memories of antigovernment demonstrators who were killed by Security Forces on a College Student told me he and his fellow protesters are more encouraged than ever to keep coming out on to the streets and risk their lives if you are going to do that either no doubt of that album isnt only. Just a cover he wants to topple the whole regime its been a corrupt system. For the last 16 years a corrupt system that negatively Impact Society and politics the economy and its even had a psychological impact on us some of the 2nd it. Brought her whole family so they could all witness a historic moment together. To show our day to day we have to come and participate because this iraq is our iraq this country is our country and this pain is our pain the youth whove been demonstrating are like all our children they have to take their rights because corruption wont last forever. Inspiring words that may help transcend the deep pain felt by so many in iraq these praying constantly not just for the dead but also the living. But that a man killed 2 people and a knife attack and Central London according to London Police and the suspect a 28 year old man was shot dead during the incident on was known to authorities and have been convicted of terrorism related offenses in 2012 he was released early from prison under unspecified conditions be an Opposition Leader keiko for more he has been released from jail she is the daughter of perus former president was he more he was servant serving an 18 month pretrial sentence for allegedly receiving bribes from Brazilian Construction Company. The women are a negotiation between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban have resumed the taliban confirm the informal talks as u. S. President made it unannounced visit to afghanistan talks were canceled by trump in september after a u. S. Soldier was killed in an attack by the taliban the president of the south American Country sorry nami has been sentenced to 20 years in prison a panel of 3 judges convicted a terse a for the killing of 15 political opponents in 1902 when he became the de facto leader after a coup the decision was announced on friday while the president is on an official trip to china. Werth koreas state news agency has called the japanese Prime Minister an imbecile and warned tokyo could so witness a real Missile Launch the attack on sions comes after north korea fired 2 short range projectiles into the sea off its east coast on thursday japan described the test as a ballistic Missile Launch that poses a threat and violates u. N. Sanctions or so the headlines keep it here on aljazeera more news to come next witness the feeling of being watched kopitar. Check check check check switch. I was must have been 16 and i remember like waking up 3 am and seeing the light outside and got up and i looked outside and there were 2 men on the telephone pole and they were doing something on the wires and rely its shining on them it was really strange to see it at 3 am so i freaked out i went across the hall to my moms room and i will karate and her and i was like all of them there are these 2 guys outside on the wall you are in there putting something theyre installing something at 3 am and we we should call the police i was really upset and disturbed them and i was like. You know its ok calm down the side effect alles probably just the f. B. I. Go back to sleep. Just dont dont dont want to ok so long. Can you tell me about that time you have to be i came to the door and im 99. Well. I guess you just his were in your bed as. And some want him running someones here asking for you i went to the door i found already people inside my house by the door to 2 it was like 33 i think you will see a man. With a black suit i recognize them was a of course you should leave her here for one hour when you talk about her one hour you know you dont know them how the this is a question you dont answer there was in all the while and the end of the all the under thought their make you the make you the maker confused you sat there just saying stuff. They would pick how does them this is what it was my and my husbands friend how is your relation with that. Talk about him. You know that what they call it they put like michel for the love bug exactly each morning. And look and then my table the next day i was maybe id see it i have to check again i would just look said no and the kids sense of mom stopped there when they said no i think its all so long that i couldnt see it how do you know the times when you were just being hurt or even times were really severe not excuse me because everyone in the community was seeing the came the came the came the k. All right here you go. And i never. Reach you is a really tight knit neighborhood Everybody Knows everybody else were doing a documentary i. Couldnt move that started in the ninetys till now so we decided we are new we need to do the story in. A lot of people in my neighborhood have stories about being watched but most of them are afraid to talk out loud about it especially when theres a camera around. Ok no worries i think if i want to talk to you know. We got some bread were no interview. The law. Come this way if you can get an angle a little bit more but it would work yeah right there and the damn car is always right there. Its like how you see in the movie as cycles pizza fans that are just sitting staked out from your house when you pass the van by like they pull up of most our bags they act like theyre not in the car but we can see you know. They would take on an aisle at the corner so they watch all the area. So what coder steps right next to go to the computer and going through it you know i should do a movie do respect their own is just great good. No spot and it. Was time he saw a car bomb it was before me. Every time i went for the groceries i saw the car i wouldnt top of the cafe saw the car and be kind of thought that the house was but to the somebody was looking into the house all the time and i could. Feel like someone suggests to me beating your life you know. I have a feeling that there is a camera there is something watching you dont feel afraid you dont feel safe. But i remember how it felt to just know that im free my home this is my home its just starts to hunt you know. Its become to the point where i would call the lever cross the street or her support the learn to say this or that over the car like that. Its not your home its crazy do you think youre paranoid no do you. No im not im not not i dont know i just think everything is its happening its going on and its its in real life its not an imagination is not paranoia be and be. Rich you mosque leaders have been under surveillance for years indictments may be forthcoming. The f. B. I. Has had problems going into the mosque during the week they have people out on the corners doing countersurveillance its a very insular community. A decade old federal investigation. So since 93. 00 b. The. Federal authorities are investigating the Mosque Foundation in bridgeview and its leaders for possible involvement in terribly Good Movement the house of worship one of the largest Islamic Centers in chicago has been under f. B. I. Surveillance for years. When we found this article it was one of the 1st confirmations for me at least that there was this surveillance that was going on for 911 you know nobody thought anyone was building bombs in the basement but what they did thing was that there was money being funneled through supposedly legitimate charities. 2 hamas 2 has for the most part almost all of these investigations and without any indictments and the ones that did result in indictments were for things like tax fraud so you were getting a lot of walls when you were trying to guess because often sees a journalist you want to know ok well we have seen these things but when why what is right why what is it based on and time and again the actual legal argument that was presented was to even discuss the reasons for doing what we are doing would violate National Security. Since august of 9099 ive been working to legally expose the very real forseeable middle eastern terrorist threats to american citizens at home and abroad. The successful investigation which was told me vulgar betrayal vu l. T. A. Our betrayal. To the 998. 00 seizure of 1400000. 00 of middle eastern terrorists funding. d the goals of this investigation include identifying organizations involved in the Money Laundering conspiracy and tax from. The list is here and these are the major muslim organizations in America Today so basically they thought oh he is mosques and charities for just one big front cover for terrorism. I mean whats the justification for this. This is the order saying in june of 98. 00 were going to seize that assets of an organization and a person and one of the things they seize was the house i lived in so thats whats wanted out here. Of syrias neighbor who was the 1st american citizen ever designated a terrorist and we were neighbors living downstairs from him at the time. In a middle class suburb of Chicago Living in this house a man the u. S. Government calls a designated global terrorist his name Mohammad Salaam and b c news caught imperium out the window this weekend. That guy peering out the window of his own house that. Hes publicly known as the 1st american citizen ever put on the terrorist watch list but i knew him best as im a dad my big hearted upstairs neighbor. 102. 00 is a trusted man in our community when there was a humanitarian crisis in palestine in the ninetys our mosque sent him to the west bank with thousands of dollars in donations in the Israeli Occupied west bank today 2 american citizens of palestinian descent are being held without charge in any Israeli Military prison while the government here describes the 2 chicagoans as agents for the fundamentalist group hamas they have not been charged with a crime nor have they been allowed to see an attorney when he was arrested by the israelis accused of collecting money for terrorism our community took to the streets to protest his arrest. While in israeli the tension tortured and forced to sign a confession in hebrew a language he didnt speak. The information collected by israeli agents during interrogation was sent to f. B. I. Agents in chicago and became one of the foundations for the vulgar betrayal investigation so law a naturalized u. S. Citizen was convicted in israel but after 5 years in prison there he was allowed to return to the u. S. Despite protests from the lead f. B. I. Agent on the case who says so law remains a threat he and a number of others should have been arrested should be behind bars should have their citizenship stripped should have been defected from this country here you see the old saw about a shoulder. Yes to it not guilty verdict of being a chair restore going to say it didnt matter that abu ahmed was found not guilty in court it didnt matter that the government eventually removed his name from the terrorist watch list once youre labeled a terrorist that red paint never really comes off. Can you talk to me a little bit about the investigation that you worked on that the very large one the name of the state was called polgar betrayal there was a. Individual who was targeted that mohammad salada he was ultimately convicted of a very very minor offenses and i didnt try to tease that or you up thats right you left there 2000 yeah ok and do you think that this long investigation was justified. If there are had been crimes uncovered ah or crimes prosecuted that would have been justified. If the reason nothing ever came of the investigation because there was indeed nothing they are then i mean its not a matter be justified the f. B. I. Declines cases all the time with your strength of spies case all the time because were just out of evidence. But if youre i think your question is would. Want to go deeper in that you are are you trying to say you think the investigation you know was as a result of. Islamophobia or prejudice. Susan i do not think that certainly was not my world view certainly certainly is not. And had i ever thought that that was what was happening i would have not been part of it because that is not obviously who i am maybe not so obvious with his new idea of i mean even if its a bigger question here which it is or is or. Islamic for we are in this country of course the murders its really f. B. I. Well i cant see much. More since these are the i document so i found a 1000 pages of declassified f. B. I. Documents. About an investigation they were doing in chicago in the ninetys called operation while going to try out one of the most interesting documents on june 9th 1008. 00 the assets of blink were 50 percent to warrants based on civil forfeiture complaint filed in the United States court rather than district of 09 so im june 9th 1008 we lived in that house that was seized by the f. B. I. So mom i gotta tell your story well i think shopping Something Like that is where we came and we always saw this bunch of woman in men in suits or in the car with you i think yeah i was whats going on like i wasnt aware and i was just saying your father was on to be a f. B. I. They were just forcing the dollars Something Like this are part of the building i was so what they are doing said i think the attic people over the. Said. Your father told me said always start or maybe would be. I was out i was without a home in this so we have to think about having the and all that up last winter on this and that which is documented in these f. B. I. Documents basically led to us living in this house. With. The. I want to find out everywhere that our name is on a list and theres a way to do that you can find a privacy waiver and i can submit it to the f. B. I. And tell them anywhere your names exist to release. If. You will think. It was. Real. Near miss been doughy this is in response here remember that request based on the mission or provided we conducted a search of the records system we were unable to identify main file records responsive to the foyer ramiro acknowledgment of such records existence or nonexistence wouldnt of itself trigger harm to National Security be please be advised that unusual circumstances applied to the processing of your requests to be heard by is that their records were not in their expected location i could not be located after a reasonable search therefore we are closing your custom and strictly. To me is a how many differ. One way is they have sent me rejection letters but they dont have things that i know exists that i know where they are. The. Search 2 days ago. I got a letter from the f. B. I. You know like these letters that weve been getting lately. Dearman spandau a this is in reference here freedom of information act requests on operation volcker trail the federal bureau of investigation has located approximately 33120 pages of records. 33120 pages of record. Just the amount of information you have to collect about people to get to 33000 is enormous and knowing like the end result knowing that these 33000 pages of records never resulted in convicting anyone of terrorism. Its shocking just the number i can imagine within the. Theres a Mosque Foundation bridge we have to see see 1st thing that he was going to see cargo yeah wow what a shock and fear already know much enough why we havent seen miles how does you know talk a mosque your dad was he gave the thought of me when i can when he was you know will continue on expecting about in a holistic ph the towel to theres no desire yet like it was a temporary thing yeah. I was having because i was close to the house and you know i have a lot of. Problems. In 1980 when my little brother and the 5th kid in our family was born my father decided that we should move to a bigger house and bridge view. While the new house was being built and my dad was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. And a few months after we moved in he was gone. I remember for weeks after he died my house was full of Family Friends and neighbors cooking and cleaning and keeping my mother company. At my fathers funeral hundreds of people from around chicago came to the mosque the community to make a donation in memory of my father to help pay off the remainder of our mortgage. In less than an hour the community donated more than 200000. 00. We paid off our home and 1000 years later were still here. Its really easy for me to talk about my family in my community but its a lot harder to talk about myself. I feel like i cant even begin to tell you who i am without getting into who i am not. I was 10 years old when i became aware that everyone looks at us like were all a bunch of terrorists. It started with cartoons all the bad guys in the movies had accents like my parents i had to diffuse but i got we kids were constantly bombarded with images of arabs and muslims as radical backwards violence villains. And so i became aware of how others see me and i learned how not to come off to people not a terrorist not an alien not a traitor. Dont talk too loud in arabic at the mall dont argue with your parents in public dont talk with an accent dont fail in school dont ever break the rules dont look an american. I am constantly juggling within me 2 conflicting gaze is how i see myself and how i see myself through the eyes of others through the eyes of a world that views me with suspicion and fear. Hi my name is our servant our we are just going back somebody from your offices just give me a call about my 4 year quest for in the processing or this will be. Over 2 years. Can you can you send that to me in a letter please because the letter in. My. So me out is here in london to a cost center to special guest in conversation i am here because of colonialism unprompted its fun interrupted theres a sense of burden still having some legitimacy in terms of spreading knowledge and technology preecho power meet skills that can really make a recommendation for something as monumentally horrific as slavery studio to be unscripted on aljazeera there is growing in a very short time to be a trusted news source wherever you are in the world he really want to know whats going on there and you find out very quickly we know look even use some nations prison. We are probably International Everybody will learn something watching our coverage. Be showing that we can be the best International News and most trusted source of stories that people. You can find out where and thats going to continue. Jazeera well meets tomorrow. Left the middle east but for successful careers in all the. Lebanese kind of the just tend to brazil. The norwegian story. Unusual journeys leading to unexpected things. Talked about and what will my on aljazeera. Piece it all be in doha with the headlines from aljazeera the iraqi Prime Minister abdullah bilma he has announced he intends to resign now it follows a call for a leadership change by a top cleric after antigovernment protests left more than 400 people dead. Genius and no way out the parliament from which this current government is drawn is asked to reconsider its choice in this regard and to act according to iraqs interest and preserve the blood of its children to prevent the country from slipping into violence chaos and destruction we confirm again that attacks against Peaceful Protesters are forbidden as well as them being prevented from having the right to demand reforms we also confirm that attacking private and public property is forbidden and that property should not be left to be attacked by infiltrators and their allies a man is killed 2 people in a knife attack in Central London the suspect 28 year old monk was shot dead during the incident he was known to the authorities and have been convicted of terrorism related offenses back in 2012. The peruvian Opposition Leader kicked off with the mori has been released from jail shes the daughter of perus former president she was serving an 18 month pretrial sentence for allegedly receiving bribes from Brazilian Construction Company order brushed preliminary negotiations between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban have resumed the taliban confirmed the informal talks as the u. S. President donald trump made an unannounced visit to afghanistan talks were canceled by donald trump in september following an attack by the taliban president of the south American Country of sadr none has been sentenced to 20 years in prison a panel of 3 judges convicted death of the killing of 15 political opponents in 1902 when he became the de facto leader following a coup there the decision was announced on friday while the president is on an official trip to china. North koreas state news agency has called the japanese Prime Minister an imbecile and want to turkey o. Could soon witness a quote real Missile Launch the attack on shinzo comes after north korea fired 2 short range projectiles into the sea off its eastern coast on thursday japan described the test as a ballistic Missile Launch that poses a threat and violates u. N. Sanctions those are your headlines the news continues after aljazeera witness the feeling of being watched ill have 30 minutes of news for you in about 30 minutes. Department of justice basically confirmed that there are 500 files on individual people in these 33000 documents and that i cant have access to them unless i have people signed privacy waivers i want to join forces to get as many people as possible to sign privacy waivers so we can flood the courts with these waivers and say anywhere that you see such and such persons name we want their file and we want their name and redacted in the documents. So its a conversation. To approach Community Members who are not active war or not in this field who dont have a clear understanding of the houses of f. B. I. Surveillance and repression yeah its going to be a hard conversation let me lets not forget that these this its the not stop now they havent they have not i thought it out of their look i was visiting another prominent person in the community was visiting one organism well i would say about 2 months ago they knocked on your door that the mother. I was at home yeah and they asked me by name and they had pictures. And what did they ask you i mean they spoke to my mother but my mother knows what to do because i can talk to you leave your card with your name because Lauren Bacall in the community believe it or not is ready to come out the Younger Generation your book and since you are ready to come out and say stop this terror stop to violation stop the state and correct me if im wrong but i dont know i feel like my e. G. Our age generation is stronger than our parents know how to cope with that reticence they want but like with such as the part of justice trump in the white house you know what that has an impact on the Community Whether we like it or not and it is living in fear. So its a very sensitive topic but i think it could be done. In this. The lines to mean the end of the iceberg information and surveillance not ridicule and i need as many people as possible to sign privacy labor so if the f. B. I. Has a file and they will release a one. Dollar were going door to door trying to get people to sign its for. Basically the f. B. I. Told us they have 500 individual records on people in our community. For the last year one of the biggest. Because they believe our career has a right to. You know this. Here yeah i think. I you know it really nervous no dont be nervous theres a lot of sleepy really straightforward a pick or think if youre just going to kind of say you know im going to every minute were going to think you know and this is whats happened yeah theyll be nice to meet him and its good for him to kind of think you ok yeah. Good morning on this is alexa letter for us it went down to the plaintive. One year ago my client who is a journalist submitted this boy request to the government asking for information which is very much in the public interest. This request was denied by the government one year later we dont have a document in hand. The f. B. I. Currently has Russian Occupation to call me either things that are headline news. Headlines doesnt cut it for me as being more important than a request from a citizen for documents. Today my real interest is having the government compelled to a schedule to produce documents. Standard. 500 pages of profit from them or maybe. I dont think 500 pages promote thats going to be acceptable in this case for a 4 year requests thats been pending since september of last year absence something telling me i cannot do it im going to order processing at a faster rate than has occurred i dont think we need to discuss this more than have you back next week. Google had detected government backed attackers trying to steal your password. I clicked on the learn more miss pop thought. Thats really frightening. This is all of it is hard suddenly becomes hard to communicate its interesting once youre under investigation its not that youre you stop talking to people because youre dont trust somebody because youre afraid that any. Medium of communication is being watched and so nothing is security on and so you keep to yourself i mean the idea of like you become alienated you cant talk to people about that is going on you cant get the help that you need because youre afraid so one thing i did that was proactive other than freaking out why is i emailed woman at freedom of the press foundation hard when i took screenshots of all those things i was like. As this legit because the u. R. L. Looks legit is it legit and if it is like what should i do and she responded this morning and she said google has methods of detecting this type of attacks on peoples accounts and for some reason a lot of lawyers have been going out to people this past week. So i am going to my mothers house sleep over for the night. And. Then having to find a way to hide all my shit when a very leave the house because im afraid that someone might break into the house where it is its watching me and still my heart drives well so every time i leave the house now how the stuff. Apparently never hear back to 2 men on here to come on 2 more waiting to be. 6 and making it out to others work on. The 2nd house and repeat see a mother and. No no thats your piece of piece missing. And she cannot see that it. What are you hearing about what happened down there that it was a b. S. Thing though. And i see to believe have we have a. Minute well have a terrific. Caboodle how they should and we should leave not this in the can and declare war ends who are in town judgment so listen to me god without these doesnt he have said and do this and that its there its in charge who can salafi you were not people we can see you do who really buttes and everybody is in power we have how many times it. Allowed us of the rebellion banks i had been around out many times who needs are heard if they havent had job to sell out to the next in the process and this was not a bank robbery that was a drill i want to be here for the real thing you know all play all in the clip because. You. Summed up. The yarn did not go ahead in the book and in this new bob anything to get a commentary. On getting between me. And im home with my mom what happened were. You know arianna with minimisation to mean you dont ask him who are you want. Mom on with your hair i just took a picture im sending it to your whatsapp look at it look at it and tell me if thats him. I mean this picture is about maybe 12 years old margaret not. Only did i miss the city you know now you robber right the f. B. I. Agent who started vulgar b. Trail really you. Read. About the stuff like wow im bonkers you know. Im all in that area. And took. Out like im not sure. How i found that yeah how did you i was curious how you found a spot on your resume like wow. Thats it im honest i dont want to go on. And i thought i knew. I was doing research in New Hampshire and now everybody on that street. All the time i went out like looking around like you know i see the saws and obstacles or as you saw that area wow. Yeah you know more time yeah i usually record all of my phone calls but if you opt out of that i dont have to do that because i dont want. Im ok ok i can never quite you. Can you move it back a little. Though. Its pretty good though we could see the whole walkway you would see the cars you know but the front door a little more of the front door we want to be able to see more about and the more of the front door it will just be the back a little more thats perfect we have nothing to do how i know. I mean what if your job and if i dont you know says my mother she there you call it god my god you know she you know i dont know which canyon jenny i miss she didnt die when i called him did i scary or wrong that again or are you trying to yeah i did see oh yeah as if you got what you think yeah and he laughed yeah she took him out of your phone calls i was trying very hard to sound very cool calm and collected on the phone yeah and not scared but i was really shocked because i was super shook i was really i know i have no reason to be afraid but i was really afraid like why is he coming he knows where we live he knows who my mom is you know his or her face is he was he had been at such and the neighborhood the oh yeah my old Stomping Ground but then i think me so matter of fantasy and i was just stick of he was whats the purpose. Why hes here and were slow have an answer for any of them. Before the court is played to its motion the compelling expedited process in her request for an f. B. I. Records concerning the antiterrorism operation older material. Plaintive is informing the public of the f. B. I. As a legend profiling and surveillance of community is based on race religion and ethnicity in particular in the Arab American Community and bridgie a. Significant questions about privacy rights are implicated by the plaintiffs project. The court finds that the anticipated 5 year timeline for production is patently on the reasonable and plaintive is intitled to expedited processing. The court orders the defendants to review 3500. 00 pages per month and give priority to the subfiles of individuals who plaintiffs provides privacy waivers. Im very happy. With our happy. For the 1st batch. It looks like in terms of redacting like they redacted as much as heavy handed getting and they are so silly neal its difficult but we think i think well be able to glean something out of. The. The paper here says in 1989 the f. B. I. Field office in indianapolis opened an investigation in the sun trust and then closed it between this is really interesting i had no idea that there was an investigation on the same topic before polgar betrayal. And then questions and answers what were the tactics used in poetry. Informants calling informants in the community sending f. B. I. Agents to peoples houses and places of work use of the bridge how serious the i heard news came on of our phone calls and they monitor who youre sending it to. Chicago f. B. I. Field office said its our requests to like 20 some other half. I field offices asking them to get information on this person get information on this organization heres one from louisiana and theyre like we cant find anything in the future that doesnt believe there is suppression evidence of a server should they get one from that or no response. In the future springfield requests that chicago articulate the reasonable belief that each person is engaged in criminal activity in support of International Terrorism were the things that they found the suspicious about us or actually the things that are most important characteristics of our community were very philanthropic and were connected to each other. I always thought the paranoia is in a fact of the investigative tactics that they used the way the to the investigation caused us to be paranoid but what if what if some of these things are reversed its not that this is the cause and thats the effect what if this was the purpose based on historically how the f. B. I. Has dealt with communities of color its not a stretch of the imagination to say that there are surveillance methods created paranoia but in fact they want to create paranoia within the Muslim Community shake the cage rattle the cage and see what comes out. And they thought there were terrorists there so that if they put enough heat and pressure on us they would come out the woodwork and they would catch them on a phone call or whatever when they did what when you rattle a cage in our back and the criminals calling out what does that do to the people in the case you know. Everybody in this room knows exactly what were talking about when were talking about the increase in surveillance in the community increase in this presumption that the community is something of a threat that started from operation bulger trail in the ninetys and that form not just methods of investigation but also legislation that was in acted post 911 checks and balances starts with people that once are the courts and congress that check is that people as long as were here in the hiring and they say talking about it somehow makes us more of a target is actually plays in city entire secrecy in the whole game as long as people are free to talk and there is no check against system we cannot be asleep any longer this is our country i want to raise my voice to be proud of who they are as arrogant as muslims as palestinians and as americans. Were going to have a citizen born here or a citizen of naturalized or an immigrant dont feel that your list of whos who this isnt the white man. Definitely understand the fears that our immigrant Community Uses come to this country with you know we want to invite them in to have a cup of tea or coffee and prove to them that were Great American citizens and i just want to say no sharper f. B. I. Its very simple do not invite them to be ok thank you. A 20 minute drive from my moms house is the only pen optic on prison ever built in the us. The pan up to gone is designed to ensure that the prisoner is seen without ever seeing. And that the guards see everything without ever being seen. The prisoners feel like they are under such constant surveillance that they change their own behavior. Their paranoia becomes as effective a tool of control as actual surveillance they become silent docile alienated. I still dont know for a fact whether the f. B. I. Has ever stopped watching us and perhaps theres nothing that i can do about being watched maybe the only thing i can do is make sure that the government is not invisible that the systems of power are kept in check. Its in the act of looking back and talking out loud that weve become less an alienated less petrified by our paranoia. Perhaps the only way to destruct surveillance is to make sure that those who do the watching are also being watched. Were. Were. Were. Or. Were. Living in a war zone is a risk not worth taking for most. But for a 10 year old boy there is nowhere else to go. In the absence of his parents his grandmother dedicates herself to his upbringing. Never knowing whether the next explosion. Will echo one step closer to the place they call her. The distant barking of dogs i witnessed documentary on aljazeera one of the really special things about working for aljazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you know its very challenging but in the particular because you have a lot of people that are divided on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mandate is to deliver indepth journalism we dont feel inferior to the audiences across the globe. Hello again its good to have you back where across parts of turkey over the next few days expect to see your weather start to deteriorate as a storm system pushes in from the northwest now the storm is going to bring a lot of clouds and a change of air mass because we do have a front that is going to be pushing across the black sea so for here on saturday 14 degrees is the expected high its going to get chilly or as we go towards sunday also the rain is going to start to push a little bit more towards the east snow in the Higher Elevations as well we could also be seeing some windy conditions particularly on that Southern Coast of the black sea there from 11 degrees for aleppo we do expect to see 18 degrees as your forecast high on sunday well here across the gulf not looking too bad here for doha on saturday on sunday though we do expect to see probably some morning fog across much of the area but that is going to burn off by the time we get towards the late morning as well as early afternoon or. A nice stay few at 27. 00 degrees and the heat is still a big problem across much of the southern areas of central areas of africa were going to be seeing those temperatures well above average across much of the region johannesburg it is going to be a very hot day for you with the temps here on saturday of 33 degrees heavy rain up here towards the north but over here towards madagascar expect to see a break in the rain with a temperature of 29. 00. I think stories generate thousands of headlines these protests are saying down with the system and down with all of the parts with different angles from different perspectives just because we came to prison doesnt mean right stopped at the gate separate the spin from the facts the western media jumps on stories we dont take down the misinformation from the journalism its about telling the stories of those human beings on the ground with the listening post on aljazeera. The Prime Minister. 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