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State tv announced among the dead, assads defense minister and his intelligence chief who also happens to be the presidents brother-in-law. >> this is a situation that is rapidly spinning out of control. >> reporter: in the u.s., defense secretary leon panetta called it a real escalation of the fighting. its the first time rebels have taken out some of the very officials responsible for the bloody crackdown that activists say has killed 17,000. syria already appointed a new defense chief who thr...

kelly ayotte the new freshman senator from the state of new hampshire will be appearing with mitt romney in portsmith in a few minutes from now. this is part of the veep stakes. shes one of the potential running mates that the romney campaign will be taking a good long hard look at. that vet progress sees, that selection process is just getting under way. theres a throat be said for kelly ayotte and why shes being considered. she has a lot of tea party support up in new hampshire. she ...

>> i dont think hes really factor in south carolina. the story line as i see it, is you have a number of conservatives and i dont b put huntsman in that category who are dividing the same vote. you have perry, gingrich, santorum all competing for that same vote that pulls away from one another. if you had one conservative standing there, they could give him a run for his money. >> all right. thank you very much smiek l smerconish. thanks. iran raised its rhetoric against the west. the intellig...

that its krun f time? and were digging deeper into ron pauls writings and finding -- sexual harassment victims. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." were here in the new cnn election center counting down to the final few days and hours before the first contest of 2012. the new iowa poll out today reenforcing mitt romneys place at the top of the pack, running neck and neck with ron paul. it drives home the bombshell findings of our poll this week, sh showing rick santorum has...

And you and i and everybody else ends up picking up for them. i dont think having a free rider system in health is any more appropriate than having a free rider system in any other part of our society. >> let me ask you about the u.s. role in the world. were still digesting the intelligence thats coming out of the raid in pakistan that killed osama bin laden. you said in february, an honest assessment on 9/11 this year, ten years after the attack, would have to lead to the conclusion that we are...

lets listen in. >> all three are still in good shape as are all of the other sims aboard the orbiter. a team of flight controllers watches over all the systems. 4:20 into the flight. "endeavours" traveling 5500 miles per hour. altitude 63 miles traveling downrange, about 335 feet in altitude. environmental and control systems officer here reporting a good flash evaporator system reporting cooling to equipment aboard the vehicle. traveling into space on the forward flight deck is mark k...

Absolutely. and i think the thing -- look at what weve learned about bin laden. weve learned that for the 9 1/2 years, a country, pakistan, to which we have given $20 billion, was apparently hiding him? now, does any serious person believe that the pakistani government had no idea bin laden was sitting there? does anybody -- and notice, by the way, what the intelligence chief has apologized for. hes apologized for the americans getting bin laden. he didnt apologize for 9 1/2 years of failing to ...

Meantime, libyas former foreign minister and intelligence chief recently defected to britain as suddenly left the uk. lets go live to cnns fred pleitgen. p he is in tripoli. where is he? where is he going? what happened? >> reporter: hi, wolf. he is on the move to qatr where the libya contact group is going to be meeting. that, of course, includes all of the member nations part of a no-fly zone and enforcing the u.n. resolution as well as the rebels. one thing that many believe will happen is th...

But the british government still finds itself in a dlem bhilemma you like, about having koussa here, given the questions from his past. theyve been aware of it and theyre saying, hes not getting any sort of immunity here. to what extent will they be open in revealing what he knows? >> given the man that he was considered by many. as gadhafis right-hand man and the intelligence chief in blib ya. thank you very much for that. >> youre watching world one live from london. >> thank you for joining u...

Meanwhi meanwhile, theres a lot of uncertainty about whether western allies will arm opposition fighters. more than two decades after the bombing of pan am flight 103 claimed 270 lives, scottish officials are still searching for answers and former libyan intelligence chief koussa may have given new life to the investigation. were joined now with more. he was the intelligence chief at the time of the bombing and there are many saying maybe he had a real hand in that. >> scottish investigators w...