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>> when the soviet union collapsed there were called for peace dividend and mission acatch lished. if you eviscerate c.i.a. and special operations which was done in the early days of the clinton administration it takes decades to build that back. >> will countries feel less emboldened to tang with the u.s.? one author said the killing of osama bin laden is likely more meaningful for american psyches than the future of the middle east. >> the job gets easier and harder. adversaries will think twi...

Jenna: right now bloodshed in syria as we continue to watch the developments there. sear ran security forces firing teargas into the crowds in the capitol of damascus as thousands fill the streets following friday prayer. this is state run -- im sorry, state run tv is blaming armed gangs for killing four soldiers at an army post in daraa. most of what we are getting out of this country is amateur video. daraa is the city where the uprising began. rina ninan is live with more. >> reporter: its si...

Of whats unfolding in syria. >> the government is now making promises. one of them according to state run tv is that people detained in recent weeks where protests are occurring are will be released. videos from inside syria are in contrast to the videos we just showed. some of the videos weve just seen, cnn cant independently verify them, but they show rising tensions. this is what it looked like in syria. in the uprising in the 1980s, thousands were killed. but now anger is rising and so is vi...

Certainly because they wanted to re-establish diplomat relations once he gave up his suspected nuclear program, turned the centrifuges over to the united states. theyre now in ten tonight. they absolved him of being a terror-sponsoring head of government and we re-established relations with libya, back into the george w.b. bush administration. president obama has continued that policy, of course. you have two administrations who have both had relations with libya. it was always suspected how cou...

Youre not even allowed to express your opinion. there is only one opinion and that is of gadhafi. 41 years of rule, 41 years of mismanagement, 41 years of keeping the country isolated from the rest of the world in a bizarre-like country with this philosophy that is put forward and taught in schools with students forced to memorize it. that is of course the philosophy of gadhafis manifesto the green book. i was watching people tearing up copies of this green book. they are tired of a cult of pers...

As security forces try to quiet the streets, libya has banned journalists in the region. but information and video is leaking out from social media sites. these shots from tripoli were uploaded today on youtube, scenes of chaos in the streets, people setting fires. cnn can confirm the uprising in benghazi. although cnn doesnt confirm post, we cannot -- >> moammar gadhafi has spoken since these protests erupted and did appear on state run tv but we dont know when this was taped. a few hours ago, ...

The uprising in libya. >> were looking at breakfast television in libya, state run tv. its 11 minutes before 6:00 in the morning there. state run tv not covering the uprising. you see fireworks there and anything other than the unrest that the rest of the world has been watching on the streets of benghazi and tripoli. >> you certainly wouldnt know there was unrest there by looking at those pictures. lets bring back in a libyan american living in this country 30 years. i asked you about a direct ...

>> at least 200 people are dead as security forces try to quiet the streets, libya has banned journalists in the region. information and video is leaking out from social media sites. these shots from tripoli were unloaded from youtube, chaos in the streets, people starting fires and cnn can confirm protesting in ben ghazi, also cnn doesnt confirm posts on social media. >> and he hasnt spoken since the protests erupted and did appear on state run tv but we dont know when this was taped. a few hou...

Is this 26 ramsey street in cairo, this building, that houses the intersections of many, many internet cables, making it centralized. telecom egypt, state-run, operates and controls cables. when talking about different internet service providers within egypt, theyre leasing this infrastructure, telecom egypt owns it. >> when we talk about whats going on in iran and watching what takes place in places like yemen and also in bahrain, could this happen there? i mean, is there any way around, i gues...

Oil they have a different capitalism. they are state-run. so they, the states themselves, the governments profit off of high are oil prices so it is not necessarily a bad thing for them for the oil prices to go up because they can turn the profits into subsidies. >>neil: but they are not only state run in the case of saudi arabia but family-run and there have been the fears of what if the masses revolt, al qaeda-type revolt. in tunisia, among those entertaining and joining us the government are ...