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Actually, not a lot of people. there was some of us in washington at the time who said before you even get to talking about an invasion, we should see what they find. or instead of an invasion, if you do believe there are wmd facilities, why not have strategic attacks just on those? why have an invasion you have no plan for afterwards? and to say that, hey, they have the capacity to resume, well, anybody who can -- you know, who can go to the internet and, you know, read a bomb plan has the capa...

Regimes wmd program and to insist on monitoring that. finally i think we need to have plans underway right now, even given how dangerous and volatile the situation is inside syria, to have our special operations forces prepared to go in and secure or destroy in place those chemical weapons stockpiles. we can not allow these weapons to fall into the hands of al qaeda, hezbollah or other terrorists or a successor regime in syria. martha: "the wall street journal"s bret stevens wrote a peace asking...

Heighten and prolong the violence in syria. >> reporter: that violence has been the catalyst for new syrian defections including one by the deputy oil minister last week and the reported departure of two army generals, though tphofpb these people according to u.s. officials or any ever the previous defectors are regarded by the intelligence community as part of bashar al-assads inner circle. though the evidence suggests a month-long conflict is ahead public hraoet administrations statements seem...

month. the u.n. general assembly plans to stroet this afternoon on a resolution condemning president assad for the brutal crackdown. our journalists in syria say government forces appear to be losing their tight grip across the northern part of the country. were going to get a firsthand account on the ground from cnns ivan watson. >> reporter: young men and old sit on the ground chain-smoking next to assault rifles, but they say theyve gotten these weapons within the last couple of mon...

romney romney, now tied nationally among republicans. each with 28% support. congressman ron paul runs a distant third with 14%. the other candidates all trail in single digits. moments ago, gingrich at a media event as he struggle to reverse the slide. >> the only person who profits from republican ads attacking other republicans is barack obama and i think thats a pretty reprehensible behavior on the part of some of the candidates. so im going to be honest. we did this saturday morni...

today the world is asking what happens next. im wolf blitzer in washington. we want to welcome our special -- our viewers through our special coverage of kim jong ils death. were covering all the angles of this developing story. we have reporters across the world from beijing to the pentagon, to london, to the white house and beyond. instability in the region is a major worry right now. stan grant is in beijing and is joining us now live. stan, just a couple of hours ago we learned nor...

hauled before congress and impeached. newt gingrich outlines his solution to so-called activists and ignites a huge controversy. im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. its a rogue isolated nation on earth. now the state is in transition now with the death of their leader, kim jong il. a tearful woman announced the news on state television saying kim jong il died suddenly of heart attack at age 69. >> north korea is built on a cult of personality surrounding the kim dynasty and...

And in latest years especially after the capture of saddam hussein, gadhafi trying to repair his image, offering to give up his countrys wmd program, but none of that matter today people of libya who had decided they had had enough of this dictators 42-year reign. jenna: you said you were a student at syracuse, and that was the university, obviously, greatly affected by, well, pan am 103. tell us again just what that was like. its something that we cant forget, there were, obviously, americans o...

individuals. they claim that only their views, approaches or prescriptions can save humanity and the world economy. their colleagues and friends dont you think that the root cause of the problems must be solved in the prevailing international order? or the way the world is governed? i would like to draw your kind attention to the following questions. who abducted tens of millions of people from their homes in africa during the dark period of slavery making them a victim of their materi...

Of attacks as well. >> 19 in 2010, mostly directed at foreign militants in north waziristan. >> there was a couple of significant hits though, correct? >> yes. >> fairly large or prominent taliban leaders who were hit from the sky. >> lets get that little. he was in charge of the wmd program, killed in the summer of 2008. fairly important al qaeda leader. this guy was behind one of guys behind the embassy attacks in the dying days of the bush administration. >> this strike? >> the leader of the ...