That the troops were being reduced in light of the growing capabilities of Iraqi Security forces to address terrorism in the country. And of course, eisel was officially declare defeat in 2017. But the coalition has still been engaged in fighting an insurgency and trying to contain sleeper cells that remain operational in that country. But of course, its much more complicated than that. If we go back to earlier this year, there was this Parliament Vote to oust all foreign troops. And that vote came in response to the u. S. Killing of iranian general custom, some in money and other iraqi officials here in baghdad. And weve also seen a surge in rocket attacks on u. S. Interests, and it was in that context that the 2 sides renegotiated u. S. Military presence, beginning the drawdown from 1st 5000. 00 troops earlier this year to 3000. 00 troops as of september. So this additional drawdown is not that significant in light of the reductions that have already taken place. But what remains to be seen is the impact on the u. S. Led coalition here because the u. S. It provides the logistical backbone. It provides the force protection to other Coalition Countries and it may lead other coalition members, for example, from European Countries to reconsider their presence here in country. And it also may prompt a further transfer of responsibilities to the nato mission here, which has already taken on some institutional capability building his chief of Cyber Security. Just days after he rejected the president s claims of electoral fraud. Chris crabs on his agency, responsible for election security. He said the poll was the most secure war in american history. Trump accused him of making inaccurate statements. Irans foreign minister says to her and is ready to fully return to its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal. If u. S. 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Those weather headlines are back with more news in half, and of course you follow the stories on our website next, its aljazeera. Well, if you stay with us lebanon, a country that for decades has experienced civil war, economic hardship, and violence, complex coalitions of power and widespread street protests 2005 was a particularly bloody year and lebanons recent history on the 14th of february of that year, its former Prime Minister rafik hariri was killed in a car bomb in the capital, beirut. He had been an opponent of the 30 year presence of syrian troops in lebanon. His murder sparked widespread protests that resulted in significant change in the country. Samir kassir was an outspoken journalist and academic, and was amongst those who voiced condemnation of aris, killing the assassination, gave custody of worries for his own safety, concerns that later proved to be grim forebodings. Summit cosier was a columnist of the leading lebanese newspaper and the heart the day in her release last year in power. Because she has columns, condemned city, his presence in lebanon. How did his assassination plunge the country into its worst crisis since the lebanese civil war . Bad that it had it. If i had it had been kept away, doesnt mean its not a big man up and said it had an organ means that if i bought the house of that and got the nazi ghana hopped in the ne, how did the hey, you hate them . And when they do use your head, then i am pleased to have the empathy ive had to say yes, i have by the way on and the family to know where ive been an island utter madness, i guess to me, hut, but be behind destin intifada. And just so did i, but that a lot of times bill of god to be has in was out of me thought, but of god be can be the editor that i love for. Could it the how do you look, ned . Me then we saw you sued. 2 2 in april 2005, Syrian Forces pulled out of lebanon for good. This was the story of a new era. And some year cosier was a prominent leader of the movement of change. He had been active in protests against the continued syrian presence. And according to his family, if you, their withdrawal is a time of celebration jihad on your own, stick it in out of control, and ive been believe, and i hate im past silent tear gas than from duct tape and sand had what lay at me. Belly, not for how i am, but the will only be as management in the it took a while as an animal almost stuck in the welcome letter from there in may, 2005, because cyril was involved in preparing for the upcoming lebanese general election. And also trying to start a new business with his friend can feel with obama and. d really deal me, you can have had the most business of will be in the only a loss of so you have to put it to us. I mean, i mean people are going on, but subsea at the close of the new machine with a nuclear bomb. Them a hell of a no, ill your philosophy. Oh and send it on american t. V. And i cant invest it. I made it to new and had it disarm saddam out kenneth powell. And what did that on a kennedy sasa to me and i how i missed something, a bit less, not more time on that or how washington my can say i its a little they cannot leave the dead end. They see it and more, and it now i had my son half inside. And since there are people obviously dont go on, i think of all the evil, some metal or reduce euro zone. This is all new to you to go. Mr. Quark you know to your cost of a commute, celebes said on catastrophic. Id be able to deny all the evils of the i think reacted quite the minute of all over this one. This prosecution of a are not cutting of you. You could tell me of a thought they could check atlanta. The 2 journalists completed their call and bade each other farewell. It was the 2nd of june, 2005. I thursday, and with his shadowed meeting now canceled. Because he walked towards his car parked on the street near by. He sat in the drivers seat and moments later as he started the engine of the silver explosives attached to the car, detonated. Samir kassir was killed instantly. Its going to say obama has got us lying on a low, so gland or so feet tall. I ask im not out of my c. R. And again, im going away. Im not sure. And i was not myself. I say i dont have it. So i may have muscles and then some babble of club up on a shelf violence and political change were the hallmarks of the 1st half of 2005 in lebanon. The assassination of former lebanese Prime Minister, rafik hariri, the protest that followed syrias withdrawal, and then the killing of casimir. This public violent silencing of a writer who had spoken loudly in favor of political change in lebanon, received widespread condemnation. Many speculated as to who could have been responsible. There were more theories than actual clues. The investigation would later follow many alleyways and reach dead ends, not just in lebanon, but also in france. Some jocosely are held a french passport, and so the murder of a french citizen drew added attention from the authorities in paris. Indeed, his widow immediately called for a french investigation into casios murder. 2 parallel inquiries took place one in paris and one in beirut. The lebanese investigation faced an added complication that a new local Investigative Unit had to be established after the syrian backed security structure. And dynamic men are shereen. The san saudi halogens adoption is at the center. But the nice and young about that about the importance 40, 1000000, unquote, im deathly to many can know most about young man. No one of the lead. We had had that hard on the whole lot, a washout, some of the most careful and it is about the level of the fearsome it all see it of the fear shots, how we wore the heart of the people. Hes a one of those alum of the, the, but a lost me, as you know, a huge bill carter was unstoppable, caught it all on the look nuff said got it would have some of it in the clip. You only cant lobby my day and then fresh air to be shots were hard. You could have the see your mr politically lower back. You forgot mostly to see for well my david thodey of to and then fish around the minimal stuff. Hed was more but a wild card if you had the bag and me flat as much as and is and gone most of it within days of his killing a previously unknown group that called themselves fighters for the unity of the levant, claimed responsibility for the murder they threatened that anyone who stood in their way would meet the same fate. Later that year, the sing group would fain responsibility for another killing in beirut. Again, using a car bombing run 20 was the editor and publisher of on the hot, the paper where some it had been a high profile columnist. He was killed while driving to work along with his 2 bodyguards, gibran twentys, murder would bring the tally of killings of politicians, journalists, and security personnel that year to 7. Both victims had been highly critical of syrias involvement in lebanon. Casios last call them published less than a week before his murder was an attack on the syrian government. Headlined mistake after mistake. When i went, shed have let. I mean, im not much of sending our man on the road in usual a measure. He didnt go any over less, he said, on our side of the huffy mock them in mental forethought began. And it has, they might have been the only beauty. Yes, well atonement for this and the whole issue of who i can keep the day and that has been a trial by Bill Mccollum is a im in the yes i believe that out of the 100 obama obama who knew who i am for peer of the mobile home mom wouldnt do so if you know 20 to 20, allie, what the, my, i had done and want to say, felt and was a half the people that were there are sell your son. Shes a massive finance yazzie. Me. And i found the puzzle and i know how to them, but better than the man again, else i thought about that film. I laughed at that and we have to be about sears moved to paris in 1981, allowed him to develop his journalism and politics. He received a masters degree from the sorbonne and 6 years later added a ph d. To his academic portfolio selected aka most courses on there is no time on cover. Your only source of a palestinian sort of bet is to know the other joy. You know, i have read of it, but its, you know, no, no, theyre not going. There could only mill you visual the looseness edition of on the hard. But its fiction. S. The little bit more diplomatic than in a way. But that yanni been really bad once the last scene and last scene and then hardy and i, the more i think any of the futile c. S. U. That in, at the ted well enough. Even then when it doesnt, theres a happy little behind me. Western in a small fast series activism crossed Many Political boundaries, a passionate supporter of the palestinian cause and of critic of israel. He was, however, better known for his anti syrian writings and his criticism of what he called the Lebanese Police state. Cassio have blurred the lines between journalism and activism and was a leading member of the political party. The Democratic Left. They were amongst the opposition groups which spearheaded the anti syrian protests after her release assassination in early 2005 dollars to see a man mckinnon. Samuel and i had a saudi you know that your method that if youre home or cant remember any math problems and me are about to shout about the other issue. And that if it had any been let the short im in a story in a half human body that was with the saudi. Anybody and whether that can fit in their family. Mckinnon. Barber been awarded well or zation the name. They can carry a band. And this message, my left them, weve just been misleading it all the way in the land of many other cynical us of what the sentiment of man, what can the 2 sides, what he must get killed as many czech meccano. I know have done a lot. I said i was a long time able to be a light horse and youll see it all when i am the look nearly what the what the celeb was, i mean the salient and then in 1908, the appointment of Major General john wheeler. So you did as head of lebanons, a security directorate place to samir kassir on a collision course with the countrys syrian backed authorities. It was around this time that he became an editorial writer for the hard newspaper because he wrote a challenging article, a scuttle. I mean, soldiers against whom highly critical of syrias presence in lebanon. It and a seer were condemned by supporters of the role of damascus in lebanon. In his weekly column found a gruelling following summer casey, or was getting noticed. Not always advantages, in turn of the century, beirut isnt as in a 100 illegal alien can can attend. See, the film comes in one hot dog. So if you will saw that, i never said what the best moment is, shut up and what you want with a little mean theyll commit i be a man and left in a wash. Stuffing will come in and then she has and can then when i had no seattle, now i later learned the hard on their you had a season in my family and they had done, ill get more watch what i know theyve got will not mean theres a new house, i mean when about when they look for you . No, no, no. Theres a 1000000 but harder with a lot of money on my wolf will help me move on. The mother only about 70 feet was taken with a why should an intimate look like a man . And i mean, your brother was one of them. It was a having a little boy, you know, how come you say, im not a frog of my own because we were the last cat ive been with she has she has and i can mend, but until the and it will end the shuttle in august 2005. It was arrested and imprisoned for 4 years in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister rafiq hariri in beirut. Earlier that year, he was never charged with any offense and was later ordered to be released by a special tribunal prosecuting killing. Because his arrest was deemed as arbitrary in 20 years, it was elected to the lebanese parliament. He has never spoken publicly about his connection with journalists, garcia, the allegations that he made threats against it, had him followed and confiscated his passport. He agreed to be interviewed to for the 1st time, tell his side of the story. They were left horman on while i helped law, they shackled and many years of an echo moment. Then a little then you heard well, but then im in a thought for years on mobile or what i was told that that we were left were not of an organ or morally, i have a whole year out of what then is the thought then he had the well, but then alan and a lot of began what will allow me to then you say, well dr. Smith quasi at our leisure was suffered enough. I mean, what about all that what he had been the best money been . What about some it also you get ought not to was a funny, thats why im so much nep in asic. What was harder the judge was the most boss was sure she was dubbed was off in part 2, when the words kill the risk of speaking out. And a volatile city, i dont follow to her time. Will show you do give all the same to let me give you credit. You can move future to all who are left futile. 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