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>> hey, fredericka. the losses are holding steady. the dow down about 436 points. they're off their lows of this session where we saw the dow down as much as 500 points. this is coming after morgan stanley kind of set off an alarm bell saying that the u.s. and europe are looking like they're getting close to going into a recession. morgan stanley also downgrading its growth forecast globally for this year and next. also not helping we got a bunch of economic reports here in the u.s. one on jobless claims showing a rise in jobless claims, the jobs area something that this economy real...

So clearly a confidence problem building in the muslim world about osama bin laden, and al-qaeda, and whether they are good or bad for that part of the world, jon. jon: why the confidence problem now, any explanation? >> well, clearly people in the muslim world are realizing that a lot of al-qaeda's victims are their own people. if you look at the numbers again, from 2004 to 2008, only 15 percent of the 3010 victims counted were western, a lot of that was from the bombing in spain, the attack in spain, from 2006 to 2008, only 2 percent of the victims were from the west, so they are realizing t...

Progress, and they do expect to be able to say they control the city in the very near future, jamie. jamie: conor powell live for us outside of marjah are the -- where the fighting continues, thank you very much, conor. jon: the leaders of al-qaeda say their main target is the west, but it turns out an overwhelming majority of al-qaeda's victims aren't western. mike emanuel, live at the pentagon with more. what are the polls showing about al-qaeda's popularity in the muslim world, mike? >> reporter: well, they're showing that osama bin laden and al-qaeda have a confidence problem with their ba...

Pacs and don't run away from something that is really good. here is how i break it down. the democrats seem to be having somewhat of a confidence problem when it comes to health care in america right now. they know whats and how good it is but they are not sure how they are going to talk about it. the numbers. the numbers, the numbers don't lie. the fact of the matter is by the end of this month, there will be 6 million people who have signed up. i said 5 million by march 1st. gosh. i apologize. i missed it by 16 days. so the bottom line is the next four months, april, may, june, july, the dem...

Stellar growth happening there. we are waiting for the president's big jobs plan. investors remain tepid even with safe haven plays like with oil. gold moved up marginally, about four dollars. just shows you when nobody is buying anything in these markets, no matter where you exist in the world it means we've got a big time confidence problem on our hands. >> neil: indeed, thank you. to italy, the scene in rome protests over government cutbacks. europe i go -- [ unintelligible ] what do you think david where do you think things stand? >> one of the big problems, when you are talking about some...