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>> fouad, i guess the question is in this day and age can a dictator, can a ruler choose to murder his own people time and time again, day after day, and the world stand by and watch? >> well, that's -- >> that's essentially what's happening right now. >> that's the bleak question of our time, and that's the bleak question that syria poses. you have a man and a regime with his own community, with the intelligence barons, with his own sectarian community, alas, we have to be honest about this, bashar al assad comes from the allawi community, and this war is being waged for the most part against...

>> fouad, i guess the question is in this day and age can a dictator, can a ruler choose to murder his own people time and time again, day after day, and the world stand by and watch? >> well, that's -- >> that's essentially what's happening right now. >> that's the bleak question of our time, and that's the bleak question that syria poses. you have a man and a regime with his own community, with the intelligence barons, with his own sectarian community, alas, we have to be honest about this, bashar al assad comes from the allawi community, and this war is being waged for the most part against...

almost anything could blow it sky high. especially if this turns out to be true. >> we think that there had to have been some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we don't know who or what that support network was. >> well, senator kerry today downplaying those concerns, saying there's no evidence of a network that kept bin laden hidden for five years. the pakistanis claim they're investigating, but they've got a credibility problem in this country because even before the investigation began pakistan's interior minister flat out denied the possibility that bi...

volatile. almost anything could blow it sky high. especially if this turns out to be true. >> we think that there had to have been some sort of support network for bin laden inside of pakistan. but we don't know who or what that support network was. >> well, senator kerry today downplaying those concerns, saying there's no evidence of a network that kept bin laden hidden for five years. the pakistanis claim they're investigati investigating, but they've got a credibility problem in this country because even before the investigation began pakistan's interior minister flat out denied t...

Considering an arms embargo. analysts say this could have very limited impact. i just wanted to bring you a statement by a professor with john hopkins university who knows this region very well. here's what he said. >> so you can sanction them. you can sanction the barons, the intelligence barons. you can hold the property that they have, but it is of no consequence. in the long run, what this is about, it's about a regime fighting for its privileges and for its power. and it's about washington waking up to the fact that the belief in the ultimate redemption and the ultimate moderation of bash...