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May 2004, two months into the invasion of iraq. george w. bush selects former u.s. ambassador l. paul bremer to be the top civilian in charge in iraq. >> ambassador goes with the full blessings of this administration and the full confidence of all of us in this administration that he can get the job done. >> at the top of the list for bremer is oil. >> i had been told we had to get the oil going because it was an oil-dominated economy. this was fairly straightforward. unless you can get the oil going, you can't get the economy going. >> what bremer and his team find when they get into iraq is ...

Molester and his chilling admission can frighten any child and any parent. >> i just told myself, i'm going to kill her. >> richard guest murdered his stepmother. >> now that my dad is dead, i am going to kill her. and that is what i did. i went over to her house, and i shot her. >> even though some patients may never leave atascadero, patrick who admits to raping ten women was released in may 2004. >> i would identify my victims by finding women alone in their home when they were sleeping, when they were most vulnerable. >> officials here have asked us not to show you all of the outside of th...

It was about 2:30 p.m. eastern today when nbc's pete williams reported that officials had identified the man who allegedly opened fire at the navy yard, killed 12 people before he himself was killed. the man is aaron alexis, 34 years old. according to his aunts, he grew up in brooklyn, new york, with his mother and his father and his brother. he had been in the navy reserve for about four years. we continue to learn more about him as each hour passes. but here's the basics of what we know so far. he did serve in the naval reserves, but he was never on active duty. he never deployed to a war zo...

Identified the man who allegedly opened fire at the navy yard, killed 12 people before he himself was killed. the man is aaron alexis, 34 years old. according to his aunts, he grew up in brooklyn, new york, with his mother and his father and his brother. he had been in the navy reserve for about four years. we continue to learn more about him as each hour passes. but here's the basics of what we know so far. he did serve in the naval reserves, but he was never on active duty. he never deployed to a war zone. he joined up in the spring of 2007 and was out of the naval reserve by 2011. his last ...

Is with us in our new york city newsroom. jonathan, this actually, and i'm reading from the seattle ph.d. and other places. this was not his only arrest. >> yeah, the first arrest that we have been able to find was in seattle, washington, back in may 2004. when, as you look at the police report from that incident, he is alleged to have shot out the tires of a car belonging to construction workers working on a property next to where aaron alexis was staying at the time. he later told cops he didn't remember firing his gun and suffered what he called an angered fueled blackout. he also said he w...