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spring offensive. that threat follows this deadly attack in kabul but a taliban suicide bomber two hours after president obama left afghanistan and the taliban claiming it s just a sign of things to come. let s go straight to nick payton walsh in kabul. when the taliban says spring offensive, tell us exactly what that means. reporter: well, something they were talking about two weeks ago but today their statements shortly after barack obama left made it clear they consider it a new operation ahead of them. something they called al faruq, an arabic term referring between a person who can distinguish between good and evil. many targets, principally foreigners, those assisting foreigners, afghan security forces and a variety of other tactics which, of course, this kind of statement is try to design fear through the afghans working with the nato campaign here. we saw this morning a suicide bomber driving a car laden with explosives into the gates of something called the g ....
Form of the defection yesterday of mussa cues athe foreign minister and former head of external intelligence, and there are many stories now of other senior libyans who are allegedly on the point of defecting one it seems has defected, one in cairo. that is significant and does indicate cracks in the in the gadhafi circle. i m interested in your take on the military dynamic right now. we seem to be involved in a bit of a seesaw battle, but something that appears to be aproechg a stalemate. is there any way to break out of the stalemate, and if so, what would it require in terms of assistance to the opposition forces? i think there is a military stalemate or very soon it will be a stalemate because the rebel side or the opposition side, whatever we re calling them, don t have the the logistic ability to move large quantities of fuel and ammunition and ....
He says he was ordered to convert to islam or face death. they gave him an arab name, mussa, and this christian shows us how he was forced to pray. what does being a slave do to someone s identity? well, it changes their identity. if you are a slave, you feel that you are not human. so you think that everything told to you, you get the command and you don t feel that you want to exist. i sat down for some tea, he says he had 25 years of his life stolen. if you look at me, i look like a human being, he tells me, but psychologically i m not human. even young children there would kick my tea away. i wasn t a human being. each time he tried to escape, he was caught and beaten. on his fifth try, he made it. ....
Mubarak and he s a mubarak man. so there are probably other figures within the army who are making the real sort of serious calculations of what they re going to do if president mubarak, for any reason, decides to step down. and at the moment he has made clear he does not plan to step down early. do you see any cracks of dialogue, any cracks of negotiation that leads you to believe that actual progress can be made in negotiation, or are we despite, and we celebrate a peaceful day today, relatively peaceful day today, are we at stalemate? reporter: well, there are sort of beginning to be interesting developments. i don t know if we can call them cracks. today mussa, the general of the arab league by formally the egyptian foreign minister went into the crowd and basically said, told people, i am with you. of course he is a man who rose ....