Page 6 - Peter Burgin News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

One that is really sort of the most heartbreaking of all that there are people there among the 170 who we know are cleared for release but because yemen is such a disaster area and so unsafe, we are not going to send anybody there. it's basically a system of paralysis now and we should try as many as we can in military tribunals and try as many as we can in criminal cases and reduce the number from 172 but obviously it's going to be present well after obama's president. >> peter, you are one of the leading experts about al qaeda. when you read these wikileaks document and add it to knowledge y...

but many are too dangerous to turn loose. what in the heck do we do with them? is the age of america over? a new report that china will become the world's biggest economy by get ready for this, 2016, five years from now. what does that mean for the good old usa? we start in afghanistan with a prison break that looks for all the world like an inside job. how did 500 prisoners leave their cells, climb down into a tunnel, and escape without a single prison official noticing? come on. this isn't hollywood. this prison break, i'll call it a taliban surge, could not come at a worst time. s...

On its head. however, if things continue at the pace they are, this could be a very long, protracted operation. one in which this civilian casualties in misrata exceed those which would have possibly come about from the alleged benghazi massacre which brought us into this situation in the first place. so fundamentally, i think we have a long road to hoe unless there's a significant game changer in the near turn to change the situation on the ground. >> all right, fred and peter and general kimmitt, thank you. and peter, our condolences to you for the loss of your friend. still ahead, you mig...

Gadhafi is doing well. misrata looks like sarajevo at the moment, and i would be interested in hearing general kimmitt's observations. >> well, my view is exactly as peter said. it's not going very well. there has to be a game-changer on the ground. that game-changer either has to be the rebels get stronger, and it could well be that that could come about through some of these advisers that nato and france and england are providing. but it probably won't be enough. time will start taking its toll on the libyan forces. they're not built for longterm operations. a game-changer could come around ...

Insignificant really compared to hot the soldiers went through. even more than that, i'm always thinking again of the wives and loved ones back home in america. 50 million people are connected to soldiers who are serving in the militarmilitary. soldiers don't come home just as journalists don't come home and tell their loved ones what happen, yet their loved ones need to know. >> tim hetherington was 41 years old. i want to bring in fred who has more on what happened today, and also peter burgin who was a friend, and retired brigadier jerm mark for insight on what is apparently now a stalemate...