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free after being accused of throwing fire bombs during recent violent protests in cairo. we are monitoring their moves. also this morning, an american journalist, we'll get back to our jason carroll there in just a second. the other story i need to tell you about, also in egypt. someone you have seen on our air here at cnn a number of times. an american journalist who has appeared here with us says she was blindfolded, beaten and sexually assaulted by egyptian police. she is now free and speaking out. we will be live in cairo in just a minute. but, back home, here on this thanksgivin...

As well as the security areas. what is the next stop for him? >> reporter: next stop will be bali, indonesia, and he will participate in what's known as the east asian summit, the first timeç that the u.s. president will participate in that summit. so again the themes of really expanding the united states' ties to this region will certainly be alive there in bali. so the president will spend another few hours here in darwin and then he will head to bali and he will, of course, be traveling with him every step of the way. >> one last word to you, kristin, suck ling pig in bali, the best, wher...

these are all organizations opposed to the death penalty. but what this case different from others in the past as we approach the 11th hour -- there are hundreds of thousands of people. you saw their signatures on those petitions that were delivered. these are people, a lot of these people may not typically be against the death penalty. these are people who are looking at the case thinking that there are doubts here and that an execution needs to be stopped. there's a lot of people pushing to have his sentence commuted and not have him set free. you don't see a lot of people coming r...

America and for the office of the presidency. believe me, i spent my high school years in philadelphia, i visited the liberty bell many times. america's a great nation and i have complete respect for it and for its president. i was speaking about those things that the palestinians have to accept, a jewish state, the fact that the refugee problem will be resolved outside israel. we are not going to sent great grandchildren of palestinian refugees, it's crazy. everybody knows it i think it's time to say t and i think we don't want hamas. and the president said as much. >> he agrees with you abou...

Mission. what are your thoughts? well, karzai has no -- has no other plan. he has to support this operation in kandahar simply because he knows that the center of resistance for the taliban in his whole country now is -- is located in kandahar. that's really the heartland of the insurgency, so the operation has to go forward whether it's in enthusiastically approved by karzai or not. as you suggest in what you said, this operation because of the sensitivity of the region, is going to go down in a much slower, more methodical fashion than what we saw, say, back in february in marjah. it's goi...