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militant group that may be as big a threat to the united states in afghanistan as al qaeda or the taliban. the obama administration appears ready to formally call the haqqani network what so many people believe it is, a terrorist organization. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department, she's been digging on this story. what are you learning? >> wolf your know, the political pressure here in the united states has been building to put the haqqani network on that list of terrorist organizations. but what really put force behind the argument is a violent...

Yesterday in his speech broadly addressing issues in the middle east, the president very strongly criticizing president assad of syria by name saying he needed to lead transition or, quote, get out of the way. he had strong words for those in bahrain, and as you mention, this arrangement now between fatah and hamas, fatah being mahmoud abbas' party, very troublesome considering the fact hamas is on the united states terrorism list. that presents yet another new and very big hurdle as they try to move forward in the administration and restart those peace talks between the palestinians and israe...

Against iran for helping in this crackdown. >> that's right. there are already sanctions against syria. they are on the u.s. state department supportsers of terrorism list. these sanctions target some individuals. they target the brother of president assad. he is the president of the armored division that has been attacking the down of daraa. that's the town you are seeing here. that's where a lot of the killing has taken place. president assad himself is not targeted. president obama has been under intense pressure to call for assad to go he did for other arab leaders such as muammar qaddafi,...

Are doing what they are being told by the mullahs in tehran. >> that is what the situation looks likes and if that is not the case they need to speak up and the prime minister needs to explain he is prepared to carry out the agreement that the newly sovereign government of iraq signed with our military authorities, in iraq, as part of our withdrawal, that they would afford these refugees at camp ashraf the same protection that they had gotten from the u.s. military, in the years after the overthrow of saddam hussein. >> eric: the state department is calling for an investigation. do you think t...

Quite some time, a decision that needs to be made quickly and many people who have looked at this, feel that the group should be removed from the terrorism list. >> eric: the iraqi government says it is -- it has a terrorist designation and that is why they moved on the camp. >> that is contrary to what the u.s. military did. three former chairmen of our joint chiefs of staff, hugh sheldon and dick myers and peter pace called for the terrorism designation to be lifted and former attorney general mike my casesy, and obama administration -- mike mukasey and general james jones, and, the list is ...