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Bin Laden 'would have to have been naked and on the ground'
Risks of the 'air option' to kill OBL
Christiane talks to author Mark Bowden of "The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden," about the OBL raid.
Decisions behind the bin Laden raid
Christiane Amanpour talks to "The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden" author Mark Bowden about the bin Laden raid.
by Lucky Gold, CNN
With foreign policy surprisingly front and center in the U.S. presidential election, the Obama administration’s signature foreign policy victory, the killing of Osama bin Laden, could prove a major factor.
Mark Bowden, journalist and author of Black Hawk Down, the blockbuster book and film about America’s debacle in Somalia, has just written The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden. In researching his subject Bowden had unprecedented access to one incomparable source – the man who ordered the attack, President Barack Obama. FULL POST
Egypt's Zabbaleen people
CNN's Christiane Amanpour reports on Egypt's Zabbaleen people who depend on trash for their survival.
More than 1,000 women running in Palestinian elections
By Samuel Burke & Claire Calzonetti, CNN
This Saturday, Palestinians in the West Bank will hold elections for the first time in six years, voting for municipal leaders.
It takes place against a backdrop of a deep sense of frustration with the split between Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah, the stalled economy, and the stalemate with Israel over final statehood.
What's so unusual about this election is the number of women running. FULL POST
Afghanistan: Exit but mission not accomplished
This is part of a series on foreign policy issues Christiane Amanpour is analyzing in the-lead up to next week’s presidential debate on foreign affairs.
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN & ABC
After 9/11, Afghanistan truly was a “War of Necessity”. There was an unusual consensus, not just among the U.S. and NATO powers, but in many parts of the world, including in Iran and other Muslim countries, that Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda and the Taliban who hosted them had to be defeated.
And after they were sent packing from the Afghan battlefield, an extraordinary thing happened. The Afghan people supported the intervention. The land known as the Graveyard of Empires welcomed the new “invaders.” They knew that they had not come to occupy or do harm, but to help achieve a better future after decades of non-stop war and wholesale devastation – not only of infrastructure and institutions, but also the most basic human rights and freedoms.
As the Taliban were forced out of Kabul in November 2001, Afghan men, as well as women and children, voted with their feet. They marched to demand equal education rights for all, including girls, and thus for a more progressive future than the medieval reality the Taliban and the other Mujaheddin fighters had inflicted on them. FULL POST
The Libyan who knew too much
By Samuel Burke & Claire Calzonetti, CNN
Libya has come to the forefront in the U.S. presidential election campaign. The attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last month has turned the deaths of the American ambassador, Chris Stevens, and the three other U.S. officials into a political football.
Ali Tarhouni served as Libya’s interim prime minister after playing a key role in marshaling international support and funding for the revolution that overthrew Moammar Gadhafi last year.
But he says he refused to run for prime minister in the recent election because he doubted the new leaders wanted to swallow the tough security medicine that he was prescribing in order to confront and rein in the militants.
“When I outlined what I wanted to do, the National Transitional Council at the time said that that's too tough of a medicine.” FULL POST
The case for a no-fly zone in Syria
By Samuel Burke, CNN
Britain’s former foreign secretary admits that though a major intervention in Syria is not a possibility for the West, a case could be made for a NATO-enforced no-fly zone.
“Although Syrian air defenses are strong, they're not strong enough to overcome those of the United States and NATO,” Jack Straw told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Wednesday.
Straw served for 13 years in top cabinet positions under Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and played in key role in setting the West’s agenda in Afghanistan, Iran and other parts of the Middle East. His new memoir is called “Last Man Standing: Memoirs of a Political Survivor." FULL POST
Fond memories of Ambassador Stevens
Former Libyan Interim Prime Minister Ali Tarhouni shares memories of his late friend, U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.
Syria’s children search for hope and a place to live
By Samuel Burke, CNN
More than half of those fleeing for their lives in Syria are children. Some arrive with their families, while others are war orphans who arrive alone.
The numbers are exploding. Turkey says 100,000 refugees have now flooded that country and the government says it cannot build camps fast enough to house the vast numbers.
Human rights groups say right now at least 15,000 Syrian refugees are stranded at the border. Turkey won't let them across, leaving them as sitting ducks for Bashar al-Assad's artillery and his air force.
Turkey isn’t alone – tens of thousands of other refugees are flowing into Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan – countries with even fewer resources to deal with them. FULL POST
The U.S. election and the price of sitting out Syria
This is part of a series on foreign policy issues Christiane Amanpour is analyzing in the-lead up to next week’s presidential debate on foreign affairs.
By Christiane Amanpour, CNN & ABC
For the last 19 months Syria has fallen deeper and deeper into civil war. What started in March 2011 as another offshoot of the Arab Spring, the demand for freedom and reform, was met so brutally that ordinary Syrians decided that Assad had to go.
Left to fester, with the United Nations deadlocked over how to end the fighting, the death toll has reached 29,000 according to the Syrian opposition, and the most horrific massacres of women, children and old men have taken place. Extremists and foreign jihadists are joining the battle. With 1.2 million people displaced, the approaching winter poses as much of a threat as the relentless violence.
As worrisome as this is, recent history has shown us that when people are battling for survival, they end up taking help wherever it’s offered. When I covered the 1990s genocide in Bosnia, the people pleaded for years for the West to help. They did not. Instead the U.N. imposed a similar arms embargo that only ensured the superiority of the better-armed. So all sorts of foreign Mujaheddin came in. The parallels are eerily similar in Syria.
Will whoever wins the U.S. election make any changes to this policy of ‘Sitting Out Syria?’ FULL POST
Childhood stunting
By Samuel Burke & Mick Krever, CNN
Millions of children around the world are threatened with death, lowered I.Q. and deformities by a life-altering condition - one that can be avoided simply by eating enough nutrients. It's called "stunting."
The vitamins and the nutrients that a child receives in the first two years of life will literally impact that child's entire future.
Stunting threatens 180 million children below the age of five all over the world.
To discuss this phenomenon CNN's Christiane Amanpour was joined by the head of UNICEF, Anthony Lake, as well as Angelique Kidjo. She is a Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter, as well as UNICEF goodwill ambassador. She recently traveled to Kenya, where more than two million children suffer from stunting.
CNN’s Juliet Fuisz produced this piece for television.
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