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LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- President Barack Obama addressed a broad range of political topics during an appearance on NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" Tuesday, insisting among other things that he's not spending too much time yet focused on next year's potential GOP campaign rivals.

"I'm going to wait until everybody's voted off the island," Obama joked. "Once they narrow it down to one or two (candidates), I'll start paying attention."

Obama is currently on a three-day trip to Nevada, California and Colorado. The trip includes several fundraisers for his re-election bid.

During a wide-ranging interview, Obama criticized Washington's harsh political climate, telling Leno that "the things that folks across the country are most fed up with, whether you are a Democrat, Republican, (or) independent, is putting party ahead of country or putting the next election ahead of the next generation."

The two men discussed several foreign policy topics, including the situation in Libya and the impending withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.

Regarding Libya, Leno asked the president for his reaction to the death of longtime strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

"This is somebody who for 40 years has terrorized his country and supported terrorism," Obama said. Gadhafi "had an opportunity during the Arab Spring to finally let loose of his grip on power and to peacefully transition into democracy. We gave him ample opportunity, and he wouldn't do it."

Obama said Gadhafi's demise sent "a strong message around the world to dictators" that "people long to be free," and that "universal rights" and aspirations should be respected.

The bloodied Gadhafi's televised jostling with his captors was not something Americans "should relish," the president said

"There was a reason after (Osama) bin Laden was killed, for example, we didn't release the photograph," the president said. "I think that there's a certain decorum with which you treat the dead -- even if it's somebody who has done terrible things."

The president hit back at GOP critics of the American role in the NATO-led Libya campaign, insisting that the United States did not, as many have claimed, "lead from behind."

"We lead from the front," Obama asserted, highlighting the U.S. role in pushing a U.N. resolution backing NATO's intervention, as well as the U.S. military's role in establishing a no-fly zone over Libya.

"The difference here is we were able to organize the international community," Obama said. "There was never this sense that somehow we were unilaterally making a decision to take out somebody. Rather, it was the world community."

The Libya operation "is a recipe for success in the future," the president declared.

Obama also defended his choice to withdraw all U.S. troops from Iraq by the end of the year -- a decision blasted by GOP critics concerned the move will imperil U.S. gains in the region.

"I don't know exactly how they are thinking about it," Obama said. "We've been in there for years, over 4,000 young men and women killed, tens of thousands injured, some of them for life, (and) spent close to $1 trillion on this operation. I think the vast majority of the American people feel as if it is time to bring this war to a close, particularly because we still have ... work to do in Afghanistan."

The president noted the importance of the recent death of Anwar al-Awlaki, the U.S.-born cleric killed in Yemen by a U.S. drone strike. Al-Awlaki played a critical role with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, heading up external operations and focusing on attacking the United States, officials said.

Al-Awlaki was "probably the most important al Qaeda threat that was out there after bin Laden was taken out," Obama said. "It was important that working with the enemies, we were able to remove him from the field."

Turning closer to home, Obama had strong praise for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton -- his toughest competitor for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008.

"I'm really proud of her," Obama said. "It really wasn't that difficult" to come together after the campaign. "The truth is Hillary and I agree on the vast majority of issues."

Obama appeared to dismiss rumors of a possible job swap between Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden in 2012, telling Leno that "they are doing great where they are."

The president expressed a degree of sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement, noting that "people are frustrated, and that frustration has expressed itself in a lot of different ways" -- including both Occupy Wall Street and the tea party.

As a huge basketball fan, the president called the current NBA lockout "heartbreaking."

"We should be able to figure out how to split a $9 billion dollar pot so that our fans, who are allowing us to make all of this money, can actually have a good season," he said.

Asked about his health and personal habits, Obama told Leno that he has "definitively" quit smoking, and remains "big on exercise."

The president said he works out on a regular basis with first lady Michelle Obama in a small White House gym.

"It's embarrassing sometimes," the president said. "She'll get up there a half an hour earlier than me. She will have already run 10 miles or something ... (when I'm) staggering up to the gym."

Noting the first lady's highly publicized campaign for fitness and healthier eating habits, Obama said his wife actually does enjoy more unhealthy cuisine on occasion.

"She loves french fries. She loves pizza. She loves chicken. Her point is just in moderation," Obama told Leno.

As for the upcoming Halloween holiday, the president said his wife generally hands out fruit and raisins.

The president said he told his wife that "the White House is going to get egged if this keeps up."

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question: What did Obama say about Gadhafi's death?

answer: sent "a strong message around the world to dictators" that "people long to be free," and that "universal rights" and aspirations should be respected.

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question: Which show was Obama on ?

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question: What did Obama joke about ?

answer: "I'm going to wait until everybody's voted off the island,"

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question: What Obama said as a joke about Halloween coming?

answer: "the White House is going to get egged if this keeps up."

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question: What did Obama say about the GOP primary?

answer: "I'm going to wait until everybody's voted off the island,"

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question: What did Obama say about giving fruit and raisins for Halloween?

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LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) -- It's hot and sweaty in a rat-infested room in Lahore's historic red light district, a neighborhood of narrow alleyways lined with brothels.

A dancer does the "mujra," a traditional dance banned by a judge for being "vulgar," in Lahore, Pakistan.

A barefoot, long-haired woman is gyrating and twirling on the carpet, to the beat of a four-man band whose drummer sweats profusely as he pounds out a furious rhythm.

The dancer, who only gives her first name, Beenish, is performing a kind of Pakistani belly-dance called the mujra.

Her harmonium player, a skinny bald man who squints through coke-bottle glasses, has been performing like this for the past 50 years. But he says the art form is dying out.

"That spark, the way it was in the past, is no more," said Ghulam Sarwar.

Last fall, a judge in Lahore's high court declared the mujra dance "vulgar" and banned it from being performed on stage.

Some here say the government is cracking down on easy, "immoral" targets in an attempt to appease religious hard-liners like the Taliban. Islamist militants are believed to be responsible for a recent wave of bomb attacks in Lahore, targeting cinemas, theaters and cafes where young men and women fraternize together.

"It is a gesture of good will to pacify the mullahs and the Taliban," said Samia Amjad, a lawmaker in the provincial assembly. Though she is a member of an opposition political party, she said she supported the crackdown on vulgarity. "I see it as an essential part of Islam."

Dancers aren't the only targets of the court censors.

In late March, the Lahore high court banned two female singers from recording new albums after ruling that they sang sexually explicit lyrics.

"If the current circumstances persist in Pakistan," said Noora Lal, one of the banned singers, "then singing will die out in this country."

Pakistan is a deeply conservative Muslim nation, where the punishment for blasphemy is the death sentence.

But there is one person in Lahore who openly mocks the conservative establishment: painter and restaurant owner Iqbal Hussain.

Though he said he has received multiple death threats from Islamist fundamentalists, Hussain continues to be Pakistan's most vocal defender of prostitutes. All of the models portrayed in his paintings are sex workers.

"I portray them on canvas, portray them as human beings," Hussain said, "They feel pain. They want their children to be educated."

Hussain knows the industry intimately. He was born to a family of sex workers. His mother, a former prostitute, passed away last month at the age of 98.

The small, soft-spoken painter has turned the house he grew up in, an old four-story building with ornate wooden balconies, into a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis. On one side of the house there is a brothel, on the other side, the 17th century Badshahi Mosque, one of the largest mosques in the world.

In his subversive paintings, which Hussain said sell for more than $10,000 each, he highlights the overlap between Lahore's sex industry and its religious community. In one canvas, hundreds of worshippers are depicted prostrating themselves around the mosque, while in the foreground, two women apply lipstick and makeup on a balcony.

Hussain explained that the prostitutes in the painting were preparing to receive new customers as soon as the prayers in the mosque were over.  Watch the dance being called "immoral" in Pakistan Â»

The painter claimed that on religious festivals, the brothels and dance halls in his neighborhood overflow with customers.

"They come from the northern areas with their turbans," Iqbal said, laughing. "All coming to this area. They're not going to the mosque ... but to the brothels!"

Nevertheless, the rising tide of the Taliban in northwestern Pakistan has some residents of Lahore's red light district worried.

"May Allah keep us safe from them," said Beenish, the mujra dancer. "We are poor, humble people. They should not target this place."

Photography by CNN's Farhad Shadravan.

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text: this

text: for

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text: past

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text: art

text: form

text: is

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text: out

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text: spark

text: the

text: way

text: it

text: was

text: in

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text: past

text: is

text: no

text: more

text: said

text: Ghulam

text: Sarwar

text: Last

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text: a

text: judge

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text: Lahore

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text: high

text: court

text: declared

text: the

text: mujra

text: dance

text: vulgar

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text: banned

text: it

text: from

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text: performed

text: on

text: stage

text: Some

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text: the

text: government

text: is

text: cracking

text: down

text: on

text: easy

text: immoral

text: targets

text: in

text: an

text: attempt

text: to

text: appease

text: religious

text: hard

text: liners

text: like

text: the

text: Taliban

text: Islamist

text: militants

text: are

text: believed

text: to

text: be

text: responsible

text: for

text: a

text: recent

text: wave

text: of

text: bomb

text: attacks

text: in

text: Lahore

text: targeting

text: cinemas

text: theaters

text: and

text: cafes

text: where

text: young

text: men

text: and

text: women

text: fraternize

text: together

text: It

text: is

text: a

text: gesture

text: of

text: good

text: will

text: to

text: pacify

text: the

text: mullahs

text: and

text: the

text: Taliban

text: said

text: Samia

text: Amjad

text: a

text: lawmaker

text: in

text: the

text: provincial

text: assembly

text: Though

text: she

text: is

text: a

text: member

text: of

text: an

text: opposition

text: political

text: party

text: she

text: said

text: she

text: supported

text: the

text: crackdown

text: on

text: vulgarity

text: I

text: see

text: it

text: as

text: an

text: essential

text: part

text: of

text: Islam

text: Dancers

text: are

text: n't

text: the

text: only

text: targets

text: of

text: the

text: court

text: censors

text: In

text: late

text: March

text: the

text: Lahore

text: high

text: court

text: banned

text: two

text: female

text: singers

text: from

text: recording

text: new

text: albums

text: after

text: ruling

text: that

text: they

text: sang

text: sexually

text: explicit

text: lyrics

text: If

text: the

text: current

text: circumstances

text: persist

text: in

text: Pakistan

text: said

text: Noora

text: Lal

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: banned

text: singers

text: then

text: singing

text: will

text: die

text: out

text: in

text: this

text: country

text: Pakistan

text: is

text: a

text: deeply

text: conservative

text: Muslim

text: nation

text: where

text: the

text: punishment

text: for

text: blasphemy

text: is

text: the

text: death

text: sentence

text: But

text: there

text: is

text: one

text: person

text: in

text: Lahore

text: who

text: openly

text: mocks

text: the

text: conservative

text: establishment

text: painter

text: and

text: restaurant

text: owner

text: Iqbal

text: Hussain

text: Though

text: he

text: said

text: he

text: has

text: received

text: multiple

text: death

text: threats

text: from

text: Islamist

text: fundamentalists

text: Hussain

text: continues

text: to

text: be

text: Pakistan

text: 's

text: most

text: vocal

text: defender

text: of

text: prostitutes

text: All

text: of

text: the

text: models

text: portrayed

text: in

text: his

text: paintings

text: are

text: sex

text: workers

text: I

text: portray

text: them

text: on

text: canvas

text: portray

text: them

text: as

text: human

text: beings

text: Hussain

text: said

text: They

text: feel

text: pain

text: They

text: want

text: their

text: children

text: to

text: be

text: educated

text: Hussain

text: knows

text: the

text: industry

text: intimately

text: He

text: was

text: born

text: to

text: a

text: family

text: of

text: sex

text: workers

text: His

text: mother

text: a

text: former

text: prostitute

text: passed

text: away

text: last

text: month

text: at

text: the

text: age

text: of

text: The

text: small

text: soft

text: spoken

text: painter

text: has

text: turned

text: the

text: house

text: he

text: grew

text: up

text: in

text: an

text: old

text: four

text: story

text: building

text: with

text: ornate

text: wooden

text: balconies

text: into

text: a

text: popular

text: restaurant

text: for

text: tourists

text: and

text: wealthy

text: Pakistanis

text: On

text: one

text: side

text: of

text: the

text: house

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: brothel

text: on

text: the

text: other

text: side

text: the

text: century

text: Badshahi

text: Mosque

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: largest

text: mosques

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: In

text: his

text: subversive

text: paintings

text: which

text: Hussain

text: said

text: sell

text: for

text: more

text: than

text: each

text: he

text: highlights

text: the

text: overlap

text: between

text: Lahore

text: 's

text: sex

text: industry

text: and

text: its

text: religious

text: community

text: In

text: one

text: canvas

text: hundreds

text: of

text: worshippers

text: are

text: depicted

text: prostrating

text: themselves

text: around

text: the

text: mosque

text: while

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text: foreground

text: two

text: women

text: apply

text: lipstick

text: and

text: makeup

text: on

text: a

text: balcony

text: Hussain

text: explained

text: that

text: the

text: prostitutes

text: in

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text: painting

text: were

text: preparing

text: to

text: receive

text: new

text: customers

text: as

text: soon

text: as

text: the

text: prayers

text: in

text: the

text: mosque

text: were

text: over

text: Watch

text: the

text: dance

text: being

text: called

text: immoral

text: in

text: Pakistan

text: Â

text: The

text: painter

text: claimed

text: that

text: on

text: religious

text: festivals

text: the

text: brothels

text: and

text: dance

text: halls

text: in

text: his

text: neighborhood

text: overflow

text: with

text: customers

text: They

text: come

text: from

text: the

text: northern

text: areas

text: with

text: their

text: turbans

text: Iqbal

text: said

text: laughing

text: All

text: coming

text: to

text: this

text: area

text: They

text: 're

text: not

text: going

text: to

text: the

text: mosque

text: but

text: to

text: the

text: brothels

text: Nevertheless

text: the

text: rising

text: tide

text: of

text: the

text: Taliban

text: in

text: northwestern

text: Pakistan

text: has

text: some

text: residents

text: of

text: Lahore

text: 's

text: red

text: light

text: district

text: worried

text: May

text: Allah

text: keep

text: us

text: safe

text: from

text: them

text: said

text: Beenish

text: the

text: mujra

text: dancer

text: We

text: are

text: poor

text: humble

text: people

text: They

text: should

text: not

text: target

text: this

text: place

text: Photography

text: by

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Farhad

text: Shadravan

question: In what district does Iqbal Hussain mock Pakistan's religious establishment?

answer: Lahore's historic red light

text: Lahore's historic red light

question: What does  Iqbal Hussain paint?

answer: sex workers.

text: sex workers.

question: What did Hussain Mock?

answer: conservative establishment: painter and restaurant owner

text: conservative establishment: painter and restaurant owner

question: What are some residents worried about?

answer: the rising tide of the Taliban

text: the rising tide of the Taliban

question: Who is  Iqbal Hussain?

answer: Pakistan's most vocal defender of prostitutes.

text: Pakistan's most vocal defender of prostitutes.

question: Who mocks Pakistan's religious establishment?

answer: Iqbal Hussain.

text: Iqbal Hussain.

question: What has the painter turned his home into?

answer: a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis.

text: a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis.

question: What did the painter turn his home into?

answer: a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis. On one side

text: a popular restaurant for tourists and wealthy Pakistanis. On one side

question: What does Hussain portray on canvas?

answer: human beings,"

text: human beings,"


text:
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Conflicting accounts of a botched NATO raid that killed five Afghans in February have led to a new investigation ordered by the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, a NATO military spokesman said Monday.

Lt. Col. Todd Breasseale, a NATO spokesman, said Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who oversees all U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, called for the review after receiving a briefing from Afghan officials in late March.

On Sunday, NATO acknowledged that its troops killed five Afghans in the nighttime raid in February, after initially saying the civilians may have been the victims of an "honor killing."

Although civilian casualties at the hands of NATO troops have fallen off in recent months, such incidents have strained the relationship between Afghanistan and the Western nations that make up the International Security Assistance Force.

According to two U.S. military officials, in the March briefing, Afghan officials from the Interior Ministry told McChrystal that after the incident, they visited the compound where the Afghans were killed and found evidence of bloodstained walls being washed down and bullets being dug out.

McChrystal wants a thorough review now to see why U.S. and Afghan accounts differ so greatly, according to one of the sources, a senior U.S. official familiar with the briefing.

The senior U.S. official said that by the time the Afghan investigators got to the compound, the people who lived there may have been attempting to clean it up. NATO officials believe the U.S. and Afghan troops may have dug some bullets out of the wall for purposes of the initial investigation, which is a common practice, the official said.

In March, the International Security Assistance Force released a statement denying a report by a British newspaper that NATO had covered up the involvement of troops in the incident.

U.S. officials continue to deny that there was any coverup of U.S. involvement. "We have no evidence to date anything improper was done," the senior U.S. official said.

At the time of the February 12 incident, NATO said its troops went to a compound in the village of Khatabeh in Paktia province, believing it to be a militant hideout. A firefight ensued, and several insurgents died, NATO said at the time.

When soldiers entered the compound, they found the bodies of two men and two women who had been shot "execution-style," a senior U.S. military official said then.

"It has the earmarks of a traditional honor killing," the official said, adding that the women were found bound and gagged.

An honor killing is a slaying carried out by a family or community member against someone thought to have brought dishonor to them.

The senior U.S. military official said that at the time, it wasn't clear whether dishonor in the case stemmed from accusations of acts such as adultery or even cooperation with NATO forces.

But on Sunday, NATO made an about-face from its earlier claims.

"International forces were responsible for the deaths of three women who were in the same compound where two men were killed by the joint Afghan-international patrol searching for a Taliban insurgent," NATO said in a statement. There was no explanation given for the cause of the third woman's death or why it wasn't mentioned previously.

The two armed men whom troops killed were not insurgents, NATO said Sunday.

"The force went to the compound based on reliable information in search of a Taliban insurgent and believed that the two men posed a threat to their personal safety," the NATO statement said. "We now understand that the men killed were only trying to protect their families."

NATO said a lack of forensic evidence made it difficult to determine how or when the three women died. But it concluded that they were killed when troops fired at the men.

As for the initial report about the women being found bound and gagged, the NATO statement said it stemmed from a cultural misunderstanding.

"The statement noted the women had been bound and gagged, but this information was taken from an initial report by the international members of the joint force who were not familiar with Islamic burial customs," the statement said, without elaborating.

NATO troops who went to the scene after the raid may have misinterpreted burial rites. Muslims wrap their dead in clean white cloth before they are placed in the ground.

NATO said it will apologize to the victims' family members and offer compensation in accordance with local customs.

The NATO admission follows the fatal shooting of five Afghan soldiers by troops in a friendly fire incident in northern Afghanistan on Friday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai has strongly criticized civilian deaths by international troops, and the deaths have bred resentment among many Afghans.

The numbers have fallen off in recent months since McChrystal took over as U.S. commander in Afghanistan.

"It is better to miss a target than to cause civilian casualties," McChrystal said in December. "We can always target enemy leaders later. We can't make up for the fact that we killed civilians."

CNN's Barbara Starr contributed to this report.

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GAALKACYO, Somalia (CNN)  -- The U.S. government is delaying "tens of millions" of dollars in crucial humanitarian aid over concerns that the money is being diverted to a notorious militant group, a senior U.N. official said.

Al-Shabaab militants ride through Mogadishu, Somalia, after a religious gathering in September.

The U.S. government, concerned about the challenges in delivering assistance in a country wracked by civil war, says allegations that Al-Shabaab is stopping aid from reaching the people are under review.

Although one U.S. government source said aid continues to flow to Somalia and hasn't been suspended, another said aid might not reach "some parts of the country" because of Al-Shabaab, the al Qaeda-linked terror group that is trying to overthrow the government.

Located in the Horn of Africa, Somalia has long been a lawless, war-ravaged nation. The United Nations says that nearly half the population is dependent on humanitarian assistance, and one in five children are acutely malnourished.

Somalia has suffered through five consecutive seasons of drought, and the ongoing conflict has caused more than a million people to be displaced.

Kiki Gbeho, head of office for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia, said the United States is reviewing whether its aid helps fund Al-Shabaab.

The U.N. office, in a report issued in September, said the U.S. delay in reaching a decision on humanitarian funding "is already impacting on many agencies and their programmes."

The United Nations estimates that 60 percent of the people it needs to reach with emergency assistance live in areas controlled by Al-Shabaab.

"According to humanitarian principles, we have to serve people and need to deal with those in charge," Gbeho said.

Peter Smerdon, chief spokesman for the World Food Program, the agency responsible for delivering aid to Somalia, would not comment on the U.S. funding controversy but said investigations into whether Al-Shabaab is assisted by U.N. aid assistance are "ongoing."

Food supplies could run out for millions of Somalis in the next few weeks, according to the United Nations. The U.S. government is traditionally the biggest donor for food assistance.

The issue of breakdowns in humanitarian aid in Somalia has long concerned the United States. A senior administration official and an administration official spoke about the issue on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

The senior U.S. administration official said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Transitional Federal Government President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed discussed in August how the "delivery of services" to the Somali people be broadened.

Clinton said publicly in Nairobi that the United States continues to provide "humanitarian assistance to the Somali people where delivery is feasible and effective."

The administration official said that the aid has never stopped, adding that food bound for the World Food Program in Somalia is on a vessel and should arrive in a few weeks.

The senior administration official said, "We are working with groups there to ensure that we can deliver assistance without having to pay off Al-Shabaab in the process. It does mean that aid may get to certain parts of the country but not others."

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text:
LONDON (CNN) -- Iran offered to stop attacking coalition troops in Iraq nearly four years ago in an attempt to get the West to accept Tehran's nuclear program, a British diplomat told the BBC in an interview aired Saturday.

John Sawers, British ambassador to the U.N., told BBC of Iran approaching Western nations with offer.

"The Iranians wanted to be able to strike a deal whereby they stopped killing our forces in Iraq in return for them being allowed to carry on with their nuclear program -- 'We stop killing you in Iraq, stop undermining the political process there, you allow us to carry on with our nuclear program without let or hindrance," said John Sawers, now the British ambassador to the United Nations, in the documentary, "Iran and the West: Nuclear Confrontation."

The United States and other Western nations believe Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapons program, but Iran says it is developing nuclear capability to produce energy. Iran also has been accused of sponsoring terrorists and supplying weapons to Iraqi insurgents. The latter prompted a warning from the United States that such behavior by Tehran "would be regarded by us as enemy action," Philip Zelikow, a State Department counselor, told the BBC.

Then, Iran began shopping its offer around Europe, Sawers said.

Sawers, Britain's political director at the time, reveals the behind-the-scene talks from 2005 -- when roadside bombing against British and American soldiers in Iraq peaked -- were held with British, French and German diplomats at hotels in London, Paris and Berlin.

"And then we'd compare notes among the three of us," Sawers told the BBC.

The British government dismissed the offer and Iran's nuclear enrichment program restarted once again, the BBC reports

Iran has denied offering any such deal and reiterated its position Saturday.

"Iran's high officials have repeatedly stated that Iran has not had any part in attacks against American and British forces, and there is no evidence to support these baseless accusations," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the semi-official Mehr News Agency.

Interviews with top brass from former President Bush's administration and British envoys indicate that Iran and the West had neared agreements several times in the past few years, but never reached success.

Nick Burns, who was in charge of the Bush administration's State Department policy with Iran, said taking a tough approach with Iran didn't seem effective.

"We had advocated regime change," Burns told the BBC. "We had a very threatening posture towards Iran for a number of years. It didn't produce any movement whatsoever."

The documentary aired a day after the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security released a report stating that Iranian scientists have reached "nuclear weapons breakout capability." The report analyzed the finding of the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

However, an IAEA official who asked not to be named cautioned against drawing such dramatic conclusions from the data, saying Iran's stock of low-enriched uranium would have to be turned into highly enriched uranium (HEU) in order to be weapons-grade material. That hasn't been done, the official said.

Meanwhile, Iran's relationship with the West continues to be strained, though both sides have indicated interest in holding direct talks.

President Obama, in his first prime-time news conference held earlier this month, said the United States is looking for opportunities for "face-to-face" talks with Iran after an absence of diplomatic ties for nearly three decades.

"There's been a lot of mistrust built up over the years, so it's not going to happen overnight," he said.

And Iran's powerful parliament speaker and former nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, has called the Obama administration "an exceptional opportunity for Americans."

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question: When did Iran approach diplomats with an offer?

answer: nearly four years ago

text: nearly four years ago

question: What does Iran deny?

answer: denied offering any such deal

text: denied offering any such deal

question: Who has hinted at direct talks?

answer: both sides have indicated interest in holding

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question: What nationality are the diplomats?

answer: British, French and German

text: British, French and German

question: When Iran approached diplomats nearly four years ago, what terms did they discuss?

answer: a deal whereby they stopped killing our forces in Iraq in return for them being allowed to carry on with their nuclear program

text: a deal whereby they stopped killing our forces in Iraq in return for them being allowed to carry on with their nuclear program

question: Where did the allegations come from that Iran was involved in the fighting in Iraq?

answer: United States and other Western nations

text: United States and other Western nations

question: Who made the allegations?

answer: The United States and other Western nations

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(CNN) -- As the war in Iraq reaches its five-year anniversary this week, two of the world's leading humanitarian groups issued extensive reports Monday describing a crisis of huge proportions with little reason for hope.

Iraqi women mourn the death of their relative outside the morgue in the restive city of Baquba, Iraq, on March 12.

"Despite claims that the security situation has improved in recent months, the human rights situation is disastrous," Amnesty International says in its report, titled "Carnage and Despair: Iraq Five Years On."

In a summary of the report, Amnesty writes that "a climate of impunity has prevailed, the economy is in tatters and the refugee crisis" keeps escalating.

The International Committee of the Red Cross, in a report titled "Iraq: No Let-up in the Humanitarian Crisis," writes, "Despite limited improvements in security in some areas, armed violence is still having a disastrous impact. Civilians continue to be killed in the hostilities.

"The injured often do not receive adequate medical care. Millions of people have been forced to rely on insufficient supplies of poor-quality water as water and sewage systems suffer from a lack of maintenance and a shortage of engineers."

The Bush administration and many Republican lawmakers, including presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, have frequently praised successes in Iraq in recent months, noting improvements in security in key areas. They attribute that in part to the buildup of U.S. troops in Iraq ordered by President Bush last year.

Vice President Dick Cheney described the five year U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in a news conference Monday during a visit to Baghdad.

"This week marks the fifth anniversary," said Cheney. "It has been a difficult, challenging, but none the less successful endeavor."

Democrats, including presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, have said the government failed to use the downturn in violence to achieve the steps it was supposed to make possible.

Sen. John McCain met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday where he stressed the United States' commitment to Iraq.  "We recognize that al Qaeda is on the run, but they are not defeated. Al Qaeda continues to pose a great threat to the security and very existence of Iraq as a democracy. So we know there's still a lot more work that needs to be done," he said.

Amnesty writes, "Key political benchmarks have yet to be realized."

Both Amnesty and the Red Cross slam the Iraqi government for failing to grapple with the critical needs of their populations.

Amnesty also says the Iraqi government and the U.S.-led Multi-National Forces  are responsible for some nightmarish circumstances.

"Civilians are also at risk from Multi-National Forces and Iraqi security forces, with many killed by excessive force and tens of thousands detained without charge or trial," Amnesty writes in its summary. "The death penalty was reintroduced in 2004 and hundreds of people have been sentenced to death. At least 33 people were executed in 2007, many after unfair trials."

In its report, Amnesty says the Iraqi government "has failed to introduce practical measures to deal with the gross and serious human rights violations perpetrated by its security forces. There appears to be no serious willingness to investigate properly the many incidents of abuses, including killings of civilians, torture and rape, and to bring those responsible to justice.

"The government has also been unable to reign in Shiite militia groups, such as the Mehdi Army, or to rid the Interior Ministry of death squads. The fact that the government is divided along sectarian lines has serious repercussions on its effectiveness and bodes ill for the future."

The two reports cite a litany of concerns, including severe widespread poverty, a lack of food and water, and broken families left to scrounge for whatever they can find to get by. Both reports describe a situation that shows no sign of clear improvement.

Amnesty also says conditions for women have worsened with the rise of fundamentalist religious groups. Many women "have been forced to wear Islamic dress or targeted for abduction, rape or killing." The group notes a study by the World Health Organization in 2006/2007 that found 21 percent of Iraqi women had experienced physical violence.

Amnesty adds that the "predominantly Kurdish region of northern Iraq has been more stable with fewer acts of violence, and has seen growing economic prosperity and foreign investment. However, here too there continue to be serious human rights violations, including arrests for peaceful political dissent, torture, ill-treatment, the death penalty and the killing of women in so-called honor crimes."

The Red Cross says that despite the struggles in Iraq, the organization "has been able to help hundreds of thousands of the neediest Iraqis." The group called for a "renewed effort" to "address the needs of everyday Iraqis." E-mail to a friend

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question: What did the reports say?

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question: When did the reports get released?

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question: Who released reports on Monday?

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question: What did Dick Cheney say?

answer: "This week marks the fifth anniversary,"

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