They sound stressed. They don't sound like they're having a good time.

He's somebody you can rely on to get a good reading of the local situation -- and certainly not the sort of person you would expect to fall into a situation like this.

They sound stressed, I'll tell you.

Said to me in Arabic, 'Which one of you is Riad?'

This was an event ... that really shook Iraq to its core because the late ayatollah was a very powerful figure among the Shiites in the post-Saddam Hussein era.

No, that was all lies.