support but nobody agrees they supported it anymore. >> because it doesn't work. >> it hasn't worked out quite so well. >> i hope you come back and >> tonight on war stories investigates -- >> we awoke to this war on 9/11. but the roots of this jihad runs deeper than most realize. >> we represent everything they hate. >> they can watch "american idol" at night and the next morning there is suicides going. >> that's next on war stories investigates, jihad. this is jerusalem.

the whaling walls, part of the temple built by king solomon. above it, the dome of the rocks. one of the most revered sights in islam. just beyond, the garden where christ prayed the night before he died. all sites holy to jews, christians and muslims. good evening. tonight war stories investigates the jihad. the holy war or struggles to spread well beyond this yanjient city of david, threatening innocent people around the globe. as you see, the jihad goes far beyond terrorists taking hostages, hijacking aircraft and the horror of suicide bombers. this is a war we did not want and few saw coming. stay with us. as war stories investigates the jihad. >> you don't need them there.

they are coming to you. >> i'm very aware they might be able to kill me. >> it is a war that is coming in and it's a war that make take 25 years. >> our responsibility is to not leave anyone tomorrow. >> they are menacing images of a hate-filled ideology with mosques, college campuses and religious schools. they use the internet, television, even graffiti to attract recruits worldwide and

captivating the boy next door. >> the consequences in this world and the income. >> experts are uncertain of how many 1.2 billion muslims are militant who is joined the jihad. people eager to use violence to spread islam. >> jihad. what is a jihad? >> jihad means constant effort to do something. historically it means constant effort on behalf of the islamic state to expand that state or to defend that state. as long as there is a leader or the friends, he has a discretion for the launch of that holy war. >> educated in beirut, he moves to the united states in 1990. he's a senior fellow for democracy and author of future jihad. >> in old centuries, when there was an islamic state, someone like osama bin laden declaring

jihad on their own would be in jail. you can't do that. now that there is no islamic state and no empire, osama bin laden and his allies are projecting themselves as a new interest and new killer. >> militant jihadis want to drive infidels, anyone out of the lands where islam reigns for centuries. >>. >> the real objective of the jihadist is to take back of planet earth and reestablish it. >> they are being invaded and occupied by nonmilitants. when they talk about islam, they mean all the lands that have been a part of islam. >> the professor of near eastern studies at the university and one of the world's foremost little east scholars. >> it is the duty of every able-bodies male to participate. it is collective. it is an obligation.

>> today's leaders, osama bin laden, hezbollah shakes and an iranian president called themselves jihadists. they claim they are following the path of the founder and his companions who established the first islamic state some 600 years after jesus. muslims believe god's word was revealed and is contained in the koran. 30 years after mohamed's death in 632, an internal split was between sunni and shia, but didn't deter the spread of the religion. in 1095, the pope called upon european christians to recapture the holyland. the campaigns and the crusade would change everything. >> the muslim response was minimal until they committed the

following. where islam was born. >> the holiest places in islam were threatened by foreigners and the call went out for a jihad to drive the infidels from the lands. >> that aroused the jihad that drove the crusaders out. this clearly saying your time has passed. your religion is superseded. this is the final word. move over. >> despite this great jihad, western influence is in the middle east to stay. for centuries, they came and went at will. from napoleon to the french and british. after the great war in 1923, the empire collapsed, ending it. three powerful factions of islam emerged. a hard core group of fundamentalists took part. by 1929, a second radical movement, the muslim

brotherhood. now shia scholars asked their followers to rid the lands of the prophet of western influence. these three strains of militant islam were brought closer together three years afterworld war 2. 1948, the day after the jewish state was proclaimed egypt, syria, lebanon, jordan and iraq determined to crush the new nation. >> it ended in a humiliating scene. i think it is that humiliation and bad enough to be dominated by the great empire. but to be defeated by a miserable gang -- >> what happened is it's the muslims think if they can reestablish their religion, they

can defeat israel. >> a spy served 21 years in the little east. he is the author of see no evil and blow the house down. >> maybe if we got religion, we will be able to compete and defeat it. >> in 1963, the muslim governments recognized the palestine liberation organization and the military arms, fatah. >> they joined the military wing and thought they could liberate palestine by using religion and arms. >> june 1967. egypt, jordan, syria and iraq amassed 500,000 troops and 800 aircraft from once again try to destroy the jewish state. this time the israeli victory takes six days, resulting in an israel that is three times larger. >> the arabs sit back and say what did we do wrong?

driven by religion and we have these things. that will allow us to fight back. >> israel's stunning victory spurred the religious fervor of islamic extremists, saying they were committed to terror. 5, september, 1972, munich, germany. 11 members of the olympic team are taken hostage by the terrorist organization, black september. for a day and a half, the hostage crisis was a televised global event. in the end, as the games continued all 11 israelis were murdered, five of the eight were killed and given state funerals by gadhafi. germany freed the surviving tourists and the passengers were used as bargaining chips.

the munich massacre and israel's's defeat of the arab army convinced the militants that terror was the best way to capture them and motivate young muslims to join their cause. general angry clerics were attracting new followers. the ayatollah and towering tehran, terror explodes worldwide and no one is safe. stay with us as war stories investigates the jihad. you u u with centurylink as your technology partner, our visionary cloud infrastructure, and dedicated support, free you to focus on what matters. centurylink. your link to what's next. pehabits of cleaning theirld dentures with toothpaste, and dentures are very different than real teeth. they're about ten times softer and have surface pores where bacteria can grow and multiply. polident is specifically designed to clean dentures daily.

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>> in 1979, the shaw was forced to flee his homeland. ayatollah komeny, a shia cleric returned from exile and seized power. >> he was a very able person.

strong wills and american culture represents even culture. >> he served in tehran as israel's ambassador from 1973 to 1978. neither he or western diplomats predicted the firestorm. >> komeny became more and more convinced that he had a divine mission. just as nowadays they believe that the missing imam is on his right hand and whisked us into it and how and when to do it. >> his return symbolized the creation of the islamic state. >> mark is the author of guests of the ayatollah, the first battle in america's war with militant islam. >> the first time we confronted the rhetoric of radical islam.

>> 4 november, 1979. nine months after komeny came to power, a group of students stormed the embassy and take 53 americans hostage. it began an ordeal that would last 444 days. >> they originally planned to hold it for two or days and it was modelled after the sit ins that took place during the antiwar era. it was a publicity ploy. >> few realized they were not just targeting americans and europeans, they were intent on purifying islam as well. >> it was in 1979. >> she was an eyewitness to those who caught the silence of moderate muslims. >> i was a follow student at the university in syria.

the killings of my professor. boy a bunch of criminals. they were bringing a lot of grief. at that moment, i left. >> the murder of a college professor was hardly noticed. instead images of the embassy in iran and screaming radicals proclaiming an islamic revolution. >> in which the french revolution was there, there was a major shift in power. socially, economically and intellectually. >> christmas day a month after the hostages. this invasion gave islamic militants another cry for the warriors for the soviets to land that was once part.

>> backed by pakistan and saudi arabia, muslims from around the world flocked to join the afghan resistance. >> eager to inflict the defeat on the soviets, the united states delivered covert aid. >> we were in the middle of the cold war and the afghans had their hans out. there was blow back. we did it for the right reasons. >> by the time the soviets withdrew, muslims including osama bin laden claimed that victory was proof to totally committed muslims to defeat an infidel army. >> emerging out of that was the ideology. part of that operation with al qaeda out of that. >> president carter orders the rescue of the hostages and the mission failed in a sandstorm,

killing eight u.s. service men. >> without a single iranian firing a shot reinforced the belief that allah had intervened. >> they were not the only ones to suffer the wrath. 1977, he was the first arab head of state to officially visit israel. 6 october, 1981. it cost him his life. the successor arrested over 300 radicals and among them, the blind sheik. and future al qaeda member.

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>> it was orchestrated from tehran. they could gain within lebanon a proxy. a fault that would be loyal to him and hezbollah. and inside the country. >> in august of 82, a multinational peace keeping force of marines, french, italian and british soldiers. they were branded as invaders. >> it's like car bombs. no biggie. >> on 23 october, armando was a 29-year-old marine sergeant. >> i had gotten off at 4:00 a.m. on the second floor. in a certain area. everybody was close to there. this was the assigned places. that's the first time they wrote the rules. it's too crowded in here. you can't sleep. we went to my room or our area

where we had 15 marines. >> just after 6:00 a.m., the mercedes benz loaded with explosions, crashed into the lobby. the building collapsed, killing 241 u.s. service men. >> i was buried under rubble for four hours. the concrete is going in the back of my thy. >> moments after the marines were hit, a second killed 58 french paratroopers. hoz bo hezbollah was behind the attacks. >> sorry there anything that could have been done to prevent the attacks some. >> i don't think so. it's growing overtime. >> at the time vice president dick cheney was in his third term as congressman. >> in the early 80s when we grew from beirut, that took it as evidence if they killed enough americans, they would change the policy. i don't mean to be critical of

the decisions that were made 20 or 25 years ago, it's different than what we are faced with now. >> kidnappings, hijackings and bombings stretched from cairo to lockerbie, scotland. in the summer of 1985, hezbollah's hijacking of flight 847 focused the world on militant islam. among the passengers, a 23-year-old navy diver who was brutally beaten and shot and his body dumped under the tarmac. >> a body of a young american hero robert dean was returned to his native soil in a coffin. let me make it plain to the assassins in beirut and accomplices. wherever they may be, america will never make concessions to terrorists. >> one of the hezbollah hijackers was released from a german jail in 2005. >> i really, really expect more

than to allow convicted terrorists to be released after having killed americans. released early because of good behavior. >> after a decade of confronting jihad overseas. >> osama bin laden declares war in the west from the mountains of afghanistan. that's next when war stories continues. >> i want to drive us out to establish it. it's what they have told us. >> it's essential that we listen to the words of the enemy. yo, bro, you on woo-woo? are you kidding me? everybody's on woo-woo! [elevator bell rings] woo-woo? lock and load, people! we're going all in on woo-woo! mark! comp us up a profile page! susie! write us some posts! i want sponsored woos. i want targeted woos. we need an ethnically ambiguous woo-woo mascot.

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>> it's the shock being felt around the world. iraq invaded kuwait. >> it look less than two days. supported by more than 800

armored vehicles to overrun oil-rich kuwait. >> u.s. forces from the mat man of baghdad. they were infuriated that they were deployed in the land of the prophet. 991991, operation desert storm expels forces from kuwait. it was a defining moment for bin laden, now al qaeda and other terror groups set sights on a new target. >> you saw more of a movement, an identity from islamist extremism. it has some leadership. >> art cummings is the acting assistant director for counter terrorism. he has been tracking terrorism for 19 years. >> we didn't have a very particular easily defined

nationality. you could find asians or pakastanis. >> jihad basically made a ceasefire. they then redirected jihad. >> 26 february, 1993. a radical parts a van with 1200 pounds of explosives beneath the world trade center's north tower. >> the bombing, six were killed and thousands were injured. we put down a sign and the focus was on the o.j. simpson trial. they were telling us what they intended to do. we didn't want to listen. >> he is now 7ing a life sentence. >> he was being part of the afghan war. very skillful and intelligence and ruthless. >> the international intelligence community was very much at a disadvantage. >> the cia director from 1993 to

1995. >> information obtained by the bureau under the federal criminal procedure couldn't be shared outside prosecuting team. we had justice department instructions to keep intelligence and anything about that completely separate from law enforcement. >> a lot of the substance is looking into the connections that were not really shared with the foreign intelligence community. this is principally a law enforcement matter and seen that way at the time. just as it had been in the 80s. you had a broad movement with an identity, but we can't track it back. maybe sometimes we can to some degree, but more times than not, it's by al qaeda. >> can you say to the american people. here's what we need to be better at what we do. >> world trade center one. you invested a neighborhood where the bomb had been built.

they said it didn't belong here and they came in day and night. in the storage facility. the next question is did it occur to talk to somebody about that? >> the mid-1990s, al qaeda was competing for dominance. if are all of them, westerners were an ideal target. bin laden moved operations from saudi arabia to sudan. they expelled him in 1996, he fled to afghanistan. in 1998, he issued a full-fledged declaration of war against infidels and america in particular. >> we did not respond. congress did not meet. the president did not go to congress. there was something wrong with the jihadists marching and the victims were not responding. >> khalid shaikh mohammed was part of his inner circle.

>> he was the brains behind bin lad laden. terrorism in the united states will do us good. >> 7 august, 1998. two american embassies in kenya and tanzania are bombed and 4,000 are wounded and 2,000 killed, including 12 americans. plipt retaliated by launching missiles into afghanistan and sudan. >> i have responsibility to protect this country. tried and i failed to get bin laden. i regret it, but i tried. i did everything i thought i could responsibly could. >> al qaeda strikes in yemen. suicide bombers hit the harbor, killing another 17 americans. >> one of the great enemies is to have been able to blur the vision and the generations that came before us. that's how we were defeated in the first phase of the war on

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>> in the 70s he changed his name and married a woman and moved to a goat ranch without running water or electricity. they home schooled their four children. >> i referred to them the goats next door. not face to tas obviously. >> the kids at a distance they looked the same and they had long hair. two of them were boys. are they are the ones who will end it. >> one of the boys was this man. he's the latest homegrown face of al qaeda and a long way from his youthful dreams that help the environment. >> his younger brother talked about him on the website you tube.

>> my brother is adam also known as saddam the american. i never due him as that, of course, but it's a bad light on my family. >> what is the status of him today? >> everything in the united states government can levee against him. all of our colleagues in the intelligence community. >> when adam is 17, he was into heavy metal music and lives here in santa ana, california. he wrote of that time on the internet. my grandmother, a computer wiz hooked up to america online. i begin to visit the religion folders and the news groups when i found islam to be the most intriguing. he attended this mosque and formally converted to islam in 1995. >> adam was radicalized at a young age and he found

charismatic leadership that can talk to them. >> it was here that adam punched out an imam and linked to pakistan and jordan. he introduced adam to bin laden. shortly after the death of his grandfather in 1998, adam disappeared in pakistan. a year later, he was arresd in pakistan and imprisoned in jordan, suspected of terrorist activities. back in california, his brother defended him, calling him a family man. he declined the request for an interview, but said his brother is dead and any questions won't help anything now. after being released in may 2001, some reports say he was killed for collaborating and others claim he was killed by soldiers in a raid in 2005.

no one knows for sure. he is president of west coast islamic story and works for the state of california for the substances control. he said his brother's troubles haunts his family. just four days ago they charged adam with treason. >> it is not a crime only against the american people, but against america itself. >> the case is very important. he is now the spokesperson for al qaeda for north america. what happened at the conversion so that after the conversion he feels he has to go to this and join the jihadist. that is the big question. who is doing those conversions? we don't know who is bringing them and who is meeting them. these are the jihadists. >> and the leader puts himself at enormous personal jeopardy if

he stands up and speaks up. have you been threatened for speaking up? >> i have been threatened many times. >> they might be able to kill me, but my husband is already all over. >> interviewing the moderate voices of islam can be a challenge. we confirmed an interview and in "time" magazine he said the terrorists are the murderers and god will deal with them on judgment day. he canceled with less than 24 hours's notice. then imam agreed to sit down with him. he has been a guest at the white house twice. >> the imam supported this july 2005 spot signed by the canadian muslims that declares all acts of terrorism against civilians are forbidden in islam.

when we arrived, he told us he could no longer do the interview. he directed us to his deputy as an expert on the koran. >> there those who profess in the name of islam to justify flying planes into the world trade center and blow themselves up at a wedding in jordan and profess to do that to muslims, christians and jews. that's not the islam you described to me. >> they say fight those who fight you. the people who were in the airplane were not fighting. those who transgress. >> the egyptian born moved here and became an american citizen. >> the momentary operation now. it has been much criticized by islamic leaders all over the

world. >>. >> to prevend islam. >> if a young person came to you and wished to be a martyr, what would you say? >> help americans understand the peace that was cast in your life. >> finally imam decided he would answer some of those same questions. >> if a young person came to see you and said imam, i want to be a suicide bomber. i want to get on a bus in downtown washington and blow yourself up, what would you say? >> there should be no reason why anyone would want to commit suicide and drop bombs.

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is this a war that we can win? >> i think it is a war we can win, but it may take 25 years. it's a war we have to stay at. >> the cia estimates at least 5,000 terrorists have been captured or killed in this jihad since september 11th, 2001. >> they are not looked@sports heroes or movie stars. they are looking at martyrdom. they can watch "american idol"

at night and the next morning put a suicide vest on. >> the hard core islamist hates the united states in part because we represent everything they hate. a kind of world that the true believer wants to create. it's not a world of tolerance and democracy and freedom of oppression. >> they are prepared to do everything they can do. they welcome death. young men and women. >> what promises are made to women? >> women in this part of the world feel threatened. in one of the most extreme or oppressions is you have sinned, you have been bad and you are going hell. this is a way to be better. >> she straps on the vest and blows herself up. >> given this mind set, with armed combat being waged in iran and afghanistan, can we win?

>> did either of those go against us, i think we will still be digging ourselves out from under a hole in 25 years. >> we have been successful with an afghanistan and pakistan and saudi arabia. we are making progress in iraq. the key is to get them to participate and we recruited hundreds of thousands of people in security services and armed forces to fight the bad guy. >> that's for the future and we withdraw before we have been able to get iraqis to be up and running. if that happens, we will be dealing with nuclear capabilities. >> what about the people of iran. do they want a confrontation with the west? >> you think they don't want to be jihadists. they want to wear jeans and watch mtv. >> imagine in your mind a scenario and a vision, a miracle

that it's the u.s. the whole mideast will look differently. can they stop the jihad? >> most people don't want to live under the thumb of the leaders be it islamic or buddhist or whatever. >> i want him to be exposed to more culture. so they can choose their own way of flying. >> what's the role in all of this? >> they were at the disposal of the extreme violence. they inhibited it and they don't need to convince them.

except for canada and norway, most of the exporters were dictatorships or autocratic kingdoms. >> they were going to support some of the causes. >> you know what will happen if we disengage. we have to be aggressive and have offense and eliminate the terrorists and those in response to terrorists. >> this is the struggle. >> i would compare it with 1940. then again we were engaged in a struggle. we can say that i felt more optimistic then than i do now. >> winston churchill will have to face the opposition that

president bush faces and i would have won his war. >> it will be a really, really difficult transition. after all, in 1945 at the end of world war ii, there were 20 democracies and today approximately 120. >> let me put it this way. either we destroy them or they destroy us. destroy us. >> there is more when war your customers, our financing. your aspirations, our analytics. your goals, our technology. introducing synchrony financial,

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theirs is a war story that deserves to be told. from jerusalem, i'm oliver north. good night. tonight on "war stories". >> an overlooked battle in a dark and bloody forest. >> the growth was so thick and mysterious. >> the first gis to assault the third reich. >> translator: do whatever it takes to drive the americans out. >> did american generals blunder? >> the upper command really did not understand. >> it's hell in the huertgen forest. that's next on "war stories."