was due to the fact the counter terrorism director, richard clark, and a senior cia official, charlie alan, came to the conclusion the united states need today kill bin laden before they killed more of us like they have done in the past. the airforce conducted the first test on january 23, 20001 and in the spring of that year top cia officials warily agreed to considering using the new armed uav to kill bin laden. despite the fact they say they were a addicted to using them but before 9/11, controlling a weapon like this and a headline that might be said such as usa uses drones to assassinate islamic militants. even so, the early part of 2001 was spent preparing for a mission and by the first week of september that year most of the elements were in place. this slide is difficult to see from the back up here. these are google earth photos that show the langley campus of the cia on december 12th, 2001. there is a double wide mobile home that serve as the predator's command center. that small white rectangle next to were stations put there to fly the first arm drones over afghanistan. they we

i'm charlie's brother alan. i want to thank you all for coming. for all of us. speak for yourself. okay. uh, i understand that some of you have "mixed feelings." but i think we can all agree that charlie lived life to its fullest and gave it everything he had. gave me herpes. chlamydia. vaginal warts. excuse me, this is my dead son we're talking about. i loved him and i'm devastated that he's gone, leaving me with nothing but my memories and my regrets and the listing for his beautiful beachfront malibu getaway with three bedrooms and three and a half baths and a beautiful panoramic ocean view.

. >> charlie: you talk about that in the first biography. alan touring, his new movie is called the imitation gang, tell me who he is and why he's part of the book. >> alan touring is so fascinating, he worked at bletchly, the secret facility in england that broke the german war-time codes and he comes up, based on ada lovelace, whom he read, the notion of a general-purpose computer. >> charlie: they called it a machine. >> right, it was a universal computing machine he does, and now we call it a touring machine, which can do any logical sequence. but he and ada disagreed. they're a century apart. he's exactly in the 1940s, a century after ada lovelace but he has what's called ada lovelace's objection because she said machines will do everything but think, humans will have to be the creative once. and touring said, how do we know machines will never think? he came up with the notion of artificial intelligence. so he comes up with a test to say how would we define a machine that could think? we say, you put a machine and person in a different room

released a video of the beheading of british hostage alan henning, the parents of an american hostage are making a video appeal for their son's release. charliegata in london has more on the desperate effort to spare a fifth western hostage from execution. >> reporter: isis militants say he's next, 26-year-old american peter kasig, to changed his name to abdul rahman while in captivity after converting to islam. >> my name is ed casing, and this is my wife, paula. >> reporter: today from indianapolis, his parents pleaded for isis to spare their son. >> our hearts ache for you to be granted your freedom so we can hug you again and then set you free to continue the life you have chosen, the life of service to those in greatest need. we implore those who are holding you to show mercy and use their power to let you go. >> reporter: an army ranger who served in iraq, kasig was captured in syria last october while working with the aid agency he'd founded. his web site shows him helping war wounded and providing medical training to residents. british aid worker alan henning went to syria to help victims of the savage war, too, but the 47-year-old ta

charlie. don't leave me, berta. i love you. can't we talk about this? sorry. i do single men only. i'm in, i'm out. there are no complications. but i am single. alan again, but you just... you cannot put the peanut butter in the refrigerator. it gets hard. and, uh, and on a related subject-- the peanut butter stains on jake's shirts really require an enzyme presoak. i hope you two will be very happy together. but who's going to take care of me? who's going to do the laundry and the shopping and the cleaning and all the other stuff? ask the scrubbing bubble there.

charlie d'agata who's in our lawn london bureau. good morning. >> good morning. prime minister david cameron said they would hunt them down. he called alan henning a man of great peace and kindless. >> reporter: there may have been a glimmer of hope. there always has to be. that alan henning would be spared. maybe they might not murder a taxi driver father of two whose only concern was to help those in need. but behead him is what they did. >> his blood is on the hand os testify british parliament. >> this morning british prime minister david cameron denounced the brutal execution. >> anyone in doubt about this organization can now see how truly repulsive it is and barbaric it is. >> 47-year-old henning is the fourth westerner to be executed by isis. even more fundamental list muslim clerics in britain called on isis to release henning. his wife barbara had made a direct public plea for his release. >> we're at a loss why the islamic state cannot open their hearts and minds about the truth of alan's motive for going to syria. >> the executioner appeared to be the same english-speaking militant with the british accent and it ended the way

alan say. >> he was offended by the opera. he described it the same way leon described it, the exact same way. >> and i think charlie, that's-- as the passage he read from the daughters indicates it is the very romant sizing of the murderers, that they found most upsetting. >> let me read the last lines of the libretto, the last words that the audience hear t is marlin klinghoffer after she is crying and tearful, and this sorrowful majestic last aria. she says i should have died. if a hundred people were murdered and their blood flowed in the wake of this ship, like oil, only then would the world intervene. they should have killed me. i wanted to die. this tragedy, he puts in a very, the author puts in a very global sense. the draj klee-- tragedies engulf us because of the misunderstandings, because of the horrors like the holocaust or horrors like the middle east, conflagration which continues today. >> rose: thank you for coming. pleasure to have you. >> thank you, floyd. >> good to see you, charlie. >> rose: back in a moment, stay with us. (applause) >> so two quick questions. why a museum, and why chicago. >> well, i have

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was due to the fact the counter terrorism director, richard clark, and a senior cia official, charlie alan, came to the conclusion the united states need today kill bin laden before they killed more of us like they have done in the past. the airforce conducted the first test on january 23, 20001 and in the spring of that year top cia officials warily agreed to considering using the new armed uav to kill bin laden. despite the fact they say they were a addicted to using them but before 9/11, controlling a weapon like this and a headline that might be said such as usa uses drones to assassinate islamic militants. even so, the early part of 2001 was spent preparing for a mission and by the first week of september that year most of the elements were in place. this slide is difficult to see from the back up here. these are google earth photos that show the langley campus of the cia on december 12th, 2001. there is a double wide mobile home that serve as the predator's command center. that small white rectangle next to were stations put there to fly the first arm drones over afghanistan. they we