[applause] >> mohamad offshart, eng ho, rashad ahmed. >> good afternoon. i have been driving taxis about 15 years. as i see it, we cabdrivers are a wonderful, a key service for the city. but i don't know that the city administration -- you don't see us like that. we are very valuable as an asset here. i do not see any city bodies seen that way. if you're seen that way, 15 years driving -- some cabdrivers have to under 50,000 -- 250,000. i do not believe that has ever happened. >> eng ho, rashad ahmed, jamal anshasi, alud nemezee, mayint fan, john han, sato to. albert ma, mary mcguire, ashak agautam, john gallardo. chairperson nolan: we will give them time to get here. >> john gallardo. if i call your name, if you would stand up. chairperson nolan: we have a few. good afternoon, sir. >> how are you doing? i dry yellow. we are coming here every meeting. we have been coming here every meeting, and you guys don't do nothing. you just listen to us. a warning might sound a little bit funny, but we mean it. if you don't do anything about this 5% electronic waybil

. >> among the people who detained soon after tora bora was abu ahmed al kuwaiti .e was not admitted to the united states. according to this interrogation log obtained by "time" magazine the would be 9/11 hijacker does not give up information easily to investigators at guantanamo bay. so they subject him to standing nude and to having pictures of scantily clad women hung around his neck. according to this fbi letter, they also make him endure months of intense isolation in a cell, always flooded with light. at some point, he starts talking. >> as far as we can tell, from look at the detainee assessments that were published by wikileaks, he mentioned quite a lot of names and one of those he mentioned was this gentleman, abu ahmed al kuwaiti who, it turns out was a courier. >> reporter: a courier who had been with osama bin laden at tora bora. a tantalizing tidbit, but is it the one nugget out of thousands that's worth pursuing? >> you could sense the trail getting warmer. >> reporter: hayden credits the enhanced interrogation techniques or eits. >> we actually found

we get the latest tonight from nbc's tazin ahmed. >> reporter: plumes of smoke shot 12 miles into the sky. a large bubbling mass of ashy clouds. iceland's most active volcano, grimsvotn, caught everyone off guard with the size of its eruption late on saturday. it erupts frequently, but never so intensely. the main airport shut down. every flight was canceled. other airports may follow suit. >> it still remains to be seen how long the ash is going to persist in the atmosphere and what the long-term effects on air traffic will be. >> reporter: on the ground, the heavy fall of ash turned day into night. with the volcano still erupting, it was hard to see road markings. farmers worked through the night to save their livestock. anxious, but determined. we have to deal with it, says this farmer. the big worry is there will be a repeat of scenes from last year when another of iceland's volcanos erupted, causing chaos around the world. european air space was closed down. 10 million travelers caught up in the disruption. >> that was an unusual volcano. and an unusual ash size distribution. and

ambassador akbar ahmed, nice to see you again. >> thank you, bob. thank you, kim. >>> in other news, there were also moral concerns this week about the situation in libya. crowds of gadhafi supporters protested in tripoli after a nato air strike killed one of gadhafi's sons and three of the leader's young grandchildren. the catholic bishop of tripoli was among those allowed to view the bodies. he reiterated his call for a ceasefire, saying airstrikes are killing civilians. nato leaders denied they are specifically targeting gadhafi and his family members. >>> as anti-government protests continued in syria, human rights groups say thousands of people have been detained by the government there. the widespread crackdown follows seven-weeks of violent unrest. more than 500 people have been killed. in turkey, the red crescent society has put up temporary shelters for refugees along the syrian border. >>> there are new questions about the future of the middle east peace process after the two rival palestinian governments signed a reconciliation deal. the

brian. >> tazeen ahmed in pakistan for us at the scene of the raid where bin laden had been living. tazeen, thanks. >>> and now more questions here. first, in a town loaded with pakistani military, cadets, active duty, and retired, how plausible is it no one knew bin laden was living in that big house, and how are things between the two countries now that the u.s. has launched a raid inside pakistan without advance warning or permission apparently? our chief foreign affairs correspondent andrea mitchell in our d.c. newsroom with a look at both of those questions. andrea, good evening. >> good evening, brian. those are the questions. relations with pakistan had already been on the down slide, especially after that prolonged arrest and jailing of a cia contractor recently. but now there is an even worse breach. and frankly, i cannot find a senior official in the u.s. government who is not deeply suspicious about the surprising circumstances of bin laden's location in what was essentially a military enclave, right down the road from pakistan's military academy. intelligence chair diann

his wife was the youngest of his wives. 29-year-old amal ahmed abdul fatah.uthorities as the woman pictured in this yemeni passport that a pakistani tv station said was found in the compound after the raid. amal ahmed was in the bedroom with bin laden when the navy s.e.a.l.s closed in. >> bin laden's wife rushed the u.s. assaulter and was shot in the leg but not killed. >> reporter: bin laden married amal ahmed at the age of 15. she was a gift to him from a yemeni family. >> she was a very young woman by the account of the bodyguard who brought her to meet bin laden from the tribal family that had presented her to bin laden for marriage. >> reporter: over the years, bin laden had at least 11 children with his wives. >> he married very young. first a cousin from syria, then a couple of very well-educated women from saudi arabia. >> reporter: there are no known photographs of the other wives and his former sister-in-law, carmen bin laden, told diane sawyer that bin laden did not like women to talk to him. >> my brother-in-law was standing at the stairs of the p

kraken ahmed my brother like me was trained to deal with landmines and he told them that the area had mines and he said ok. and the being there was a big explosion because they were home most were going to several mines were tied together as one. we call them partners machine when you remove one they all explode on this and that's what happened to him so we can remove one line but there were twelve more. walk a few know what bothers us the most. no man is that we wish he died looking the same way he didn't like. it i just remembered my parents actually don't know what i do it when i'm out of so i never told them that i worked as a d. minor and then i just told my work of the guys regular joyriding selling out and that type of thing is the name of the incident they're happy but they don't know that i work as a d. minor if they did they wouldn't approach the country at all. why do i have to go and you know i somehow. because there is a war against. others if i thank you the free money will be ok on feel. ok all the. time from time of told them the same old stuff from. you then you would

opposition fighter ahmed is breting his last breaths. has massive abdominal injuries from a mortar wound. the doctor who operated on him asked us to obscure his face because he has rel at thises in tripoli. >> i don't think he's going to make it. unfortunately, we've done everything for him, but this is -- his heart rate now is 25. it's zero now as you see it now, and medical in this place they don't want to stop the ventilator until he is completely flat line where there is no heart rate. as long as there's a heart beating, they're going to continue, but the chance for this gentleman to make it is almost zero. >> reporter: shortly afterwards, the line goes flat. nurses detach med's body from the life support equipment and cover his face. ben wedeman, cnn, misrata, libya. >>> president obama arrived back at the white house tonight wrapping up a six-day trip to europe. he ended in poland where memories of the old soviet union are still strong. here is our white house correspondent ed henry from warsaw. >> reporter: on this final stop in p

omar ahmed dialed 911 and said he was not feeling well when paramedibs arrived he was unresponsive.n the council for three years and serving as mayor five months ago. >> former governor arnold schwarzenegger and his wife maria shiver will work together as parents. they announced they are separating after 25 years of marriage. the children range in age from 13to 21. they came to the decision after thought, reflection and discussion and prayer. >> there is underlying personal issues between them that are long stand i am sure she decided since her parents passed away she is looking for something different. she is more spiritual and looking for something meaningful. >> the break up came four months after schwarzenegger finished his governorship. shiver defended her husband against the#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#t#tñ >> i am carolyn johns nont news room. new tonight at 6:00 is freedom around the corner for a police officer. steps in place to release of jail. >> the times of this couldn't be worse to help the victims of the earthquake and tsunami. the group turn to michael finney to make sure every

it plans to attack americans living in pakistan >>> a memorial service will be held today for omar ahmed, the san carlos mayor who died of a heart attack on wednesday. the public is invited to join the memorial. the 46-year-old had become mayor in november after serving on the city council since 2007. >>> teachers are preparing for a huge rally in san francisco later today to fight against more budget cuts. >>> say hey. >> they have been rallying all we can in preparation for this afternoon's big eend including a gathering of teachers on the peninsula. hundreds turned out in sequoia. teachers want lawmakers to vote on tax extensions to avoid deeper cuts. a sequoia union trustee says that schools stand to lose millions of dollars without those tax extensions. >> to sky quo union high, it means that, next year, we are cutting five million dollar out of our budgets. >> the demonstrations are part of a california teachers association's state of emergency campaign. this afternoon, three general rallies take place in front of san francisco city hall from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. >>> the punishment do

the answer to that question according to ahmed needs to be looked at carefully from both the u.s. side and pakistani side to avoid a fallout in international relations. >> it is not in the interests of either america or pakistan to lose each other. it will only be in the interests of those people who want more violence. it is osama bin laden. the man who has dominated in terms of pure terror this last decade. >> reporter: the videos that were released are being described tonight as just a snippet of one of the largest collection of terrorist material ever seized. we are live tonight outside the white house. 9news now. >> thanks, ken. information seizeed from bin laden's compound indicated that trains could be on al-qaida's list of potential targets and that has police taking no chances tonight. improvised explosive device was discovered in chester, pennsylvania, today. about a half hour outside of philadelphia. the device contained two bottles with a yellow liquid. wires and timer were attached to one of the bottles. and tonight authorities are investigating whether the device is

. >> reporter: the youngest d his favorite stayed with him, amal ahmed.sport was found in the compound this week. she had been given to bin laden as a gift when she was only a teenager. >> she was a very young woman by the account of the bodyguard who brought her to meet bin laden from the tribal family that had presented her for marriage. >> reporter: amal and bin laden and their young children lived on the second and third floors of the hideout. bin laden apparently felt safe enough here to keep his family with him, living in relative luxury. >> i think it was always mistaken to believe he was in a cave and nobody on the inside ever thought that. >> reporter: on sunday, when the navy s.e.a.l.s moved in, amal was in the bedroom with bin laden where she reacted with apparent fury. >> in the room with bin laden was bin laden's wife. she rushed one of the u.s. assaulters and was shot in the leg, but not killed. a woman on the first floor was killed in the cross fire. >> and bin laden's wife was unarmed, as well? >> that is my understanding. >> reporter: peo

sheikh abdul ahmed from kuwait. they say he was bin laden's most trusted courier. it took years for investigators to identify him. the administration says once they did, he unknowingly led them to bin laden's hide out in the small pakistani town of abbottabad. >>> a white house event was scheduled before the mission but now the president is trying to spent some of the political capital he built up last night. fox 5's tom fitzgerald at the white house tonight. >> reporter: this wrapped up a short time ago this evening, was actually the second time we saw the president today earlier during a medal of honor ceremony where he said the world is a safer place tonight without bin laden in it. at the white house this evening congressional leaders were at odds with each other over a possible government shut down were joined together in the dining room in a celebratory mood. the president said the unity that swept across america after 9/11 had frayed but there have been events recently like the tornadoes in the south and the gab shooting when this -- began yell giffords shoo

nbc's that seam ahmed reports. >> reporter: an upper middle class tourist destination surrounded by three mountains, pakistanis come here to escape the heat during the summer months. people here say they had no idea that saudi arabia had come here, too. it's a house set in an area still under development surrounded by empty plots and half-built houses. there's no indication that behind these high concrete walls was one of the world's most notorious fugitives, living right in the heart of a garrison townhome to pakistan's retired as well as active army generals. >> i don't believe that osama bin laden can live here. it's all a restricted area by army. >> reporter: soldiers on the streets in vehicles and at checkpoints. then there's the elite military academy. some call it pakistan's west point, a stone's throw from the compound where osama bin laden was living. one family lived just opposite the bin laden compound for the last five years. they told us they knew very little about their neighbors. local residents are still trying to make sense of what happened here. >> i feel disgraced. >> w

party asks what's just and what's not that's where uncle ahmed confirms the death of al qaida that summer when there are also the side. effects of killing of colonel gadhafi his son in a nato airstrike sparks outrage in libya as angry crowds have been forming a c. plus. economic desperation intensifies the u.s. debt collectors resorting to a few style backwards to make americans pay their way. and as many countries question then your safety margin can perceive a crisis our team is pouring a new russian react to assess its own duty. on air and online this is our table straight it was top story today the u.s. president barack obama has confirmed that a solid bin laden has been killed in a special operation in pakistan sources suggest that his body has been buried at sea which will do little to counter claims from the pakistani taliban that their leader is still alive results and see cutting off reports from washington d.c. his death has brought reminders that it was the u.s. itself that nourished the growth of al qaeda and bin laden himself back in the 1980's. u.s. president barack obama ad

officials say it was osama bin laden's most trusted courier sheik abu ahmed that led american forces to him. he picked i'm phone that was being monitored. a call that ultimately led a team of u.s. navy seals right to osama bin laden's doorstep. this was when you didn't see sunday night in the white house situation room. the president and his national security team sweated out the tense moments before the words the world would soon hear. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden. >> reporter: the trail began several years ago as bin laden's most trusted courier was identified by cia detainees. then last fall, that courier was spotted at this house . the family inside burned their garbage, had no phones and internet. officials determined it was osama bin laden behind those walls. >> we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and president musharraf won't act. we will. >> reporter: the entire assault took 40 minutes. as the president monitored the progress, u.s. navy seals fought their way inside the home. women were used as shie

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ahmed ferhani and mohammed mamdouh were arraigned in a manhattan court yesterday.aeda or any other terror group. >>> meanwhile, we are learning this morning that the u.s. has now spoken to the three widows of osama bin laden. the women have been in pakistani custody ever since the deadly raid carried out by those navy s.e.a.l.s. a u.s. official says the interview did not go well. we're also learning that bin laden kept in touch with his followers via e-mail. he apparently used flash drives that were then taken to distant internet cafes by his couriers. >> quite a network. very interesting. >>> security is substantially increased this morning around the kenya home of president obama's stepgrandmother. this is in response to threats against sarah obama, issued by the somali branch of al qaeda. president obama says he will not comment on any specific threats against him or his family. but he does say that the u.s. is being extra vigilant since that death of osama bin laden. >>> conservative critics are all over republican presidential front-runner mitt romney. they sa

so is her 29-year-old mother, ahmed amal, who was shot in the leg, trying to protect bin laden. she was a gift to the al qaeda leader when she was only 15 years old. there is little chance that bin laden would have lived through the assault. one u.s. official saying tonight, "unless he was standing naked with his hands up, they were taking him out." this comfortable city compound, where an official told abc news that bin laden was dying his beard to cover the gray, was a stunning setting for his demise. for years, officials, including the president, have said bin laden was likely in a cave in the wild tribal areas of pakistan. >> between the borders of afghanistan and pakistan. this is the heart of it. this is where bin laden is. >> he is, as is obvious, in very deep hiding. he's in an area of the -- the tribal areas in pakistan. obviously has tremendous security around him. >> reporter: that obviously did not turn out to be true, but clearly, panetta's cia stayed with it, ending this story with stunning success, diane. >> all right, martha. and we'll go now to pakistan. our nic

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peace negotiations talking about nato as a ramped up aerial campaign aimed at libya political analyst ahmed about our says he sees no end ok. who has the political solution to this crisis in war but the gridlock none of them are with the libyan government we're going to who are capable of is only one. of the new two strokes i think the ball was good news the ball on the side of the new book was that good should the balance of power. lose for you but some for our we go without official. underground circles this conflict. once and for all i don't see how would we be. more useful the alliance are from the looking glass and. i don't see how it was all anything to leave your whole thing i don't know if you would be using one of. these against so we feel that division is just driven by evolution. you don't see me. in. for more on the libyan stalemate and the unrest in the arab world just log on to our web site that's r.t. tom here's a taste of some of the items we have lined up for you right now and the e.u. issues agrees a fresh ultimatum saying i think it's needs to step up the economic reforms

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between those regional tribes west and east and that would not change with the killing of one man old ahmed solution in libya is going to be a peace agreement and it's going to be a peace agreement between the west and the east power sharing in this part of the world are very familiar with those sorts of deals where tribes that are killing each other one day then share power the next day and so that's really where the effort internationally should be focused. in syria times and security forces have reportedly moved into the central city of homs and something that's how fast making arrests along the way with this comes a day at least six people were killed a syrian troops swept through a coastal city suppressing demonstrations and officials blame terrorists groups for the rest of the protesters say they want an end to decades of oppression and corruption one thousand rights claims eight hundred feet up and killed since the uprising began almost seemed months ago on the back of the u.s. sanctions the e.u. has also agreed to a freeze on a travel ban thoughts hopes to. area officials thought mo

knew that one of osama bin laden's wives was captured in the deadly raid. 29-year-old yemeni amal ahmed abdul fatah. but tonight, abc news has learned a total of three of his wives were taken. all of them had been living together with bin laden inside the compound where he was killed. abdul fatah has told investigators that for the past five years, bin laden confined himself to just two rooms, including the bedroom where he was shot dead sunday, with abdul fatah, who was injured in the raid, at his side. >> two rooms on one of the floor. he never went anywhere. >> reporter: tonight, held under guard in islamabad, the three wives are being interrogated, likely facing a firm but nonviolent questioning. >> we give them a questionnaire, there are 20 questions. she answers, then we change the order of those questions another day. >> reporter: investigators then look for any contradictions in their answers. >> they have a very, very good memory. you find out, normally would tell you for the first day, the correct things. >> reporter: still reeling from being kept in the dark about the raid, t

[speaking arabic] >> translator: yes, it is true that ahmed bashir has not been arrested here but had he not been summoned to the international criminal court, he would have killed another 100,000 or more than that. the [speaking arabic] >> translator: and it was for the deterrent that the icc had the international criminal court ted he agreed to the cessation and now it is becoming a different country. [speaking arabic] >> translator: he cannot sleep properly if he can't go anywhere. sub 10 [speaking arabic] >> translator: chorus, the court could have been stronger. this is why i say hope it becomes stronger. and from the united states to make it stronger. .. >> yes wan. >> translator: to give you an idea of the government they repeal the fact that there is a plan in iran that is building nuclear equipment. hours later they were attacked and a number of people were killed. is that not questionable to that? speaking speaking native tongue. >> >> translator: therefore iraq is betting close relationship but this situation is different withñr syria because in syria you can only hear the

for more on this we're joined live by ahmed correction the senior fellow for you pakistani think tank project for the twenty first century good to have you with bin ladin is dead what's next what's next for the war on terror. well i think we are moving now very fast toward the end game in afghanistan i think if we just move beyond the death or the assassination of osama bin laden we can see that one way or the other the united states has been provided if they saving way to sort of say that now we can actually get out of afghanistan i think one reason why you're seeing the pakistani government quiet on the circumstances surrounding what happened last night is that apparently the pakistanis are all so happy in government i mean today morning knew for sure was statement that came out of the pakistani foreign ministry was very keen on giving full credit to those who work for the operation to the u.s. government and it was a strange because normally the pakistani government has been very careful not to get itself involved in anything that would involve u.s. military on blocks and soil but

trattoria ahmed. pakistan's defense minister quote we have asked china our chinese brothers to yes please build a navy base and it would our this is crazy i mean none of this pakistan have an insurgency developing against the pakistani government which should scare everybody to death that we know we should be able to sleep at night because this is how bad is but we see we see that the chinese and the pakistani government are now aligning which means that the united states india is going to panic is now india is becoming closer to the united states so that's good for us and bad for us bad because we can't leave afghanistan permanently we can't leave our troops unless we have pakistan and china on our side in the process and right now with the chinese pakistani legions tells us that we there lie against us this is bad for has got to be really careful there with your use lee's analysis because i don't count myself and half of those we always lie about from the first part of the governor which is i go abo

professor akbar ahmed, chair of islamic studies. also joined by aaron david miller, a public policy scholar at the woodrow wilson center and also a former middle east negotiator from 1988 to 2003. both of you gentlemen, thank you very much. now that we have heard the speech, what are the policy implications going forward for the president? if we can start, one of the things he focused on was a call for democracy. in certain areas of the middle east, we heard the call as far as policy. what does it mean, mr. ambassador? guest: there were some comments from president obama's reactions. they were somewhat unambiguous, somewhat lacking in direction. there were statements, but there seemed to be some lack of clarity. yesterday, he cleared the air. he emphatically laid down the marker that this is where we stand. this is where we stand. we will support democracy and human rights. we will support every kind of desperation of the people of the middle east. he took the range of countries into a purview. he talked about egypt and tunisia, who