the july death of longtime al-qaeda leader zahawiri was a strategic and symbolic setback for al-qaeda. it does not put an end to the organization. in particular, in the middle east al-qaeda and the arabian peninsula is a destabilizing actor in yemen and remains among the most interrupted -- intent on attacking the homeland. two other prominent al-qaeda affiliates also standout, both for their growing regional influence and their significant capabilities. the sahel based al-qaeda affiliate, jainheb, and the somalia-based affiliates al-shabaab. transitioning from sunni terrorism to threats emanating from iran, its partners and proxies, iran continues to plan and encourage and support plots against the united states, both at home and in the middle east where we have a significant u.s. military presence. iran and its proxy lebanese hezbollah have sought to plot attacks against u.s. officials to retaliate for the death of islamic revolutionary -- raising the threats both at home and abroad for those that iran deems responsible. in closing, i just highlight that the complexity of that -- th

is al qaeda gone from afghanistan? >> no.eda was living in downtown kabul. they have a head of a terrorist network whose one of the senior officials in the afghanistan government and if the president, i'll answer the president's question about why would we need to stay there now. nobody wants to be there but if you have a secure air base that's uber secure that allows you to continue with your intelligence networks developed over 20 years within afghanistan , that will be the best way to keep an eye on what's going on within afghanistan. we don't have that now and christopher wray and others within its own administration are very worried about that. liz: we got to stick on this for one more second. >> sure. liz: the fbi in may arrested an iraqi asylum seeker. he was threatening to assassinate former president george w. bush. he was plotting to bring more terrorists ink across southern border to do that. also, a woman who was a kansas mother worked with, she was an isis leader. she was working with, you know, isis leaderrer el

two other prominent al-qaeda affiliates also stand out, both for the growing regional influence and their significant capabilities. the -- based off kind of alert and smaller affiliate al-shabaab. of note, we continue to monitor for signs al-qaeda has chosen a successor, now three months since his death. it seems in addition to al-qaeda affiliate leaders we are particularly focused on the role that iran-based legacy leaders such as -- may pay to play in the future of the organization. transitioning from terrorism to threats emanating from iran, its partners, and its proxies, iran continues to plan, and, and support plots against the united states, both at home and in the middle east where we have a significant u.s. military presence. iran and lebanese -- have sought to plan attacks against former u.s. officials to retaliate for the death of -- raising the threat both at home and abroad for those that iran deems responsible. in closing i would just highlight the complexity of the international terrorism and extremism environment that i just outlined continues to demand a collaborative, agi

and russian government saw her with least in exchange for russian arms diva, accused of supplying al qaeda and the taliban. among many others, a prisoner swap on the tarmac of ab without the effort. it was hill, but captivity ended for us basket bold star, brittany griner, seen her on the left, and the russian arms dealer weak to boot. on the right. you as president joe biden spoke to griner shortly after her release. i'm glad to be able to say the brittany is in good spirits. she. she's relieved to finally be heading home. and the fact remains that she's lost months of her life experienced the needless trauma . she deserves space privacy in time with their loved ones to recover and heal from her time being wrong through detained dryness. wife sharell, tanked those involved and bringing brittany home. so for the last 9 months, you all have been. i'm so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. and so today i'm just standing here. i'm overwhelmed with the emotions, but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude. while griner was still on her way to the

he was even suspected of delivering chemical weapons to al qaeda. and oak is someone who does that or is accused of doing that must have very good contact connections. and he might be also connected even to secret services. when booth was arrested in thailand and extradited to the yes, the reaction from moscow was a very harsh 2010. at that time, deputies of the doom, or the minister of foreign affairs, harshly criticized his extradition to the as may be because he just knew too much and knew too many high ranking officials personally in russia. and maybe he could have revealed some secrets to the americans. mother are the western prisoners being held in russia on rather dubious char, just like a poor whelan. for example, we heard about this in our report, one of their chances of release i think poll we linda, is a little bit different story of the drug smuggling is considered in russia, a serious crime and punishable with jack connie and penalties like we saw it in case of brittany griner, willen or mr. wilson is still accused of spanish, and that

we were sitting with the service organizations, al qaeda was there was on below them was there, everyone was there. we were living in peace with these people. we don't have any problem. all of a sudden the united states government came in this so we will bring you democracy. and we'll take all the sort of those organizations out of afghanistan and will destroy them now 22 years ago, emmons or what he was killed and was elected hon in the pro much district and cheerful. and there are still a lot of other international total is who wanted and there are jews on these. like the fall under the interior minister of afghanistan's report on government, there's a $5000000.00 us dollar bond on his head by the us government. and the same us diplomats are negotiating deals with the same terrorist who has bounty on their heads. what you want and the lesson community, or from the, from, from the us government, or from the, from any we don't have any allies at the moment. like if you're going in there are the darlings of the allies of the west. we don't have those privileges now, and i'm just going to

russian governments saw her release in exchange for a russian arms dealer, accused of supplying al qaeda and the taliban, and fueling armed conflict around the world. a prisoner swap on the tarmac of abu dhabi airport. it was here that captivity ended for us basketball star, brittany griner scene here on the left, and the russian army dealer, victor boot on the right. u. s. president joe biden spoke to griner shortly after her release. i'm glad to be able to say the brittany is in good spirits. she, she's relieved to finally be heading home. and the fact remains that she's lost months of her life experienced the needless trauma. she deserves space privacy in time with a longer to recover and heal from her time being wrong through detained greiner was arrested at a moscow airport in february after she was caught with less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. she was sentenced to 9 years in prison. the man she was exchanged for victor boot was in a u. s. jail serving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking. his role in selling weapons to rogue states, rebel groups and warlords aroun

hawk reports another drill for soldiers in togo, and exercise, encountering possible attacks by al qaeda in iso at least 5 had been reported since the beginning of the year. in, during dozens of people, and displacing hundreds togo has become the latest target for arm groups operating in the south. solid prison instructed us to take all the necessary measures to ensure that we can protect our people that we can deal with this threat, which is making headlines in our region. researchers from the armed conflict location and event data project have recorded a surge in attack since a held countries in 2022. they say togo's neighbor, burkina, faso experienced a 400 percent increase in violet incidence. in january, the democratically elected president caulked mac cowboy was toppled in a coup by colonel amoeba. he promised to bring an end to attacks by arm groups but face after the series of military set in october, a qu within acute south, a brain power over throwing demi back after soldiers lost control of 60 percent of burkina faso to armed groups. not only is this another delayed to democra

their adherence to some of the things that isis and al-qaeda have said about women and women's placesaction spent hours and hours disseminating isis beheading videos, disseminating materials about why young boys should rape women. why they should take women as slaves, why women have no place in society. so, parents have a responsibility to understand that... zack davies, who went into a tesco in 2015 and tried to behead a man. you know, he had all this isis imagery and words going on, he was a member of national action. so they're right to say... and i think where the security services are right now, previously we just thought these are a bunch of bnp nutters, they're not, that's gone, as we said earlier on, completely gone. we're talking about a new, harsher ideology, younger, harsher, more disturbed, more distant, more isolated young men, and this new ideology is — what can we do to get these people over the line to commit a terror attack? that is fascinating. and what we're also talking about is the power of the internet to create global communities. individuals in bedrooms, who ar

al qaeda translated means the base.hind al qaeda was that they would be a centralized location of inspiration and recruiting and things like that. but that independent islamic extremists around the world who w act in concert. we've seen that in somalia and northern africa. so this is a time-testing strategy among extremist groups of all stripes. >> goodness. before we go, we already heard in the wake of north carolina attack, discussion of let's harden up the power stations, let's put up concrete walls around them so you can't shoot in. the trouble is you have thousand theses, right. p tens of thousands of them around the country. what is the fix here? is it hardening up the stations or tracking down the groups doing this? >> it is hard to believe that a legitimate campaign of hardening these targets would be effective. there are tens of thousands, many, many of them are in remote places. they're in places where people, they're not close to businesses and homes and things like that. a lot of people don't want these thin

russian government saw her released in exchange for a russian arms dealer, accused of supplying al qaeda and the taliban, and fueling armed conflict around the world. a prisoner swap on the tarmac of abu dhabi airport. it was here that captivity ended for us basketball star, brittany greiner. back in the u. s. i. griner was arrested at moscow airport in february, after she was caught with less than a gram of cannabis oil in her luggage. she was sentenced to 9 years in prison. the man she was exchanged for victor boot was in a u. s. jail serving a 25 year sentence for arms trafficking. his role in selling weapons to rogue states, rebel groups and warlords around the world. and him, the nickname, the merchants of death. the exchange is no doubt of victory for both prisoners and their families. but some in the us, including republican lawmakers, have slammed it as a gift to putin, anemia. you believe me amused through a 3rd form even though i got a miracle can you know they've also taken aim at biden's failure to negotiate the release of former us marine paul whalen, who is currently servin

a group associated with al qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. if you have been a alliances resumed plots to the rebel held region of tea, gra, allowing some families to reunite after 18 months is fall as a visit by may. theo, be in government delegation to the area on tuesday. it was the 1st such trip since a pe steel was signed at last month and at ending a brutal 2 year conflict. what was in still happening. and that's all the news for now. i'm anthony. how it in berlin, thanks be a company and way if you're watching have a good day. the question. question about life, the universe and everything he knew the answer? well then david here 40 to the answer to almost.

fundamentally, strategically, it was the right decision for the united states to end the amir of al-qaeda,al zawahiri, to maintain that risk of al-qaeda and even without thousands of troops on the ground. the other thing i would say sitting here today and supporting ukraine and its effort to defend itself against russian aggression, given the other set of challenges that we are confronting around the world, it's a good thing from the a strategic point of view that the united states is not currently in the middle of war in afghanistan with thousands of u.s. troops exposed and at risk. it is good that those troops are out of harm's way and it's good that we're in a position to be able to focus on both supporting our partner in a major war in europe and dealing with this larger set of challenges that we've just been speaking about. >> but it doesn't mean that these threats haven't gone away and it doesn't mean that we can simply turn our backs on afghanistan and we can continue to provide significant amounts of humanitarian assistance and we have engaged with the taliban to try to advance ou

did more work along with you to get people out with military left coming he said that not only is al qaeda back better than ever, bigger than ever but then on sunday is backs well is in afghanistan is an officer and put his life on the line and is very ground. >> and brian, the pentagon report on this release that china must china watchers, highlighted in this report, how china seek media, blasting course i want their embassies all of the world pointed to that withdrawing said that this is evidence of the americas is on declined a more on and you better both us in america will not stand with you, look what they just did to their own citizens in their own people. this will have a damaging effect to our alliances at all of the world, for many many years and i won't even admit it. brian: that's a problem people make mistakes and disasters that they're willing to admit it talk about something else disasters, because our academy men and women and students in our lease are not vaccinated in some cases, being told to come in according to them but not by the academies themselves, not getting commi

has handed over victor boot a russian arms dealer accused of supplying weapons to al qaeda and the taliban among others. will in us politics, arizona. senator kiersten cinema has announced that she is leaving the democratic party that comes just days after the democrats increased. their slim majority in the senate cinema will register as an independent and is emphasized that she will not sit with republicans. she also plans to continue her committee positions through the democrats and is expected to continue casting most of her votes with them. and here is what the white house has to say about cinema's move. the way we see it in understanding it does not changed a new democratic majority of control of the senate, and we have every reason to expect that we will continue to work with her successfully. so the white house, thanks and i'm was move won't change anything. here's database, catalina sham. why from washington? yes, claire, they are probably right. the democrats will still have a slight majority in the senate, even if cinema does not vote. as a democrat cinema has not specifically sa

a group associated with al qaeda immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. and ethiopian airlines has resumed flights of the rebel held region of to grey, allowing some families to reunite after some 18 months, as well as a visit by an ethiopian government delegation to the area on tuesday. it was the 1st such trip since a peace deal was signed last month aimed at ending a brutal 2 year conflict. so the faith both what was in while the vatican has confirmed that the health of former pope benedict, the 16th is deteriorating, pope francis has visited his predecessor and described him as very ill. benedetto receiving around the clock medical attention, he 95 year old former pontiff has been almost entirely out of the public eye. in recent years. a benedict was born in germany as joseph and i think he stepped down as pontiff in 2013 due to declining health and was succeeded by francis got a huge cookie boy in abilene. i'd like to ask all of you for a special prayer happen for ameritas? pope benedict and who in silence is sustaining the church. i remind you that

. >> by far it is isis and al-qaeda. racially unethically motivated extremist provide a threat, hierarchically organized groups have been acting to be -- the racially motivated violent extremists and ideologically motivated threats as well. >> thank you, ma'am, thank you, all, thank you, mister chairman. >> thank you, senator ossoff. the authorization from the office of countering weapons of mass destruction is set to expire next year. in preparation, senator portman and i introduced a bill that reauthorize as the office and empowers the newly created office of health security and dhs. the bill clarifies roles and responsibilities for both offices, and, adds important accountability and oversight measures. secretary mayorkas, can you explain to this committee how the exploration of the authorization will impacts if it expires. particularly how important the legislation has to deal with local, tribal, and territorial partners on this critical issue? >> mister chairman, the office of countering the the department of homela

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approach when it comes to counterterrorism and in fact, the action that we took against the amir of al-qaeda,al zawahiri, to maintain that risk of al-qaeda and even without thousands of troops on the ground. the other thing i would say sitting here today and supporting ukraine and its effort to defend itself against russian aggression, given the other set of challenges that we are confronting around the world, it's a good thing from the a strategic point of view that the united states is not currently in the middle of war in afghanistan with thousands of u.s. troops exposed and at risk. it is good that those troops are out of harm's way and it's good that we're in a position to be able to focus on both supporting our partner in a major war in europe and dealing with this larger set of challenges that we've just been speaking about. >> but it doesn't mean that these threats haven't gone away and it doesn't mean that we can simply turn our backs on afghanistan and we can continue to provide significant amounts of humanitarian assistance and we have engaged with the taliban to try to advance ou

al-qaeda, isis. so what's it mean?t means that in germany, when you get designated a member or a domestic terrorism group. you get surveillance, undercover agents, informant development. they are listening. they are watching. early on, that enables them to catch it. we don't do that here, because we don't designate the groups. if you are an international terrorist, you trip over al-qaeda or isis in the united states, they are on you. law enforcement and intelligence are on the. like never before. and they stop terrorist acts on the international scale. we don't do that for domestic terrorism groups. it is a different society. >> what would it take for us to change that here? >> well, it certainly isn't going to happen with a divided senate and house as we are going to experience here. but, it will also take a national discussion. sadly. sadly it almost would have to take a monumental attack, i mean look at the german history right. international embarrassment. you could say, well why do we wait for so long. we had some

. >> though he was accused of selling arms to al-qaeda and the taliban. not in the when you convicted him for but in the past. that's part of his record. >> that's his record, but that was never a crime against the united states, and i'm not so sure that you're right about al-qaeda. there were other groups that he sold to. many countries in africa. both sides of civil war. the point is, he didn't care who was customer was. he was selling arms to whoever would buy those arms. that is different from somebody who has an ideology. yes, but he still a bad guy. >> oh for sure. >> and still a dangerous guy. >> is he still a dangerous? guy >> good question. i'm interested to hear the you think he was retired because earlier we had the former human trafficking expert, she is the woman who is credited with getting viktor bout arrested and she just talked on cnn to erin burnett. here's what she said. >> he is what i call a weapon of mass destruction personified, and he will be ready for putin to deploy him, especially in ukraine and africa and other war zones. that

selling arms to al qaeda and to the taliban, among other things, said he was involved in selling armshose who would kill americans as well. if you can talk about that record but also this guy is transnational. and talk about his involvement with the u.s. government and u.s. government paying him, what came out in the truck and what didn't, and his involvement with vice president cheney, halliburton, and the iraq war was all about. >> viktor bout never had any particular allegiance to any government come to any ideology. viktor bout was all about profiting. he was all about bringing -- using pilots and planes and being the federal express of weapons into any conflict zone where he could make a profit. even while he was on sanctions, a sanctions, u.n. sanctions, eu sanctions, he still managed to evade those sanctions. it was during the war in iraq when he pulled the wool over the eyes of the department of defense, the pentagon, and he was used for approximately 140 flights of bringing in logistical supplies for the u.s. while he used that cover in order to supply weapons to the enemy th

he was aware that al qaeda agents were tracked in america he asked for it, that report.s meeting in the oval office he made clear that yes, they could see dots of information all over the place ahead of time. but even the best intelligence officers in the world couldn't connect them into a constellation that warned of this specific event in a way they might be able to prevent it. in the end it is clear in the document that bush does say, i had the responsibility, but he clearly sees that as something different than having the blame. kaitlan. >> it's so rare to get a look inside something like this. >> it's quite a read. >> for two decades, definitely worth the read. tom foreman, thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. >>> up next this morning we're going to talk about something lebron james said to reporters last night. about questions he's being asked about one figure in sports but not another. >>> also this. >> i felt like i lost control of my life. >> that was one brave demonstrator, speaking to cnn's selina wang in disguise, as chinese police continue to crackdown in

afghanistan and spent several months in captivity, crayfish, when he tried to interview representatives of al-qaedas a multiple award winner of the festival and documentary films, his films are broadcast by many world media, including the bbc and the fourth british channel. he says that he came here to personally see the other side of the conflict, which is not represented in any way in western days, why i came here, because for 6 months all television companies in the west of cnn bbc did not show a single interview of a russian soldier in russian on their airs minded citizen or local resident. donetsk or luhansk i have been reporting for 30 years and have never seen such one-sided coverage of events. why are you doing this? ask? why is it really my fixer looks suspicious. here from donetsk, his mother thinks that perhaps, i'm a spy, the strange thing is that in the west they ask me the same question. why am i coming here, that is, both sides are asking this question journalists in the west, thousands of them adhere to the ukrainian side. i think i am the only western journalist. there are several

another drill for soldiers in togo, and exercise, encountering possible attacks by al qaeda in iso. at least 5 have been reported since the beginning of the year in, during dozens of people. and displacing hundreds togo has become the latest target for arm groups. operating imbecile selected prison instructor us to take all necessary measures to ensure that we can protect our people, that we can deal with this credit, which is making headlines in our region. researchers from the armed conflict, location and event data project have recorded a surge in attacks and so held countries in 2022. they say togo's neighbor, burkina, faso experienced a 400 percent increase in violent incidence. in january, the democratically elected president caulked mac cowboy was toppled in a coup by colonel amoeba. he promised to bring an end to attacks by armed groups, but face of them. the series of military said in october, a qu within a qu, self, a brain power over throwing demi back after soldiers lost control of 60 percent of burkina faso to arm groups. not only is this another delayed to democracy in

the world's most wanted men and was dubbed at the merchant of death and sold guns to the taliban al qaeda ended with his arrest in bangkok in 2008. he was extradited two years later the u.s. and sentenced to 25 years in jail of conspiracy to kill u.s. citizens and officials ended delivery of antiaircraft in the thousand and providing aid to a terrorist organization. when negotiations began to secure ms. griner's release, the u.s. or to include paul whelan, a former u.s. marine jail in 2018 on suspicion of spying in russia. he is currently serving 16 years on charges of espionage, which he denies. speaking to cnn following ms. griner's release, he said i am disappointed that more has not been done to secure my release, especially as it the four year anniversary is coming up. i was arrested for a crime that never occurred. let's hear from the u.s. secretary of state. >> unfortunately, russia has continued to see paul's case through the lens of sham espionage charges and are treating them differently than they treat brittney griner -- treated brittney griner. we have made every possible offe

age-old idea of ​​disunity of russia, everything is being used if earlier it was terrorists, even al-qaedaday it is not nazism that is an ideology, in fact it has become a state strategy. ukraine has nationalists in any country, and we have. but we are fighting manifestations of neo-nazism of fascism, we are not elevating this to the rank of national policy. and in ukraine , it builds and everyone pretends not to notice this nationalism, it seems, as it fights well for national interests. and what is being done based on fascist national neo-nazi ideology. it's just that no one notices with swastikas walking in the center in the center in the center of the largest cities, including the capital, and sort of like that. thank god, that's how it should be. why because it's just like in the nineties at the beginning of the 2000s, e international terrorists would use the fight against russia and didn't give a damn. sorry out of this. e what is it? uh, that these terrorists are recognized international terrorists. but it was poured, because they were used in the fight against russia is still not u

seeing now with domestic violent extremism on both extremes is this same process that we saw with al qaedand isis after 9/11, but now it's here at home and fueling these divisions and the violence. and i think about things i've heard from in the past from intelligence officials, it's so difficult to defeat the united states from the outside, but the enemy has to defeat us from within. and these divisions. >> david martin, what was the most under-covered story of 2022? >> over 2022, the chinese air force became more and more aggressive about buzzing u.s., british and australian patrol planes that were flying around the periphery of china. these jet fighters would pull up on the wing of the much slower patrol plane, within tens of feet, and cut in front, pop flares and dump chaf, which are these aluminum strips, which are supposed to confuse radar but can also get sucked into an aircraft engine. there is just very little margin for error there. and it goes almost completely unreported because the pentagon is sitting on all of the videotapes of they're intercepts. they don't want to release t

maryam: tell me a bit more about what we know about the new leader of al qaeda. >> so, the new leaders still only known by his nom de guerre, and it is actually the second leader of i.s. to be killed this year, so it is quite a blow for the group to have two leaders within the same year being killed. but the impact of his death is probably diminished by the fact that we don't know anything about him. not the former leader, not the current leader. it is difficult to see what impact he would have on the day-to-day operations of the group. we don't know his impact on the strategy, on the planning, on the vision for i.s., simply because didn't know who he was. it is difficult to say if his death will have an impact on day-to-day operations. but already supporters of the group have rushed to pledge their allegiance to the new so-called caliph. pledging that they will continue to be loyal to him. of course, the ambiguity surrounding his identity is a big problem for i.s. because the the caliph, and to fulfill that role, he has to meet two conditions. he has to be able to trace his he has to