that is not al qaeda strategy. al qaeda acts accident is repeatedly stated in its propaganda in the last significant public appearance on october 31, 2004 before the presidential election. they intend to bankrupt us. i'm not saying there is necessarily any firm anchor between reality and their strategy but all terrorists live in a fantasy world. they all believe their own propaganda. they have to otherwise how could they sustain themselves? but in this case al qaeda finds that this message which had i would argue dubious credibility, dubious resonance when they first tried it out in the summer of 2002 when the economy was growing great guns than when our allen's of payment deficit was not what it was today when her gdp was much longer no one paid attention to it. however today as divorced as it may be from reality, al qaeda repeatedly per in ariely claims, takes responsibility for the economic travails of the united states and the west is suffering and promises its followers that if they are just patient, if they j

a resurgent al qaeda or and al qaeda that is as powerful as it was on 9/11. that is completely incorrect. al qaeda is a shadow of its former self. it is a shadow that has demonstrated formidable ability to adjust and adapt to even the most consequential countermeasures directed against it and to survive. i would argue that a movement like al qaeda that is under the intense pressure it has been under in recent years can always survive it has in place a strategy. that strategy is six critical components. it is the wage of a war of attrition, to exhaust the adversaries. first and foremost, what al qaeda attempts to do today and encourages its associates throughout the world to do, is to our well, distract, and exhaust its adversaries. there are two strategies. what is economic. al qaeda has never claimed that it would defeat the united states militarily. they could never defeat the united states on the battlefield. their strategy is to wear us down and to force us to spend more money on domestic security and to prolong our overseas military commitment to the gre

that is not al qaeda strategy. al qaeda acts accident is repeatedly stated in its propaganda in the last significant public appearance on october 31, 2004 before the presidential election. they intend to bankrupt us. i'm not saying there is necessarily any firm anchor between reality and their strategy but all terrorists live in a fantasy world. they all believe their own propaganda. they have to otherwise how could they sustain themselves? but in this case al qaeda finds that this message which had i would argue dubious credibility, dubious resonance when they first tried it out in the summer of 2002 when the economy was growing great guns than when our allen's of payment deficit was not what it was today when her gdp was much longer no one paid attention to it. however today as divorced as it may be from reality, al qaeda repeatedly per in ariely claims, takes responsibility for the economic travails of the united states and the west is suffering and promises its followers that if they are just patient, if they j

more recently the ranks of al qaeda have been bolstered by members with ties to the west or american citizenship such as anwar al-awlaki. indy 500 al qaeda is seeking to attract not just westerners are americans overseas but americans inside the united states. this increasingly active outreach is in line with dhaka does leadership vision, the vision against the united states and its allies. as a result, al qaeda today poses a serious threat to yemen, saudi arabia and the united states. al qaeda conducted a wave of attacks against the security forces attacked our embassy in september, 2008 and attended a small rocket attack against the british investors vehicle earlier this week. it also attempted to sit back saudi counterterrorism success with a suicide attack against the prince in 2000 mind which thankfully failed. and of course, al qaeda has been responsible for the attempted attacks against the u.s. homeland over the past year. the attempt by umar farouk abdulmutallab to bring down a flight on christmas day last year and more recently, attempting to send air cargo packages containi

more recently the ranks of al qaeda have been bolstered by members with ties to the west or american citizenship such as anwar al-awlaki. indy 500 al qaeda is seeking to attract not just westerners are americans overseas but americans inside the united states. this increasingly active outreach is in line with dhaka does leadership vision, the vision against the united states and its allies. as a result, al qaeda today poses a serious threat to yemen, saudi arabia and the united states. al qaeda conducted a wave of attacks against the security forces attacked our embassy in september, 2008 and attended a small rocket attack against the british investors vehicle earlier this week. it also attempted to sit back saudi counterterrorism success with a suicide attack against the prince in 2000 mind which thankfully failed. and of course, al qaeda has been responsible for the attempted attacks against the u.s. homeland over the past year. the attempt by umar farouk abdulmutallab to bring down a flight on christmas day last year and more recently, attempting to send air cargo packages containi

directed at those taliban elements that are still supportive and connected to al qaeda and the al qaeda elements. we can't forget the fact that even though the pakistanis are not taking as much action that we'd like against these elements in the pakistan, we are continuing to use predator attacks, drone attacks to disrupt and to destroy al qaeda elements. we're still looking and putting a lot of pressure on them. so we're not abandoning the field to al qaeda. but we can do it and i think we ultimately have to do it with a much smaller footprint and the president i think believes that also. >> well, speak now as if you're speaking to a progressive audience to a group of antiwar democrats. what would you tell them it would look like a year or two ago over there in terms of our component? what would we have fighting over there? would we have 50,000 troops? way less than we have now is what would we have in the field. >> well, first thing i would say is we're there because that's where al qaeda mounted their attacks against the united states. we have a real mission there. it's continuing. s

now we should perhaps think about 3 al qaeda and islamic al qaeda. it may sound negative or a multiplication of al qaeda, but is a positive story, and i will talk about why that is. >> one reason why the fracturing is a good story is that it is not clear there is operational coherence among the three groups that exist in north africa. there is a group outside of algiers that seems cut off from the other two groups that are operating in the sahara. if the two groups operating in the sahara do not seem to have operational coordination and. likewise, there does not seem to be ideological coordination. it is not clear what al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb really wants. we talk about different groups like al qaeda prime, but with al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb, a team, it is not clear what their objectives are. these are good developments. the one group which need to be mindful of is led by a veteran of the afghan campaigns. he is about 38 years old. he used to be legitimate. as we will hear, he is probably more a lot mafioso these days. he is less of a t

in short, al qaeda is hunkered down. as the president said it will take time to ultimately defeated al qaeda and it remains a ruthless and resilient enemy bent on attacking our country but we are going to remain relentless and disrupting and dismantling that terrorist organization, and i can envision the demise of dhaka the senior leadership and a cadre in the coming years. and around the world, where a for al qaeda and its affiliate's try to take root, we are going to continue using every tool at our disposal to protect the american people and build the capacity of partners to protect their people and that includes the and true to the ideals and values that make us americans and make our nation great. because as the president said, whereas terrorists offer nothing but a vision of death and destruction, the united states is going to continue to offer people around the world a vision of hope, progress and justice. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you for a note to to -- nalubaale cui your statement i think all of

you're in al-qaeda. watching america reading the newspapers, watching cnn, whatever, you're keeping up with us. you know we're talking withdrawal next july. why don't they just keep things cool, wait for us to leave and take over and have their base back? i just never understood this we can wait them out. they're from there. we're from here. >> let's be clear about something, chris, i support the president's commitment to continuing a very tough fikt against al-qaeda, where ever they are. there are elements affiliated in yemen, somalia, pakistan, afghanistan. >> germany. >> you're right. i don't think we will ultimately be able to take our eye of the ball and stop a conflict that may go on for many years. are we going to be able to stand up a successful afghan security force? get a good and effective partner in the karzai government? are we going to be able to persuade pakistan to work in those parts of the border region? >> you think the government of pakistan has a stuff to go into those northwest terr

we know afghanistan was a breeding ground for al qaeda and terrorism that sprouted from al qaeda.e that we pursue those terrorists around the world. making sure they're ineffect tiff, unable to perpetrate harm against the united states has to be worth the cost and my heart goes out to those families who have given so much. who have given their loved ones. they have to be assured this nation must make that sacrifice in order to keep ourselves safe. jenna: what kind of message do you think is coming from d.c. with the fact that we do not have the defense authorization bill passed yet? we do not have the military funding yet for next year. what kind of message do you think that is sending the troops? >> i think we need to get that done. i don't think it sends a good message from the troops. they have to be confident we're making the commitment to support them, giving them resources they need to be successful there so this has to get done. there are many things in the national defense authorization act that have to happen for all of our branches of the military to function properly. t

pretending to be al qaeda. if you look at the number of times that's happened this year, it's very alarming. and that's new. and you also have now more than just al qaeda, you have shabab in somalia, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. even ailed in iraq, the rell nants of that were involved in the attack last week in sweden. so there were multiple strands and they all want to attack either in western europe or the united states. >> warner: now, when the iraqi officials gave this warning which they said was based on captured insurgents, they said somebody was plotting a mumbai-style attack. a big spectacular one. do you think that's still within the capability of al qaeda or is the threat now from sort of multiple smaller scale ones? >> it's both. the mumbai attacks in 2008 were probably the most significant terrorist attack of the last... since 9/11, i would say. this is a case where ten people for 60 hours held many people hostage, 170 something people died, more than 500 injured and wounded. so al qaeda looks

and then it was al qaeda in pakistan and now not even al qaeda in pakistan.eserve the pakistani government and why we have troops in afghanistan? this is worse than a -- what are we doing here? >> look. you have to step back and say what are our overriding interests? our overriding interest in that part of the world is in a stable pakistan. that is country with nuclear weapons, 180 million people and this is my point. our priorities are misplaced. >> right. i agree. >> andrew talks about afghanistan. trying to build afghan institutions. well, the wikileaks revealed the assessment of the u.s. embassy and one i share that one out of the 20-plus cabinet ministers in afghanistan is honest. you know, the administration, they privately refer to afghanistan's government as a criminal syndicate from top to bottom. it is not capable of being reformed. >> so let me just clarify. andrew wants to leave 35,000 troops in and focus efforts mostly on strategic special forces strikes. you're saying get out now? >> no. i would keep 15,000, 20,000. but i think the difference is

i think the strategy was to go after al qaeda and does spanish -- and diminish and disrupt al qaeda. we have had good success with that. we had used the strategic dialogue in a manner to allow the pakistan a government to have trust in us. >> you can all go home early. [laughter] >> thank you very much. >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> i can only sort of get people to consider that we have a serious case where the obama administration is trying to create new law through changing interpretation of existing law. >> as the justice department considers the legal case in congress weighs its options, see what has been said about wikileaks online at d.c.'s ban video library. it is washington your way. >> i get a few moments, house debate on a bill extending tax cuts for all income levels. washington journal is live at 7:00 eastern. our guest this morning include two u.s. senators. the house is back in session at 9:00 eastern. >> a couple of light is best to tell you about this morning on our com

al qaeda in iraq is seeking to do that.e a good way to achieve that goal. >> which potential targets are authorities most concerned about? >> we are looking at targets relating to holiday travel, airline travel, malls, to christian churches. that is what al qaeda in iraq have targeted in iraq. churches. maybe that is what happened in sweden. al qaeda in iraq said they were going to strike in sweden, now when we see a report like this we think maybe we should keep an eye out in case there is more to this. >> i know you are keeping tabs on this and will keep us up to date. >> train stations, bus stops, taxi cabs went empty and happening all over athens after public transit employees walked off the job. that meant one thing for citizens, lots of walking. >>> one of britain's law enforcement officials are coming out on the side of drugs. bob ainsworth says all narcotics including heroin and cocaine should be made available with prescription. he takes his case before british lawmakers. >>> usher gets kicked in the face. he invit

obama called the overarching goal, disrupting, dismantle and defeating al-qaeda. >> al-qaeda is hunkered down. >> there is more focus on al-qaeda than taliban and no mention of hamid karzai who u.s. officials privately describe as weak, ineffective and perhaps unstable. it credits pakistan taking action going after the enemy fighters in the tribal region near the border, it makes clear that islamabad must do more. >> it doesn't come fast enough. we'll continue to insist to leaders that the terrorist safe havens within the borders must be dealt with. >> in tenth year of the war, patience is running out with the american people. a new abc news/"washington post" poll says 60% of the american public does not believe the war is worth fighting. >> it's the responsibility of leaders to pay attention to public opinion. at the end of the day, their responsibility is to look out for public interest. and look to the long-term. >> for those suggesting this is a sugarcoated analysis of the war, secretary clinton called it clear-eyed and realistic. >> i don't think you will find any rosy scenario peop

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with regard to our efforts to degrade al qaeda, we're making great progress, so-called ct. that is, counterterrorism, the use of special forces and the like to go after individuals who make up the leadership of al qaeda and of the taliban. on the issue of counterinsurgency, that is where we clear, hold and build and transfer. we're making progress not as rapidly as we are on the other front. in his release, pointing out that we need two things that we're working on very hard and making some progress. one, pakistan and safe havens and, two, governance in afghanistan. >> all of this is so complicated. >> it is. >> after ten years, mr. vice president, can you even say straight whether we're winning or losing? doesn't the american public deserve to know where we stand? >> up with thing i've never been accused of is speaking straight.

al qaeda is in pakistan, somalia, yemen. why are we going to be sending american troops to die, to prop up a corrupt karzai who's been antithetical to what we believe in? >> well, my belief is that we're in afghanistan to protect national security interests of this nation. if you replace karzai, who do you replace him with? the people to replace him would be the taliban and the taliban would open up afghanistan once again to al qaeda. the only reason they're not in large numbers in afghanistan now is because the troops we have and the afghan army is getting better so we've literally driven them out. i want to keep them out and secure the gains we've had. >> it sounds to me like what you're doing is creating a permanent presence in afghanistan akin to what we have in korea propping up a corrupt regime when al qaeda has already left and we're going to support a puppet regime to take money from other corrupt nations to what end? the enemy is al qaeda. >> the end is securing u.s. national security interests. i'm glad we have tro

al qaeda and the taliban has sympathetic missions. the reality is that we have to look at the problems realistically. we cannot simply look at the al qaeda problems and then look at the taliban problems. they overlap each other. we have to have a strategy that takes into account all of those. >> do you worry we are buying into this idea of transition to easily? you talk to military people and a lot of them will say, and were saying last year passionately, you cannot do war on a timetable. as soon as you start using the language of transition, does that not send a message, we're out of here? is that not a problem that we had? >> one of the most important points this report makes is that the u.s. as to dispel that uncertainty. we have to commit to a long-term strategy and military commitment. as a stable one in afghanistan. today if you are in pakistan and a national security adviser or and afghan adviser to president karzai, you are operating under the assumption that the u.s. is leaving. the clock is running out. we have to dispel tha

have we defeated al qaeda? no. so the search is brought a temporary effect. -- the surge has brought a temporary effect. the one reason i emphasize time and again, the narrative of this mission is not as it was six years ago, four years ago. people try to create a reductionist agenda. the basics are the same. the same al qaeda, the same taliban, the same deceptive pakistan, the same agenda for the jihadist groups. the taliban taking back part of afghanistan, will they be able to threaten our key and national interest? when they did helped al qaeda to do 9/11, they had the same weapons. think of it from another perspective. they are creating a perception of defeat. by resolved and sticking to an ideology and converting fertilizer to i e d s, and having sanctuary in the trouble there is a pakistan, you can bring it down. -- in the tribal areas of pakistan, you can bring it down. this is a narrative -- and what is the solution? after resignation, people called me anti-reconciliation and anti- peace. that's not true. m

if the taliban wins al qaeda will be back. most of the experts will explain that it is possible to make a deal with the taliban. the pakistanis are ready to help make that deal. if you consider the sensibilities this war does not make sense. it just doesn't make sense. there is the second interpretation of the war. following documents from the u.s. army we know that the second objective is actually more global. from afghanistan and pakistan in no way. also in iran. worse than they are today. second objective means that the war in afghanistan, not really the problem. it is an depending upon which side you are. and of course it is the key. if you are fighting terrorism the war does not make sense. just think about it. 120 million the year. you will see that does not make sense to fight a few thousand people. but the second objective, that is why we have a problem. pakistan is not telling -- the united states is not going to. much more present in afghanistan and then that is why. impossible task the pakistan army now to fight aga

in short, al qaeda is hunkered down.t will take time to ultimately defeat al qaeda and it remains a ruthless and resilient enemy bent on attacking our country, but make no mistake, we are going to replain relentless in disrupting and dismantling that terrorist organization. in afghanistan, we remain focused on the three areas of our strategy. our military effort to break the taliban's momentum and train afghan forces, so they can take the lead. our civilian effort to promote effective governance and development, and regional cooperation, especially with pakistan, because our strategy has to succeed on both sides of the border. indeed, for the first time in years, we've put in place the strategy and the resources that our efforts in afghanistan demand. and because we've ended our combat mission in iraq and brought home nearly 100,000 of our troops from iraq, we're in a better position to give our forces in afghanistan the support and equipment they need to achieve their missions. and our drawdown in iraq also means there

it seems to be they hear, you are more inclined to talk about al qaeda, al qaeda central, and now, moreurope, especially in france, we are mostly focused on this global- local nexus. let's a global, which means we are mostly working on the made in france or made in german terrorism in connection with countries of origin and diaspora. having said that, i think we need to talk about the threats. i should start to say that almost every week, france received threats from networks or individuals. some are very explicit. such as a fatwa to identify a radical here or there, or a radical from aqim, and there is intelligence gathered from some in africa. this has to be evaluated. french territory, which is not a big secret, managed to work against anti-terrorism since 1996, but it is feared that an attack will successfully do something one of these days. like the u.s. counter-terrorism, it can only delay the moment. this is inevitable one of these days. so french specialized services are announcing their readiness with counter-terrorism. the french city swat teams, we have two national swat team

and al qaeda franchise, against us by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, monitored against us from yemen. when i was director of the cia i would facet lycÉe to large audiences and small, private and public, classified and unclassified, every known threat to the american homeland has threats that take a batch of the tribal region of pakistan. this attack did not. this attack was hatched by a franchise. that is different than what we saw up here. think back where some of you may have been particularly the americans in the audience, two plus years ago on thanksgiving e.. i was in my new house in mclean. i was chopping up salary for the thanksgiving stuffing. i had the tv on and what did i see? i saw hotels ablaze in mumbai. recalled the incident, recall the scene. it was bad in and of itself in its own right it was bad. was tragic but beyond that in terms of my professional decided to human suffering, i had a deep and great concern in my professional purse on on the. this was a very high impact attack that was conducted against a major metropolitan and commercial area by about a dozen folks

it was about the decline of al qaeda. there was an al qaeda leadership that was weakened by missile strikes. what had the impression that lashkar-e-taiba was on the rise. there was the impression that it had money and had political cloud and close ties to security forces. it had pulled off one of the most spectacular and sophisticated and devastating terror attacks since 9/11. earlier this year, i got the opportunity to give the topic be attention it deserved. we do in-depth stories that go beyond the headlines. i thought this project fit the bill in a number of ways. there were questions about the role of the pakistani government. there were political obstacles to the pursuit of justice and the murder of americans. there were questions about what the u.s. had done about the lashkar-e-taiba. they had gotten away in a spectacular matter with mass murder. many of you may have seen the hbo documentary about mumbai. it was one of the best documentaries i have seen. one of the things i thought of was what were the main faces b

in short, al qaeda is hunkered down.ll take time to ultimately defeat al qaeda and remains a ruthless enemy bent on attacking our country. make no mistake, we are going to remain relentless in disrupting and dismantling that organization. in afghanistan we have three areas, our military effort to break the taliban's momentum, our civilian effort to promote effective governance and development and regional cooperation especially with pakistan. our strategy has to succeed on both sides of the border. indeed, we have put in place the strategy and resources that our efforts in afghanistan demand. because we ended our combat mission in iraq and brought home nearly 100,000 of our troops from iraq we are in a better position to give our forces in afghanistan the support and equipment they need to achieve their missions. our drawdown in iraq means there are tens and thousands fewer americans deployed in harm's way since i took office. with the additional forces in afghanistan we are making gains in our objectives. the personnel

they are believed to have joined al qaeda and have arrived in the area last year. one was involved in giving other militants weapons training. it is impossible for us to independently verify what happened in the drum attack, we are not allowed into the tribal areas. if the reports are true, this is more concerning confirmation that british citizens are involved in the fight against british forces. very soon after the war in afghanistan, british citizens like these were seeing joining the insurgency. agencies have been working together to keep this from happening. there are still people slip into the camps and intelligence. >> , we will give you the latest headlines for you on bbc world this. the founder of wikileaks has been freed from prison on bail. julian assange will be electronically tagged and he will stay at the home of a friend. president obama has said the coalition forces are disrupting, dismantling, and defeating al qaeda in afghanistan and pakistan. now, the world's two most heavily populated countries, china and india, have agreed to an ambitious trade

al qaeda has 50 or 100 members. the central concern when it comes to al qaeda is pakistan. there was a second court national objective that the president identified and when it goes up to congress you to see a line saying that this objective has been redacted for security reasons. it is no mystery what that objective is. that objective is to prevent pakistan's nuclear arsenal from falling into the wrong hands. that just does not mean the weapons. it means the materials as well. how does the pakistan part of this go so far? the president will be able to establish that he has made some significant progress in afghanistan and parts of its. this is all a question of how you identify which geographic parts of afghanistan that you want to emphasize. he will be able to show that in areas where the search was in the early, there's been a fair bit of result. he will probably talk less about those areas where the taliban have begun to go in afghanistan including some areas of the north. he is less likely to discuss the difficulty in getting a general and pakistan meet military to go

the yemen-based franchise of al qaeda.ly those people have more range of motion, more opportunity to do these sorts of things than al qaeda classic, which is presumably in the cave than afghanistan. people recognize what's actual happening. >> mr. gates was asked about the pace and the scope of the drawdown beginning next july and essentially he punted. for anybody who was expecting troops home soon, how should they view the white house report today? is 2014 the next july? are they have going to meet the next july start point, but it's only one service man for month? what's happening? >> it might be two or three per month. i think clearly 2014 is the new 2011 in terms of potential withdrawal. now, if you talk to the folks in the white house, they say we're serious with 2014. that's when we hand it over afghans. for 2011, next summer, what was to be the beginning of the next serious drawdown, you're told it will be the beginning of a drawdown. probably not very fast at first. probably not very many. i kind of doubt actually

is making some progress toward defeating al qaeda. he says he will travel to pakistan next year, in part to push for tougher action against what he called terrorist safe havens there. now the president spoke as the white house released a new review of u.s. war strategy. i want to turn to cnn foreign affairs correspondent jill who doherty. we understand this is a pretty high-profile event. obviously, the president trying to reassure the american people that the country is on the right track. what did we find out today? >> you know, suzanne, were wasn't any breaking news from this review. robert gibbs was downplaying it all week t wasn't so much what the president said as how he said it. his a-team on afghanistan trooped into the white house briefing room, crowding onto the podium to face a fail lapgs of reporters. >> this had continues to be a very difficult endeavor. >> reporter: no pry yum fant declaration of victory, instead, a nuts and bolts report card on how the u.s. is meeting its goal. >> it is not to defeat every last threat t

que no vale la pena liberar una guerra en afganistán es todo por ahora. >>> gracias, jorge 6789 al qaedas de acuerdo con informaciones de auto dradz iraquíes, medios de irak el gobierno de este país, habría alertado a washington y otros países europeos sobre su puestos planes auto re daedz investigan la seriedad de la amenaza calificada de creíble. >>> el flujo migratorio hacia estados unidos disminuyó por la crisis económica pero a partir de 2009 comenzó a aumentar poco a poco esta llegada de inmigrantes, según estudio de la organización brooklyn, veamos el impacto de esto . >>> la recesión económica de los último años consiguió lo que ni más de 2>>> mil agentes fronterizos y todo el muro habían logrado, disminuir el número de inmigrantes que llegan a estados unidos. >>> la migración, responde a la presión económica, el país la economía estadounidense no crece y la gente no llega al país, este estudio sobre el impacto de la concluyó que desde el 2006 se registró una reducción que llegó a su punto más bajo en 2008 y 2009 sí, como 40 personas de esta esquina la gente viene pero no tanto c

they do not reflect the nature of al qaeda and the next 10-15 years of fighting al qaeda and islamist extremists around the world is going to look like. this is a wicked problem around the world, and how we transition in afghanistan will have a huge influence on whether we're successful or not. >> one follow-up question. >> i suppose, reasonably, you have all avoided the question here. the one that we have opposed. i think that might be a useful conclusion on c-span today our circumstance. does russia not hope that there is not going to be renewed hotbed center of support troops coming out of afghanistan and four or five years? doesn't india hoped this will not be the same festering sore, or mentally kashmir will not remain in nagging problem? in short, is there not enough self-interest with neighboring powers with even three years of determined diplomacy with a grand vision in mind, what is it that all four of us, iran, double patio -- we cannot say that the goal must be to find zero way to wind down our military presence, which really sounds like it is given more political expedienc

al-qaeda will not. al-qaeda has never had and will never have a positive agenda. the overwhelming majority of victims globally continue to be muslim. al-qaeda is not fighting the west. al-qaeda is, in fact, fighting and killing muslims. look at the bombings of the embassies in kenya and tanzania, the recent killings in the gondola, the innocent victims in iraq, -- recent killings in innocentthe victims in iraq. there is no positive agenda there. there is death. when you compare that to what i think is a positive u.s. agenda, stated eloquently by president obama in cairo, and then drilled down into what need to be tangible programs that need to be expanded, increased, and accelerated, economic development, scientific development, polio eradication, whatever it might be, that is a positive agenda. it is not the class of civilizations. it is about helping people in countries where they align themselves with positive steps to make their people's lives better. if you look at u.s. assistance in bosnia, or cau

speaking to a washington audience, he said that al qaeda and yemen also known as al qaeda in the arabianr threat, a bigger threat than al qaeda and pakistan. al qaeda run for years by osama bin laden. brennan says what's so concerning about al qaeda and yemen in part is they are looking to recruit westerners, americans, americans in the united states that they can recruit into that part of the al qaeda organization and train them to carry out attacks. of course, it's only been a day or so now since washington issued a warning for everyone to be especially individual lent during the holiday season. t.j.? >> thanks to barbara starr. new information on the south korean military drills that called such attention with north korea. officials say the exercises will likely not be held this weekend because of bad weather. the drills were supposed to start today seven miles off the coast of north korea. the drills will take place only if the weather improves. korea threatened to deliver a self-defensive blow to the south if the exercises take place. russia is getting involved urging them to call o

abdulmutallab, mounted against us by an al-qaeda franchise, mounted against us by aqip, al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula, when i was director of the cia i would say to the large audiences and to the small, private and public, classified and unclassified, every known threat to the american homeland has threads that take it back to the tribal region of pakistan. this attack did not. this attack was hatched by a franchise. that's different than what we saw up here. think back where some of you may have been particularly the americans in the audience. where we were two plus years ago on thanksgiving eve. i was in my new house in mclean. i was shopping up celery for the thanksgiving stuffing. i had the tv on and what did i see? i saw hotels ablazing in mumbai. do you recall the incident? recall the scene? it was bad. it was bad in and of itself. you know, in it's own right, it was bad. it was tragic. but beyond that, in terms of my professional aim, besides the human suffering that was obviously visible, i had a deep and great concern in my professional persona. . .. >> all right, so franch

the military are discussing long term basis and asking for more than a billion dollars to fight al qaeda there some of bin laden had a dream for him in a nightmare for us it was to involve us in in even conclusive wars in distant lands that would cost us a fortune there's a couple of other intelligence national security bureaucracy. in this country austere and americans are rushing only scared when the parcel bomb hysteria broke out in october the us twenty four hour news machine did not fall short of feeding americans worst fears a second suspicious package from yemen was found at a better facility the ideal country. years ago already believed out in the arabian peninsula is behind the shipment the packages from yemen gave rise to a lot of confusion as to whether they were really parcel bombs but one thing that was beyond doubt the fear trigger has been pulled out yemen was in the news as a terrorist in a matter of days the u.s. officially deployed predator drones in yemen and started talking about bases there . they deliberately overblow all of these incidents because there is a huge c

cell, with direct tie toss al-qaeda leaders in pakistan. jalwad al balani says al-qaeda plans to launch a series of suicide attacks in the u.s. and europe this christmas season, al bahlani did not say which may be in the crosshairs, but he said captured al-qaeda militants insisted after the fact that the bombing in stock hole o'clock was the first, that attack killed a bomber who was an iraqi-born swedish citizen and injured two others. zabari says these claims are, quote, a critical threat. martha: what about here in the u.s.? how concerned are u.s. officials about this intelligence, how credible do they believe it is? >> they're always heightened alert. you mentioned the underwear bomb their tried to blow up a plane in detroit on christmas day. don't forget a couple of years ago, the shoe bomber, arrived reid, trying to take down a plane from paris to miami. so they're always on heightened alert this time of year. one u.s. official tells the "wall street journal" this is credible, that the intelligence department is taking is serious but i