they reported dozens killed in the al-qaeda where the government blamed al-qaeda.st came in hours of the arrival of the arab league observers sent to monitor the government promise to stop the brutal military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters. since march, nearly 5,000 people have reportedly been killed. many in alleged government massacres. syrian army defectors formed a loosely associated rebel force to fight assad's soldiers. so far, they have appeared ill-equipped and poorly trained in videos uploaded to youtube. if the syrian resistance is behind the attack, it shows that assad is much more vulnerable than anybody predicted. the attack against heavily fortified targets was inside the syrian capital, so far has been holding strong for assad. the rebel forces have denied responsibility for the bombings calling the blast mysterious. essentially suggesting that syrian government behind the attack. assad for months has bee claimig terrorists responsible for the violence and critics say he could use the car bombing as an excuse to launch massive crackdown inside

in al qaeda? he associated himself with al qaeda but he's not an al qaeda member. and unfortunately we felt that the people on the ground, the people in the field doesn't have much control over the situation and a lot of it has been dictated by back home. and this continued to escalate until we reached a point that i felt we could not participate in this anymore. and... >> rose: what they began to do was, one, take all the clothes away so they knew... so they began to use sleep deprivation and then noise, those three things. >> yup. >> rose: and in some point the argument is that you began to get more and more. but then the theory comes in that at so point you've done everything you have and that would be waterboarding and then you have nowhere else to go. >> well, this is the issue. i mean, when i was there i said why are we going to go on this path? because this path is going to take us to nowhere. we are towards the end of democracy and we don't torture and we have a line that we're not ing to

the confession of captured al qaeda member jamal ahmed al fadl told of osama bin laden's efforts to develop chemical weapons, buy weapons-grade uranium, and to spread the al qaeda network into europe. o'neill was becoming obsessed, haunted by the specter of bin laden. >> my dad had a lot of video of osama bin laden. whatever was out there was actually in his apartment. he studied him several times. watched the videos, i know, several times. >> he would watch videotapes. he would read whatever material he could get his hands on. we had a fax in the house. people would fax him information all the time. john would sit in bed or sit on the couch or wherever and constantly underline everything. >> he was obsessed by him. i think there's no question about it. he always knew that there was so much more that he didn't know, and that's what spooked him. what spooked him and what really used to drive him crazy was what he didn't know and how much was out there that he didn't know. >> two bombs minutes apart exploded without warning friday outside the us embassies in nairobi, kenya, and dar es salaam,

which says the blasts left at least thirty people dead and dozens injured suggests that al qaeda militants could be to blame let's get more on this from just returned from syria thank you for coming on the program today good to have you back safely from syria let's talk about these suicide blasts the timing. is being called into question nine months of one roast in syria and now a lot of gunfire on the streets many many people dead but now for the first time two suicide blast this is something you would expect perhaps from iraq or afghanistan but now syria. very very concerning indeed of course you've got the arab league advance team that's just arrived in the country yesterday there to pave the way for the observer mission is to at the end of the month they're going to be eva seeing president assad pledges to end this crackdown and stop the violence but the reports we've been having whilst we were in syria last week is that ahead of this team a rise arriving you've actually seen the reports of the violence seeming to increase and a lot of concern the situation has been escalating it's the

>> you have what became the al qaeda role. and al qaeda, as they said, they had all these records, individual fighters coming in. various countries around the middle east. now, this was assembled by the special operations command. and in turn they gave it to the state's department who could then go to each of these individual countries and say look, you may not agree with the u.s. policies, but these are fighters that will be coming back to hurt you, so we need you to visit authentic documents. here is a way for you to track these people down. and this became one of the key aspects of the military working on the intelligence organizations and the foreign governments to track down the pipeline of the suicide bombers coming into iraq. >> and that was something that was the lieutenant, the general who did that when he was over the former military at the state department. now, you mentioned the notion that the administration, they didn't hold kind of a grand strategy national security council meeting. why not? >> well, president o

this is al qaeda in iraq. it's third generation al qaeda.ther generations have been wiped out. the guy that leads this now, baghdadi, people don't know anything about this guy. he never comes up in the media. >> is he worrisome? you just said he's nobody. >> well, look, he's a nobody. it's worrisome in the sense that this group can continue to destabilize iraq and continue to carry out suicide bombings, but i really don't think that we're going to be seeing an al qaeda takeover in iraq anytime soon. it's up to the iraqis now to kind of step up to the plate and finally take charge of this fight against al qaeda, but there's no doubt. i mean, al qaeda is a shadow of what it once was back in 2005 and 2006. >> hey, evan -- >> it is a ghost. yes? >> i know you listen to chatter. with the withdrawal of u.s. forces, 16,000 now only civilian forces exist there right now. what have you heard in terms of the charter there in these extremist communication channels? >> well, look, they're having a bit of a problem with this. they've been portraying this

he believed he had found an al qaeda sleeper sell to assist him. after months of planning, he parked what he believed was a truck bomb underneath a skyscraper and dialed a cell phone number he sought would detonate the bomb. the bomb was a fake supplied by our undercover agents, and the call signaled the agents to make the arrest. last year, he was convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison. intelligence led us to him and the combined efforts of our federal, state, and local partners help us stop him before he could do any harm. in the face of this threat, we and the bureau will continue to enhance our intelligence capabilities to get the right information to the right people at the right time, and we will continue to build strong partnerships, for these tools have been the foundation for our success against terrorism over the past 10 years. we must keep adapting to these changing terrorist threats to stay one step ahead of those who would do was harm, and we must do all of this while respecting the role of law and the safeguards guaranteed by t

not just al qaeda. it felt so islamic extremist groups throughout the world. >> chairman, thank you. very briefly. i agree with you. in other words it includes lashkar-e-taiba and pakistan and the al-shabaab and somalia. they are all part of this by islamist extremism movement and they all threaten the united states of america. >> without antagonizing the man further -- [laughter] >> i apologize. just to further that point along the same lines, the administration refuses to understand and exploit terrorist semantics and the code words in the 9/11 commission report used the language of identifying enemy 39 times. she had 126 times. al qaeda 36 times, sharia two times. and the most report lessons from 2010 use these terms zero times. i have said many times in committee hearings, mr. chairman, we have to identify the enemy is forever going to defeat the enemy. i think that's important. during the cold war they conducted diplomacy on the basis of complete ignorance of the soviet definition of the peaceful c

on economic development working with people like furniture makers and stone cutters which makes al qaeda'sisrael leaving gaza, the end of drone strikes from pakistan and other countries and release of taliban and al qaeda prisoners from all over the world including guantanamo bay. and u.s. officials find the demands outlandish. >> nick, what does this say about the power of al qaeda in pakistan, they have had a lot off takes and they're pretty prevalent and powerful? >> absolutely this has been by far, al qaeda's worst year in pakistan. osama bin laden is dead, and drones have killed at least three senior commanders here. what this shows the, al qaeda's reach extends from the afghan border to the indian border where weinstein was picked up, and the reach of local militant groups. the local militant groups, u.s. officials say are the same groups pakistan military helps keep safe havens in pakistan to attack u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> nick, how unprecedented is it for al qaeda to kidnap in pakistan? >> very unprecedented. it hasn't happened since daniel pearl in 2002. u.s. officials say

it is from an al-qaeda leader. let's get the latest now from sherry live with the latest. >> reporter: it has been nearly four months since dr. warren weinstein was kidnapped. now, al-qaeda claims they have them and the terror network wants to bargain for his release. the clade leader demanded that the u.s. end air strikes in afghanistan and pakistan in exchange for dr. weinstein. it also called for the release of terror suspects worldwide. theen 0-year-old aid worker from rockville has worked in pakistan for years. he was kidnapped from his heavily fortified home there. this is the first anyone has claimed responsibility for weinstein's kidnapping. al-qaeda claims he is still alive and despite the fact they provided no proof, friends are hopeful. >> it is terrible for anyone to be used by that. i'm glad that we know something that he is alive. we didn't know anything. i know his wife has got to be delighted to know he is still alive. >> reporter: weinstein's wife did speak briefly to fox 5 but said she did not wan

agent he interrogated key al qaeda detainees at the height of the war onerror. since his departure fro the f.b.i., he's become an outspoken critic of enhanced interrogation techniques. his new book is called "the black banners: the inside story of 9/11 and the war against al qaeda." i'm pleased to have him at this table obviously for the first time. welcome. >> thank you, sir. >> rose: let me talk about the f.b.i., about you. born in lebanon? >> yup. >> rose: came to the united states earlly. >> uh-huh. >> rose: what? 14? 15? >> i was about 16, 17 years old. i joined the bureau in 1997. the call happened in october of 2000. >> rose: so three year later you're a case officer. >> t lead case agent on the u.s.s. "cole" investigation. >> yes, sir. >> rose: why did they make you an agent on that case? >> i was involved with the east africa embassy bombing. i was a case agent on an an important component of the investigation into the east african bombings which is the european components, the network, the logistical network that allowed al qaeda to function. even the

on september 11 the war was brought here by al qaeda and to suggest that the foreign al qaeda member should not be subject to an assumption to begin with, if they're determined to be al qaeda, that they are going to be detained, that we should not start with that assumption. subject to procedures which the administration adopts, it's totally in their hands, it cannot interfere with civilian interrogation, it cannot interfere with civilian intelligence, we're very specific about it. the procedures are written by the executive branch. they can try them anywhere they want. but you bring a war here, you bring a war here, we are going to create an assumption that you can be subject and are going to be subject to military detention. mr. graham: ,well, my belief is most americans would want our military being able to combat al qaeda at home as much as they would abroad. i think most americans would be very upset to hear that the military has no really role in combating al qaeda on our own shores, but you can do anything you want to them overseas. so what you and i have tried to do, quite fr

al qaeda doesn't have much of a leader. it's a few hundred people and the new organizations are much more known to our people that al qaeda was on 9/11. and you say, you know, what are we building to defeat the rest of this? and what works and what doesn't work? and until that happens, i think no politician is going to feel safe standing not been saying, we should train hair. because as you can listen to the rhetoric in washington, if you do that, you're only going to get beat up by it don't matter what party you're a member of. >> add one more question before we open the floor to questions. that is a mention in your book that the american people have agreed to this trade-off because they keep supporting political pete will and officials and to let that officials who support these programs. what do you think the trade-off has been? >> first of all, i think the american people have supported it because we are given a lot of information to go on. the description of the thread has never been very detailed. and now it should be

today's news that al-qaeda is involved is hardly comforting. scott broom, 9news now. >> terror experts believe he was kidnapped by another group and traded to al-qaeda for money or influence. >>> new at 6:00 tonight, police say they are taking down an illegal prescription drug operation in northern virginia. fairfax county police seized thousands of painkillers, birth control pills, and antibiotics that were being illegally dispensed at everything.  in all, the six month operation targeted 15 different businesses. >>> montgomery county may be moving away from passing a curfew for teenagers, but one frederick county community is embracing it. middletown commissioners unanimously approved the measure earlier this week. it takes effect december 18 and applies to anyone under the age of 18. but there are some exceptions from the 12:01 a.m. cutoff. including minors accompanied by parents or religious events. >>> the maryland task force thinks the state aught to triple the flush tax. the committee appointed by the governor says tripling that next y

of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. in that role he took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent americans. now in the past the government is using state secrets privilege to hide any real evidence that they may have about a lock is a legit operational role so why now is it being treated this fact or earlier i caught up with jeremy scahill national security reporter for the nation magazine and author of the book blackwater the rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army i first asked him if you have the same reaction that i did to the media coverage today about the lack of questioning about the due process for the killing of an american citizen. but i mean for there are there are two sort of glaring media errors here in my view one is anwar a lockie was not the leader of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula most yemen experts people that have spent much time there have reviewed it including former u.s. officials say that he is is barely mid-level management within al qaeda he's far more important

it could be al-qaeda. al-qaeda is the simplest explanation. al-qaeda has been largely sidelined this year. more likely, it is a sunni attack iran -- sunni attack. you have the gulf, the sunni who have the majority in the country. is it sunni-directed violence against the establishment? this is not on the best terms. >> of course, the opposition, the question that this the whole time. why would that be the case? >> first and foremost, for a brutal repressive government, this tells you how their grip is not what it used to be. syria has been a state sponsor of terrorism, but not a victim of terrorism. this shows you it is beyond the ability of the regime to control what is beyond its borders. >> would you expects -- would you expect this to become ever more dangerous? >> we will see how the government reacts to this. if they return brutal violence with an escalation, this could turn into something very ugly. potentially civil war. >> this is the latest in a series of statements. what more than issuing a piece of paper, can washington and the wes

he worked with people like furniture sellers and dairy farmers, which makes al qaeda's demands all that more extraordinary. ayman al zawahiri, listing nine demands, including nato end air strikes in pakistan and afghanistan. and release of taliban prisoners from everywhere, including guantanamo bay. u.s. officials dismissing those demands as a bit out landish. >> is kidnapping a new tactic being used by al qaeda? >> reporter: it hasn't been used in pakistan since pearl was kidnapped in 2002. but u.s. officials say it's not really a surprise. when navy s.e.a.l.s came into pakistan to kill bin laden in may, they found documents that showed that al qaeda wanted to get back into the kidnapping business to make some money, actually. but it seems the demands from al qaeda suggests that weinstein's kidnapping is more about making a political statement than about making money. >> our thoughts and prayers with him, for sure. abc's nick schifrin live in pakistan. thanks, nick. >>> and in another developing story from that region, a major milestone in baghdad this morning. the u.s. has turned its

two or three attempts on his life in a matter of weeks by al qaeda or al qaeda affiliated organizations, while he was still president. >> another question? yes, sir. right down here in front: >> mr. vice president, my name is jason stern. i'm a graduate student of middle east studies at george washington university. i guess it's fair to say that no matter who is in the white house, the arabs present a challenge to uphold our values. how well is the obama administration responded to arab spring and how would the bush administration have responded differently if they were still in power? thank you. >> well, i am -- it's difficult to judge the quality of the current effort without having to speculate about what is going to come out at the far end of the process. and, frankly, i don't have answers to a couple of key questions. i don't know who is going to be in charge when the dust settles and new governments are established. what are these regimes going to be like how are they going to look at the u.s.? what kind of relationships are we going to have? in some cases, some of the regimes tha

ago. >> the tell a ban -- taliban claim to be working alongside al qaeda. they took responsibility for the adoption of a 70-year-old american who was abducted from his home back on august 13. they said they took him from his home and transferred him from one house to another until it was safe enough to announce that were behind the abduction. although they were behind the kidnapping, they say it will be up to al qaeda to negotiate the release. they are working side-by-side with the leader of al qaeda. they see him as their own leader. it will be and who will be making the demands. also, the release of all prisoners in guantanamo bay and other secret u.s. presence as they put it. the message came out in a video released through islamic form on thursday. >> coming up on 11 is, a warm welcome back for an army national guard troops and maryland. >> we enjoyed a great day today. we probably will tomorrow. as you can see, there is a front that is going to be moving into our area monday and into tuesday and wednesday. >> every time coming is the emotional and now

al qaeda is now claiming responsibility.ugust. newly released message, the al qaeda leader, al zawahiri wants the u.s. to stop air strikes on afghanistan, pakistan, yemen, somalia before weinstein will be released. >>> herman cain says he will decide by monday whether to continue his bid for the white house. his campaign is dealing with accusations he carried on a 13-year affair with ginger white. cain admits he provided white with financial support but suggests there was no sexual affair. cain says his financial support of white is news to his wife of 43 years. >> no, my wife did not know about it. that was the revelation and surprise that my wife found out about it when she went public with it. my wife now knows. my wife and i have talked about it. i have explained it to her. and you know, my wife understands that i'm a soft-hearted, giving person. >> cain will decide to whether to stay in the race after he sits down for a face to face talk with his wife this weekend. >> the news conference will be held from his hospital b

radical websites. 70-year-old warren weinstein was abducted in august, and now, al qaeda is posting demands in return for his release. zain verjee is live in london. good morning, zain. what's the latest on this? >> good morning. well, he was a contractor working for the u.s. government on an aid program in pakistan, apparently, according to these militant sites. and essentially, the demands, and there are eight of them, are totally unrealistic. i'll just give you an example. the speaker on the site, which is believed to be ayman al zawahiri, says the u.s. bombing of pakistan, somalia and yemen needs to come to an end. all prisoners at guantanamo bay need to be released. and it goes on and says anyone that's been arrested and charged with having any kind of links or contacts with al qaeda or the taliban needs to be released. and the speaker on the tape, again, believed to be zawahiri, says that he will only be freed if these demands are met, and it really is up to president obama. christine? >> all right, zain verjee this morning. thank you, zain. >>> still ahead, a warehouse filled with bi

al-qaeda claimed it will release him for the u.s. stops air strikes in muslim countries and releases terror suspects. >> it is an expensive claim. it is not just you stop bombing afghanistan and pakistan and there is also close guantanamo bay, release all members of bin laden's family. it is a series of demands that can't possibly be met. to me, the indication is that they're planning to kill weinstein. >> reporter: because it took so long for al-qaeda to come forward, the terrorism in the work believes that they did not kidnap weinstein but has paid for him and is holing him as a bargaining tool -- holding him as a barring tool as a way to hurt president obama. >>> alan gross from potomac was sentenced to 15 years in a cuban prison for spying. now, senators from maryland are calling on cubans to release him. there was a letter sent to cuba's representative here in washington asking for cuba to let gross come home. he has already spent two years behind bars. >>> new this morning, police in leesburg are investigating a shooting death

it could be al-qaeda. al-qaeda is the simplest explanation. al-qaeda has been largely sidelined this year. more likely, it is a sunni attack iran -- sunni attack. you have the gulf, the sunni who have the majority in the country. is it sunni-directed violence against the establishment? this is not on the best terms. >> of course, the opposition, the question that this the whole time. why would that be the case? >> first and foremost, for a brutal repressive government, this tells you how their grip is not what it used to be. syria has been a state sponsor of terrorism, but not a victim of terrorism. this shows you it is beyond the ability of the regime to control what is beyond its borders. >> would you expects -- would you expect this to become ever more dangerous? >> we will see how the government reacts to this. if they return brutal violence with an escalation, this could turn into something very ugly. potentially civil war. >> this is the latest in a series of statements. what more than issuing a piece of paper, can washington and the wes

it could be al qaeda. in one respect, if it is al qaeda, it is the simplest explanation. al qaeda has been largely sidelined this year. it would be a chance to get back in the game. more likely, it is 870 attack -- a suni attack. the real concern is if it is suni directed violence, this is an ominous turn toward sectarianism. >> it would escalate things even further. >> what is remarkable first and foremost is for a brutal repressive government tells you that their group is not what it used to be. this tells you that the state is under stress. and the ability of the regime to control what is happening within its borders is now a question mark. >> do you expect this to be a start of the more dangerous phase? >> we will see how the government reacts to this. if they returned brutal violence with an escalation of their own, this could turn into something very ugly, and potentially a civil war. >> we have another statement. -- what more than a shooting pieces of paper can united states do? >> the syrian regime is a dead man walking. it's still maintains control of security fo

in the united states, even in a situation where the al qaeda terrorists have penetrated our defenses and have carried out or attempted an attack in the united states. the authority to hold al qaeda members in military custody while completely consistent with the law of war that applies to enemy combatants is not a straitjacket but is as flexible as the president desires to make it. while we in congress have given the president a statutory authority to use military custody for al qaeda members as a tool to ensure that we're able to obtain timely, actionable intelligence, the president can exercise a broad national security waiver to this requirement, a broad national security waiver. most importantly, this provision requires military detention explicitly excludes united states senate -- citizens and aliens. the final compromise authorizes the transfer of any detainee to civilian custody for trial in civilian court and leaves it up to the president to establish procedures for determining how and when persons determined to be subject to military custody would be transferred. the provisi

we are being attacked by al qaeda. >> can al qaeda be an exponent of violent islamist extremism? qaeda is murderers. >> is al qaeda acting out of violent islamist extremism? >> al qaeda is a violent organization dedicated to overthrowing the values that we -- >> yes or no? >> can i hear the question again? as wel make it as clear can. we are not at war with islam. >> i did not ask that. i asked whether we are at war with violent islamist extremism. >> we are at war with al qaeda. >> how does al qaeda define itself acts are the dedicated to violent islamist extremism? >> they would love to convince muslims around the world that the united states is at war with islam. if that is a prime propaganda tool. i will not aid in that. i do not think it is helpful to frame hour at its erie. >> i never said we were at war with islam. we're trying to do with the radicalization. is it a behavior indicator to put on your car that your soldier of a lot? >> an indicator that you have a copy of inspire magazine? >> that is not my question. >> we have this that enables our personnel. >> you have to

>> al qaeda is asking for everything it can get. it wants the united states to stop drone attacks in afghanistan, pakistan, yemen, somalia, to close guantanamo bay, to release all al qaeda and taliban prisoners. it seems very unlikely that these demands will be met. mr. weinstein was kidnapped in lahore, pakistan, last august. he was getting ready to leave the country, and he was about to have a going-away party, and there are many people in pakistan that believe this was an inside job, that his driver or one of the security guards tipped them off. >> all right. richard, thank you very much. >>> the u.s. military handled over camp victory in baghdad to the iraqi government this morning. the former palace compound built by saddam hussein became the military headquarters throughout the war in iraq. it is now under the authority of the iraqi government as part of the effort to move troops out by year's end. >>> the senate has blocked obama's plan for a tax cut which would have taxed wealthier americans to pay for the

al-qaeda wants the u.s. to end air strikes in afghanistan, pakistan, somalia and yemen. all this when weinstein was supposed to return home today. in rockville, surae chinn, 9news now. >> al-qaeda has not shown pictures of him or given proof they actually have the rockville man. he works as a business development consultant for the arlington based firm j. e. austin and associates. >>> a virginia man is expected to enter a plea bargain today on charges he helped produce an internet video for a pakistani terrorist group. 24-year-old jabar akmed has been jailed since the september arrest. a plea hearing is set for today in alexandria. prosecutors say he produced and uploaded a propaganda video to youtube last year on behalf of the militant pakistani group. >>> five people have been treated for exposure to carbon monoxide. emergency crews were called this morning to the 1700 block of s. street southeast. they were able to help two adults and three children, one adult woman was rushed to a nearby hospital listed in serious condition. washington gas was called in to fix a faul

within minutes, state tv were saying terrorists linked to al qaeda were responsible. at the bombing sites, heavily armed security forces gathered to pledge their loyalty to the regime. car bombings have become a familiar feature in neighboring iraq, but these were the first in damascus since the uprising began. opponents of bashar al-assad's regime scoffed at the government's claims about al qaeda links to the attacks, pointing out that these security buildings were heavily guarded. >> reporter: he was referring to a visit by a delegation from the arab league, who arrived in syria just hours before the bombs blasts. they've come to oversee an initiative aimed at stopping the violence that's left more than 5,000 dead. today, they were taken straight to the scene of the bombings to see the conflict from the regime's perspective. "and you still say there are no armed gangs in syria", a state journalist scoffs at this female delegate. accused of being perpetrators of mass killings, the regime today was casting itself as the victims. it's a propaganda windfall at a crucial

al qaeda is the enemy. this will exclude the pakistani taliban which carried out the times square bombing. it is not just al qaeda, it is also other islamic extremist groups throughout the world. >> thank you. very briefly, i agree with you. it includes pakistan. al-shabab in somalia, they are part of this violent extremism movement. they offer in the united states of america. -- they all threaten the united states of america. >> without antagonizing the gentleman from south carolina further -- [laughter] >> that is where i thought we were. i apologize. >> the administration refuses to understand this and exploits the code words. you use the language identifying the enemy 39 times, jihad 126 times. in 2010, you used these terms 0 times. i have said that we have to be able to identify the enemy if you'll ever defeat them. that is important. in cold war, they conducted diplomacy on the basis of complete ignorance of the soviet definition of the expression of a " peaceful coexistence." we may dislike each othe

that american aide worker kidnapped from his pakistani home back in august is now an al qaeda hostage. >> that's the claim of the terror group's leader who says they won't release aaron weinstein until demands are met. >> reporter: good morning, rob. good morning, sunny. aaron weinstein is the first american kidnapped in pakistan since danny pearl was executed in 2002. it's come as a shock to people here. weinstein was a development expert over 70 years old. his work was uncontroversial. he worked with people like furniture sellers and dairy farmers, which makes al qaeda's demands all that more extraordinary. ayman al zawahiri, listing nine demands, including nato end air strikes in pakistan and afghanistan. and release of taliban prisoners from everywhere, including guantanamo bay. u.s. officials dismissing those demands as a bit out landish. >> is kidnapping a new tactic being used by al qaeda? >> reporter: it hasn't been used in pakistan since pearl was kidnapped in 2002. but u.s. officials say it's not really a surprise. when navy s.e.a.l.s came into pakistan to kill bin laden in

first suicide bombing since the syrian uprising began in march authorities are laying the blame on al qaeda the attacks come as the arab league observers arrive in the country in an effort to work out a peaceful solution to the complex. just days after the pullout of u.s. troops the iraqi government plunges deeper into political crisis following a bombing wave that claimed more than seventy lives prime minister nouri al maliki a shiite has called for his sunni deputy. mortlock to be signed the u.s. administration insists it left behind a stable country nine years after launching the invasion. and big brother is coming and he could be in europe british taxi human rights activists fight and a surge of surveillance cameras which are now to be installed in every taxi in the city of oxford recording not just video but audio as well authorities insist that the risk of personal intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety benefits . those were the headlines up next the second part of the onion a show. our guys it's time for tonight's tool time award and tonight we're giving it to one of t

agent he interrogated key al qaeda detainees at the height of the war onerror. since his departure fro the f.b.i., he'sou! n outspoken critic of enhanced interrogation techniques. his new book is called "the black banners: the inside story of 9/11 and the war against al qaeda." i'm pleased to have him at this table obviously for the first time. welcome. >> thank you, sir. >> rose: let me talk about the f.b.i., about you. born in lebanon? >> yup. >> rose: came to the united states earlly. >> uh-huh. >> rose: what? 14? 15? >> i was about 16, 17 years old. i joined the bureau in 1997. the call happened in october of 2000. >> rose: so three year later you're a case officer. >> t lead case agent on the u.s.s. "cole" investigation. >> yes, sir. >> rose: why did they make you an agent on that case? >> i was involved with the east africa embassy bombing. i was a case agent on an an important component of the investigation into the east african bombings which is the european components, the network, the logistical network that allowed al qaeda to function. even the claim

in the video it's claimed al- qaeda will release dr. weinstein as soon as libya stops bombing pakistan and afghanistan. >> it's an expensive claim. there's also yemen and somalia and close guantanamo bay, release all al-qaeda prisoners and all members of bin laden's family. it's a series of demands that can't possibly be met. reporter: so what's this about? >> to me the indication is that they're planning to kill weinstein. reporter: he said it could be an effort by al-qaeda to try to hurt president obama. >> i think what they're setting up is you didn't meet our demands. it was in president obama's capability to let weinstein be freed and you didn't do it. >> because until today nearly four months had gone by without any word of warren weinstein's fate, our terrorism expert thinks al-qaeda did not do the kidnapping in august but has since paid for dr. weinstein and is now using their american hostage as a tool to again terrorize the u.s. >> thank you, bob barnard. >>> new tonight a d.c. postal worker is robbed right outside his job. th

the leader of al qaeda has clearly set an agenda to establish a stronger base, to further al qaeda's. >> all right. nic robertson, thank you so much. we really appreciate it. obviously, libya a place where they can act, really, without any sort of surveillance or supervision from the government. thanks so much, nic. >>> new this morning, a massive sinkhole is threatening to swallow a historic cemetery. officials in allentown, pennsylvania, are scrambling to exhume graves that stand in danger. the cemetery holds about 20,000 graves dating back to the 1800s. the sinkhole spans from 50 feet and it's not just threatening the dead. 25 people evacuated from their homes. >>> call it occupy twitter. massachusetts prosecutor s subpoenaed the twitter records of an occupied protester and two hashtags. this after protested in dewey square earlier in the month. the aclu is calling it a violation of the first amendment. no charges yet filed. >>> china is on a mission to send a plan to the moon. the plan includes the development of new satellites, spacecraft, even a space station. the chinese succe

is offering $10 million for the capture of an alleged al qaeda operative. accused of running money and new recruits from iran to pakistan and afghanistan. officials say he is a chief fund-raiser for the terror groom and a danger to the united states. his capture could shut down a big financial resource for al qaeda. >>> pakistan is disputing the results of the pentagon's investigation into last month the air strike that killed 24 of its soldiers. the defense department report found u.s. forces acted in self-defense after being fired upon. pakistani intelligence say the u.s. fired first and it pakistani return fire that prompted the air strike. >>> a string the strong air strikes strikes new zealand. you see the building shaking there. it happened near christ church at the country's second largest city. rockfalls caused problems for drivers. the city was evacuated after the first kuwait and all city malls shut down as a precaution. at least two people were hurt. this town is still on edge after a devastating quake rattled the area back in february. >>> well,