taliban remains today allied with al-qaeda, with close links with al-qaeda, and so al-qaeda would again have been able to reestablish itself. the united states would not be flying drone strikes, it would not be taking out terrorists because it wouldn't have any place to base those assets. so i think it's pretty easy to say what would have happened in afghanistan if we'd simply conducted our punitive attack on taliban, routed them and then left the country. >> gian? raj? are those the missions we should be fighting? should we be stopping sectarian violence? >> yeah. one should not take from my talk an isolationist view, right? i mean, maybe we should be involved in those kinds of things. but what we should ask ourselves at the beginning is what will the costs of military intervention be, what are the -- what's the likelihood of success, and have a real honest discussion of what it will cost. and in so applying military force and the process of doing that which produces actions, reactions, counteractions, will the process of using military force, would it have been worth it in the first p

members of al qaeda.embers in yemen who are members of particular families. does that mean the entire tribe is ill see an entire family is guilty? these are important to ask him or particularly when the u.s. uses patterns of life are targeting people based to it as they associate with. e. then s. -- all of us have different identities. if you're a member of al qaeda in yemen, al qaeda may be part of your identity, but you might other affiliations as it may be particular times can you stress the identity of being an al qaeda member when you're going through training camp or talking to one of your shakes or whatever. but with your tribe, that's the identity or stretching. individualist u.s. has evidence about and may even be affiliated in some way with al qaeda underground they are seen as tribesmen. the me tell you a quick anecdote. last time was a few months ago in the yemeni court sentenced two individuals to death for belonging to al qaeda and their al qaeda members. they are tribe cut off the electrici

, al qaeda is running the plot, al qaeda affiliates are driving the plot, al qaeda lures the radical overseas, trains him as a bomb maker, zazi, the new york subway plot, shahzad, but when you go from al qaeda to al qaedaism, you have people who are self-starters just on the internet. they may never make contact or meet anybody from al qaeda. so now you're flying so far below the radar screen that it's an awful lot harder to prevent these plots in a sense because they're not tripping any of the trip wires that you pass when you make contact with others for help. >> there are two aspects to that that i would pick up with you. one is of course this link to dagestan may be much more sinister. we now know tamerlan, who had a wife and young baby here, decides to go back home for six months. we don't know what he got up to there, but we do know there were active islamic fundamentalist groups training in forests. with all your expert knowledge of bomb making and bombs, is it likely that they could have pulled off this boston marathon double bombing in the extremely efficient successful way

now, you say is that al qaeda linked?ind of a -- yes, they are following al qaeda's inspiration. but it is different than saying that they are al qaeda. >> bret: i think there are a lot more connections that we would like to know about with al qaeda and the splinter groups. perhaps from those documents we have yet to see from the bin laden compound. >> i think this is one of those situations that it's tricky for the administration as they try to message it on the one hand they do have a political interest in saying that al qaeda has been defeated and disseminated in afghanistan where we have been engaged in this long war. at the same time we have seen not only with this plot in canada but incidents in northern africa over the past couple of months there are groups if they aren't direct off chutes of al qaeda in afghanistan at least inspired by them. that's a tough thing to say we both defeated them but have concerns about groups thane spider them. >> bret: panel, thank you. that's it for the panel. stay tuned for moving f

doesn't have to be al qaeda. and also as far as the mass killing of civilians, since oklahoma city and the olympics, virtually every one of these mass killing attacks on civilians has been carried out by al qaeda. so, again, that is more to the signature of al qaeda. generally you find the white supremacists groups, aryan nations, who carry out attacks, it's not these random attacks on large concentrations of innocent civilians. that's been -- they're usually attacking a government building or something along those lines. equally irrational but as far as the signature type, al qaeda is more associated with attacking iconic event which this was, attacking an athletic event which this was and also whether it be carnage to innocent civilians for the shock effect. apart from those who suffered so badly the shock effect it has on the country and general and the city of boston in particular. and also we have had al qaeda in the arabian peninsula through "inspire" magazine calling for attacks on athletic events. >> cong

there is an al qaeda presence in the united states there is an al qaeda in europe there is al qaeda in russia and in any country it maintains its presence by way of the so-called sleeper cells al-qaeda has become a network without borders as we were wrestling out beyond from them we came across al qaeda fighters who would come over from pakistan chechnya europe the us and other places that intended to establish their own government in yemen and when hostilities broke out in the sand i they thought it was time to set up their government in abuja but with god's help and with the support from popular communities our military and security forces managed to take down the government that al qaeda was trying to impose on the province however they still have their sleeper cells in some parts of yemen as well as outside the country. companies when the government of yemen is address the united states with several requests to have you many inmates of going tunnel will be on the parwan detention facility in bagram afghanistan return to yemen why has this issue remained unresolved to date. i spo

i mean, certainly we have not seen al qaeda in iran as an operational affiliate, you know, such as alaeda in iraq or al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. those who are in iraq, the al qaeda members, sought refuge there some years ago as, we were chasing al qaeda out of again began. -- afghanistan. now iran allowed them to remain in iran but there have been complaints over the years that either they were involved in planning some terrorist attacks although those are old reports but more recently there were complaints they were involved in propaganda or fund-raising activitis. jon: obviously one of the concerns in this country based on what happened with the two suspects in the boston bombing, that one of them is an american citizen. one of them was working toward that. you're something of an expert in uncovering people inside the homeland who may turn to terrorism. overall, what, what approach should law enforcement be taking? are we doing the right things? >> well, thus far the record has been one of success. i mean the first good news is that despite an intense recruiting effort online

his new book is called takedown inside the hunt for al qaeda. i'm pleased, really pleased to have him here on this program. welcome. >> thank you. >> rose: so tell me what your take is on this-- on them, the two brothers. on what they did, where they came from, whether there is some election with-- link with people in chechnya that might have had some influence on them. what is the mudd appraisal of this? >> my first a operational is these two kids, i take the younger kid's word not because of what he says but because i look at the characteristics of the event and say from start to finish, where you have a kid who didn't try to hide himself in front of surveillance cameras, pretty basic devices. they didn't seem to have and after-action plan. they picked about the softest target you could find in boston. i look at this and say if they had an operational linkage back home i can't figure out what kind of capabilities that kind of operational linkage offered them. the other thing i look at is if you book end this from where you started 12 years ago

the taliban remains today, allied with al qaeda, close links with al qaeda. al qaeda would have been able to reestablish itself. the united dates would not be doing drone strikes. it would not have any place to ace those assets. i think it is easy to say what would have happened in afghanistan if we had simply conducted our punitive attack on taliban. routed them, and then left the country. >> are those emissions we should be fighting back out -- fighting? >> one should not take for my talk and isolationist view. maybe we should be involved in this kind of things. what we should ask ourselves at the beginning is, what will the cost of military intervention be? what is the likelihood of success? and have an honest discussion of what it will cost and in so applying military force in the process of doing that, which produces actions, reactions, counter actions, will the process of using military force has been worth it in the first place when we talked about this decision, whether or not to go in? i also think that, there has come to be almost this rule that say

they get al qaeda. >> yeah. >> and what happens is al qaeda has this process, this gentle persuasionhere they believe that they are really -- they convince themselves. i mean, it's not brainwash. they convince themselves. once they start inculcating them, you know, khalid shaikh mohammed said it, that the most important thing to be a member of al qaeda was not whether you could speak a foreign language, military training, your ability to shoot a gun, or make a bomb. the most important thing was your willingness for self-sacrifice. that's how you get in. and that's what they've built that cult on. now, in the last few years, it's diminished with -- diminished with -- because we diminished al qaeda and bin laden. so it's diminished but it's not gone away. >> let me go back to roger cressi because we don't want to generalize on here. i like to find patterns. it's easier if you can figure out what is going on and everything being phenomenal and chaotic, you'd like to think -- when people are willing to kill people by the numbers, lots of people, it's usually a deep religious thing, like

that quote he hated al qaeda he did not know any al qaeda members and would fight any regime if it impose sharia law in syria end of quote but in an interview with a journalist before he was arrested eric responded to a question about fighting alongside terrorists is syria by saying quote the us plays both sides to end of quote very karun had never served overseas during his brief time with the u.s. military before heading for syria he had a quiet job with a mortgage company in phoenix arizona worlds away from the walls of the middle east i spoke with and speckhard a leading expert on terror psychology on why westerners end up in the ranks of

they said, well, if al qaeda stands for freedom, we are al qaeda. but a statement put out -- we have not had confirmed that it is him -- but the statement weight -- went way back to the history where he came from. he was based during a rat, the conflict in iraq, and before syrian conflict started and he said sometime last year the leader of the iraqi al qaeda dhoup, and daddy, said --bagh ati saying he would give half his funds for the fight inside syria. not only affiliated with al qaeda but also have fundings to buy the weapons and start the battle against the regime, confirmed now. the timing is interesting yesterday-baghdadi were al qaedasra in syria. it almost seems as if he has been forced to confirm it. not the only people fighting this war. and he was clear in the speech that it would not mean it would mean sidelining the other groups uprising alongside them. of course, the free syrian army. >> they are not the only group in syria fighting against assad but they are there. ?ow key are they >> certainly in many of the northern parts of syria

now one more thing about al qaeda before the war against iraq the u.s. media talked a lot about abu musaab now is that kerry who allegedly was in iraq and had connections with the iraqi regime we searched but didn't find miss sampson we had no connections with or al qaeda there was an attempt to establish a connection with the taliban through one of the ministers who was in pakistan from iraqi intelligence proposed this but foreign minister tariq aziz said that it was an unstable regime and it wouldn't benefit iraq to have relations with it did iraq actually have w m d that could threaten the entire world or the region where. they fabricated a certain problem analyzed it and drew their conclusions based on that the data they receive from various sources was untrue this was their attempt of swaying public opinion in terms of the intelligence operation iraq was a closed country and they obviously had no sources within the country that would have told them the truth so they relied on other sources that fed them lies such as for instance photos of trucks por

from al qaeda elements in iran.aying they didn't believe it was in any way state sponsored. but iran and al qaeda not normally two things that go together. i can tell you from intelligence sources here that they have always been worried about iran hezbollah cells. cells that they believe remain in united states and the canada. but al qaeda and iran is a completely different element and we're still trying to gather more information about that. >> where are these two men from, paula? >> reporter: well, we do not have confirmation. it seems that one is from tunisia and one from the united arab emirates. i couldn't confirm the exact location from police today. they did underscore the fact, wolf, that they were not from canada and had not been here a very long time, underscoring the point, again, wolf, that this was not homegrown radicalization. we have had examples of that in the recent past. in canada we had two people that were tied to the attacks in algeria in january, but they were from canada, born in canada. this

to use that name now if bu want to be part of al qaeda.know. >> continues to be the term of convenience but it's important to drill down what that means. >> shepard: as they bounce back and for between english and french, they're saying little. >>> official says the surviving boston bombing suspect was very seriously wounded when they finally got him in custody and now that he is in hospital, he is heavily sedated. so what will his wounds mean? we'll get into that one week on from the boston bombing. clients are always learning more to make their money do more. (ann) to help me plan my next move, i take scottrade's free, in-branch seminars... plus, their live webinars. i use daily market commentary to improve my strategy. and my local scottrade office guides my learning every step of the way. because they know i don't trade like everybody. i trade like me. i'm with scottrade. (announcer) scottrade... ranked "highest in customer loyalty for brokerage and investment companies." humans. we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an impe

is it some kind of al qaeda element that did get training in the al qaeda heartland, the traditionalakistan and the afghan border, or is this some type of plot that perhaps had originated somewhere else? we know that al qaeda affiliate organizations, if you will, are really gaining strength in syria, in iraq, across north africa. you'll remember an al qaeda north african affiliate, sponsored inspired organization, whatever you want to call it, carried that out that attack against the algerian gas plant a few months back. these affiliates, brooke, are a growing threat -- >> let me interrupt you. let me interrupt you. we want to go back to the news conference there in toronto. >> -- enforcement teams, also executed search warrants at various locations in toronto and montreal. arrested today were rahid yasser, 35 of toronto. they're in custody and will appear at old city hall courthouse tomorrow for bail hearings. as stated, our investigation and the evidence found indicated that the accused were conspireing to carry out a terrorist attack against a passenger train in the greater toront

two men were getting direction and guidance from al qaeda members abroad. also today, this news clear plant in eastern tennessee, the watts bar nuclear power plant returned to normal status this afternoon following what the tennessee valley authority called an unusual event late saturday night. the unusual event was a shoot-out on the grounds of the nuclear plant at about 2:00 a.m. on saturday night, sunday morning. security officer at the nuclear plant was doing a routine perimeter patrol when he came across somebody on the grounds of the plant. he confronted the individual, whereupon the individual shot at him multiple times. he did not hit the security officer himself, but the vehicle the security officer was in was struck multiple times. the nuclear plant security officer then returned fire there is no sign that he hit the intruder. the intruder subsequently disappeared, probably by boat down the tennessee river. they have not found him. and that's all just in today's news cycle. everybody freak out. there is no reason to believe that any of these stori

the feeling is that al qaeda is behind a lot of the attacks still going on, and al qaeda is sunni. a lot of the arrests are made in sunni communities. these were sparked in december with the arrest of bodyguards of a senior sunni politician. they have not let up since then. every friday, there are mass prayers and protest in sunni towns and provinces. those provinces have essentially been cut off on fridays from baghdad. , it was the same grievances. these are coordinated protest, and they have taken an increased hard-line turn with clerics and other leaders who have not been known before, taking a different direction. >> all right, jane, thank you once again. jane arraf on the line from iraq. has exploded outside the french of the sea and the libyan capital tripoli. two security guards were injured in the blast. still not clear who is behind the attack. jacky rowland has the story and reaction from paris. >> the force of the explosion brought down the walls of nearby buildings and started a fire that engulfed some offices inside the embassy. one french security officer was serious

it may turn out to be that they are members of al qaeda or something like that.ed on that initial interrogation, there isn't that. and in order to send someone to guantanamo and use a military commission, the person has to be a non-u.s. citizen, and of course the suspect here is a u.s. citizen. so this kind of talk has been thrown around. but there is no realistic possibility that this is a viable option. and as i say, as a practical matter, it's really something that has failed. i'm now in the private sector. and if i -- if someone came to me with a track record of the guantanamo military commissions, i think they would be fired, you know, at the get-go. >> one of the decisions that has been made thus far is that dzhokhar tsarnaev was mirandize ed today at his initial court appearance when the judge and the defense attorney came to him. but this apparently was after he had responded to questions from investigators before he was read his rights. the administration is citing the public safety exemption from the miranda warning as being the justification for asking

we have seen al qaeda and iran plot against saudi targets. a new development but the idea that al qaeda in iran is not a new idea. they have long had a presence there. >> a marriage of convenience. >>> as tamerlan tsarnaev became radicalized did the u.s. miss key signals he was a threat. we will go live to moscow for more. >>> also ahead she is 5,000 miles from boston but feels the pain and shame for her family like it was right next door. in a timely fashion ojee and within budget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact that i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. join today and find out why over 1 million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. well, dad, i spent my childhood living with monks learning the art of dealmaking. you've mastered monkey-style kung fu? no. priceline is

. >> they have also made an alliance with al qaeda, they've worked with al qaeda in pakistan and afghanistan. one of my constituent's son was killed in iraq by nine chechen rebels. so they're in the fight. he goes over there, the tools of trade of warfare for al qaeda are precisely the devices he built, this cooker pressure device, explosive device. there are reports they had suicide vests on. you don't learn that overnight. i personally believe that this man received training when he was over there and he radicalized from 2010 to the present. and then nine months after he comes back from the chechnya region, he pulls off the largest terror attack since 9/11. >> so there's a difference between being influenced by al qaeda or other terrorist groups and getting help and assistance from them. you think it's the latter. >> i think it's very probable that when he's in the region that's a very dangerous region that they're known for his tactics that he possibly could have been trained at that point. i believe he was already radicalizing. i'm questioning what the father's role is. the fathers alway

, or al-qaeda-affiliated or inspired groups when they see something like that.o they prove it? >> first, as catherine pointed out, it doesn't mean it won't be in the future or hasn't been on obscure al-qaeda website and the nsa is going to lots of these sites and going to signal intelligence and intercepts in the last weeks that may have referred to some type of bombing and they also had access to all the video cameras that are new basically in the last decade in cities across the united states and especially in boston, commercial videos as well as municipal videos so they can see who might have planted the bomb and going to the pharmacy stores, the chemical stores, the stores that might sell improvised explosives to see who might have purchased them and the actual fragments which were nails and ball bearings, which is a hall mark, by the way of jihadist suicide bombings and those seem to have been purchased in the united states and they're going to try to find it out. and they've got a lot of tools to work with, but a lot of leg work and shoe work to go through

the new al qaeda lear does not believe in that big, symbolic attacks that al qaeda central leaders didears ago. he has encouraged his affiliates, as did the last few years to do these attacks locally. and therefore that they are not going to be on the same scale. and most of them, quite frankly, are very different in the sense that they are not suicide bombers. that is, maybe what has taken place. these guys have to get out safely because they did not intend to kill themselves. they could be domestic terrorists, but we could never rule out at this stage that this is an overall strategic objective against the estates by a radical islamist groups. lou: and even if, as as i was discussing with the mayor here earlier, even if indeed this were not organized or directed by specifically al qaeda, whether it be in yemen or whether it be in pakistan or afghanistan, it is still part of a broader war on terror, is it not? >> absolutely. the radical islamists that operate in the region want to establish a caliphate where they dominate the region, and their goals are even as ambitious as world comm

he needs the al qaeda people -- he meets the al qaeda people. that meeting, and there were three members present, was attacked by a u.s. grown strike. the clerk was killed, as were the al qaeda members. this is a strike that did more good or did it do more harm? i do not know. we have not heard a lot of other stories about clerics steny up to al qaeda. let me give you an anecdote. november -- the night president obama won reelection, there was a drench strike that took place in yemen. this gets to the capture and kill dilemma. one of the best books is a book, argumentcapture " the has been that the u.s. only kills as a last resort and when it cannot capture. this casee of alaki, was made because he was outside of government control in yemen. place, a lotbacle of mountains, the government does not have full control grid on november 7, it doesn't welcome there is a strike that killed an individual who was a member of the military, who had been arrested for suspicion of being involved in a jail break that let al qaeda members of a prison, but also

al qaeda in the arabian peninsula we're just hearing here in the united states that there may be some connection to extremists in the caucasus between the older brother. and this group located in the region over in chechnya now as this investigation plays out we know we're going to be getting more information but since september eleventh in the wake of these attacks the u.s. launched its so-called war on terror given these events and the boston bombings how secure is the domestic situation in the united states right now. the these domestic situation united states is that we are reasonably secure but it's not failsafe and i think it's been proven two young men had a major american city on lockdown and that speaks volumes we had something similar in southern california with someone who was an ideologically motivated extremist having the whole community shut down so i think that we've gotten a bit complacent but we've also had law enforcement training and put in place reasonable security measures the fact of the matter is terrorism is going to continue in the united states although if yo

support of al qaeda.d then, i agree with a lot of the points that you made. we achieved our objective fairly quickly. by 2002, relatively speaking there were only a handful of al qaeda fighters left. now we're back to the basic question of strategy, what does it take to keep after that corps after thatective? -- core policy objective, and whether or not we needed to stay and fix and build to achieve it. >> we also have to understand the cost of staying, fixing, and building in 2002, 2003 was exponentially less than they were in 2009-2010. had had we committed more resources than we did, but nothing on the order of what we have done today, we would not be having this discussion today. had washington listen to people like ambassador dobbins, among others, and more properly resourced some basic state building, basic training of afghan security forces, basic peacekeeping efforts in major cities -- mind you, back then, much of the burden would have been distributed among nato partners and others. it would be a

al qaeda. >> at that time, yes.as put in jail because nobody knew who he was he was put in jail for visa violation. what happened also in 1999 and this came out in the trial of one of the master minds of 9/11 in hamburg the three mastermind pilots of 9/11 traveled to kandahar specifically to train to fight in chechnya. at that time the al qaeda leadership told them we have enough person in chechnya. we have other plans for you. so it goes really deeply. >> bret: general, i want to talk to you tactically. i know militarily is different than operationally inside the u.s. the challenge of trying to find this guy right now if he has had training and he is, you know, basically a dog backed up against a wall? >> well, hiding is one thing. and he can probably successfully hide for a period of time. but he has got to move at some point and then he is vulnerable. they all know that they have great surveillance out there. it's a matter of time in my mind until they get him. >> bret: he may have been injured in this fire fight

and more widespread than al-qaeda?> it's the latter in my opinion going back with experience over my career, megyn. whether you take hard-core extremists, right wing ideology that motivates them or perhaps in the tragedy over the last few days. when you talk about the term war on terrorism, from my career, it seemed like an apt term what happened after 9/11. many people didn't have a problem with that. as time went on and for me and my experience and time in the middle east after the u.s. went into iraq, a lot of my liaison contacts seems that was a ui fem i is a war on the developing war. >> megyn: that is what the president was worried about. according to john brennan, he says, describing the terrorists as jihadists or using that different phraseology, jihad means to purify one self for a moral goal. it gives the murderers legitimacy and john brennan seems to say we don't want to refer it on a war on jihad or war on terror, just al-qaeda. i mean, it's not necessarily just al-qaeda. >> no, it's not. part of the unfort

the obama administration has claimed that drones only target high ranking members of al qaeda and allied groups but a new report tells a different story we'll explore who is actually being targeted. and today protesters throughout the nation rise up against the guantanamo bay detention facility they want the facility to be closed and twenty different detention sights and sounds from this national demonstration coming right ahead. it's thursday april eleventh eight pm in washington d.c. i'm megan lopez and you are watching r.t. . well homeowners who were wrongfully foreclosed on are about to get the big payout that they've been waiting for a payout that is literally worth tens of dollars in compensation for all of their struggles to fight the big banks and prove that they are not in fact delinquent on their payments the majority of these homeowners will be compensated just about three hundred dollars the office of the comptroller of the currency announced that it had reached a settlement for how to break up the fees after regulators decided that the review was such a mess that it was time

in the case of al qaeda, it's more like the star fish. laden was killed, al awlaki was killed, et cetera. but this is continuing to met as it size. so generation 2.0 of jihad, they are going to use the internet. this is a younger generation and it's imperative, piers, we use the internet to actually teach our people and first responders to identify this. and there are programs like trip wire and dhs and the office of bombing prevention that are being cut by over 50%. we're spending less than 1% of the money we spent on defeating ied in iraq and afghanistan. this is an opportunity now to do -- to cross-apply it at home. >> has there been a failure of intelligence? if it turns out this wasn't al qaeda-hit on a relatively soft target like the boston marathon, would heads have to roll? is this a failure? >> not necessarily. if -- sure f it turns out that it's an al qaeda hit that was coordinated by al qaeda from abroad, then you would think that is something that should have been detected. but it doesn't have the hall marks of that. it does ha

we have seen chechens fighting elsewhere with al qaeda and other extremist groups aligned with al qaeda outside of chechnya. that is not uncommon. but chechen groups, themselves, pointing attacks outside of russia really has not been their priority. we should note chechen separatist groups, there subelements of those that, again, aligned themselves with sunni islamist extremism. that's the exception rather than the rule. >> talk to us, if you can, about the profile of the suspect now on the run. how surprised are you that a 19-year-old, who apparently had plenty of friends, participated in school sports, was good enough to get a $2,500 scholarship, would be radicalized in this way? >> well, i would just say that right now we're operating under the assumption he was radicalized. i think that's probably the most likely outcome, but we don't know that. that being said -- >> even if he hasn't been radicalized -- he desired to perpetrate the murder of americans. >> that's absolutely right. either way he was a violent extremist. exactly what the cause was, we don't yet know. frankly, i don't

. >> well, actually, george, chechens have been involved in al qaeda since the beginning of al qaeda. they were involved in fighting for al qaeda in bosnia and they were involved in fighting against the northern alliance in afghanistan. there's a record here. how do you tell when someone gets radicalized? they're normal, happy kids in cambridge, and then something happens, a switch is flipped. how can the fbi, how can homeland security notice when that happens? when the radicalization occurs, especially when it's self-radicalization online. it's very, very difficult to do. what i want to know, what did the russians do when he went back to russia? they had already said that they were interested in him, he went back and spent six months. what did they do? did they follow him around? >> we're dealing with something of a new pattern since 9/11. attempts at terrorist attacks by people who have been in the united states for quite a long period of time who have become radicalized. not the times square bomber, had some connections overseas. but not parts of larger broader conspiracies. >> thi

i think the public record is pretty clear that al qaeda, senior al qaeda people have been in a rant for some period of time. it's been convenient for a rant to them they are inconvenient for al qaeda to be there. iran is if nothing else, a point through which people travel and go from the afghanistan and pakistan area into the middle east. so yes there is tension for the reasons you said, but there are also some common -- they have some common objectives. the united states being a common enemy in their eyes. so i think what you're seeing with syria, maybe there's some more attention that's fair. that may be some indication of those tensions, but it's not new news that al qaeda has had a presence in iran. how hospitable the hosting has been, how consistently hospitable it's been a something which is worth thinking about, at the presence of al qaeda and iran continues to this day. i think that's about all i can really say. >> i will focus my comments predominately on the nuclear element. precisely because we worried about the proliferation says chairman king mentioned in his opening state

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but they may have had interaction via the web and the internet with al qaeda's ideology, with al qaedae process of radicalization, gave them targets that they would not have thought of before. and that that target became america and everything about the united states of america. >> and from your knowledge, there was a conversation between vladimir putin and president obama on friday night, a pledge of more cooperation. but the fact is, that over the past few years, there has not been a whole lot of cooperation between the russian security services and our intelligence services. >> no. and let's be honest about what's going on in chechnya. under mr. putin, there have been horrendous human rights violations in chechnya. the country has been occupied and brutalized by russian forces for the last decade and more. that's not to excuse chechen terrorism. the chechen terrorists have carried out absolutely horrible acts of terror against movie houses, against schools, but what we've seen in chechnya is a growing radicalization of the population under the oppression that they're getting from ru

was this an al qaeda event? quite clearly.ctacular event. >> two hours earlier, it would have had hundreds of cameras directly looking down on the scene where those bombs went off. but occurring four hours into the marathon, most of the cameras were gone. most of the video that i have been watching is amateur video. it's unprofessional video. by that time, all the professional cameras had left. the crowds had thinned down quite a bit from what they were. >> i think there is a question for you now. >> good to hear your voice. let me ask you something. we are talking about the staging of this event. two factors that i would like you to put into context. understanding that this corner would be thick with people and this would be the right time to have the thickest group come through and the idea that local cops had done sweeps of this particular area not long before which might suggest that whoever did this was nearby. how do those factor in? >> it's four hours into the race. i have worked that marathon probably 20 times in my ca

in this case, al qaeda.aed gentleman'ser was in court. >> my client is in a state of shock and disbelief that's happened to him. he is gathering himself. we're working together. looking into the family and' all looking forward to defending him. >> jaser's alleged momentum, 30-year-old chiheb esseghaier, went to court in montreal, claiming the charges from action word considers only appearance. the white house meantime applauds the arrest. >> i can talk to you about that. we first of all welcomed yesterday's announcement by canada that they have disrupted a terrorist plot, working in coordination with u.s. law enforcement. >> canadian official says the plat was only in the planning stages and nobody was in imminent danger. canadian official says these two men did get help from iran. they got direction and guidance but not direct funding from al qaeda in iran. and the plot was not state-sponsored. iran claimed again today it has no connection with al qaeda and there has been a rocky relationship between the la