. >> i think it's a manifestation of al-qaeda, the same group as al-qaeda the division took place betweenl-qaeda as we know it and the so-called islamic state after. the islamic state of iraq sent some people to syria in order to participate in the war, an established branch of al-qaeda and he decided he is loyal to al-qaeda central and that the operation in syria should be syriancentric and should focus on syria and it shouldn't be under the islamic state in iraq which is an al-qaeda affiliate in iraq. >> created a division between bagdadi and later, the self appointive calif for the muslim world and zawaheri and jawani. a polit took place between al nusra and the islamic state of iraq. as retaliation , immediately issued a state called the islamic state of iraq and syria and later, an islamic state, which means that now zawahere and baghdadi and the whole baghdadi. >> that's why everything we hear that these two organizations are going to join efforts together is just assumptions. >> right. >> there is tee logical divisions now that will prevent al-qaeda and isis to join efforts togethe

he was held by al qaeda in north africa.rancois hollande has announced the release of that man, serge lazarevic. more on that story as we get it. sue do stay tuned for that. american embassies around the today preparing for a possible fallout link to a new report on torture. that report from the u.s. senate committee will have graphic techniques of torture used by the caa after 9/11. >> the report is the first public accounting of the use of torture during the war on terror in the aftermath of the september 11 attacks. the u.s. use so-called enhancement techniques. the work was often outsourced at secret black sites to secret governments. waterboarding was one method of torture use directly by the cia. george w. bush said it had to be done. >> in the war on terror, intelligence is one of the most crucial tools for our defense. they captured terrorist has information about a plot against our homeland, we need to know what he knows. >> the bush administration rarely use the word "waterboarding." barack obama acknowledged the u

they did not know he was al qaeda. once they learn thread, our country learned, basically, that who done it. right? which terrorist group attacked us. that fbi interrogation was successful. it produced real information that u.s. needed and was able to act on. but then something changed. abu zubaydah was interrogated by suffant. contractors were sent in. they stripped him naked. blasted music in his cell. went ton to water board him. they were part after new cia torture program. they were sent to torture the prisoner even though he had already been talking without tore touring him. people make the case that rashalal for torturing people is that there is no time to waste. a time bomb is ticking somewhere. but the cia contractors who came in and took over for sufant and his partner seemed to have plenty of time for this guy. first stage was they put him in solitary confinement without human contact for 47 days before ever asking him a question. after 47 days of zero human contact they went into torture

were any of them working with al-qaeda? how does al-qaeda get on with isil? are they the first one to come up with the idea of an islamic state? what's the sort of local politics with all these jihadi groups? >> i think the reason why i says has suddenly appeared so prominently on the horizon, not so much that we didn't notice it was there before, i think the government and others did it was there, it was the collapse of the iraqi army and it is suddenly overrunning most of sunni iraq. that's what was new, otherwise it was just another radical jihadi groups in syria, of which there are a number. it's when it moved into iraq and the iraqi army collapsed. what was surprising was the collapse of the iraqi army, not the existence of the isis. >> wanted you can address the relationship between al-qaeda and -- >> let him to do that. i want to come back to the ebola topic. >> this is a really good question. this group has its history, a real brief history of this group is afghanistan of the 1980s in the west. zarqawi create an obsession. they went to iraq around 200

killed six to nine al qaeda captors. somers and a south african hostage pierre korkie were gravely wounded. they were air lifted out of the area to a u.s. navy ship offshore but both died of their wounds. as of tonight luke somers' immediate family has issued no official public statements except to ask that they be allowed to mourn his death in peace, lester. >> jim miklaszewski starting us off. thanks. >> behind the scenes in washington it was a series of high-level meetings that eventually led to the launch of this risky mission. for more let's bring in nbc's kristen welker at the white house. kristen. >> reporter: lester, good evening. a u.s. official describes the rescue mission as a multi-agency whole of government effort. it started thursday night when video of luke somers was released. officials determined the threat was credible and somers would be killed today. officials say they had credible intelligence about somers' whereabouts based in part on their initial attempt to rescue them last month. that set off a s

the cia is desperate to find al qaeda leaders like al awlaki. and that's exactly what the cia needs. >> i had these different names. i had different personalities. i was mort storm, murad storm, abu so mama, abu muj ja hid, polar bear, it's some kind of schizophrenic lifestyle. >> he's made surprising connections with leaders. according to counterterrorism expert magnus. >> he had been to the many place, he had met all the right people. >> reporter: he's almost a forrest gump of radical islamism. >> i don't think there's many people like him that have all those different die mentions. he was the real deal. >> reporter: the real deal. a larger than life personality who reveals his journey in this book "agent storm: my life inside al qaeda and the cia" co-authored by paul cruickshank and tim lister, both cnn contributors. coming up, how storm goes from boxer to holy warrior. >> i was invited by osama bin laden to join up with him in the training camp in afghanistan. turn the trips you have to take, into one you'll never forget. earn points for eve

al qaeda killing their captive instead. what gave the operation away. >>> the breaking news, president obama and his motorcade heading to the hospital. the commander in chief complaining of a sore throat, what they've learned tonight. dr. rich besser is here. >>> the monster storm hitting at this hour, the typhoon rains, the fierce winds, more than 30 million people in harm's way and our reporter right in the thick of it. >>> and who's behind the wheel of your car? caught on camera at the parking garage or the mechanic, people you trust, and what they might do after you hand them your keys. >>> good evening. i'm dan harris. the special operations forces were on a dangerous mission, facing an urgent deadline. al qaeda threatening to kill luke somers, a freelance photographer, by today, if their demands were not met. an overnight raid was launched to rescue somers but it went bad. he was executed by his captors. today president obama called it a barbaric murder. abc's chief investigative correspondent brian ross is here with

then three weeks later. >> we begin with the biggest blow to al qaeda since the killing of osama bin the top terrorist recruiters in the world. >> al awlaki is dead. >> it could mean a bounty for storm. soon he says he receives a text message. it's from a danish agent saying "i'm so sorry but it wasn't us." the cia says the death is not storm's work. >> i thought it wasn't meant to happen. i'm so sorry. just tell the americans big brother congratulations. >> two days later he learns more when he picks up a copy of the british newspaper "the telegraph." sprawled across the front page how america finally caught up with anwar al awlaki. the capture of an errand runner was the key to what led to the al qaeda leader's death. >> i froze when i read it. i was like, i had that ice in my stomach. i said that's my mission. the dates, the time period that he was arrested. young courier matches the young courier that i met. storm believes he was key in leading the cea to to al awlaki. he feels cheated and he lets intelligence agencies know he is furious. according to storm, they set up a meeting

on tuesday, the lebanese army here say they had taken into custody two women connected to al qaeda and the el nusra front. it was believed that one was the wife of abu bakr al-baghdadi, the i.s.i.l. commander, strong message from him that he demanded the release of his wife and children. then it was at 11:00 p.m. local time sammy that a photograph was posted on the el nusra twitter page purporting to show the shooting of that lebanese soldier, in the valley where he was from, we know they cut off the phone from that town where those soldiers were kidnapped from. it is close to there that it is believed they're being held. it cut off the road to the residents in and around this area. >> is the negotiations going anywhere? >> in that video that is released on friday, the qatari s have been involved in trying to secure the soldiers remaining, their release from the el nusra front. he said that delegation was no longer welcome that that person had been coming to arsal to sit down with some of the nusra commanders to negotiate the release of these soldiers but he should not return. it's not

and humiliated, al qaeda in iraq. we might not have had a return to iraq as we ehave now. so we have a better chance of that happening in afghanistan. the president has to reck niogn it remains a global war on terror. and it is greater than it ever was because of where it is. iraq's area, all up in north africa, yemen, pakistan, et cetera. >> you mentioned something else the president said about how he believes we're not going to see another terrorist act launched from afghanistan. let's play the full clip so we see the context i'm talking about. >> we are safer, it's not going to be a source of terrorist attacks again and we still have some very difficult missions around the world, including in iraq. >> steve, you have studied this as closely as anyone. how can this president or any president say that there's not going to be another terror attack emanating from a country. can we know that? >> i'm certain that at the white house today when he said this, his advisors all cringed because it's a very foolish thing to say

a senior al qaeda commander is said to have been among those who died. rube was head of the grube's operations in pakistan and afghanistan. on saturday al leader was killed in a similar attack. the kamal, there has been another senior al qaeda member, he's the latest to be killed from a drone strike. just how significant was he? >> reporter: well, as you mentioned, he is believed to be operational commander for afghanistan and pakistan. he's a pakistani. however he rows to prominence first starting as a spokesman for al qaeda in pakistan. but rose in power and was said to be a key commander. one slight correction, just two days ago the pakistani military used ground forces in a special operation in which the other senior al qaeda commander was killed, he was said to be responsible for masterminds being the subway attack in new york. so that operation was carried out by the pakistani military. however, this morning the attack is said to have killed omar farouk, and the commander for the region that is in afghanistan and pakistan. >> now, ca knowledge, ther

and we knew al-qaeda at th time. we knew more about north korea than al-qaeda then. and the president and the congress were unified and demanding that the cia to go on offensive. we asked them to take the fight to al-qaeda. and what bothers me, and let me add, an amazing record of success. no one back then would have said the united states will go without a massive terrorist attack for 13 years. no matter that record of success. and now a democrats in the senate leed by senator feinstein that conducted a partisan investigation and no republicans and no witnesses were interviewed, this report as you said attacks those men and women, 13 years after the fact and what they have to do, they lied to all of us, because they can't quarrel with the level of success we achieve gw >> were you ever insulted by the committee? you were part of the discussion as to the legality of what is done. were you called as a witness? >> no, as you said it is biassed report. i used to work in the senate and conducted investigations. we do it bipartisan and interview witnesses. i would have ha

terrorists group like al-qaeda are not the only terrorists that we face.ponsored terrorism is also a problem. the prime example of this is hezbollah and a terrorist organization that receives significant state backing and has recently expanded into syria. >> reporter: the base will be built next to existing one of the american which the british is using for patrols and will pay the $23 million construction cost of a port big enough to take britain's largest ships including the new aircraft carrier queen elizabeth and not until 2020 and it's not without controversy and protests by members of the shia population and with discrimination of sunni rulers and elections last month were boycotted and slow to be implemented. >> only a few weeks ago the house of commons foreign affairs committee reporting on the government said the bahrain government has not improved its human rights in reform situation sufficiently and it should be put on the list of countries of concern. so coming weeks after that such a big political decision effectively rewarding the bahrain gov

also, ahead, tension in eastern lebanon after the al-qaeda-linked al nusra front killed a captured policemen. a typhoon making landfall. 600,000 people have left homes for safer ground. plus from switchboard operator to first lady, the wife of z zimbabwith way takes another step on the political ladder to power. >> we begin in yemen where two al-qaeda hostages have been killed in a failed rescue attempt. american for theo journalist and teacher pierre tais kochi were killed. u.s. president barack obama has killed the deaths as barbaric. >> reporter: it was the second time u.s. and yemeni forces tried to rescue luke somers along with pierkorki held alongside him. they said they found them but neither made it out alive. >> the rescue operations started early morning saturday and they wanted to rescue him, but the al-qaeda was very alert and they, one of my sources told me they started to king him and they tried to skaim with him but the operation was very strong. they were surrounded. so they killed him. >> that operation took place in shabwa promise. barack obama planed the timing. >> earlier

>> retaliation from al qaeda? al qaeda is a group that is determined to act.ermined to carry out attacks by the united states. they already said they were going to attack. they always will try and attack. i don't think it's necessary something you would be worried about, they are going to be angered. >> i believe there were ten al qaeda operators killed. >> yeah. i don't know the exact number of operatives of al qaeda members who were killed in this. one other hostage, nonamerican, was killed, and the question would be did they take any lives? the americans went in there, and what you do is you land not on the location, and you land a short while away. actually, you have colonel jack jacobs coming up, and he has details about this specific situation. you land away from the target so they don't hear you, and you have to walk, going on foot to this house. but they were planning to take people away, so the question is, do they grab any al qaeda operatives? something interesting to know, and they are not going to make that public if they did. >> richard engel, gla

this competition continues between al-qaeda and isis or isil, the islamic state, and al-qaeda wants to put itself back on the map. it's not the kind of power in syria, in iraq that islamic state is, so it needs to do something big and it's whole philosophy is to talk the united states, to go after americans, to go after europeans, the brits and the french. if they can pull off a major airline bombing campaign, they'd be back. >> as number one. >> scary to talk about it in those terms. talking about isil, big deal in iraq between the iraqi government and the kurds to share royal revenues. this might lead for the kurds to finally get the arms they've asked for. the al-maliki government wouldn't share with them, the kurds, wouldn't give them -- >> and the kurds wouldn't share with them. >> true, but a lot of money supposed to be flowing from the iraqi government to kurdistan wasn't going through and they weren't getting arms that they were promised. how big is it that they seem to be cooperating? >> it's important certainly to have them cooperating more than they were under maliki, becaus

there was no al-qaeda involved until two years ago. this makes it very scary and very different, i would say. >> what is the hardest thing about being held captive? >> for us the hardest thing was probably not knowing what would happen to you and when anything would happen to you. being in limbo all the time makes it very, very hard. i imagine for both luke and pierre, our kidnapping took six months, and we were all together and very well taken care of. imagine 15 months and longer than that, held by al-qaeda. i don't know how they were treated, it must have been horrible to them. i've been thinking of them a lot over the last year. >> and tell me, did you actually want to be rescued or were you afraid of a raid to rescue you? >> you discuss all kinds of things because you have lots of time to do. so we were always discussing in god's name let's not have any rescue attempts. we were not discussing the americans, by the way. we were always discussing let the yemeni forces not rescue us because that would not end up well knowing the hist

>> i think the islamic state is a manifestation of al qaeda, it is the same group as al qaeda. a division took place between al qaeda as we know it and the so-called islamic state as we know it after syria. the islamic state headed by abu bakr al-baghdadi, to sent abu mohamed julani. he established a branch of al qaeda over there and he decided he was loyal to central not to abu bakr al-baghdadi, should be syrian centric and shouldn't focus under the islamic state in iraq. the self appointed caliph for the islamic world, and a split took place between el nusra and the islamic state, immediately issued a state called islamic state of iraq and syria, and later khalafa, islamic state, which means that now now zawhir, assumption, i think there's theological divisions now that will prevent al qaeda and i.s.i.s. to join efforts together because i don't see ayman al zawhiri being. >> you learned something different. >> they believe they are following islam in its purest form which is total by absurd. you know bashar al-assad, 1996 declaration of jihad, yes, it focused on iran, on the

he was the head of jammyas al qaeda off-shoot. based on this intelligence and working with local partners, including the indonesian government, they were able to detain the operatives and disrupt many operations and degrade him. in 2002 this organization killed more than 200 people in the bombings in bally. today that organization is just a shadow of itself. because of this intelligence and the policies we put in place afterwards, one program in particular at state, the anti-terrorism assistance program was designed to help the indonesians build up their counter terrorism capabilities an they did an outstanding job. and this is a positive result from the policies. >> so you do believe these methods create intelligence that you were able to act on and save lives. and the senate dianne feinstein spoke about the specific techniques used by interrogate yorz. i wanted to play it so our viewers could hear this practice. >> strip naked, diaper, and put in various painful stress positions for long periods of time. they were deprived of sl

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on an al qaeda leader in pakistan which continues to be the main address for al qaeda.is was in the waziristan region of pakistan. one of the top al qaeda operatives who had been indicted for his role in plotting an attack on the u.s. subway system, on the new york city subway system, in 2009. >> the u.s. had a $5 million reward out for him. >> yeah. so if you look at the -- today's news and the fight against al qaeda, a failed mission in yemen, but then you could call it a successful operation in pakistan. >> all right. richard engel, thanks very much. erica? >>> as more people this morning are fleeing ahead of that typhoon that's set to hit the philippines we're taking a closer look at what could be heading their way. sheinelle is following that story. >> good morning. more than half a million people are now evacuating this morning ahead of this powerful and massive typhoon. nbc's jim maceda is on the ground in the philippines with the very latest. >> reporter: i'm coming to you from the city that is the capital of alby province northwest of samar where a few hours fr

it was unfortunate that he was killed during an attack on al-qaeda property in an attempt to release other hostages. >> but now both men won't be coming home. stephanie dekker, al jazeera. >> au.s. defense secretary made the announcement on an unexpected stop in the afghan capitol kabul. tell us more about what chuck hagel announced today. >> well, as you say, it's unexpected visit by the outgoing defense secretary, an extra 1,000 troops to add to the thousand 800 that are going to be remaining here into 2015. a 11 attacks here, and a large attack handed over to afghan forces last month measures how much of a challenge that the afghan national army has in dealing with the taliban. the taliban specifically saying results of foreign invaders staying in this country. it also comes in fascinating times of politics. a new government that only two days ago told international donors that they were going to stick to their plans of reform and rooting out corruption. of course, now security is key realizing those aims. a fascinating time here in afghanistan, both politically and militarily. >>

i am not sure that al-qaeda is still arrive in afghanistan.here is no necessity to be in afghanistan, i think now it's iraq and syria, all of the people they have there. and it's really been no opportunity for al-qaeda to grow again in afghanistan to start something. but this is always the [ inaudible ] against taliban to make them weak. because the nato force including the government they want to find something and to use against the taliban. there is [ inaudible ] there is al-qaeda, and nowadays they say daesh came to afghanistan. >> the 160,000 people have been forced to live in refugee camps in india. after 80 villagers were killed last week by fighters who are fighting for independence from india. faiz jamil went to one such camp. >> reporter: this girl and her brother only have each other right now. most of their family was killed when armed men entered their village. >> translator: i was getting water just outside of the village when i heard the gunshots. at first i thought it was a fire cracker for christmas, then i went home to find m

the problem you have in contrast with what we face with al qaeda, you can chase with the al qaeda corease communications. you can chase fund-raisers. you can chase the leadership that fled afghanistan. find me a hand hold with somebody like this, somebody with a bit of ideology, but who is mentally unstable. find me a hand hold you can chase. a vulnerability. i see a sheet of ice. i can't find a hand hold to work with. >> jonathan, in terms with how law enforcement responds to an incident like this in the united states, are we ready for this? >> well, i don't think we are completely ready for it. i think a lot of tactics and thinking has to be changed. one of the biggest things to change is what the previous guest was saying, these people are not necessarily what you can pick out. when the boston bombing happens, it's good to educate the public. the public, they are going to be the ones that are there when it happens. they have to be more aware. i will say, though, that a lot of these people aren't just self-starters as in the boston bombing. they are more than self-starters. they are

they have been facing fierce resistance from al qaeda.n theory, groups allied to al qaeda said to have taken control of two key army bases in a northern process -- a northern province. they are now in control of serious main highway. -- syria's main highway. >> aired on social media, these images purportedly show the capture of two military bases in northwestern syria by radical islamist groups affiliated with al qaeda. they are located -- they were held for two years by moderate rebels who were then driven out. the have yielded to the assault of the jihadist equipped with tanks and heavy weapons. >> the regime was defeated and assad forces left the area because they know longer have the means to defend it. >> according to the syrian observatory for human rights, at least 31 government soldiers and 12 rebel fighters were killed sunday in the battle. with this victory, it is possible the front could turn its attentions to the last city in the area still in the hands of the assad regime. taking the two military bases also allows them to con

>> it's al-qaeda.y al-qaeda today in yemen has the -- the power to attack. [ inaudible ] two car bomb attacks, and killing at least nine and injuring more than a dozen, a number of those are in critical condition. this is not the first attack by al-qaeda. attacks against houthis [ inaudible ] on a daily basis. the other day there were four attacks. today is the first one. so it has happened very often, and today attack on the other side of yemen that is standing in front of the houthis as both military groups are clashing against the other. both calling the other non-believers. >> so these kind of attacks are becoming more frequent. we know that yemen's new government has survived a vote of confidence. is there optimism that prime minister can bring stability to yemen? >> there was optimism months ago when the deal was signed between the government and the houthis, but since then the houthis have gradually gained control of most of the government institutions. so the government is only a base that has

isis or al qaeda?> this is al qaeda on the iraqi peninsula. this was the investment that was made in this organization after we started to chase down the lead areship post 9/11 in pakistan and really took them out of any operational control or capabilities. this is the organization that they invested in. they are very much alive and well in a sense. we've been banging up against these guys in yemen with our special operations people and with the yemeni military for some time. they are behind the detroit bomber with the bomb in his underwear and other forms of trying to get plastic bombs into this country. this is an organization that's intent on hurting americans at home as well as capturing others so they can finance their operation. they will continue to do this. >> all right, general jack keane, we thank you for joining us and we have our work cut out ahead of us. thank you. >> take care, kelly. >> "rolling stone" changing its tune about an explosive report about a gang rape at the university of vir

. >>> new details emerging about the dairy attempt made to rescue an american hostage from al qaeda in yemen. hello everyone. i'm patti ann browne. luke somers was shot by his captors during a u.s. special forces mission to save him. he later died on board an american ship. peter deucy joins us live from washington. >> there is a feeling of urgency driving the mission to rescue luke somers because al qaeda hostage takers threatened thursday to kill him today if their demands were not met. president obama signed off on the order and by 5:00 p.m. eastern last night a team of 40 special operators arrived in yemen via osprey aircraft landing a little more than six miles from the compound where somers and another hostage were being held. the american commanders walked most of the six miles completely undetected but were spotted about a football field away from the compound and that is when, officials believe, the hostages were shot. the u.s. team engaged the al qaeda kidnappers, killing more than five of them, then retrieved the wounded hostages and air lifted them to the "uss macon island"

officials say al qaeda link link ed killed luke somers. the u.s. says the operation in southern yemen lasted about 30 minutes and during the mission special forces lost the element of surprise. this video posted on a jihadi website reports to show the fire fight that broke out once navy s.e.a.l.s were spotted. during the fight the s.e.a.l.s saw a militant run into the building where somers and a south african teacher pierre korkie were being held. when they entered, they found both had been shot. >> it was a very dangerous and complicated mission, but like always in these efforts, there's risk. >> president obama authorized the rescue mission friday, believing somers' life was in eminent danger. thursday al qaeda arabian peninsula posted the video threatening to kill the american. >> i agreed with the president's decision. don't think it was an easy decision. i think it was the right decision to actually engage and try to go in for the rescue attempt. >> the 33-year-old was kipped in 2013. this was the second attempt to rescue somers. in late novem

in fact he was in charge of all al qaeda efforts to attack the u.s. mainland. he has been reported killed twice before and turned out to be alive. but this report this morning the pakistani military went after him and got him. >> we have some level of confidence in this report given that it's happened before? >> apparently so. >> brian ross on the breaking news this morning. thank you. paula to you. >>> thank you. and now to the bombshell from "rolling stone" magazine. their shocking expose of a horrifying sexual assault at a university of virginia frat house has major discrepancies. that story giving the prestigious school, founded by thomas jefferson, a black eye. linsey davis has been covering the story from the very start. just the worst case scenario on the story. >> referee: it really is. good morning, paula. it's not just the uva fraternity implicated, now concluding that the allegations are untrue, jackie's friends are questioning her story because they say key details changed over time. for example, according to the "washington post," for the first tim

administration officials to be prosecuted grow, we will look at how torture was used in an attempt to tie al-qaeda to saddam hussein, and justify the invasion of iraq. we will speak to retired colonel lawrence wilkerson who served as chief of staff to secretary of state colin powell. but first, do no harm? we will look at the central role the health professionals played in the cia torture program. ddid doctors violate the nuremberg code banning human experimentation? then to the 25th anniversary of the u.s. invasion of panama. >> clear this invasion was illegal. it is not debatable. >> the goals of the united states have been a safeguard the lives of americans, to defend democracy in panama. >> how in the world do restore that which has never existed? panama customer been a democracy since we created panama for own purposes in 1903. thiss did was go down american control and dominance in panama. >> we will speak with former panamanian diplomat humberto brown and latin american historian greg grandin. his latest piece, "how the iraq war began in panama." and colonel wilkerson. all that and more, co

the other thing -- we knew very little about al qaeda at that time. i think we probably knew more about north korea that we did about al qaeda at the time. we're struggling to get as much intelligence as we could. >> thank you for your time. i think one of the things that stuck with people about this report is the way -- the secrecy involved. i know one thing that stuck out to me was -- there were numerous passages in which u.s. military raise concern about people disappearing. there's one passage about the military appearing at one of the black sites in afghanistan -- and the rest that the u.s. military might have with a closer tie to the program. i understand the content, but does it have to be so binary. either we do these sort of interrogations, or the things that, as human beings, most of us take exceptions to. >> first, i don't know if i agree with the last part of your statement -- what all human beings take exception to -- i'm sure we'll talk about that later. the first question is -- -- why is this so secret. it was meant to be used only by t

have al-qaeda that's a sunni radical movement.t's a military statement movement that doesn't recognize any shia and the houthis in the north of yemen who are shia. yemen has a new government, a new government. is the government trying to do anything to bring some sort of stability back to the country? >> the new government is presenting it's program to the parliament today. the parliament hasn't improved their program. we can't tell whether this new government is going to be able to carry out the tasked they are attempting to unfortunately, the military is weak, hence why the americans have carried two on the ground operations since november 26th. it seems that the yemeni military is not going to take responsibility for that any more and that the americans have decided that if they want to take care of their own hostages, they are just going to do that on yemeni soil. >> thank you very much for speaking to us. moving on to news out of greaec now where protesters have fought with policea. demonstwrat orders threw stones and fire bo

and that the plan, and they were even called al-qaeda. they call themselves al-qaeda way back then, and the plane was as soon as they were finished with the russians, they were going to come to the united states. and they had an open invitation from the united states because, from what i understand, saudi arabia made a deal with the united states that if they gave all their terrorists, which they didn't want anyway, to the united states to fight in afghanistan, the americans afterwards would bring them to the u.s. and make them citizens and support them and, you know, give them homes, whatever. and what the cia didn't realize and the dia and all of the intelligence agencies didn't realize was that they were helping build al-qaeda, and al-qaeda was, they were little branches of one or two people in missouri, in mississippi, indicator -- in decatur. at some point they fund all came together highly financed from what they made in afghanistan from these intelligence agencies. and then further supported when they came to the united states. >>

do kuwait al-qaeda and -- to al-qaeda and other groups despite what we were just talking about. do you think they have active cells in the uae? >> i think al-qaeda has cells almost everywhere. any time you are going to get, you know, it only takes a small group of sympathizers. it doesn't mean they have a lot of capability all of these places. and in some ways, this shows how little capability they can have. they have this cell. it's evidently, you know, banded together and trying to do things, and, you know when we all feel badly for this poor kindergarten teacher and her family, this is not a high-profile u.s. target. this is a middle-aged american kindergarten teacher. it's not like you are taking on an ambassador or striking a military target. it doesn't really -- i am still trying to figure out exactly here. >> you know, there have been a series of attacks on westerners in saudi arabia as in recent weeks. ms. ryan's murder follows some postings on message boards apparently urging western teachers in the area be killed, something that the american embassy had highlighted bec