al-qaida claims it will release him if the u.s. stops airstrikes in muslim countries and releases terror suspects. >> it's an expansive claim. it's not just you stop bombing afghanistan and pakistan, there's also somalia, there's also close guantanamo bay, release all al-qaida prisoners, it's a series of demands that can't possibly be met. to me the indication is that they're planning to kill wednesday. reporter: and because it took so long for al-qaida to come forward, our terrorism expert believes the terror network did not kidnap weinstein but paid for him and is now holding him hostage as a bargaining tool. a neighbor says this is the first that dr. weinstein's family has heard anything about his whereabouts and remain hopeful about al-qaida's claim that he is still alive. allison and sarah. >> sherri, thank you so much. >>> up next this morning, we will switch gears now and look at what's going on in -- with al-qaida. we talked about warren weinstein. a virginia man, in the meantime, is charged helping produce an internet vide

court ruled that even juan provided material support to al qaida the nine eleven attacks in america critics however say tehran is not guilty on the verdict is merely a pretext to demonize iran and wage war. up next moscow has just the same for those hungry for more curious cuisine. hello and welcome to the pride when this speech i will take a look at that through to restaurants in moscow from persian food to fit me cafes the russian capital with cuisine from all over the world you can pretty much find anything here and now a far cry from say a decade or so ago i always thought of as the armenian food store situated a person's cars where. like any other major capital city moscow has its own foreign communities many pieces that have their own schools in moscow published in the newspapers magazines and open stools selling the rain crofts uncle produce can make it to your advantage never mind you can still visit this armenian supermarket on the corner off to school boulevard stock up on delicious jams pastries around cognac as well as the armenian flatbread lavish. just take a look at the wonde

trial an obscenity i mean you can it really is that the drive provided material support to al qaida the nine eleven attacks in america critics however say the verdict is merely a pretext for war against iraq. news for russia and around the world this is all he was need thanks for joining us turns out thousands of people in tunisia have been celebrating the past anniversary of the country's revolution which overthrew dictator ben ali after almost twenty five years in power the uprising was this part for the arab spring which rocked almost twenty countries across north africa and the middle east but even after elections in tunisia it calls for change remain strong that. has been finding out. a year ago mohamed bouazizi said softly tired to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public frie over corruption and poverty which led to the president ben ali a wave overinvolved spread to other countries and the arab spring was born. a monument stands. his sacrifice in his hometown of city there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and there. are vast very few

to al qaida the nine eleven attacks in america critics however say the bad it made it a pretext for war against terror on. international news live for most go this is aussie with me thanks for joining us fast tens of thousands of people in tunisia have been celebrating the fast and about three of the country's revolution which are with three dictator ben ali after almost twenty five years in power they are prizing was this paul coup the arab spring which rocked almost twenty countries across north africa and the middle east but even after elections in tunisia calls for change remain strong there as. has been finding out. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself on fire to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public ferry over corruption and poverty which led to the hour syrian president ben ali a wave of revolt spread to other countries and the arab spring was born. today a monument stands to his sacrifice and his hometown a city there's a widespread belief however that the changes in tunisia and they're going to. last for a very few things to upgrade the school to lead

and a trial of seventy i new york court ruled that iran provided material support to al qaida with a nine toxin america critics however say the verdict is merely a pretext for war against iraq. hello and welcome to aussie twenty following news live from moscow my name is you know should volatile main story now tens of thousands of people in tunisia have been celebrating the first anniversary of the country's revolution which overthrew dictator ben ali after almost twenty five years in power the uprising was this pok but the arab spring was shocked almost twenty countries across north africa in the middle east but even after elections in tunisia calls for change remain strong they're. going to have their finding. a year ago mohamed bouazizi set himself on fire to protest against the authorities in tunisia unleashing public ferry over corruption and poverty which led to the syrian president ben ali a wave of revolt spread to other countries and the arab spring was born. today a monument stands to his sacrifice in his hometown a city there's a widespread belief however that the changes

what is the alternative. >> do you talk to al-qaida terrorists?e not talking to terrorists we are taking out. >> anybody you can talk to for the purpose of peace. dialogue is always what happens after war, let's skip the war part. >> that's like saying let's have conversations with islamist terrorists who want to kill them. >> give me an answer. >> we need moral clarity about who is right and wrong. i don't think anybody with an ounce of sense says palestinian terrorists who are committed to blowing up kids on school buses are rights. there are two sides to that argument. i think the israel lee palestinian conflict is a perfect example of this president's appeasement. >> you can't ignore that they are an important part of the equation, i'm not going to talk to you. let's talk to the bad people. megyn: both then have had their say. it started off nice. >> you knew it was going to go off the rails. >> for a short time there. megyn: love having you both. you heard the arguments over fast and furious, the gun running sting gone very, very wrong. yeste

we got rid of saddam hussein and al-qaida in mes potamia. >> you met with general austin . what did he tell you about the operation in iraq? >> he very concerned that the operation come off smoothly which it did. he wanted to leave this place with honor and dignity yehis troops pulled that off; i want to know who the last soldier and the guy in the back of that would be the last one. and here they come. >> behind the camera and swing around. that is the last truck and last troop and the war is over. essentially for the united states and iraq. there they are. and we are stunned. all of the attention. and world media and there they are. there they are. they have done it >> sping it all the way around. we have sun coming up over the kuwait desert . final bunch of men and vehicles heading down in kuwait to camp vinge virge. and just over that horizon is the sea where they will go and the air base to head back home. >> i tell you, it gives you a great feeling of nostalgia and emotion. and our young men and women going home. they will be pursuing their lives. third brigade have a

why would al-qaida capture him and hold him. >> reporter: this brings al- qaida into the spotlight again. it's not clear if they bought him from other captors or organized the abduction himself. >> i can't imagine if it was my husband or son that captured, the poor families that have to go through this. the unknown is so frightening. >> oh my goodness especially since he was coming home. this was his last assignment. >> reporter: the terrorist group which was weakened is using winestein too make big demands. >> including the ends of all air strikes in afghanistan and pakistan as well as all muslim countries. as well as the release of all muslim prisoners in guantanamo bay. >> reporter: we detain this man who has been neck deep in american aid to pakistan since the 1970s. he also referred to wintestein jewish heritage. vandyke knows the terror all too well. >> right now he's completely terrified, he's lost all sense of masculinity, all sense of being in control. >> reporter: the odds are growing longer for his safe return. >> now winstein was in a secure location when he was taken. it was

. >>> there's questions about the capture of an american by al- qaida. why would they capture him? >> reporter: winstein is a prisoner and it terrifies those who know the marylander. >> it's gun wretching. i can't -- it's gut wrenching. i can't imagine if it was my husband or family. >> oh my goodness, especially since he was coming home. this was his last assignment. >> reporter: the terrorist group which has weakened in influence is using winstein to make big demands. >> including the end of all air strikes in afghanistan and pakistan and all other muslim countries as well as the release of all muslims from guantanamo bay. >> reporter: al-qaida's new leader says just as they have -- as americans detain all who are believed to be pakistan, they are detaining winstein. jerry van dyke knows the terror very well. he was detained three years ago. >> right now he's completely terrified. he's lost all sense of masculinity, all sense of being in control. >> reporter: the odds are growing longer for his safe return. >> reporter: at this point it is not clear whether al-qaida bought winste

a us court rules iran supported al qaida in preparing and carrying out the nine eleven attacks it's part of a mounting campaign against islamic state as a possible pretext to war. the next most go out as just the thing that is hungry for more curious cuisine. hello and welcome to the pride when this speech i will take a look at that through to restaurants in moscow from persian food to fit i mean face russian capital with cuisine from all over the world people couldn't find anything here and now a far cry from say a decade or so ago. of the armenian food store situated persons. like any other major capital city moscow has its own foreign communities many of their own schools in moscow publishing and newspapers magazines and if you stools selling their own crofts on local produce comic fans never mind you can still visit this armenian supermarket on the corner office called boulevard to stock up on delicious jams pastries are a cognac as well as the armenian flatbread. just take a look at the wonderful varieties they have here nice the prices are a lot high here than they would be in all

groups of militants operating in this part of the caucasus are reported to have strong links with al qaida or look to exalt people in when they're young until rays are constantly carried out in a time to eradicate the problem although militants usually target police and government officials tourism has often go into the lives of many innocent families across the region because of that a number of organisations have sprung are pointing for victims' rights and helping is also fucked its peace their lives back together i had it turns to spend the day would speak. after losing her son three years ago has dedicated her life battling for her people's future. it's a called mr winter morning in the swede line a sign of as always is first in the office the telephone starts serene right as she enters the room it is the usual start of the day for the mothers of dagestan a human rights organization created four years ago and now known across the region today's headline is heading to the outskirts of the capital a single mother of four lives that her husband was killed by robbers and she was left with

the country and i'd also like to add as well that you know a few weeks ago it was reported that al qaida flags were flying from m.t.c. built ins in benghazi i would like to see politicians politicians in america britain and france publicly asking why on earth. al qaeda flags are flying. in a major libyan city i think it's very worrying. dog for a final thought from you about syria with thousands of people reportedly killed there in the crackdowns on demonstrations since march some are suggesting the country's on the brink of civil war what's pushing the conflict along do you think and what will solve it now. undoubtedly the opponents of president assad have taken a lot of encouragement from what from what's happened in tunisia and from what's happened in libya but it would be it would be very difficult to not believe that the hand of america is not at play here in syria remember syria and america have very difficult relations and it would certainly be in the interest of america and other western countries for president assad. to fall. in with also how can it be sorted out well there's po

to pay damages were going to be connected is unclear tehran has always denied any connection to al qaida radian american activist and thinks the case is a smear campaign in the buildup to war. i don't see any evidence that is particularly compelling that iran had a direct role in nine eleven i know that we have seen. in washington there's been a campaign in new york to link iran very publicly to nine eleven on the anniversary of those attacks earlier this year there was a billboard campaign in times square with god's face and something along the lines of you know the silent partner of al qaeda. there's clearly a campaign right now to try to ratchet up the pressure for yet another u.s. . attack on a middle eastern country and i just think this is so dangerous if you go back to when those attacks happened immediately afterward iran condemned the attacks there were there were candlelight vigils on the streets of top raud in solidarity with the americans who lost their lives. in cooperating with the united states in helping topple the taliban who. is the enemy up. it was osama bin ladin what

al-qaida leader ayman al- zawahiri demanded the u.s.in afghanistan and pakistan in exchange for dr. weinstein. the video message also called for the release of terror suspects worldwide. the 70-year-old aid worker from rockville has worked in pakistan for years. he was kidnapped by gunmen at hisfortified home in pakistan. this is the first time anyone has claimed responsibility for his kidnapping and al-qaida claims he's alive despite the fact it provided no proof. friends are hopeful. >> it's terrible for anyone to be used like that. i'm glad that we know something, that he's alive. we didn't know anything. i know his wife has got to be delighted to know that he's still alive because she hadn't heard anything. reporter: weinstein's wife did not want to talk about her husband's case. u.s. officials aren't commenting either. a terror expert told fox 5 al- qaida's demands are impossible and that it has no intention likely of keeping weinstein alive. instead he says it is a way to hurt president obama and terrorize the u.s. steve. >> sherr

a new york court has ruled is that iran provided material support to al qaida with the nine eleven attacks but the hearing was settled by default because the defendants including iran's supreme leader did not appear in court professor paul sheldon food from california state university says this is part of the comparing to demonize iran and begin plans to attack the country. this is what we call a kangaroo court in america this is totally outrageous it's advised by the american government if we want to look for blame we can start was saudi arabia where most of the hijackers came from having lived and worked in arab countries i can tell you there is no way that the arab government did not know what was going on in saudi arabia we could look to germany where many of them live we could look at american flight schools we could look at f.b.i. agents reported disappears in the spurious did nothing but a iran has no involved but in this whatsoever no they neoconservative warmongers are trying to demonize iran even more and the build up to it war and unfortunately the average american voter knows s

on trial in absentia and you really think iran and provided material support to al qaida the nine eleven attacks in america critics however say tehran is not guilty of that but it is merely a pretext to demonize iran and away to the. middle good stories about six minutes time for the close a reporter who is gunning for shady finances in a moment. max kaiser this is the kaiser report yeah time magazine finally recognizing what everybody else already knows there's a global insurrection against bragger occupation stacy ever tell us more well max in order to talk about the story truck really i was terrible little bit this case is tiago soup lose now this is it plain clothes sort of canned here because of course you can't walk around new york city holding a can of kaiser's geo suit so take a look at the artwork here but the real cam looks like well a lot of people don't realize it's actually alphabet soup so you can spell out david cameron as a schmuck why are enjoying some hearty broth well it is the favorite super of the s.l.a. i don't know if their photo made it into the actual time magazi

the claim of responsibility by al-qaida does not mention the u.s.rs are, of course, linking the two. also, this triggers the great worry that sectarian sections may be boiling over again in iraq. the shiite prime minister last week put out an arrest warrant for the sunni vice president a cushion him of running a death squad. that accusation has been decide by the vice president. sunni politicians increasingly vocal speaking out against this shiite-led government. some of them threatening to pull out of the shiite-led government. this does raise the concern that the very fragile power sharing deal among the ethnic groups in iraq may be falling apart. that is the latest from london, back to you, jon. jon: amy kellogg, thank you. julie: for more on the future security of iraq let's bring in christian whiten a former state department senior adviser. thanks so much for talking to us. the problem that many experts forecasted for the months or even years following u.s. troop withdrawal has instead begun in days. what is this latest attack killing nearly 70

personal side bombing since the syrian uprising began in march authorities are laying the blame on al qaida the attacks come as arab league observers arrive in the country and the effort to work out a peaceful solution to the conflict. 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 deputies on their block to be sacked 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 your british taxi human rights activists fight a surge in surveillance cameras which are now to be installed in every taxi in the city of oxford recording not just video but all of you as well authorities insist that the risk of personal intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety benefits. those are your headlines coming up next a special new year's edition of technology update don't go away. hello and welcome to technology update as you can

even as a top u-s spokesman warred - especially from al-qaida. regenerate capability to come 3 back inra complete withhrawal. mccain says: "i also agree with our military ccmmanddrs in iraq who are nnerly unanimoos in their belief thaa ome us should reeain."davis says: (onn cca fox neww tag) "while ammrican troopp are pulling out of iraa, ssoe us marines in baghdad. innwassiigton, bass- jennifer davis, fox news." 3& it's going to be a week. yeah, ut it should bb warm before the showers get heree here. let's go to chief meteorologist vytas reid for a looo at yyur skywatch orecast. &&p3 is your garbage in order? why agents are oing through some people's ttash and handing out thousands of &pdollars in tickets. &p sommbody buy this town a dictionary.we'll showwyou the ery public mistake one &ptown wishes they had a secondd shot at. 3 3 3 &p3 3 ♪ [ male announcer ] little owen wanted to play, but his nose was raw and sore. achoo! [ male announcer ] and common tissue made it burn even more. ♪ puffs plus lotion is more soothing than common tissue, and it delivers our most soothing lotion for

jon: for all the success we've had in taking out the al-qaida and taliban leadership, mullah omar ishere. thank u. jenna: uncertainty in afghanistan and uncertainty with north korea. the death of kim jong-il putting nuclear talks and hold or any kind of negotiations between our countries if they were to begin again. north corey ace losing its longtime leader this year. we will take a closer look at what this upheaval all around the world in 2011 means for u.s. security. a small plane crashes into a new jersey highway just this morning. several people are dead and we are getting word on injuries. an update straight ahead. okay, team! after age 40, we can start losing muscle -- 8% every 10 years. wow. wow. but you can help fight muscle loss with exercise and ensure muscle health. i've got revigor. what's revigor? it's the amino acid metabolite, hmb to help rebuild muscle and strength naturally lost over time. [ female announcer ] ensure muscle health has revigor and protein to help protect, preserve, and promote muscle health. keeps you from getting soft. [ major nutrition ] ensure. nu

al-qaida had the training camps there.training camps, al-qaida prepared, organized and trained for the 9/11 attacks. the taliban had their hands in that because they provided the safe haven. they cooperate with the al-qaida on a regular basis. they share intelligence. they have a common enemy. the enemy happens to be us. our soldiers know that the taliban are their enemy and fighting them every day. >> i took calls on the radio for this. callers called up and said are you kidding me? i have friends that were killed by taliban, every day we plot to thwart them and preserve this government and we find out the vice president doesn't think they're the enemy. >> i don't know what's behind the statement. i mean, it's an outrageous statement and it simply isn't true. the facts are the facts. taliban have been our enemy for sometime and they're going to continue to be, frankly. >> let's listen to jay carney try to explain to the vice president and let me see if this flies with you, general keane. >> what the vice president was ref

field of agents and say it was not done with regard to 9/11 or heeded the warning from dick clark on al-qaidawe would not have had to exact the costs on the american taxpayer and would have tightened our ship that we had a foundation for. we'll see the everincreasing costs. we do the things and fine tune the existing agencies without continuing to grow the new ones like homeland security. >> that is tracey's point is accounting and money management and basic business management. it is a cray idea. >> i know, i know. wayne is right. agencies flex their muscles and think they should be bigger or badder and more burrcratic waste. i am all for security. we can do it in your budget. >> since 9/11 we caught a lot of bad people. this is a good thing that government is doing to sit here and think we need to do less or burrcratic i am sorry, i want my family and friends safe. >> but it could be done cheaper. >>> and anything can be done cheaper. i can justify anything that the government does. everything that the government does is good. they do this and that. that is all fine and dandy. you have to t

ten years ago, obviously, al- qaida had a country to operate from. their capacities have been degraded. and you have almost a kind of spread of the threat down to individual lone wolves, as you say. how significant a threat is that, the individual traveler, the individual lone wolf terrorist? and what kind of systems can defend against that? >> well, i think, you know, what we try to do is maximize the ability to protect global systems, to protect the global aviation system, the global maritime system, the cargo system. thatobviously something one country cannot do by itself. that's why you have to have international engagement. you have to have standards. you have to do capacity building in this regard. it's obviously something that will never be a hundred percent guarantee, but to the extent that we can strengthen these international partnerships, really deal with the mutually beneficial common ground of smart security, smart commercial progress, it heightens our ability to protect the global systems. you know, we all know that one plane going down

>> he believes al-qaida is the one that went in. no doubt about it. jay carney backs that up.e enemy turns out to be is the taliban will not hear of it. once the extreme sharia islamic law put into play and want the current government that we support and help finance out so therefore, they're trying to kill us. but we don't call them our enemy? that's easy for somebody in a nice air conditioned room to say. for those actually fighting a war trying to survive and those who have been killed or wounded, they have -- they probably have a different perspective. >> somebody who took the flak was jay carney yesterday when asked about that and here he is defending the vice president. >> what the vice president was reflecting is that -- and this is related to the reconciliation process that i was just discussing is that the taliban per se while we are fighting them is not the elimination or the elimination of the taliban is not the issue here. the objectives that the president laid out when he laid out his afghanistan strategy made clear that the number one principle here is to disrupt

. >> in the meantime, al-qaida putting pressure on president obama to secure the release of an american contractor being held hostage overseas. terror boss releasing a brand new audio tape. in it, he claims his group abducted the 70-year-old from his home in pakistan back in august. he will be released if he meets nine different demands, among them stop the u.s. air strikes in afghanistan, pakistan and yemen and releasing all al-qaida and taliban suspects around the world including those held at guantanamo bay. the massive u.s. military base known as camp victory handed over to iraqi control today as u.s. troops are pulling out of iraq by the end of the year. camp victory served as the headquarters for the u.s. military in iraq, some parts of the compound are already being used by the iraqi military but the iraqi government is still deciding what to do with the palaces. remember, those used to belong to saddam hussein. we'll have a live report from camp victory coming up next hour. a new twist in the case of missing orlando mom michelle parker. there's now word that her ex-fiance dale s

on the trial of that seventy i knew you called voters that iran provided material support to al qaida or the nine eleven attacks in the america critics however say tehran is not guilty on the verdict is merely a pretext to demonize iran. and more of those stories in about thirty minutes time after we're taking you on a trip to russia's far northwest corner. in russia's european northwest lies one of the country's oldest inhabited areas the north. with records dating back to the mid night century this is a place with a rich history a powerful medieval republic it was famed for the quality of its first on the depth of its scholarship before it was a next to the greater russian state in the fifteenth century. the region is around six hundred kilometers from moscow and an overnight train journey will drop you right in the center of its capital. i've arrived in the famous old city of great. but i'm not actually going to stay here because i've heard that this region supposed to be one of the most beautiful in russia so that's. so this is telling me exactly the right way to go my problem is