as with you, i agree that al-qaida is the enemy.e've made enormous movement in destroying al-qaida. the president tries to bridge that by saying we must push back against the taliban in afghanistan. how do you assess the taliban's strength in afghanistan, and whether they will under any circumstances be a meaningful partner in peace in afghanistan? >> well, the first point is that the taliban believe they are winning, and i think there is some good reason to believe that is true. first, for them, winning means not being destroyed. yes, they have been pushed out of province and they are disoperational there, but they're operating elsewhere. and one of the tests of success is not where is the taliban physically present. the test of success is once we have pulled out will they still be gone? there is no reason to believe that at all. and in addition what we hear from the pentagon continually no matter what the news is, it's always good news. so the taliban stage a very sophisticated attack in the heart of kabul, and that is good news b

you are talking about al-qaida in the arabian peninsula -- >> yeah. >> -- al-qaida in yemen, not a separate tribal organization? >> yeah, that's correct. that's correct. >> i would like to ask you, on syria, mr. chairman, to -- how do you assess the current situation in syria? as you may know, two suicide attacks took place this morning in damascus. do you have any indications if al-qaida could be behind those attacks? >> i have no information to that effect, as to whether or not they're involved there. obviously, the situation in syria remains of great concern. this -- you know, the cease-fire does not appear to be working. and annan himself has indicated concerns about whether or not parties are abiding by the cease-fire. we continue to urge assad to step down, that there must be a change there. they've lost their legitimacy by the huge number of deaths that are taking place in syria. and again, we are working with the international community to try to make sure we take all steps necessary to try to do what we can to implement the necessary political reforms to have assad step down and to

there are signature al-qaida style. the syrian prime minister visiting some of the survivors, including children in the hospital. a convoy of 2400 vehicles and donating the trucks to help them sent in by the united nations . their job was to monitor the government and compliance with a recent cease fire . un is estimating more than 9,000 people are killed by the government. fox news producer on the ground joining me by phone. are you with us? >> i am indeed. the whole world is watching and wondering what will happen if bashard assad regime is happening . >> do you have an egyptian model where it is negotiated in and the president retires or goes into exile and we have government institutions that remain in a power sharing agreement with the opposition until they go to elections and that could take time. the other scenario is the libyan model that sees a bleed end to the leader's rule and in that case it is unclear who would fill that back. now the group that called itself the assyrian national council is made up of thos

. >> al-qaida's affiliate in yemen is behind the plot. u.s. officials say the group planned to destroy the plane around the one year anniversary of osama bin laden's death. the plot involved an ungrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate on a plane. the uni bomber was told to buy a ticket on the airline of his choosing, it's unknown what happened to the alleged attacker. >> officials are examining the bomb to see if it would have made it through airport security. >>> a new video released by al- qaida, the emotional plea comes nine months until one winsteine was kidnapped. >> reporter: winestine is in a video pleading for the president. >> my life is in your hands president. >> reporter: a ribbon hanging outside of winestein's home. people inside would not comment. security experts called it a still abduction. >> it shows that -- >> reporter: including an anti drone spike against al-qaida operatives and al-qaida suspects around the world. >> it's very important that you act quickly and i'm now waiting for your response. >> the white h

. >> we devastated al-qaida's leadership taking out over 20 of their top 30 leaders. and one year ago from base here in afghanistan, our troops launched the operation that killed usama bin laden. the goal that i set to defeat al-qaida and deny it a chance to rebuild is now within our reach. >> now, president obama and the agreement the united states have signed with afghanistan essentially says that the combat operations will end here in 2014 and that the u.s. will provide military and financial support until 2014 but u.s. combat operations will end here within the next 18 months here and that's an important point that president obama and the white house are trying to make is this war is wrapping up here. may take a few more months but the end of the war is in sight. guys? >> connor powell, thanks so much. always in the middle of all the action. >> the big question is i thought that came out of the 11 minute address yesterday is when the president said, you know, al-qaida is the reason we went in. the taliban are not our enemy. when documents now arrived at the taliba

some power players in libya were in al qaida's orbit, but did not have direct ties, and their adopted forms of government that are at odds with al qaeda's agenda. in syria, i have read reports that they have some link with revolutionaries, which is to be expected because they have capable fighters able to pass around bomb-making skills, but the death of those connections are impossible to say -- depth of those connections are impossible to save from open sources. host: michigan. good morning. caller: lately, officials said we are not fighting al qaida. we are prompting them -- propping them up in egypt and yemen. "the new york times" said the fbi was behind every terrorist attack that was thwarted in america. i am in michigan, so i know everything about the christmas day plane. the guy in oregon, the fbi set him up, and he became a fall guy. i want to know if he knows about these contradictions. guest: by -- i do know that we are not friends with al qaida, and local law-enforcement works very hard to prevent anyone associated with the organization or aspires to be with your position f

then the news of the al-qaida leader's death. nearly ten years after september 11th it brought great relief around the globe. but are we really safer one year later? chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge taking a look at that live in our d.c. bureau. good morning, catherine. >> reporter: the top terrorism adviser at the white house said laud hraeusd dead osama bin laden is dead, core al-qaida has decreased. as the core faulters it continues to look to affiliates and adhere and thes to carry on its murder just call. >> reporter: the march shooting in france where a lone gunman inspired by radical islam killed is seen for a template for future attacks. it was not directed by al-qaida but the individual espoused the same radical ideology. >> future attacks against the homeland will be less well organized, less complex, less likely to success, less lethal if they do success. i fear, though, there will be more numbers. >> reporter: the number one counterterrorism threat is seen as the lone wolf and not a mass attack by c

he provided assistance to al qaida members knowing that they could commit terrorist attacks againstthe u.s. during the program he talks about how he came to sign that confession that's what brought me to the point where i would sign something like this was being tied up with. my legs with a hood placed over my head being punched kicked and listening to the sound of a woman screaming next all i'm told is led to believe as my wife my children's pictures being waved in front of me and being asked by these interrogators when do you think you're going to see them again what you think happened the night that we took you from the back during the show goes into great detail about the horrors of his detention in guantanamo bay the immense sense of injustice that he felt during his detention he was ultimately released without charge in two thousand and five he then when he got home to britain he sued the british government for complicity in his ordeal and he reached an out of court financial settlement with the government since then though he and i. have been actively trying to end this pract

some power players in libya were in al qaida's orbit, but did not have direct ties, and their adopted forms of government that are at odds with al qaeda's agenda. in syria, i have read reports that they have some link with revolutionaries, which is to be expected because they have capable fighters able to pass around bomb-making skills, but the death of those connections are impossible to say -- depth of those connections are impossible to save from open sources. host: michigan. good morning. caller: lately, officials said we are not fighting al qaida. we are prompting them -- propping them up in egypt and yemen. "the new york times" said the fbi was behind every terrorist attack that was thwarted in america. i am in michigan, so i know everything about the christmas day plane. the guy in oregon, the fbi set him up, and he became a fall guy. i want to know if he knows about these contradictions. guest: by -- i do know that we are not friends with al qaida, and local law-enforcement works very hard to prevent anyone associated with the organization or aspires to be with your position f

osama bin laden wanted to change al-qaida's name.erience in younger al-qaida's members. >> osama bin laden agreed that a large portions of muslims had lost their trust in al-qaida. >> reporter: cnn is also reporting this morning that more than 100 computer files embedded in a pornographic movie planned to seize a cruise ship and launch mumbai style bombings. osama bin laden was struggling to try to remake al-qaida and bring factions together when he was killed. >>> according to reports in the words of former oakland police chief anthony batts. a rookie crew of city leaders led to a violent show down with occupy protesters on frank ogawa. bats was one of 16 people interviewed for the project for the occupy movement. batts says he would have treated the occurrence with more affirmty. >>> yesterday an independent monitor reported the reforms that were ordered by a federal court almost 10 years ago still have not been fully implemented. that monitor robert warshaw criticized the police's military type approach to last year's oakland prot

and this is the most notable shift in the last year, that's been the growing strength of al-qaida in yemen, also growth in the affiliate in somalia, north africa and nigeria. this has been described as an arc of instability that stretches from west africa to the arabian pennsylvania in the east. >> to say that the war on terror is over? no. what we get concerned about is their ferocious appetite for finding new ways to promote violence and terror around the world. >> reporter: al-qaida in yemen and al-qaida in north africa have rile been able to leverage the arab spring according to these officials who say that these groups really are poised to gain more strength if these newly installed governments as a result of the arab spring are really not able to deliver on their promises of reform, jaime. >> reporter: we are not sure we can even count on pakistan for that. i in you'll be keeping an eye on the trial going on in new york right now. >> reporter: i will. >> reporter: for us as well where they've recuted americans, u.s. passport folks that want to go over and train to come back her

there was signs that al-qaida was already in the verge of collapse.avy seals had 40 minutes to get in and out of osama bin laden compound. first they got osama bin laden and then spent the next 20 minutes running from room to room and packing documents and computers into plastic bags. they lugged five computers, a dozen hard drives and 100 storage devices everything from flash drives to dvds. a task force of intelligence analyst has gone through the materials and today the president's top counter terrorism advisor outlined some of what they found among osama bin laden's increasingly desperate state of mind. >> he confessed to disaster after disaster. he even urged his leaders to flee the tribal regions and to go places away from aircraft technology and bombardment. >> reporter: osama bin laden killed some of his most trusted advisors including one of his own sons. >> osama bin laden worried about the rise of lower leaders who were not as experienced and this would lead to the repeat of mistakes. >> reporter: al-qaida's imagine so damaged counter terro

, and we continue to go after al-qaida. the recent threat that concerned all americans about the possibility of another effort to take down an american airliner has come out of -- out of yemen. and it's for that reason that we will continue to take all of the steps necessary to try to go after those who would threaten our country and threaten our -- the safety of american people. we have operations there. the yemenis have actually been very cooperative in the operations that we have conducted there. and we will continue to work with them to go after the enemies that threaten the united states. >> would you rule out using ground forces in yemen at some point? >> there -- yeah, there's no consideration of that. our operations now are directed with the yemenis going after al- qaida. >> yeah, if i -- if i could contribute to that part of the question -- or that question as well. we -- you know, we've had a decades-long relationship -- security cooperation relationship with yemen. we suspended it during the period of their civil

by telling al-qaida essentially that we had a source inside, what does that mean?the source, and they are shutting down everything. they are shutting down safe houses, putting people underground. they are closing accounts. they are basically srubin scrubbing their entire operation. everything we had been learning via that asset is off the table. we don't have that as viable intelligence because somebody was unable to keep their yap shut. bill: you're arguing that going public witness essentially could cost american lives. you said something like that i want to understand, you said the worse part of it is we knew about it in april, that would have been a month ago. why is that the worst part of it. >> the worst part of it is essentially the white house comes out and says, yes, we were on top of this since april. we've been managing this thing and following this and on top of it and had control of this operation. think about it, what are your options then? it doesn't take a rocket sigh even 'tis inside al-qaida, they are not idiots to think, that means they've got a

the united states has played right into the hands of al qaida it's been a long term ambition of al qaeda to manipulate the united states into putting sanctions on yemen so that they can alienate the very impoverished yemeni people from the central government yemeni of course is and is a scrabble poor country desperately poor they're running out of water they have no food they have limited hospitals limited educational opportunities and al qaida yemen's sits right next door to saudi arabia for ever since the bombing of the u.s.s. cole al qaeda has made it clear that it wants to establish a base inside yemen to attack the saudi oil fields right next door and anything that they can do to alienate the yemeni people from the central authority and the west the united states because this this is a this is a this is a great victory for them it's a very bad decision by the united states. coming up on r t a life apart. one palestinian family by the israeli barrier separating them from their community and luckily who. and for the first time in decades mexican immigrants no longer wish to go to the

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al-qaida's real name is al-qaida, the base of jihad and the short parlance of newspapers and the press-qaida which leaves out the universal part of it, the jihad part of it that would appeal to all muslims so the restoration of that name would certainly be helpful. if you read that memo, they're very conscious of how the media works and how people perceive things. just as important, though, it gives you a good idea that al-qaida as an organization was very much a modern multi-- multinational corporation. you could almost -- it reminded me the discussion of should we change our brand of coca-cola's problems after they introduced the new coke and nobody liked it? they had to go back to coca-cola classic to restore their image and to get the product sold and basically that's the kind of thing that that letter was talking about. is we need to get this focus off the organization and get it back to where we want it to be which is an organization that's leading the muslim world as a whole. host: daniel joining us from winnipeg in canada. welcome to the program, dan. caller: thank you very muc

you are talking about al-qaida in the arabian peninsula -- >> yeah. >> -- al-qaida in yemen, not a separate tribal organization? >> yeah, that's correct. that's correct. >> i would like to ask you, on syria, mr. chairman, to -- how do you assess the current situation in syria? as you may know, two suicide attacks took place this morning in damascus. do you have any indications if al-qaida could be behind those attacks? >> i have no information to that effect, as to whether or not they're involved there. obviously, the situation in syria remains of great concern. this -- you know, the cease- fire does not appear to be working. and annan himself has indicated concerns about whether or not parties are abiding by the cease-fire. we continue to urge assad to step down, that there must be a change there. they've lost their legitimacy by the huge number of deaths that are taking place in syria. and again, we are working with the international community to try to make sure we take all steps necessary to try to do what we can to implement the necessary political reforms to have assad step down and t

the problem is this is al-qaida.he american public to say we're going to cut a deal with al-qaida. i don't don't have a lot of hope, but i don't know what is going on behind the scenes. >> if that is the case, and its dealing with al-qaida, are there any political points to be scored in a political year, looking at it cynically and practically to getting the secure the release of this hostage. >> it is risky, but at the same time this is an opportunity for the conservative media it say even obama will negotiate with these people because he is a muslim or he is just going to let this american die. the reality is we don't know what is going on behind the scenes. a combination of things could happen behind the scenes from a negotiation at a level no one hears about, or actually getting this guy out with some kind of operation. it would--well, we know for sure it will be a great opportunity for mitt romney. he'll say if it works out well he'll say, obama got the idea from him. if it doesn't work, he'll say he never would

and we are learning more tonight about the double agent who foiled al-qaida's latest plot to blow anaccording to officials he gave the information that led to last week's drone striking a gains al-qaida's chief of external operations. but in foiling that plot the double agent's cover is now blown and that cost the cia a valuable asset. >> when you're sitting at the table watching this threat develop you have a simple priority, and that is to ensure, you don't put american lives or others at risk. >> officials say there are no immediate plans to change airport security screenings. >>> you are not going to believe this next story. viewing child pornography on- line is not a crime. according to the new york state court of appeals. the court's decision comes after a college professor was sentenced to prison in 2009 after 100 such images were found on his computer. this ruling intends to distinguish the difference between viewing and downloading. the story is stirring up a fair storm on our facebook page. "child porn should be illegal everywhere. it's outrageous that it's not against the

. >>> new information emerges about the cia double agent who stopped al-qaida terrorists before theyld blow up a plane bound for the united states. randall pinkston reports on the terror operation. >> reporter: the double agent who swirled al-qaida's latest plot also helped take out one of the famous leaders. he gave the u.s. information that led to last week's drone strike against alcuzo. but there's no indication that u.s. intelligence agents have gotten any closer to the bomb making master mind abraham hassan al-asiri. >> when does the bomb maker go down. my question is not did we stop the plot, my question is did we get enough information to stop the plotter and that's the bomb maker that's still out on the field. >> when your sitting on the table you have a simple priority and that is to ensure that even if you want to destroy the organization you don't put american or other lives at risk. >> reporter: muller told lawmakers that this the áf shows that the united states has to stop allies. >> aqap has attempted several attacks on the u.s. including the attempted bombing of u.s. b

>>mark: this man is believed to be an al-qaida operative here in the u.s. counterterrorism official said the device for the underwear, or on christmas as someone to the one that was used in this is -- was about to be used in this attack irian the fbi caught this threat early in before it threaten anybody. >>darya: record to jackie sizzle in pleasanton who is waiting to see if he can talk to any neighbors. >>jackie: there are more questions than answers on stacey court. at 6:00 last night pleasanton police were called at the 3500 block of stacy court with the report of two victims shot in the home. was a 37 year-old woman and her 13 year-old daughter. the 37 year-old woman was pronounced dead in the 13 year-old daughter was taken to hospital. we do not know whether to consider this a homicide or a murder-suicide. the father made the call from inside the house. he is not a suspect. but they are calling him a person of interest. pleasanton police department was hoping to get some information on this soon. there a lot of questions are out here with no answers.

yemen is a hot bed of al-qaida activity in recent years. >> twisted wreckage and a deadly path.re tore as we go around the world in 80 seconds. , that bus unrecognizable after driver lost control on the national highway heading to karachi. it overturn killing 14 people and including a child. early reports that speed may have been a factor in the crash . finland, someone taking shots from a roof top and hitting people outside of a restaurant. they arrested a teenager they believe is the gunman . >> and a man and woman were killed and others wounded including a police officer who responded to the scene. >> japan. environment and nuclear physicists min mr. #2: er taking a tour of the sunshine -- it is used for coling safety concerns about that pool when a world saw things bulging in the wall of the building. >> thiland, 138 ant eaters rescued from being smuggled off china and vietnam. they arrested the driver. and the plan now to release them back in the wild. that's the wrap in 80s. >> foit for the oval office over who is best qualified to tackle the nation's debt. a big welcome f

. >>> al-qaida is reportedly looking at some new tactics to attack america and one of them is forest fires. the latest issue of al-qaida's english language magazine called inspire talks about the correct wind patterns to start a forest fire and suggests that montana would be a good state to target. one american fire official said the idea isn't that farfetched. >> newly released documents are offering an insight into the thinking of osama bin laden in recent years. the paper shows that osama bin laden worried about mistakes made by al-qaida's prominence hurting support among muslims. he was also concerned about drone strikes and eves dropping by the united states. they also revealed that osama bin laden had specific targets in mind for american officials. >> he was asking for a tax on the united states on president obama, general david pa -- he said don't worry about vice president biden. >> osama bin laden apparently wanted biden to take over the presidential post. saying he was not prepared. >>> republicans announced plans to campaign against -- >>> the second largers worker union

. >>> al-qaida is reportedly looking at some new tactics to attack america and one of them is forests. the latest issue of al-qaida's english language magazine called inspire talks about the correct wind patterns to start a forest fire and suggests that montana would be a good state to target. one american fire official said the idea isn't that farfetched. >> newly released documents are offering an insight into the thinking of osama bin laden in recent years. the paper shows that osama bin laden worried about mistakes made by al-qaida's prominence hurting support among muslims. he was also concerned about drone strikes and eves dropping by the united states. they also revealed that osama bin laden had specific targets in mind for american officials. >> he was asking for a tax on the united states on president obama, general david pa -- he said don't worry about vice president biden. >> osama bin laden apparently wanted biden to take over the presidential post. saying he was not prepared. >>> republicans announced plans to campaign against -- >>> the second largers worker union in sa

that gave us the basis to go after al-qaida and destroy al-qaida, the al-qaida that attacked us on 9/11 is just amazing! >> all right, so there he was explaining the fact that a lot of his information came over a course of a lot of years, the eight years that president bush was in office. he maintains that capturing is better than what the style of killing is now which is these drone attacks. here's his explanation for that. [ female announcer ] want to spend less and retire with more? then don't get nickle and dimed by high cost investments and annoying account fees. at e-trade, our free easy-to-use online tools and experienced retirement specialists can help you build a personalized plan. and with our no annual fee iras and a wide range of low cost investments, you can execute the plan you want at a low cost. so meet with us, or go to etrade.com for a great retirement plan with low cost investments. ♪ when i found a plan that was as active and on the go as i was. weight watchers online is absolutely that tool. it was never further away than my pocket. my sidekick! the weight tracker

second, has been the use of drones to eliminate senior most members of al-qaida, not only in pakistanwhere elsewhere they have plant roots. the expansive use of drones now came from the president alone. the use of force has been a presidential prerogative unchecked by our legislature or anybody else despite the constitutional obligation that congress and only congress can declare war we are now seeing a presidential use of force with drones attacks against individuals the president has personally decided are threats to our security. argentinas have included u.s. citizens. there was no judicial review nor any sharing of information that would have permitted congressional oversight. no one was offered the opportunity to challenge the unilateral position of the president to kill one of our own citizens. this should give us pause. as the new york sometimes detail in a penetrating story about how the so-called dill list is generated, the vetting of names and targets by intelligence agencies produced almost a baseball card selection process for the president. we know that noncombatants can

. >> a limited program taking known al-qaida numbers numbers from known al-qaida people, and just trying find out why the phone call is being made. >> instead the nsa is analyzing trillions of phone calls, text e-mails all without the benefit of a court order. it is now expanding under the obama administration. whistle blowers who they intend is retribution and intimidation while describing what they believe to be unconstitutional aspects of the program. with me whistle blowers who have seen their homes raided by the fbi for those benefits. resigned from the agency in in 2001. kirk, a former senior analysts with years of experience with the agency who along with bill and two others washington, d.c. the investigation and audit of the nsa. and thomas, a former material witness and was then charged with violating the espionage act. i've got to say, gentlemen, i've been in law enforcement a fair number of years. the three of you look like the quintessential fbi-c.i.a. agents, and here you are as whistle blowers. that's why i think it's so critical the public see you. bill, tell me what motiv

syria says it's being targeted by a terrorist alliance of al qaida and foreign backed groups as fears grow that extremists are driving the country's deep sectarian there's something. oh and thanks for joining our two with me karen it is eleven o'clock here in moscow and there certainly has been a surge of violence in afghanistan with eight nato soldiers killed over the last three days and a top afghan a go she had her shot dead the escalation calms us the country a prepares to take full control of security in more areas and a week before the nato summit in chicago turns are solely reports that alliance support for ongoing involvement in the embattled nation has never been lower. afghanistan the tuber two thousand and one and nato led international military offensive in response to the september eleventh attacks in the u.s. largely backed by international partners more than a decade ago. now after tens of thousands of casualties and hundreds of billions of dollars later. this will not be quick nor easy. but one thing that's not keeping pace is support over seventy percent of the popula

leland vittert is live in jerusalem, why does the white house think al-qaida is attached to this. >>rter: it makes it look like an al-qaida effort, number one it was very well planned, good intelligence. new two, highly coordinated, number three a lot of explosives, more than one ton. when you look at the aftermath you see the damage that killed nearly 55 people, injured some 350. bomb one goes off small car bomb that brings people in. bomb two is the bigger suicide car bomb designed to kill more people. what they think is al-qaida is in iraq is now exporting its expertise to a new group making its way around the jihad deweb sites which for lack of a better term seems to be the al-qaida tkeupbd k syndicate taking up arms in syria. they don't know exactly who these guys are or how they will go forward but it certai certainly complicates things. for the longest them we had syrian opposition versus bashar al-assad has regime, now you have al-qaida trying to mix things up. bill: mitt romney answering questions about something that may have happened 45 years ago. >> there is no question b