joining us is alex johnson. good morning to you. ng if muhammad atta used those cash cards, we would not have been able to have traced them back to al qaeda? >> that's the government's own assessment, alex. as long ago as six years ago, the government concluded that cash cards would have made it much more difficult to unearth al qaeda's financial network, which -- and tracking that down was one of the key victories the bush administration highlighted in the war on terror. >> so if they use cash cards, how far behind would we be in fighting al qaeda? would we be nowhere close where we are now? >> well, that's a difficult thing to assess, because al qaeda was quick to claim credit for the attacks and wanted to be public in its attacks on the united states. where we would be very far behind would be in identifying its entire network by following money trails. many of the high value targets the united states and the coalition was able to capture were traced through their money trails. had al qaeda used money laundering tactics like prepa

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. >> jeff johnson, contributor to msnbc and thegrio.com. jeff, good sunday morning to you. >> alexw are you? >> i'm well, thanks. hope you are, too. looking at your writing on thegrio.com, the most vocal job seekers in the afairs in detroi. unemployment rate up to 50% in some communities. tell us more where that is coming from. >> in detroit, in particular, you're not just talking about the standard unemployment rate but you're talking about people, 1 to 9 niners there, those who have been out of work and aren't necessarily looking for work, talking about a continuing removal of jobs. and we are talking about detroit in particular, that has that 50% number that not only job seekers but the mayor has admitted to being a real number of unemployment in the city of detroit. >> we talked about the national unemployment rate as being 9.1%. but, jeff, unemployment rate for the african-american community shot up to 16.7% this month. that is up from 15.9%. there was a stat, worst it's been in 27 years. i mean what can the cbc and the president do to stop this slide? >> well, i think, one, i