inspirational leaders of al qaeda. >> to get amman al zawahiri or bin laden, we need someone to make a mistake or stumble on them. >> al qaeda's leader in iraq was killed in iraq and the past year, a bombing campaign by cia predator drones in pakistan have kill nod less than ten of al qaeda's top leaders, crippling al qaeda's ability to recruit, raise money or carry out large-scale terrorist attacks. counter terrorism officials warn, however that while al qaeda may not be able to launch an attack on the scale of 9/11 today, it remains a potentially deadly force. john brennan is the president's top aide on counterterrorism. >> nevertheless, al qaeda has prove -- proven to be adaptive and highly resilient and remains the most serious terrorist threat we face as a nation. >> reporter: then how important is it that the u.s. kill or capture osama bin laden? >> be a very big moral victory and it closes one of the chapters of 9/11. once bin laden is dead, that doesn't mean al qaeda is eliminated it just mean it is their senior leadership has suffered a significant blow. >> reporter: on this

however, when he shared a late night coffee with me in amman, he told me, but in hamas, this does not go to dissent or mutiny. i just don't see it. and yet the islamist movement of today is very different to the angry and sometimes ugly group that emerged in 1987. with hindsight, hamas over time has been revealing itself as that movement in traition. the emphasis in its discourse has shifted subtly from jihad to ceasefire. it's territorial claims have shifted from a resumption of the land which ran from the river to the sea to a two-state solution based on the 1967 border. the target has become the israeli occupation less than it is judahism. to this there was a response inevitab you might think. one of the first powerful voices to accept that hamas needed to be brought in from the cold was a formerdirector. authority to voices in the united states added weight and prestige to his calls. and its worth pausing just to think of how he expressed his sense of what ham was about. he did it thoughtfully, contractually in his memoirs tea end of a long career always on the front line of secur

luma is from amman, jordan. she went to college in the u.s. went to smith college and after college she told her parents she was going to stay in the u.s. because she thought this was the place that provided her the best opportunity to live life as she wanted, as she saw fit and her parents responded by completely cutting her off financially. they wouldn't talk to her. they would hang up the phone when she called and so luma was after college set adrift herself and eventually made her way done to atlanta mainly because of the weather. she spent a lot of typically in the northeast and didn't like the cold winters and atlanta winter amazingly enough she says a bit like the weather in amman so she came here and she coached soccer at the ymca and eventually on the way to a middle eastern grocery store to get some of the food that reminder of home, she took a wrong turn and turned into this parking lot of an apartment complex and there were a group of kids outside playing soccer the way she had played the game as a kid and the way she had seen it p

glenn: ok, hasten the return of the 12 the amman. that's not a good idea. joel rosenberg,, joel, it's not a good idea to hasten the return of the promised one, because the promised one only comes after the world is washed in blood, right? >> that's right. as i describe in the documentary film, and in the book "inside the revolution," this is a serious theological argument made by shiite muslims, not all of them, but certainly ahmadinejad, that you need to bring chaos, carnage and even genocide into which the islamic messiah comes and establishes justice and peace. glenn: so if i can explain this, and correct me if i'm wrong. if you're a christian, you know the tribulation will be beyond belief for a long time and then jesus comes t would be like a christian saying, hey, let's make it suck really hard right now, because then jesus will come. not a good idea, but that's what ahmadinejad believes. hasten the return. let's just make it as bloody as we can. so when he says, oh, israel, you're going to be vaporized, he believes that he is going to be fulfilling p

it features osama bin laden's number two man, amman alza wa herery and adam gooden, the young man knownn the american. it urges muslims to participate in jihad against arab leaders for what it says is the u.s. policy of forcing them to support israel. >>> in the bigger picture, the president weighs his options in afghanistan, key democrats in congress are calling on general stanley mccristal to testify about his strategy. one of those is congressman ike skeleton from missouri, chairman of the house armed services committee and he supports sending more troops and is sent a letter to the president urging him to do so he joins us live from capitol hill. congressman, good see you, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> let me just read for everybody the letter you wrote to president obama in which you said "strategy matched desired ends, the plan to achieve them and the resources necessary to carry out that plan. we note ends. general mcchrystal has a plan and we should supply him the resources he needs to see if it will work." congressman, you say we know the end, but how do we define

. >> can i just add one thoit thought here, amman do d.a.or him politically, yes, journalists can be very distracting, bring up new questions, bring up tough ideas tough respond to that aren't the message of the day. that is great thing. obviously george bush and barack obama when they are president on tv a lot, the difference is the kind of exposure, this exposure is journalistic, puts him under the lights, answer questions, good for our democracy, even if not good for our politicking. >> he leaves room for error, we saw what happened in the white house press conference the one thing he didn't want to talk about dominated the news coverage and i don't think that is good for people that want health care reform whether you like obama's plan or not i think it is a distraction to solving the problems we have. >> ari acres man dark thank you so much, we appreciate t thank you. >> i'm still surprised by that whole conversation. >> what do you think? >> i just don't understand how we say that the president shouldn't fully do his job or try to rein

we plan to increase staff at current post adding one in baghdad, one in amman, as 2011 funding permits pick in 2010 we plan to add to staff in d.c., need completed construction and staffing with the khyber office in 2009. during fy 2009 investigate activities in afghanistan include six open investigations and for preliminary inquiries covered a number of alleged criminal violations. the kennedy asked how we would plan our oversight should the pending bill for assistance to pakistan providing additional one and a half billion each year over five years. there is clear congressional intent for an in country presence by oig's pakistan. we have been staffing problem with islam for tampering to break up limit and we will increase staff there as necessary. successful funding either way will greatly improve our financial position for our office in islamabad which opens in 2010. the priorities set in the current builds, governs economic development helping people could touch of a number of state programs that would oversee and some that we share with the use eight aig. this includes rule of law

zazi's father, also a new york muslim cleric, amman afzali is charged with lying to investigators is> in new jersey, four police officers were shot during an early-morning raid in lakeland, new jersey. all are expected to survive. the officers were executing a search warrant for suspected firearms and is narcotics. tony kaputo is in lakewood are more on their conditions. what can you tell us? >> five people shot. let's start with the conditions. we're told by officials he was shot in the forehead, that bullet coming from a 357 magnum. he is in critical condition, but amazingly had been talking and laughing at times with his family. the left-hand turn is in good condition after being shot in the foot. two other officers were both shot in their bullet-proof vests. the suspect, shot multiple times, also expected to survive. but it's patrolman wilson who some would say cheated death. >> the officer was shot in the forehead, and i believe the bullet did not penetrate the skull and exited on the side of his face. >> amazing. that patrolman, jonathan wilson, married with four children and a

if there vaccinate we expect 1,000 or 1500 amman half a million women whare vaccinated. that is the kind of number we need to track and understand to see whether, when we do see adverse events reports, because we know there will be at bense-- evers reports they are occurring at a higher rate than expected or not. in the coming weeks and months, with school resuming we do expect to see more cases. we are seeing it now and w expect it will continue. how long no one can prect with certainty. influea is unpredictable. that means we need to monitor closely and be willing and ready to adapt to the different approaches. one of the challenges is preparing our health care system for the likely increase in the number of people who will seek care. we know that there are lots of things tt can be done to reduce the spread of the flu and that needs to occur, but for most people with the flu there is no reason to see a doctor or go to the emergency department, unless they are severely ill. for example you have trouble briefings or you have an underlying conditions such as diabetes, pre