with no walking10-year period i covered a 10- year period on anwar al awlaki. this man was a fraud.pretended that he cannot remember the hijackers. swindling $20,000 to go to college here. he has quite a long rap sheet. on one hand, he presented himself as e-mom and on the other hand was picked up for picking up prostitutes around san diego. you can get a much shot of almost every hollywood celebrity, but not at a guy on the cia must capture list. why does not the government make better use of information to discredit him? in the book, i interviewed a young man who had worshipped at his mosque at san diego. he says very clearly in the book that he is giving american muslims [inaudible] host: you give opinions about -- you weigh in as the voice of the reporter and analysis. how do you think about protecting civil liberties and people in a way that judith brought up. -- brought up? guest: i am drawing on my factual account and what i have been able to find. after fort hood, it took the administration a couple of months to call it an act of terrorism. but in my opinion, it was not a dr

. >> one of the group's leaders is anwar al-awlaki an american cleric who is pushing the organization to conduct as many attacks aimed at the u.s. as possible in rapid succession. the u.s. is planning to step up missile and drone attacks against the organization. >>> mayor of vancouver is blaming a small number of tool begins for the -- hooligans. >> they will reveal details of the arrests made and asking for witnesses to send in video and all that vandalism. about 150 people went to hospital last night after fans got out of the control after the canucks loss to the boston bruins. they lit garbage cans on fire and looted rs ran into a department stores. >> our meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> changes you can feel them outside. not nearly as warm and that is the big stories. changes on the way and cooler conditions on the weekend but if you like the 90s. i found them in the forecast and tell you when they come back. >> and the problem chrysler recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles. >>> congressman anthony weiner is about to announce his resignation following the sext

. >> one of the group's leaders is anwar al-awlaki an american cleric who is pushing the organization to conduct as many attacks aimed at the u.s. as possible in rapid succession. the u.s. is planning to step up missile and drone attacks against the organization. >>> mayor of vancouver is blaming a small number of tool begins for the -- hooligans. >> they will reveal details of the arrests made and asking for witnesses to send in video and all that vandalism. about 150 people went to hospital last night after fans got out of the control after the canucks loss to the boston bruins. they lit garbage cans on fire and looted rs ran into a department stores. >> our meteorologist mike nicco has the forecast. >> changes you can feel them outside. not nearly as warm and that is the big stories. changes on the way and cooler conditions on the weekend but if you like the 90s. i found them in the forecast and tell you when they come back. >> and the problem chrysler recalling hundreds of thousands of vehicles. honey...? [ mom ] yes. honey, i can't find my internet cord. oh, i'll borrow hailey's.

hassan cut the fort hood shooter exchanging e-mails with amar al-awlaki, the al qaeda leader in yemen. yet the underwear bomber trained anwar al-awlaki, the times square bomber inspired by amar al waukee a taliban pakistan, yes of there are broader links but there's a few things that work here. number one, a crippling political correctness. absolutely crippling. another thing, quite frankly, is it is very difficult to recidivist mom is not a religious peace. say sharia is a threat, that is a very difficult thing to come to grips with, because that means that you are at war with a good slice of the muslim population who does follow fundamentally. who does follow sure we get to the tee. that is a very scary thing to admit for our government. >> host: i want to go back to that because no less a person of george bush after 9/11 says it is a religious peace. right after the close of a radical muslim walked into the airport in frankfurt and shot a couple of american soldiers, barack obama said islam is one of the world's great religions. my sense is we want to believe that because we are a tolerant people but you have got quotes

. >> reporter: that group is headed by anwar al awlaki.ried out by people who are flying under the radar. >> he is really reaching out to english speakers, to people, again, as we said, hold the right kind of paperwork or passports, that can get into the country. >> reporter: he was in direct contact with the ft. hood shooter before the november massacre. next month, his group sent the underwear bomber. ten months later the group tried to blow up u.s. planes with printer bombs. >> they are getting very innovative about how they try to defeat our countermeasures and carry out a successful attack. and that makes them incredibly dangerous. >> reporter: it's that danger that has america's top cops sweating what could be a long, hot summer. for "nightline," i'm pierre hot summer. for "nightline," i'm pierre thomas in washington.the story . a team with pride... guts... and last season... zero wins. [ groans ] [ male announcer ] but it's a new day and with unlimited from sprint, you can help them turn it around for no extra cost. so show your sup

al awlaki. on you with tube, wearing camouflage, abdul-latif praises awlaki and criticizes president obama for authorizing the killing of awlaki. >> he's made war against islam. he's even put a hit out on anwar al awlaki, our brother. may allah protect him. >> reporter: the fbi is all too aware that it was awlaki who encouraged the accused shooter at ft. hood, and, in fact, abdul-latif praised the ft. hood shooter. also of concern to the fbi, is that the suspect is one of dozens that appears to have been radicalized in an american prison. and we'll have more on that with a full investigative report. >> on what happens in prison to american-born prisoners there. thank you, brian. >>> and, now, libya, and the push-back on the president. the house of representatives voted resoundingly today against the u.s. military action. but did not cut funding. which means it was a symbolic vote. however, as you know, messages get scrambled as they whip around the globe, and in tripoli, gadhafi supporters mistakenly thought the u.s. had declared the end of the war. abc's jeffrey kofman sent us in these snapshots from the ground there. it's a confused celebration of something that did not happen. >>> actor p

anwar al awlaki inspired the ft. hood attacks. he lives in yemen. the chaos is giving him better protection from u.s. drone strikes. the picture from yemen tonight. we'll be watching this closely. >>> we do turn back to this country now and the economy. it was last night here we had the unemployment numbers. economists across the board calling them disappointing. employers adding 54,000 jobs in may. the unemployment rate rising to 9.1%. programs the most troubling, the silence you hear in the private sector. why are so few businesses hiring? david kerley asks the business owners themselves. >> reporter: like many small business owners, manny is afraid to hire more workers at his used car lot. he could use two new employees. instead he's working 16 hour days. >> if i could, i would, and i need to hire, but with all the uncertainty of the business, i'm afraid to hire people. >> reporter: uncertainty is nothing new for small business owners. even as we saw strong job growth earlier this spring, small business owners were expressing less optimism about

he has posted a number of videos of himself on youtube, praising the radical american cleric anwar al awlakidavis has a long criminal record and reportedly converted to islam while in prison in washington state, diane. >> okay, brian, thanks. that is breaking news tonight. >>> and, still ahead right here on "world news," the first lady talks to david muir. what she wants for her daughters, when they fall in love. >>> a rockefeller getting hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars? "world news" is a watchdog on your money tonight. >>> and, an ancient tribe hidden deep in the amazon, never seen by the outside world. [ male announcer ] this is lisa, who tries to stay ahead of her class. morning starts with arthritis pain... that's two pills before the first bell. [ bell rings ] it's time for recess... and more pills. afternoon art starts and so does her knee pain, that's two more pills. almost done, but hang on... her doctor recommended aleve because it can relieve pain all day with just two pills. this is lisa... who switched to aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. and get the all day

also in 2010, the united states designated anwar al-awlaki, a u.s. citizen and a leader for supporting acts of terrorism on behalf of aqap. al-shabaab's pour leadership is linked to al qaeda has responsibility for several bombings and shootings throughout somalia as well as the deadly suicide bombings in ugonda. just last year the fbi in indicted 12 people including five u.s. citizens on charges of providing support to al-shabaab. in addition, the fbi has expressed concern about america's trains in somalia who might plan to conduct attacks in the united states. despite the expressed desire of the congress to receive a comprehensive assessment of the united states effort to deny safe harbor the united states government has not developed such an evaluation beginning in 2004 congress required the administration to submit reports outlining the u.s. government efforts to deny or disrupt safe havens and in response states submitted a report to congress in 2006 and subsequently updated information in the annual country report. while these reports include the

it is a message destined for those who have been contacted and, maybe anwar al-awlaki by others, and small pool of extremists. bill: and the video runs two hours in length, an exceedingly long time for any message out of al qaeda but there are american company logos put on videos, like exxon and merrill lynch and bank of america and i never heard that before. what is behind that? >> well, look, he's trying to tell those who will listen, i.e. the jihadists, look, you have so many targets that are in the open. banks, insurance companies, don't want to name examples but that is what he's trying to tell them. you don't have to work hard on entering somewhere with a lot of security. these are almost open places. pick and choose. bill: one more thing, gadahn has not been heard from in a while. but, do you think now he is coming out because bin laden is dead? >> i think, the assessment would be that al qaeda wants to reach the u.s. and one way is to reach the homeland and one of the best ways is to have someone with an american accent and american born to reach out to home-grown jihadist, pe

almost hit anwar al awlaki, one of the leaders of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, but did not kille was a mid-level operative killed last week. these sort of things are hard to judge based on so many -- so few operations. however, we would expect that they're going to continue, you know, in the several weeks and months ahead. >> we know that this is the group the president and his team worry about even more than al qaeda based in pakistan, even more than any other international terrorist group, this is the group the president would tell his top aides keeps him up most late at night. what is their sense of the operational capabilities today of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula? >> i think they're very worried. i mean, i think that they have been very i guess you say impressed by the level of capabilities of this group, the ability to very nearly strike the united states several times. at the same time they worry that with the chaos in yemen it's only an opportunity for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula as long as the pressure's not kept on this group can continue to recruit, they ca

especially since yemen is believed to be the home to anwar al awlaki, the radical cleric linked to severalt attacks on u.s. soil. the national correspondent catherine herridge is live for us in d.c. it looks like this could quickly deteriorate should yemen's president try to return. >> trace, u.s. officials say president's return to yemen could be a catalyst for more violence. the secretary of state hillary clinton telling reporters today the administration wants a nonend to the months of unrest. >> we are calling for peaceful and orderly transition. a nonviolent transition that is consistent with yemen's own constitution. and our position has not changed. it continues to remain the same. we think an immediate transition is in the best interest of the yemeni people. >> and u.s. officials are monitoring reports tonight that al qaeda in yemen, the group behind two major plots targeting the u.s. has taken control of the port city zinjibar neighbors somalia could soon be flowing into yemen, trace. >> trace: catherine, our primary concern is about the terrorists living inside yes, ma'am yemen.

anwar al awlaki, at his hearing, cia director leon panetta warned the american-born cleric poses a direct> he's very computer oriented and as a result of that really does represent the potential to try to urge others, particularly in this country, to conduct attacks here. so that's a concern. >> reporter: last month the u.s. failed to kill him using a missile fired from a drone. u.s. officials say they were successful a few days ago in killing another key al qaeda operative. there is good reason to worry about aqap. last october, it was behind a plot to blow up a u.s. cargo aircraft. in december 2009, aqap sent a nigerian man on a detroit-bound aircraft with explosives in his underwear. al qaeda in yemen has proven to be such a danger because it has shown it can recruit individuals and then provide the financing and organization for them to try and launch attacks inside the united states. wolf? >> thank you. >>> al qaeda's long-time number two leader appearing in a new video with a poem eulogizing his late boss. he's also issuing new threats against the united states. jeanne meserve is tr

also home to be home to american born cleric anwar al-awlaki who analysts have linked to several recents. soil. our national security correspondent jennifer griffin at the pentagon tonight. what do we know about the president's condition here. president saleh? >> we know it's a lot worse than first reported. the burns are essentially on his head, face, and neck, as well as his chest. it's a little under half of his body was burned in the attack. we understand that the attack was the result of a rocket as well as a bomb that exploded inside the mosque at the presidential compound. he reportedly has some swelling on the brain. he has undergone a series of operations in saudi arabia. first the vice president said he would be back in a matter of days inside yemen. that doesn't look like that's going to be the case, shep. >> shepard: there is enormous power struggle going on there how is this effecting that. >> what is happening is there is more violence breaking out in the southern part of the country. in particular the government forces claim to have killed 30 islamic radicals in the south

meanwhile down in yemen, you have, you know, the relatively young, potentially dangerous anwar al awlakiial rival? >> awlaki was one of them, and you talk about charisma and within that world of extremists, personally i don't see it, but he's thought of as being very charismatic and quite the recruiter of sources. that's important. >> but are they buddies, or are they rivals? >> i don't think they are buddies, but i don't think they are rivals either. they are in an organization where they just work to strive to the same goal which is murder, mayhem and terrorism. >> yeah. >> against the west and our allies, but i think that there were others, al adel and then the egyptian. >> the interim. >> the interim leader and chief of staff for bin laden works have been a logical choice if they had decided at some point not to go with zawahri, but i know there were several others as well supposedly in the running, but i don't think that we should be mistaking this for some sort of infighting that's going to continue. i think what they will be looking to do now is show as a group their relevance by

davis has posted a number of videos of himself on youtube praising the radical american cleric anwar al awlakicruiter. davis has a long criminal record and reportedly converted to islam while in prison in washington state. this is the eighth time in the last two years that there have been planned attacks or actual attacks on domestic u.s. military facilities. brian ross, abc news, washington. >>> terrorism investigators say they found a link to osama bin laden's network of contacts. they say they have the cell phone that belongs to bin laden's trusted courier and found it after the raid on bin laden's compound. senior american officials say it has contact information to a militant group considered an asset to pakistan's intelligence agency. the finding should help uncover who helped hide bin laden for years. >>> and google searches were front and center at the casey anthony murder trial. anthony's accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee three years ago in orlando. her mother surprised prosecutors by testifying she had done searches about chloroform, a chemical that could be used to k

anwar al-awlaki's materials inside the prison system. he noble koran, english version, with the chapters entitled the call to jihad, holy fighting and the lost causes in the prison system. the spiritual philosopher of al qaeda who wrote the milestones along the road is in the prison system. meetings are not properly monitored because of the ratios of chaplains and prison guards to these things. aligning people purpose and strategy and leaning forward is a solution to mitigate this risk. in the policing world efforts to reduce crime mitigate risk and teach communities how to build crime resistant neighborhoods, focus takeover resources around three areas. high-risk people, high risk places in high-risk activities. this model can be translated into the prison system. furthermore needs to be looked at from a whole of government, full of community approach utilizing non-governmental offices thomas said of community volunteers and leadership organizations. with the muslim-american imam and the united states proud of a commerce are learning abo

there was a lot of speculation, would someone like anwar al awlaki, who's seen as so charismatic, more if somebody like he from the younger generation of al qaeda would take over the group. this is clearly a statement that it's the old guard, the statement that was made today made mention of the fact that the group would try to wage global jihad as in the past. they rye asserted their claims, that is allegiance to mullah omar. >> do we think the united states is any greater danger or less danger? you have this new number one, or has al qaeda weakened at this point? >> many feel al qaeda has been weakened. one weakening is the arab swing. the pro-democracy movement that's been flewishing, you have not seen al qaeda play any role in that. there was one statement from osama bin laden in which he praised the movement, but today's statement made no mention. many people feel the fact that so many societies in the arab world rose up and challenged their governments, and that there was no militancy involved in this and no al qaeda involvement. many people thought that that signaled al qaeda ha

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fired predator missiles at one of aqap's top operatives, american born cleric, anwar al awlaki.ical message for now is unchecked. >> someone who is obviously fluent in english, grew up in the united states, is aware of our cultures, our nuances and what makes us tick. >> reporter: as in tunisia and egypt, the unrest in yemen largely began as a grassroots movement for reform. but as the protests and government actions spiral out of control, yemen edges closer to a leaderless vacuum, closer to the perfect safe haven for nurturing terror. yemen, the homeland of bin laden himself now threatens to a full-blown sanctuary for terrorists, looking more and more like afghanistan in the days before 9/11. >> bob orr in washington for us, bob, thank you. now here's erica. >>> joining us now cbs national news security analyst juan zarate. yemen already is a sanctuary in so many ways for terrorists. how much, though, does the threat to americans grow as we see further unrest and instability in yemen? >> i think this is the greatest near term problem we see coming out of the arab spring for the

. >> reporter: one of the group's leaders is anwar al awlaki, an american cleric, who sources say is pushing the organization to conduct as many attacks aimed at the u.s. as possible in rapid succession. and he says al awlaki has a very specific plan. >> he is really reaching out to english speakers, to people that hold the right kind of paperwork or passports that can get into the country. >> reporter: al awlaki was in direct contact with the ft. hood shooter before the 2009 shooting massacre. a little over a month later awlaki's yemeni group sent the underwear bomber to blow up a plane and ten months later they tried to blow up u.s. cargo planes with printer bombs. >> they're impressive and getting more innovative. that makes them incredibly dangerous. >> reporter: they believe it has given al qaeda more space to plan attacks against the u.s. in the coming days, expect more missile and drone attacks aimed at yemen. >> okay, pierre. thanks very much. >>> let's get the rest of the morning's news from josh elliott. good morning, josh. >> we're going to begin with the river on the brink

. >> reporter: a top target, anwar al awlaki can, at his confirmation hearing to become secretary of defense, cia director leon panetta warned the american-born cleric poses a direct threat. >> eggs very computer oriented and as a result of that does represent the poe attention to try to urge others, especially if this country, could try to conduct attacks here, so that's concern. >> reporter: last morning, the u.s. failed to kill him using a missile filed from a drone are. u.s. officials say they were successful a few days ago in killing another key al qaeda on prattive. there is good reason to worry about aqap. last october, it was behind a plot to blow up a u.s. cargo aircraft. in december 2009, aqap sent a nigerian man on a detroit-bound aircraft with explosives in his underwear. one of the reasons al qaeda in yemen renames top danger is it has proven it can recruit individuals and then provide the finance, the training and thing ortion to send them to the united states and try to conduct attacks here. that's what the u.s. government wants to stop. wolf? >> barbara, thank you. >>

the reality just possessing a cd with anwar al-awlaki's sermon on them is not a crime.nd so while it can be monitored and restricted because of the present environment, we have to look at it in an overall situation as potentially behavioral indicator that we may have someone that is on that path to radicalization and present a security threat. and that may bear further inspection and further monitoring. >> do you not agree that the presence of that material and along with louis farrakhan sermons entitled which one -- would you not agree that they don't bleed down the path of some of the radicalization behavior? >> i'm not going to make that brought a statement i make prosecutors so i take a look at evidence and facts. so i'm not going to get a policy, a broad policy opinion as to what that can or cannot signify. i do think with respect to radical, violent radical jihadists literature, while it is not a crime in and of itself to possess, can be a behavioral indicator that something that we need to inspect. i have to leave my answer at that. >> and the remaining timing of

they have targeted al qaeda leaders, anwar awlaki the yemeni cleric who inspired a number of attacksand other parts of the world, there were strikes against him. what's happened in the past, though, sometimes they've missed, it's angered the yemeni population. right now it seems al qaeda, particularly in some of the southern provinces, is trying to take advantage of the sort of fighting in the rest of the country to take territory for weakened government forces. and by targeting them now, if that's what's happening as they come at them in the open is easier than it has been in the past where forces have been better hidden and less well easy to see, randi. >> talking about al qaeda, let's stick with that for a moment. any idea of the strength of al qaeda there? and is it really trying to take advantage of the political crisis? >> reporter: absolutely. there are towns that would like to be able to take control over, at least in the interim, put pressure on the governors of certain provinces, if they can because they would like to be able to operate more freely. al qaeda is an undispute

al qaeda is taking advantage of the chaos. why is what's happening so dangerous to the u.s.? this man, anwar awlakithe world's most dangerous terrorist, american-born, he now lives in yemen. he trained the christmas day underwear bomber and is inspiring so many others to harm americans. the u.s. has special forces in the country training yemeni counterterrorism troops. this is the general who heads the counterterrorism efforts, who i have interviewed each time i have traveled to yemen. he is also the president's nephew. when we last talked, you were worried about the situation with al qaeda. has it gotten better, worse? >> no, it got worse. maybe more who sympathize with al qaeda. >> and martha raddatz who has traveled to yemen several times joins us now tonight from washington. and, martha, it wasn't lost on me when you pointed out that the head of counterterrorism happens to be the president's nephew. how long can the u.s. even count on the nephew helping? >> reporter: i can't imagine general saleh will be around for long. the people of yemen wanted the president out of the country, they want all