i was right. >> but because atta and his men were suspicious of the fbi undercover man and secretive, the fbi sent him after the easier target and the sure-thing case. >> you could have stopped the attacks? >> yes. i'm not 100%, i'm merely positive. >> assad has been highly praised for his honesty and integrity by prosecutors and law enforcement officials and in a statement tonight, the fbi challenged assad's account and said the claims and factual conclusions "are not supported by the evidence". we checked with assad tonight and he says he told us the truth and stands by his story. martin? >> brian ross with a compelling story on theve of this somber anniversary. >>> when we come back, a congressman's heckling causes quite a stir. but we look at what happens when politicians really go wild in tonight's "sign of theimes". welcome to the now network. right now five coworkers are working from the road using a mifi-- a mobile hotspot that provides up to five shared wi-fi connections. two are downloading the final final revised final presentation. - one just got an email. - woman: what?!

shortly after the attacks, assaad said he identified atta as the man the fbi told him to leave alone. >> i was very angry. i was very upset. >> reporter: you were that close? >> to confirm what my suspicious recollect. i was right. i was 100% right. >> reporter: in a statement, the fbi challenged assaad's account. and said the claims and factual conclusions are, quote, not supported by the evidence, unquote. the fbi did not specify this claims. but we checked with assaad. and he said he told us the truth and stands by his story. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> space shuttle "discovery" is still circling the earth this morning, after bad weather delayed its landing. there could be another attempt to touch down today. but the forecast for florida is even worse. nasa says the shuttle may have to land at edwards air force base in california. "discovery" has been in space for 14 days. it has enough supplies to remain in orbit until sunday. >>> michael jackson's sister, latoya, has opened up to abc's barbara walters, in her first in depth interview since her brother's death. she said mi

these people before the attacks. >> reporter: shortly after the attacks, assaad says he identified attas the man the fbi told him to leave alone. >> i was very angry. i was very upset. >> reporter: you were that close. >> confirm what my suspicions were correct. i was right. i was 100% right. >> reporter: assaad says the fbi agents have his reports and his tapes, document what he saw, but none of that ever made its way into the 9/11 commission report, and tonight, the fbi's only comment, charlie, was to decline to comment. >> all right, brian ross, thanks to you. >>> and you can see more of brian's reporting tonight on >>> coming up, one automaker's dramatic new attempt to get you in the show room. (announcer) there are engines... and then there's the twin-turbocharging, 365-horsepower-generating, ecoboost™ engine in the all-new ford taurus sho that has the thirst of a v6 with the thrust of a v8. we speak car. we speak innovation. introducing the l- new> taurus sho from ford. drive one. and i was so tender o the touch-- but i didn't know why. my doctor diagnosed it a fibromyalgia. and t

he's coming out of the shadows to tell abc news, the fbi had hijack ring leader mohammed atta in hisights but shifted focus to an easier case. as a highly prized undercover operative for 13 years, he was known as mohamed. his real name is ellie asad, a 36-year-old native of lebanon. >> i gave 13 years, and people need to understand what i did. >> reporter: eight years after the 9/11 attacks, he is going public with an account of how he says he and the fbi missed a chance to stop the hijackers. you could have stopped the attacks? >> yes. i could -- i'm not 100% positive. i'm 80% positive. >> reporter: in 2001, the fbi sent assaad to infiltrate this mosque. there, he says he spots and recorded conversations with the man later identified as the leader, at that, as well as others in his group. you saw them? >> yes. and even i prayed in the mosque, the private mosque, and i went to certain private meetings. >> reporter: but assaad says over his objections, the fbi told him to leave atta alone, and instead, to set up and sting two men that he calls wannabe terrorists. assaad says while he

but assaad says over his objections he was on atta's case and reassigned. abc news vault to look at the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. >> president obama is facing a growing revolt over sending more troops to afghanistan. the michigan democrat says the u.s. should speed up training afghan troops first. nancy pelosi indicated the president faces an uphill battle should he agree to send more troops to the war zone. >> the number of suicides among soldiers is still a troubling problem for the army. last month 17 soldiers were suspected of killing themselves. so far this year 110 active duty soldiers are suspected suicides. that is 21 more than during the same time last year. >> there is growing pressure on south carolina governor mark sanford to step down. last night state republican party leaders voted to ask sanford to resign. that followed calls from 61 of 72 gop state lawmakers for sanford's resignation. they're upset from the governor's disappearance in june to visit his mistress in argentina. so far sanford has refused to resign. >> space shu

the troubled northwe of pakistan has been hit by another atta.uicide bomber drove a vehicle packed with expsives. it was also the scene o a bombing on thursday. e latestkilled 33. more casualties are believed still trapped der the rubble. the bbc correspoent in pakistan reports. >> the bomb went off in a busy marketplace. there were shopping ahead ofhe muslim holy day. many were kill. a hel and several shops collapsed kiing others. >> this man says it was about 10:00 in the morning when a car drove by with th bomber inside. there was huge blast. many were killed. many were wounded. >> according to police, most of the dd and injurewere members of t shiainority. this district of the northwest has suffered sectarian attacks the past. it is an ar where the taliban opates widely. one of the man radical groups that operate under thealiban banner says it carried out the bombg. earlier this year, the armyf pakistan launed a major offensive aainst the taliban. an americaair strike kille the lead of the group. bomngs lik to date showhe militants sti have t

so, if you just look atta corollary it doesn't seem to say a tax on soft drinks is affecting the obesity theirs in since the 1950's. again, we need to look at other means to solve the problem. host: çaugusta, georgia. stephon objen the independent l. caller: i$(preciate your taking my call.ç the guest talks a lot about calories and this is the reason for obesity. really, you need to address what the artificial ingredients do to the human body. the human body is not designed to digest aspartame. high corn. the diet drinks are worse for the human body. so there is a misconception that all of calories but it is the ingredients in the drinks. guest: well, with all due respect to the caller i don't think the science supports what you are saying. high fructose corn syrup is just another form made with the same components as sugar and the body digests it in a similar manner. aspartame and some of the other sweet,ers are again been looked at by the national cancer institute recently and said there are no health consequences that are discernable for toes ingredients. so, are have to look at the

neighborinpakistan, officials are reporng that two top militts were apparently killed i recent ameran missile attasn the country's northwes tribalon. the attaswere in north waziristan and wereaunched from unmned aircraft. officialsaid in one attack,n al qaeda operations chief w pantly killed. in the other, top militant from uzbekistan is thought to have been killed >>> in another area of e northwt, the swat valley, things are still tenstwo mont after the military drve the talian frompower. there has been repos of dozens of killis of set lgs of scores, possibly involving the pakistani militar and the middle of all of this, t children have been going backo school for the rst ti since the fighting broke out in may. if you've just senyour kids back to schooln recent weeks, consider what it is like for those in this report from kamal haidar of al jazeera english. the children of swat valley are back at school. despit the damage and the twisted mel, four teachers and students are returning in large numbe numbers. re than 500 schools were destroyed in the clashes. some don't have any windows anymore, othe

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>>usie: on this september 11, americans spenthe day reflecting and rememring the terrorist attas eight years o on the world trade center, the pentagon and united aiines flight 9that crashed in pennsylvania. at ground zero in new york, crowd of mourners gather in rainy, windy weather to serve thanniversary of the worst tacks in the nation's histor inashington, president and mrs. oma observed a moment of silence on the white houseawn. meanwhile, the queion for many americans today. what's being done to rebuildhe world trade center site? scott gurvey reports >> reporter: eight years and it's still basicly a hole in the ground. the walls what will be the ba of the new freedom tower, now officially oneorld trade center, are filly rising above street level. some day, we are told,here wille a park, a memorial, a muum, retail stores, a performing arts centera transit station, and other fice buildings. but we don't know en. construction is caught ia battle oveplans and financing between thport authority, which owns the ld. and larry silverstn, who leases the devopment rights, neither would lk t

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theivilians along the israeli boarr in the south rt was attaed by the hamas, the palestinians seven yers. israel tied to dohe best not to escalate t situation. but in 2006 weame into a tuation that wannot allow our citizens toontinue to li such uer attack when aroup like hamas is using iaeli moral limitation that w took o ouelf not to respond many years, they are ableto do atever they want. r example, the shelng on ou citizens cming out fr palestinian hools. ey did it because theywere sure that we would not respond. why they wer sure? because ourorallimitations. buthey push us to t rner, they ph us to the point that we have the right and e obgation to protect oselves. they act against civilns. cause they act against civilians, i'm sorry, there are also palestinian cilians hurt by us. we didn't have anothe choice. weave to protect ourself. that's an oligation of the authorities in israel through the citizens alo the border. >> what do you make ofhe findings of the report that israel has aeady said that theyelt that iwas prejudged? i mean, for our audience who doesn't understand wt prejudg

let's go to sharon gibal atta wjz traffic -- gibala. >> reporter: well, obviously roads closed all throughout that area. you can't, again, as captain mike perry said, get in or out of turners station right now. there's a look. again a wide shot of the whole situation there. again, let's go over some of the roads that are blocked. broening highway is blocked between the beltway and willow springs road. you're also look being at-- looking at dundalk avenue. loganview is closed at liberty road. portly road is blocked. so is dunhaven. mcshane way is blocked. back between bel grave and dundalk avenue. loganview shopping center, you can't get in and out of that. that has been evacuated as are the neighborhoods south of there. ramps to and from the beltway is closed. so you can't get through there. sowers point road, as you just saw, from captain mike perry's shot earlier, it is closed between avon beach road and dundalk avenue. now, it is also extremely backed up as captain mike perry mentioned, getting in there. but the problem is, these aren't going anywhere. because there is no access into turne

we changed fundamentally because we were attaed in a way we never anticipated. now where we are ithe post- 9/11 age, and it has aected us from the standpoint of r civil liberties, from the stapoint of national security, the way which we deal wh each other and other countri, theact that we are in war in two locations. 9/11 is something th will stay with this cntry f generatis. >> charles >> i thi we actually returning to a 9/10 meality. thirony is because we have not had a second attack, becse we h that success, and because it is now eight ars, it sms like ancient history. because it seemsike ancnt history, o instinct is to retu to the kind of insuciance we have befe 9/11, lettg the grd down. rather unprepar for th viciousness of the enemyhat is still out there and willry to do it again, but with weons of mass destruction >> nina? >> certainly not ancnt history to meet. -- me. it to young people, it probably is, because they were not cognizant in that riod. cotry today than we were on 9/10. >> mark? >> thoands andillions probably toued by 9/11 but i cannot get ou

what ey thing i different now that migh allow yoto say a terrorist, ifyou would say that, a terrorist atta can't happen -- will not haen. under this administrion's watc >> you know, i don think an reonsible leader can s it will not happe what we can say, and what i ill y, is that we are doing everying we can think o to reduc the risk that it will ppen, and to prepare and to be resilient shld something occur. so it's really a culture of preparedness, a culture o resilncy, knowing tha we n't put te entire unit ates under some bigdome, and say, are wel, a terrorist attack will never occur. th would be inapproprie assurance. >> were there hings that could hae been done by the bush admistration to have prevend 9/11? >> i don't look at it that way. what i look at is what have e leard, what do we nee and wht do we now have in place at would reduce, if not eliminate therisk of a 9/11-ste attack. from, we now ave travel strictions in place. you knowhat when you go to the airport. and i know t's n inconvenience. we try to do it as smoothly as possile. we havesa employees who a very dedicated tthat m

attide here is look, we don't set salaries as ki of a socialist thing to do to say we're going to attaalaries of a ceain level. yes, the cture needs to change but i think the americans feelt can't be a top-down change inerhaps the way me of their ropean partners would lik the shor answer is there is likely to be a amatic agreent here on banking bonuses, mike. >> you've en pointing out thatn contrast to t g-8, the point ofthis meeting is to hear the vois of the developing economies that are so crucialo stoking growth. is there some kind of powership going on? >> potenally. we're slightly disacted by voices because the protesters are across the river where w are now. i'm obviously whin the secuty shuttle but tre's a little bit of actionromhe protesters gng on. far as theoices of the economieare concerned, i think yes, there is a move or an imminenmove, especially when you look , for examp, the international monery fund and the seats ofhe board there, tradionally they've en heavily weighted towards the u.s. and european countries and there are a lot of voes here from t emerging economiesa

at one pointkhatami was attaed by a group of hard-linerand shoved to the ground, one iranian webse featured pictureof what's believed to be that atck. it waseported he left the march shortly thereafter. there were also rerts of attacks opposition protesters in other cities around in. >> forore about the situation in iran, we're joineby ervand abrahamian. he is a distinguished pressor of history at the city universi of new york. he was born iran and has written several bos about that couny. welcomto the program. >> thank you. the islamic authoritie haven't been able t stop the demonstrations. where do you see t situation headed nt in do u see it becoming more explive? >> i the short term i think t regime can handle the situatio because they he the means of violence to control it, so the demotrations might go on for a while. but it's not going to unravel the whole system. in t long run,though, i think theyave a serious oblem of legiticy because, as long as the electis areonsidered rigged, the last election that means the democratic aspect of the republic is no longer there. so tt's been very

>> first, though, indonesian police have been ging details of their evince that last july's deadly attasn two luxury hotels in jark ta were carefully plned andxecuted. officials also belve that despite the deathf soutast asia's most wanted man two wes ago in a shootout many militantwho worked th him are still at large. om jakarta, our bbc correspoent has anpdate on wh the police have been saying. indonesian police say this deo footage wasound on a laptop which they seizedwhen they ided a house in central java two weeks ago. it showstwo suspected suicide bombers pretending to exercise inront of the rhythms and marriott hotels in jakarta, weeks before the luxury hotels were hit by two ddly blasts. the attack killed nine people, inuding the two specte mbers. >> is video w made when the two suicide bombers surveyed the areaefore the bombings. >> the police sy that e july attacks on the two hote weren't the on ones that re anned. >> after the last marriott attack, they plannedew attacks. according to theevidence, we und there would be serl atcks. >> indonesia's anti-terro unit has been under

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. >> we won't find most likely the type of perpetrators who came on 9/11, the mohammad attas. we are going to find and mostly look at the previous three cases american born. some have converted and then became al-qaeda supporters. >> reporter: zazi is scheduled to be arraigned on tuesday. search for accomplices continues and terrorism warnings have been issued for sports complexes and transit sfisz all around new york. >> julie: from new york to dallas the scene of another alleged terror plot. involving a teenager, a judge ruled that he must remain behind bars. he has been under intense f.b.i. surveillance. they busted him after he placed an inactive car bomb at a skyscraper a decoy bomb that was begin to him by undercover agents. his neighbors say they are stunned saying he was a kind guy who enjoyed dancing to tech music. he faces life in prison. >> gregg: and intended targets alleged plot in illinois. agents nabbing michael fenton on wednesday. there he is. the feds say he tried to blow up a van that was believed to be, he thought at least, had explosives, very close to the

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we won't find most likely the type of perpetrators who came on 9/11, the mohammed atta, and the others, we will mostly find people who are part of the national issue and look at the previous three cases, mrn born, some converted and then became al-qaeda supporters and it's more difficult for individuals alone to figure this out. i'm calling actually on government to do a mass education of the public to talk more about it, to tell us more about the ideology, what are they finding in the darkness that public could see and understand before we come to a state of danger? what are the ideas, the words the concept and i think even the president and congressional leaders should talk about it for the public to be mobilized. >> very good point. i'll ask you back specifically, a fox terrorist analyst to talk about some of those ideologies. thanks for being with us. >> very interesting stuff. the white house had a deadline to close guantanamo bay by january 22nd. what they wanted, now a senior white house official confirming to fox news that completely closing gitmo is not going to happen. now th

and at the nasdaq, the colombian minister of trade, industry and tour rich, luis, atta. >> tim geithner is testify this morning. let's get to hampton. he is live with a copy of what the treasury secretary will soon say. >> in his prepared testimony to the house financial services committee, treasury secretary tim geithner is prepared to, number one, start off by taking a look one year after the financial crisis. he will tell the committee we've moved back from the financial brink toward economic recovery. however, major flaws in the financial system remain. the minimum reforms for what is to be a major regulatory overhaul, new protection for consumers and investors, create a more stable and less crisis prone system,nd safeguard american taxpayers from bearing the costs. geithner's primary focus today will be, among other things, on the whole necessary of how to deal in the future with this notion of too big to fail. he says we must not allow firms to reap benefits of explicit or implicit government subsidies. we will provide authority to oversee any financial firm that poses a threat to

how could someone say that to a man who had a massive heart atta attack.use the helicopter to come and make a payment. billy howard, that is just appalling to hear, infuriating. how can you use that in a court of law to win your case? >> i'm going to do just what you just did. and i'm going to play that to a jury. unfortunately, in today's times, it's like the imperfect storm. you have people who want to pay their bills, but just can't because of medical reasons, or other things out of their control. and then you have these debt collection companies that are paid solely upon how much they collect. and they're bonused about how much money they bring in. that's why we're having such a problem in today's society. and people need to know their rights, and stick up for them. people are tired of being bullied. >> there was a facebook comment from robin. in this day and age these companies need to change their strategies. hopefully stories like this will get them to think, and be a little more human. anita, to billy howard's point. what are our rights? yes, we wa

so, if you just look atta corollary it doesn't seem to say a tax on soft drinks is affecting the obesityolve the problem. host: çaugusta, georgia. stephon objen the independent l. caller: i$(preciate your taking my call.ç the guest talks a lot about calories and this is the reason for obesity. really, you need to address what the artificial ingredients do to the human body. the human body is not designed to digest aspartame. high corn. the diet drinks are worse for the human body. so there is a misconception that all of calories but it is the ingredients in the drinks. guest: well, with all due respect to the caller i don't think the science supports what you are saying. high fructose corn syrup is just another form made with the same components as sugar and the body digests it in a similar manner. aspartame and some of the other sweet,ers are again been looked at by the national cancer institute recently and said there are no health consequences that are discernable for toes ingredients. so, are have to look at the science, not just what sometimes is put out, what i call your ban lege

month were a stark remder that forces opposed to the reconciliation remain capable of devastating attas that could alter the country's direction. the attacks were also a blow to the iraqi people's confidence in their own security forces. and of course i rack's problems don't end there. eckert up, kurdish tensions remain unresolved. corruption is rampant. millions of iraqi refugees and internally displaced persons remain far from home waiting to be resettled. iraq's rations with its neighbors or fall title. there are few -- these are just a few of the many challenges iraq is going to face in the coming months. so what's it going to be? what is it in a sense? which view really represents the outcome? is iraq beginning to unravel again or are these just the inevitable bumps on theoad toward returning responsibility for iraq to the iraqi? what will happen after we leave? we don't have definitive answers to these questions. but as one who has long advocated the responsible redeployment of american troops from iraq, i believe the president has made the most the difficult situation that he inh

. >>> as we note the earlier today today marks the eighth anniversaryf the 9/11 attas.om all overhe united stes to the families that lost loved ones. we have a spokesperson for one charity that's really made a difference. it's called tuesday's children. and also janlin, gabrielle and juliet. alon with donnie, i her son donnie have all participated special events with them. good morning to all of you. and thanks for being here. >>ood morning. >> before i get to u, bob,nd your organization, may i should ask you, j janlin, because you have lost your husband who was one of the first responders on 9/11. >> it was a life-shattering moment. and it's been an incredible organization that has had totally different types of sourcethat were so nded and still are needed for the families. >> and so all of the childre have been abl to access -- and i'm going to move this forrd ju a little bit. i'm going to hold it like this so people can see your beautiful husband. and who's he holding here? >> my ungest, juliet. >> and juliet, you're now 12. have you been to cl in to tuesday's childr

my opinion is a terrorist who is as dedicated as mohammad atta, who is that dedicated, there is no sort guard we can put on our border. in 1999, congress asked the department of defense to do a study of securing our southern border. the 1900889-mile border. the department of defense reported 350,000 troops to secure our southern border -- that is more than twice the troops we put in iraq. it is not economically feasible to do that. the best way to end the threat to america from al qaeda terrorist is by going to where they are, capturing or killing them there. host: larry, democrats line, washington, d.c. caller: i am ex-military. host: television set is up and it is causing feedback. we're going to move on. by twitter, there are a number of skeptics i am seen here with comments such as that -- referencing the military industrial complex, that you are just trying to scare us so we will spend more in this area. do you respond to your critics? guest: i believe general eisenhower was correct. i have written about it quite a bit. one of the things i think is very important to understand is w

now, trappers did catch an alligator the day after the atta attack, and it appears to be the animal involvedrog that eats birds. inform, no one had ever seen it until last year. it's a brand in species, one of 163 found during 2008, in the greater macon region of southeast asia. among the finds are 100 new plants, 28 new fish, 18 new reptiles, including a gecko with leopard-like markings. plus new species of amphibians and mammals, and even a brand-new bird. you can see a glal re of the discoveries at cnn.com. the greater macon region extends from china, myanmar, laos, thailand, cambodia and vietnam. >>> from the fields of politics and world affairs to the soccer field, president obama and the first lady michelle spent saturday morning watching their 11-year-old daughter malia play in northwest washington. and their dog bo did a little tugging, as well. who knows, maybe he wanted the soccer ball. president obama spent about a half hour at his daughter's game. >>> a set night live newbie dropped the f-bomb on the season premier and it's all over the internet. the question is, was it a slip of