old and imprisoned under the bin ali regime. is considered to have the greatest moral authority of all arab leaders but i wonder how long can it last the transformation of tunisia is far from complete and president mao's uki must now face the realities of power. is the president. can you hear me. hello how are you was there sasha it is very nice to see you are you know i have always been you really. the job you have done and i think really we. i wish you the i wish you the best you know. if you never have some problems that you would be what come in tunisia thank you. so you were imprisoned back in one thousand nine hundred three and i was in prison. in two thousand and ten but this experience was very interesting for me how to survive solitary confinement. and i think perhaps everyone should go through this experience just once can you tell me how you survived prison. well you know i just spent spent four months sort of three confinement so but i did barely which is the prime minister in tunisia spent more than ten years in sol

have you seen your intelligence file kept by bin ali now that you are president the record of spying on you. yes i am very curious about having this fight but in fact they didn't have time. but i have you know i have got some files about. political. up and interior now to the system and i said i'm not going to work with this kind of guard i'm not going to threaten this guy with this kind of tools you know i don't want to know about what happened i'm not interesting in and in threatening you know the my political opponent by the same towards that was used against me so you think the. you know as a as wiki leaks as a publisher of course we saw what happened in egypt when the egyptian secret service was looted and these files came out and started to describing what was really happening there and someone who was following this revolution in egypt very very closely and trying to get out material about them barak and suleyman and so on i knew gyptian revolution had succeeded in a very important way when the archives of the m. dawa finally came out and that was. the end of the secret police

alleged source of the diplomatic cables which included material that came out and these are about bin ali his name is bradley manning and he was in solitary confinement for ten months what do you say about the united states and its role once a leading human rights now are. engaged in torture. when you have torture and the dictatorship it seems so normal you know. of course it's not normal it's horrible but when you have this kind of problems and. the state and when you face people you know coming from the government. talking about human rights and so forth it's it seems so ridiculous you know i remember two years ago. four years ago i was invited in to washington by ninjago to talk about human rights in tunisia. i was invited to to meet some important person in the white house dealing with human rights issues and they said no i'm not going to meet this person because it would be ridiculous to talk with this guy knowing very well you know that he was probably implicated and want to know more problem you can talk it you can take seriously somebody awards placated in torture in his own count

bin laden was about to strike and now had his own spy casing the target. >> my name is ali mohamed. >t years inside the u.s. military. [ sirens ] two american embassies, two truck bombs, two terrorist attacks just nine minutes apart in neighboring countries along the coast. kenya and tanzania. more than 200 dead. more than 4,000 injured. who was behind this carnage and why? within eight days there were leads and suspects and a stunning realization. osama bin laden had lived up to his threat. his al qaeda terrorists had just struck their first direct blow in their holy war against the united states. the attacks were carefully planned. >> my name is ali mohamed. >> reporter: this man, ali mohamed, was no ordinary al qaeda operative. he married a californian in 1985 and became an american citizen. he joined the u.s. army. >> at the same time that he was a u.s. army sergeant and actually working at special forces headquarters in fort bragg, north carolina he was also intimately involved with al qaeda, training bin laden's bodyguards. >> ali mohammed had done what they call casing of the a

bin ataive alleged picked the hijackers. starting starting in 1999, he flew throughout asia, carrying a razor knife to test security. aziz ali is one of the two money men. a nephew of khalid sheikh mohammed, wired $127,000 to the hijackers as they went to flight schools and lived in cog neato in the u.s. al-aawsawi allegedly bought clothes for the hijackers. and there was no shortage of plots to spend on. after 9/11, khalid sheikh mohammed went on to plot the bombings in bali, indonesia, the shoe bomb plot against the u.s., as well as the plan to crash a plane into the tallest building in los angeles. maurice. >> dubois: john miller. thank you. president obama launched his reelection bid today. the day after the release of a disappointing jobs report. our chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell is with the president's campaign. norah, good evening to you. >> reporter: and good evening to you, maurice. and mindful that the economy is still the top issue for voters, the president kicked off his campaign in two battleground state, ohio and virginia, where the unemployment rate is actually below the national average. tod

bin-attash allegedly helped pick the hijackers and taught them hand-to-hand combat skills. prosecutors say, starting in 1999, attash flew throughout asia, carrying a razor knife to test airport security. ali abdul aziz ali is one of the two accused money men. prosecutors say ali, a nephew of khalid sheikh mohammed, wired $127,000 to the hijackers as they went to flight schools and lived incognito in the u.s. mustafa al-hawsawi, the other financier, based in dubai, allegedly bought clothes and plane tickets for the hijackers, who wired him $18,000 in unspent funds right before 9/11 for al qaeda's future use. and there was no shortage of plots to spend on. after 9/11, khalid sheikh mohammed went on to plot the bombings in bali, indonesia, the shoe-bomb plot against the u.s., as well as a plan to crash a plane into the tallest building in los angeles. maurice? >> dubois: john miller, thank you. president obama launched his reelection bid today, the day after the release of a disappointing jobs report. our chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell is with the president's campaign. norah, good evening to you. >> reporter: and good evening to you, maurice. and mindful that the economy is

ali and sparked the arab spring revolt across the region. the pakistani doctor has been sentenced to thirty three years in jail for treason of the help the u.s. find a song of bin laden jocular afridi was accused of running a fake cia vaccination program as part of the hunt for the former al qaeda chief u.s. special forces killed in larger covert raid in the garrison city of about about last night. or bin ladin might be dead but new life is being breathed into the story of his capture and killing many the details of his assassination have remained state secret but not it seems if you're a hollywood filmmaker an oscar winning director being granted special access to the white house political reporter josh gerstein thinks it's all part of a p.r. campaign ahead of november's presidential election. it is reason really puzzling you may remember there was a big burst to publish that he had day or two after the seal team raid that killed osama bin laden and then all of a sudden at least publicly the administration put the brakes on and said look there's been too much talk about this it's getting out of hand no more information should be put out were troubled by what's

ali. lawmakers outraged over the way the obama administration handled a foiled bomb plat nearing the anniversary of usama binf the house intelligence community, mike rogers. >> other students, i believe, were lost by the fact that it was leaked on monday, and now, all of what you see now is just simply isn't helpful to trying to make sure that people are protected, that security services overseas, our relationships are protected. >> it's just another example of president obama, quote, spiking the football. joining us to weigh in on this is middle east expert jeremiah. >> good morning. >> clayton: immediately when i heard the story and learned it was a british operative and mi-6 or mi-5 and the amount of time invested in this whole thing, my immediate gut reaction was, well, does this screw us up for future missions like this, now that the the cat's out of the bag? >> oh, it sure does, absolutely. and listen, last weekend, we were able to take out one of the planners, who was behind the bombing of the u.s.s. cole because of this intelligence network that's been set up. here we are, ibrahim, the master mind be