in europe bin laden died a fully successful in his own terms mr sure you were had of the cia's bin ladden intelligence unit in ninety six ninety nine you mention this period of your life already couple of minutes ago it was your job to provide necessary information to capture or eliminate the al qaida leader were you receiving the information at that time that he was up to a major attack against the u.s. was it possible already at that time to neutralize him or not. well certainly it's never been a it's never been hidden from the west or from the united states that they intended to attack the united states at home and attack us very severely as i said earlier in our interview sir the west has been stone deaf to what bin laden has said over the over the course of his active career much in the way that we ignored my income for hitler roeder to the one nine hundred twenty s. we would have been better off had we listened to what he said or had we read what he said but we didn't and we took a pounding for russia especially but did a lot never made it a secret that he was going to attack inside

enemy number one salah bin ladden was killed in pakistan but did his death really change any of this book ten years down to introduce any result except the growing insurgency on the one hand and valor phobia on the other we're asking the former chief obvious i'm a bin laden tracking unit in the cia michael. who are stare at a target in u.s. history terrorists hijacked four planes and crushed two of them into the twin towers of the world trade center in new york city one into the pentagon while the fourth was presumably targeted at the white house in washington but crashed into a build the roof tax which al qaeda eventually admitted left some three thousand innocent people died and created a perception that no place on earth is safe from the threat of extremism the immediate u.s. response was the war on terror declared by president george w. bush it instigated highly controversial military complains in iraq and afghanistan . they were in terror has been criticised many times it's counterproductive because in a further escalation of violence one of the legacies of nine eleven is the gu

doesn't stop it killing a war didn't stop the communist movements during the cold war killing bin ladden will not stop it we have more we have to gauge and collective security and in southwest asia we have to find ways to reconcile the taliban and in the end the kabul government we have to worry. of india and pakistan to reconcile those those issues we have to work with egypt and israel that conflict is getting worse since postwar boruc we lose a lot of work it's going to be done in order to calm the situation down and really resolve these problems because they're not resolved thanks for your thoughtful gardner professor and chair of the department of international comparative politics that the american university in paris thank you very much who of course we want to know what you say as well what you think about this huge story log on to our web site to participate in latest poll today our question what does nine eleven mean for you now ten years on very many of us remember it for old enough for so far the most popular responses a convenient pretext to invade afghanistan and iraq the an