i met with bin laden in 1997. he said, "look, we're going to attack the united states because we think it's weak. it's like the former soviet union. weememr the pullout from vietnam, the pullout from mogadishu in 1993." you know, i've interviewed people who talked to bin laden directly in the summer of 2000, saying, "look, stop it with this anti-american stuff because you're interfering with our goal of just regime change in libya and egypt and all these other places." but he... but because he runs... al qaeda's a very dictatorial organization, he just ignored them. tactically, 9/11 was a brilliant success. it was the most-watched media event in history. but from a strategic point of view, al qaeda's goals are no closer, and actually further away today than they were ten years ago. >> smith: but here we are. berge herwe are. >> next time, a frontline exclusive: inside the surge in afghanistan. >> those who were killed were bad guys. >> the strategy... >> kill and capture as many as you can and make them ask for pe

>> stephen: tonight, how did we get osama bin laden, and how can we get him again? the buzz is starting to wear off. [laughter] then, should oil companies give back all those tax breaks? yeah, as soon as the seagulls give back all that oil. and my guest amy kremer is the chair of the tea party express. i'll interview her dressed as a great american patriot -- me. cnn anchor john lemmon has come out as gay, but can he find the courage to tell his family he's on cnn? [laughter] this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [cheers and applause] [audience chanting "stephen"] >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the report." thank you. please. welcome to "the report." thank you for joining us. nation, right off the bean i have to address the breaking news out of china. ming ming, the world's oldest panda, is dead at the age of 34. this comes as a real surprise. and i just want to say, well done, seal team six, another righteous kill. for too long our mortal enemies, the chinese, have been using pandas' cute

>> no one can replace bin laden. he was an iconic figure of the terrorist movement, the charismatic leader of al qaeda bund al-zawahiri is no bin laden but this is an important move for al qaeda because al-zawahiri is an ideological and strategic heavyweight for al qaeda. he's been with the movement in essence from the start. he's been a key voice for al qaeda, especially in the context of the arab spring, the voice from al qaeda has been al-zawahiri's voice. so the fact that he is now leading the organization will try to coalesce the organization and try to reassert its significance and relevance in the middle east is incredibly important. >> given the disparate nature of al qaeda, so many offshoots across so many countries, can one man be a leader of this single organization? >> i think this is the major challenge for zawahiri, can he command this metastasized movement. can he command the lone wolves of those inspired via the internet the way bin laden has. i think that's a challenge because he's seen as a divisive

bin laden and his own direction. he's already molded the organization in the way that he wants to go. and it sort of self-perpetuating now to a certain agree, the ideology that he's put forward is out there of a global jihad. that's up and running. can he be as popular as bin laden was? that's unlikely, zain. >> cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson. >>> greece is in the grip of new turmoil. the prime minister is reshuffling his government after violent protests exploded on the streets of athens. geor he is trying to win support for more austerity measures. wednesday and images of protesters clashing with riot police through a fog of tear gas has really put the seriousness of the greek debt crisis in focus. about 25,000 demonstrators within on t were on the street in the capital. we're joined by someone in athens. >> the rumors have been flying thick and fast yesterday and today about whether lawmakers will resign. one or two have threatened to do so. one of them has actually specifically said he wil

he was the number 2 next to osama bin laden. he is someone that has been committed to violent extremism since he was a young boy. he is very dedicated to this. he is a dangerous man. nevertheless, he is inheriting an all qaeda that is very fragmented and is much weaker and much diminished from what it was before. >> it took six weeks to appoint him. is that an indication that al qaeda is not operating as efficiently as it once was? >> that is right. it is decentralized. the decision making is decentralized. they cannot group together very much. these are part of the pressures that the united states and allies have been put on al qaeda to make it difficult for them to operate. >> do you think we could see the same kind of capture of ayman al-zawahiri as we did of osama bin laden? >> i do not know the current state of what information they may have on him, but i agree with admiral mullin that he is a very high priority target. i believe his days will be numbered. he will be found sooner or later, just like osama bin laden. >> it w

raid that killed osama bin laden. vancouver, canada began cleaning up today and trying to explain the rioting that erupted after their ice hockey team, the canucks lost the stanley cup last night. violence erupted when the boston bruins won game seven of the title series. crowds set fires, looted stores and fought with police in downtown streets. nearly 100 people were arrested and almost 150 others were sent to the hospital. the city's mayor blamed organized hoodlums. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: defense secretary robert gates heading for retirement at the end of the month holds a farewell pentagon news conference. kwame holman reports. >> reporter: november 2006: republicans lose control of congress in the mid-term elections largely because of a single issue: the grinding, deadly iraq war. the lightning rod leader of that effort, defense secretary donald rumsfeld is forced to resign. his replacement: robert gates called back to government service from the presidency of t

bin laden living there.ut i think they are quietly piecing together the information that they are getting. we are -- included in the documents they took away from the compound and from other types of intelligence they are collecting. they are building a case right now. >> congressman, how high does it go? >> let me say this. we -- do not have evidence or intelligence at this point that shows that the leadership and pakistani intelligence army had knowledge of the -- bin laden was living where he was. but it seems to me that somehow some way people within the government or the military knew he was there. that's what they are investigating. but we need to reset this relationship because it has gone south and we are trying to bring it back right now. we need it more accountability from them if we are going to continue to fund pakistan and especially the area of intelligence. >> eric, so the sense is going forward. you hear the congressman make the case. this is a frustrating relationship. get quite angry and di

any similarities between nixon and bin laden? >> i take that question back. >> all joking aside, personality the way it takes to get to the top of one profession. >> i think nixon was a really remarkable figure because he was the most unnatural politician. i mean, bill clinton is amazing. watching him is just astounding. nixon had none of that. you could see the message from his brain to his mouth time to a smile. [laughter] aegis was completely uncomfortable in his own skin. anyway, the remarkable determination he had to achieve the presidency in the face of not being unnatural was really remarkable. the problem is that his demons and discomfort it enough. it is quite possible -- and you know, i don't want to be juvenile. but it's quite possible in certain ways that if you ignore what it is was a better integrated human being, you know, just in terms of someone who has self-awareness and such. on the level of fanaticism, as dennis watergate is coming there is no way compares to really wanted to kill hundreds of thousands of peop

with the bin laden raid. and only abc is learning more from secrets bin laden left behind. >>> hack attack. first the senate's website, now the cia's is the latest to be brought down by online assailants. >>> and hockey violence off the ice. vancouver fans erupt in anger over losing the stanley cup to boston. >>> good morning. official word from al qaeda this morning, osama bin laden's longtime lieutenant has taken command. >> egyptian born ayman al zawahiri is now vowing to pick up where he left off to attack the u.s. >> the cia learned how such an attack might take place after sifting through information from bin laden's pakistan compound. we'll have those details ahead in a "good morning america" exclusive. >>> and inside pakistan this morning, the government is still so embarrassed by the u.s. commando raid to take down bin laden that it's cracking down on some of its own citizens. john hendren joins us now from washington with the very latest. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, peggy. good mo

navy seals tracked down bin laden and tonight threatens to worsen even more.ke last night, "new york times" recording that pakistani authorities rounded up five cia informants, people who reportedly helped the cia by writing down the license plates of cars coming and going from bin laden's compound which by the way was just down the road from pakistan's military academy. we've since learned there are low-level sources -- the informants are very low-level sources and there's little the u.s. government can do to help them. but their arrest is telling. instead of hunting down anyone who might have helped him live there comfortably, helped the people who helped bin laden for years, pakistan seems to be hunting down the people who helped america find him. as far as taking a hard look at whether bin laden had a pakistani support network, the pakistani government was denying it from day one. >> in your investigation have you found any evidence that bin laden had a support network here in pakistan? >> there is no such thing as all. not an i yo that of doubt. >> you ca

has arrested some of the very informant who helped the cia find bin laden? country. we've had friendly relations with pakistan for many, many years. >> pakistan is an important friend and ally for the united states. >> the united states does indeed consider pakistan a strategic partner and a good friend. >> clearly, pakistan is clearly a very strong ally of the united states in this. >> we're also hoping because pakistan is a partner. >> pakistan has received $13 billion in military aid since the 9/11 attacks. but despite those diplomatic words, over the years the relationship has always been tense. it got worse after u.s. navy seals tracked down bin laden and tonight threatens to worsen even more. the news broke late last night, "new york times" reporting that the pakistani army rounded up cia informants, who helped the cia by writing down the license plates of cars coming and going from bin laden's compound which by the way was just down the road from pakistan's military academy. we've since learned -- the people have been arrested. the informants are very

a little more than a month after osama bin laden was killed by u.s. commandos, al qaeda has a new leader but his face is very familiar. joel brown has the latest in washington with this. good morning, joel. >> good morning, betty. the news came down from al qaeda on a website affiliate with al qaeda that osama bin laden's long time lieutenant, ayman al zawahiri, is now officially taking charge of the terror network. al zawahiri has been at bin laden's side for years as a personal adviser and international head often acting as al qaeda's spokesman. he was born in egypt, and he turns 60 next week. he warned the u.s. it's facing an international community of muslims that seeks to destroy it and its allies. his whereabouts are unknown but it's believed he's hiding somewhere along the pakistan/afghanistan border. al zawahiri has been described as the "real brains of al qaeda" and he holds a $25 million bounty on his head from the state department. >> joel brown, thank you on that latest breaking news. >>> nato aircraft pounded libya's capital again this mo

bin laden and zawahiri collaborated closely. both have been fugitives and for years, hiding out in afghanistan and pakistan. zawahiri it is now named the fbi's most wanted terrorist. the leader of al qaeda. >> it is not a surprise he has moved into that position. he and his organization still threaten us. as we did both seek to capture and kill and succeeded in killing bin laden, we certainly will do the same thing with zawahiri. >> what do we know about zawahiri? he is a lifelong egyptian extremist who will be succeeded this sunday. he radicalized osama bin laden back in the 1990's and got him to think global. he was the operational brains behind the 9/11 attacks and the u.s. has long had a 25 million- dollar bounty on his head. he was radicalized long ago, imprisoned by the egyptian state after president saadat's assassination. the extreme violence perpetrated by al qaeda is often attributed to his strategic direction. his supporters want more attacks. as the arab population calls for it and to dictatorship, critics of al qaed

now, at some point, at some point ksm gave up the nickname of one of bin laden's couriers. we followed that courier and that's how we nailed bin laden, therefore validating torture. but the "i want to be able to look my children in the eye" crowd refused to admit torture is the real hero here. >> torture is not moral. it's not legal. it's not effective. >> it was not torture or cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment of detainees that got us the major leads that ultimately enabled our intelligence community to find osama bin laden. >> all of our experience shows you generate better, more accurate information when you treat prisoners humanely, when you befriend them, when you connect with them. >> probably the most tortured detainee, kalil sheikh mohammed, watered boarded 180 time, did not divluge the name of his

raid that took out bin laden. the relationship was complex before the raid and has become extremely tense ever since. u.s. officials say that it is not clear they helped hide bin laden but it has given them new leads in the ongoing investigation. >>> no other news, a major earthquake struck overnight near alaska. the magnitude 7.2 quake was centered 120 miles off of the remote aleutian islands. a tsunami warning sent people scrambling for high ground in dutch harbor but has been canceled. no reports of injury or damage. >>> to north dakota where the flooding crisis drags on, much of the focus on the threatened city of minot but most of the state's 53 counties have been declared disaster areas. in bismarck nothing could be done to save a house surrounded by floodwaters as it collapsed into the swollen missouri river. in minot 10,000 people evacuated as the high water from the mouse river will crest this weekend. jamie yuccas of minneapolis station wcco reports. >> reporter: she saw the flood in '69 but it doesn't c

that was the enemy that bin laden laid out in 1998.e're going to see more debate, what's going to be interesting is how he's going to be able to manage the organization. he doesn't have the charisma that bin laden had to perhaps overrule some of that dissent. it's going to be interesting to see how he manages it, john. >> should we read anything into the fact that it took so long, 46 days after the death of bin laden for this official announcement? >> security concerns for sure could have slowed down the decision making. al qaeda also has its sort of options if you will spread around the world. it's taken perhaps time to get all their voices in. if there have been dissenting voices, which is quite possible, to overcome those -- those dissensions and how -- and how have they managed to do that and perhaps that's the key for why it's taken so long. >> nic robertson, thank you. >>> senate intelligence committee chair dianne feinstein tells cnn al zawahiri is probably in pakistan but she believes he is not being protected by its government

he is the man who taught terror to osama bin laden. ayman al-zawahiri, a 59-year-old egyptian, was bin laden's number two in al qaeda. today an islamist web site announced he has taken over and u.s. intelligence sources are telling us that it's true. david martin says this marks the rise of a physician turned terrorist who is determined to do violence in the united states. >> reporter: the king is dead. how long will the new king live? ayman al-zawahiri, osama bin laden's right hand man for over a decade, is the new leader of al qaeda. and with that comes the title of world's most-wanted man. >> well, i'm not sure it's a position anybody should aspire to under the circumstances. >> reporter: to that mind, defense secretary gates, joint chiefs chairman admiral mullen added this at a pentagon press conference today. >> as we did both seek and succeed in killing bin laden, we certainly will do the same with al-zawahiri. >> reporter: al-zawahiri doesn't have bin laden's charisma but he's ever bit as committed to killing americans. >> he's

he probably needs bin laden also bin laden denies that was his first meeting. he begins developing a web of social connections to finance terrorism and sees the beginning of the terrorism career. the world trade center bombing as a challenge put out by 1991 five dead by israeli intelligence by the way, u.s. intelligence said there a lot of these to take seriously. the challenges they are to bomb the world trade center, which at the time they believed was literally the center of the world trade in a sort of imagined in your city with a market you take out the market and trade stops. the idea that the name simply made you marketing gimmick for port authority never occurred to them. so k. sim -- ksm became famous for carrying out the attack, which further reasons was considered impossible. and now he is a choice. you can join al qaeda for a major terror organization or can set out on his own as a terrorist entrepreneur. and interestingly, he does. he has his own work offenders and plans to carry out his own tax in 1994, we find him in the philippines plotting to b

there he met a young saudi named osama bin laden.ring and waging war on america. as number two in the al qaeda hierarchy, al-zawahri was often the face and voice, combative, taunting. he once used malcolm x's term house negro to describe president barack obama. trarnz transyou were born to a muslim father and chose to stand in the ranks of the enemies >> the up risings raise serious questions, but in a recent video, he embraced them. >> translator: they need to continue their struggle. their rage and sacrifices >> some worry that al-zawahri, now in charge, will change the emphasis of al qaeda. >> the terrorism and weapon was mass destruction. he has been interested to a degree greater than anyone else in the movement in acquiring such weapons >> here is so disliked he could drive al qaeda into the ground and others say he will cement his position at the helm of al qaeda. >> thanks very much. we will bring in the most experts that will be our analyst who spent a lot of time studying al-zawahri. how does he get elected leader? is there

well, bin laden did not survive to see any such attack through, buzz his death has not stopped plotsinst the u.s., nor has it ended our lingering sense of insecurity, as we saw this morning, in washington. here's pierre thomas. >> reporter: it was a scary sight. police lights surrounding the pentagon. streets shut down just outside the nation's capital. at first, it seems like an unfolding terror plot, as cops arrested this man. yonathan melaku, after they found him acting suspiciously while lurking in the arlington national cemetery. >> a individual acting alone was found in the cemetery by the police who approached him as he fled. >> reporter: the cops discovered he was carrying a backpack. inside, police found four bags with a grainy substance that looked like ammonium nitrate. they also uncovered spent .9 millimeter ammunition and a notebook containing the words al qaeda and taliban rules. >> he had a backpack that contained an unknown material which will require us further investigation. >> reporter: but police feared the suspect planted bombs at arlington national cemetery and

and to the team that took out osama bin laden. standing in front of a model of bin laden's compound, the navy s.e.a.l. who led that effort paid tribute to those who had been lost. brothers and sisters in arms whose names are now written on bases where our troops stand guard overseas, and on headstones in quiet corners in our country where their memory will never be forgotten, this officer, like so many others i've met on bases in bag dad and bag ram and at wat walter reed, hospital, spoke with unity, how they depended and each other, as a family might do in a time of peril. that's a lesson worth remembering. that we are all apart of one american family. that we have known disagreement and division. we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents. and a conviction that the united states of america is a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. now, let us finish the work at hand. let us responsibly end these wars and reclaim the american dream that is at the center of our story. wit

bin laden. it's going to be difficult to fill his shoes and to keep the movement cohesive around the world. >> reporter: today al qaeda's main propaganda website announced that al-zawahri has been entrusted with the new role. the 59-year-old takes over an organization that started to fracture even before navy seals killed bin laden last month. al-zawahri appeared in a video last week eulogizing bin laden and calling for a, quote, worldwide muslim rebellion. >> al-zawahri will try to keep the -- cohesive and focused on attack the west. >> reporter: he is the brains behind al qaeda. senior white house officials say he doesn't have bin laden's credentials or organizational skills. they still want him captured or killed, there is a $25 million price tag on his head. he was raised in an egyptian family trained to be a surgeon. he joined militant groups in egypt and fled to afghanistan where he met bin laden and started planning attacks like the one on the uss cole and the u.s. embassies in tanzania a

la revelaciÓn indica que bin laden utilizaba el grupo como parte de su red de apoyo dentro del paÍs.> esta evidencia de que realmente elementos dentro del gobierno paquistanÍ si han aportado elementos terroristas o elementos subversivos. >> aunque no hay pruebas concretas que demuestran que la agencia de espionaje paquistanÍ habÍa protegido a bin laden, si plantea dudas sobre si otro grupo habÍa ayudado a protegerlo. por ejemplo, no queda muy claro dÓnde llegó al lugar donde supuestamente Él y su familia vivieron desapercibidos durante cinco aÑos, justo al lado de una de las mejores academias militares de pakistÁn. eso pone en duda la confianza que puede tener estados unidos en la lucha contra el terrorismo internacional en ese paÍs. >> no se puede prescindirde pakistÁn. es una potencia nuclear y no puede permitir que se desestabiliza. eso harÍa correr un grave riesgo, no solamente al mismo paquistÁn sino tambiÉn a la india, que tambiÉn es otra potencia nuclear, y toda la regiÓn. >> a medida que estados unidos se prepara para un retiro gradual de afganistÁn, la atenciÓn se enfoca en

bin laden was holed up. i spoke to a former cia operative about this piece of intel. >> and so what they're looking at now is this question of to what degree can they piece those communications together to show definitively, there's not a smoking gun yet, but to show definitively that some members of isi were aware of bin laden's presence? and it does defy logic and common sense to think that there weren't some people, not necessarily the top levels, but some people within that organization that knew. >>> also this. government forces spraying bullets at protesters in syria. today several more people are dead. remember, no journalists have been allowed in this country since the bloodshed began, that is until now. paula garahni has been trying, as we've been talking about this, for months and months to get into syria. she's there live in the capital city. she's going to come on and tell me what she's been seeing on the ground, next. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours

as to how is he different from bin laden? authorities say the answer goes back to his lack of charisma. >> bin laden has been the leader of al qaeda, essentially, since its inception. he has a peculiar charisma that i think zawahiri doesn't have. >> reporter: finally, will the u.s. find him? experts say he is an easier target than bin laden, given his operational role. >> he is more likely to get captured, i think, than bin laden was, given the fact that he does turn out a lot of audio and videotapes and does meet with people. >> reporter: now, of more immediate concern may be this document, what u.s. officials are calling a jihadist hit list of prominent americans now appearing on arab language websites, diane. >> who are they, government? corporate, what? >> reporter: key officials at the pentagon, officials at a company involved in the production of drone aircraft, as as well as several prominent french executives, all on the list with suggestions they be individually targeted. >> and you'll put more on this online. >> rep

efforts to go after bin laden? you would think they would praise and commend these men instead of arresting them. the fact that they have arrested them suggests that they may not be happy with what they did. we caution that there's not a lot of detail about these arrests. we still don't know why these men were picked up. but if, indeed, they're in trouble with pakistani authorities, it's going to fuel suspicion again about pakistan's commitment to the u.s. fight against extremists. and once again, it could ignite more questions about pakistan's intelligence agency. whether it's a u.s. friend or playing a deceptive double game. reza sayah, cnn, islamabad. >>> let's get white house reaction now. more on the concerns of whether pakistan is really a reliable ally in the war on terror. dan lothian is working this story for us. how are they dealing with this over there, dan? >> reporter: wolf, today during the white house briefing with jay carney, he was describing this relationship between the u.s. and pakistan. he used

he is now the terror group's number one. >> he is no bin laden.t's going to be difficult to fill his shoes and to keep the movement cohesive around the world. >> reporter: today al qaeda's main propaganda website announced that al-zawahri has been entrusted with the new role. the 59-year-old takes over an organization that started to fracture even before navy seals killed bin laden last month. al-zawahri appeared in a video last week eulogizing bin laden and calling for a, quote, worldwide muslim rebellion. >> al-zawahri will try to keep the group cohesive focused on his strategic goals and focused on attacking the west. >> reporter: al-zawahri has long been considered the brains behind al qaeda. senior white house officials say he does not have bin laden's credentials or arguesal skills. they still want him captured or killed. there is a $25 million price tag on his head. al-zawahri was raised in an upper middle class egyptian family and trained to be a surgeon. he joined militant groups in egypt and then fled to afghanistan where he met bin lade

that osama bin laden did. as the search for the terror group's new leader moves forward rs, just who is al-zarwi. >> the u.s. hoped to kill zawari before he took over. >> frankly it barely matters who runs al qaeda. because al qaeda is a bankrupt ideology. >> reporter: the key question for americans, is zawahiri for or less likely to attack the u.s. >> now that we killed bin laden he probably feels a need to retaliate against the united states. >> reporter: in his dozens of video messages, he seems far more focuses on attacks in pakistan, egypt and muslim countrieses than the u.s. >> if you are in pakistan, you would be afraid of attacks. >> regionally from an upper family, zawahiri has been attached to terrorism. this is him in an egyptian prison where he said he was tortured. >> we are muslims who believe in their religion. >> reporter: zawahiri joined forces with bin laden and served as his deputy. how is he different from bin laden. the answer goes to his lack of charisma. >> bin laden has been the leader

, the hard-core porn in bin laden's house.er] hard-core poets, rhyming in the people's house, and finally the distractions are over. we here at "the daily show" can get back to our core mission, discussing the important issues of the day, such as immigration policy in a respectful, sober manner. you're welcome. [laughter] to the debate. >> in a bombshell announcement, former california governor arnold schwarzenegger now admits to fathering a child with a longtime household staffer. >> jon: oh, for [bleeped]. [laughter] this close. damn you nearly irresistible comic possibilities. funny accent, built-in movie poster fun. sure, yes, obviously, sure. you know, we didn't even write these tonight. we just showed up here this morning and they were already here. [laughter] some type of snark fairy. oh, for god's sake. that's... i don't think... well, that actually could be "kindergarten cook." [laughter] quirk? ah, [bleeped]. some of his movie titles we didn't even have to change. yeah. or yeah. [laughter] here's the worst part acted

bin laden. have a tough time following in his foot steps. mark baker spent 17 years encounter terror and counter insurgent operations. what does this mean in the fight against terrorism? does this put us in a stronger position or weaker position against al qaeda? >> the unfortunate reality is it doesn't affect the way we have to carry out operations against al qaeda. ayman al zawahiri has been around for a long time. he has been number two to bin laden. we have known all about him. he's egyptian born and a doctor by training before he became radicalizing. some give him credit, if credit is the word, for radicalizing bin laden, when bin laden was making the formation toward the al qaeda organization. under his leadership, there will not be that many changes. it's not like a corporate shake-up of any sort. >> stronger or tougher than bin laden? is he more of a threat to us? >> i don't think he is more of a threat to us. the threat really comes from -- if you want to call it, the mid management, th

the information that we recovered from bin laden's compound shows al qaeda under enormous strain. bin laden expressed concern that al qaeda had been unable to effectively replace senior terrorists that had been killed, and that al qaeda has failed in its effort to portray america as a nation at war with islam, thereby drank more widespread support. al qaeda remains dangerous, and we must be vigilant against attacks, but we have put al qaeda on a path to defeat, and we will not relent until the job is done. in afghanistan, we've inflicted serious losses on the taliban and taken a number of its stronged holds, along with our surge, our allies also increased their commitments, which helped stabilize more of the country. afghan security force anniversary grown by over 100,000 troops, and and in some prof vinces and municipalities we have begun to transfer responsibility for security to the afghan people. in the face of violence and intimidation, afghans are fighting and dying for their country, establishing local police forces, opening markets and schools, creating new opportunities f

he spent decades as bin laden's deputy is now the terror group's new number 1. he appeared in a video last week eulogizing bin laden and calling for a worldwide muslim rebellion. he is considered the brains behind al-qaeda but intelligence officials say that he doesn't have al-qaida's organizational skills. >> he will try to keep the group cohesive, focused on its strategic goals and certainly focus on attacking the west. >> he like bin laden raised in an upper middle class egyptian family and trained to be a surgeon. he joined militant groups in egypt and eventually fled to afghanistan where he met bin laden and began planning attacks on the u.s.a. cole and u.s. embassies in kenya. >>> no radiation required and a way to look inside a person's body. dr. kim mulvihill will show us that mice are lighting the way. >> reporter: in a lab tucked into a basement in a science building shedding light on a problem. >> i didn't know it would look like that. >> reporter: what did the grad student and her team do? using a laser light and infrared camera and small particles t

potential bin laden bombshell. awe in report reveals a possible link between the al qaeda leader and pakistan's intelligence agency raising fresh new questions how about how he was able to hide so long. >>> evacuations continue in north dakota as minot prepares for its worse flooding ever. more water racing toward the already soaked city. we will get the latest from the disaster zone. >>> back to boston. a judge orderses bulger to return to boston to face murder charges. new details on bulger's life of crime and the 16-year search "early" this friday morning, june 24th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs >>> happy friday, everyone. we made it. >> we did! >> i'm jeff glor. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. erica and chris are off there morning. good to see you. >> good to see you. >>> talks on raising the government's debt ceiling a new snag here. on thursday, the republicans gave up on the negotiations led by the vapt saying they can't accept a democratic demand to close tax loopholes. we will speak with bob schieffer about the d

osama bin laden likes to brood. he would think, according to detainees, he would think for three or four days just about the code name for an operation. the code name that will only be known inside al qaeda. he will spend days thinking about it. he's terrified of making a mistake. he likes bureaucracy, he likes process. he has a sure counsel, which is sort of like a board of directors. even if it's unanimous against him, they can't overrule him. he likes everyone to have input, take his time, and afraid of taking a mistake. temperament tally, they are very different. somehow the two people begin to work together on what is one the most complicated and sadly one the most effective terrorists strikes in the history of the world, 9/11 attacks. from the beginning, it's a managerial nightmare. one the pilots, he was born christian, converts to islam, he's studying in germany and falls in love with a nonmuslim german girl. it's a matter of public record. their love letters with a matter of public record. they are deeply i

commando raid that killed osama bin laden. according to the newspaper, those arrested include a pakistani army major who copied the license plates of cars visiting bin laden's compound in the weeks before the raid. the fate of the informants is unclear. the arrests are the latest indication of a damaged relationship with pakistan. >>> the bay area's lock heed martin will lose 1200 jobs nationwide with most of the layoffs coming from sunny vale, colorado and pennsylvania. lock heed says it will offer voluntary layoffs to eligible middle managers first. that could ruse the number ofin voluntary job cuts. >>> social security misspent billions of dollars.

to osama bin laden. >>> burn notice. for the first time in more than 30 years the government rewrites the rules on sunscreen. >>> and hats off. the u.s. army ditches a much >>> and hats off. the u.s. army ditches a much hated part of their uniform. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including pacific time zones. i'm lynn berry, and today we begin with asking for trouble. in a development that's certain to increase tensions between washington and islamabad, the "new york times" is reporting pakistan has arrested several cia informants who provided information that led to the killing of osama bin laden. for more on the report we go to nbc's tracie potts. she's in washington for us. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. five in all, according to "the new york times" report this morning including an army major who apparently was writing down license plates as they were going in and out of the bin laden compound. we've just gotten

find bin ladosa laden.eport from his islamabad ahead. >>> the house speaker and the president in a showdown over libya, john boehner sending a letter to the white house warning president obama, the military operation in libya could be breaking the law. >>> anthony weiner facing even more calls to resign. he may be listening because one of his new york colleagues says she's hearing he may be days from stepping down. >>> plus the anchorman who landed an interview with the dalai lama and thought it would be a good idea to tell a dalai lama joke. we'll tell you how it turned out. the first sunblock designed to be applied directly to wet skin. ordinary sunblock drips and whitens. neutrogena® wet skin kids instantly cuts through water. forms a broad spectrum protective barrier. with wet skin kids, your kids have full strength sun protection. try new wet skin sunblock for adults too. neutrogena® #1 dermatologist recommended suncare.

bin laden's journal shows he was worried about al qaeda's image. said al qaeda was killing too many muslims and that it was bad for business. bin laden was considering giving the terror group a new more religious name to convince muslims worldwide they are in a holy war with america. tina kraus, cbs news. >>> still ahead, do waves really come in sets? and a stolen piece of the moon. >>> if you have outdoor activities, plans, this weekend, go for it. a stellar first full weekend of summer. the rain is back in the seven- day forecast. we'll pinpoint the day to expect it as eyewitness news continues. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, mission 40 years ago. some of it was lifted from a >>> it was once lost but now it's found, moon dust brought back from the apollo 11 mission 40 years ago. some of it was lifted from a film cartridge using apiece of clear tape. the thief then cut up the tape into slivers to sell on the black market. investigators noticed moon dust for sale in st. louis and shut it down. the widow who had it graciously gave it back saying that she ha

the phone belonged to one of bin laden's trusted couriers who was also killed in the raid. according to the "times" the discovery was that bin laden used the group as a network inside pakistan. it raises questions about whether the military organization supported him on behalf of pakistan's spy agency. but officials tell "the times "there was no smoking gun showing that the agency had protected bin laden. >>> it is a race against time for the community of minotte, north dakota. calls for new evacuations has thousands fleeing to higher ground as a giant surge of water heads their way. reporting from minot, is kevin tibbles. >> reporter: national guard troops racing against the clock and the relentless surge of the souris river. already many homes have succumbed, and predictions of even higher levels, nine feet higher when water is released from nearby dams. >> there is a pending sense of doom out there, and the outlook isn't good. >> reporter: with some 12,000 minot residents now uprooted, many cram into red cross shelters. >> last time it was let's pray that the levees hold

and to the team that took out osama bin laden. standing in front of a model of bin laden's compound, the navy s.e.a.l. who led that effort paid tribute to those who had been lost. brothers and sisters in arms whose names are now written on bases where our troops stand guard overseas, and on headstones in quiet corners of our country where their memory will never be forgotten. this officer, like so many others i've met on bases and n baghdad and bagram, and at walter reed and bethesda naval hospital, spoke with humility about how his unit worked together as one. depending on each other and trusting one another, as a family might do in a time of peril. that's a lesson worth remembering, that we are all a part of one american family. that we have known disagreement and division, we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents. and a conviction that the united states of america's a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. now lets us finish the work at hand. let us responsibly end the

ayman al zawahri seen here with the late osama bin laden as was bin laden., somewhere along the pakistan boardy. ayman al zawahri, his longtime sidekick and number two. he is egyptian. age 59. he is considered to be a master of planning and a master of logistic. let's go to mike baker, former cia overs. al zawahri's wife and three of his daughters believed to have died in an air strike shortly after 9/11. my question, is this personal for al zawahri? >> well, yeah, you would assume it would be personal for anyone in those circumstances, no matter what the cause is. for him he's a real idealog who was given credit for radicalizing bin laden back in the mid-'80s when he was starting to finance the mujahadin and then from that relationship eventually zawahri merged his existing as a terrorist organization into al qaeda. he wasn't likely to take over the top spot but he's got too much stature for that not to have happen. >> let's talk about that. you make that point. reading comments about al zawahri. none of the charisma of osama bin laden and another one for p

the discovery doesn't mean bin laden had contacts with isi officials >> bin laden is a paranoid and disciplinedy when he was alive. he wouldn't let people except in his immediate circle know where he was. >> house intelligence chairman reiterated he does not think top pakistani leaders knew bin laden was at the compound. rogue elements within services or former members may well have >> this militant group with ties to pakistan intelligence and at one point, they were even sharing training camps with al qaeda. >> when the u.s. launched air strikes in 1998 after the embassy bomb negligence africa, several members of the group were killed in the air strikes because they were sharing a training camp. the ties between that group and al qaeda go back at least 15 years >> good reporting for us. the battle over the debt is heating up. the house democratic leader nancy pelosi had sharp words for republicans. listen who to what she told candy crowley. >> the republicans said that tax cuts produce jobs. they didn't. they produced a deficit. they produced a deficit. >> with two wars. >> two unpaid for wars

find osama bin laden. now they're in the custody of the pakistani government, a development that's driving a deeper wedge between two countries with an already troubled relationship. >>> i'm kiran chetry. there's a showdown brewing this morning between the president and the speaker of the house. the issue is the u.s. military operation in libya. speaker john boehner sending a letter to the white house warning president obama he may be breaking the law. >>> i'm ali velshi. ignoring the pleas of the gop, new jersey governor chris christie puts speculation to rest once and for all, he will not run for president, we'll tell you why on this "american morning." >>> and welcome to "american morning." it is wednesday, june 15th. i'm christine romans. good morning, you guys. >> good morning. >> nice to see you. >> an awful lot of news. we begin with breaking news, another deep fracture in the relationship between the united states and pakistan. pakistan's top military spy agency has arrested five informants who hel