he made -- he killed daniel pearl not because anything daniel pearl said or wrote or even thought. he did it to change and affect his reputation inside al-qaeda and that gives us is small window into the man and i hope to open a few other windows as i talk briefly today. now, inside al-qaeda, it's not as monolithic as you might imagine. i wrote the book "mastermind" to answer three questions. the old saying you write a book when you want to spend a couple years studying something and teach yourself. the three questions on the war on terror sort of waged on that dogged me at the back of my mind and these are the questions. one, how does an educated, successful person, educated in america and in our western universities, become a remorseless killer of our society and of his own? what's that pattern of transformation? what are the choices that person makes to become a terrorist? how does that happen? secondly, i wanted to know how does al-qaeda function on the inside? what is it like to work for al-qaeda? what are the internal dynamics? and third, what techniques in the war on terror

he killed daniel pearl not because of anything that daniel pearl said or thought that to change his reputation inside al qaeda that gives us of small window into the man. . . what are the choices that person makes to become a terrorist? how does that happen? secondly, i wanted to know, how does that function on the inside? what a silly to work? what are the internal dynamics? in third, what techniques in the war on terror work and don't work? it obviously leads us into the territory of interrogation rendition of what some people call torture. so those are the three things i'm going to talk to you about briefly today. khalid sheikh mohammed was born in kuwait on the coast. his father came in 1850. it was never a very important village and he became important in many teen 50s because of oil production and the fact that a lot of tradition australian and south american engineers. but before the coming of the western engineers come as a small coastal village within thy fair chase for pearls, sold seafood. it was an arab seaside town. when the oil boom started attracting immigrants across the muslim

standing ties to al qaeda and experts say the people who murdered "wall street journal" reporter daniel pearlve connections to the group. the times said in tracing the calls on courier's phone, analysts determine that members of the group had called pakistani intelligence officials. house intelligence committee mike rogers won't comment on the report, but believes elements assisted bin laden at some point. >> what are level of help do you believe they gave? >> think there was logistical support that had to happen by former members of the military or current members. there was logistical assistance >> we couldn't get officials to comment on the times report. contacted by cnn, a counter terrorism official could not confirm he was assisting bin laden at the compound a member of the group denied the cell phone linked his group to bin laden. the discovery doesn't mean bin laden had contacts with isi officials >> bin laden is a paranoid and disciplined guy when he was alive. he wouldn't let people except in his immediate circle know where he was. >> house intelligence chairman reiterated he does no