one named cia officer and a companion from the agency met with osama bin laden when he came out to dubai had kidney treatment he had kidney stones. this was a frequent problem of his chronic complaint was it true well i looked into most of the truth as conspiracy theories and so on in connection with nine eleven and just ended up dismissing all of them this one though i was struck by it because i had information from a senior french intelligence officer who said that he had known about it at the time one of the doctors who reportedly attended on bin laden at that time was a frenchman. a french kidney specialist and he as you would if i was to go and attend on a patient who was one of the most wanted men in the world talked with french intelligence before going and asked them is it all right to do that and so on the basis of that the story begins to have credibility and the thought is that in july if one believes that that in july two thousand and one just really weeks a couple of months before the nine eleven attacks that the. cia would have in contact sort of negotiations. with al qaeda

in mid-august, from pakistan, through dubai, assigned to attack new york or washington with a vehicle bomb on september 10th, 11th or 12th. officials call the source credible. the information, very specific but still unconfirmed. >> it's uncorroborated. that means there's only the one source. none of our other sources are saying the same thing. and so far, we haven't been able to actually find any evidence in the real world that the report is true. >> reporter: late wednesday night, the intelligence was related to washington and cia headquarters. early thursday at the white house, the president and the vice president received the first of several briefings on the threat. >> we don't have the smoking gun but we do have talk about using a car bomb. >> reporter: thursday night, as the president arrived to address congress, the fbi and the cia were in high gear. >> you use all the resources that we have. people are working 24/7 on this issue. >> reporter: late last night, the fbi and homeland security issued a bulletin to 18,000 local law enforcement agencies, detailing the vehicle bomb t

you also wrote the cia officers may have met with osama bin laden in dubai shortly before nine eleven what's the significance of that. well it's an extraordinary notion i don't know if it's true. but the information that i gathered appears to suggest that a one named cia officer and a companion from the agency met with osama bin laden when he came out to dubai to have kidney treatment he had kidney stones. this was a frequent problem of his chronic complaint was it true well i looked into most of the truth as conspiracy theories and so on in connection with nine eleven i'm just pointed out this meeting all of them this one though i was struck by because i had information from a senior french intelligence officer who said that he had known about it at the time one of the doctors who reportedly attended on bin darden at that time was a frenchman. a french kidney specialist and he as you would if i was to go and attend on a patient who is one of the most wanted men in the world talked with french intelligence before going and asked them is it all right to do this so on the basis of that

a champions league double from dubai saves the day to ts doris day scramble a point against illegal. wild rubin arrive in dublin for the europa league now again shamrock rovers. class making history russia prepare for their rugby world cup debut against the usa. i'm getting back on side we feel he's going to reach russia one dr vitale petrols he's going to get back on the podium richard he did few months. start there was a champions league mathias can also go came from two goals down to drop so you'd see you away at night so you don't buy a scoring buy for the army men with a loss coming in the final minutes so put the head just before half time and then because they're asking double belly just started right sort of praise from dubai in the seventeen seconds and ninety five minutes rescued a point beyond the man afterwards to scar manichean in this news he said these teams played badly but did deserve a point in the end elsewhere in group a to the side from spall made a memorable champions league debut stunning into milan one nil at the san siro but in prepaid behind opened their cha

52 million dollars leaves afghanistan and ends up in dubai. this was a story of a year ago reported by a lot of people now forgotten. who approves 52 million in cash to go to afghanistan which ends up in dubai? unbelievable. this country is in such trouble. we have leaders that don't have any chew as to what is happening. or -- any clue as to what is happening, maybe they do have a clue that makes it worse. >> greta: the president's jobs act. the report is about the 450 billion, now we've gone from millions to billions. 400 billion will come from reducing the ability to take charitable deductions. if you give to charity you will lose that over a certain income level. many say will discourage people if giving to charity, hospitals, people starving, schools or whatever. that's the first thing. second payroll tax deduction eliminating that. how do you play with these numbers? what does this mean? >> as far as the charity is concerned, that will totally dry up. you will not have a lot of people giving lots of money to charity. they give and they a

then he went to dubai and set up the dubai merck, basically. he said of the old trading. and it's a crazy story. a very short trip for me, in and out. you know, you guys like the hot weather. a little weak. it's a wild story. the whole world of oil, which i knew nothing about and had heard about, this kid i knew and invited me when bringing down the house came out to ring the bell at the merc exchange. al went down there to ring the belt and look down on this incredible sea of tough guys from brooklyn pushing and shoving and throwing tickets. one clerk, a small guy. he hired a bunch of people behind him his entire job was just told him on the trading floor. this is so cool. that is what made me write that. also working on that movie as well with summit, i think. you will see is that it's going. >> yes, ma'am. >> i want to read something funny to you about recreating dialogue. this is sites program. measured pored over thousands of pages of court records, fbi documents and has interviewed most of the participants to reconstruct this asha's 11 style heist. already the novel

host: our guest is curtis dubay from the heritage foundation. there is the web site if you want to take a look at it yourself. new york, you are up next. caller: thank you for c-span. i have a two-fold situation. number one, most of our manufacturing has been sent overseas. over stimulus that we were supposed to have in the last four or five years has not really come about. to stimulate economic growth, you have to have something you are producing in this country. as far as taxes and the taxing or raising the tax base for the 1% since they have control of all of this capital -- most of the capital is brought in from what they have done overseas -- and why isn't is possible that the president's increase shouldn't be feasible? thank you. guest: did you catch the last part? when you raise taxes on investors and businesses, you are doing two things. which is raise marginal tax rates. first, you are taking resources out of their hands and putting it into the hands of congress. would you rather have the 535 members of congress deciding how to invest t

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she's on her way to kabul but we catch up with her in dubai.anne, what is your first assignment in afghanistan? >> reporter: good to hear from you, drew. we just got off a 13-hour flight, united flight into dubai. it's about 93 degrees here fahrenheit. i don't know how hot it is there in atlanta but it's about 8:20 local time in the evening here. it's dark. we're at the airport. we're about eight hours ahead of you and when we get to kabul, we'll be 8 1/2 hours ahead of eastern time. we've got about a six-hour layover here and one of the things we'll be doing is we'll take off about 3:30 in the morning or so, hit the ground running in kabul and one of the first places we are going to set up is camp eggers, a base where they do training of the afghans and it's one of the main missions of nato as well as the united states is to get the afghans up to speed so that they can take over their security within a couple of years or so. you might recall, drew, it's just a couple months we had general william cogwell on the show. he's the one in charge of

the thre reportedly travelled from pakistan's tribal areas through dubai to the u.s. in mid august. >> this is probably dowowto a few hundred people. but it doesn't take many people to do this kind of attack. >> reporter: in new york's times square, there was no obvious show of an enhanced police presence beyond what is normally there. but the mayor and the police commissioner said the credible but uncorroborated threat would require a significant show of security across the city. >> we live in a world where we must take these threats seriously and we certainly will. the public is like lip to see and maybe somewhat inconvenienced by, vehicle checkpoints at various locations throughout the city. >> reporter: u.s. officials have been bracing for such a plot after discovering documents in bin laden's pakistan hide outwhere he called for a strike against the u.s. on the tenth anniversary of september 11th. in the recent video last month he called on his followers to focus on the u.s., tracker down and make an example out of her. the united states has been looking fofo int

in late august or early september from pakistan through dubai. assigned to attack new york or washington with a vehicle bomb on september 10th, 11th or 12th. officials call the source credible. the information, very specific, but still unconfirmed. late wednesday night, the intelligence was relayed to washington and cia headquarters. early thursday at the white house, the president and vice president received the first of several briefings on the vehicle bomb threat. around 7:00 p.m., as the president arrived to address congress, the fbi and cia were in high gear. >> you use all the resources that we have. people are working 24/7 on this issue. >> reporter: u.s. authorities say they believe that if the information is accurate, the three men likely arrived here with nothing more than a suitcase full of clothes and an al qaeda form la for a vehicle bomb which would involve chemicals and components easily purchased here, bianna. >> brian, we're learning details as who the potential suspects are, any details as to what the targets have been? >> repor

sing off caught in sunday's opening match just one goal coming on a dreary day in padam out of town dubai had a chance to altoona school board maybe going through the second how bought miscued he's afeard thousand literally soaking in the experience well and he close pareve did break the deadlock with a pinpoint phreaking five minutes from time but striking off with the muscovites to say three flights. the league's all the spartak outfit meanwhile silver wounds. going down to rust stalled and i had the opportunity to open for on the spot thirty minutes and although the former russian international believe the keeper he didn't bid the post both teams creating chances to was until course age best in some very small town in the eighteen fed minutes barback now bottom of the league golf to the one they'll defeat. and that's because craig had been bottom going into the weekend managed to play in the fourth tree this season said he got a million things started he's a sit down with ninety minutes gone the russian international left alone to be his spot has teams leave them double dry before the

in that work, what hope to dubai of the dividing our strategy is is to look at defining our activities that we are funding and looking at outcomes that support our overall work. figuring out, telling the story of what do we get for the money -- what do we produce for the money that we allocate for services? in that effort, we have redefined some of the strategy is like case management as an actual activity versus a strategy, so that it is clear in terms of what products we would like to see. finally, we have included gender responsive services throughout the spectrum. we see gender responsive services as an important component in all areas. it is a service that should target the entire population. not only a specific cohort. in past years, we passed gender specific services on the juvenile population. this time, we will focus on the three target populations. in a nutshell, these are the three major changes that you will see in the upcoming lap. from that point on, as i mentioned, we have strategies that are connected to a target population and that really allow us to look at an allocat

meanwhile, one of gadhafi's sons saadi told a dubai-based satellite news channel on wednesday that he has been appointed by his father to negotiate with the national transitional council. arabic "we admit that they represent a segment of society, and that their demands are legitimate and we should negotiate with them. but they too should recognize that we are the legitimate government and they should negotiate with us." however, another son of gadhafi, saif al- islam, said through an audio statement broadcast on a syrian -owned satellite channel... that no one is going to surrender and over twenty- thousand pro-gadhafi defenders are ready to fight the rebels. english "well, it's not surprising now that the remnants of the gadhafi regime are in a confused state and are giving out different messages. and so, yes, we have heard from different gadhafi sons, through the media, over the last 24 hours: messages of surrender, messages of defiance." while rebels flatly dismissed the remarks by ghaddafi's sons,... the two conflicting messages show that the failing regime is running out of time.

cross talk of prospects for a palestinian state i'm joined by the end of the two in kuranda she's a dubai initiative research fellow palestinian human rights lawyer and a former legal adviser to the palestinian negotiating team and that she mash we have many more as he's a professor at ben gurion university and his most recent book is one state two states resolving the israel palestine conflict all right this is cross talk and i very much encourage you my guest to jump in you have different points of view and i'd like my viewers to see that but before let's have a look at what's some are calling a do it diplomatic tsunami. despite months of desperate efforts by the u.s. and israel to head off a move that could become the next tipping point in the middle east the palestinian leadership is heading to the united nations with a firm commitment to seek recognition as a state we are going to be you and with all options open we're going to the security council will go. critics are more than certain the general assembly will vote in favor of palestinian statehood but president obama has been stru

you company and this is what is coming up over the next few minutes a champions league double from dubai saves the day for tear scars they scramble a point against new. wildmen be arriving in dublin for their europa league again shamrock rovers. are making history russia prepare for their rugby world cup debut against the usa. now let's start the champions league with tears in moscow came from two goals down to draw so you'd see a way at lille last night to do that scoring by three army men with their loss coming in the final minutes the hard put the head just before half time and then could draw teeth just after the break but a break from them by us in the seventy eight nine seats many of rescued a point for the army men afterwards just our manager i mean it's nice he said his team has played badly but he does have a point in the end elsewhere in the pater if you side probably explore made a memorable champions league a stunning internet one email at the san siro. improved by an open their champions league campaign with a two year old when i referred to rio well as big spending runs to

doubled their lead just after the break but two goals from dubai in the seventy second and ninety minutesdramatically rescued a point beyond the men and after estate manager leonard sleeps he said his team played badly thus deserve the points in the end and elsewhere group the turkish side thrives on squad had a memorable champions league debut stunning into milan one nil after the sun sirree . turning green bay i really hope their group stage campaign breaks you know in a without a i'll probably expanding manchester city actually started three one all draw at home to napoli the serious side took their leave st vincent on the right way through the second half full of pace and call your old equalised from a free kick turned in group c. a late penalty gave all three points against rumanian debutantes the two new glossy after both sides finished with ten men and last season's runners up bunch delighted came from behind to a point against benfica ryan giggs equalising understands the club also had put the fortunes of ahead united manager sir alex ferguson admitted his team lacked flair in tha

crossed out the prospects for a palestinian state i'm joined by the end of the two in colorado she's a dubai initiative research fellow palestinian human rights lawyer and a former legal advisor to the palestinian negotiating team and and bet shemesh we have benny morris he's a professor at ben gurion university and his most recent book is one state two states resolving the israel palestine conflict all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it but first marcia many people are calling this a diplomatic tsunami tell us why that's right peter despite months of desperate efforts by the u.s. and israel to head off a move that could become the next tipping point in the middle east the palestinian leadership is heading to the united nations for the firm commitment a secret. admission as a state we are going to you and all options open we're going to the security council we've got some of the critics are more than certain the general assembly will vote in favor of palestinian statehood but president obama has been struggling to keep isr

we believe they transitted through dubai. members of congress told that the fbi has the names of the individuals but not there whereabouts. they are now searching nationwide for these individuals. >> and they wanted to launch a truck bomb attack on washington or new york and some trucks are missing. >> reporter: some trucks are missing. they discounted a report of two trucks stolen in kansas city but they are searching nationwide now for reports of trucks that might have been rented and are overdue or have been stolen. they're looking everywhere, high and low. this is considered very serious. >> and so much of the concern coming into the anniversary had been over a lone wolf attack, starting here in the united states. but this is different. this is from overseas and it appears to be coordinated. >> reporter: this is definitely different. considered to be part of al qaeda central what they call the main part of al qaeda, it's believed the individuals may have come from either pakistan or afghanistan, onheir way here, perhaps t

weather a very dangerous prosperous and hopefully this mission by why the russian up a holes or the dubai up will clarify matters but it should certainly lead to targeting those countries which just phones ring this insurrection all right you know but i mean you know very gloomy picture there taken everything you say but you know russia is calling on both sides to talk in syria from what you've been saying there isn't any danger that they're going to talk anytime soon though no well the question is there's an opposition within syria which exists within civil society and then there's some reaction i'll cite there's a there's some form of a national salvation calls all in turkey which doesn't necessarily represent syrian public opinion. terrorist attacks directed against the. community. in various parts of the country which are well documented syria is the secular society and i think there's a lot of rules for progress between the government in opposition forces but this is not what what one cause. what the well is the d.c. belies turkey by funding and supporting you know it's a reaction wh

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the three reportedly traveled from pakistan's tribal areas, through dubai, to the u.s. in mid-august. >> we take all threat reporting seriously. and we have taken, and will continue to take all steps necessary to mitigate any threats that arise. >> reporter: in new york's times square thursday night, there was no obvious show of an enhanced police presence beyond what is normally there. but the mayor and the police commissioner said the credible but uncorroborated threat would require a significant show of security across the city. >> the public is likely to see, and maybe somewhat inconvenienced by, vehicle checkpoints at various locations throughout the city. >> reporter: u.s. officials have been bracing for just t ch a plot after discovering documents in bin laden's pakistan hideout, in which he called for a strike against the u.s. on the tenth anniversary of september 11th. in zawahiri's most recent video last month, he called on his followers to focus on the u.s. track her down, he said, and make an example out of her. police in new york plan a full show of force s

eight percent chance of a default which there would be only a forty percent of the color of the of the dubai that would you bet on that. one hundred percent and that's why it's i think it's going to within five years definitely the question is not if it's going to happen with it's going to five years seems like kind of a long time at least at the rate that things have been going you know and now we have the german economy minister saying that we can't act like this is taboo anymore we have to talk in realistic terms and realize that a greek default just may happen and it would be an orderly default what what is an orderly default and is there even such a thing as that it's not a unilateral default it's not that suddenly things over called good. germany bogs and suddenly they are put up or we can pare bills we would default that would be on orders to fall where he's trying to say is that they have a ploy for the default that they are prepared for the default and that they restructure it in a fashion that minimizes the damage to all the other countries that potentially could default as well bu

in late august or early september from pakistan through dubai with an attack to new york or washington with a vehicle bomb on september 10th are 11th or 12th. they called it credible and the information very specific but unconfirmed. >> late wednesday night the intelligence was relayed to washington and c.i.a. headquarters. early thursday another the white house the president and vice president received the first of several briefings on the vehicle bomb threat. around 7:00 p.m. as the president arrived to address congress, f.b.i. and c.i.a. were in high gear. >> you use all the resources we have. people are working 24/7 on this issue. >> reporter: they are reporting this morning that officials know the name of one of three men but do not have anybody in custody. >>> president obama and rudy guliani are using their addresses to send a unified message. they should honor the heroes while remaining vigilant of would be terrorists. we'll take a look where the attacks begin and reflecting on the attacks in washington, new york and pennsylvania claimed more than 3,000 american lives. for thos

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through dubai and europe. officials say the goal is to set off a car or truck bomb. government and police officials in new york and washington say residents and visitors should not change their plans. they do stress that anything suspicious should be reported. there have been no changes to planned memorials anywhere in the country as the u.s. prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. i'm joined by michael sheehan a terrorism analyst for msnbc. a gd saturday morning to you. >> good morning, alex. >> if we talk about this threat which is unconfirmed. so talk about its credibility? >> it's becoming more and more specific even though we don't have the names of these three individuals, now we're hearing two may be carrying u.s. passports and their travel routes. it's specific, the source of the information is very credible. normally intelligence officials like to have a corroborating stream of information in order to rach it up farther. this is worrisome. but everything's going to proceed as normal we hope up in new york city and in washington on september 11th. >>

at travel patterns people who have come from the mideast maybe started in pakistan or went through dubai. that helps to narrow it down a little bit. so far we're not told that there's been any information that they've either found them or they can say that this is not a real threat. they have to assume even though they can't can't confirm that it's for real, they have to assume that it might be. that's why you're seeing all this ratcheted up security in new york and washington, d.c. that's making the morning and the afternoon commute probably take a lot longer. >> roger, we've been told this report is credible. but uncorroborated and unconfirmed. can you explain precisely what that means? >> craig, i'm sorry, i've lost audio. >> roger, while we try and get that fixed, let me go back to pete. i'll pose that same question to you. you've been covering these types of stories for years now. if a report's credible and uncorroborated and unconfirmed what does that mean? >> it means that the source of the information, the source who told this information to the u.s. is someone who is considered

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from dubai and europe. officials say the terrorist's goal is to set off a car or truck bomb.response to the unconfirmed threat, security has been drastically increased in both new york and wash wrush. officials in those cities say residents and visitors should not change their plans in response to the possible plot. they do stress skrij lance and that anything suspicious should be reported. >>> there have been no changes to the planned memorials anywhere in this country as the u.s. prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of september 11th. with that alleged al qaeda plot that has the fbi and homeland security searching for three potential trisdz on u.s. soil, here's some of the intelligence that officials are sharing about it. the three men are said to have traveled from pakistan to the u.s. to set off those car or truck bombs in new york and washington. again, some of those men may be u.s. citizens or at least they have u.s. travel documents. i'm joined now live by michael high shan, terrorism analyst for msnbc news, and michael, with a welcome back, you know, i was talking w

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