to say she is the same age as someone who put off a bomb in kandahar, we have to bring some sense toverdo it. after 10 years, why don't we have a frequent player program? a bit talk of those traveling or traveling to three times a week and yet we treat everybody equally as a terror suspect. in doing so, i think that we take away time that could be spent on those who would be. i think half the tsa agents have joined the program and who take half the agents and look at the manifest of those flying from foreign countries. i want to know the limits of reflate. i do know how a part of this for doing this, but it makes strict rules on the site internationally. that's the biggest risk. but those from iraq to 70,000 people come and fight for going to the. we miss fingerprints that they had on an ied. good rme. the people once every couple months in iraq or afghanistan who admits into the army to help us. it's hard to get these people. this was an extraordinary circumstance with a fingerprint and mistake, but most of the time it could be lying to us as they go to the bank process. we put them

prison system and then of course the assassination of president karzai brother while he karzai in kandahar which apparently does turn out to have been a case where he was in touch with the taliban and again underlines the point that the taliban have been making with their strategy that they have in fact been able to strike targets because they are afghans and they have afghan allies to help what about the timing of this is it to challenge the transition all of the power of the u.s. and to be a force is the security over to the afghan security services and if that's the case surely this is a message saying it's too late even to think about withdrawing one of those forces and handing power over to the afghan officials. well i think that's certainly part of the calculation that is being made here that this would have an impact on the opinion and politics surrounding this trans the so-called transition but i think it's clearly a larger strategic calculus that underlies just overall strategy of hitting targets that make this point politically you cannot keep us out of these most sensitive place

in july, the president's brother ahmed wali karzai, was shot down in his kandahar home. just weeks later, the mayor of kandahar died in another suicide attack with explosives hidden in a turban. the taliban claimed responsibility for both murders. their goals, to take out people in positions of power and authority. and many of those people are key to the american forces' exit strategy from afghanistan. >> pelley: so, mandy, i wonder, where do the afghans go at this point? >> reporter: well, as of tonight there may be nowhere to go. rabbani has built relationships with numerous insurgent groups and there appeared to be some progress so as of now these negotiations are probably dead. >> pelley: mandy clark. thank you very much. the bombing happened just before afghan president hamid karzai met with president obama at the u.n. in new york. karzai cut short the visit and headed home. chief white house correspondent norah o'donnell is at the u.n. norah? >> reporter: good evening, scott. this is a horrific assassination of an afghan leader that the u.s. viewed as a unifying fi

public outside of the military and special operations need to get some of afghanistan is especially kandahar it's the crossroads of the five major cities it's been significant in the center of gravity since alexander the great, southern afghanistan is where everything travels from what is considered old persian to asia which is part of the reason that the british were so intent on controlling it twice. it's hugely significant about the area and that is what we want to -- that's what we want people to know and understand it is not just this one glimpse in time. it has been for centuries and remains today even during the war and exceptionally diverse and dynamic place where the soldiers are serving. >> there are a lot war books. this was one of the best i've read. this was great. it got towards the end it was intense. >> thank you very much. it took a lot of hard work. again i think the biggest challenge for me was because of some of the security requirements, having to tone down what a lot of the men who did their actually did and what they've accomplished. it is nothing short of phenomenal,

i was surprised when we landed in kandahar that you forced them to carry you around on a litter. (laughing) i thought that was interesting and i don't know where they got rose pet als. (laughing) it's a dry and arid place. but i'm glad you were comfortable. >> actually that usually only happens once a trip. >> jon: (laughing) ( cheers and applause ) i have to tell you something. what so impressed me, you know, we got to interact a lot with the guys. it was really wonderful. but the interaction that they had with you, there was so much more depth to it. there was, you know, when you gathered them around that first night and you were sort of going around and you were saying who is on the first tour and second tour and you started to see hands go up. some guys, 5th tour, 6th tour. you know how much difficulty it was on their families. the moments that you spent with them, they really seemed to appreciate in a very deep way. >> one of the things that i-- and i'm here tonight with debra who is in the audience tonight and my wife of over 40 years, 41 years, we've tried to represent the

i said, "maybe." >> smith: soufan had never been to kandahar, but after just a few days, quso would take soufan deep inside the terrorist organization. >> quso provided significant information, not only about the cole itself and what happened and his knowledge about it, but he provided a lot of information about afghanistan, about the training camps, about people he met over in afghanistan. >> smith: during one session, al quso mentioned an operative named tawfiq bin attash, or khallad, a former bodyguard of osama bin laden's and one of al qaeda's top men. >> the very logical question-- when is the last time you saw khallad? and he said, "well, i saw him last time in bangkok." and, for me, what the heck this guy is doing in bangkok? >> smith: quso explained that khallad had asked him to deliver some cash. but soufan wondered, if al qaeda had been planning the cole attack in yemen, why would they have been moving money to bangkok? >> the amount was $36,000. many questions came to our mind. we thought maybe al qaeda was planning to do something in southeast asia. however, the very first lo

are they able to fight and hold ground in cobble and kandahar? kandahar?kabul and canada ar i would tell you that there are not. as a team, the enemy has been set on retreat. the ability to conduct this spectacular attack, anyone who is willing to blow themselves up can kill a lot of people. we have seen that in mumbai with the world trade center, with 9/11 coming up, with spain, in london. you will not be able to direct that fully with the security forces. a lot of that will really have to be addressed long term through the reconciliation process through education process. but as far as the ability to totally disrupt a society, the insurgent threat, the taliban, it is increasingly limited in the places that they can do that in afghanistan. i think it is actually great. at the intercontinental hotel, the response in kandahar, that is a success story for the afghan forces. we did not have to go in and deal with it. they dealt with it. afghanistan will be needing in support for a long time. there will not have an air force that is fully functional for a numb

know we knew exactly where osama bin laden was spending the night for five consecutive nights and kandahar city and we could have killed him at any one of those nights and the president decided not to do it and i wrote a memo that said basically if we don't do this soon we're going to miss our opportunity and a lot of americans are going to die for that and that got me moved to another job doing counter-narcotics until until nine eleven i resigned no more because of the failure of the nine eleven commission to find anybody responsible for anything before nine eleven and because they failed to the informed to inform the american people in their report that we're fighting people who are at war with us because of our foreign policy and its impact in their world and not because americans have women in the workplace or because we drink beer and i thought that was a major failure of the nine eleven commission and i thought i should say something about that and i couldn't do it as a serving cia officer says michael show where the former chief of this drama bill out of the tracking unit at the cia

from the streets of kandahar. a giant corporations. with the headlines of the week you're watching the weekly with me research i run out see thousands of mourners gathered in the afghan capital kabul on friday for the funeral of the country's former president. was assassinated on choose a by a suicide bomber who hid in the device in his turban and all the while claimed to be a taliban envoy rabbani who had led the countries in the one nine hundred ninety s. was the key figure in current peace talks with militants this is followed a string of high profile targeted killings including the murder of the current president's half brother in july. sultanzoy a political stunt former afghan and says rabbani was trying to maintain stability and believes his loss may affect the alignment of forces in the country. he was a very moderate figure and he was a very important influence in bringing moderation and. stability and the politics of the country and mr karzai and others will miss that but the problems that we're facing are monumental problems

from the streets of kandahar. today. as colonel gadhafi remaining forces hold out against nato against government troops and nato air strikes in libya the french president faces a legal battle at home over his country's intervention in the war. should be held to account for crimes against humanity committed during the bombing of libya. international. tension in kosovo where neither locals nor serbs seem willing to back down after recent budget. proposal to end the deadlock sparked by the violent seizure of two border post by kosovo in july. statehood showdown at the un as the general assembly gets ready to vote on the status of palestine with deep divisions preparing to crack the surface of the u.s. and israel in.

he had to travel from kandahar to kuwait, to dallas. >> a lot of people thanked me, said hi. >> they're heros, all of them are. but i don't think they're all comfortable being placed on that pedestal. >> it doesn't worth what happened to get it but it's all right. >> i'm very proud of him. he's a very, very just a really good kid. >> and father for others he's someone his brothers and others in the community can look up to. he's a graduate of livermore high. he's expected to come home for good to the united states sometime after the first of the year. reporting live in oakland, jade hernandez. >>> the u.s. army says a decorated soldier from livermore has died of rabies. kevin schumaker served from may 2010 until may of this year. officials say he died last wednesday in new york where he was stationed for. the military says how he contracted rabies is unconfirmed. shumaker is survived by his mother and father. >>> the event was part of national disaster preparedness day. it included presentations by the police department and the red cross. the event was important due to the fact that mos

from the streets of kandahar. operation. this is coming to you live from moscow to headline. together in green morrow services takes place across europe as the world's ice hockey community remembers the full truth three victims of the plane crash in central russia an emotional ceremony has also been held at the stadium in batteries where the team was supposed to play the season's other name. president barack obama lays out his much anticipated jobs act before congress says stagnation of the job market in the world's largest economy raises concerns over there a bit it's he'll be united states to pull out of the economic crisis and. the british government faces legal action as doctors demond an inquiry into the death of the owners inspector david kay who was the first to reveal britain you've had no weapons of mass destruction head of the us and led invasion in two thousand and three. and i'll be back with a recap our top stories in less than thirty minutes next hour.

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the taliban has launched a campaign of assassinations, including president karzai's brother and kandahar's mayor, who was also killed with a turban bomb. and as u.s. troops begin to leave, violence is increasing in the heart of kabul. just last week, insurgents launched a 20-hour attack on the u.s. military headquarters and the u.s. embassy. you can still feel the tension in the air outside rabbani's house, which is just behind me. his death was so important, president karzai is cutting a trip to new york short to return immediately. he has declared three days of national mourning for rabbani, beginning tomorrow. diane? >> nick schifrin reporting on the ominous news from afghanistan tonight. >>> and here at home, a showdown for the president on the international stage. whether to stand with our ally israel, even if we stand alone. israel's long-timed adversary, the palestinians, are threatening to ask the united nations to make them an independent state now. it is a huge political mine field for the president, and abc's jake tapper is here with the president in new york tonight. good to se

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to say she is the same age as someone who put off a bomb in kandahar, we have to bring some sense toverdo it. after 10 years, why don't we have a frequent player program? a bit talk of those traveling or traveling to three times a week and yet we treat everybody equally as a terror suspect. in doing so, i think that we take away time that could be spent on those who would be. i think half the tsa agents have joined the program and who take half the agents and look at the manifest of those flying from foreign countries. i want to know the limits of reflate. i do know how a part of this for doing this, but it makes strict rules on the site internationally. that's the biggest risk. but those from iraq to 70,000 people come and fight for going to the. we miss fingerprints that they had on an ied. good rme. the people once every couple months in iraq or afghanistan who admits into the army to help us. it's hard to get these people. this was an extraordinary circumstance with a fingerprint and mistake, but most of the time it could be lying to us as they go to the bank process. we put them

to say she is the same age as someone who put off a bomb in kandahar, we have to bring some sense toverdo it. after 10 years, why don't we have a frequent player program? a bit talk of those traveling or traveling to three times a week and yet treat everybody equally as a terror suspect. in doing so, i think that we take away time that could be spent on those who would be. i think half the tsa agents have joined the program and who take half the agents and look at the manifest of those flying from foreign countries. i want to know the limits of reflate. i do know how a part of this for doing this, but it makes strict rules on the site internationally. that's the biggest risk. but those from iraq to 70,000 people come and fight for going to the. we miss fingerprints that they had on an ied. good rme. the people once every couple months in iraq or afghanistan who admits into the army to help us. it's hard to get these people. this was an extraordinary circumstance with a fingerprint and mistake, but most of the time it could be lying to us as they go to the bank process. we put them on

our troops have been to lands unknown to many americans a decade ago, kandahar and kabul to mosul and our commitment to those lands to free people in sovereign states and our desire to move from a decade of a future of peace. these 10 years have shown that we hold fast to our freedoms. yes, we're more vigilant against those who threaten us and there are inconveniences that come with our common defense. debates about war and peace, about security and civil liberties have often been fierce last 10 years but it is precisely the rigor of these debates and our ability to resolve them in a way that honors our values and our democracy that is the measure of our strength. meanwhile, our open markets still provide innovators a chance to create and succeed. our citizens are still free to speak their minds. and our souls are enriched in churches and temples, synagogues and mosques. these past 10 years underscores the bonds between all americans. we have not succumbed to suspicion, nor have we succumbed to mistrust. after 9/11, to his great credit, president bush made clear what we reaffirm today

these are the images and seeing from the streets of kandahar. today. as fierce fighting continues in libya lawyers gear up for a battle of their own by trying to prosecute president sarkozy with war crimes over the military intervention nato used to depleted uranium shells and residential buildings causing civilian deaths including children and. goes on with the forces still struggling to take the city. worldwide support of threats of the u.s. who want to move in the u.s. palestinian president mahmoud abbas is to request. his speech to the general assembly on friday the world bank. is already economically strong enough to stand on its own feet. if. seek a diplomatic solution to the intense standoff and. over border controls pristina sees.

the one fellow in afghanistan who did that superb this the special forces of the kandahar province that once he succeeded billion made to empower the tribes, and the other detachment area as. and was yanked out sent to iraq and the scene was broken up. one year ago "the washington post" said he was bringing in with the gates endorsement of everybody says this is the great thing but check with my special forces contacts in the bar. [laughter] none of that seems to have filtered down this requires a detachment commander to be there not what the hell did you do before last year type of thing. have you heard of the strategy of one tribeca time? and what is happening that you can detect and is that a way to salvage with much less troops? >> thank you very much for explaining things because the matter how much until we understand that we are nowhere near the solution. on the fear and the gilts which was after the capture of bin laden which was the perfect vacation to deal with of the year and the gilts why did they realize to go back? >> that is a lovely question to end on.

kandahar and kabul. we've just heard word that behind us now, you've gotten word there might be something suspicious going on. >> yes, we moved down the road. we came from that direction. we passed maybe a mile, maybe two past the area. then they'll plant in a bomb behind us. >> the afghan national army actually found a suspicious device or something that seems to be suspicious down this way from where we just came. what you're basically saying is theoretically, someone knew we were going to be coming back that direction and planted a bomb so we would hit it on our way back? >> yes, it's very lucky today because now that they found suspicious bomb material behind us, that prevents us from going back over it and getting exploded on. >> there was six jugs of homemade explosives, roughly 300 pounds of explosives. >> just so you know like 300 pounds is like a typical suv, like say a tahoe. breaking into about 2 million pieces and kill everybody inside the vehicle. >> roger. bush whacker seven. >> now with on

our troops have been to land unknown to many americans a decade ago, to kandahar and kabul, to mosulnd our desire to move from a decade of war to a future of peace. these ten years have shown that we hold fast to our freedoms. yes, we're more vigilant against those who trhreaten us and ther are inconveniences that come with our common defense. debates about war and peace, about security and civil liberties have often been fierce these last ten years but it is precisely the rigor of these debates and our ability to resolve them in a way that honors our values and our democracy that is the measure of our strength. meanwhile, our open markets still provide innovators a chance to create and succeed. our citizens are still free to speak their minds and our souls are enriched in churches and simples, our synagogues and our mosques. these past ten years underscores the eurobonds between all americans. we have not succumbed to suspicion, nor have we succumbed to mistrust. after 9/11, to his great credit, president bush made clear what we will re-affirm today -- the united states will never w

most americans have never heard of kandahar in afghanistan, many never of shanksville in pennsylvanian at airports and didn't put your toothpaste in little bags. closing moments before tragedy and before heroes. monday, september 1010, 2001. two towers still stood, and more than 2,000 of our friends, first responders and countrymen still lived. it was the last day then before the first day of now. for "good morning america," john berman, abc news, new york. >> so fascinating to look back. our thanks to john berman. bianna, that really reminds me something i heard recently from experts who study memory. which is that traumatic events are remembered in a way by us in a way that's much more vivid than nontraumatic events which is why 9/11, ten years ago, feels like yesterday. >> you know, dan, that makes so much sense because i actually went to that michael jackson comeback concert, a big event. i completely forgot about it. and a friend asking me how the concert was for me to remember that i even went. obviously, that makes sense. a poignant note there. >> an incredible look back and ou

including president karzai brother and kandahar mayor who was also killed with a turban bomb.ops begin to leave, violence is increasing in the heart of kabul. justless week insurgent launched 20 hour attack on the u.s. military headquarters and the u.s. embassy. you can still feel the tension in the air outside this house which is just behind me. his death was so important president karzai cut short a trip to new york to return immediately. he has declared three days of national mourning for him beginning tomorrow. abc news, pakistan. >>> and in an exclusive interview with abc news, iran president today guaranteed that 2 uc berkeley graduate will be rae leased soon. today was to be the day that a judge signed off bail agreement for the 2 boys. the judge didn't show up for work. the hikers have spent more than 2 years in tehran prison cussed of spying charges they vehemently deny. today president spoke with george stephanopoulos open husband after he landed in new york to attend quantityed nation general assembly. >> do i have to provide begin tee? >> i thought of americans wou

july 27th, a suicide bomber assassinates the mayor of kandahar city.a suicide bomber targets a government building in helmand province. september 20th, another suicide bomber assassinates rabani, the man leading the peace talks with the taliban. four suicide bombings in a little bit more than two months all of them targeting some of the most important leaders in afghanistan and they all had one very unusual thing in common. in all four attacks, assailants hid their bombs underneath their turbans. >> if he's coming here to embrace him, well the turban can get both of them. >> this man is head of the police bomb squad in islamabad, pakistan. his office decoration decapitated heads of suicide bombers. pictures too graphic to show. zahir says turban bombs seem to be the newest weapon in the fight for afghanistan because asking to search the islamic headdress is often viewed as disrespectful. >> would you be comfortable asking tribal elders to remove their -- >> no. >> it's not that easy. >> it's not. >> with powerful explosives like this c-4 turbine bombs

lindsey was there, but we went into kandahar and went down that route 4 that leads from karachi, goes up throughqweta, and then into afghanistan. the major sea port there is in pakistan, and then these trucks leave, and the pakistani trucking outfits take over at a place that we went into. that's controlled by a fellow by the name who is now general razik. now, they had, you know, they had threatened if we went in there to do oversight on the trucking operation that they would shut the border down, and there's thousands of trucks going through there, you know, in the course of a day, and so when we, on behalf of mr. tierney at the time who was the chairman, they shut it down just as they threatened. you know, first of all, we couldn't refuse to do our jobs doing oversight, but he followed through on the threat and shut the trucking center there,he border crossing down until we left. you know, we did as much oversight and inspection as we could, an then when we left, the oversight committee left, he opened up the border again, and, you know, myself, we had a striker brigade with us. we

kandahar, december 1999, ramadan. he got very sick. you were nursing him and putting soup on his lips, so he won't get dehydrated." i took the book. i said, "let me make it very clear to you. you don't know how many people in the book works for me. you don't know how many people in the book we caught and they're cooperating. and that is the card that i have to know if you're cooperating or not. why don't you look at the book again?" he identified almost everyone in the book. >> logan: among those abu jandal identified as al qaeda members were seven of the terrorists who flew planes into the world trade center and the pentagon. abu jandal didn't know they had been involved in the 9/11 plot because he'd been in prison, and he insisted that al qaeda was not behind the attack. he didn't believe it? >> soufan: he was very adamant that bin laden didn't do it. >> logan: so what happens then? >> soufan: i said, "well, i know that al qaeda did that. someone told me." he said, "who told you?" i said, "you did." and he gets so mad. "you're puttin