i don't know what they would do today if they captured the equivalent of khalid sheikh mohammed. probably read him his miranda rights. i don't know. that's what in my mind it is a mistake for us to give up those capabilities. i hope that there are no more attacks. but even as we meet here today everybody goes to work with their car radio this morning there's a threat that's sufficient credibility at least at this stage that the authorities are saying this is not confirmed what we are to give very seriously. so i think it was a mistake for them not to stay as actively and aggressively involved. the averted a beautiful piece of the notion that we overreacted. i don't think we did. i feel we did exactly what we had to do and the results speak for themselves. >> one or two more from the and then we will open up to questions from others. you often made the case that iraq was the central front in the war and terror. looking back on iraq one of the things that people have focused on a reading your book and in the refuse of your book is the fact that you don't think a lot of mistakes wer

the one terrorist in england with a sense of humor known as khalid the troll had said i bet i can get them all to take their shoes off in airports. [laughter] >> so this prankster set up poor impressionable reid and won his bet. now khalid is back there cackling with the thought of all those americans exposing the holes in their socks on cold airport floors. if someone is arrested one of these days and is immediately because of his m.o. referred to in the press as the underwear bomber, you'll know i was on to something. that's right. i predicted the underwear bomber in 2006. you could look it up. around the same time, i repeated the prediction public appearances and as i remember a couple of times on television. i firmly believe in this world of ever didiminishing of ever replaceable resources using a line only once represents the sort of wastefulness that our society can ill afford. and what tran spider on christmas day three years later? another bozo tries to blow a hole in the airplane and only sets his underpants aflame which made him ill-equipped for the 72 virgins if he was rewa

then there was the controversy over sheikh mohammed, khalid sheikh mohammed. wanted, what, to stop the waterboarding at that point? >>. no i wanted to bring khalid sheikh mohammed to guantanamo out of the shadows. tell the people we had the mastermind of 9/11. the united states doesn't disappear people. >> bill: he didn't want that because he wanted to do it secretly. thought he would get more al qaedas though, right? >> khalid sheikh mohammed was passed his intelligence value. >> bill: why didn't cheney when you had this difference of opinion. >> i did, of course. >> bill: why didn't he want a public exposition of what mohammed had done and where he was going? >> i don't know. >> bill: he never told you? >> once you started down that rude would begin to unravel the entire operation. we still had some of these people that we needed for intelligence value. but my point to him and the president ultimately agreed is that we had done nothing to be ashamed of. >> bill: so he didn't want any exposition of what the u.s.a. was doing at all. >> that's my recollection,

i don't know what they would do today if they captured the equivalent of khalid sheikh mohammed.obably read him his miranda rights. i don't know. that's what in my mind it is a mistake for us to give up those capabilities. i hope that there are no more attacks. but even as we meet here today everybody goes to work with their car radio this morning there's a threat that's sufficient credibility at least at this stage that the authorities are saying this is not confirmed what we are to give very seriously. so i think it was a mistake for them not to stay as actively and aggressively involved. the averted a beautiful piece of the notion that we overreacted. i don't think we did. i feel we did exactly what we had to do and the results speak for themselves. >> one or two more from the and then we will open up to questions from others. you often made the case that iraq was the central front in the war and terror. looking back on iraq one of the things that people have focused on a reading your book and in the refuse of your book is the fact that you don't think a lot of mistakes were m

i don't know what they would do today if they captured the equivalent of khalid sheikh mohammed.probably read him his miranda rights. i don't know. that's what in my mind it is a mistake for us to give up those capabilities. i hope that there are no more attacks. but even as we meet here today everybody goes to work with their car radio this morning there's a threat that's sufficient credibility at least at this stage that the authorities are saying this is not confirmed what we are to give very seriously. so i think it was a mistake for them not to stay as actively and aggressively involved. the averted a beautiful piece of the notion that we overreacted. i don't think we did. i feel we did exactly what we had to do and the results speak for themselves. >> one or two more from the and then we will open up to questions from others. you often made the case that iraq was the central front in the war and terror. looking back on iraq one of the things that people have focused on a reading your book and in the refuse of your book is the fact that you don't think a lot of mistakes were

joining me from detroit in much, khalid, what -- do you agree with navi pillay of the united nations of civil war? >> i actually do not the the syrian national council, we were very disappointed to hear her use such statements. a civil war indicates that there are two parties who are equal to each other who are fighting. this is not the case in syria the you have a government that has been massacring, killing innocent civilians for the past nine months. so i was disappointed to hear that, tall -- actually >> do you think the free syrian army should be engaging in conflict with assad's troops? or should they listen to the syrian national council and as they had previously agreed just stick to using violence to protect civilians? >> at this point we are asking the free syrian army to stick to protecting civilians whenever there are peaceful demonstrators going out. there are some expectations that the free syrian army would stick to protecting those protesters. we don't want them to take an aggressive route. >> syria has been suspended from the arab league. now this vote in the united

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in a suburb of the capital that struck a packed congregation as they left church a second attack khalid shortly after outside a church north east of the capital abuja there were other explosions reported elsewhere radical islamist sect boko who are says it was behind the attacks. tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in yet. capitol voicing their anger at the deaths of anti-government protesters security forces opened fire on peaceful protesters saturday killing thirteen that led to demonstrations swelling calling for the vice president to quit for the rest the killers the weekend violence prompted president saleh to value to leave the country he's already signed a deal to end his decades long rule in february. he is looking back at the ten key events of twenty eleven today we'd turn to japan's massive earthquake and tsunami that killed more than ten thousand people also led to a series of explosions at the fukushima nuclear plant that put the world on watch fearing an atomic disaster or he's ever been it was in japan in the hours after the tragedy struck. covering the earthquake

about a secret meeting in malaysia attended by two "cole" bombing conspirators, nawaf al-hazmi and khalid-mihdar. they had been coming in and out of the us on legal visas. they'd trained in american flight schools. they, too, had died on september 11, piloting flight 77 as it crashed into the pentagon. among the 2,977 people murdered on september 11, in the debris of a fallen stairwell under what was once the south tower of the world trade center, they found john o'neill's body. >> next time... >> not one single imminent threat was stopped because of waterboarding. >> ali soufan was an essential weapon in the fbi's war on terror. >> he said, "i want the torture to stop. i give you anything you want to hear." >> now he is speaking out to correspondent martin smith. >> you say it's not just mistakes made, it's lies told, it's cover-ups. >> absolutely. >> a rare interview and a telling history from before 9/11 to today. >> no 9/11? >> the world would be very different. >> "the interrogator." >> explore more about john o'neill and the fbi at our web site, including a rare video interview with

identified khalid sheikh mohammed as the mastermind of 9/11. >> rose: and your argument to them is he'd already given up... >> my argument that's not true because i was there when he gave them. but, again, to go back to this, they already told us what they got if enhanced interrogation techniques or waterboarding and what they said is wrong. and it's wrong not because i'm an eyewitness and said that's wrong, it wrong because of of all the investigations that took place. >> rose: but your opinion is that they're lying when they say it came from enhanced interrogation and they know it. >> politicians, bureaucrats, look at the c.i.a. r.g., for example, the c.i.a. inector general. they said the c.i.a. program is a great success. however, the program is not all about waterboarding. the c.i.a. i. i.g. explained what the program was. the program had... the biggest components of it is facing them with intelligence information about them, facing them with pocket litter, facing them with each other. so there's a lot of successes that happen. however, the enhanced interrogation techniques is a ver

. >> all right, khalid byrd, i am a fan of what you are doing.'s anxiety about which way it could go, but i think it could give us a chance if this unfolds in the right way in the months ahead to really challenge the way that both parties are going for 50% plus one, which has nothing to do with solving the áávrj biggest problems. we'll be watching. >> thank you. >>> coming up on "hardball," with just a handful of days to the caucuses, chris is on the road live from des moines, iowa. >>> but first, imogen is here with reasons for cheer in the new year. and no, that rhyming wasn't intentional. w at&t 4g lte is fast. did you hear sam... ...got promoted to director? so 12 seconds ago. we should get him a present. thanks for the gift basket. you're welcome. you're welcome. did you see hr just sent out new... ...office rules? cause you're currently in violation of 6 of them. oh yeah, baby? ...and 7. did you guys hear that fred is leaving? so 30 seconds ago. [ noisemakers blow ] [ both ] we'll miss you! oh, facecake! there's some leftover cake. [ male

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in terms of documents but also the intelligible -- intangible things because only a privileged few khalid documents because i saw a grave built by a former loyalist to move to india who became a incredible military commander rearing the indian woman had 1/2 in the and family and spent the rest of his life there. his eldest son preceded him so he goes a wonderful monument that is still there and arises out of the mustard fields in of central north india just amazing other is the claims commission whereby the british government decides to give compensation using treasury funds. it sounds great to of course, there are bureaucratic and legal hurdles so it is very difficult for the loyalist to make claims to have to prove their loyalty in in the process there is a glitch in the case that will make it more difficult to win compensation what became of elisabeth johnston's father? has resaw him reluctantly giving her and marriage and 19 l.a. by a roberts where the narrative then narrative of the south side 18670 war has been pretty well high-tech by the south so the way the two have been handled.

they reference, as khalid sheikh mohammed does, in his own pleading in the 9/11cation, they reference a provision in the koran that says they're justified in killing those who would combine any entity with allah because allah gives no permission to combine him. so if anyone thinks that there is a holy trinity, which is the words that start off the treaty of paris, 1783 with great britain, find it over at the state department, a huge printing, the first words are in big, bold type, in the name of the most holy and undivided trinity. that's how our treaty that recognized this country started. well, according to those jihadists, islamic jihadists who are at holy war with us, that document itself is a declaration that we are infidels and need to be destroyed. yet, under this administration the f.b.i.'s not being taught what jihad means. it's eliminated from the lexicon. it's eliminated from the national intelligence strategy in this administration. and even the word muslim that's found 145 times in the 9/11 report, because you could not do an assessment of 9/11 attack without discussing m