of my life with a dear friend of mine who in third grade was in the flights that went down over lockerbieloscotland. my mom waited until three days later to tell me after christmas and said it was they were all better on the plane it was better because nobody was left to grieve per i loved her very much and all of that came back picking my sisters up after 9/11. then four months after that this journalist danny pearl i'd only met him once in an evening at dupont circle when i was a in student but i admird him immensely because he was the journalist who wrote with such dignity and curiosity about the islamic world and was the hero of dialogue and pluralism. so after the overwhelming scale ofov 9/11, the incredible intimacy of the loss of danny to the world really struck me as terrifying it wasif a new and different kind of war that threatened truth and dialogue and the share of experiences around the world. in the back to my dad's advice after laura died my dad said to me if you don't understand the forces that took her you will be overwhelmed by the fear and introduce me to the newspaper

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roxana saberi, cbs news, lockerbie, scotland. >>> next, a green >>> finally tonight, a true american medal of honor was awarded this past week to a special forces soldier who saved lives during a six-hour battle in afghanistan. david martin has his story. >> reporter: master sergeant matt williams and his team of green berets choppered in to a remote afghan valley in the spring of 2008. their mission, part of which was recorded, was to capture or kill a senior terrorist leader. but nothing went right. to begin with, it was too rocky to land. >> there was about a 10-foot or so drop straight down to these giant boulders and rocks everywhere. that's how the day started. >> reporter: and then it got worse, much worse. >> the whole entire riverbed started taking fire from the high ground. >> reporter: what kind of fire? >> rpgs, heavy machine gun fire, small arms fire. >> reporter: the enemy was shooting down on them from a village overlooking the valley. >> we didn't really understand the amount of enemy that were actually in the village at the time. >> reporter: the lead element was pin

as the enemy accusations of the bombing of a plane over lockerbie and other acts of terror had made the dictator an international pariah and his opponents were welcomed in the u.k. but with the rise of al qaeda the situation changed and the regrouped in afghanistan although the removal of gadhafi remains their only goal by their close proximity to a sama bin laden who was about to unleash the 911 attacks. if you were a north african but say like gadhafi you were just rubbing your hands with joy because you knew that all you needed to do to get significant western money technical support assistance in pressing dissidents in your country was just tar them with a brush of affiliation with al qaida. gadhafi seized the chance to rehabilitate himself by offering to destroy his stocks of chemical weapons in return the west saw a chance to get involved with libya's immense oil reserves it could be a win win situation for both the losers with the. terrorists. when we meet again. he completely distances himself from al-qaeda. remember them much more to the maximum right in the opening. i would li

i was the authorized biographer but this book is not the authorized lockerbie. when you say the authorized biography it sounds like it got a seal of approval from somebody. or that it had to be signed off on. i don't think i would've done if i would've had that. i think for me as a writer i have to be independent to comment own conclusions, and knowing that sontag was this incredible political person was a faceting person and you attracted all sorts of protections and thoughts and opinions about her, often correct and even more often incorrect, i wouldn't have stepped into that. what happened was i was in rio doing my, what i thought would buy last event ever and i thought i am finally off the hook and i can go to the beach or something. i don't really go to the beach that much just be honest. just relax. i got an e-mail saying guess what, we have appointed you. not appointed some people including her agent and her son and her publisher had sort of read a bunch of books and thought that i might come why this role was something that showed that i could take on so

. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning saturday," roxana saberi, lockerbie, scotland. >> and now they do if you didn't know about it, you can't do it. >> probably will keep using plastic. not everybody's going to stop. jim? >> i'm having a hard time understanding microplasters are inside the road. that's the question. >> do you have the paper straws? >> these are partisanship. don't e-mail. >> i'm falling apart. >>> if you are heading out, set your dvr to record "cbs this morning saturday." coming up in our next hour, born to be wild. the early years for flea of the red hot chili peppers were as colorful and intense as what came after. anthony mason will talk to the legendary musician about his life detailed in a new memoir. >> nighted they were falling apart. >>> from the stand yaup stage to the movie set, we'll talk j sebastian maniscalco about his sole rise to the top. >>> and the sounds of the heart in our "saturday session." >>> first from the godfather to love story in chinatown, some the best loved film of all time were produced by robert evans. we'll remember the producer's cinem