michael scheuer. i think he is an intelligent man in my opinion.as noticing cents 9/11, -- since 9/11, they had to float over a lot of services of law enforcement, but it seems like there is very little funding and the more for local authorities and crime. i wondered if he had any ideas how they might appropriate more money for that too because you do not want to miss that as well. thank you for taking my call. guest: i think there has been an enormous amount of spending on counter-terrorism. some of it has been worthwhile and some of it has not been worthwhile. it is something that cannot be ignored, just for the reason that you are doing counter- terrorism. host: next up is los angeles, calif.. caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to address the main motivation for 9/11 if you look 47 of the 9/11 commission report. that is u.s. support for israel. michael scheuer has addressed that in a book but we do not see that addressed anywhere in the u.s. media when it comes to motivation for 9/11 and the attack in 1993. host: we will leave it

michael scheuer. i think he is an intelligent man in my opinion. i was noticing cents 9/11, -- since 9/11, they had to float over a lot of services of law enforcement, but it seems like there is very little funding and the more for local authorities and crime. i wondered if he had any ideas how they might appropriate more money for that too because you do not want to miss that as well. thank you for taking my call. guest: i think there has been an enormous amount of spending on counter-terrorism. some of it has been worthwhile and some of it has not been worthwhile. it is something that cannot be ignored just for the reason that you are doing counter- terrorism. host: next up is los angeles calif.. caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to address the main motivation for 9/11 if you look 47 of the 9/11 commission report. that is u.s. support for israel. michael scheuer has addressed that in a book but we do not see that addressed anywhere in the u.s. media when it comes to motivation for 9/11 and the attack in 1993. host: we will leave

states thank you thank you very much and just to remind you that my guest on the show today was michael scheuer the former chief of the us gamma bin ladin tracking units have been cia and that's it for now from all of us here if you want to have your say on spotlight part have someone in mind for us being patient relax time just drop you like you would be back with more first uncommon fun was going on in and out transgressions until then stay on our teeth and take your. russia's city of ghetto savile pays its last respects to the forty three victims of wednesday's fatal plague sportsman from the top local ice hockey team who perished in that incident but buried with full military. also coming up tonight a nation on guard new security threats emerge on the eve of the tenth anniversary of nine eleven but some fear that the u.s. war on terror has created more enemies than it's destroyed. and tel aviv in cairo struck the news soured noted relations as an angry mob or the egyptian capital storm of the israeli embassy forcing its staff to flee the country. it's the second time in my week there is rad

back to the spotlight i'm al green novel and just a reminder that my guest on the show today is michael scheuer the former chief of the as i am a bin ladden tracking a unit at the cia mr short so you just mentioned the your predictions and you are you aware when you were in the cia. does that mean that the nine eleven events when that tragedy happened that it wasn't it wasn't a shock for you because you expected something like that to happen is that right. that's exactly correct sir and i don't like to put the focus on myself anybody who had been working the end against osama bin laden and al qaeda whether it was at cia or the department of defense or anywhere else in the u.s. intelligence community knew that an attack in the united states was coming and there was no doubt i think in anybody's mind the moment the first plane hit the tower that al qaeda was responsible for it we had developed information as early as one nine hundred ninety five that al qaeda was planning to fly a seven forty seven aircraft passenger aircraft into cia headquarters in virginia so this was no surprise to anybody so