there is an anonymity that needs to occur. >> sure. >> and mogadishu what happened to you.u were injured. >> i was part of the failed op to take down the, you know, the hotel that day. i was shot the first time at the target hotel. shot the second time, picking up rangers off the street and shot the third time trying to get the hell out of there. in a humvee. >> how long did the process last where you continued to operate while having been shot. >> about four and a half hours. but while we are talking about that -- >> no, let's not glorify that. let's just stop for a second. because you and i it very similar, and i don't, obviously want to brag, but i'm going to show you something now. you-- you haven't necessarily been around in a while but i know you want to see that, right there. let me tell you my war story. >> is that on the penis wheel? (cheers and applause) >> that thing is much sharper than it looks. >> it brings up a point, you know, you're living a life that is so beyond in comparison to what we can imagine and then this story comes up in abbottabad. how do you re

you should run away to mogadishu. you should go there right away.inute. the fuck? why would you do that? unless you're trying to trick me somehow... - no, no, you're right. somalia is an oasis of treasure and waterfalls. it's totally the pirates' life! - then why don't you want to go? - well, 'cause, dude, i'm jewish. and, you know... both: jews can't be pirates. - that's true. well, i'm glad you've finally come to terms with your disability, kyle. gentlemen, i'm off to start planning. - please, please let him go. - good morning, students. these are the morning announcements. teacher-parent conferences have been rescheduled to next tuesday. please inform your parents. the gym is being repainted and is closed until tomorrow afternoon. and now for a special announcement. - avast, there, mateys! do ya have a thirst for adventure on the high seas of life? are ya sick and tired of your parents and teachers tellin' ya what to do all the time? then join captain cartman's perfect pirate club! argh! just imagine it, me hearties! a life without rules, without

he was forced to flee from the capital, mogadishu. the hard-line islamists control large parts of the country and their rule is unforgiving. somalia is a battered and lawless nation after 20 years of civil war. he managed to establish -- escape the horrors in his country but life in italy has been difficult. >> even animals are better to live. >> there is currently no ban on deporting refugees from germany to italy. the italian government says there is enough housing for them. >> you are picking the people and collecting cattle to put on your party. >> mostapha couldn't bear the situation in italy anymore and fled to germany. now, he could be deported but his lawyer points out that recently german courts have sent back hardly any refugees. dominique benda has written a report on the situation which confirms what many refugees say about italy. >> the situation in italy is terrible and that's been well documented by now. i fled from ethiopia eight years ago because of the war. i've been living here ever since. it's not any better than e

harun fazul was in this suv when they got lost and accidentally came upon a security check point in mogadishu. a gun fight ensued and both men in the suv were killed. dna tests later confirmed one was fazul mohammed who had a $5 million fbi bounty on his head. mohammed spent 13 years on the agency's most wanted list for orchestrating the 1998 u.s. embassy bombings in kenya and tanzania that killed 224 people, including 12 americans. he was also one of the founders of al shabbate, the al qaeda affiliate in somalia and his death is considered a significant blow to its operations in east africa. >> a person that was causing death and destruction to the people in somalia and the world. >> suarez: fazul mohammed is e third major al qaeda leader to be killed in the last six weeks. elias kashmiri who was implicated in the 2008 mum buy attacks was believed to have died during a june 3rd drone attack. this followed the killing of osama bin laden by navy seals during a raid in abbottabad pakistan a month earlier. for more we turn to we turn to juan zarate. he is now a senior advisor with the center for

africa was carrying a laptop when he was gunned down at a checkpoint outside the somali capital of mogadishu. on that laptop were documents outlining a potential plot to attack luxury hotels in london and europe. inspired by the spectacular 2008 mumbai attacks which killed 164 in india's largest city, the plan called for al qaeda operatives to check into guest rooms on various floors of upscale hotels and then set the rooms ablaze. one of the hotels was the ritz- carlton in london. storied eton college was also on the list. mumbai was the work of a different terrorist group, but al qaeda had been impressed that a handful of dedicated fighters could cause mass terror and grab worldwide attention by attacking lightly-guarded targets in a major city. security forces throughout europe were on high alert last winter against the threat of just such an attack run out of pakistan. it does not appear the plot run by harun got very far before he was killed, but there was no doubt he was capable of murdering large numbers of people. he had been the ground commander of the 1998 suicide bombing of the am

you this hour as most senior african leader has been shot dead by soldiers in the somali capital mogadishu the identity of. the lot mohamed was is the most wanted was the most wanted man on the continent and it was confirmed by d.n.a. tests the home of who had a five million dollars bounty on his head is going for the one nine hundred ninety eight bombings of the american embassies in kenya and tanzania in which over two hundred people died. voters across turkey are heading to the close in a general election two parties are battling for power with current prime minister running against the secular republican people's party targeting a parliamentary majority so we can change the constitution in favor of more liberal policies. but there's a festive atmosphere here in moscow and around russia today as the country marks twenty one years since it declared its sovereignty by the collapse of the soviet union just one year later it held its first free elections which resulted in victory for the reformist president. and as our. or groden of reports even today memories of that bumpy road to democrac

weememr the pullout from vietnam, the pullout from mogadishu in 1993." you know, i've interviewed people who talked to bin laden directly in the summer of 2000, saying, "look, stop it with this anti-american stuff because you're interfering with our goal of just regime change in libya and egypt and all these other places." but he... but because he runs... al qaeda's a very dictatorial organization, he just ignored them. tactically, 9/11 was a brilliant success. it was the most-watched media event in history. but from a strategic point of view, al qaeda's goals are no closer, and actually further away today than they were ten years ago. >> smith: but here we are. berge herwe are. >> next time, a frontline exclusive: inside the surge in afghanistan. >> those who were killed were bad guys. >> the strategy... >> kill and capture as many as you can and make them ask for peace. >> ...the hurdles... >> by launching those attacks, are we creating more militants than we are killing? >> ...and the timeline for getting out. >> it could take years. i mean, i don't t

to desert storm buffer seal team six she then know where i was going she did not know is going to mogadishu found out like everybody else that i was shot three times. those who go there have it harder with the family life and personal life than the regular teams'. you have to take a break from that after awhile. >> host: when people heard the news bin laden was shot everybody wanted to know who these people were but they wanted to stay in the background was that because of the nature or the mission? >> you hear about sealed to is something goes really, really bad for really good otherwise when when you hear about the seals? shooting somali pirates and when bin laden was killed burger king guarantee with all of the until they got when they raided the compound, there has been ops that have gone on since then that we don't know about. there has probably been a dozen books written on the seal team six at least by members but nobody cared about it until obama's -- osama bin laden was killed. they are unsung heroes. read the books and see the amount of training, preparation dedication and sacrifi

he was gunned down in mogadishu. >>> there were two blasts in pakistan. 34 people are suspected to beide bomber detonated another bomb. >>> an expert testified today in the trial of casey anthony the florida mother accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee. casey anthony hurt him say that flies indicated something had been decomposing in the trunk of her car for as long as five days they said. the defense is saying that flies could have been caused by leftover food. that's the defense. prosecutors have been trying to show that casey anthony killed her daughter caylee and stored her body in the trunk. now back to don in new hampshire. don. >> susan, you guys on hln have been doing a great job in covering this story. can you believe the ins and outs, the casey anthony story. have you seen anything like it? >> so many people have been following this from the start because they can't believe a young woman, if you believe the prosecution could do this to her own flesh and blood. >> all right. susan, we'll see you in a little bit. thank so you much. >>> tonight and tomorrow we're

they say he was gunned down in mogadishu. according to a senior kenyon official, they opened fire on the vehicle when they tried to run over road blocks. the bombings killed 425 people. u.s. officials also suspect he had a role in the 2002 attacks in kenya of an israeli hotel. >>> despite a $5 billion bounty on his head, he has escaped being captured or killed numerous times. 2007, started the u.s. air strike in somalia, but they missed. >>> coming up, congressman weiner just announced he's going to take a leave of absence from congress to tand treatment. >>> and as soona you can see -- as you see, i should say, live here, a beautiful place, anselm. how do you say it? >> anselm. buttium fr iutiu iutium i'm fro. why don't we say what everyone seles says here, st. annes. >> we have a little more on what you can expect back in a plomom. [car horn honks] our outback always gets us there... ... sometimes it just takes us a little longer to get back. ♪ is best absorbed in small continuous amounts. only one calcium supplement does t

think of mogadishu. >> reporter: that, of course, the debacle in somalia when u.s.ught down. an incident like that could mean a swift end to nato's mission. even if that doesn't happen, sullivan warns of other political problems for nate toe. he says gadhafi has the ability to drag this out and if he does, some nato member nations may not have the patience to extend this mission much past september. >> they're losing patience very, very quickly up on capitol hill. with mounting reports of atrocities in syria, will the obama administration turn up the president on the president bashar al assad? peter bergen is standing by. >>> and disappointing jobs numbers set off more alarm bells on the u.s. economy. will it make or break the 2012 presidential campaign? the count on chevy event is here. turn it up in a malibu. 33 mpg, over 500 highway miles a tank. one of our 9 models over 30 mpg highway. fuel up, rock on. very well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy malibu ls for around $179 a month. fuel economy based on epa estimates. and there's a great se

he was reportedly killed at a government checkpoint in mogadishu. >>> and leon panetta is meeting with military and intelligence officials trying to repair relations strained after the unilateral u.s. mission to take out osama bin laden in that country. panetta is urging pakistani officials to step up the hunt for militants operating there. >>> well, the focus today in casey anthony's murder trial, evidence collected near her daughter's remaining and in casey anthony's car. a bug expert said larvae and flies found in casey anthony's car fit the theory that a body was in the trunk but don't show proof she was driving. >> outrage over anthony weiner's sexting scandal is growing. weiner recently admitted to sending lewd messages to several women online, photographs also. today he also admitted sending twitter messages to a teenage girl in delaware. weiner says there's nothing indecent or inappropriate about those messages. senior political editor mark preston joins us from manchester, new hampshire, and we hear you have new information. what's the latest, mark? >> yes, deborah. >> reporte

officials say he was gunned down at a somali checkpoint in mogadishu. >>> the white house is harshlyg the brutal crackdown of dissidents in syria. in a statement, the obama administration says syria has no excuse for denying humanitarian assistance by a group like the red cross. state media reported more unrest saturday with syrian soldiers working to retake a rebellious northern town. human rights activists say at least 25 demonstrators were killed friday across syria. >>> the wallow fire in northeast arizona has now burned an area the size of houston, that big. some 430,000 acres. that makes it the second largest blaze in state history. already there are signs that it's spreading into neighboring new mexico. >>> new york congressman anthony weiner is seeking professional treatment after the strongest calls yet for his resignation. nancy pelosi is one of the members of his own party who want him gone. this week he admitted to graphic online communications with women after initially denying it. those are the headline this is hour. i'm susan hendricks with cnn, the most trusted name i

fazul abdul mohamed was killed after refusing to stop at a checkpoint in mogadishu. be an architect of the 1998 u.s. embassy bombings. secretary of state hillary clinton calls his death a blow to al qaeda. >>> pakistani authorities are investigating bombings that left 34 people dead in person war. the first went off in the bathroom of a restaurant. as rescue workers responded to that, there was another bomb. 94 people were bounded according to authorities. there was no claim of responsibility yet. in arizona, high winds and low humidity are testing firefighters battling the second largest blaze in state history. already more than 400,000 acres have burned with just 6% containment. crews spent the last two days clearing brush and cutting fire lines to keep the fire from spreading. blowing embers caused spot fires across the state line in new mexico. >>> from montana to missouri people are trusting that sandbags will keep the rising waters at bay. floods will threaten areas along the missouri river for several weeks. despite the danger some homeowners are staying put.

he was shot by forces in mogadishu. and here in the united states a picture so many people are waiting to see, the smiling face of congresswoman gabrielle giffords in her first photo since being shot in the head at point blank range in january. giffords has been steadily improving but her spokeswoman says the congresswoman has a long way to go. she has trouble speaking complete sentences and expressing complex thoughts. still good news to report. we learned that giffords could be released from the hospital in a few weeks to continue her rehabilitation on an outpatient basis. >>> and in washington, democrats had are in a holding pattern awaiting anthony weiner's next move. his sexting schedule is drowning out more important news. and congressional leaders are getting anxious. for the latest we turn to senior political correspondent jonathan karl. jon, bring us up to date. >> christiane, with virtually the entire leadership of the democratic party turning on him, anthony weiner is seeking psychological treatment and takin

interesting meeting where the entire political leadership of somalia because we couldn't make it to mogadishu for security reasons. but president, prime minister, and speaker of parliament of somalia were there at a very crucial moment, we believe, in the developments in somalia and we sent a very strong message for them that they need to put their act together and work together in order to keep improving the situation. >> rose: if the united states... if the united states can find ways to work with russia and russia can find a way to work with the united states, that offers enormous opportunity, doesn't it? >> yes, it does. and, you know, i think we're beyond trying to find a way. >> rose: where's the greatest conflict? >> greatest conflict. really i cannot think of any particular area of conflict, not in the security council. the latest conflict, if you wil inhe security council was when the united states vetoed that resolution on settlements when all the rest of us voted for that resolution. >> rose: you're not surprised by that, are you? >> we were not really surprised. we were hoping for

another top leader, fazul abdullah mohammed was killed after refusing to stop at a check point in mogadishuaeda operative in africa. he is thought to be one architect of the 1998 u.s. embassy bombings in africa that killed 225 people. secretary of state hillary clinton calms his death a significant blow to al qaeda. mohammed had evaded capture several times in the past. >>> eight people made it through one of the worst tornadoes on record, only to battle a rare and possibly fatal fungal infection. the coroner says three of the eight survivors of the joplin, missouri, tornado have died. it is confirmed one of the deaths is from a rare infection that can occur when soil gets under the skin. the cause of death for the others is still under investigation. >>> and from montana to missouri, people are trusting sandbags to keep the rising water at bay. floods will threaten areas along the missouri r river for the ne several weeks at least. despite that danger, some homeowners are staying put. >> besides this big house, it's also a home. and you know, a home is memories and it's hope and it's, you

fazul abdul mohammed was killed in mogadishu, he was behind the bombings in kenya and tanzania. he was on the fbi u.s. most wanted terrorist list. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords will leave a houston, texas, rehab facility this month. the arizona congresswoman spokesperson telling "the houston chronicle" giffords will become an outpatient. she was among several people shot in january in tucson. six of those people died. >>> take a look, volcano in chile now causing air travel problems. thousands of miles away in australia, as well as new zealand. thick black cloud drifted west as the eruption spits ash into the air. qantas airlines canceled 20 flights. >>> the blue angels are ready to get back in the air. they were forced to take a few weeks off because of safety concerns. the commander quit shortly after le leading the team in a low-flying stunt in virginia. only 130 feet off the ground instead of where they should have been which is 500 feet. they returned with a report in davenport, iowa, next saturday. >>> seven minutes after the hour, good morning, reynolds wolf. what

think of mogadishu. >> that, of course, infamous mission that brought down the blackhawk helicoptershat doesn't happen sullivan warns of other political problems for nato. he says gadhafi has the ability to drag this whole thing out. if he does some nato member nations may not have the to extend this past september. >> what are the biggest military challenges nato facing now. >> gadhafi and his troops hunkered down more than ever. it is getting harder for nato forces to find targets in and around tripoli. that's probably why they brought in those attack helicopters. there are signs no nato countries are getting weary of the pace here. there r norway may reduce its forces in the next couple of months or maybe even in the coming weeks. nato officials downplay that saying they are holding it together now. we will see. if the alliance can stay together through these next months. >> u.s. taxpayers already spent about a billion dollars for the u.s. part of this. presumably more on the way. >> absolutely. >> thanks very much. the white house polls chance to look each other in the eyes. hous

americans, they will leave iraq the same way they left vietnam, lebanon, and the same way they left mogadishuat was a clear message that it was recruiting militia against the united states believing that we did not have the resolve. i want to make sure that when we leave afghanistan that we also leave the message that america has been resolved to complete those engagements that we begin and do so successfully. i believe that the u.s. has stepped forward and has saved a lot of american lives. host: carl from san antonio, texas, has a similar voice -- guest: that is a spot-on the comment that i never hear. it takes me back to a general in vietnam who was credited with a vietnamese victory -- they call it a victory. he wrote a little book about the victory. on page 8 of the book, it says he got his first inspiration on how to defeat the united states because we were willing to accept a negotiated settlement in korea. if you read dead and frame that with what i have said -- if you read that and framed that with what i have said, we have reestablished our resolute reputation in iraq. i do not want

we are working with the african union has provided troops to assist and provide security in mogadishu, and we are also working with of the nation that surrounds somalia because they are threatened by the threat that comes from somalia so we help strengthen their borders. also because of the attraction of the turmoil in somalia to members of the diaspora in the west in the united states and europe and australia we are reaching out more broadly to the diaspora to educate them about the situation, hopefully prevent people from traveling to take part in the violence but this will be a long-term effort both for the amazon forces as well as the forces. we are getting ready to -- we are working with some of the other islands of stability that we find in somalia that our goal is a peaceful stable somalia and will take a while. in pakistan, again, you have an established government which has its challenges we are trying to address. there's a lot of local grievances and we try to address those local grievances to a lot of our usaid programs. but at the same time, trying to work closely with hom

with the tiki, transitional government there, and working with others to work with the area around mogadishu and in looking at all the refugees and the people who are malnourished and starved, we need to find a way to make sure that the nongovernmental organizations are able to get in there and bring relief supplies into the al-shabaab cuts off roads and networks. a lot of innings we have we say okay, we want to make sure these ngos have the licensing approvals that they can operate and u.s. government participates in. many different countries, those three really come together in a very, very sort of meaningful way. i have said that i don't want the counterterrorism tale to wag the dog. you know, we shouldn't be doing things in yemen or somalia solely because we have a counterterrorism agenda there. one of the things about president obama and president bush before him, very interested in making sure we do things that are going to benefit long-term the people in these areas because aqap and others thrive off the instability. and as i said in my speech there are very legitimate grievances that

in somalia, working with the transitional government and securing the area around mogadishu, and looking at all the refugees, the people who are malnourished and starved, we need to find a way that the non-governmental organizations are able to bring supplies even though a lot of the roads and networks are caught off. we want to make sure that these ngo's have the licensing approval so they can operate. many different countries -- those three really come together in a very, very meaningful way. i have said that i do not want the counter-terrorism tial tailo wag the dog. we should not be doing things solely because we have a counter-terrorism agenda there. the president is very interested in making sure we do things that will benefit the people in these areas because aqap and others thrive off of the instability. there are very legitimate grievances. we need to be able to work with local communities that are out there to address those issues. >> in the front row here. >> do you worry that public support for the war on terrorism will wane over time with the domestic problems that we have,