>> if any of us was to go up to the mosque and say anything in regards to alla or mohammed or what have you, we would have been taken away from the police for inviting racial hatred. >> hypocrisy. >> reporter: even away from the bully pull bit, chowdry, continues to advocate extremist views, like calling for sharia, islamic law for britten. >> all of the world belongs to alla. this is a funltd amtal belief of the muslims. if i'm going to go to the jungle tomorrow, i'm not going to live like the animals. >> you're saying it's my way or the highway, how does that kind of logic fit into a democratic state like the one we live in now, like the one you live in? you live here by choice. do you not believe in democracy? >> no, we don't at all. we believe people must live according to the sheriot. >> they would have their hands cut off for robbery, stoned for adultery. can you see that happening? >> one day. it's a matter of time, whether it comes from our peaceful discussion and debate, whether it comes because an army is sent one day, who knows. >> reporter: an islamic army laying down the la

and so, going back to what khalid chic mohammed said in his plead -- khalid sheik mohammed said in hispleading, it's because people understand not. we had a president, nice man, jimmy carter, but he understood not. he was wrong about the shah having such a stable country. it was not stable. that was misread. and then he misread that these were guys that could be, you just were nice to them, they'd be nice back. and apparently even sent a cabinet member to talk to the representative of itoe la khomeini to tell -- of atoe la khomeini to tell him, we're ready to talk and be friends with you, tell us how you want to proceed he understood not that these people considered themselves as extremist jihaddist enemies of the united states, that they consider the great satan and they needed to destroy it at all costs. the ayatollah khomeini called for basically war against the united states. and in november -- on november 4, 1979, iranian muslims, extremists, stormed the american industry in itaye ran. they took actual more than 52 hostages. they released some for p.r. purposes later, but kept 52

are we to presume that khalid shaikh mohammed is innocent? he was water boarded 183 times. were his miranda rights violated? of course they were. >> he'll get due process. >> water boarding extracted a lot of very critical actionable intelligence from muhammad that is true. the other point about guantanamo bay being this big recruiting tool, first of all, they hit us on 9/11 before guantanamo bay even existed. secondly, the united states and the west continues to get hit by al qaeda terrorists even after obama said he's going to close it. >> hold on. can we -- [ all talking at once ] >> hold on for one minute. can we stay away from water boarding, please? these are the actions obama took that signaled the cia to back off. one, he restricted the cia's rendition to preempt terrorism. two, he closed secret interrogation center as broad. three, he banned water boarding. four, closing guantanamo. five, he ordered captured unlawful combat anne today be read miranda rights. six, he's trying ksm, khalid shaikh mohammed and other terrorists like abdul abdul an -- abdulmutallab. he i

but they immediately remind mohammed that a monitor his every move.untless other ways the impact of their disappearance are ongoing and will not be sent to the united dates provides the answers to the questions that our clients and many more like them deserve. >> so we have nearly half an hour for questions. while you're getting your questions ready and going to start with one. and it's to michael ratner because of his vast years of experience. and it's the obvious question, michael, so you'll be happy. which is that president obama said that he is going to close guantÁnamo and what i calculate as 74 days a year from when he took over the presidency. and in speaking beyond guantÁnamo, where not quite there yet. so my question is realistically speaking given what we know about the transfer of detainees to federal courts and the transfer of detainees back to their home countries, where do you think were going to be on january 22 at this year? >> actually, i think they're other attorneys on this panel that are still representing some guantÁnamo detainees

five years another a danish newspaper commissioned a dozen cartoons depicting the prophet mohammed. kurt westergaard drewab image of the prophet with his turbin shaped as a bomb. the publication of th cartoons provoked outrage, attacks on danish embassies, and a boycott of danish products. in 2008, osama bin laden warned that europe and denmark would be punished. westergaard came out of hiding last year in spite of the million-dollar price islamic militants put on his head. he's been under close police protection ever since. that wasn't enough. a spokesman for the danish intelligence service said the attack was part of a terror-related network linked to the somali militant group al-shabaab. the somali militant organization flexing its muscle yesterday with this rally in mogadishu has moved steadily closer to al qaeda. five years after they were first published, the danish attack shows the original cartoons still have the power to incite violence. sheila macvicar, cbs news, london. >> glor: two students from the same school, both killed, both in frightening ways only months party. fo

department to scout out locations other than new york city to try 9/11 mastermind challid sheikh mohammed. >> woodruff: and in haiti, ray suarez looks at the prospects for a commercial revival there. >> lehrer: that's all ahead... on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour is provided by: chevron. this is the power of human energy. grant thornton. the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: president obama went at it with house republicans today at a conference in baltimore. it was a rare no-holds-barred session between the chief executive and the opposition. we begin with excerpts. >> part of the reason i accepted your invitation to come here was because i wanted to speak with all of you, and not just to all of you. so i'm looking forward to taking your questions

this bill would help stop the misguided plan to put khalid sheikh mohammed and other 9/11 terrorist on trial in downtown manhattan. it is an enormous an unnecessary risk. there is a good reason why the government has had such a hard time transferring these terrorist detainees to other countries. they are the worst of the worst. that is why we put in place a process by which these terrorists should be held and tried as enemy combatants by military commissions, to keep -- the act will also help to ensure that we are treating it terrorism as what it is. we cannot gather in the intelligence we need to foil attacks. we are a nation at war and we should act like it. we need to pull together and remain vigilant and send a clear signal both to our friends and enemies that this government will stop at nothing to protect our homeland. that is out america sets an example for the world. thank you for listening. >> of next, "the communicators." later, state of the state addresses from governors oral schwarzenegger and david paterson of new york. -- arnold's schwarzenegger and david paterson of new

could a federal judge presiding over the trial of khalid shaikh mohammed employ essentially the same law and reasoning contained in this decision by the judge in the blackwater case, all 90 pages of it, and dismiss the charges against khalid shaikh mohammed? >> i've been worried about this since the day i learned that some decision was made by somebody with certainly some more ontic thinking to bring these people into new york for trial and put them under our rule of law which cloaked them all with constitutional rights that any american citizen would have and the fact of the matter is, is there have been many cases over the years dismissed when there has been a showing of egregious misconduct on the part of law enforcement and they're going to claim torture and that's egregious and i am so afraid that some judge is going to be saddled with that question. >> the supreme court, 56 years ago, legendary ruling said it is unconstitutional for government agents to treat a defendant in a way that is so offensive that it, and this is a quote from the supreme court. this is their standard --

westergaard's character of mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban caused outrage in early 2006.n 2008, two men suspected of plotting to murder westergaard were arrested. they were not prosecuted. >>> rescuers are searching for people who may have been buried alive in mudslides. brazilian officials say a series of mudslides killed at least 45 people near rio de janeiro yesterday. the worst happened on an island where a piece of mountain literally collapsed after heavy rain. a wall of mud hit a luxury resort popular with many celebrities. other mudslides left hundreds of people homeless. >>> let's get right to the weather on this first saturday of 2010. we go to meteorologist reynolds wolf who has the rundown for us. hey, reynolds. >> speaking of number two, two big weather stories. one heavy snowfall possible in parts of new england. second, an arctic blast affecting a third of the nation. let's begin with the two big stories. in the northeast. area of low pressure moving offshore and could bring up to a foot of snowfall in places like bangor, maine and on 95. can expect to the h

obama could explain to me how a $100 million civilian trial in new york city for khalid shaikh mohammed is better than an inexpensive and efficient military trial, i'm willing to listen. same thing with a plea bargain for the nigerian loon. but no one, no one has been able to put forth anything other than ideological arguments to support the trial deal. life or death situation, ladies and gentlemen, that is simply not good enough. that's a memo. the top story, does the president have a point? can the war on terror criticism go too far? joining us now from austin, texas, karl rove. i thought the iraq war criticism did go too far and i thought it cost us lives of american servicemen over there because it was so intense and the back and forth was so debilitating to the military, sapped morale, made decisions harder to make that even though iraq was controversial, i recognize it would have been better if america had come together. i think we're in the same position now. am i wrong? >> well, it is possible to take criticism too far. i think, for example, the accusation that bush lied about w

of mohammed, appeared in denmark. within the first week, the sources of the groundswell of protest that occurred six months later in february and march, 2006, were already in motion. a group of danish imams, for a moms from three mussing denmark met and created an actual committee -- action committee to punish the newspaper. their immediate goal was to get back at the newspaper. but they also had ambitions about creating a new political situation in denmark and directed their complaints to the danish government. at the same time, a group of ambassadors in copenhagen were meeting at every session for the end of ramadan, and decided jointly to write a letter of protest also to the danish, they were not protesting the newspaper. in fact, weren't even really at protesting the 12 cartoons but their concern was the tone of debate regarding muslims in denmark, including some statements made by a minister, cultural minister, minister. the prime minister at the time of course as you probably know secretary-general of nato. eve

this cartoonist is known for his controversial depiction of the muslim prophet mohammed. >>> a deltalight from boston to new york returned to logan international airport when a pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit. a delta spokesman says the pilot turned back eight minutes into the flight. the odor was gone by the time the plane landed back in boston. all 34 people on-board were rebooked on a later flight. delta is investigating the cause of the smoke smell. >>> iran has issued an ultimatum over its nuclear program. it is threatening to enrich nuclear fuel on its own. if the west does not renegotiat u.n.-backed deal by the end of january. the west has been trying to get iran to swap its enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. the concern is iran may use its uranium to make nuclear weapons. iran says it needs the fuel for research. >>> rick warren got more than double what he asked for in a plea for donations. his church in southern california took in $2.4 million in just three days. on wednesday he made an urgent plea for $900,000 to fill a deficit. warren said the recession and the huge dr

. >> larry: justice department has decided to try the accused 9/11 master mind khalid shaikh mohammed in new york city. >> terrible -- >> larry: let's listen to what the president said. first, listen to what he said, then i'll have you comment. >> all right. >> i'm absolutely convinced that khalid shaikh mohammed will be subject to the most exacting demands of justice. the american people insist on it and my administration will insist on it. >> larry: rudy, that's your city. you've tried cases there. they know how to do it in new york. >> they sure do. >> larry: what are you concerned about? >> i think this could be one of the worst mistakes that any president's ever made. >> larry: why? >> well, first of all, he has military tribunals for other terrorists. if you're going to have military tribunals, then they obviously also can provide justice. >> larry: but the crime was committed there. wouldn't you feel that all those people who lost relatives want that man tried in their city at their territory? >> well, actually, larry, most of those people -- not all. you never have all. most o

well, the home belongs to kurt westergaard, the man who initially drew that prophet mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban, that cartoon. you knee cartoon sparked a lot of uprather o'mung the muslim community. over the years several suspects arrested for allegedly plotting to kill the cartoonist. >>> what to do about iran? president obama set this new year's deadline for making progress on the nuclear problem, but iran doesn't seem to be taking it very seriously. in fact, that is putting the president in a pretty tough spot, could you say. our cnn foreign affairs correspondent jill dort hey more on that. >> reporter: even as iran's political upheaval continues, president obama says the clock has run out on its nuclear ambitions. his new year's deadline for iran to prove to the world it's not racing forward to develop a nuclear weapon. >> we are now running out of time. >> reporter: iran's president scoffs at that deadline. the white house says, it's no joke. >> that is a very real deadline for the international community. >> reporter: but will the international community, especially rus

this home belongs to kurt westergaard, the man who drew the prophet mohammed wearing a bomb as a turban three years ago. this cartoon sparked an uproar over muslims at the time, and over the years tlfsh several suspects arrested for allegedly plotting to try to kill this cartoonist. >>> getting out of the unemployment line. it is the new year's resolution of millions of americans. >> and 2010 offers a few glimmers of hope for some job seekers. >> reporter: happy new year. more than 15 million people in the country are unemployed, many of them lost their jobs in 2009. what's ahead for 2010? elena, who spoke to us late last year about her career hopes, after sending out dozens of resumes and searching for a job, she suddenly realized what she wanted to do in life. >> luckily out of all of this and something that's really positive that has come out of it is that i've discovered that i want to become a teacher. and i would have never discovered that out of, you know, this entire year of looking for a job that instead of having a job physically handed to me i've really had to fight for it an

and it would be bettero do it elwhere, if they could find a venue. >> warner: the tal for mohammed and four ofis co- conspirators was scheded take place here at a federa courthouse just blocks from where the world ade center oncetood. that announcement s made in novemb by u.s. attorney general ic holder. >> they will be broughto new york, to n york, to answer for their alleged crimes... >> warner: that same day, he told the "newshourhe was confident the city was prered. >> new york has alsoone a number of thestrials in the past, has a tracrecord for ing these high-profile rrorist trials. >> lehrer: but you copedith the thout of your decision creating aig red bull's-eye for every terrorist in the world? >> i talked mayor bloomberg. i talked tgovernor paterson. and mayor blmberg especially said, "you kno this is the ple where this case ought to be brought. we can handle it warner: but estimates of th costs have grown into ndreds of millions of dolla for security andost revenue for businesses. anfears about a possible attack he grown as well. now, new yk state's senior democratic senatorh

i had to look it up, it is the winged horse mohammed flies around on. she was actually quite sophisticated in her reading and like to show off her sophistication, so there is both a financial sophistication which i think cotton tuffs got her on any self-confidence which i came, which i think came from her reading. >> could be called patriotism and did she ever refer to it as such? >> she did not refer to it as patriotism. i don't think she was ashamed of it though and i try to present to you the case of the soldiers who had to dump the bonds at a fraction of the face value but there were people who did write defenses of speculators. she didn't. she defended speculators in the sense of seeing we've got to pay the speculator is full value because that's how you establish your credit rating. but she never did in the first person singular we've got to pay me. [laughter] we've got to be the speculators. and it's interesting in february of 1790 james madison, who had actually supported speculators early on but turned against them and he put the bill in congre

why is it that when we sit down with mohammed and trace on a world map where he was held for 18 months of his life that our fingers still can't draw a straight line from where his plane went and when it left afghanistan. alongside these questions that we continue to ask of the u.s. government, we also ask a lot of our clients. they are the dizzying factual questions that span literally hundreds of ourselves, an attempt to uncover every minute detail from flight length to the air temperature on tarmacs from the color, size, layout to the types of bread and rice that was served, from interpreter's accents to the shape of drinking bottles from prison protocols to toilet types. cell camera positioning, directions between cells, interrogation rooms and so forth. beyond asking our clients to dig through these excruciating memories we also require a lot in regard to the conditions under which they share these details. we ask our clients to trust us even though we cannot guarantee their safety. we ask them to communicate freely even as we explain their phones are wiretapped and the notes in wh

. >> they're granting someone like khalid shaikh mohammed, the 9-11 master mind, the full spectrum ofrican criminal rights, due process protection, while at the same time, not giving it to person a, person b or c and because we haven't heard a lot from the obama administration as to how they're drawing the lines or what the principles are, that underlie the decisions, it's hard to make sense of some of it. >> reporter: another american has reportedly been the target of joint attacks in the tribal areas of pakistan. >> shooting spree at the marine housing facilities at camp pendleton. >> in 2006, he urged followers to attack a military base. this shot by a fox news documentary team shows where he grew up on a goat farm in rural california. he was last in the u.s. more than a decade ago. >> if you are denied the capability to deal with someone through the criminal justice system and that person is killing targeting your citizens and killing your citizens, what else can you do? i would say it's justified. but if you ask me where the crux of that problem in my mind is, it's the issue of p

take the case of khalid sheikh mohammed. here's a man who admits to planning the most catastrophic terrorist attack in u.s. history. nearly 3,000 people dead on our own soil in a single day. yet once in court he will enjoy all the rights and privileges of an american citizen. classified information may be compromised as it has been many times before in such cases. the consequences are easy to imagine. trying k.s.m. in a civilian court makes even less sense in light of the fact that the administration decided to prosecute other foreign terrorists in a military commission. creating a baffling scenario in which those who target innocent people in the homeland are treated better than those who attack a military target overseas. the administration also needs to ensure that our intelligence professionals and men and women in uniform are free to gather intelligence from detainees wherever they're captured. a u.s. marine assigned to a nato-led security and development mission in afganistan shouldn't have to relief or turn over a cap

. >>> kurt westergaard whose drawings of the profit mohammed angered the western world attacked in hisome. an axe-wielding somali man has been charged with attempted murder. efforts have been stepped up to protect westergaard. he's been moved to an undisclosed location. >>> rescuers are pulling bodies from beneath huge mountains of mud and dirt in brazil. the coastal city has been especially hit hard by this. rescue teams are on duty around the clock, but hope is fading for survivors. at least 60 people have been killed in the southeastern part of that country. >>> word in a u.s. general david petrais met with yemen's president today has ramped up speculation about potential u.s. military action there. barbara starr reports the u.s. is already scouting potential new al qaeda targets. >> reporter: yemeni forces earlier this month on a raid against al qaeda just north of the capital of sanar. the military shouts, come out. it is better for you, do not be afraid. shots are fired, several suspects are finally captured. this was one of yemen's efforts to hit back at al qaeda, u.s. assistanc

most have opposed trying sheik mohammed in civilian courts. >> senator lieberman also said that the fallacy of the false tern active is to assume you treat something like this in criminal court or you don't have a rule of law. there's a substantial body of law of war. that's the paradigm he's suggesting. >> obama has not said he will not use military commissions. >> he's said there are moments when he would keep people without charges. >> as you point out, an attack like this is ans acid test. has president obama been politically damaged? has secretary napolitano? >> i don't think, certainly, president obama has not sustained long-term damage. janet napolitano, we'll see. i, for one, was pleased to see a president who had a measured response, who didn't immediately come back to the white house. the purpose of terrorism, after all, is to terrorize. why allow al qaeda to terrorize us? he had all the instruments of state at his disposal. he reacted appropriately. i don't think there was a need for a "the sky is falling" approach. >> should she have come back from san francisco? >> i don't thin

. >> granting someone like khalid shaikh mohammed the 9-11 master mind the full spectrum of american criminal rights, due process protections, while at the same time not giving it to person a, b or c, and because we haven't heard a lot from the obama administration as to how they're drawing the lines or what the principles are, that underlie their decisions, that's very hard to make sense of some of it. >> reporter: another american, al-qaeda has reportedly been the target of joint attacks in the tribal areas of pakistan. >> shooting spree at the marine housing facilities at camp preponderance of the evidenceleton. >> in 2006, he urged followers to attack a u.s. military base. this video first shot exclusively by a fox news documentary team shows where he grew up on a goat farm in rural california. he was last in the u.s. more than a decade ago. >> if you are denied the capability to deal with someone through the criminal justice system and that person is killing, targeting your citizens and killing your citizens, what else can you do? i would say it's justified. if you ask me where

khalid sheikh mohammed -- >> which is wrong. >> sean: let me read from the ap, i think this is part of the consequences of the president's decisions. the ap said, points out that a federal judge has tossed out most of the government's evidence against a terrorism detainee on the grounds that his confessions were coerced allegedly by u.s. forces before he became a prisoner at guantanamo bay. is this an indicator of things to come that all the evidence that we acquired if we didn't give miranda rights now that evidence is tossed out? >> i hope not. i think most -- one thing to have a citizen be given the entire protection of our constitution no matter how evil or bad. the enemy noncombat tans entitled to due process. you have a right to be heard before a military tribunal. it is like criminalizing the detroit terrorist, that made no sense. he's not a citizen. engaged in a terrorist act. in the six counts i don't think they charged him -- there's a terrorist count. >> sean: should janet napolitano had been fired? should anybody had been fired? >> the fact she made that statement that ever

wanting him tried in military court can, on top of what happened in new york, with khalid sheikh mohammedyork. i don't know. the mixed signals are here are bothering the american people. >> it's not exactly easing the terrorist threat. >> no. the problem what we're learning is that being nice to them is not working. >> neil: patrick, good to see you. pat caddell. revenge of the nerds washington style. the washington director on a roll with the ladies. is that a geek game changer? the most famous nerd ever lewis from "revenge of the nerds" is best. guess what else? plus-size model is turning heads here and everywhere. @' >>> people just you just like you're in high school. >> ogre! ogre! >> nerds! nerds! >> ogre, ogre! >> where are they? >> i think they're talking about us. >>> no way! >> neil: it's me. i was so intrigued by this story. are the nerds finally getting their revenge? white house budget director peter orszag has all of a sudden become geek guy. orszag knows his numbers. crunch this number. two. one greek shipping heiress had his baby, a beautiful tv reporter who is his fiancee

you may remember westergaard's 2005 cartoon sparked riots among some muslims that had the prophet mohammed with bomb-shaped turbine. >>> and cold-blooded murder captured on security camera in chicago. victim, just 16 years old. adding to the tragedy, the student attended the same very school rocked by another senseless murder that gained national attention. the story straight ahead. plus, president obama vacationing in a place where he was born and partially raised, hawaii. gladly welcoming home the native son amid severe drop in tourism. more on how the state hopes the first family visit might reverse fortunes next. ok. oomph. i'm a mommy. i love kids! i'm responsible, loving, nurturing. ahhh! yea whooo! no no no no no! don't touch that. [squeak squeak] stop, stop! ahhhhh! whoa! being a parent's a lot of work. where's mommy? here i am! sid: [laugh] ha ha, no, stop, stop. >> julie: tragic story out of chicago, where it might feel like history repeating itself. surveillance camera capturing the death of a high school student outside convenience store. murder of 16-year-old fred couch on the

which he committed himself to the most egregious thing he did of course was the putting of sheikh mohammedgiving him a trial in new york. but there has been moderate and continuity, as if it's a tribute obama is paying to the bush administration, adopting indeed what it had denounced in word. >> bret: a.b., was vice president cheney effective? >> in a party without a leader, dick cheney stepped in and filled a void and became a passionate, articulate, forceful critic of the president. that -- wlos whether or not tha is unseemly is an open president. president george bush and his father alike decided to restrain themselves and not criticize the president. who is in his office under very difficult circumstances doing his job. and they thought that was following protocol. vice president -- former vice president dick cheney doesn't seem to agree with them. >> bret: quickly, steve. >> i don't think it was unseemly at all given the nature and scope and extent of the attack that president obama made starting with the first day in office continuing through the entire first year of his time as pres

man who has ties to al-qaeda was trying to break into the home his 2005 caricatures of the prophet mohammedaged many muslims. >> transportation security administration will review security procedures on u.s. bound flights starting next week after a failed christmas day terror attack on a are in west airlines flight from amsterdam to . 23-year-old nigerian man is accused of trying to blow up that plane with explosives hidden in his underwear. tsa will send agents to international airports to check their security procedures. now back to on the record special about sarah palin. >> greta: governor palin seems to have found her favorite way to express herself. not traditional. facebook you are now speaking to people on facebook are you actually doing this? do you have a staff? >> i have a small staff. no, i'm actually doing it. >> you have a very small staff. >> this morning i post -- last night couldn't sleep, couldn't sleep, kind of burning in me again with this reminder, all you -- i use facebook to remind americans on i'm this book tour. they shout loudly they say we to get this country back

westergaard drew a cartoon of mohammed with a turban shaped like a bomb and drew protests from muslims world-wide. >>> president obama is blaming an affiliate of al qaeda for an attempted terror attack for a flight to detroit on christmas day. on his weekly radio address,the president said the group train ed umar farouk abdulmutallab. he is accused of trying to bring down an airplane landing in detroit with an explosive device that failed to detonate. >> the investigation into the christmas day incident continues. we're learning more about the suspect. we know that he traveled to yemyes, ma' ma'am -- yemen. it appears he joined an facility of al qaeda, this group in the arabian peninsula trained him and equipped him with explosives and trained him for attack for america. this is not the first time this group has targeted us. in recent years they bombed yemeni facilities and restaurants and hotels, restaurants and embassies, including our embassy in 2008 killing one american. as president, i made it a priority to strengthen our partnership with the yemeni government, strengthening and e

. >> the number one most serious legal story, khalid sheikh mohammed.rial will be held right by where the world trade center once stood. >> from a legal perspective, a great move by attorney general eric holder. this is where the case belongs. unlike iran and china where they do things in secret. we do not. and we will get in 2010 a conviction. >> those were the serious stories. stand by for me. we are going to have some of the silliest stories. we are going to talk about a story -- legal story with legs, if you will, as in pant legs. look at these pants here. what do you think about this? would this pair of pants be worth $54 million? we will tell you when the court said. >>> we have been counting down the top legal stories of the past year. talking with our legal guy, avery friedman. we will bring him back in. we have been talking about the most serious stores. sonia sotomayor. bernie madoff. and now the list of the top five stupid, outrageous, you fill in the blank, whatever adjective you choose. legal toppers of 2009 providing fodder for halloween c

this bill would help stop the misguided plan to put khalid shaikh mohammed and other terrorists on trialn downtown new york. there is a good reason why the government has had a hard time transferring these terrorists detainees to other countries. they are the worst of the worst. no one should want them. that's why we put in place a process by which these terrorists should be held and tried as enemy combatants by military commissions. the keep terrorists out of america will help to ensure to treat terrorism as what it is, a war crime, not a law enforcement issue. >> king made the remarks in the republicans weekly address. >>> two men now under arrest in connection with a new york terror plot, one of them is a new york city cab driver. he was arraigned yesterday. the other is a bosnian immigrant in court this morning. susan candiotti is live from new york with the latest. >> reporter: hello, fredricka. in fact, this was an arraignment on a two-count indictment for the suspect. this arraignment just wrapped up a short time ago. the name of the suspect is adis madua nane, a bosnian immigrant

guantanamo to trying khalid shaikh mohammed in a civilian court.o war essentially with our own cia interrogators. i think the country's saying, whoa, are you really in control? do you really see this as a war that we're fighting or is this a legal battle or pr campaign you are fighting? >> if you're going to make that argument, maybe we should blame dick cheney and george w. bush because they were the ones after all that let these guys out of guantanamo bay who went to yemen who insisted on putting this plot together. karen hunter? >> i couldn't agree with you more. you took the words right out of my mouth. i think we should blame first the terrorists but we should also blame the people who are responsible formakering sure that people don't get on planes with bombs in their underwear. there was a breakdown clearly. this man should have never been on a plane. now america has to suffer because this man didn't do his job. whoever didn't do their job ought to be fired, yeah. but it should be accountability at the top first with the people who are in ch

of a man accused of trying to attack the artist behind the controversial cartoon of the prophet mohammedthe 28-year-old suspect was treated for non-life threatening injuries and was then transported by ambulance to make an appearance in court where he was charged with attempted murder. police in denmark shot the suspect after they say he tried to enter kurt westerguard's home with an ax and a knife. the artist called police, and hid in a safe room with his 5-year-old grandchild. investigators say the suspect has ties to al qaeda. in 2006, the cartoon sparked protests across the muslim world. >>> in india, fog is being blamed for two train collisions. in this pileup no one was killed. but in a second one involving at least two trains, five people were killed and 50 others injured. >>> and some serious snowfall expected in the midwest over the next couple of days. lake-effect snow could drop 10 to 14 inches in areas east of cleveland, which bill cairns, is where i grew up and where my family still is. >> i didn't know that. >> east of cleveland. >> you could be a cleveland indians fan then

why with retrying khalid sheikh mohammed in new york f it is war maybe we should have a war all the way down. >> lehrer: former senator gorton made that point to judy that -- >> the very point. >> lehrer: don't try the guy through the criminal courts, hold him, interrogate him, what do you think of that argument? >> i don't know the strengths of the argument constitutionally. i do know that there was no question that under president bush and president cheney , what was intriguing to me, it was such a different response. president bush immediately at the time of an attack was let's go after them. let's go get them. it was -- you know t was understandable as opposed to president oa which was what did we do, what do we have to do better. as far as this is concerned, this was how the 20th hijack er house aweee was tried. has saluted to a test mollial to the american judicial system rudy giuliani who has become the avenging angel of the military tribuneal. i don't know if it is a rule issue or it isn't a real issue. i do want to point out that dick lugar the former senate foreign relations c

he was identified as mansor mohammed asaof toledo, ohio. f.b.i. officls said today the was no evidence of any rror plot. it turns out missing guard triggerethe shutdown sday night at liberty internatial airport in newar new jersey. airpt surveillance video was released tod. it shows a gua leaving his security checkpoint. momentlater, a man ducks under a rope into a secured area t say good-bye to a woman waing r a flight. the securityreach closed the newark terminal for six urs, delayinglights and scrambling schedules across the country in brussels, belum, today, members of the european ion debad whether to use full body scanners at airportsbut there were sharp divisions. at the same ti, italy joined the u.s., britain d the netherlands and announceit will install the scanns soon. >> we havelways said that the security com before everythi. the right to life r those who fly, for those who travel is a ndamental right that we want to protect. with the introductioof these instruments, these body scanns, we have decided as you have hed to introde them at

is it chanceable to bringhake mohammed out of a foreign area to try him. i think that's a fateful decision and one i hope that the attorney general has carefully thought through. are there other elements in some of which were mentioned might send a conflicting message. this is a great opportunity for the administration to make sure that they are not leaving anything on the table that could be used to defend the american people. >> do you have confidence in your successor? >> i do. i've known her for a long time. she's got a good skill set, great experience, her heart's in the rightplace. and i endorse her. >> thank you both for being here. up next, terror, unemployment, health care, all challenges facing president obama in the new year. our round table weighs in on what's ahead. tom borrow cause, david brooks, e.j. dionne and doris kearns goodwin here on "meet the we know why we're here. to build a new generation of airplanes to connect the world. airplanes that fly cleaner and farther on less fuel. and make nonstop travel possible to more places. announce

an ax and a knife tried to attack the cartoonist who drew a controversial image of the prophet, mohammed obama and the first family are in the final stretch of their holiday vacation in ohio and despite the relaxing tropical backdrop, the president's stay has been filled with tense moments, most notably the attempted bombing of the passenger jet on christmas. now more from honolulu. happy new year. the president doesn't appear to have been as relaxing as he was hoping. what has he been up to specifically and how much time has he had to spend on this terror scare on christmas day? >> reporter: he's had to devote a lot of time to it, but he has gotten in some time for golf and right now he and his family are at the beach at the marine base near their beach front home, the one they're renting. this whole trip has been overshadowed by the attempted bombing. the president examining the preliminary reports of the analysis he wanted. today in the radio and internet address that the president put out that was released today, he for the first time acknowledged there is a direct link between yemen

two f-16s escorted the flight to colorado springs, where the fbi arrested mohammed abu tahir.e's liable to face charges for interfering with a flight career. same day, a man was accused of harassing a woman on the board. he was removed from the jet but not arrested. officials say the woman did not want to press charges. >>> we have all been through a gamut of changes in the name of security at the airport but is any of it working? >> reporter: we take our shoes off, remove our laptops and toss our bottled water, all in the name of safety. are we any safer today than we were before 9/11? not exactly says bruce chennaier, author and security analysis. >> we take away guns and bombs, terrorists use box cutters. we take them away, they use liquids. we limit liquids, they strap explosives in their underwear. this is a stupid game we can't win and we should stop playing it. >> reporter: but the game goes on:the tsa tried puffer machines which blow air on you to release explosive material. they didn't work and are being phased out. and the patdowns -- >> any patdown you experience th

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