he is charged with being a key plotter in the pakistani terrorist attack in mumbai, india, last year. for more on the story we go to: sebastian rotella, national security correspondent for "the los angeles times" and tribune newspapers. he previously covered international terrorism from europe. >> thank you, it's a pleasure. >> lehrer: now, you entered a plea of not guilty today, right. >> yes, thieght that's correct. >> lehrer: what exactly is he charged with doing. >> he's charged with acting as a scout doing an intensive reconnaissance by the packing stink terrorist group carrying out the attacks using a cover as a american businessman. in mumbai opens a front business there and is scouting video taping the targets that were ultimately hit by these commando teams that killed 1 70 people. he's accused in a follow up plot this year of doing the same kind of scouting in denmark for what would have been a plot to attack the newspaper that published the characterrures of the prophet moaned some years ago. he's accused of that successful attack and follow up plot of the same nature. >> l

but now he has been charged with helping to plan the didley mumbai attacks in india last year. darrah binnun number brass within the united states.

for police housing. 170 people died in the attack on mumbai.e muslims, including 12-year-old afroz. >>> with more than 2,000 offices in towns and villages, lashkar-e-taiba, the army of the righteous is deeply embedded in pakistani society. it remains close to it backers within the pakistani intelligence services. pakistan has an arsenal of nuclear warheads and is one of america's key allies. during the attack, lashkar-e-taiba controller had briefed one of the mumbai gunmen on what to say when the media called. >> we have just been warned by the terrorists that the main film is yet to come. the horror we have seen is simply the trailer. how worried should we be? let me give you some background. the group responsible for these attacks, lashkar-e-taiba, was created to wage war in kashmir, the territory that has been under dispute with india and pakistan since 1947. lashkar was supported by the pakistani military. there is little evidence that pakistan's generals are making any serious effort to shut down what has become a vast oergs within their c

they showed when you're go in mumbai. as we are learning about this, its global reach is probably also something to worry about. the nisei a few words about afghanistan. you can also summarize what we have done in afghanistan in one sentence and where we are today. we are losing the war in afghanistan, but it is not yet lost. i hope. general mcchrystal's report courtesy of bob woodward, you all have an urgent deave to read. at the key hit the nail on the head. he got it exactly right. -- i think he hit the nail on the head. i think you should read the amex which talks about detention facilities in afghanistan in which he says we no longer control of the detention facilities in which we are keeping captured insurgents. they are defacto under the control of al qaeda and caliban. war record that takes place in those detention facilities than anywhere else in afghanistan today. -- they are under the control of al qaeda and the taliban. when you lose control of these camps you are in a deep hole. every major statistic we have

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is he is chaed with killing th170 people in mumbai so he coulface the death penalty. >> lehrer: what the next step. >> the next st is to see how this case goesorward. there are ports and it's even clear from t documents he's talking about this thathere's some cooperation gng on. the next step wod be to see if thisoes to trial and at what level d what his, how far his cooperation goes. but i would say would assume he's goi to be prosecuted in these cases. >> lehrer: sebastian, tha you very much. >> my plsure. >> ifillnow, "patchwork nation," our on-air d on-line collaboratn with "the christn science monitor." ray suarez h been traveling thcountry, examining how recession anrecovery are playing ouin different communits from coast to coast. tonight, he kes us to tractor couny, the agricultural community of sioux cente in northwesiowa. >> rorter: every fall, a thick blankeof corn and soybeans covers this rolling farmlandn sioux county, iowa. in normal year, it would all be harvested by mid novembernd on its w somewhere, but an unusuay wet fall has put farmers like randy vander scff and h

officials in india plan to charge a chicago man with helping to plan the terror attacks in mumbai last year. they said today they're building the case for an indictment of david coleman headley. he's already facing charges in the u.s. it's alleged headley scouted out the hotels and a jewish center that were targeted in mumbai. 166 people were killed in the siege. the first lethal injection in the u.s. to use a single drug was carried out in ohio today. kenneth biros, 51, was executed this morning. he was convicted of murdering a woman in 1991, and scattering her body parts in ohio and pennsylvania. state officials said the one- drug method would be less painful than a three-drug combination used in previous executions. the u.s. senate has turned back restrictions on abortion funding in the health carol bill. the language was similar to a provision already included in house version of the bill. for now the senate measure allows insurance plans to cover abortions but not with federal funds. this decade this decade could turn out to be the warmest going back to 1850. that word came today

not only planning future attacks but has now been charged with leping to plan the 2008 attacks in mumbai, india. and just over the past few days we're learning about five young men in virginia just outside where we sit here today who it appears that these young men were radicalized just miles from where we are here. we are seeing more individuals who are self-radicalized over the internet rather than being recruited by al qaeda. they develop extremist thought and then turn to terrorism. one in my state was illegally in this country and was arrested for plotting a conspicuous act of violence. he is one of the several recent cases of lone wolf plots. we need to give officials the tools they need to find these terrorist plots. we must not forget that we are still under attack and that the threat is very real. waiting until terrorist acts occur and innocent men and women and children are murdered is not an acceptable answer. we must deal to detect and intercept terrorists early. . murdered is not an acceptable answer. we must be able to intercept terrorists early. in doing so we need to answ

but now he has been charged with helping to plan the didley mumbai attacks in india last year. darrah binnun number brass within the united states. persons charged with plotting attacks. i'm not going to ask you to going to the individual cases but as you can imagine, this raised a great deal of concern among americans when we have people plotting attacks from the united states even though they may be conducted outside of the united states because it is just as easy to apply such attacks inside the united states. how do we and how does dhs plan to contribute to confronting the problem of homegrown terrorism in a targeted an effective manner? how much coordination goes on here? we know that 9/11 could have been stopped before it happens if all the dots have been connected. i am not going to go back in rehashed who dropped the ball there but how do we make sure we are not dropping the ball today? >> well, mr. chairman, with respect to hadley, i will keep my remarks restricted on the nature of the case and the justice system as you yourself noted, but we coordinate and are coordin

another mumbai-style mass casualty attack coming out of pakistan will also be a game changer.n government's capacity to absorb mass casualty attacks, i suspect, has been reached. it will not send dumarche to islamabad the next time. as hard as it is, it is the best of the bad options we have today. we only really had two other options. one was cutting and running. we can define cutting and running in a lot of different ways, downsize the mission, readjust the mission, but all of them come down to cutting and running one way or another. i think the president wisely ruled that out from the beginning. if we are defeated in afghanistan by the taliban, it will also be a global game changer. this will be the second superpower as the taliban loves to remind us, defeated in afghanistan and the global revere bations of that will be enormous and no more so than next door in pakistan. thirdly, this issue is now going to consume this presidency, which is why it took them 92 days to come to a second conclusion because they don't like that answer and i wouldn't like it either if i was rahm

you have the prime minister of india whose country was attacked in mumbai last year. we can't show this type of weakness to terrorists or psychopaths, especially against president obama, probably the most threatened president in our history. >> larry: do you think tareq and michaele should be charged, casey? >> i think that i can't find anything they've done wrong. do i believe they had an invitation or at least thought they did. from what my conversations have been with them, i did talk to them, like i said, on thanksgiving evening. and i was told at that point in time that they had correspondence that led them to believe they were invited. i had a friend of mine who's also a very close friend of theirs as well confirm that with me as well. so i have no reason to believe that they didn't have any other understanding other than they were invited and they were supposed to be there. so i do feel that if there's a reason they were not supposed to be there, then is it really their fault and can they really be prosecuted for that? >> larry: teresa, for a state department d

we had a colleague of yours on our show last night talking about the american implicated in the mumbaitacks. this is another case where they clearly must be worried about the potential here. >> absolutely. they're very worried about this and worried about the guy from somalia. they're worried about two people from the new york area. they've very, very worried that these guys are... why would they be moved to go to pakistan for this? why kind of pipeline is there perhaps even in the united states that sends people there and what they can do about stopping them either before they leave or once they get there. but they don't feel like they have a good handle on all of the americans who are going back and forth to places like pakistan . >> brown: are they considering a success story as he puts in the this case? >> i don't think so at this point. they're very grate to feel the families for helping but i think they're glad they caught this at the stage they have but i don't think they would call a success story. >> brown: josh meyer, nihad awad, thank you very much. >> lehrer: next tonight,

another mumbai attacked coming out of pakistan will also be a game changer.rnment's capacity to absorb mass casualty attacks, i suspect, has been reached. they will not send someone to islamabad the next time. the second thing i would say is that, as hard as it is, it is the best of the bad options and have today. we really only had two other options. one was to cut and run. we can define that in a lot of different ways, downsize the mission, readjust the mission, but all of them come down to cutting and running in one way or another. i think the president wisely ruled that out from the beginning. if we are defeated in afghanistan by the television it will be a global game changer. -- in afghanistan by the taliban. the global reverberations of that in the islamic world will be enormous and no more so than in pakistan. thirdly, this issue is now going to consume this presidency which is why it took them 92 days to come to a conclusion because they do not like the answer. if i was wrong emmanuel -- if i was rahm. this will be the issue, the foreign policy issue

within the syndicate of terror, i would suggest that today -- it demonstrated a year ago at mumbai itsity to strike with awesome fury. its global reach is probably also something to worry about. let me say a few words about afghanistan. you can also summarize what we have done in afghanistan in one sentence. we are losing the war in afghanistan, but it is not yet lost. parentheses -- i hope. general mcchrystal's report, which, courtesy of bob woodward, all of you have had the chance to read, is an excellent summary. i think he hit the nail on the head. he got it exactly right. if there is one part of their report that i urge you to look at is the detention facilities in afghanistan, in which he says, we no longer control the detention facilities in which we are keeping captured insurgents. they are defacto under the control of al qaeda. more radicalization and recruitment for al qaeda takes place in those detention facilities than anywhere else in afghanistan today. when you have lost control of the prison camps in which you are putting insurgents in a counterinsurgency, you are in a d

the taliban are part of a senate of extremist groups that include the group that carried out the mumbaittacks. that sent it threatens the stability of pakistan and afghanistan and indeed the entire subcontinent. although most taliban fighters confronted our forces are local afghans, motivated by local circumstances, the afghan taliban leadership is organized, ideologically motivated, and a beacon and symbol for other dangerous extremist elements. as secretary gates noted, defeating al qaeda and enhancing afghan security are mutually reinforcing missions. they cannot be untethered from one another as much as we might wish that to be the case. achieving our objectives in afghanistan and thus will not be easy. the taliban has in recent years been gaining strength and expanding the extent of its control of parts of afghanistan. it is important to remember, nevertheless, that the taliban commanders significantly less support among pashtuns and extremist groups in iraq had in their communities in 2007. or extremist groups in iraq had in their communities in 2007, and commands virtually no sup

this was one year almost to the day of the incident in mumbai. would like to show you how severe i think the circumstances are. we've seen these over and over again. absolutely severe because the person standing there was not vetted to the report you submitted to us. it is severe when we see a picture we have seen over and over again -- severe. violation and potential threat to the violet -- to the president and vice-president of the united states. in another location altogether, in an uninvited circumstance standing with the united states military. i am sure they could take care of themselves, but it is still severe. the prime minister of the nation that suffered this terrorist act was there. let me focus on why i believe this is a law enforcement issue. you may not be able to discuss a lot of this, but let me quickly discuss. was there a secret service personnel there? >> there was. >> did that personnel inquire of the salahis, where the invited guests? >> the present themselves as being invited. there was a discussion. >> in your report they s

al qaeda also is supportive of the terrorist group that is responsible for the bombings and mumbai and al qaeda is providing them with targeting information and helping them in their plodding in india clearly with the idea of provoking conflict between india and pakistan that would destabilize pakistan. they also are very much involved with the afghan taliban. and so they are supporting all of these different groups in ways that are destabilizing not just for afghanistan but for the entire region and al qaeda is at the heart of it and whether or not the terrorists are homegrown when we trace their roots they almost all in up back in this border area of afghanistan and pakistan whether they are from the united states or somalia or the united kingdom or elsewhere. and so what we see is al qaeda despite their being under pressure and despite their limited numbers and despite the fact that there are few of them in afghanistan right now, that they are taking advantage of the situation in the region to play a very destabilizing and dangerous role. what they have learned as i suggested in my

then there's david hedley, the american citizen who has now been indicted for alleged roled in the mumbai attacks as well as plotting attacks on a danish newspaper. this case is doubly important to examine because he was an american recruited to attack abroad. so what are the triggers? in these cases, terrorist organizations not only successfully recruited americans, but then provided the requisite training to enable those americans to carry out attacks. we don't have too many chances more, too many more chances to get this right. there is a growing list of people suspected of being recruited and ready to carry out terror attacks in our country and abroad. if we fail to find the right way to protect both security and liberty, the next attack, i fear, could lead to a shredding of our constitution. something none of us wants. i want to welcome all the witnesses in addition to michael mccloud ball, we will hear from doctors stephen wine of the university of chicago, my friend jim of the american institute and jim kragen rand. all of the members of this subcommittee who took oaths to protect

they showed when you're go in mumbai. as we are learning about this, its global reach is probably also something to worry about. the nisei a few words about afghanistan. you can also summarize what we have done in afghanistan in one sentence and where we are today. we are losing the war in afghanistan, but it is not yet lost. i hope. general mcchrystal's report courtesy of bob woodward, you all have an urgent deave to read. at the key hit the nail on the head. he got it exactly right. -- i think he hit the nail on the head. i think you should read the amex which talks about detention facilities in afghanistan in which he says we no longer control of the detention facilities in which we are keeping captured insurgents. they are defacto under the control of al qaeda and caliban. war record that takes place in those detention facilities than anywhere else in afghanistan today. -- they are under the control of al qaeda and the taliban. when you lose control of these camps you are in a deep hole. every major statistic we have

another mumbai attacked coming out of pakistan will also be a game changer.rnment's capacity to absorb mass casualty attacks, i suspect, has been reached. they will not send someone to islamabad the next time. the second thing i would say is that, as hard as it is, it is the best of the bad options and have today. we really only had two other options. one was to cut and run. we can define that in a lot of different ways, downsize the mission, readjust the mission, but all of them come down to cutting and running in one way or another. i think the president wisely ruled that out from the beginning. if we are defeated in afghanistan by the television it will be a global game changer. -- in afghanistan by the taliban. the global reverberations of that in the islamic world will be enormous and no more so than in pakistan. thirdly, this issue is now going to consume this presidency which is why it took them 92 days to come to a conclusion because they do not like the answer. if i was wrong emmanuel -- if i was rahm. this will be the issue, the foreign policy issue

as we know, all nations are threatened by extremism, whether it takes place in new york city or in mumbair other areas, we must work together in stopping people, throwing bombs and killing innocent people. that is the world's challenge, and it means that afghanistan, pakistan and india must cooperate to reduce the violence and eliminate the tensions. our troops are defending the right of afghanistan to develop its own government. they're risking their lives to chase down international criminals who threaten not just the united states but afghanistan, pakistan and beyond. there will come an inevitable moment in this fight where our partners in pakistan must take up the fight with an equal vigor so we don't have to take matters into our own hands. i believe we can build a significantly stronger relationship with pakistan and i also believe in the long run pakistan will strengthen its own democracy, institutions and security by engaging in an unfetterrd fight against the extremists with its own borders. here in washington our domestic debate focused a great deal of energy on the question how

is we he also know that al-qaeda is helping the terrorist group that carried out the bombings in mumbai. al-qaeda sees using the taliban in pakistan and groups like l.e.t. as ways to destabilize pakistan and invoke and inflict problems within india. >> if the opposite were true, if we were to either fail in this offensive mission against the taliban and al-qaeda in afghanistan or not embark on it, what would be impact be on the stability of the pakistani government in your opinion. >> let me just ask admiral mullen, we've seen what happens when the pakistanis made deals with the tribes of various groups on the western -- on the northwestern frontier, it created a sanctuary and safe haven in which taliban which had been knocked back on its heels and nearly destroyed in 2001, 2002 had the space in which it could reconstitute itself to the point where it could become a major problem for the united states and a number of other allies. if given the same kind of space in eastern afghanistan and southern afghanistan the ttp and pakistan could use it to strengthen itself and expand its ranks an

another question, the mumbai situation 3 do you know anything about that? >> yes.[laughter] that is my job. i can actually say that indeed i do. for information relating to those indictment, i wouldn't want you to the department of justice and the -- i would point you to the department of justice and the department then handed down the indictment. we continue to say in the president does, and too, that we will continue to take every step necessary to protect the american people. today it was an important day in doing that. the oilers won more tarp? the president, when he was asked about the use of tarp funds, he seemed to indicate that there are parameters out about what can be used. he said that the initial reasoning to use the tarp funds was to build up credit markets, and he would look to use that money for that to move credit for small businesses. i guess my question is, does he believe there are parameters on what this money can and cannot be used for? >> no final determinations have been made. when final determinations are and have been made, then we will dis

minneapolis, here, work people from the united states went to pakistan and did surveillance for the mumbai we are in the crosshairs of what we've been seeing in europe for some time, domestic radicalization of a radical islamist nature. host: in the u.s., a number of these cases, the individuals are second generation, children of immigrants, and not so much in europe. guest: in europe they are second, third, fourth generation. here, we are just beginning to see what the trend is going to be. my real concern in the united states is that the way we are dealing with this as a government is by approaching it with the terminology of combat in the violent extremism. to me that is an hour late and a dollar short. what is driving them to this radical literature on line, what has been sending them to pakistan or somalia to carry out actual attacks -- we have two american suicide bombers in somalia -- is a radical ideology. it involves more than just law enforcement. we have to deal with the radical ideology that comes before the pilots. that is difficult and it -- that comes before the violence. th

in fact, in last year's attack, the mumbai, two terrorists executed a commando-style raid on a major railway system gunning down 150 innocent commuters. to date, we've been fortunate that no such attacks have occurred on u.s. soil, but with passage of this legislation, securing the nation's railway system becomes far more difficult. section 159 requires amtrak to allow passengers to travel with guns without checking them against the terrorist watch list. we all get checked against the terrorist watch list when we fly, regardless of whether we check firearms or not. how can we justify not using the terrorist watch list on people who travel the rail? amtrak policy of prohibiting passengers from traveling with guns was established in response to 9/11. with this bill, congress in a heavy-handed way is interfering with amtrak security protocols without a single congressional hearing. this bill would abruptly undermine nearly a decade of conscientious effort for amtrak to enhance rail security and protect its passengers and employees. i'm also concerned that it does not distinguish between

and you talk about mumbai and shanghai, those are places where people were spending money., a hot spot that is an emerging market with an enormous amount of debt. there are places like this around the world. the problems in dubai have been a wake-up call for the investment community to take a step back and relook and refocus where our money is allocated. host: art is joining us. caller: good morning c-span and thank you for your service and say hello to your guest, i watch him on charlie rose, and he does a great job. the comment i have on dubai and how they exploit the workers over there. the poor workers are treated so badly. and all of these big buildings that are built are built by those workers with no rights and almost get no pay at all. and the same with the rest of the middle eastern countries like saudia arabia and how badly they treat their workers. and one more comment i was trying to make earlier, trudy was on your show and i couldn't get through about the needs of the local people in afghanistan or pakistan. i mean for example, pakistan now there is no sugar. t

another mumbai mass casualty attack in india also coming out of pakistan will also be the game changer. really only had two other options. one was cutting and running. we can define it cutting and running and a lot of different ways -- downsize the mission, readjust the mission, but all of them come down to cutting and running one way or another. i think the president wisely ruled that out from the beginning. if we are defeated in afghanistan by the tell them, it will also be a global quaint intrigue -- by the taliban, it will be a global game changer. the global reverberations of such to feed will be enormous and nowhere more so than next door and pakistan. thirdly, this issue will now consume this president. which is why it took the 92 days to come to this conclusion. i would not like it, either. this issue is going to be the foreign policy issue upon which this president is judged by the american people in november, 2012, and it will be the foreign policy issue that the congress of united states is judged upon less than a year from now. other issues may outweigh at -- the economy --

but now he has been charged with helping to plan the didley mumbai attacks in india last year.darrah binnun number brass within the united states. persons charged with plotting attacks. i'm not going to ask you to going to the individual cases but as you can imagine, this raised a great deal of concern among americans when we have people plotting attacks from the united states even though they may be conducted outside of the united states because it is just as easy to apply such attacks inside the united states. how do we and how does dhs plan to contribute to confronting the problem of homegrown terrorism in a targeted an effective manner? how much coordination goes on here? we know that 9/11 could have been stopped before it happens if all the dots have been connected. i am not going to go back in rehashed who dropped the ball there but how do we make sure we are not dropping the ball today? >> well, mr. chairman, with respect to hadley, i will keep my remarks restricted on the nature of the case and the justice system as you yourself noted, but we coordinate and are coordina

conspiring to commit terrorist attacks in denmark but now he's been charged with helping plan the deadly mumbai attacks in india last year and there's been a number of arrests within the united states, a person charged with plotting attacks. i'm not asking to given to the individual cases but you can imagine this raises a great deal of concern among americans we have people plotting attacks from the united states even though they may be conducted outside the united states because it is easy to apply such attacks and plot them inside the united states. how does the dhs plan to contribute to confronting the problem of homegrown terrorists when the target effective manner? how much coordination goes on here? we know that 9/11 could have been stopped before it happened if all of the dots have been connected. i will go back and rehashed who dropped the ball but how do we make sure we are not dropping the ball today? >> mr. chairman, with respect to headley i will keep my remarks restricted on the nature of the case and in the justice system as you yourself noted. but we coordinate and our cord meeti

but now he has been charged with helping to plan the didley mumbai attacks in india last year.darrah binnun number brass within the united states. persons charged with plotting attacks. i'm not going to ask you to going to the individual cases but as you can imagine, this raised a great deal of concern among americans when we have people plotting attacks from the united states even though they may be conducted outside of the united states because it is just as easy to apply such attacks inside the united@@@pjjjjá >> well, mr. chairman, with respect to hadley, i will keep my remarks restricted on the nature of the case and the justice system as you yourself noted, but we coordinate and are coordinating extensively with the fbi, the cia, the dni and other intelligence agencies in terms of cases that emanate from broad-- from the interior of the united states. secondly we are increasing our sharing of information at the state and local, so those are the eyes and ears, local law enforcement that need to be more fully engaged and plug in, watching for those who would seek to do us h

another mumbai-style mask casual attack in india will also be a game changer.he second thing i would say about it is, as hard as it is, it is the best of the bad options we have today. we really only had two other options. one was cutting and running. we can define cutting and running in a lot of different ways, downsize the mission, readjust the mission, but all of them come down to cutting and running, one way or another. i think the president wisely ruled that out from the beginning. if we are defeated in afghanistan by the taliban, it will also be a global game changer. this will be the second superpower, as the taliban loves to remind us, defeated in afghanistan, and the global reverberations in the islamic world would be enormous, and nowhere more so than next door in pakistan. thirdly, this issue is now going to consume this presidency, which is why it took them 92 days to come to a second conclusion, because they do not like that answer. i would not like it either if i was from a mental or david axelrod. this issue will be the foreign policy -- if i was

in the backdrop, of the mumbai incident that occurred a year almost to the day of the visit of the prime minister of the great country of india. so i'd like to just show you how severe i think these circumstances are. we've seen these over and over again. severe, absolutely severe. because the person standing there was not vetted to the report that you've submitted to us was not on any list. severe. when we see a picture that we've seen over and over again on the -- severe. violation and potential threat to the president and vice president of the united states. again, in another location all together in an uninvited circumstance standing with the united states military. i'm sure they could take care of themselves but severe. the same time the prime minister of the nation that suffered this terrorist act was there. so let me focus on why i believe this is a law enforcement issue. you may not be able to discuss a lot of it but let me quickly go through my point. at 15th and alexander hamilton place was there a secret service personnel there. >> there was. >> and did that secret service per

floor today and watched the actions in afghanistan and pakistan, as we see the world changing from mumbai to madrid, we recognize the crucialness of national security and homeland security. and so this legislation is to emphasize the importance of expanding our oversight and response to the idea of mass transit and rail transportation. i introduced this resolution because deadlines on the 9/11 act have passed without being set aside which is inexcusable given the risks faced by our nation's rail and mass transit system. i offered h.r. 2200 which included several elements that sought to enhance the surface transportation efforts. that bill passed in an overwhelmingly bipartisan manner earlier this year. as we wait for our friends in the senate to act on h.r. 2200, i believe that the house agreed to this resolution recommits our goal of t.s.a. securing these modes of transportation. let me first of all acknowledge the professional men and women that work for the transportation security administration. i am gratified to know that progress is being made of a new administrator for that agency

where hedley and the other actually organized in the united states with connections to al qaeda the mumbai bombings in india 13 months ago to 150 people. and janet napolitano herself, pick of the head of homeland security, says al qaeda cells are everywhere in this country. then an interesting article that appeared november 29 in "the washington post" about two yemeni brothers. one has been incarcerated in gtmo for eight years, and the other one still lives in yemen. the one in yemen was says his brother, who has been here for eight years -- look, when president obama says he is going to close gtmo, we thought they were going to release the prisoners and just close down the operation. but it gtmo prisoners are simply transferred to the united states, that will increase by hatred toward the united states and actually serve as an additional recruiting tool for people involved in terrorism. this is coming out of the mouths of people who have loved ones who are terrorists themselves. that is my big concern. host: oregon online. sam. guest: good morning, sam. caller: the morning. i'm a first-ti

as we know, all nations are threatened by extremism, whether it takes place in new york city or in mumbai or other areas, we must work together in stopping people, throwing bombs and killing innocent people. that is the world's challenge, and it means that afghanistan, pakistan and india must cooperate to reduce the violence and eliminate the tensions. our troops are defending the right of afghanistan to develop its own government. they're risking their lives to chase down international criminals who threaten not just the united states but afghanistan, pakistan and beyond. there will come an inevitable moment in this fight where our partners in pakistan must take up the fight with an equal vigor so we don't have to take matters into our own hands. i believe we can build a significantly stronger relationship with pakistan and i also believe in the long run pakistan will strengthen its own democracy, institutions and security by engaging in an unfetterrd fight against the extremists with its own borders. here in washington our domestic debate focused a great deal of energy on the question h

he was serving as a south asia bureau chief of the "wall street journal," at the time was based in mumbai, india. went to pakistan as part of an investigation of the shoe bomber of american airlines flight 63 and al qaeda and pakistan enter services intelligence agency. tragically mr. pearl was brutally executed by hisp captures. the legislation today is -- captors. the legislation today is made m thinks memory and i hope his family is looking on today and know his memory, his courage, and his example of what it means to advance the practice of journalism on the world stage will never be forgotten in this body. the legislation today is not simply a tribute the daniel pearl freedom of press act also will result in an effort to highlight and promote freedom of the press by including it such reports in the state department's annual country reports on human rights practices information. as we consider this legislation, as we remember daniel pearl's legacy, we think of the stories of so many others on the frontlines of freedom. a political talk show host, newspaper correspondent, and blogger i

another mumbai-style mass casualty attack coming out of pakistan will also be a game changer.n government's capacity to absorb mass casualty attacks, i suspect, has been reached. it will not send dumarche to islamabad the next time. as hard as it is, it is the best of the bad options we have today. we only really had two other options. one was cutting and running. we can define cutting and running in a lot of different ways, downsize the mission, readjust the mission, but all of them come down to cutting and running one way or another. i think the president wisely ruled that out from the beginning. if we are defeated in afghanistan by the taliban, it will also be a global game changer. this will be the second superpower as the taliban loves to remind us, defeated in afghanistan and the global revere bations of that will be enormous and no more so than next door in pakistan. thirdly, this issue is now going to consume this presidency, which is why it took them 92 days to come to a second conclusion because they don't like that answer and i wouldn't like it either if i was rahm

he is alleged to have made five trips from chicago, where he was living, to mumbai from 2006-2008 touct planning. and surveillance of many of the targets struck on november of 2008. because, travel based on entry and exit did not raise suspicions, although it may have in other ways. he was able to use the u.s. as a base of operations and in the briefings i have had, without revealing anything classified, it seems he was not involved in many plots related to target in the u.s., although one wonders whether that would have been the case for an extended time. he was using this as a base from which to plan attacks outside the u.s. it leads me to ask to what extent should a case such as this one lead us to think about broadening the screens we have in an attempt to try to detect and disrupt american citizens or people living here traveling overseas to carry out terrorist attacks and how one might do that? >> these cases are significant. a number of cases recently, and i think we see individuals in these specific citizens, they are in fact said that to al qaeda and its affiliates and the i

minneapolis, here, work people from the united states went to pakistan and did surveillance for the mumbaittacks. we are in the crosshairs of what we've been seeing in europe for some time, domestic radicalization of a radical islamist nature. host: in the u.s., a number of these cases, the individuals are second generation, children of immigrants, and not so much in europe. guest: in europe they are second, third, fourth generation. here, we are just beginning to see what the trend is going to be. my real concern in the united states is that the way we are dealing with this as a government is by approaching it with the terminology of combat in the violent extremism. to me that is an hour late and a dollar short. what is driving them to this radical literature on line, what has been sending them to pakistan or somalia to carry out actual attacks -- we have two american suicide bombers in somalia -- is a radical ideology. it involves more than just law enforcement. we have to deal with the radical ideology that comes before the pilots. that is difficult and it -- that comes before the viole