nic, this was a huge development. why was awlaki such a threat and a priority for the snus. >> he was an intellectual. he was smart. he was well educated. he knew how to sort of manipulate his audience and the

nic, first, what was the message from the other gadhafi son? >> reporter: he was saying he is talking to the national transitional council military leaders about the possibility of a ceasefire. he says scotching rumors that he's about to surrender, he says he's not going to surrender, that this government of the national transition council has destroyed the country. but the very fact that he's saying he is talking to them and wants a ceasefire to avoid bloodshed is just such a variance with his brother. this is the first time we've heard either of them talk publicly since the fall of tripoli. and this is the first time we've seen really a division in the family. and perhaps an indication that the family really is beginning to crumble. their backs are to the wall. and of course, saif's speech went out several hours ago despite that gunfire going on behind me which issel bra story gunfire, there has been no rising up in this city in the gadhafi loyalists. his message clearly falling at least here very, very flat, candy. >> right. and the truth is

good morning, nic.do we know now new about al awlaki and this operation that followed him. >> reporter: at 9:55 a.m. local time, about 2.55 eastern in the morning. given the news of al awlaki's death it came with an hour of that operation beginning to be conducted, seems it was a fairly swift operation, it cawas conducted about 90 miles east of the caste sanaa. it can help in the fight against al qaeda and wants the united states' support at the moment, the current government, because yemen is undergoing a virtual civil war right now and yemen's government wants the support of the united states. carol, christine? >> how likely is it that the united states was involved in al awlaki's death? >> reporter: very likely. we can't say with any certainty at this stage, but we know that earlier in the year a u.s. drone targeted al awlaki, it was chasing him in a vehicle. he was escaping. he changed vehicles at the last minute, and when it was when he was changing vehicles that the drone that was targeting him en

nic, can you hear me? clearly we're having some trouble getting in touch with nic.ry to check in with him in a moment. >>> a grim report from amnesty international. it documented the deaths of at least 88 detainees in syria during the five-month uprising against the government. according to the report, at least 52 of the victims' bodies showed evidence of torture. all of the victims were male. some as young as 13. >>> growing tensions in bahrain. protesters say a 14-year-old boy was killed by police today. witnesses said officers fired a tear gas round directly at the child during clashes with protesters. >>> a former nba guard will be returned to georgia to face a murder charge in the death of an atlanta mother. he waived his right to fight extradition today. he was arresteded monday in california on a fugitive warrant. >>> a settlement between mel gibson and oksana grigorieva. they will share time with their young daughter. thankfully, the agreement requires both parties to not speak about each other publicly. >> a wise idea there. now the baby to be has its own a

nic, can you hear me? clearly we're having some trouble getting in touch with nic.check in with him in a moment. let's check in with isha sesay. >>> a grim report from amnesty international. it documented the deaths of at least 88 detainees in syria during the five-month uprising against the government. according to the report, at least 52 of the victims' bodies showed evidence of torture. all of the victims were male. some as young as 13. >>> growing tensions in bahrain. protesters say a 14-year-old boy was killed by police today. witnesses said officers fired a tear gas round directly at the child during clashes with protesters. >>> former nba guard javaris crittenton will be returned to georgia to face a murder charge in the death of an atlanta mother. he waived his right to fight extradition today. he was arrested monday in california on a fugitive warrant. >>> a settlement between mel gibson and oksana grigorieva. gibson has agreed to pay his ex-girlfriend $750,000 and share time with their young daughter. thankfully, the agreement requires both parties to not

a short time ago i talked to nic by phone in london. i asked him if gadhafi's son had any idea about the wheres about of his father? >> reporter: i asked him specifically where his father was, where his brother, saif, the heir apparent to moammar gadhafi, where they were. he told me he hadn't seen them in two months. i asked him where he was. he said he was outside of bani walid. he said he hadn't been able to watch television very much, relatively safe but still in a dangerous situation. he told me then that he's been negotiating with national transitional council, rebel military commanders. they've also confirmed this. he's been negotiating to try and get a cease-fire for the town of bani walid on thursday when his brother, saif, gave what he described as an aggressive speech on television, urging his supporters to keep fighting, sadi gadhafi told me at that point the national transition council, the rebels essentially said the cease-fire talks are off. if your brother is going to talk like that. right now, according to sadi, he belie

nic payton walsh appreciate it.joining me now is one of my favorite writers, lawrence wright of the new yorker. he's the author of the pulitzer prize winning book "al qaeda the road to 9/11". i first just have to ask on a personal level, what is it like being here at ground zero, seeing this on almost the tenth anniversary? >> well, it's great to see something other than a hole in the ground, you know? it's inspiring to see the cranes out there, to see the buildings rising again. and even though i guess i had some mixed feelings about the narcissism of building another one of these immense towers. >> you're going to be working out here, though. the new yorker is going to have a base here. >> we're the first big tenants. so i guess i'd better get used to is. >> you write so much about this and you travel so much throughout the region really for much of your life. what do you think ten years after 9/11, i mean, did al qaeda succeed in that al qaeda is far weakened from what it was. but if one of bin laden's goals was

nic payton walsh appreciate it.e now is one of my favorite writers, lawrence wright of the new yorker. he's the author of the pulitzer prize winning book "al qaeda the road to 9/11". i first just have to ask on a personal level, what is it like being here at ground zero, seeing this on almost the tenth anniversary? >> well, it's great to see something other than a hole in the ground, you know? it's inspiring to see the cranes out there, to see the buildings rising again. and even though i guess i had some mixed feelings about the nar saysism of building another one of these immense towers. >> you're going to be working out here, though. the new yorker is going to have a base here. >> we're the first big tenants. so i guess i'd better get used to is. >> you write so much about this and you travel so much throughout the region really for much of your life. what do you think ten years after 9/11, i mean, did al qaeda succeed in that al qaeda is far weakened from what it was. but if one of bin laden's goals was to weake

nic, is anybody listening to these tapes?porter: there probably are some people that are listening to it. i just met with the national transition council main military commander here in tripoli. he says that he believes there are still some people out there who will listen to gadhafi. i asked him about gadhafi's sons' claims to have 20,000 fighters in sirte, the place that gadhafi has now said in this latest speech is now the center of the resistance. he said he doubts that very much. but he's not under any illusion, the military commander here, that gadhafi's message will have some people still listening to it. i also asked him specifically, do you know where moammar gadhafi is right now? and he said, he believes that he was somewhere between the towns of bani walid and sirte. bani walid, about 150 miles southeast of tripoli, sirte on the coast about 250 miles east of tripoli. clearly didn't give me a pinpoint accuracy location, and i still get the impression from -- from military commanders here on the rebel side, they just

nic, let me begin with you.dership really hope to get out of today's meeting? >> reporter: well, it will hope to establish itself and show that it's able to run this country, that it new effectively is beginning to take control over. it's got control of the biggest city tripoli, and it needs to show that it's a responsible, capable democratic leadership that's going to listen to the advice that it's been given by international countries, show that it is still has a certain amount of independence, but it owes its opportunity, it knows the national transitional council knows it owes its opportunities right now to all those world leaders that they are meeting with who have backed it and overthrowing moammar gadhafi, so they are going to want to put on their best show of saying the right things, but at the same time they are going to be continuing to ask for a lot of support. they are going to need support to help rebuild the damage in the oil -- in the oil infrastructure here, 10% to 15% the total infrastructure. t

nic, this was a huge development. why was awlaki such a threat and a priority for the snus. >> he was an intellectual. he was smart. he was well educated. he knew how to sort of manipulate his audience and the one thing that he had that al qaeda really wanted was a way to communicate the potential recruits in the west. he spoke english and he spoke it with a charisma and a meaning that drew in radicals or potential radicals towards al qaeda. and really that's what gave him an edge over sort of other arabic-speaking who couldn't appeal to this westerned a audience. so he's been able to do things for al qaeda that oers this opportunity. that also meant revenue streams, potential for money to flow into funds. he sold thousands and thousands of inspirational dvds. no not all of them calling for terrorist actions by any stretch of the imagination but he had become very popular with a wide english-speaking muslim audience around the world. >> nic, help us understand how he went from this privileged childhood, a privileged k

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. >> cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson is with us tonight in tripoli. nick, is anybody listening to these tapes? >> reporter: there probably are some people that are his tolist. i just met with the transtransitional council main military in tripoli. he said he still believes there are some people out there who williston gadhafi. i asked him about gadhafi's sons claims to have 20,000 fighters in sirte, the place where gadhafi has now said in this latest speech is now the center of the resistance. he said he doubts that very much. but he's not under any illusion, the military commander here, that gadhafi's message will have some people still listening to it. i also asked him specifically, do you know where muammar gadhafi is right now? and he said he believed that he was somewhere between the towns of ben knee walid and sirte beni walid -- clearly didn't give me a pinpoint accuracy location. and i still get the impression from a military commanders here on the rebels' side they just don't know exactly where he is right now, candy. >> nic, you began to ans

nic, you know that saadi gadhafi may have left. you apparently know him personally, you've had e-mail exchanges, et cetera. what are you learning about his where abouts? >> reporter: what we know from the minister of justice and ministerial spokesman as well is that saaad gadhafi has crossed into niger. they say he was allowed into the country for humanitarian reasons. niger is to the south of libya across part of the sahara desert. we do know and i do know from talking to saadi gadhafi last weekend, exactly a week ago today, that he has split essentially with his family, with his father and with his brother. it does seem when i was talking to him last week and he said i want to go on cnn and i want to speak to the world, essentially, but only when i have something to say. what he meant was, he was still trying to make a deal with the rebels, with the national transitional council, to bring about a cease-fire. that clearly he realizes has completely fallen apart. there is no option for that. and now it appears he has fled south of

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>> nic, as you know, the rebels have said a deadline for gadhafi to surrender. how do you see things playing out in libya over the next few days. >> they even talked about extending that cease fire. there have been some discussion about it from political leaders. the one senior military commander told me he wasn't comfortable with that extension that the political leaders had given this extension of another week until next weekend. it seems the military commanders really have the initiative right now. and it does seem they will go into bani walid where the rebels will quickly take control after perhaps small fierce xirmages but those loyal to gadhafi will run away. this seems to be a protracted campaign, the rebels have said the key aid is to catch moammar gadhafi. it's beginning to look like it's going to take some time, like an iraq type scenario where the iraqis and u.s. forces were chasing saddam hussein for a long time. the next few days in bani walid will give us an indication. >> interesting perspective, great reporting as always, nic robertson joining us

in the past few hours, our senior international correspondent nic robertson spoke by phone with saadi gadhafi who says that cease-fire negotiations with rebel fighters have broken down. the younger gadhafi thinks that rebels will soon enter one of the last factions of his father's support. a short time ago i talked with nic in london. >> reporter: i asked him specifically where his father was, his braernlg, saif was. i asked him where he was. he said he had been outside bani walid. he told me he was relatively safe but in a dangerous situation. he told me then he's been negotiating with national transitional council, rebel military commanders. they've also confirmed it. he's been negotiating to try and get a cease-fire for the town of bani walid. however, he said, on thursday, when his brother saif gadhafi dave gave what he described as a very aggressive speech on television, urging his supporters to keep fighting, saadi gadhafi told me at that point the national transition council, the rebels essentially said the cease-fire talks are off, if your brother's going to talk like that and

he called nic robertson to talk about the family's dwindling options.ic describes the conversation. >> i asked him specifically where his father was, where his brother saif al islam al gadhafi, the heir apparent, were. he said he hasn't seen them in two months. i asked where he was. he said he was outside ban bani walid, he was moving around, hadn't watched television much. he was relatively safe but in a dangerous situation. he said he's been negotiating with national transitional council, rebel military commanders. they have confirmed it. he's been negotiating to try to get a cease-fire for bani walid, but on thursday when his brother saif gadhafi, gave what he called an aggressive speech on television urging his supporters to keep fighting, saadi gadhafi told me at that point national transition council, the rebels said the cease-fire talks are off if your brother is going to talk like that. now according to saadi gadhafi he believes there is no point in negotiations, that the national transition council is amassing troops to move into bani walid. he

he called nic robertson on the phone to talk about the family's dwindling options. it. >> specifically where his father was, where his brother, heir apparent to moammar gadhafi were, he said he hadn't seen them in two months. i asked him where was he, he told me he was a little outside bani walid. he said he had been moving around a lot, hadn't been able to watch television very much, that he was relatively safe, but still in a dangerous situation. he told me then that he has been negotiating with national transitional council, rebel military commanders. they also confirmed this. they have been negotiating to get a ceasefire for the town of bani walid. however, he said on thursday when his brother gave what he described as an aggressive speech on television, urging his supporters to keep fighting, saadi gadhafi said at that point the national transition council rebels essentially said ceasefire talks are off if you're brother is going to talk like that. and right now, according to saadi gadhafi, he believes there is no point in negotiation, that the national transit

nic what do you think?> reporter: certainly killing al alack ski going to diminish al qaeda's ability to raise funds through al qaeda and the arabian peninsula in yemen and reduce its ability to recruit people and it's going to -- definitely going to have an impact on them psychologically. when ever any senior al qaeda figure who is revered and we certainly know that al awlaki was revered, i have spoken to his young support nears london, spent time in london preaching. people went to those talk session, they were inspired by him, we know that whenever an al qaeda figure of this type is targeted, that's going to cause some kind of reaction, but al qaeda's ability to sort of impose that reaction, if you will, on the rest of the world has been diminished over the past decade. no doubt there will be an effort at some kind of retaliation. perhaps the most dangerous thing about yemen right now is the fact that the bomb here made the underpants bomb, the -- abdulmutallab wore aboard the flight to detroit, christma

nic, in terms of operations, what does this mean for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula?ns a psychological blow. al awlaki was hugely influential in recruitment, if you will, his sort of dvd sales, thousands upon thousands, his online sort of peaspeeches also very popula will mean it will be harder for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to get the same levels of money flowing to them, funds they need to continue with their operations. so it will hurt them in that way, though he is has played a role in recruitment, recruited the underpants bomb, tried to bring down that airliner over detroit christmas 2009, he is not somebody that sort of been at the forefront of the bomb building and some of the other exploits of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula in yemen. so, it will have an impact, but it's unlikely to dent their operations in the long-term journey. >> you say he recruited the underwear bomber but the question is now about the man who created that bomb, the bombmaker if you will. how dangerous is he, and how important to u.s. and other authorities? >> the bombmaker who m

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this guy came over who was you knowing him he was a former major within the services when he hears nic you get hungry again and came back over working with us they id eight international development and. he went over there and rip their clothes off into the night and he got from a regina all the way up well just about of her breast in order organ down completely out of or cavity into a mound and then he stopped and over and commenced to peel everybody's going off her body and left her there as a sign for something or other and i went and listened to three pages of testimony and i absolutely came away from an emotionally drained and floored by i never grasped even up to that point. how powerful was the genocidal plans and strategy of the us towards the vietnamese people on every level . you know whether was agent orange in there in doubt chemical and we can figuring the napalm because the napalm wasn't sticking to the bit me skin enough. i mean that was you know all of this just added to the overwhelming sense of the criminality. this is armed forces day and in many cities across the co

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now that is that crossing has been under control by a nato peacekeeper sense of violence between as nic serbs and albanians erupted there in july that violence killed one person and wounded several others russian ambassador vitaly churkin says kosovar albanians have threatened to use force ambassador churkin says that nato peacekeepers in the area he believes could be cooperating with the pay of the plans of the kosovar albanians rather than preventing danger from breaking out we have serious concerns about where the little this is going and the minister gets made it very clear that the. entire proposition of european union playing this mediating role in a dialogue between between priest and i and belgrade is maybe put in question so this sudden departure from the past of dialogue at the moment when it was beginning to show some promise promise in our view is completely unjustified unwarranted and that it enters. now it was back in two thousand and eight when kosovo unilaterally declared its independence with the support of the united states and western european countries this is someth

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they were one people we have no nic differences. very very religious differences if he succeed on the independence that we can use for access to the international criminal court. i mean if we become a even a one state member of the united nations we can be full member in the international criminal court international court of justice and in these organizations which are highly illegal you do not go and harass people by politics you have to have solid cases to go with i mean we if we become a member of the international criminal court and i hope we will that would be really our best defense against any further israeli crimes several people asked me like what i said like going into gaza and killing fourteen hundred people with phosphorus bombs and napalm we will go to the international criminal court it's israel that has to worry about using that kind of force against civilians. israel continue to take our land and create settlements on them we will go to the national criminal court about the violations of the fourth geneva convention

nic, a big question, where is gadhafi?is there any indication that he may have joined some family members in niger? >> reporter: so far, no indication of that. the first announcement that saif gadhafi had crossed the border came from the government, he confirmed it himself. it seems the government here would at least announce if moammar gadhafi crossed over or so far the track record would indicate that. but at the moment, they seem to be giving sanctuary to some of his immediate supporters and to a number of senior ranking military officials. he's in a presidential guesthouse here, though, when we drove by earlier he's got an armed guard right outside of it, fredricka. >> and gadhafi's family members, they've taken refuge in niger as well as algieriaalgeria. i understand the transitional council from libya has made its way to niger, but will the countries have to hand them over? is there any leverage there? >> reporter: i think the leverage is not going to come from the libyan government but from the international communi

athens let's now bring into the conversation economic analyst an international lawyer next crackers nic very good evening thanks for being on our to international as usual as we heard so graphic you heard the greeks again tonight the key point rally and we're seeing more clashes more public anger about the government still going on course pressing on with those cuts to the politicians in athens to think of any alternative to this in order to try to spare at least the poorest who are going to suffer so much here julia really aren't that many good choice at the moment for greece and the political system knows that many of the protesters that are there who you see that are very unhappy have a very good legitimate cause us to be and it's not just the poll says it's a day in history it's the last forty years that have been a bit of a disaster really. in terms of how reflective the political will is these days of the will of the people well eighty percent of the people do want to stay in the euro in greece you know you can't do that without. coming to some accord with your lenders. so how are

gadhafi, who told nic that cease-fire m since saturday to surrender, but the end of the war does not appear close and this could be a situation similar to iraq. >>> coming up next, back home in france, dominique strauss-kahn is home after a judge dismisses the assault charges against him in new york. the former imf chief was once a contender to be the next president of france. some people thought he would win. so, could he make a political comeback? >>> it's also a shocking headline. this one here. the u.s. postal service on the brink of collapse? could the post office shut down? we'll explain. >>> 20 minutes after the hour. want to get to your showbiz headlines now. several media reports put eddiey murphy as the front-runner to host the oscars next year. really? he's not a longshot. the director of his next film is also producing the 2012 oscars. i get it. we could hear a final decision this week. >>> susan lucci slams abc's daytime president in her new memoir "all my life." she played erica cain on "all my children." she calls the decision to drop her show ignorance. >>> number one

he spoke to our nic robertson in tripoli. >> i think surprisingly and pleasantly, the damage for keyinstallations, like for example, there's no damage whatsoever. we were afraid there would be damage. i would say something like 10%, 15%. so i would say overall an advantage from one place to the other, but the damage is about 10 to 15. the production of gas will start in actually a few days from the shellout of a fee. the production of oil, crude oil, will start -- by gas, we're talking a week, ten days or so. >> how long before you're up to, say, half a million barrels? >> i would say about three months. >> back to full strength in about three? >> yes. >> less than a year? >> yes. >> if recent history is our guide, hitting that target may prove difficult. we're joined for further analysis. they want 1.6 to 1.8 million barrels day. that's achievable? >> very ambitious. as we know, production's almost at a standstill in libya now. what people don't realize is libya actually has the potential to produce double that amount. because if you look back in history, 1970 when gadhafi first too

this is saadi seen here with cnn's nic robertson during an april interview.e know where saadi is, it is still unclear where libyan leader moammar gadhafi is located. >>> 1 of only 2 survivors of the deadly russian plane crash has died. russian hockey player died of his injuries today. 37 players an staff members were killed when their plane crashed last week on their way to a game. prime minister vladimir putin joined mourners as a memorial service for members of the russian hockey team. >>> a british married couple is attacked while vacationing in kenya. a gunman reportedly burst into the couple's cottage at a beach resort near the somalian border killing the husband when he resisted a robbery attempt an then kidnapping the wife. a source close to the situation says she was taken away by speedboat toward somalia. the british government says it is doing everything it can to win her release. >>> taking the lead texas style. rick perry seems like the big dog heading into the cnn/tea party debate tonight. but do the new numbers back up his swagger? your cnn poli

nic robertson picks up how he became one of the most wanted terrorists. >> reporter: an american citizen born into privilege. he was educated at several u.s. universities before becoming an imam in california and virginia. he met three of the 9/11 hijackers. his appeal and charisma will be sorely missed by al qaeda's yemen franchise. his inspirational message was more popular, selling thousands upon thousands of dvd's, offering recruitment and money raising opportunities for the radical and his allies. his killing plays into yemeni politics in a big way. but even with awlaki's reported killing al qaeda in the arabian peninsula remains a very potent threat. for example, the sophisticated bomb maker behind the two most recent attempted attacks on the united states, ibrahim is still on the loose. yemen continues to become a failed state. >> from istanbul, mohammad jam june has more details on the other citizen killed in today's attack. >> reporter: a pakistani born american citizen, the co-editor of inspire magazine, the english language magazine used by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula to

. >> you remember this piece from a couple of weeks ago, nic robertson showing us the animals there at the zoo left behind in war-torn libya? the story got so much reaction that cnn has returned to the zoo and found some pretty disturbing scenes. we'll take you there ahead. >>> plus, star watchers make a big discovery. 50 new planets? they're calling one of them a so-called superearth. we'll show you what they've found. chad myers will help me out with that. one astronomer is calling this incredibly exciting. we'll be right back. >>> astronomers say they have discovered a planet that could be similar to the atmosphere as our own, dubbing this super-earth. this is an artist's rendering of what it might look like, according to "the washington post," 50 new planets were discovered and this one is circling an orange star that's similar and cooler than the sun, the super-earth is just the right distance from its star to have water. chad myers is here because he knows we like to talk everything space what is it? they call it may be in the habitable zone, meaning it may have water. >> remembe

and naomi prins, a noble nic analyst and author of the upcoming book "black tuesday." is that tax day nomi where we pay our taxes? >> it was the day that the market crashed and banks worked our way into a great depression back in the 1930s. parallels to today. >> bill: absolutely. my basic theory again is that taxation is strangling the economy. that's what it is. where am i going wrong. >> the economy is being strangled because, a, there isn't enough revenue coming into those states ha that are bankrupt because there is less wealth because the housing markets got crushed because of what banks did to it. because corporations, which you mentioned, an't paying their effective tax share properly. in new york city, in new york state, only 6% of the revenues that new york state comes in comes from corporations. looking for a small margin coming from them you don't have the enough to distribute. >> bill: if you raise the corporate tax or force them to pay more, then they lay more people off and the unemployment rate goes up or they go offshore to bermuda and the caymans or l