i want to bring in our senior international correspondent nic robertson.ns us now live from jordan. and i'll let you first tackle the motive here, nic. we heard mehsud. so explain why it is this man was so important that in the video now they're claiming this man and his death is a motive for this revenge. >> reporter: t.j., mehsud was the head of the pakistani taliban. and the estimates of fighters under his command range up to the tens of thousands in that border region between pakistan and afghanistan. he was killed by a u.s. drone last year. and that's what the jordanian doctor is saying that this attack is in revenge for his death. it is slightly -- i would say, slightly out of context if you will because we heard from this jordanian doctor that had been radicalized and made angry by what was happening in gaza, not pakistan. but nevertheless, intelligence said he'd gone to pakistan, contacted them, offered to put them in touch with al qaeda. but very clearly in this message now, he lays out that he double crossed the cia, double crossed jordanian inte

cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson is in raman, jordan, talking about this video and where it came from. >> it's being disseminated by the pakistani taliban, had we know that? because the leader of the pakistani taliban is sitting next to al balawi, the alleged bomber and killer of the cia operative in afghanistan. we talked to dr. al balawi's family. they say it is definitely him. but the message is a direct put-down to jordanian intelligence and the cia because the doctor tells them directly that he is not about to sell his faith. and this is a clear indication that perhaps these intelligence agencies thought they had bought him off. telling him that's not the case. what's very interesting here is cording to the family the doctor had become very angry and radicalized if you will, over what happened in gaza. yet here we see him on this videotape saying the bombing act he's about to carry out is an act of vengeance for the u.s. drone strike and killing of the pakistani taliban leader last year. it seems quite strange. that's what he says on this video. >> translat

nic robertson has been talking about human balawi's family. >> reporter: his family shocked to see thisideo. they have had a lot of questions the past few days. not sure of what the truth was about their son. they knew he was dead. now, they have heard in his own words why he killed himself. his father said he was very, very sad. he also said, though, that he was angry with the people that had done this to his son and implied it was the fault of the intelligence agencies, the cia and jordanian intelligence that led to his son bombing the cia base in afghanistan. when you look at the video and listen to what he has to say, he is very clear that although he went as an agent for the cia, that he had changed sides. he couldn't be bought off, he said, for millions of dollars. no idea if that figure is accurate. he went on to say that his faith in his god was so strong he wasn't going to be bought off, that this attack was designed as in part revenge for the killing of a taliban leader but also to show his anger about what is going on in the region. fredricka? >> nic, i wonder how this might

here is cnn's international correspondent nic robertson. >> reporter: until this video came out, allt was known was that this jordanian doctor, dr. balawi, had gone to afghanistan and said he could provide them with information, jordanians brought the cia on to help them verify that information. what is said in this video makes it very, very clear. he was working as a double agent. when he got to pakistan, he said he went straight to the taliban, told them about the cia and the jordanian intelligence and planned this attack against the cia. he says very, very clearly in this video that it shows that money cannot buy off somebody's faith, somebody's faith in their god. he said he -- he implies he was offered millions of dollars. not clear if that is true, but that he said that is not enough to put a man from supporting his god and that was a very clear message. we see him sitting next to the pakistani taliban current commander, an indication this was a pakistani taliban led operation, an indication of how closely they're working with al qaeda and he said he took this act against the c

. >> cnn senior international correspondent nic robertson has been talking with the suspected bomber's family. he joins us now from amman, jordan. what can you tell us about this guy and the fact that we're seeing this videotape now? >> reporter: there are several things about it, betty. for the family, it's final confirmation that this really is their son and this is what he set out to do, and he explains it in the video. i mean, when i talked to his father, he said he was very, very sad. when i pushed him about what he thought about it, he said he was angry about the people that had done this so his son. he wouldn't be explicit, but what he meant was the intelligence agencies. he's holding them responsible for taking his son and putting him in a position where he ended up getting involved in a suicide bombing. what we've heard in this video is a very clear warning, if you will, if the cia and the jordanian intelligence operatives that money is not going to buy off ideological people like al balawi here. he said he did this in the name of god. it's interesting, as well, this arab doct

cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson joins us live from amman, jordan, with the details. nic? >> reporter: until this video came out, there was a lot of questions of what was on the mind of this jordanian doctor who told jordanian intelligence officials that had gone to pakistan and he could help inform on al qaeda's leaders. the cia working with jordanian intelligence. the work he sourced. but in this video he said when he got to pakistan, he joined the pakistani taliban, told them all about this intelligence operation and with them planned an attack against the cia base in afghanistan and he said this is a very, very clear message that no amount of money can buy off somebody's faith from their god, an indication here that he would -- that whatever he told jordanian intelligence officials was just lies and that he was really working here for al qaeda and the taliban. and what we see in this video as well is him seating with the leader of the pakistani taliban saying that this attack is in revenge for the death of the pab stanny taliban leader last year in a u.s. drone s

nic robertson had been talking with malawi, his family, in amman, jordan. nic, hello to you. it leaves a lot of people scratching their heads that the family is not denying it, not necessarily saying he didn't do it. instead, some are actually proud of it. >> reporter: his wife has said she is proud of him. i spoke to his father a little while ago. he said he was very upset. he said he was upset about the people that had done this to his son. he implied people intentionally brainwashed him. but when we asked him, you know, who do you mean here specifically, he seems to be implying that he thinks the intelligence agencies who were trying to run his son as an agent to get inside al qaeda are responsible for what happened. he was asked whether or not what he thought about the fact that people were killed by his son. he said if there were civilians killed then i would be absolutely angry about it. that's not the way i brought up my son. but they were people in essentially military operations officers and for that reason he says he's not going to criticize his son. but he was neve

cnn's senior international correspondent, nic robertson joins us now from aman, jordan. nic? >> well, fredricka, according to the attacker, he was attacking because he had been sent to pakistan as an agent for the jordanian intelligence working with the cia. he said when he got to pakistan he communicated directly with the taliban and planned this attack on the cia base. he also says in his video that this attack was something that was designed to show the united states, the cia and jordanian intelligence that he couldn't be bought off with, as he says, millions of dollars, that his faith was much stronger than that. he also said the attack was in revenge for the killing of a taliban, senior leader. what he said was in u.s. attack. the very clear message here for intelligence agencies is that they had an agent hoo wwho agen tracki tracking down al qaeda leaders and double crossed them. >>> in this country, umar farouk abdullah mutallab, the man accused of trying to bomb a plane on christmas day has made his first court appearance. >> reporter: waking in a small michigan jail

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senior international correspondent nic robertson is standing by now in amman, jordan. nic? >> reporter: fredricka, until this video came out all that we knew is what the jordanian intelligence service and the cia knew about him, that he said he had gone to pakistan to train -- continue his draining as a doctor. he contacted intelligence services offering to help track down al qaeda leaders. now he's on this videotape filling in all of the blanks. he said what he actually did when he got to pakistan is went to the taliban, joined the taliban and told him what these intelligence agencies sent him there to do and then plotted this attack against the american cia base in afghanistan. then he shared a very clear warning for the cia and for the jordanian intelligence that somebody like him who has so much faith in god cannot be bought off, as he said, by millions of dollars. we have no idea if that is the real amount of money that he may or may not have been offered to help fight down al qaeda, but this, he said, was his answer to the united states to jordanian intelligence. also

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. >> nic robertson in iman, thank you. >>> learning more about al balawi. mother says she was a loner and the wife of the suspected double agent was shocked to hear when he had done but admires him as well. >> translator: in fact, i am proud of my husband. my husband accomplished a very big operation in such a war. if he is a martyr, may god accept his martyrdom. >> u.s. and jordanian officials say al balawi was recruited to help search for al qaeda in spite of his concerns about extremist view. >>> a man arrested for allegedly triggering last sunday's shutdown of the newark, new jersey airport is out of jail and his roommate now is talking. 28-year-old haisong jiang arrested by port authority police in piscataway, new jersey, caused an hour-long shutdown of the terminal and rescreening for thousands of passengers there when he went under the rope at a security checkpoint, you see right here in these images, all to meet his girlfriend. >> what exactly happened? >> tell them the truth. >> does his girlfriend remember what happened on sunday? >> yeah, yeah. h

nic wise did a nice job. theo robertson is another guy to give you what you need.defensive against arizona state on randle, christopher, being more aggressive shooting the basketball. >> derrin: it's interesting you look at robertson. no points in the match-up against arizona state. arizona shooting 41% from first half, a team that struggled coming in this match-up. we're back with second half action as we continue here on the acura half-time report. we're back in just a moment. maluncetrod e a lex it he ay and the powtakey mi nd the spacecomm recirgo, se ereat action ds ale. ♪ maksale f...w our. e ou. ou h cov en yd it? no not. on he susinues byng ysine map pleaeaseroug ple t alx mocove tht wiizoness. come into a store today to buy one blackberry and get anote fr t your busines f omedtrok coulchineicoly su% oron cinsu : isoo toneso tasu% oron cinsu nu'm jnna esst : isoo toneso tasu% oron cinsu vo: geico. 1tes save15% e. dort the grand canyon about a six-hour drive from here. one hour by charter. we're under way in the second half. >> marques: arizona has to feel g

hannity is a lot cheaper paying a talk show format than having chris john of import in tehran or nic robertsonin baghdad and doing the reported formatting. i still try to have reported news that cnn be the core of it with anderson cooper and aaron brown and many others. it is cheaper and it's easier to get a solid audience a laugh by having very strong opinionated talk shows. and that goes not just with cable tv but for the blogosphere as well. in the blogosphere, if you're pithy army you have this great one-liners, you can get a following just as surely as if you were really courageous and scraped up all of your money and went and covered what's happening in helmand province now in afghanistan. so the worries me as well. what is the antidote to that? one of the antidotes is what i talk about at the end of the speech. if we have a system where people could pay for, not all-news comic is most news will still be free and generic, opinions will definitely be free because opinions proliferate on the web. but if high-quality journalism, people could get paid for it easily on the web economy would n

as you mention, jamelle horne on robertson gets it out of here. nic wise, that was not an easy shot, my friends. a little off balance. a little off balance. was able to knock it down. ♪ the foul ton the theo robertson into the left side to draw and attract the defense. nice execution on the part of the cal bears. >> derrin: you're sending one of the great free-throw shooters in the nation to the line, jerome randle who shoots 93% from the line and hits the first of three. this one to tie things up. >> marques: i don't want to put the hex on it. there's just some certain things in basketball. this dude knocks it down. >> derrin: i don't think you can put the hex on 93%. it's for the lead. rattles it home. mechanics that's about as much as a hex will work on >> derrin: nic wise, the senior stepping up to lead arizona. >> marques: he's done a great job in this game, started out the first half knocking down jumpers. cal defenders chose to go beneath the screen, he made them pay for it. he's ot guy that talked about cal and their confidence. he starts knoc

nic wise a wide open free-throw line jump shot. >> derrin: 21 points for wise. >> marques: theo robertson against kevin parrom.