and we want to look beyond the headlines tonight to what happened in nigeria last july. four days of violence between security forces and a militant group trying to impose strict islamic law. the fighting was sparked between the arrest of several leaders. an estimated 700 people were killed. ever since there has been concern that the security forces may have killed many innocent civilians. and now as you are about to see in this report from mike hanna of al jazeera english, there is new video purportedly showing such attacks, and we want to warn you that some of the images in his report are graphic. >> reporter: the bodies left in the streets, in july last year. it was a scene at the major battle between the nigerian government forces and the separatist group. the headquarters reduced to rubble. the military and police operation came in the series of attacks on police stations and other civic buildings by the fighters. men intent on establishing an islamic state in another nigeria that rejected of what they called all things western. but it was marred by allegations that

secretary of state hillary clinton visited nigeria just two weeks after the boko haram killings. when asked publically to comment on the killing of muhammed yousef and other boko haram members, she chose not to comment. the u.s. government and nigeria's foreign partners have to end the silence and speak out forcefully calling on the nigerian government to hold these police and military officials to account. >> eric guttschuss, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >>> on a day when toyota and its hybrid cars are very much in the news, tonight's signature segment is a follow-up on a story we first brought you last year on an israeli company with a bright idea to develop a large network of charging stations to power electric cars. the company is called better place, and a couple of weeks ago it received a major new round of funding from investors. a $350 million vote of confidence. how does it work? here is michael greenspan's original report. >> the best car in the world. the best car for the world. >> reporter: by now the idea of an electric car is not nearly as mirac

government advisers say nigeria's missing president was on this airplane. yet it has still not been seen -- yet, he has still not been seen in public. the president's health has always been closely watched. it for nigerians, seeing him again with their own eyes will be critical. he and his circle have suffered a massive loss of trust and credibility while he was gone. tensions bubbled into near panic amid fears of a coup, and it was clear that the power vacuum needed to be filled. it was this man, vice president jonathan, who assumed office behind an extraordinary vote in parliament. some say it was not legal, but he brought a new energy to government and promised change. now it is clear that the president's circle wants to regain control, but the president must convince people he can once more rumbas massive oil-rich nation -- this masse oil-rich nation, and he will need every strength to do that. >>> british prime minister gordon brown has apologized fully and unconditionally for a policy that sent thousands of british children to australia and canada wit

some members of his family were flown from nigeria to the united states on january 17. after meeting with him, they were able to persuade him to speak with investigators. the approach was successful. a law-enforcement professional has provided more information about context in yemen and where he received training from al qaeda. information about his cooperation lead out during a senate hearing on tuesday. intelligence officials offered a warning. another attack could happen soon on the united states by al qaeda. >> what would happen regarding that? high or low? >> and the attempted attack is probably certain. >> i would agree with that. >> intelligence officials did not cite a specific threat. they are concerned that al qaeda has methods that are harder to detect like in the case of the christmas day terror plot. wbal tv. >> coming up, days before her resignation, prosecutors are firing at baltimore mayor sheila dixon. what they have to say this time. >> what do you think of the governor's visit to maryland? e-mail your response to us. why does lubriderm work so well wi

agents went to nigeria where they met with the suspect's family. the family then came to the u.s. where it helped facilitate his new round of questioning. blair was pushed to explain whether the sensitive information released by the white house was run by him first. >> is that the type of information that should be made public? >> i'm not going to comment on internal processes for this investigation right now. >> reporter: a white house spokesman justived the administration's actions this way. >> we made determination it was a good idea to make sure that people knew that our sources, that our methods were working. >> in a letter to congress, attorney general eric holder reinforced the case that the suspect was providing useful information. based on a january 5 national security meeting said there was no dissent in the administration. no agency aboarded the use and no agency advised the department of justice alternative course of action should have been or should now be pursued. senior republicans say that six weeks were lost after abdulmutallab was first read his rights. >> al-qae

in nigeria, the parliament voted to transfer power from the ailing president to his deputies. both the house of representatives and the senate passed the resolution. he has been steady arabia getting treatment for a heart condition -- he has been in saudi arabia getting treatment for heart condition. debt problems in spain and portugal have battered the euro credibility on the world market. they suspect of vote rigging at a thousand polling stations. sri lanka's newly appointed president has dissolved parliament. there was the arrest yesterday of his chief rival. he now faces a court-martial for treason he is accused of plotting to overthrow the government. >> the general, the former army chief, burst unexpectedly on leave sri lankan political scene a few months ago. suddenly, there was fire in the presidential campaign. that is now becoming just a memory. the general lost the election two weeks ago and he is now in military detention his allies and his wife and dozens of security forces dragged him away from his office by his hands and feet late at night as he held discussion

nigeria's powerful state governors say the vice president should take over. one of the world's biggest defense companies, bae systems, has been hit with huge fines. it has admitted to conspiring to create false statements to the u.s. government. it will repay $5 million. under global settlement, bae systems is also paying a record fine in the united kingdom. the church of england has sold more than $5 million worth of shares in a mining company because of the way the country treats indigenous people in parts of india. the church is not satisfied based show respect for human rights and local communities. the company says they do respect the environment and human rights. prosecutors in britain have taken the highly unusual step of bringing criminal charges against four parliamentarians, accusing them of fraud in claiming expenses. all four deny any offense. the route over these expenses has already provoked huge public anchor in britain. we have this from westminster. >> even at those from the house of parliament and the house of commons have been dragged into

senior officials say the suspect was persuaded to talk by close family members, who were approached in nigeria and then brought to america by fbi agents. last week he began offering new information, which might lead to a plea bargain. when first arrested, the suspect said he had been trained in yemen, which is why congressional republicans say he is an enemy combatants who should appear before a military tribunal. the obama administration is insisting justice can and should be pursued transparently in the civilian courts. the case remains hugely sensitive following the earlier failure of the u.s. intelligence community to connect pieces of information which might have pointed to a potential attack. president obama has personally assumed responsibility for those failings. steve kingston, bbc news, washington. >> australian police say an indian man made up the story that he burned himself as he tried to torches' card to make an insurance claim. the incident came at a time of heightened fear after the merger of a punjabi man. the indian government warned its students not to travel to australia. h

family members flew from nigeria and worked with the fbi to get him to cooperate. he is talking again to investigators and providing valuable information that is aggressively being pursued in yemen. his cooperation could be in preparation for a guilty plea which would spare him the death penalty. >>> still ahead on news4 at 11:00, michael jackson's doctor awaiting word he could face charges this week. >>> aig handing out another $100 million in bonuses. >> a teenage girl fights off a shark with her boogie board. >> coming up in sports, three-ring circus that is super bowl media day was in full effect this afternoon. roman harper explains why he's gone gray. and capitols were in boston tonight. >>> the police have just made an arrest in the murder of a woman and her 8-year-old son in prince william county in virginia. 47-year-old natalia wilson is charged with two counts of murder. 41-year-old slavka naydenova and her son paul wilson were called in a house in dale city last night. paul wilson was a second grader at mount porter traditional school in woodbridge. poli

an agent flu to nigeria to speak with the man's family who wanted to co-operate with the fbi. >> we areling with a winter slap. snowfall totals coming in from across the area, so are school closings and delays. check the bottom of your screen. we have posted them there. in less than 10 minutes we will be live in the city as well as county and justin will tell us about the week spend what there could be in store for us. >> governor o'malley is highlights his job creation proposal but warning the storm is not over. he used his 4th state of the state to ask legislator to approve a $3,000 tax credit to businesses who hire someone unemployed he also want as 3 year, $50 million tax credit for revitalizing historic downtownmain streets. >> 5 minutes from 6:00 a.m. out going mayor sheila dixon is unrepenitent and lost touch with reality in wake of her charges. the judge is not asking her to get stiffer sentence but takes her to task in what he calls her defiant arrogance. she will be sentenced tomorrow. >> all right giant squid are taking over in the sea. >> squid, some weighing up to 60 pounds

in nigeria, the vice president has assumed power as acting president. the nigerian parliament voted to transfer power from the ailing president. he has been in saudi arabia for more than two months getting heart treatment. both the house of representatives and the senate passed a resolution recognizing goodluck jonathan as acting head of state. the bureau has gained ground against the pound and dollar. speculation mounts that the european union will go out the greek economy. a featured candidate in ukraine close a presidential election looks at the challenge the results in court. allies say they suspect vote rigging in about 1000 polling stations. both russia and the united states have praised the election as free and fair. nato troops in afghanistan are on standby for their biggest offensive against the taliban since the start of the war in 2001. one soldier has already been killed, and civilians have started to flee the area. as british forces prepare for battle in a stronghold of the taliban in helmand province, our correspondent and his crew are wit

started talking last thursday after a series of meetings with his mother and uncle brought here from nigeria by the fbi. abc news has learned that the fbi has been looking at travel records from africa, trying to determine if other operatives like abdulmutallab have already made their way to the united states. there's no surprise that officials are worried. there have been tens of thousands of terrorist attacks since 9/11 around the world. what's different here is officials are worried about an attack here on the homeland, which is far less common. >> all right, our thanks to you, pierre thomas in washington. hard to think of this risk as a daily fact of american life. >>> and news today on toyota now. ray lahood created a stir today when he said owners of recalled toyotas should, in essence, leave them in park. >> my advice is, if anybody owns one of these vehicles, stop driving it, take it to toyota dealer, because they believe they have the fix for it. >> reporter: but a few hours later, lahood was back, amending his advice. >> what i said in there was obviously a misstatement. what i mea

fbi has indicated that after bringing the christmas bomber's mother and uncle over for 10 days from nigeria to spend with him, he has now opened up and turned tables and provided information -- >> despite the miranda warning. >> and contrary to the approved approach of removing his fingernails or attracting -- attaching electrodes to his private parts or whatever else was being urged by my friends on the far, far side. >> they are still talking about moving the terror trial out of new york, ksm. what is the logic of that? >> political. it is as political as anything else. you have the male line up against you -- and they are lined up against you -- mayor lined up against you, senators as well. the key is the process and the beginning. it seems to me that you pin that down before you go ahead with that. >> gays get shot at regardless of sexual orientation. >> at this time of immense hardship, we should not seek to overturn the don't ask don't tell policy. >> i was in the closet, and then i realize that this is a violation of the honor code, which on the first at west point we learned that yo

this comes after the fbi sxretly flew family members from nigeria to the u.s. to convince him to cooperate. and this new revelation is welcomed for the obama situation, which was criticized for reading the christmas bomber his miranda rights after his arrest. >> back to the terror threat. are the leaders talking about a large-scale attack, on scope with 9/11, perhaps? >> reporter: jeremy, the director of national intelligence and blair said the u.s. has been successful in thwarting, really blocking al qaeda's ability to launch that kind of massive, spectacular attack. but the focus right now and the concern for the intelligence community is on these individuals and small groups. but again, it's really important to focus that there is, at this time, no specific threat. jeremy and vinita? >> viviana hurtado in washington, thank you. >>> we're following breaking news about a terror attack on americans in pakistan. officials say three u.s. soldiers have been killed by a bomb blast in the northwestern part of the country. the attack happened during opening ceremonie

by the way, that what got him talking again was the decision to go find members of his family in nigeria who is from who would come over and persuade him to talk. the administration insists if he had been an enemy combatant, his family members wouldn't have come here. they say there is no guarantee that putting somebody in the military justice system will somehow make them more likely to talk to us. they say there is experience with people in the criminal justice system talking, even after they're arrested, even after their given the miranda warning and there isn't that history with defendants in the military justice system in the u.s. gwen: is she talking, do they think, because there is sort of deal that he feels he is going to get? >> they insist that while there are plea negotiations or the possibility of a plea is going on, i shouldn't have said gosh -- he is not talking in return for some offer. if you talk to us, we'll give you this. we'll try to cut you sentence. they say that sort of deal cutting is not going on, it does seem very likely that this case will end with a guilty ple

i want you to believe that we're in nigeria, 1978. wow, how did that happen?: one of the mottos or messages of this show is originality, not artificiality. you give the dancers a chance to let them be original in their own work. >> yes. if broadway could be that way. that we're actually saying to the world, take a solo. go for it. what you got? >> reporter: teaching a new dance for a new audience eager to see more. ann curry, nbc news, new york. >> great story. one more story before we go tonight from the entertainment world. we can show you a little bit what they've given us from the remaking of "we are the world," the new version of the video to aid haiti under production right now at jim henson studios out in l.a. the complete product will air for the first time anywhere on the planet during the olympic games' opening ceremonies from vancouver. just a few days away now. for us, for now, that is our broadcast for this tuesday night. thank you for being with us. i'm brian williams. hope to see you back here tomorrow night. good evening. good night. -- caption

this is a person who was trying to blow a plane out of the air from nigeria. for the military and our intelligence people. not for the u.s. court system. he was give up a 50-minute interrogation. probably larry king has interrogated people better and longer than that, after which he was assigned a lawyer who told him to shut up. that is not the way to deal with a person in the war on terror. megyn: thank you, we appreciate it. another knox newit. >> another fox news alert. the white house's decision with respect to abdulmutallab. this guy, abdulmutallab, now we know has been cooperating with authorities. remember, this is the guy who tried to take down the airliner over detroit. they arrested him. they intear gate him, then -- they interrogated him. then the white house says he started talking again. now a top senator is taking the administration to task for this week's admission. arguing this sensitive information about what abdulmutallab is doing this week in terms of speak towtion will help our even -- speaking to us will help our enemies. take a listen. >>

i was a competitive swimmer for nigeria and missed the 2004 olympics by 0.1 second.ded to try again for the winter olympics in 2014. >> there are some big shots that are paying attention to you. i think you're the big shot now. >> it's amazing the kind of support that has come out, and it really gives me a lot of hope. we've had celebrities like rihanna and justin chambers come out and showed their support. we also had corey booker film a psa. but the real heroes in this situation are the volunteers. you don't see them because they do all their hard work behind the scenes but who care about this cause and care about me. >> all right, seun. let's talk about what is the next step in your treatment? >> i will undergo a cord blood transplant while we continue to look for a matching donor. in the best case scenario, i won't relapse. but if i do, i'll be back where i am now, which is desperately searching for a donor. >> all right. speaking of the registry, speaking of trying to get donors, let's drive people to the website again. >> dkms americas.org. >> we're going to ha

told a couple of fbi agents back on january 1st, just a few days after the terrorist attack, flew to nigeriaand talked with relatives of the bombing subpoena. after working a couple nights, they flew back on january 17th, again secretly, with two relatives of abdulmutallab. these white house officials assert that because of that, they were able to gain the suspect's trust and that at some point last week, he started talking to investigators again, and they say they're getting actionable intelligence, as you note, that could prevent future attacks on u.s. soil. why this matters is that you'll remember that on christmas evening, we've since learned that some of the investigators read the suspect his miranda rights. at some point he then stopped cooperating with investigators. there's been republican charges in recent days that that sort of bosched the case and was mishandled by this white house because he then clammed up and we were not able to get more intelligence. the white house pushing back furiously tonight saying, look, we have been quietly working on this and have been getting good int

pakistan, afghanistan, nigeria, yemen, the point of africa and elsewhere. they train and prepare for attacks against us and our allies. our focus must be on these entities wherever they operate. this is a global conflict and yes it is a war. a war of terror, these radicals have declared on america and the west. the intelligence community must lean forward in this war and we on congressional oversight committees must back you up. when we ask you behind closed doors to be aggressive and we do that quite freely, it is our responsibility to stand behind you when the doors are opening to support your actions when they're under the spotlight. and i pledge we will continue to do so. at the same time, our committees will hold the icy accountable and the icy must hold itself accountable because the threats we're dealing with are far too dangerous to tolerate any kind of sloppy work and careless mistakes. as the saying goes, the terrorists only have to get it right once to be successful. you and we have to get it right all the time. we must use all avenues available

. >> reporter: fbi agents were able to get him to talk again by flying in his family from nigeria. it's not clear what he's saying, but the white house will try to fend off critics who say he should have been treated as an enemy combatant, not a criminal suspect with legal rights. but republicans and even some democrats say the white house has no business trying terror suspects in criminal courts. and in the case of accused 9/11 planner khalid sheikh mohammed, they're willing to cut off funding to prevent it.lone wolf attack similar to what we saw in the christmas day bomb plot. a single actor is very difficult to stob. >> doug luzader from capitol hill. we appreciate it. >>> to virginia, weeks after her body was found, a girl who disappeared from a concert in charlottesville last october. a man found her remains on his farm. morgan haring ton was 20 years old. >>> accused of being drunk and hitting two men with her car and now the driver has a history of driving under the influence. she slammed into alex lackeyo and gusto rosario in adelphi on monday night and killed them instance

chuck todd says the fbi did it by going to nigeria, and rather than threatening his family, getting their help. members of the family flew to the u.s. on january 17th and helped the fbi get abdulmutallab's cooperation. nevertheless, even though the shoe bomber, richard reid got the same treatment, republicans disapprove of this. lamar alexander calling for the resignation of eric holder whose prosecutors are overseeing the case, and whose fbi agents first interviewed the man. interviewers furious with abdulmutallabfusing to talk for a month. today the fbi director, robert muller explained the concept behind abdulmutallab's conversation were anyone not swift enough to follow an episode of "law & order." >> the system in the united states which allows for consideration of contributing intelligence information and credit for that, is a powerful incentive for persons to provide truthful, actionable information, evidence and intelligence. we have other country that is don't have the same system of justice, where there is no incentive to cooperate or provide intelligence, and the person stays i

extensively, saying everything the fbi wants to know and the break-through thing is that the fbi went to nigeria, gut members of his family, brought them back to washington and then took them to meet him in detroit and after talking to his family, he started talking again. now, back to the political point you made earlier about where to charge him. the administration insists and eric holder says today in his letter to senators that a key factor for the family was the fact that he was incivilian court, n military court. and they say that was one of the reasons the family agreed to cooperate, which got him talking again. the mere fact that you give someone a warning and a criminal trial isn't a guarantee that they'll stop talking. >> very interesting. all right. pete williams, thanks. >> my pleasure. >>> no word yet on whether formal charges will be filed against ten american missionaries in haiti. >>> first, we have a big storm heading our way. >> and the busiest mann town this week, bobryan. >> no reason to panic right now. there's 24 hours at least. but it does look like -- >> we can start buil

when the information was secret, not to mention the fact that abdul ma's family are in great risk in nigeria from terrorist retaliation. that's one point. >> so our saying that the white house briefings, the backgrounders and whatever else took place had jeopardized possible operations on the ground? is that your suggestion? >> it's not my suggestion. that's what the intelligence community leaders told my staff. that's what director muller told me. he urged us not to ask a question. sgr . >> didn't the director of national intelligence make this public during the threat assessment testimony? >> he was -- there was one question asked. it was asked of fbi director muller. i tried to stop that question from being asked. the fbi director at the time may be operating under new instructions answersed yes he was cooperating. that's all that was said. had he really wanted to keep it secret, the simple answer is any questioning should be something we'll discuss with you in a classified hearing, but then the white house went out and talked all about his family coming over and the fact that he had been

some of them out of angola, nigeria, may have laundered money through american banks like bank of america, who supposedly unwittingly went along with it. but this is a serious, and a growing problem, right, kevin? >> absolutely. absolutely. the best estimates $1.5 trillion. and you have to understand that it's a three-part problem. it is not just a laundering, it's, a, what happened beforehand, what crimes were committed that they got that money? b, the actual laundering of the money and, c, now you are enabling them to continue doing the bad deeds that they were doing. >> which obviously is something you think the banks would go along with but banks are so global, i would imagine it's easier said than done. >> absolutely. >> in addition to these sorts of money transfers, some of which i'm sure involve offshore accounts, wire transfers, there's also the pure and simple way of doing it, which is taking cash and getting it across boarders. we've come into this country and checked that box, are you carrying10,000 of cash or more, if so, go to a special screening ploef most of us cash no beca

rice, nigeria imports rice even though it should be growing its own rice.ith coca-cola, we have a fruit effort where it's in kenya and tanzania to take passion fruit, mango fruit, and get them to store it in the right way where they can access the market. so getting them further up the value chain and making sure that the price gets down to them is a much higher percentage. there's going to have to be some funding. but the returns on this funding is really quite phenomenal. >> any questions on pricing, gentlemen at the back there? on pricing? >> well, to the extend that in the short-term the likelihood of withdrawal of subsidies is not something on which we can expect very quick answers. and considering the fact that the present -- [inaudible] will remain for a while, what other steps can be considered to get countries out of the mindset in terms of self-reliance which can allow for the global forces, the present spike in prices which we see? >> bill gates, you wanted to answer that? >> one of the big food buyers in the world is the world food program. they

two fbi officials flew to nigeria on new year's day, to meet with mr. abdulmutallab's family. few of his family members flew back to the u.s. with the fbi. they convinced the man to cooperate with authorities, the official says that standard fbi interrogation practices were used in the interrogation of mr. abdulmutallab they say that richard reid the shoe bomber was myr mirandised within the first five minutes of his detention. mr. abdulmutallab is apparently still talking to and cooperating with authorities. the attempted politicization of his arrest seems to be misfiring. >>> next up, a snapshot of today's republican party, i don't mean republican leadership in congress or michael steele, i mean, average every day self-identifying republicans, joe the republicans if you will, polled coast-to-coast by research 2000, this poll was commissioned by daily coast, now, daily coast is an influential liberal website, the polling firm that did the survey is a nonpartisan mainstream polling organization, and this is what they found out about today's republican party. not just its base,

all because these senior officials say back on january 1st, a couple of fbi agents secretly flew to nigeria, worked for a couple of weeks to gain the trust of a couple of relatives of abdulmutallab, and then on january 17th, they're revealing for the first time two relatives of the suspect flew back to the united states, again, all in secret, so that they could convince the suspect, look, you can trust the u.s. government. nothing to be afraid of. they're trying to get information, they're trying to get your cooperation. why is the white house doing this now? why did they call us back late tonight? this is a case where we don't have to do any guessing. they were very blunt behind the scenes. one of the senior officials, i was struck, i put in my notebook, he was sort of getting a little red and angry and talking about how republicans have been attacking the white house, saying that they've botched this terror investigation. this one official saying, quote, it's frustrated the hell out of me, because the charge has been, basically, by reading this suspect's his miranda rights on christmas ni

. >> well, shep, we learned from a senior administration official that the fbi agents went to nigeria on january 1st. there they met with abdulmutallab's family and the family then agreed to come back to the u.s. where they got the new round of questioning underway. we are told it began last week. administration officials will not be more specific about the time frame or what was discussed except to say that it was useful. now, fbi agents call this technique building a secure base where the suspect is comfortable. he gains confidence. and he is surrounded by people he knows. in this case some family members, shep. >> shepard: and from republicans the word that this is pretty sensitive administration and the administration is releasing it? >> well, on the hill today, some lawmakers saying, identifying the parents makes them a target for al qaeda because they are helping u.s. authorities. and the senior republican on the intelligence committee complained that the white house chose to brief reporters first, not congress. >> i dined doo find it an interesting strategy that we hastily call

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correspondent chuck todd, quoting the senior administration official, said the fbi did it by going to nigeria and rather than threatening his family, getting their help. members of the family flew to the u.s. on january 17th and helped the fbi get abdulmutallab's cooperation. nevertheless, even though the shoe bomber, richard reid, got exactly the same rights from the bush administration, the republicans disapprove of this. senator lamar alexander calling for the resignation of u.s. attorney general eric holder whose prosecutors are overseeing the case and whose fbi agents first interviewed the man. republicans furious with holder for the fact that abdulmutallab stopped talking for a month, despite the fact that his agents, in just an hour of questioning, almost as soon as he landed in detroit, got abdulmutallab to reveal the key names and locations associated with the bomb plot. today the fbi director robert mueller explained the concept behind abdulmutallab's cooperation for any republicans not swift enough to follow an episode of "law & order." >> we have found the system of justice in the

talking again about his training and contacts in yemen after fbi agents broughtamily members from nigeria to the u.s. here for his arraignment, they persuaded the suspect to cooperate. facing criticism the fbi missed chances for more information sooner by reading abdulmutallab his right to remain silent, fbi director bob muller said, not true. >> the interrogation continues despite the fact that he has been mirandaized? >> yes. >> reporter: also today, iran launched a rocket capable of carrying satellites into space. it's tecology that could be used to launch warheads. u.s. officials say an ongoing concern. >> tehran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons. >> reporter: iran says it has no plans to do so. as for terror suspects, gop critics here are mounting an effort to bar funding for civilian trials. the white house says the bush team showed that terror suspects can be fairly convicted in u.s. courts. among them, shoe bomber richard reid. in washington, brook hart, nbc news. >> meanwhile, some lawmakers are preparing to challenge the obama administration's decision to try

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k-kilo, my colleague had studied in germany, east germany and nigeria and in the u.k. before coming back to zanzibar and have many interesting conversations with him about mental illness and about culture. and it was really wonderful for me to see what someone from outside my culture thought about my culture and for me to have someone so educated to ask my questions. and so, when i returned to the united states, i continue teaching but i went back to school and got another degree, a degree in anthropology. and i began reading those same world health organization studies that even has told you about, which are studies have been undertaken three times in the 70's, 80's and 90's, different names. the international pilot study of schizophrenia the first one. the second one call does that which i thought was a very interesting choice of acronym. standing for determinants. what i learned from those health organization studies was that just as he then said knew why, but persistently not expecting to discover this the world health organization discovered time and time again pe

at the white house, administration officials said abdulmutallab's family members were flown from nigeria to the u.s. to help persuade him to answer questions. they said he supplied information about his contacts in yemen, where allegedly he was trained by alqaeda and talked about intelligence related to multiple terror threats. top intelligence officials have said they were not immediately consulted about how to handle abdulmutallab. but today, attorney general eric holder took responsibility. he said suspects captured inside the u.s. always have been placed in the federal courts. he wrote to senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, saying: "no agency has since advised the department of justice that an alternative course of action should have been pursued." holder's statement followed growing republican criticism. over the weekend, maine senator susan collins charged the obama team has "a blind spot" when it comes to fighting terrorism. and south carolina senator lindsay graham followed up yesterday. >> it makes no sense to capture someone fresh off the battlefield and within 50 minutes

alleged christmas day bomber is talking to government agents again, this after fbi agents flew to nigeria on new year's day to plead for his family's help in getting him to talk. and chuck, apparently, it worked. >> that's right. what's more, abdulmutallab is now giving up valuable intelligence, particularly when it comes to operations in yemen, having to do with al qaeda. it's a boost for the administration politically, as they've been sharply criticized for its decision to let the fbi interrogate the 23-year-old and not the military or the cia or other intelligence. so nbc's justice correspondent, pete williams, who obviously has been following this very closely. and i want to get into the politics of it quickly here. listen to what susan collins said over the weekend. it's very important to the time line of this story. take a listen. >> the obama administration appears to have a blind spot when it comes to the war on terrorism. there's no other way to explain the irresponsible, indeed, dangerous decision on abdulmutallab's interrogation. there's no other way to explain the inconceivabl

fbi officials traveled to nigeria last month and brought back with them members of the suspect's family to talk with him. it apparently worked. jeremy, vinita? >> steven, thanks. >>> the fbi says there have been no credible threats against sunday's super bowl but security will be unprecedented. a battalion of bomb-sniffing dogs will be there, many of them veterans of iraq and afghanistan. and bomb-defusing robots will work with police bomb squads. fans will be screened as airplane passengers are and they will be able to carry almost nothing into the stadium. >>> we have a developing story from pakistan this morning. a bomb blast near a girls' school in the peshawar area of northwest pakistan killed at least six people. there are reports the victims are students from the school and a number of foreigners. schools have been recent targets by rebel bombers. >>> the pentagon is looking into how it might end its don't ask, don't tell policy on gays and lesbians in the military. secretary of defense robert gates told a senate committee he is launching a year-long study. joint chiefs chairman

they flew all the way to nigeria on january 1st without this being revealed by the government and toldto various relatives. they worked on this in the state department, the cia, for a couple weeks. the point is that on january 17th, we're learning now for the first time from the senior officials two relatives of abdulmutallab flew to the united states with state department fbi officials in order to then talk to the suspect and gain his trust and say basically, according to the senior officials, that you can trust the u.s. government, and that since then, he has been providing a lot of intelligence. you know that the observer was reporting earlier they were getting very good intelligence from abdulmutallab to try to reveal other attacks. the new information said that came because officials secretly flying to nigeria in january and working with his relatives to get his cooperation, wolf. >> do we know who the family members were? >> i asked specifically is one of the relatives the father of abdulmutallab that first raised these concerns about a potential for an attack. that was unheeded,

from iraq to pakistan and afghanistan, to nigeria and the middle east. religion is used as a club to deny the human rights of girls and women from the gulf to africa to asia and to discriminate even advocating the execution of gays and lesbians. religion is used to enshrine in law intolerance of free expression and peaceful protest. iran is now detaining and executing people under a new crime, waging war against god. that seems to be a rather dramatic identity crisis. so in the obama administration we are working to bridge religious divides, we're taking on violations of human rights perpetrated in the name of religion, and we invite members of congress and clergy and active citizens like all of you here to join us. .. >> every time i travel, i raise the plight of girls and women. and make it clear that we expect to see changes, and i recently called president must dominate the lives known through the prayer breakfast and expressed the strongest concerns about a law being considered in the parliament of uganda. we are committed, not only to reaching out

agents overseas to nigeria to talk to the crotch bomber's family. saying do us a favor, talk to your son, get him to talk and it would help us and they did that. they came over. they talked to him and he has begun to talk. but in terms of politics coming into this, the national intelligence director, as you saw in the cold open, he's upset. dennis blair is upset by it. >> the political dimension as you put it. also simultaneously, eric holder the attorney general of the united states yesterday came out with a letter because a number of republicans had wanted him to come up and answer some questions about what went on with the so-called unick bomber as they're calling him on one of the blogs and he sent out a letter to mitch mcconnell and in it, he said it was my decision and my decision alone to try him in court giving it a -- so it's not a political thing. it is a legal thing, according to mr. holder. >> and the caveat to that letter is that he didn't have any resistance from the president on that decision and any of the president's advisors. how d

nigeria could be growing its own rice., we have a food effort we're in kenya and tanzania they're taking passion fruit, mangrove roots and getting them to store it and do it in the right way where they can access the market. fitting up further up the value chain and making sure the prices get down to them and is at a much higher percentage. there's going to have to be some funding. but the returns on this funding is really quite phenomenal. >> any questions on pricing? the gentle man at the backed? -- the gentleman at the back? >> in the short term, the likelihood of withdrawal of subsidies is not something on which we can expect, and considering the fact that the present food prices will remain for a while, what other tips can we consider to get countries out of a mindset in terms of self- reliance that can allow what global powers can affect the present spike in prices we have currently? >> one of the big food buyers in the world, the world food program, they do a great job. donors have often force them to take food from

the fbi went to nigeria and consulted with his family, brought them back, and they convinced him to talk. harry? >> chip reid at a snowy white house this morning. thank you very much. do appreciate it. >>> also in washington cbs news national security analyst juan zarate. juan, good morning. >> good morning. >> i think about that panel yesterday and i don't remember a time when all on that panel sat there so stone faced and so sober was their assessment of a threat of an imminent terrorist attack. >> i think what has happened harry, is a wake-up call with the december 25th incident. i think both the realization that not only al qaeda is trying to innovate and adapt but use regional affiliates in particular from yemen and perhaps out of somalia and north africa to attack the united states directly. so i think the administration through intelligence officials and law enforcement official represented yesterday are trying to get ahead of the curve and be as sober as possible. >> is the idea the attack will be along the lines of a abdulmutallab sort of christmas day bomber and this kind of fr

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abdulmutallab was a nigerian. 70 million muslims, generally moderate in nigeria.bviously, there isn't a number who can be -- who can be radicalized to the point that he went. so i'm -- what i'm finding is it's -- to put them into geographic pigeon holes is limiting our vision. that was part of the limited vision we had before. >> i think that's exactly right, mr. director. i appreciate your adding that to the items that director panetta mentions. i tried to talk today to the secretary of state about the countries in western africa where drug trade, perhaps from latin america, is perhaps being connected up with these things. and, of course, your reference to al qaeda in the islamic magreb is absolutely right in terms of northern africa. so i guess i go back just to a comment about the -- do we have the resources? do we have the capacity to follow this? these are incredibly vast areas. and the conditions that allow al qaeda recruit in africa is exactly the kind of problems that i think demand broader reform of the sort that i have proposed of this committee and that