nine hundred. it was a big part of it sir and i'm not just critical of mr clinton i'm critical of any president of the united states who doesn't put the protection of americans first i think russians would feel the same way about their president or the british about the same their prime minister mr clinton just happens to be the one that i know best because i was responsible for providing information to him. i'm sorry i missed the let the second part of your question i mean i mean was that the reason you're. your criticism of the clinton that you resigned a while you were you rather dismissed from the cia ninety nine. no i resigned i was moved to a different job in may of june of one nine hundred ninety nine we had just gone through a period in the last week of may in one nine hundred ninety nine where we know we knew exactly where osama bin laden was spending the night for five consecutive nights and kandahar city and we could have killed him at any one of those nights and the president decided no

hundred ninety eight one nine hundred ninety nine it would have made a real difference there but bin laden it's very good that he's dead he was a very talented very inspirational leader but the movement the islamist movement is much bigger today much more geographically dispersed than it was at nine eleven primarily because of the invasion of iraq. our invasion of iraq and subsequent occupation really created a situation that did for bin laden and al qaeda what it probably could never have done by itself the occupation of iraq made al qaeda it turned out to rather from a man and a group into a philosophy and a movement and now we're living with that philosophy and that movement mr sure why did you. say that bin ladin i quote died as success isn't it an overestimation of a terrorist threat that had to be in deep hiding for the last couple of days or years rather of his life. i don't think it's an overestimation at all perhaps it's an underestimation bin laden was the one person in the muslim world in the arab world especially who stood up and defied the united states in words and deed

a look back at nine eleven on our key. is. if it's going to. be. i am. welcome to be a loner so we'll get the real headlines with none of the mersey we're coming live out of washington d.c. i'm going lister in for a loan today we are coming up on ten years since the attacks of nine eleven as a nation still spending billions of dollars and lives on a war on terror started in response to those attacks and with government still spying on citizens through provisions of the patriot act and with many questions about the attack still unresolved how far has the u.s. come one decade later will try to get some answers then we'll talk about the economy as we get ready to hear a speech from president obama tonight on his jobs plan but first what are the mainstream media missed. right last night maybe it caught it there was the g.o.p. debate of possible g.o.p. presidential contenders if you did not there has been plenty of recapping today but what we want you to pay attention to is this very jarring moment take a look. at your state is executed two hundred thirty swo

and just to remind you the nine eleven commission issued their. report back in two thousand and four so what are some of those records that the public still has not allowed to see the reportedly a thirty page summary of a two thousand and four interview with president bush and vice president dick cheney the only time the two were formally question about the events surrounding the nine eleven attacks also a vast amount of information on al qaeda and u.s. intelligence efforts though for the attacks and those years before now this the nine eleven commission report records that we have been seeing in addition to it there are twenty eight pages which were redacted from the congressional joint inquiry into nine eleven that was finished back in two thousand and two now those pages have never been declassified here to talk about why all of this is and maybe to help us figure some of nine eleven as mysteries of our next guests they've combed through the thousands of official documents that have recently been made available not to mention done countless int

nine eleven which is told very vividly in the audiotapes from the n.s.a. and from the nor out and in the transcripts of those in the in the files of the nine eleven commission what we've been able to do which no one else has been able to do is piece together the story of the shoot down authorization. that on that morning at one point when many planes were appeared to be errant and perhaps hijacked. it became necessary for a decision to be made as to whether or not there would be authorization given to shoot down a civilian airliner now this is and susan that should only be made by the president or by the secretary of defense or by the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff on the morning of nine eleven the very best evidence now shows and we documented very carefully in our book that that decision was in fact made by the vice president who was not in that chain of command and passed along and cost along to people under beneath him outside the ordinary military chain of command very interesting information coming out that you're piecing together ten years la

look back at nine eleven our city. this week russia's sporting world was rocked to its core when one of its best hockey teams was all but wiped out in the blink of an eye they died on wednesday when the. plane crashed on takeoff saturday thousands gathered at the team's stadium to say final goodbyes to the victims and all to sean thomas witnessed a city in mourning. and waves of emotion for through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy the country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but in europe we've been friends with this team for many years our whole family including a little child that went to all the games for us is here admirable loss but it's like losing a family member. was that i knew one of the clears he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left who could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears. just after four in the afternoon on wednesday the charter plane carrying almost the entire locomotive cage and all hockey t

hundred ninety nine bombardment of belgrade. i did see my father after his arrest but i am not allowed to talk with the media about anything relating to the hague tribunal that is from the perch. the suv in population was angered by recommended she's arrest there were actions in support of the general in many cities and serbia. demonstrators demanded that the government resign because they felt it was betraying the nation's heroes. in belgrade one such protest resulted in a clash with the police. this is a poster from a demonstration we held several years ago calling from lights to be handed over to the hague tribunal it reads our years are not for wasting a lot of to the hague. activists from the serbian youth organization want all people who committed crimes in the former yugoslavia to be handed over to the hague tribunal this petition campaign is just one example of the frequent activities on the streets of belgrade to support the movement. these young people make no distinction between muslim and criminals they feel tensions

a look back at nine eleven on r.t. . can. come back to cross talk i can't really go to mind you were talking about the nine eleven decade. can. david thank you george bush he pushed his war on terror and it's become very much part of the american political and military establishment is that the war on terror was a part a another way of promoting democracy we could have a different discussion about it can you invade a country and force democracy out of that's that's one thing but i think the arab spring or the arab awakening release says a lot because you don't need outsiders to invade your country to get rid of dictators if what the west would stop to promoting dictatorship dictators in that part of the world people will rise up and they will have their own democracy and so this whole effort of democratization really the people on the ground pour cold water on what george bush and and others tried to do. well i think george bush is a pretty easy whipping boy he's no longer president barack obama faced with a difficult strateg

the two young men and clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local show would have more to say you know you see you. just can see the smoke on the buildings and that's a good as anything i can say when you guys show this picture i'm guessing it's a i think it was a call but if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months it's pretty much the stone ages where we are what do you think about the reactions that's maybe so there was a guy who said it was kabul was really difficult and he just shows you how isolated area in their own country who he demanded without understand a. thing i would not even know you're going to get out of the america kind of send them to this point and get the airplane from here to attack and united states you know how that might have done a. lot of it was nice to go from iraq to that here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and you see a definition of a good picture by yourself is this you have to look at this table where you want to carry a ri

attacked after nine eleven the personal freedoms came under fire as well so in a post nine eleven world our assault on human rights now considered annoying. and let's not forget about libya even though it seems the mainstream media so in the wake of revolution is there any sign of surrender. there it's friday september ninth four pm in washington d.c. and christine for sound you're watching our t.v. . well i want to start off as afternoon with a look at the impacts of nine eleven ten years later ask anyone in america why we went to war in afghanistan and most will say one thing the terrorist attacks of nine eleven but how many people in afghanistan know why american troops are in their country well last year a report from the international council on security and development came out but basically showed that ninety two percent of those surveyed had never heard of the attacks on u.s. soil and on september eleventh two thousand and one there were also illustrated that four in ten afghans that's nearly half believe that the u.s. is in their country. one of two reasons either to occupy afg

a look back at nine eleven. top stories on our t.v. as libyan rebels prepare to storm some of the last pro but often strongholds people in tripoli take comfort from their new rulers as spears of anarchy drown out triumphant cries. moscow's not taking sides over syria saying it will be no peace through blood shedding and calls for both the rebels and the regime to lay down arms turned to dialogue. the world's ice hockey community grieve the loss of the locomotive team was all but wiped out of a plane crash in russia city of yet a slot will just won the squad members survived with many stars of international hockey among those who perished. didn't know where it is even if we don't most of those guys because we are former labor heard about the need to go for the world while america's decade long war in afghanistan winds down those punished for the atrocities of september eleventh two thousand and one question just what nine eleven was.

look back at nine eleven to see. egypt is on high alert after a night of riots in cairo left at least three people dead and over a thousand injured the demonstration for reform in the country quickly turned violent as protesters vented their anger against the israeli embassy a mob tore down a wall shielding the high rise building ransacked parts of the embassy which was virtually understaffed at the time after hours without intervention a riot police used tear gas to disperse protesters who responded by throwing bombs now the israeli diplomats and their families have been flown home as television condemned the attack let's go live to cairo now to get some perspective on this from egyptian presidential candidate shall thanks very much for joining us in the program well be incidental it does call resident after israeli forces killed and policemen in a border clash do you think this is a reason for the at the israeli side to me a car or do you think there's more to it. this is one of the one of the uses for this one. an

follow him and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle the nine eleven decade what has been accomplished what has been lost as america's so-called war on terror made the us in the world a safer place and one of the huge costs and loss of innocent life has it all been worth it plenty to take you. live. to cross-talk america's war on terror i'm joined by david ignatius in washington he's a journalist and author in rochester we have john miller he is a professor at ohio state university and in london we crossed the n.s.a. to critique he is c.e.o. of the cordoba foundation all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want and it's i very much encourage it but first let's take a look at some of the questions facing america on this anniversary. this year marks a decade since al qaeda september eleventh attacks on the united states as america and the rest of the world commemorate the day it is the decade of the events that followed which poses the hardest questions and calls for a look back from the passing of the contentious patriot act to the war in afghanistan

is seen several years of massive job loss unemployment remains over nine percent we're talking about millions of people living jobless in this country congress might cut off unemployment benefits starting next year and the jobless in america will find themselves in an even more dire situation president obama in his address called for the congress to extend benefits for the unemployed he also suggested tax incentives for small businesses another measure he could forward is giving money we're talking about one hundred forty billion dollars to states and local governments so that they can keep you know the teachers and firefighters employed also hire infrastructure workers so that those workers can go out and spend money and keep the consumption going although experts are saying that the stimulus plan obama is suggesting will not really bring the u.s. economy out of the woods because it will create in the best scenario around one and a half million jobs but it takes eleven million jobs and new jobs just to get back to the pre recession level there's a lot of skepticism out there in cong

bush declared in the wake of nine eleven and tragically that barack obama continues today. and it's not just about the persistent u.s. military presence in iraq and afghanistan that have bankrupted the nation also about the endless drone strikes around the world from yemen to somalia to pakistan that have killed so many innocent people and leave muslims in the region in constant fear of death from above a whole new generation of muslims are growing up now and they have no other experience of the united states than as an occupying military force and even though our military has performed admirably it's not their good deeds that are remembered but instead those instances of brutality the grave blackwater massacre in baghdad or the execution of ten civilians in iraq including five children as described by the most recent recent wiki leaks release thanks to george w. bush choosing the path the war as a response to nine eleven and that is just to rest in the criminals who perpetrated the crime america is now perceived by the war as a criminal itself rather than as the victim of

look back at nine eleven see. this week russia saw the tragic loss a one of its top hockey teams out of the plane crash on a very to their first game of the k h l season on wednesday and i lined up with all those they entire lokomotiv get us the other team playoff case stop went down just after takeoff from their home city on their way to milk their tragedy has engulfed the hockey world with pleasant stuff from several countries losing their lives while russia has been shocked at yet another plane disaster and gas that one hundred thousand attended a remembrance ceremony for the city's sporting heroes and at his sean thomas was that. waves of emotion poor through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy that country would the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of this team for many years our whole family including a little child went to all their games crosses their upper billows but it's like losing a family member. i knew one of the players he was my neighb

nine eleven see. i want you coming to live from moscow these are today's news and week's top stories the u.s. commemorates its worst terrorist attack the divide of the world the nine eleven assault ten years ago prompted america to launch a policing mission doubt many experts claim has made the globe more dangerous. russia bids farewell to the players of a top national ice hockey team who perished in a plane crash the jet went down shortly after taking off and killing forty three people on board. and moscow was to send a fact finding mission to syria to get firsthand information about the crisis the air this as russia's president refuses to take sides in the conflict saying the only way to peace.

look back at nine eleven to see. this week russia saw the tragically also one of its talk hockey teams after their plane crashed on the very first game of the k h l season on wednesday and the line i would almost the entire lokomotiv team plus k. stop one down just after takeoff from their home city on their way to minsk they trashed hasn't got the hockey world with a pleasant star from several countries are losing their lives while russia has their shot at yet another plane disaster in here a slum one hundred thousand attended at remembrance ceremony for the city's sporting heroes and out his frontal assault that. waves of emotion with from his residence realise the full weight of the tragedy the country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars the world ended up within fans of his team for many years until family including a little child went to all their games the losses their operable loss but it's like losing a family member. because i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great perso

the two young men that clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say yeah no you see. it's just going to see the smoke from the buildings and that's a that's only thing i can see when you guys show this picture. i think it was a call what if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months it's premature stone ages where we are and what do you think about the reactions fascinating so i want the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never going to kabul it just shows you how isolated they are even their own country don't understand putting. think i would come back you know you don't think you know you've been there america afghanistan come to this point and then get the airplane from here in the united states but you know how much. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and what it means so you have that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself it's what you're there to see the afghans looking at it

february one thousand nine hundred seventy. there was a really a very teal of destruction and we were taken out on missions mainly by helicopter our missions were called search and destroy we would try to search out the enemy and destroy the enemy in the coup cheery. there were in numerable tunnels and usually we would try to blow these tunnels up with him for explosives. and we seldom saw our main enemy we tried to destroy the earth that concealed and sustain the enemy i often wonder if our struggle is not against human beings but against the earth that sustains them. we've become experts and going to the earth using bombs artillery mortars c. four gunships and they plan to reduce the earth to ashes. you know in the history of life on earth they have been five moments. and which they span a major spasm of extinction and the best known is when the time a source left the stage as it were we are now clearly in the first stages of a potential sixth spasm of extinction we human footprint on nature this is just quite you can see the

look back at nine eleven our city. a tragic loss hit the sports world this week fans and families are mourning the victims of a plane crash in central russia which killed almost the entire lokomotiv yaroslavl ice hockey team over a hundred thousand people came to pay their last respects to their much loved players in their hometown sean thomas looks at the catastrophe. and waves of emotion poured through jaroslav as residents realize the full weight of the tragedy their country or the lives of some of the city's brightest stars but ended up with the fans of this team for many years our whole family including a little child to go into all the games for us it's an operable loss but it's like losing a family member. who was with you i knew one of the players he was my neighbor and he was a great person he's got two little kids left could this happen when we saw the news on t.v. i just burst into tears. at just after four in the afternoon on wednesday the charter plane carrying almost the entire yard slug a locomotive came

the two young men are clearly never heard of nine eleven. but maybe the elders of the local sure would have more to say you know if you. just can see the smoke from the buildings and. that's what you think when you go show this picture. if i just got here i would be surprised but having been here now for six months this is premised stone ages where we are and what to do about their reactions. so the guy who said it was kabul was clearly never been to kabul it just shows you how isolated they are even in their own countries. i don't think you know if you're going to america afghanistan come to this point and get the airplane from here to the united states but you know how much. it was nice to go from iraq to then here is a lot easier to understand you know why you're here and what do you see at that picture you know it's good picture remind yourself because what you're there to see the afghans looking at it in this context will wear the uniform if you're in the right. to back those prisoners out of the. ranks and saying we're going to help yo

a vicious civil war broke out of the slavs republic of bosnia and nine hundred ninety two about half of the people here follow his around and call him. muslims a little more than a third catholic croatians richard first supported the serbs but ultimately sided with muslims. in april ninety ninety two the serbs surrounded the bosnian capital sarajevo muslims made up the majority of the city's population. the siege of sarajevo lasted for years. traces of the siege can still be found on the streets of syria. many locals lost relatives here. i was away at work on october the tenth ninety four point zero one hundred twenty five millimeter shell hit my house my son and daughter were critically wounded twenty eight days later they died in hospital. and me greatly to see their suffering i really wish they had died right there and then when you they wouldn't have suffered so much. according to the hague tribunal the siege of sarajevo resulted in more than ten thousand deaths. approximately fifty thousand people were wounded. these figures were cited and one of the grave ist indictments of roc