. >> reporter: omar broobs, a self-styled religious leader of an extremist group that is now banned. >> he went in there and he's shouting and he's hollering at everybody and everybody thinks yes, this guy is running against the system. >> where is the freedom of speech now? >> they consider them heroes for the younger guys. yes, get in there, you know, he's telling them how it is. >> you should not come to muslim area. we don't want to see john reid, we don't want to see tony blair or any of your cronies. >> it's very easy for them guys to then come back into the community and have a lot of supporters. >> reporter: these people, many of them self-appointed clerics, are dominating the national debate and certainly the debate within islam right now. they are the loudest voices. how is that possible? >> because our scholars have educated themselves to preach islam are not coming out of their holes, their mosques, and their holes to engage with these people. they're frightened of that. >> reporter: so hanif is desperately trying to fix that, trying to get the mosque elders, many still s

. >> omar brooks, a self-styled religious leader of an extremist group that is banned. >> he went in there and he shouted and hollered at everybody and everything is thinking this guy is the system. >> where is your freedom of speech now? >> they are considered heroes for the younger guys. >> you should not come to a muslim area. we don't want to see john reed or tony blair. >> it is easy for those guys to come back into the community and have a lot of supporters. >> these people, many self-appointed clerics are dominating the national debate and the debate within islam right now. they are the loudest voices. how is that possible? >> our scholars have educated themselves to preach islam are not coming out of their holes, their mosques to engage these people. they are frightened of that. sichlt so hanif is desperately trying to fix that, trying to get the mosque elders, many stuck in the tribal traditions of pakistan, to communicate with the younger generation. >> i would like to ask the young people because i'm part of the committee of next door mosque, which young man comes in the m

the taliban of ten years ago was particularly under one leader, mullah omar. if you look at different parts of afghanistan, you have different leaders basically in charge of different taliban organizations. in the west of the country, you have criminal gangs. in the south, you still have mullah omar, who is the basic leader, and then towards the east you have a person named haqani, the one who is many believe are behind this boeming in that american base that killed those seven cia agents. what's also interested about this is the father was actually a mujahideen fighter against the soviets in the 1980s, and, get this, he was actually funded by the cia through the pakistani intelligence. richard? >> 7:37 in kabul, afghanistan weather the latest on the shock. thank you. >>> when president obama gets back to washington next week, it is back to the grind on health care. >> that's right. it's just one of many big issues that's shaped his first year in office, but senior white house correspondent, ed henry, tells us some are wondering if president obama is doing too

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged withder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, that ty

we're not so sure where we're training forces for our side or we're actually training people from omar. chris: speaking of afghanistan our matthews meter, 12 of our regulars whether wars in iraq and afghanistan are a help or a hurt in this regard when it comes to defeating al qaeda? close one here, seven say the wars have helped our cause in defeating al qaeda, five say iraq and afghanistan taken together have hurt the war against al qaeda. two of you here were in that meter poll. and they split. andrea, you think the wars altogether, on all the casualties we lost and all the casualties we inflicted, haven't helped our fight against al qaeda. >> i think they've hurt. and i agree it's a cless call. but i think we have inspired more jihadis against us. chris: joe, you disagree. >> i think the war in iraq was a bad historic mistake, it also gave us a much better sense of the limits of the possibility of al qaeda, the fact that they don't have that much appeal to the average in us limb. and in the end, we beat them. chris: wow. rumsfeld once said we don't have the metrics on that one. befo

as a character is omar, who is a teenager. here he is in egypt but he is grown up in tyler, texas, a place people have names like tiffany and justin and they are blonden and southern baptist and omar is the only guy with hair on his body and at age 12 it starts with one curl hair and the next thing you know his hair is curly and he doesn't have any luck with the ladies and he blames this on his the arab and then he wants nothing to do it, is a bomber as far as he's concerned. he doesn't know why a for the success with the place long gone and far away. but with the evin steps are to have an overseas he sees kids his age standing up to an occupation. he starts to sort of feel connected and it's interesting to see how his political or just identity awareness happens. there we go to 1991 and the first gulf war back and experience this with a family that lives in a small rural midwestern town, and it's a great way to see how american tolerance can which sometimes is easily extend it can be so quickly removed and then how it can rea

truman after the blockade began met with the joint chiefs of staff headed by a legend, omar bradley,he cabinet led by a military legend, general george marshall. his cabinet and the new national security council about how to respond. the vote today unanimously that we should leave berlin that there was no way that we could feed the city or do not and when that finished robert lovett who was the assistant secretary of state said mr. president of the russians need over from berlin shoes and harry truman said we stay in berlin, period and he said have you really thought about this, mr. president? and truman got up and walked out of the room and it was truman's determination along with clay's on the other end and then the competence and the bravery of these young men but when one of the most unlikely, it wasn't a battle but the situation in the biggest and humanitarian history. >> i think one of the things that's striking ac said the cabinet of these very prestigious military men, brad the commercial and so on and marshals staff had not only leavitt but george kennan was -- they were opp

now, omar is probably the extreme, the foot soldiers are the other extreme. question is what happens to the others? can they be won over? can they become a part of the political fabric that gates spoke of? and that's i think what we are all trying to figure out. i don't know that we have an answer yet. >> at what point does the 30,000 new troops, the department set up to begin accepting converts, from the taliban, reconciliation sectors, like south america. >> it's not an issue for the department. this is an issue for the government of afghanistan. clearly just reading president karzai's comments in the press, particularly in the lead up to this conference in london, it is their desire to work more aggressively towards a reintegration, at the very least a reintegration plan and ultimately perhaps a reconciliation plan. we have always been supportive of that notion. and that's why we are committing additional resources to try to change the dynamic on the ground to lead toward that possibility. and that's why i think financially there's support from us and othe

the father of omar went to our embassy and told us he thought his son was a terrorist.he was afraid of that. the folks, my understanding, they wrote back and said this guy may be a terrorist. the guys back home said, oh, okay. so we're going to put him in our database. and we did. everybody was going the bureaucratic thing. but the system doesn't really work. because it only works if you have inquisitive people back here. this is kind of interesting. let's see that. it don't have that initiative. everybody is basically doing cya work. you do this. you do that. and it's nobody responsibility. i don't think the system works. i think we're going to see a reevaluation of that system very soon

. >> reporter: one student athlete who took advantage of it right away was freshman omar sobi. >> at didn't even know until the first time some reporter from the washington post actually came here to do an article about it. i was like wow. i really, i made history here. i didn't even know that. >> omar just having him on the team he is a strong player, great force and drives us all to play harder. >> reporter: jill sorensen, comcast sportsnet. >> thank you, jill. great sorry. >>> next on geico sportsnite, the disaster in haiti has brought out the best in man kind. including those in the spo ! ue! time out i d it i d th bef nt oach. n, ahe r not cat! tta dinglex! 's tmpiogame o hich. hed,thei. t fom why inbo n 't one ree. nice, al y co ! all. >> welcome back. coming up next on redskins nation, skins pro bowl linebacker ken harvey called in from haiti. he's there as part of a relief effort sponsored by the redskins and diaggio using daniel snyder's jet harvey and 12 others flew to haiti on sunday. here is harvey with a first hand account to say the situation is desperate is a vast unde

for instance, he takes on sheik omar who had written a book.d what he does he takes him point by point and so it's just -- it's a lot of fun to read when abu yahya takes somebody to task. i mean, he doesn't pull punches and he does it systematically. so it's not he's coming up with anything -- i think the most -- the most fascinating attempt, though, to enforce this religious purity is when he's taking islamic consents or when he's dealing with the issues, like the use of -- you know, the use of nationalism or atheism or resistance as being western concepts. what's interesting there had been a push a couple of years ago instead of calling these guys jihadists, to call them these arabic terms, abu yahya actually uses these terms that we -- people in the united states were promoting to call al-qaeda against the united states.ví. he calls us, you know, bridging or thugs. orwell said without words you have nothing. i think abu yahya has really embraced that. in terms of who controls access to the media, i think that's a brilliant question. that's

there are a million pele out there like the nigeria >> reporter: omar ruk abdul mutall, the nigeriannt with explosives in his underpants, who put qaeda back on the p. he stued arabic last summer at th language school in sanaa. it seems a sanand civilized ple of learning, now tainted by the actions of onnotorious pupil. ose teacher say he was smart the best in the ass, not a man to blow up a plane mid-flit. >> ( translated like the whole rld i was wrong about him. amsterdaairport was wrong about him. he waslways smiling. >> reporter: sming, like the friely former bodyguard of the wods most wanted man. who now lives qutly in this dirt poor capital city, ere al qaeda stilinspires young men to wage war agnst the west. >> lehrer: now marret warner looks at what the yen terrorism conntions mean for guantanamo dainees. >> warr: ever since taking office, president oba has worked to nor his pledge to shut the prison at guantanam bay, cuba. but his januy 2010 deadline has already ipped. w the apparent connection between the suspect in t christmas day pl has raised a new hurdle. nearly 100 yeme

officials say the suspect-- omar farouk abdulmutallab-- was trained by al-qaeda elements there.e washington post" reported today u.s. teams have stepped up operations with yemeni forces-- killing six regional al-qaeda leaders in recent weeks. taliban forces have rejected an afghan plan to get them to stop fighting. in an internet statement, the group warned financial incentives won't work. it said the only solution is for foreign troops to withdraw. but in germany, chancellor angela merkel said it would be wrong to set a date to withdraw. >> ( translated ): it is very, very important that a signal be sent to the taliban. even when all afghan forces have been trained, the international community will see to it that this army and police are able to survive. otherwise the taliban can hope to attack immediately when the police and security forces are not properly paid, and therefore not motivated. >> sreenivasan: merkel met with afghan president hamid karzai, on the eve of an international conference on afghanistan in london. in afghanistan, 11 suspected taliban militants were kille

. >> he's talking, of course, about omar abdulmutallab.nd we know this isn't the first time al qaeda in yemen has targeted the u.s. in the last couple of years they've bombed western hotels, restaurants, and in 2008, the u.s. embassy in that country. in two thank you, 17 american tailers were killed by a suicide attack on the "uss cole" which was docked in aden harbor. i'm joined by msnbc military analyst jack jacobs. good morning. let me ask you first your reaction to what you heard the president just say? >> well, believe it or not, it sounds like a remark of reassurance. we know where this guy came from, we know where he trained, we know who gave him the training and the direction. it's -- we've got everything under control. we know everything that's going on. and, in addition to that, just like actions against afghanistan after 9/11, it justifies any future actions against yemen. >> where does it fit into this? you have afghanistan, you have pakistan. where does yemen fit in in the al qaeda picture? >> well, al qaeda used to be a centr

the father of omar went to our embassy and told us he thought his son was a terrorist. he was afraid of that. the folks, my understanding, they wrote back and said this guy may be a terrorist. the guys back home said, oh, okay. so we're going to put him in our database. and we did. everybody was going the bureaucratic thing. but the system doesn't really work. because it only works if you have inquisitive people back here. this is kind of interesting. let's see that. it don't have that initiative. everybody is basically doing cya work. you do this. you do that. and it's nobody responsibility. i don't think the system works. i think we're going to see a reevaluation of that system very soon. and we're trying to plug in this notion. my, you know, the model that may work is what israelis have been doing in terms of air transport. they take young people, usually at universities, physician, lawyer, law students, medical students, at the airport. have them talk to all of the passengers coming in. just talk. and those kids are young, they are 20, they are very curious, and if

farooq aomar that took took omar farooq kathwari was coming from yemen.er: my question is how long have we been with this war against yemen? i mean, i don't mean to go to a conspiracy theory but i read in ha general petraeus and another went down there so when tough head of arms services committee go to yemen, they are not just going to see if it's -- >> well, i wouldn't characterize it at all as a war in yemen. and senator mccain is my former boss. i worked for him for 5 1/2 years on foreign policy and so i can state categorically what was on his mind and our minds in that visit was not a war against yemen but rather an attempt to try to get a better sense of the challenges that face the country and what was going on there, and how the united states might inject its policies toward yemen in light of it. host: tell us about that trip. and is that a reason to be concerned that we may eventually see u.s. troops in yes, ma'am snn guest: i think you will see an increase in u.s. advisory capacity and security assistance. thoose already been announcements that

farooq aomar that took took omar farooq kathwari was coming from yemen.ng have we been with this war against yemen? i mean, i don't mean to go to a conspiracy theory but i read in ha general petraeus and another went down there so when tough head of arms services committee go to yemen, they are not just going to see if it's -- >> well, i wouldn't characterize it at all as a war in yemen. and senator mccain is my former boss. i worked for him for 5 1/2 years on foreign policy and so i can state categorically what was on his mind and our minds in that visit was not a war against yemen but rather an attempt to try to get a better sense of the challenges that face the country and what was going on there, and how the united states might inject its policies toward yemen in light of it. host: tell us about that trip. and is that a reason to be concerned that we may eventually see u.s. troops in yes, ma'am snn guest: i think you will see an increase in u.s. advisory capacity and security assistance. thoose already been announcements that the u.s. will double secu

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged with murder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, tha

for instance he takes on a omar who had written a book against al-qaeda, a u.s. a saudi shake and he takes them point by point and so it's a lot of fun to read when abu yahya takes him to task. he doesn't pull punches and he doesn't systematically. so it's not that he's coming now up with anything of that new. i think the most fascinating and attempt to enforce his religious purity is when he's taking this on a concept where when dealing with this terminal logical issue, the use of a national is somewhat or a theism where resistance has been western concepts. what's interesting there was a preston, instead of calling these guys jihadist, to call them a other arabic terms. abu yahya actually uses the terms we were promoting to call it al-qaeda against the united states. he calls us highway brigands and thugs and i think -- i don't know if there is a causal relationship there. so it is wordplay. orwell said without words you have nothing and i think abu yahya has really embraced that. in terms of who controls access to the media is a billing question and that's som

for instance, he takes on omar who is a fallacy sheik. he rips this guy apart.and what he does is he takes a point by point. and it's a lot of fun to read when abu yahya takes somebody to task. i mean come he doesn't pull punches and does it systematically. so it's not like it's coming up with -- i think the most fascinating attempt though to enforce his religious purity is when he's taking concepts or dealing with these terminological issues like the use of nationalism or atheism or resistance has been western concepts. what's interesting though if there'd been a push a couple years ago instead of calling these guys jihadist, to call them a hobby and these arabic terms. abu yahya actually uses these terms that people in the united states were promoting to call al qaeda against the united states. he calls us, you know, highway bridge in and besides. so it's wordplay, you know, orwell said without words you have nothing. and i think abu yahya has really embraced that. in terms of who controls access to the media, i think that's a brilliant question and not someth

recently, the training ground for botched airline bomber omar mutallab. >> we're working to address thethat is out there. it demonstrates al qaeda is determined to carry out these attacks and we're determined to thwart those attacks. >> reporter: a day after general petraeus visited the country the u.s. and british embassies were shut down citing ongoing threats from al qaeda. yemen has a special place in the history of al qaeda. osama bin laden's family is from there. and it was the scene of the 2000 bombing of the "uss cole" in which 17 american sailors died. now terrorists are believed to be flooding into the country. seeking safe haven from u.s. air strikes in pakistan and afghanistan. >> one of our american personnel there said to us, and i thought quite wisely, that iraq is yesterday's war. afghanistan is today's war. and if we don't act preemptively, yemen will be tomorrow's war. >> reporter: analysts say some of the fighters are coming from saudi arabia. others previously released from guantanamo bay. >> these are people that were held in gitmo, have been returned and have now g

afternoon will have a working lunch with the foreign minister of egypt ahmed ali gheit as well as omar soliman, the director of the general intelligence service here at the government of egypt. you will see after the briefing a statement regarding the case involving blackwater contractors. the united states does not tolerate attacks on innocent by iraqi civilians. and the department of justice indicted in the security contractor is a dangerous possible for the september 16th, 2007 shooting at nisour square in baghdad, it announced that at least 34 unarmed iraqi civilians, including women and children, were killed or injured without justification or provocation. the department of justice also stated our goal of that, quote, for those who engage an unprovoked illegal attacks on civilians weather during times of conflict for times of peace will be held accountable. and this remains our objective. the state department fully supported the department of justice and his investigation and prosecution of these individuals. with respect -- respect the independence of the judiciary. the decision

was intelligence information about al qaeda and the arabian peninsula involved with somebody named omar name. a father comes in and saysest worried about his son, oak ar true abdulmutallab. and there were intelligences about an attack, and the father indicates nigeria, and this didn't all come together. we live in an age where my grandchildren can go on their computers, go to google and search an enormous array of databases immediately. my impression -- and director blair, mr. leiter, you can respond to this -- at ntct you don't have that ability. you have separate databases from the intelligence community and the government, and you've got access to all of them, plenty of sharing. but there is not a program, a search engine right now by which you can, by act or some automatic software programming, can have expected in this case that there would have been a hit or an alarm on abdulmutallab, mcguire, december 25. am i right? do we not have that capacity within the ntct? >> senator, we do not have that exact capacity, but i would note that over the past several years we have worked with f

and even a majority of pashtuns do not want to see a return to the medieval hell that mullah omar created second half of the 1990's. smart policies can still reverse the momentum here. just a word about pakistan. pakistan is in the midst of an extraordinarily difficult transition, from military dictatorship to democracy. we should support this transition enthusiastically, but we should recognize this is pakistan's fourth attempt at doing so. you have to believe in the triumph of hope over expectation, to expect pakistan will get there, but it is in hour interest to encourage them to do so, because the pakistani military establishment over the years has proven incapable of running the country, and has developed extensive, intimate ties with the syndicate of terror that i talked about that runs along the borderlands and now deep into the heartland of pakistan. for a variety of reasons, mostly dealing with india, the pakistani military establishment believes it must maintain at least parts of those relationships. in the last year, we have seen part of the jihaddist frankenstein in pakistan a

response with cruise missiles raised bin laden's stature with inside afghanistan, and pushed mullah omar to give him more influence over the foreign groups operating there. so it's true, and so the answer to your question about is our attention being paid to raising his stature i would say yes, absolutely it is. we should be careful because there's lots of some ways we could go about undermining somebody might al-loki because he's written things in the past criticized, he has been -- he was declared by abdul the faisal -- ceramica arrested for prostitution krug to the eckert -- charges. speed there's a lot of things we could be talking about al-loki and from the communications standpoint would be great for us as a nation to be talking about to undermine this guy. but we have a problem when somebody like this comes up that we always seem to elevate. what we need to do is look at these people as human beings because it is their human nature that is their weakness and that is how we exploit them and get them. they are not 10 feet tall, none of them. >> thank you. i think this has been a gre

we dodged a bullet that day when omar faroke a e e e abdul matoa nigerian-born terrorist, failed to detonate a bomb on flight 253 in the skies above detroit. but today, mr. president, i rise to discuss an error that was made after that foreign terrorist had already been detained by american authorities in detroit, an error that may well have prevented the collection of valuable intelligence about future terrorist threats to our country. that error became clear during my questioning of three of our nation's top intelligence officials at the committee's hearing yesterday. frankly, mr. president, i was stunned to learn that the decision to place the captured terrorist into the u.s. civilian criminal court system had been made without any input or the knowledge of the director of national intelligence, the director of national counterterrorism center, or the secretary of the department of homeland security. that's right, mr. president. these officials were never consulted by the department of justice before the decision was made. and that decision, mr. president, was critical. the determination

their institutions, their leadership, and maybe we have to talk with mullah omar. >> i will speak to the question of pakistan. you are absolutely right, president zadari's popularity, which was based on an accident of matrimony, not that had anything to do with mr. 10% himself. i think we will see the end of the zadari government in 2010. we try the alternative of military dictatorship three times. each time, we have ended up pretty unhappy with the outcome. the pakistani people have ended up unhappy with the outcome. we have talked about polling, and i am skeptical about polling in the illiterate societies, as i think anyone is. there is interesting polling in pakistan that says despite the fact that the country now has an anemic economy, despite the fact that political violence in the country is now at unprecedented levels, the overwhelming majority of pakistanis, something around 85%, said they do not want to have another military dictatorship. >> i think we have time for one more question. >> given the composition of the panel, i cannot resist asking for your assessment of the af

>> reporter: after the shooting cousins billy moore and omar dixon were taken into custody charged with murder and attempted robbery. moore was later sentenced to 40 years for pulling the trigger and dixon 30 years as his accomplice. on the day that benji died his simeon teammates decided to play their first game of the season without no. 25. earlier in the day students sobbed at simeon simply overwhelmed with grief, but benji's mother stood tall in the gymnasium. >> so today i speak in love of all of you who keep benji's memory and dignity and be strength v and strength and love alive -- strength and love alive. >> reporter: the wake was held on the gymnasium floor and 8,000 people came to see benji lying in his no. 25 jersey. the line stretched blocks outside of the school, mourners waited seven hours. >> i still have dreams about him like, you know, he came back and he was able to play again, but just dreams. >> sometimes i sit down and, you know, when i'm going through things, you know, i speak, you know, just like i would to my grandparents, you know. hey, benji, how you doing, tha