the base of operations for osama bin laden. >> when you were starting the war plans for afghanistan, i mean, clearly you had enormous

attacks on american embassies planned by osama bin laden killed 224 people. it is been said that the suspect help to allocate up with a truck and brought explosives and so forth and said he served at a time as osama bin laden's cook and bodyguard. how could you not get convictions on 224 counts? >> there is the possibility that his tale is true, but i am dubious because i think i know some things that the jury did not know. it-it would certainly reignite the debate over this. there is no decent appeal of this decision. all of the big questions that probably would have come up if there was a military commission, those questions got obliterated with this trial. he is going to jail for a minimum of 20 years, maybe life, and there was no discussion on the bush's administration's torture policies in the courtroom. that was avoided, it too. >> charles, he was captured in pakistan in 2004 and held by the cia, and then transferred to guantanamo bay. critics say he should have been tried in a military commission. >> that probably would have been better. when you have

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he said he served as a cook and bodyguard for osama bin laden. he has been indicted on one count of conspiracy. how could you not get convictions on 284 counts? >> and there is the possibility that his story is true, but i am dubious. i would certainly reignite the debate over this. and there is no decent appeal of this conviction. all of the big questions that would have probably come up if there was a military conviction, those questions got obliterated. he is going to jail for a minimum of 20 years, maybe life, but there was no discussion of the bush's administration torture policies in the courtroom. that was eliminated, too. that could not be avoided at the military commission. >> critics of this say he should have been tried in the military commission. do you agree with that? >> and that would probably have been better. you have a collapse of the central obama ideal, that the way to deal with people involved in terror are civilian trial's end. the force of this case, 280 counts tossed out in a case where a guy purchases the truck, he buys t

he's the author wholley war eink inside the secret world of osama bin laden, also the osama bin laden i know and the history of al qaeda's leader and i don't have it in front of me but i know he set out to release yet another book hopefully he will share with us and he code directs the americas counter strategy program at the new america foundation's it is a pleasure. the order we are going to do this i'm going to ask john to speak first and he will join at the podium and then have zalmay khalilzad and peter rutter bandoliers the 60's and some great have peter chasing the lawyers. so, john bellinger. and thanks, steve. it's important a time like this i suspect i missed the introduction this morning but that's why you're doing it because we are at the halfway mark in the obama administration on the eve of the e election two years through and looking at what might change the next few years and that is what i would like to talk about with respect to counterterrorism policies looking backwards and forwards. then candidate obama of course campaigned both domestically and to the extent a ca

didn't mean we gave up looking for osama bin laden. that's one the great myths. look at the memory memory memor, where does al qaeda go? elsewhere. this is one the problems that you face when you face a -- not a nation state which you have a capitol protecting a territory. it's when you face terrorism, they are capable of going elsewhere. they went back to pakistan and yemen in the horn of africa. it'd be nice and easy to invade pakistan. there's been a general sense of the region of the war that we are in. who wants to engage in the invasion of an ally. we got to use all of the tools available to let us degrade. not just get osama bin laden, but to degrade the affiliates who's going to be a struggle similar to the cold war. from 1945 until 1989 or 1991. you pick the end date. the west had to confront an enemy. we face a similar long term threat from a different kind of enemy when we face al qaeda and transnational extremism. [inaudible question] >> one last question. for those of you in line, karl will be in the book signing booth. there will be another session

box number one, one of the most wanted terrorists in the world, osama bin laden, just appointed a brand new commander to head up operations against the west. a live report on that is ahead. in box number two, what may be new outside in the case of a convicted killer, what a legal group says it found that could have prevented his execution 10 years ago. and in box number three, she is the face of that russian spy ring busted this summer. but now this is word the kremlin wants the man who outed her assassinated. details in a live report just ahead unless breaking news changes everything. but, first on fox at 3:00, four including a woman and her two kids disappearing in ohio and prompted a lockdown of a college campus. the boyfriend reported her missing on wednesday, also, missing her 13-year-old daughter, ten-year-old son, and the mother's friend. the sheriff says the woman's home was "unusual condition," but he would not explain what that meant. cops found her pickup truck on a nearby campus of a college. this school wanted students there could be a dangerous person in the area and locke

osama bin laden is a tremendous symbolic leader.ow much actual day-to-day control he has people dispute that. i would like to see him taking down. for the government to not put too much pressure on him elevates his status and makes it more difficult to get a. m. perry and. him. . . we assisted our european allies in the balkans. they cut back on defense spending, but they have different responsibilities worldwide. we have maintained our forces and as you look into the future we will continue to do so. but i would say this. i see the same figures about how large our spending is and i'm sure these figures are accurate as far as the u.s. is concerned and our allies in germany and britain and elsewhere. but when you look at other countries, china, russia, others, it is not clear that you are seeing the sum total of their defense expenditures. just as we protect the size of our intelligence budget through secrecy, and you cannot actually know where the money is going to publicly, and you cannot know the actual size, they also no doubt pr

>>guest: and it has nothing to do with osama bin laden.arabs are gone from afghanistan, they have gone to pakistan and yemen. >>shepard: and we are spending a $2 billion a week and they do not know why we are there and what we are doing? are we crazy? >>guest: when we send the thanks in. >>shepard: they have jet engines on the tanks and they very well need them. >>guest: they are useless. useless. they will not be a defense. they will not be a way to occupy this country and subdue it. it is not going to work. so when we talk about getting out in 2014 we are really talking 20 or 30 years. maybe. maybe longer. >>shepard: what is our goal now? >>guest: well ... domestic politics, if there is a suicide bombing attack originating in afghanistan, everything will say, we told you afghanistan is the problem, so you have political fear. we need somebody with a backbone who will tell us the truth. >>shepard: a couple of administrations without that, it feels like. >>guest: exactly. >>shepard: bob, thank you. a verdict in the chandra levy murder tria

first, compare it to the last time osama bin laden was seen on video. the awlaki image is sharp. the background is wood lattice. the glass topped desk, an executive leather chair and not one but two microphones. awlaki has made his name with recruiting videos. investigators from new york congressman anthony weiner's office found more than 700 videos on youtube with an alarming 3.5 million hits. weiner said the videos facilitated "the recruitment of homegrown terror." youtube took down some of the most offensive. but it is still incredibly easy to find videos of awlaki on youtube. you just type in his name and you get hundreds, even thousands of results. the overall theme of the tape is that america is waging war against muslims and most be stopped. while some of those checking out sites are, no doubt, curiosity seekers, official say awlaki has inspired terror before, from the mass shooting at ft. hood, to the failed christmas day bombing. and investigators fear he will do so again. the video could provide important clues, but wherever that tape was made, awlaki has likely moved o

>> he basically compared me to osama bin laden. ve read so far, the worst slur against any american citizen that he has rendered in this tome of his. he said osama had released a say or something before the 2004 election and he said the two of these guys sound just alike, michael more and osama bin laden. >> larry: how did you react to that? >> well, you know, he -- he said that his worst moment was when kanye west said that george bush doesn't care for black people. he thought that was a really horrible thing to say about somebody. for him to say that about me when, this is the president who in august of 2001 was handed a piece of paper that said, osama bin laden to attack america, probably using planes. and he looked at it, i made some comment, and then he went fishing and he went on vacation for the next four weeks and he recklessly put our country in danger, in jeopardy because he chose to ignore a very straightforward written report given to him. >> larry: one agent, i think, right? >> by advisers. not just one agent. listen, t

mean, not that i'm taking this personally, but he trashes me in the book, makes a reference between osama binaden and myself. that shows how insane and crazy these republicans are and have gotten. you know, i made a film. this upset him. i made a film and showed how he sat there for seven minutes after he was told the nation is under attack and then he just sit there is reading my pet go. >> he needed to know how it turned out. >> and other things i pointed out in terms of the connection to how the war happened and how he and halliburton and others were going to make money from it. i would love it if my plea if anyone who is watching here at g.e., i will give them for free "fahrenheit 9/11" to run on nbc -- >> wow. >> as balance to all the publicity they have been giving president bush and his answers about the worst thing that happened was kanye west. i hope we never forget what the man did. parents, tonight, thousands of them sit at home. their children no longer with them because of a war that was essentially a lie. so that's my answer to mr. bush. >> a hell of an answer it is. michael moo

jon: isn't it true that he and osama bin laden crossed swords.n't agree with how osama bin laden was running the organization. >> reporter: we don't know a tremendous amount of the interplay inside there. you have to take some of this with a grain a salt. i don't think his appointment is necessarily a statement of strength on the part of osama bin laden. i think it's a statement of desperation. they are trying to show they are still in the game. this shows again why winning in afghanistan is so important to keep al-qaida out of there, to force the pakistanis to deal with them on that side of the border. finishing the job in iraq and afghanistan is so important. the reason why they went to yemen is because they've -- even had trouble operating out of pakistan. they tried to set up a new base operation. jon: and yemen has essentially no functioning government, same with somalia you're saying that that's why, you know, a country like afghanistan, which really didn't have a government before is fertile ground for a group like al-qaida. >> reporter: r

you say islam does say what osama bin laden says it does. >> yes.me hairs and talk about just when should an apostate be killed. but the crime of apostacy is punishable by death in islam. just the product of human minds, the prophet muhammad was a man like any other man. there's no reformed judaism version of islam. >> but there are moderate muslims. >> i should be clear. in criticizing islam, i'm not criticizing all muslims. there are muslims who don't take the doctrine very seriously, don't read the koran with any attention. >> same thing in any religion. >> but islam is at a very different moment in its history. it's as though we're encountering the christians of the 14th century armed with 21st century weapons. we have a real problem with islam. it is not an accident that we're not having this conversation about the amish or quakers or jains or even buddhists. ideas have consequences and the idea that you can get to paradise by dying in defense of the faith, in fact, dying in defense of the faith is the best thing that could possibly happen to y

>> he basically compared me to osama bin laden. e read so far, the worst slur against any american citizen that he has rendered in this tomme of his. he said osama had released a say or something before the 2004 election and he said the two of these guys sound just alike, michael more and osama bin laden. >> larry: how did you react to that? >> well, you know, he -- he said that his worst moment was when what is st plan now, is she goupg to hold a ral whether i or meet with government officials? do we know what she plans to do? >> she won't meet with government officials. the first thing she is going to do is move to her party's headquarters the national league for democracy. it's only a couple kilometers from her. party officials say they expect the party to start becoming politically active. they knlt tell whether or not the impact here. her lawyers told us that she would rather stay under housz arrest than accept conditions for her release. we are not exactly sure what will happen. the first thing she might do is return to party

the base of operations for osama bin laden. >> when you were starting the war plans for afghanistan,n, clearly you had enormous public support. your approval rating after 9/11 went up to something like 90%. >> so. >> well, i'm just saying. you had enormous support. what were your fears about afghanistan when you were developing the war plan? >> first of all, the decision to enforce new doctrine, if you harbor a terrorist, you're equally as guilty as the terrorist was not that hard to make. it was hard after you removed the taliban. our nation was ill equipped for nation building. >> could you imagine in 2001 we would still be in afghanistan and still struggling? >> i was hopeful that that would not be the case. but i was also mindful, matt, and history tells us. democracies take a while to develop, including our own. >> how big a letdown was it for you, president bush, that we failed to get osama bin laden in afghanistan? according to a lot of reports we had him all most in our grasp in tora bora and used too to american commandos to get him. what's the truth? >> first of all, the tr

on august 7, 1998, attacks on american embassies carried out by members of al- qaeda planned by osama bin laden killed 224 people. prosecutors say the suspect help al-qaeda with a truck and also brought explosives and so forth. this week, a federal jury convicted him of only one count of conspiracy. how could you not get convictions on 284 counts? >> there is a first the possibility that his story is true, but i am dubious because i know some things that the jury did not know. this will certainly reignite the debate over this. as there is no decent appeal of this conviction. all of the big questions that would have probably, all as if there was a military commission, those questions, obliterated with this trial. he is going to jail for a minimum of maybe 20 years, and there was no big discussion on torture policies in the courtroom. that was avoided, t 00. >> he was captured in pakistan in 2004 and held by the cia, transferred to guantanamo bay project critics say he should of been tried in a military commission. >> that probably would have been better. you have the collapse of the centra

>> reporter: yes, the day after 9/11, he showed up for work dressed as osama bin laden with his crackealer in tow. >> they said if you continue taking drugs at the rate you are, within six months you'll be dead, in prison or a lunatic asylum. i considered all three options, i thought, the asylum, that's horrible. death, no one knows yet what that entails and prison -- not -- with these eyebrows, i don't think so. so i thought, get off the drugs. >> reporter: was it difficult? >> it was the hardest thing i've ever done. >> reporter: after rehab, brand found another field-good addiction. as he describes in "bookie woo k2," an affair with kate moss launched him into the sexual stratosphere. we have a chef on "nightline," we ask them to cook a little something, so, i would be remiss if i did not ask you to display for us how you would approach a strange, attractive women. >> well, that's my defining quality? you realize i'm actually a come median, not -- >> reporter: after a bit of mild protest, he agrees to display his moves on sara, "nightline" producer. >> remember, i am now married. t

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shannon: a disturbing report says osama bin laden has chosen a new commander to target the west. so serious it will convince the west it cannot win the war on terror. it's possible that we have already witnessed some of what osama bin laden's new lieutenant has in store for us. >> reporter: based on our report, u.s. investigators cannot agree on whether al-adel has taken over operations. this picture comes from the organization that tracks terrorists worldwide. he held a top leadership position bev went into hiding. he was the commander of sarah palin. investigatorpalin -- commander d sheikh mohammed. he was kidnapped in the tribal areas of pakistan. he was wanted for his role in the bombings of tanzania in 1998. the london telegraph is the first to report that al-adel will take on this leadership position where he will spearhead operations against the west. this is seen by u.s. official as more likely. shannon: catherine, thank you very much. a new report raising eyebrows. the department of justice is dolling out tens of thousands of dollars to sanctuary cities for the cost of i

put aside cases where somebody said here is the recipe for the plutonium bomb would you give it to osama bin laden. we are going to talk about some of the more common, interesting, and difficult cases. there is a disclosures of usually some kind of policy information, and it then comes to the attention of law enforcement. we will posit that this information, law enforcement has a good reason to think it should not be disclosed, and the recipient, whether the journalist or the lobbyist, has a very good reason to think that there is a public interest in disseminating the information, sort of the paradigm. the paradigm actually happens quite a bit. we will assume it is an oral disclosure because we will talk about the differences between disclosure of oral information versus a document. so to discuss this, we will have folks that come out of the prosecution perspective, a defense perspective, and then we have an expert in the classification process, which is very important in understanding the challenges we face, and of course we have the press represented as well. i will go down starting with

only to be followed by the united states operation enduring freedom when they came counting for osama bin laden so now this is the american face all the same thirty years plus war beach was also triggered by the united states now it's totally in capsulated within these bermuda triangle pakistan to united states and afghanistan itself. incidents of abuse and civilian deaths in afghanistan are things u.s. forces have long been blamed for r.t. so fishermen are to discuss this and other aspects of the american led campaign with the afghan foreign minister that interview is coming your way in about ten minutes from now but here's a quick preview of what dr zalmai rassoul believes the afghan forces could do. with creative tension because be sure of detainees be sure of civilian casualties. of the night raids in the house moved in more afghan forces would be charged off to combat less than this would be described of problems. well they're coming up in just a few moments from now we'll have the latest from the world of business with sharon or let's after a short break stay with us. for the full s

you saw an ak-47 in osama bin laden's videos, you see it in newsreels, everyone from literally child soldiers to drug dealers to terrorists. it's commonly seen. so we have a lot to cover today, so chris chivers who he has a boston area code on his phone number, he lives in providence, he just got back from afghanistan, and we're glad to have him here in austin. so, chris, how did this project get started with the ak-47? >> well, sometimes you come across your subject almost by accident. in 2001 when we were working as reporters new to afghanistan after the attacks in new york and washington, i was traveling through the countryside and seeing the weapon everywhere. that's, obviously, intriguing, but not really a new observation. as the taliban was sort of pulling back and as the northern alliance, the forces that were allied with the united states were moving through the territory they occupied, we came a number of times to various houses and bunkers and fighting positions where they'd left behind their documents. and i started to gather those documents up and fill my backpack with th

osama bin laden is a tremendous symbolic leader. day-to-day control he has people dispute that. i would like to see him taking down. for the government to not put too much pressure on him elevates his status and makes it more difficult to get a. m. perry and. him. . . country. >> i see these same figures about how large our defense spending is and i'm sure they are accurate and our allies in germany and britain. when you look at other countries, china, russia, just as we protect the size of our intelligence budget through secrecy and you can't actually know where that he -- money is going. they protect certain aspects their defense. maybe it's not so lopsided. russia has a major armament problem. people around the world have a high expectation around the united states. of course, it's not just about wanting to meet their expectations. we want to do things in the interest of americans. it's in our interest to live in a world of stable democracies, open and friendly to us. where we can have trade with these countries. that's the struc

of the nato charter so they are there to basically just to support the americans and try to find osama bin laden lot more and i'm and also will you which are not in afghanistan by the way they're in baluchistan or he was serious stuff so what is nato doing over there not see now they're trying to make an arrangement with the russians so they can extract their through through tragic is that in the biggest and russian territory. buying influence doesn't come cheap the promoter can tax payers of funding and to their cost the u.s. is spending billions of dollars to finance opposition politicians and parties overseas that fit in with washington's foreign policy plans well in the second part of a special report makes artie's jihan her visit explains how it's being. a. great party but who's picking up the tab apparently the american taxpayer nine billion dollars spent by the united states agency for international development on promoting washington's democracy initiatives. a new model for influencing a target country's internal politics and favor of u.s. interests to financing training support an

it's just the nature of the beast i mean osama bin laden's on the list a guy named chapo guzman who's a billionaire cocaine dealer in mexico is on the list he's in hiding i mean how powerful is that guy really but he represents the you know the violence in northern mexico and the inability of the state of bicycle to actually maintain civil order. everybody and when you're talking about people like this they are all representing trends now in the case of who jintao whoever they comparison here is to barack obama i mean barack obama how powerful is he really he can't get anything done without the consent of the congress and going into this list we were looking at election that we knew he was going to lose really badly and so i think the top position actually reflects barack obama's declining power rather than becoming more powerful but he didn't tell. is largely a warning them i mean yes there's a poet we were there a lot of the chinese on the list also but he if he was in jail with this issue he can do it if he wants a bill to do here he can do it he also largely was able to name his o

only to be followed by the united states operation enduring freedom when they came counting for osama bin laden so now this is the american face of the same thirty years plus war beach was also triggered by the united states now it's totally in capsulated within these very mood of triangle pakistan the united states and afghanistan itself. incidents of abuse and civilian deaths in afghanistan are things that u.s. forces have long been blamed for sophie shevardnadze discuss this and other aspects of the american led campaign with the afghan foreign minister that interview is coming up in about ten minutes time but here's a quick preview of what dr zalmai rassoul believes the afghan forces can do. that this created tension and it was the issue of detainees the shoe of civilian casualties did nation do issue of the night raids in the house moved in more afghan forces would be charge off to combat listen this would be this kind of problems. and in just a moment as the business news. hungry for the full story we've got. the biggest issues get an invoice face to face with the news makers. hello

anarchy only to be followed by the united states operation enduring freedom when they came consing for osama bin laden so now this is the american face of this scene thirty years plus war reach was also triggered by the united states now it's totally in capsulated within this very mood of triangle pakistan to united states and afghanistan itself when incidents of abuse and civilian deaths in afghanistan are things u.s. forces have long been blamed for not to discuss this and other aspects of the american led campaign with the afghan foreign minister and interviews coming up later today here and here's a quick preview of what dr zalmai rassoul believes the afghan forces could. be shoes that this creative tension would be shoe of detainees the shoe of civilian casualties admission did issue of the night raids in the house moved in motor afghan forces would be charged off to come but less and this would be discussing the problems. well let's have a quick look at some other stories from around the world making headlines a series of protests have taken place in haiti in the wake of sunday's election

five of the nato charter so they are there to basically just to support the american trying to find osama bin laden mullah omar and i'm and also what do you which are not in afghanistan by the way there in baluchistan or he was serious then so what is nato doing over there not seeing now they're trying to make an arrangement of the russians so they can extract their through https through tragic is that it is because then and russian territory and the russians say ok well rick a few million dollars exit for us not a big deal. well still ahead in the program the vicious ideology that refuses to die. it was not just a few people who had to be punished but. mass killing sixty five years after the nuremberg trial saw leading nazis convicted of crimes against humanity we ask why so many europeans are now going refine not cost. and selling democracy abroad it doesn't come cheap as hard up american taxpayers are finding out to their cost the u.s. is spending billions of dollars to finance foreign politicians and parties which for all it's sort of the fence office expects. great party but who's pickin

only to be followed by the united states operation enduring freedom when they came counting for osama bin laden so now this is the american face of this scene thirty years plus war beach was also triggered by the united states now it's totally in capsulated within these bermuda triangle pakistan to united states and afghanistan itself. at some other stories from around the world which builders have cast a kind of virtual new law that will see foreigners the foreigners if they are convicted of serious crimes though it has caused outrage among human rights movements while the country's justice minister called the expression of insecurity far right and immigration sad and has been growing rapidly in switzerland year ago voters passed another controversial law banning the construction of minarets over mosques. billion dollars and is claiming victory in a year long fight against a group of drug traffickers and that's half the security forces the gangs stronghold of rio de janeiro's most dangerous slums the fighting last forty five dead and cause hundreds to flee or barricade themselves and doo

only to be followed by the united states operation enduring freedom when they came counting for osama bin laden so now this is the american face all the same thirty years plus war beach was also triggered by the united states now it is totally in capsulated within these very mood a triangle pakistan to united states and afghanistan itself. incidents of abuse and civilian deaths in afghanistan is something u.s. forces have long been blamed for the discuss this and other parts of the american led campaign with afghan foreign minister dr zamara so that interview is coming up in about twenty minutes but here's a quick look. will be sure of if you need the civilian casualties. of the night raids in the house moved in more afghan forces would be charge off to come but listen this would be describing the problems. also take a look at some other stories from around the world and swiss voters have narrowed we asked a controversial new law that will see foreigners before and if they are convicted of serious crimes the vote has caused outrage among human rights movements while the country's justice