al qaeda has wanted you know. has taken advantage of this resentment to gain support among certain tribal leaders and the but at the same time the the popular pro-democracy movement. the fia's united states all this in this chaos is going to strengthen ironically weaken al-qaeda because many people who might have been prone to support that kind of opposition are realizing hey there's more power in massive nonviolent action than there is in terrorism it's a very sort of so when you think about that i mean it's blowback i mean the more you try to use a government that may not have is the kind of legitimacy that you've been telling us about on this program that only strengthens the hand of al qaeda or would you disagree. no i definitely agree i mean i think you know there is there's a good section of yemenis who are extremely frustrated angry at at the u.s. attacks on attacks specially in the south. that there is a danger of of alienating many yemenis but such tactics but the same time you know we are looking at you

and iraq -- al qaeda in iraq? >> i would tell you that our assessment is the see the force that was left there is a capable force -- the c.t. force, also that a.q.i. is a formidable foe. there are some things that we're looking to do to help them from an intelligence standpoint. >> how about protecting our diplomatic forces? >> ma'am, we put a lot of resources against that as the u.s., and we work with our iraqi friends. >> let me move to libya and the proliferation of their weapons stockpiles. when gaddafi's regime fell, it was discovered he had undeclared stocks of chemical weapons as well as large quantities of conventional weapons. can you tell the committee if the chemical weapons are secured? >> yes, they are. >> were these weapons produced by libya, or whether they had help in producing these weapons? >> we do not know, and have not been able to determine that. >> what about your assessment of what happened with the stockpiles of conventional weapons, such as missiles and artillery? >> the principal area of

, we judge that core al qaeda will be largely symbolic importance to the jihadist movement. but recent affiliates and small cells and individuals drive the global jihad agenda. proliferation, that is, efforts to develop, acquire or spread weapons of mass destruction is also a major global strategic threat. among nation states, as you've alieded, iran's technical advances particularly in uranium enrichment strengthen our assessment they can produce a weapon if its political leaders, specifically the supreme leader himself, chooses to do. the ballistic missiles to several countries including iran and syria illustrate the reach of the north's proliferation activities. we don't expect that kim jong-un, north korea's new young leader to change pyongyang's policy to attempt to export most of its weapons system. i note that in this year's statement of the record that you noted yourself that we elevated our discussion of cyber threats to follow terrorism and proliferation. and perhaps in something of a cole-new castle it to confirm cyber threat is one of the most challenges ones we

intelligence agencies they say that the number one threat to this country is no longer all qaeda and its affiliates but iran and the president finally publicly addresses the u.s. drone program but are his answers disingenuous christopher swift is going to join us to break it all down then while a recent new york times report concluded that corporations like apple are shipping jobs overseas because this country is failing to produce enough skilled workers david sirota claims of that's just perpetuating an education crisis myth so he's going to join us to give us his take on the reddit community isn't stopping after stopping sopa and pipa there's a new suggestion to create a piece of legislation of their own called the free internet act so reddit co-founder alexis ohanian is going to give us all of the details are you have all that morphy tonight putting it does have happy hour but first take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. all right so voting is taking place in the florida primary today and the mainstream media is just going crazy over the polls in the numbers and

of al qaeda.nvolved in the group since the late '80s when the group was founded. he is enormously important to the group. he was reported to have briefly taken over leadership of al qaeda after bin laden's death while they spent six weeks deciding who the leader is. arguably he's more important than the actual leader of the group, ayman al zawahiri, another egyptian, in an operational sense. however, the plot the thickening because the person arrested at cairo airport is claiming that it's case of mistaken identity and -- or it's always been some debate among experts if the person who had been identified as the leader seif al adel is, in fact, the right guy. so the identity that's been assigned to him by the u.s. government. that said, whoever has been arrested at cairo airport has played some kind of role in al qaeda, i believe. if it is seif al adel, it's really the first senior leader of al qaeda who has been arrested rather than killed by u.s. drone arguably since 2005. if it is seit al adel t

he believed he had found an al qaeda sleeper sell to assist him. after months of planning, he parked what he believed was a truck bomb underneath a skyscraper and dialed a cell phone number he sought would detonate the bomb. the bomb was a fake supplied by our undercover agents, and the call signaled the agents to make the arrest. last year, he was convicted and sentenced to 24 years in prison. intelligence led us to him and the combined efforts of our federal, state, and local partners help us stop him before he could do any harm. in the face of this threat, we and the bureau will continue to enhance our intelligence capabilities to get the right information to the right people at the right time, and we will continue to build strong partnerships, for these tools have been the foundation for our success against terrorism over the past 10 years. we must keep adapting to these changing terrorist threats to stay one step ahead of those who would do was harm, and we must do all of this while respecting the role of law and the safeguards guaranteed by t

even more terrifying, al qaeda knows about this loophole.robertson reveals the inside story of the al qaeda plot that almost succeeded and he will show how a bomb that evades detection can be made. we have left out crucial steps so this report is not a how-to for terrorists, but it does show that much more needs to be done to keep us safe. >> four, three -- >> this could be a bomb beneath your feet the next time you fly. it is a laser printer. in october 2010 al qaeda made two of these printer bombs. both disguised as cargo passed undetected through airport security. >> two suspicious packages bound for the united states. >> the devices were probably intended to detonate midair and to destroy the cargo aircraft on which they were being transported. >> al qaeda dubbed it "operation hemorrhage." they found a security weakness, air cargo, aviation's achilles heel. >> gentleman from massachusetts? >> congressman ed markey has been sounding the alarm because air cargo often travels on passenger aircraft. >> 3-1-0. >> 44% of all cargo on passenger

in october 2010 al qaeda made two of these printer bombs.ough airport security. >> two suspicious packages bound for the united states. >> the devices were probably intended to detonate mid-air and to destroy the cargo aircraft on which they were being transported. >> al qaeda dubbed it operation hemorrhage. they found a security weakness, air cargo, aviation's achilles heel. >> gentlemen from massachusetts? >> congressman ed markey has been sounding the alarm because air cargo often travels on passenger aircraft. >> 44% of all cargo on passenger planes in the united states comes in internationally. that cargo does not undergo the same level of scrutiny as the cargo on planes that fly domestically. >> al qaeda's best bomb maker targeted the weakness, a plot so sophisticated it would confuse authorities on three continents. >> we do know that the packages originated in yemen. >> from the terrorist group, al qaeda, and the arabian peninsula. >> the last two serious attempts to export to the united states both began here and both involved the s

remembering that iran is a shi'ite state and al qaeda is sunni. they don't agree ideologically in the first place. i think iran was, of course, pays attention to our pursuit of al qaeda and what we have done in afghanistan and iraq. next door neighbors to them. on the one hand, they had this stand off arrangement with the al qaeda allowing them to exist. >>> we will leave this. you can find it online. we take you live to the royal oak theater in michigan for a grass roots rally with candidnde mitt romney. >> thank you so much. welcome. you touch our hearts. thank you so very much. what an honor to have the governor introduce me and have he and his family there. to have this young lady with me. she and i went to elementary school together. oh, yeah. she was in second grade. i was in fourth grade. i didn't notice her. when she was almost 16, i noticed. i noticed. she went to a party at a friend's house. she came with someone else. i went to that guy and i said i live closer to anne than you do. can i give her a ride home for you? he said yes. we hav

could have a role i mean we have heard about al-qaeda al-qaeda in syria now and they could police the guns and weapons going into syria now that would be a great thing you could do all the borders are notorious. forty seven's were nine hundred fifty two hundred dollars a gun in iraq few months ago the now one of the two thousand dollars a gun which is the demand for weapons by these al qaeda insurgents going to support american and british interests in syria who is much questioning over the makeup of the opposition you just mentioned al qaida in effect are we not seeing. washington and it's an ice actually supporting al qaida that in effect. yes once again the united states and european union states as usual supporting al qaeda as they did in afghanistan prior to nine eleven will they never learn it is shocking to hear a american statesman like john mccain calling for intervention presumably u.s. troops and al qaeda side by side fighting against president assad of syria this really shows what exactly americans are up to they are not protecting the interests of u.s. citizens and nor eu

good for al qaeda can it be good for us in not to look. he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i think your kind of goes it's best work or it works best when he finds a country that is fundamentally for you this is why i'm against plan putting weapons in and aiding the anti assad resistance because an all out war there could be a disaster which leaves a failed state and syria even for many of those syrians who are not supportive of their president the fear of the alternative is far greater why are they sitting on the fence why they are not on the streets with supporting the process and they are often too fierce is that one is that push that's the big mean islamists and pushed aside there will be the chaos the opposition in syria is very fractured they don't seem to be under anybody's control despite concerns voiced by top u.s. intelligence official about anti assad extremists washington has failed to widen its ceasefire calls to include armed opposition and therefore basically ignoring the

leverage to get out there go after hezbollah or to go after iran and that's why you know we have al qaeda in the united states on the same side in syria amazing geopolitics i think just on the sectarianism aspect i think that tends to get played up in the absence of politics i don't think there's any fundamental political divides between a lot of these different kind of sectarian groups and i think ultimately does speak to a certain lack of a certain lack of shared ideas or a sense of really what they're trying to come together and achieve so i mean i think sectarianism can be overplayed a lot i think there's an interesting there's a lot of scaremongering at the moment about the al-qaeda elements in syria and the syrian army. starts both from assad and also kind of from the west as well and they're getting nervous about it as well so i think actually that does tend to be scaremongering these things probably overplayed keypads i would just tell you if you let me let me stay with you i mean if you're saying that scaremongering this is internationalizing it ok and this again is what we heard

american strategists would have to be fools not to see what al qaeda is doing not to ask the question if it's good for al qaeda can it be good for us and not to look at assad and say he may be a ruthless dictator and what he's doing but what comes after him when he falls i think al qaeda does its best work or it works best when it finds a country that is fundamentally a failed state in yemen somalia afghanistan under the taliban and i think in those conditions that's where al qaida can plan and recruit far better than it can when you have a a regime which is a hard line regime running the situation whether it's secular or whether syria torn apart by civil war and that that's i think it seems like a good environment for that i think i think that seriously. syria is really a potential disaster in that we could have there are a proxy war between the sunni and shia all over that region there already have sunni coming in from iraq they already have al qaeda in there apparently the you could have also a conflict ethnic conflict with the druze in there and the kurds in there as well as herbs

intelligence official telling congress that al qaeda -- that al qaeda of iraq is likely behind a series of bombings against the syrian regime. that's the statement from james clapper, the director of national intelligence saying that the bombings against security andings in targets in damascus bear all the earmarks of an al qaeda-like attack. the questions today from prosecute senator levin taking the questions of james clapper. he was joined by lieutenant general ronald burgess, the director of the defense intelligence agency. >> director clapper's prepared statement said the following in terms of the intelligence community's assessment about iran's nuclear program. "we assess iran is keeping open the option to develop nuclear weapons. should it choose to do so. we do not know, however, if iran will eventually decide to build nuclear weapons and his statement also said that we judge iran's nuclear decision making as guided by a cost benefit approach which offers the international community opportunities to influence tehran. general burgess, do you agree with that statement of director

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they say the opposition is get help from al qaeda. david martin has that part of the story. >> in syria, the arab spring is turning into a nightmare. not only are the forces of president assad killing thousands of civilians in an attempt to crush the uprising, but now as director of national intelligence james clapper testified, the opposition trying to overthrow the regime includes some of america's worst enemies. >> we believe that al qaeda and iraq is extends its reach into syria. >> that said, defense secretary panetta, makes a bad situation worse. >> our concerns, which were large to begin with because of the situation, deteriorating situation in syria, that the situation there has become that much more serious as a result of that. >> the opposition also includes thousands of ordinary syrian citizens taking to the streets. but al qaeda showed its hand with bombings in damascus. >> both of which are targeted against security and intelligence buildings and had all the earmarks of an al qaeda-like attack. >> smugglers are used to fu

al qaeda prisoners despite this u.s. and nato officials are dismissing it so what does this all mean for relations between the u.s. and afghanistan and why isn't it being taken seriously want to talk more about this i'm joined now by matthew eight intelligence specialist and author of the book the secret century the untold history of the national security agency matthew thank you for coming on the show my pleasure so this report it's being dismissed by u.s. and nato officials i mean why you have they deemed it to be irrelevant it's not that it's irrelevant it's that the report we're certain significant parts of it directly contradict the pentagon's official position that progress is being made in the war the report in fact suggests and this is based strictly on what the taliban are telling their interrogators at the airfield north of kabul they think they're winning the war they're not defeated they have every intention of fighting through to victory they have absolutely no desire for can you any conciliatory measures no

yuen jen but al-qaeda is a known entity, right? we know about al-qaeda. the question is more about the unknown. iran has an state sponsor of terror since 19 # nine, according to our country, so despite the inspectors that might go in over the weekend, despite the fact that iran maybe someday benefits -- abandons its nuclear program, will it ever stop being a state sponsor of terror? >> again, nation states form relationships with nonstate actors as a matter of convenience. if they settle up their issues then they won't have any use for them. that's the path, that's what we see historically is the case. and again, most states prefer, if they k. to use their own operatives and not to depend on third parties that are often unreliable. it's much more likely than unlikely, if there are associated -- negotiated settlements, they don't need them, and that's a positive. you can't ignore the trendline, al-qaeda has been the central threat in the united states over this last decade and it is going down, down, down. jenna: we'll take the good news where we can get i