in our own soldiers killed and killing far more civilians since nine eleven than we have core al qaeda people the only that but we're really you know actually the number is a gestating so we are on our way here so you just let me finish that i was watching . ministration people minutes ago we didn't even are going to consistent with what you're saying to say that more civilians have been killed in the drone campaign then then combat in sight i don't think it's just you know it's like this to occur as if it was some x. and i and frankly i do feel comfortable saying the facts there are some victories in the war on terrorism in and one of the victories is safe ok let's go to my new job no no no no no because if we're talking about numbers here john i think it's dangerous for this state to the state department gave some numbers for two thousand and twelve if i'm not mistaken. the state department numbers from two thousand and twelve say that ten americans have were killed ten private americans were killed by acts of terror in that entire year none of them were in the united states they wer

iraqi officials deny accusations of ties with al qaeda. these denials are simply not credible. >> but the files show that, when the american army invaded, they quickly discovered a different story. we looked for references to al qaeda in iraq from the earliest days of the occupation. in 2004, there are only 7 brief mentions of the terrorist organization, and no suggestion that they had killed anyone. by 2008, however, there were more than 8,000 entries. that's 1 in 7 of all the significant activity reports being filed. and al qaeda in iraq was linked to the deaths of 45 coalition soldiers, almost 500 members of the iraqi security services, and nearly 1,300 civilians. >> al qaeda in iraq has been created as a consequence of the american invasion of iraq. the americans tried to break it in 2007/8, and, as american troops are now drawing down, al qaeda is reconstituting as a major cause of death and suffering in iraq. >> al qaeda in iraq grew stronger by exploiting the iraqis' discontent with the americans caused by civilian casualties, the a

aware we've also killed a very large number of terrorists themselves including numerous senior al-qaeda members all the way from the top to low level operatives and the question that we should ask ourselves is not simply what is the united states achieved in the war on terrorism with counterterrorism focus but what have the terrorists themselves achieve and so. this morning you know i took i went into the holland tunnel and i remember thinking to myself that i don't want to blow up this tunnel but but they did in fact does not blowing up much at all and part of the reason why is because of the effectiveness of the drone campaign which is really decimated the organization to virtually nothing and so i think that it's extremely one sided it's demonstrably one sided to say that the u.s. is unequivocally losing the war on terrorism when there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of terrorism but we can indeed count many terrorists lives which are no more john would you like to reply to that i mean was it all of this expenditure going to losing or winning are sort of very bad terms to use in this

iraq continues to capture and kill al qaeda leaders. the prison break that has released at least four of them is an indication they are still very strong. and norwegian woman at the center of a rape case disputes it. she has been pardoned. she was on a business trip in dubai when she says she was raped which charged with having extramarital sex, drinking alcohol, and perjury after she reported it to the police in march. at least 75 have been killed after an earthquake struck a rural part of western china. the 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck the province. nearly 600 others have been injured. many homes of been severely damaged. we have more from hong kong. >> the first earthquake struck just after 7:00 a.m. local time. there was another earthquake not quite as strong. the first 5.9, the second 6.6. the city was the epicenter. most of the damage seems to have occurred to the northwest. 380 homes have collapsed. 13 villages are said to be cut off. they have no power or phones. 1500 soldiers are being sent into these remote areas to help su

and not a weapon sokol chemical weapons will end up in al qaeda. and met with a story in the sun newspaper here in britain today so i think that the il cons are looking for any excuse to intervene militarily soon now. to try and get their way because we started this by talking about logistics one of the key things here cause the f.s.a. could fall itself up for both fronts it could do and i think the f.s.a. does it in a very weak position and the f.s.a. have lost basically and i think now their last camp is to say look you've got to help us and to try to put the trends of the good guys the moderate rebels but they're not already committed some terrible crimes terrible terrorist atrocities so it's i think it's a kind of faux division to say that there are bad rebels and good rebels the fact is elections are due in syria next year twenty forty and there's no excuse for anybody to be using violence now to achieve political change in syria democratic elections are available to people so i think the f.s.a. this is a sort of desperate last chance for the

we're going to go out and we're going to defeat al qaeda, we're going to kill bin laden, and we're going to win this war." >> narrator: that night, they prepared an operational plan. >> brennan: cofer and his people pulled together what was going to be the next step as far as going after al qaeda, going after afghanistan. and they were the ones that actually were able to bring the plans to the table first and present them at the white house. >> black: where everybody else is looking for their maps on afghanistan, we're ready to rock, ready to roll. i mean, we were waiting for the bureaucracy to catch up. >> narrator: black would personally present the plan to president bush. >> brennan: cia had already done more homework on al qaeda than any other part of the us government. and so, what they were able to do then was to put together a proposal and a timeline as far as how the cia could be the vanguard of the us government move against al qaeda. >> narrator: the cia code name for the covert program would become "greystone." >> priest: they had a matrix that they offered to the white house

so we've been hijacked by the logs of al-qaeda who. took the advantage yes and they will look if their own brothers are being killed by this tyrant and the world is doing nothing about it just sitting back on their backsides and doing nothing what will get us there being so. anyone who's willing to hold us in advance to take on this tyrant will we are willing to accept him whether he looks like bin laden when he looks like the u.k. prime minister he says there's too much extremism on the ground there in syria so if extremist groups fighting the government fell to ply do you actually fear losing support of your foreign ally because you know our prime minister of some western country says there's an extremism within the opposition i mean it's still not a justifiable reason not to have the moderates. meanwhile the syrian opposition figures are now lobbying paris for advanced weapons after paris and they'll do the same in washington the syrian national coalition has though undergone a series of shifts inside its leadership but ultimately i

exploiting the conflict chaos al qaeda reportedly announces plans to create its own state in syria using land captured by the opposition and seizing its money and weapons. and seems there's money to be made by getting britain out of the e.u. a report coming up this hour on how one think tank plans a road map reward ahead of a proposed referendum. very good evening chief just joined us as i say just after nine pm now my name's kevin i mean this is. well our main story tonight russian anti corruption blogger alexina vollies been one hundred five years in jail today for embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from a state enterprise he was immediately arrested after the verdict and led from the dock in handcuffs he got his can office in central moscow with reaction to the ruling are really in the city of killed off which is about one hundred fifty kilometers from moscow when of on this case was heard if you guys come to you first if i may you updated this last hour i can see the crowds behind you rush hour is subsiding now in moscow still plenty of traffic still plenty of police and a l

global al qaeda network. in the last two years the u.s. has intensified the use of unmanned drones to target the group. joan strikes in yemen nearly triple last year from the year before, according to the new america foundation, a washington-based think tank. according to the bureau of investigative journalism, there have been up to 154 strikes by u.s. drones in yemen since 2002 and killed almost 800 people. including keep it. like shirhri and clerics like i'm one i'll a lucky guess clerics like anwar al-awlaki. as a report, mostly civilians being injured or killed. >> in yemen's rugged and barren countryside, people live in constant fear. here of what they call the killer planes, or drones. qaeda inght against al yemen, the united states dramatically stepped up use of drone strikes here. he was hit by a drone missile recently. challenging the obama administration's frequent assertion that they do not attacks -- populated areas. members of his family were out at the time of the attack and luckily escaped unhu

he was gunned down by fighting linked to al qaeda. rebel leaders are threatening to retaliate if the man who did it is not handed over. >> we want to avoid war with al qaeda, but we demand justice for our commander and that all foreigners leave our country. otherwise, there will be an escalation, which we cannot announce the details up. >> as i mentioned before, the free syrian army is calling for justice after that killing. shot dead at was the checkpoint, and rebel leaders are demanding that al qaeda handover the man responsible. of therepresentative syrian national coalition says the foreign fighters in syria must be confronted. >> we ask, since to some of the regime and not to make war , nonserious other warriors andrian fighters declare war against us. >> the united nations humanitarian chief is appealing for access to the serious and city of homs -- syrian city of homs. medical supplies are running out. government forces have also attacked rebel aces just outside of capital damascus. schelling has increased in recent weeks. we a

al qaeda set up shop in the sinai peninsula, in egypt. al qaeda is in africa.na: affiliate of al qaeda, we wonder what degree are they connected to al qaeda. why yemen? we hear about the drone strike. >> yes. jenna: why is yemen still the place where al qaeda likes to set up shop? >> it's an ungovernable place. the president of yemen is really not a president. he is a jugular. there's a lot of wide open spaces in yemen where they can operate from. two, it's where a lot of the american affiliates were. it's right next to saudi arabia. its location is key. it's on the saudi peninsula. jenna: if i could jump in there, when he was released from guantanamo bay, he first went to saudi arabia and then came to yemen. >> this is the crown jewel. if al qaeda initially was formed because it wanted to go after the kingdom of saudi arabia and topple the monarchy, when they couldn't do that, they moved to afghanistan and then launched attacks against the united states. their goal or one of their main goals is still the crown jewel, the kingdom of saudi arabia and the oil mon

so we've been hijacked by the logs of al-qaeda. yes and they will look brothers are being killed by this tyrant and the world is doing nothing about it to sitting back on the backs of us and doing nothing or what will get us there being so the freezer and. anyone is willing to hold us in advance to take on this torrent we are willing to accept the weather looks like bin laden when he looks like the u.k. prime minister he says there's too much extremism on the ground there in syria so if extremist groups fighting the government felt supply do you actually fear losing support all of you all foreign allies because you know the prime minister of some wisdom country says there's an extremism within the opposition i mean it's still not just the fall there is not the moderates. meanwhile syrian opposition figures are lobbying paris for advanced weapons and then they'll go to washington and the syrian national coalition has undergone a series of shifts inside its leadership but it's still lacks unity comprised of several different groups i

they said he was an ally of al-qaeda that was one of the reasons given for the invasion of course he didn't come and go there were no leaks now al qaeda is very very strong in iraq and once again we've got the neoconservatives to thank for that sort of to the group time and time again the biggest allies about carried out well you know many are actually blaming prime minister nouri al maliki or not being able to stop the violence in the country do you think if he leaves that will change the situation will depart will his departure change anything for the better not at all he's the fall guys he's going to be possible because he's behind them. without a phone within i think this all goes back to this instability or goes back to two thousand and three and the illegal invasion when a secular government which held the country together was destroyed by the west deliberately and i think that this chaos is all right and i think the last thing the west wants is a stable iraq peaceful iraq because of the would be a regional player again and they don't want that usa doesn't want a strong iraq is

of i've said and rice along the syrian turkish border this is exactly where al nusra and other al qaeda affiliated groups have been operating it looks as if these extremist groups are now literally control there are attempts by the kurds to form some kind of interim government while the al qaeda affiliates one to form an islamic state what the fighting shows is that attempts by al qaida to secure kurdish support has failed although there are some kurdish jihadists of course there are still tensions between the kurdish groups themselves but it seems that at least for now they have found common ground against the extremists turkey of course is looking on with concern it's worried that if the kurds fight al qaida they will get support from the waist but on the other hand the kurds in cells are not keen on the syrian national council either and they have refused to join the turkish backed syrian opposition that has not given them any assurances of promises as to a division of syria off to president bashar assad. and while the opposition syrian national coalition has undergone a series of sh

like a good look we challenge a free syrian army representative for his group's accomplices as al qaeda linked militants hold around two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria. and the u.s. will finally hold long deferred hearings for dozens of guantanamo bay in maids while eighty six others cleared for release still unable to leave the press. news a live from moscow this is r t with me rory sushant thank you for joining us today the n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden could finally set foot on russian territory today he's waiting for paperwork which would allow him to leave the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport and according to his lawyer the man who leaked secret u.s. documents is here to stay. right outside the airport let's get the latest from her right now and good to see you this morning so it's possible here that russia could become the official home all former n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. rory that is a distinct possibility in this case the announcement came as a surprise to many seeing as how the applications had. and submitted far and wide for asylum in

the very movement that is saved christians jews shias and sunnis from the onslaught of al-qaeda linked lists that have been funded by american and western powers so we have a very strange situation that is continuing to spiral out of control because the european union having no there's no letup in their attempts at trying to create instability that has killed a hundred thousand people. what london or paris seems to want at all costs is and presumably when they go to sleep at night these leaders don't say they want all these people killed and to support so laugh is a death is the impact of their foreign policies that is the impact coming from saudi arabia and there is very little in these capitals where any policy is being figured out to support groups like and support groups like the syrian government that it just would be trying to. control of the country or even the kurdish minority is currently being slaughtered and killed by defacto american linked al-qaeda militants it's a terrible situation grabs russia and china should immediately try and bring this to the u.n. security council

even though al qaeda may be in decline, al qaeda isn't. the movement's ideaol continues to resonate and attract new adherents. al qaeda remains an appealings brand in northwest africa. the movement also retains its visceral hatred of the united states and the west, along with the potential continue fire and motivate individuals to engage in deadly acts of home grown terrorism as we likely saw last april in boston. for more than a decade, al qaeda has withstood arguably the greatest international onslaught directed against terrorist organization in history. further, it is consistently shown itself capable of adapting and adjusting to even the most consequential countermeasures directed against it, having, despet all odds, survived for quarter century. throughout its history the oxygen that al qaeda depends upon has been in the's of or access to physical sank area and safe haven. in the turn bent wake of the arab spring ask the political upheavals and instability followed al qaeda has the ability to transfer toe holds and in the sigh -- sina

al-qaeda linked extremists who continue to hold about two hundred kurdish civilians hostage in syria including women and children because in the area have been trying to protect their homes and made heavy fighting between she had his forces and syrian government troops on reports. in two hundred civilians and let me stress that we're talking here about innocent men women and children all being held hostage by extremists in north eastern syria now we understand that the hostages are being used as human shields the russian foreign ministry saying that they're mostly from kurdish families whose members are fighting extremists in the region now fighting broke out a few days ago between syrian kurds and al qaeda linked militants in the towns of of the ad and rice are along the syrian turkish border this is exactly where al nusra and other al qaeda affiliated groups have been operating it looks as if these extremist groups are now literally out of control there are attempts by the kurds to form some kind of interim government while the al qaeda affiliates one to form an islamic state what

releasing 500 al qaeda warriors. to third-party is not a solution to keeping america safe. there is a human right risk that the nations to which we send those detainees will torture those folks. we cannot permit that. second, the other option is to bring them back to the u.s. twice within the last 48 hours. there have been amendments offered. twice the bills have been defeated. the american people and their representatives understand that bringing these detainees back to the united states is not a workable solution. damageto talk about the that has been done to do to that rhetoric surrounding guantanamo bay. after four years in office, the president continues to insist we pursue a political goal later figure out a way to meet the real mission. the president knows full well indeed and has spoken about not all of those prisoners are transferable or returnable, including the 9/11 five. no one believes they will come back, including this president, but he continues to use the rhetoric of guantanamo bay closing. the presi

all references from al qaeda and warnings from the cia have been deleted. lastly, there is in the final talking points, no mention of the video. only a reference to earlier protests in cairo. 10:32 a.m., sunday september 16th, the president of libya's general national congress appears on "face the nation" and says benghazi attacks were anything but spontaneous. >> it was planned, definitely planned by foreigners. >> reporter: on the same day, susan rice, u.s. ambassador to the united nations, makes the round to all five talk shows and contradicts the libyan president directly. >> what sparked the recent violence was a very hateful, very offensive video. >> reporter: he was insulted in front of his own people, his ability to lead his own country was angry. i was stunned. my jaw dropped, and i was embarrassed. >> reporter: on september 25, the president addresses the united nations. >> the crude and disgusting video that sparked outrage throughout the muslim world. >> reporter: two days later, nikoula arrested and held without bond. the hunt for perpetrators

secret secrecy website wiki leaks that al qaeda osama bin laden and al qaeda affiliates were going to see this information and now the defense has insisted and has maintained that bradley manning and no way intended to aid the enemy they say that he is a whistleblower and that he leaked these documents in an effort to expose wrongdoing to spark a public debate what is going on in the wars abroad diplomatically really what the truth is right now trial is wrapping up just a matter of time now before we will hear closing arguments and ultimately it will be one person the judge in this case that will deliver the verdict and bradley manning isn't the only whistleblower feeling the pressure from the u.s. government the latest is of course former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden who blew the lid on america's secret surveillance activities and is currently stranded in the transit zone of the moscow airport authorities going to cannes reports the two cases are part of a wider movement for transparency that may be a possible for washington to stop. the u.s. government's relentless crackdown on

it's interesting isn't it when president assad was warning about al-qaeda in syria from twenty eleven all of which he was dismissed by the west you scaremongering etc he was saying that al-qaeda was coming to her in syria and now we're hearing this from the f.s.a. it was interesting isn't it that those of those who didn't want this were were dismissed as the apologist for a sad ologist of the syrian government now the west has got to wake up to what's really going on and that i think having said that it's very important journalist on the f.s.a. strategy free syrian army is very keen to get western intervention i think they're now change their strategy and they're sending look al qaeda are going to take control unless we do need and help out the f.s.a. the law and i think now they're lost and say look you've got to help us out and to try to put the training so that the good guys the moderate rebels will not tolerate the just terrible crimes and terrible terrorist atrocities search i think it's a kind of faux division to say that there are bad rebels that his election to do in syria nex

how could our brave young men and women to fight against al-qaeda in some countries and with al-qaeda in other countries u.s. senators hate the idea of all being seaward rebels calling it finding with terrorists as the say we're national council plans to talk weapons shipments during his visit to new york. this is coming to you live. very well welcome to. the show must go on that's the message from american lawmakers who allowed the national security agency to continue spying both at home and abroad a motion to sixty's was blocked in the house of representatives by a narrow margin of only twelve votes if approved it would have been the n.s.a. from listening to every phone call made by a us phone the boat has exposed a major split within both republicans and democrats and my colleague bill don't discuss this division and ways to protect public privacy with pete ashdown and he's the only one of the few internet services which denied n.s.a. surveillance request i think that the all the solution for keeping us safe from spying on people on the internet is people using encryption and then

this is apart. >> we are not all al qaeda. we don't know why we were targeted. >> yemen has become the second biggest fraud in the global warfare. they are caught in the crossfire. >> one morning last september, his wife and son stepped into a vehicle in their village. they were heading to a nearby town among other villagers, but the family never returned. the vehicle was hit by to drone missiles. some of those that survived the attack we were told died in hospital later. >> may tragedy strikes them. they killed my relatives and destroyed our lives. life will never be the same for us again. >> my mother died of shock. also there because of the horrible attack. a human rights activists income beating against those attacks. been condemning the drawn attacks. >> as the u.s. continues the attacks, people say all they have accomplished is more destruction. tribesmen driven >> of the secretary general of one of the largest opposition groups has been sentenced to death for war crimes. of party was found guilty murder during the war o

secrecy website wiki leaks that he should have known that al qaeda osama bin ladin or al qaeda affiliates would have seen this information they say he should have known the way that al qaeda operates and how they they obtain intelligence and should have known that they obtained some of their intelligence by going on the internet now the defense of course has maintained that bradley manning is a whistleblower and he leaked these documents in an attempt to spark a national debate and to expose government wrong in doing magen so definitely a blow for the defense today to lose how is manning's defense team david coombs in particular responding to this dismissal could be seen as a prelim to how the judge is leaning in this case. well of meghan it's important to point out that with this action today there is not as much of a burden of proof when it comes to the motion to dismiss charges oftentimes the defense once the prosecution has rested its case the defense will try to get at least some of the charges dismissed that's considered kind of routine and at least at this point the judge found tha

osama bin laden and al qaeda affiliates were going to see this information and now the defense has insisted and has maintained that bradley manning and no way intended to be enemy they say that he is a whistleblower and that he leaked these documents in an effort to expose wrongdoing and to yeah and to basically to spark a public debate what is going on in the wars abroad diplomatically really what the truth is now are right now we are hearing that be rebuttal cases from both the prosecution and the defense so the trial is wrapping up just a matter of time now before we will hear closing arguments and ultimately it will be one person the judge in this case that will deliver the verdict. to. wrote the book private bradley manning wiki leaks the biggest exposure official secrets in american history are that you live on our two international if found guilty manning faces life in prison plus one hundred fifty four year sentence really in proportion to what he's done. no. you don't let me wander longer every year but it's still going to run a man or anybody you live down long as charged that way

secret secrecy website wiki leaks that al qaeda osama bin laden and al qaeda affiliates were going to see this information and now the defense has insisted and has maintained that bradley manning and no way intended to be enemy they say that he is a whistleblower and that he leaked these documents in an effort to expose wrongdoing and to basically to spark a public debate of what is going on in the wars abroad diplomatically really what the truth is. the u.s. government isn't only coming down hard on bradley manning it is also squarely targeted at another secret leaker the former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden now he of course blew the lid off america's secret surveillance activities and is currently stranded in a moscow airport transit zone but it turns out that it may be that only one party only one of the two leakers has the american public sympathy as a washington correspondent. explains. the u.s. government's relentless crackdown on whistleblowers is sort of designed to scare the whistleblowers of the future but we see that bradley manning's fate has not scared edward snowden f

in some countries and with al qaeda in other countries. artie's that's not a boycott discusses the situation in syria and the fate of the civilians trapped between the fighting sides with sir john holmes the u.k. chair for international rescue committee well it's a part of certainly coming away at six thirty g.m.t. but here's a quick preview. most of the casualties we're talking about around one hundred thousand smoked of the casualties have been civilians and very many of them it's very hard to say how many have been killed by the government to solve fighting the war by shelling and bombing civilian towns but i don't want to oversimplify it but in legal terms complet combatants can be purposefully targeted and killed while the government has the responsibility and all the sides actually have responsibility to protect civilians as much as possible so why do we have all these leaders president obama prime minister cameron and others. calling rabble savelli and so i think that truly not only misrepresents the conflict but that actually under

what is al qaeda who supports it? why is it at war with america?questions were raised by all. we were only exposed to western media and europe media funded by the west, which depicts only one image of al qaeda. we haven't heard other viewpoints. abdulelah haider shaye brought a different viewpoint. >> on wednesday, amnesty international responded to abdulelah haider shaye's release by calling on the yemeni and u.s. governments to investigate whether he was arbitrarily aprisoned race on his work as journalist -- as well as an independent review of the 2009 attack he helped expose. for more we're joined by two people who have closely followed shaye's case, investigative journalist jeremy scahill, the producer and writer of the new film, "dirty wars: the world is a battlefield." he is the national security correspondent for the nation magazine. we're also joined in washington, d.c., by rooz alwazir, a yemeni american activist who cofounded the support yemen media collective based in sanaa, yemen. she helped campaign for abdulelah haider shaye's releas

not declared war on the al qaeda-linked group yet. some believe those groups have started to work to weaken the effort s-- the fsa. some commanders do not want to stand aside while groups under the al qaeda umbrella gain strength. islamic state fighters tried to storm their people close to the border with turkey. >> we are expecting to do anything. beards.e under they are collaborating with the regime and have made it clear they want to target fsa commanders. we need to take action. >> islamic state of iraq told us they're working to cleanse the fsa of regime supporters and those they say are cooperating with the west. on thentrolled territory border with turkey. the fsa say they're keeping a close watch on their activities. >> they help us fight the regime. make syriat to another afghanistan, we will take necessary measures. command say they do not want war, but they have already lost men and territories to the islamic state in at least five incidents in the last week alone. reports intting egyptian investigators have begun questioni

eighty two al qaida helped facilitate a jailbreak in iraq over the weekend freeing high ranking al qaeda operatives infiltrated by foreign fighters on the issues agenda seem separate from out of the coalition and it's even led to infighting on f.s.a. commander was killed by a rival group and the f.s.a. feel they could soon be fighting on two fronts but when we use the phrase opposition exactly who are we talking about well the coalition alone is made up of at least eleven different groups including the muslim brotherhood who have recently called on the us and the e.u. to send arms in the battle with assad while only offering loose guarantees they won't fall into extremist hands there's also the coalition of secular and democratic syrians the syrian democratic people's party supreme council of the syrian revolution and so it goes on the disparate nature of the syrian opposition combined with the presence of islamic extremists means any nation looking to support the rebels are walking a ten year old tight rope with very few guarantees that any military support won't backfire and actually e

how could we ask our brave young men and women to fight against al-qaeda in some countries and with al-qaeda in other countries us send his hate house had the idea of arming syrian rebels calling it signing with terrorists as the syrian national council plans to talk weapons shipments during his visit to new york. international news and call in july from moscow this is all see with me us across all of us thanks for joining us. the show must go on that's the message for american lawmakers have allowed the national security agency to continue spying both at home and i'm owed a motion to cover six of us has wells blanks in the house of representatives by a narrow margin of only twelve votes if approved it would have the n.s.a. from listening to every phone call made by a us phone the vote has exposed a major split within both republicans and democrats and my colleague discuss this decision on ways to protect public privacy with paid down and he's the only one of the internet service providers was denied n.s.a. surveillance requests. i think that the only solution for keeping us safe from spying

have known that by leaking these documents to the empty secret secrecy website wiki leaks that al qaeda osama bin laden and al qaeda affiliates were going to see this information and now the defense has insisted and has maintained that bradley manning and no way intended to aid the enemy they say that he is a whistleblower and that he leaked these documents in an effort to expose wrongdoing to spark a public debate what is going on in the wars abroad diplomatically really what the truth is right now trial is wrapping up just a matter of time now before we will hear closing arguments and ultimately it will be one person the judge in this case that will deliver the verdict. an attorney who is a member of the bradley manning support network believes washington is cracking down not only on whistleblowers but also on press freedom. this is a very abusive charge appropriate charge and it's very unusual a really raises the stakes are for was the blowers especially in the national security arena because in the enemy in the past has meant that you had to have the intent to a the end of the not j

exactly one year ago al qaeda in iraq arms started a campaign called breaking the walls and that made frayn its imprisoned members a top priority to discuss this further i was joined earlier by sight erik at a correspondent with al could and former u.n. spokesperson in iraq i began by asking just how such a jailbreak could ever happen. it is a classical side operation and it was it was begun of course using suicide by bombs in cars so that there is a classic. tactic they also had like a suggested mortars and they had militants attacked from different areas they cut off the road so it was will planned this is probably been weeks and months in the making they have done it time and time again it is a very well organized group of militants of al qaida they represent the. qaeda in iraq they slammed state in iraq and the levant so it was well coordinated will funded will arm and it proves anything proves that the al qaeda making a resurgence and iraq now what kind of reaction are we seeing from people on the ground who just kind of went through this escape and experienced escape now went th

and there's been a massive jailbreak out id rocks abu ghraib prison allowing the escape of al qaeda members the attack comes nearly a decade after the infamous photos of abuse at the prison were released more details coming out. and the house is considering amendments today to the defense spending bill one lawmaker is pushing to defund the n.s.a. surveillance program but have an update from the capitol hill in tonight's show i. live there it's tuesday july twenty third eight pm in washington d.c. i marinate and you're watching our t.v. since the one nine hundred sixty s. local law enforcement agencies across the u.s. have blurred the lines between police officers and soldiers so much so that american police forces have adopted a mindset previously reserved only for the battlefield more recently the department of homeland security has doled out grants for local police departments that give them tanks rockets and more military grade weapons so is this a measure towards a safer society or does this mentally pit police against the civilians they've sworn to protect to discuss this issue i was j

he was dismissed by the west you scaremongering or he was saying that al-qaeda was coming to her in syria and now we're hearing this from the f.s.a. it was interesting isn't it that those of those who did want this were half were dismissed as the book ologist gross out of all of us the syrian government now the west has got a wake up to what's really going on and so i think having said that it's very important journalist on the f.s.a. strategy free syrian army is very keen to get western intervention i think they're now change their strategy and they're saying look al qaeda going to take and unless we do need and help out the f.s.a. a lot and i think now they're lost and say look you've got to help us out and to try to put the good guys the moderate rebels but not too late because terrible crimes terrible terrorist atrocities so it's i think it's a kind of faux division to say that they're bad rebels that he's elections if you're in syria next year twenty four you know there's no excuse for anybody to be using violence now to achieve beautiful change in syria going across to electio

however even though al qaeda may be in decline of qaeda isn't.the movement ideology continues to resonate and attract terrorists. al qaeda does remains an appealing brand in north and west africa as well as in the font. the movement also retains its visceral nature to the united states and the west along with the potential to inspire and motivate individuals to engage in deadly acts of homegrown terrorism as the likely saw the last april in boston. for more than a decade of qaeda has installed arguably the greatest onslaught against terrorist organizations in history. further its consistently showing itself capable of adapting and adjusting to even the most consequential countermeasures directed against it, having despite all odds survive for a quarter of a century. throughout its history the oxygen of qaeda depends upon has taken possession of or access to sanctuary or safe haven. in the wake of the the air of spring and the acid buildup followed a qaeda has the potential to transfer told holz established in the sinai and the north and west afri

the state department issues an internal ops alert that al qaeda-linked answar sharia.claiming responsibility for benghazi. twitter posts are calling for attacks of the embassy in tripoli. >> we have to take care of ourselves. >> 1:00 a.m. benghazi. someone using wickland's cell phone redials hicks, the caller says the ambassador is at the benghazi medical center. >> we learned that he was in the hospital, controlled by shari'a. >> hicks suspects a trap. 1:15 a.m., libya. the american chartered plane arrives at the benghazi airport. there is a hitch. >> the tripoli team had to stay at the benghazi airport, because it had no transport and no escort from the libyans. the delay would give the terrorists time to set up another lethal assault. 2:00 a.m., tripoli. hicks gets a call from washington, where it's now 8:00 p.m. >> secretary of state clinton called me, along with her senior staff, all on the phone, and she asked me what was going on? >> i spoke with tripoli. i talked with the then libyan national congress president to press him on greater support. we were reaching