rasheed ralph according to u.s.orism officials was at the top of his game, and that he's been missed by al qaeda already. in fact, one of the reasons that najibullah zazi was wipicked upn new york for an attack he planned there, just days before he was going to pull that attack off, was because rasheed ralph had been killed. and the techniques he used to avoid detection weren't being employed by the people who were replacing him. zazi was one of his planned attacks. but they would like to attack cruise ships, execute passengers, upload the videos to the internet. they want cheap, low-budget, easy to pull off attacks as well as the bigger attacks. it would like to get its recruits back into europe and the united states faster than it is at the moment, so it can confuse counterterrorism officials by having a lot of active players, if you will, in the field, and al qaeda also wants to continue to try and pull off a mumbai style attack, as we saw in india, 164 people killed by a handful of gunman. that's the sort of thi

we went into the rasheed. it was an actual military compound it's a huge military compound we pulled in there was an abrams tank that was parked at one of the entrances. and i started asking me what was going on because there was some demonstrators down the road and. i asked him if any of them at any weapons and he said no. and so what do you think the. you know they're going to stage a coup against sister anything like that and he said no they they're just down their set and you know chant and yell and i go behind my humvee and tear open an m.r.e. and all a sudden i hear a gunshot i step out from behind my home be. as soon as i step out from behind mom be my marines are discharging their weapons and the demonstrators so on sling my weapon and i put the the stock up and. the butt of the rifle stock up on my shoulder and i start firing. and i'm hitting i'm hitting the demonstrators no i am. and of course i'm aiming at the head i mean. center mass but i don't know who called cease fire oh no it was kind of like

national security adviser to president bush will be moderating the event which will also feature rasheed and ambassador who is based at usip. so please join us for that event as well. today's event focuses on the regional afghanistan. every time we talk about how relative peace and stability can come to it, you will hear the term regional solution, and yet there is not much work done on what really regional architecture means, what it looks like. what to begin with are the interests, the positions and the strategies of countries that neighbor afghanistan and whether, most importantly, there are overlaps in their positions which can be harnessed and leveraged to bring together a regional solution. can the u.s. incentivize behavior? if the region doesn't come together there will be a destabilizing influence. we are fortunate to have a panel sitting here in front of you, three experts who have truly studied this issue for a long, long time and who will be speaking to us today. just very quickly in terms of f format, and i'll introduce them briefly, the full bios are outside available on the

national security adviser to president bush will be moderating the event which will also feature ahmaad rasheed and ambassador omah samed who is based at usip. please join us for that event, as well. today's event focuses on what is often touted as the regional solution to afghanistan. every time weep start talking afghanistan and how relative peace and stability can come to it, you'll hear the term regional solution, and yet, there is not much work done on what really regional architecture means, what it looks like. what to begin with are the interests, the positions and the strategies of countries that neighbor afghanistan? and whether, most importantly, there are overlaps in their positions which can be harnessed and leveraged to bring together a form of a regional solution. can the u.s. and other parties incentivize behavior on the part of these countries to make that happen because the conventional wisdom is that if the region doesn't come together by the time the transition happens, more than likely there will be a destabilizing influence coming from outside of afghanistan's borders. so t

the mastermind of that attack, rasheed ralph, a british member of al qaeda, in one of the documents foundis role in that attack, ralph writes he was in the room, offcamera, he set up a computer, with a scripted statement. ralph also reveals there was a short list of three targets. the bank of england, the g-8 summit that would be taking place in scotland and the london subway. they picked the subway because it required less explosives. ralph's big take away from the success of this team was the time he spent with them helping them memorize codes so they could communicate securely, teaching them counter surveillance techniques to switch their phones, how to use e-mail accounts and internet chats. he also reveals that two of the bombers were sure they were being watched by british intelligence because some of their associates had been arrested in connection with another plot. they acted up that life was normal, going to the movies, joking outloud a lot. a subsequent inquiry in britain found that the intelligence service mi-5 were aware of the two men and their connections, but didn't think

amman rasheed is the author of a new book "pakistan on the brink" and in islamabad itself, we are joinedy cnn's terror expert peter berger. welcome. emmitt, was it a mistake to have put that bounty on his head? what do you think was the thinking behind it? >> i fear now that, you know, both countries have been in this very tense relationship for the last six months. i fear now what we're seeing is a kind of tit for tat, a kind f of -- a kind of proxy war going on now because pakistan did not open the road when the americans expected. that is the road that is transporting goods from car afternoony up to the afghan forces in afghanistan. that road has been shut now for nearly five months. pakistan was supposed to open that road after a parliamentary debate. it hasn't done so. i think this is an american response to that. a week ago we saw an earlier tit for tat when the chairman -- when the head of sentcomwas in islamabad, and that very day the defense department releases a statement saying that the americans were not responsible for the deaths of 24 pakistani soldiers on the border five m