we can all point to things that have been plotted or planned in western pakistan, and indeed our intelligence has correctly identified that since it leaves 2006, but we've also shown an ability to intercept, adapt and work with partners to include the much maligned and deservedly so, but the very janice-faced isi in pakistan to corral and arrest a number of these folks who were plotting very massive attacks in western europe and in some cases against us in the homeland or to find the critical bits of information that allowed us to intercept those plotters that would be here. so al qaeda as a core organization no longer has that cache or capability. and in the monday graph i published in february listed those left out there, oh i argue, other than zawahiri have limited cableability to organize this group. and the relationship between bin laden and omar and the haqqani group was really a personal relationship. and i think we're starting to see a little more nuggets of that coming out now with people releasing from abad abad, not that zawahiri wasn't in play here. but zawahiri and the egyptians

we can all point to things that have been plotted or planned in western pakistan and indeed our intelligence has correctly identified that since at least 2006 but we've also shown an ability to intercept, adapt and work with partners who include the much maligned and deservedly sold sew but the iss in pakistan to arrest a number of these folks who were plotting in massive attacks in western europe and against us in the homeland tore to find critical information that would allow us to intercept those. and finally, this notion of a base for certain conquest in afghanistan is dashed. there i argue particularly that the relationship between bin laden and omar and the akani group was really a personal relationship. i think we're starting to see little more nuggets about that now. they never swore an oath. having lived in that part of the world and done a lot of work with thankful assistance suggest to me strongly it's not the ideological linkage to al qaeda anymore but rather the strategic linkage to pakistan and how far pakistan wishes to see the jihad is being fomented into an international pro

we can all point to things that have been plotted or planned in western pakistan and our intelligence has identified that since 2006. we have shown an ability to intercept and work with partners to include the much- maligned and deservedly so but the very janus-faced isi who were plotting mass of attacks in western europe and against us board find -- or to find bits of information. al qaeda as a core organization has no longer the kind of capability nor do i think they can regain it based on who is left alive. a monograph by published lists those who are left out there who have limited capability to reorganize. this notion of base for certain conquests. the relationship between bin laden and mullah omar and the haqqani group is showing that organization. not that al-zawahiri was in play but they never swore an oath. my read of the situation, having lived in that part of the world and having done work with the assistance of others suggests to me strongly that it is not the ideological linkage to al qaeda that matters most to zero more. but rather than strategic linkage to pakistan and

a drone strike on a compound in a trouble area in western pakistan. the security officials said the drone fired two missiles at a house in an area in north waziristan. the olympic committee of the ukraine has suspended its general secretary after he was caught on camera offering tickets for cash to the mound in 2012 games to an undercover bbc reporter. the general secretary of the national olympic committee told a reporter posing as a ticket scalper he had up to 100 tickets to sell. such a sale is illegal and can carry a fine of up to 20,000 pounds. the leader insisted he had no intention of selling the tickets. adrian warner reports. >> very few tickets are left to the top event at the the olympic park this summer, so this is often the moment and when scab'' step into the market. where do they get their tickets? it has been suspected that tickets allocated to national olympic committees around the world have been sold on the black market. that is against olympic rules, and in britain, it is against the law. but it is likely to happen again. this is t

at least twenty people are dead in most western pakistan after a suicide bomber the police checkpoint the attack in the butt to a tribal region was beside a crowded street market five officers were killed including one who's been given a presidential award for fighting is when this militant the pakistani taliban said it was responsible for the blast which also killed several children. by the clashes between doctors medical students and while police have been continuing in bolivia protests over the past month demanding the resignation of the country's health when a student brought in longer working hours demonstrations in the past blocked traffic with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets to try to clear the demonstrators and. it's twenty four minutes past through the afternoon moscow time let's check i was out of the world business every week all prices making the headlines in your part of the r.t.e. news room is now reversed is taken out not well i guess in russia hi campbell specially in russia no well at all in fact was in the markets plunged by almost three per cent of what it

but al-qaeda has a history of capturing these westerners in pakistan. he was taken from his home in lahor back in august. the pakistani police have 2340 -- no leads as to where he is at the moment. we do believe, however, he's in the tribal region of western pakistan, from the video. we see that he's wearing traditional pakistani garb. it is like a baggy shirt and baggy pants. it would indicate perhaps he's hidden where he's trying to blend in with locals there but like i say, the pakistanis have no leads, jon. back to you. jon: what an awful case. dominic, thank you. jenna: some brand new poll numbers out today, on the likely matchup between the president and the presumptive republican nominee, governor mitt romney. after a bruising primary battle, mr. romney, gaining significant ground on the president, according to some new numbers from usa today and gallup. those numbers focusing on registered voters in the 12 battle ground states, you see them on your screen, likely to determine the election's outk our chief political correspondent carl cameron is

qaeda, would serve as a base certain for the conquest of afghanistan and included in that is western pakistan. and this is important. because of the mystical or gins about where al qaeda came from and how it then turned itself towards first these local jihad activities and then eventually towards the galvanized framing and bringing together of al zawahiri's jihad with al qaeda in the focus on the far enemy first and to defeat near enemy second. these elements three of them have been totally -- this notion of a brand name that was free from retribution or impunity, that was brought to its knees, and most of us that follow jihaddy websites is that you clearly over the next two to three months. the notion of how could this have happened followed by a claim and desire to have rebecause of rage but the notion of impunity and living above the law, that came crashing down by way of this raid and al-zawahiri and others of the limited number of remaining core groups are suffering the wrath of that. we have made it clear to the pakistanis andors that any obvious intelligence on al-zawahiri would produc

despite the serious blows of western pakistan, as well as those elsewhere, the global network of al-qaeda remains an enduring threat to the united states. much of al-qaeda's activity evolves through its affiliates and many individuals remain receptive to the ideology. more work needs to be done. among the al qaeda of phillips -- eliot's, the one in the arab region is a particular threat. and card obama attempts have _ quite clearly the direct threat directaqap poses to its friends and allies. it has benefited from last year's political crisis in yemen and the paralysis that accompanied ed. in these circumstances, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has been able to seize territory and hauled it to require resources and new recruits. yemen has held its election and the abbey people are taking -- and the yemeni people are taking important steps. this will not be a simple process. it may not move rapidly but as the yemen transmit corp. -- transition happens, we will contribute support. elsewhere in the gulf, in iraq, we have seen the persistence of another aq affiliate. iraqi security forces c

>> in what's called the autonomous regions of pakistan, in western pakistan along the afghan border.: we're also using them in other places. yemen. >> yemen, somalia and afghanistan also. so, there are four war theatres where drones are being used regularly. >> bill: is the authorization that we're operating under like the congressional authorization after 9-11 that we can go after terrorists wherever they happen to be? >> yes. it should be added the obama administration has actually expanded that criteria because now they claim the right to target u.s. citizens and alki was killed last year, a man born in houston, said to be planning jihadist attacks against the united states and he was killed. so maybe now the obama administration makes a claim that even bush did not make that they have the authority to execute u.s. citizens. >> bill: jeff morley from salon.com is our guest. we're talking about drones and the legality and the impact and what is -- what's a lasting kind of repercussions from the drone attacks. if you want to join the conversation or your questions at 1-866-55-press.

but i do remain concerned about the safe havens that runs along the eastern afghan border, the western pakistan border. the green on blue that you describe, and for those of you are not exactly for me with that phraseology, it's the insider threat or the acts of afghan soldiers or policemen turning on the u.s. our coalition partners. it's related but it's not, that's not one that i can see particularly a cause and effect. the green on blue is, if we take 100 instances, even that issue is complex. if we took 100 of them, probably 25 of them would be based on ideological and religious differences, maybe even affiliation with the taliban, maybe even affiliated with the pakistan taliban. i mean, everyone has its own challenges. the other 75 of that 100 would be for other reasons, whether it is tribal or having been insulted or felt like they weren't respected. or internal problems for that particular afghan soldiers family, much like we sometimes see with the pressures of war on our own families. so it's a huge challenge. and i think you know that what we are working on is, we're working on it from

in most of -- in this case, posner is areas of the country, that is parts of western, southern, and eastern parts of pakistan in afghanistan, it does not come from a court or judge. it comes from elders coming together and adjudicating an individual that is having a dispute with someone else. supporting, at least for the near term, that kind of adjudication in the rule of law, and encouraging developments coming from the bottom up. it is a bottom-up component of a strategy that was thought to be only top-down. they can't win or lose it by itself. there is a component that i think many people felt was missing for several years, and certainly when you look at stability, say from 1929 to 1978, where the successive doctor -- [inaudible name], [inaudible name] and the family of [inaudible name], when they combined top-down governance and security and development, in supporting economy from the tribes and subcommands, that fits in -- the operability but then more long lines of that. >> so, that is working to use the phrase that the green berets helped establish a presence? what else would you supplement that ever

these are the writings of osama bin laden as found by western officials inside pakistan. he said this about president -- killing -- guest: they were afraid of obama at first because he made the speech in cairo and made a couple of other speeches that looked like we were changing our policies in the middle east. there were very eager to get rid of him. but until osama bin laden died, had backed off a little bit on that. words were not followed by deeds by the american government in terms of our policy in the middle east. host: how big was getting bin laden? >> it was big. there are 17 of 6000 and there are only for written by him. when you read those documents written by him, you come away with the idea there was no incompatibility between the seventh century religious zealot and etui for centuries ceo. there are a small group of letters very consistent with his attitude since 1988. i it's very important we killed him and there is a very steady hand and intelligent hand at tiller. he established an order by which the jihad should proceed. first was to drive us out of the m

the child port in eastern europe on the gulf of oman that connects to western afghanistan and this road not only takes away pakistan's monopoly on afghanistan's maritime trade but it also gives india some very strategically important access to afghanistan and to central asia in general so sanctions would be. a little more complicated than then than just withdrawing from the energy sector and in addition to that we know that in the past india publicly rejected sanctions on iran but now they're reducing their iranian oil dependency so what is their stance on. and. india sort of been facing a dilemma because on one hand it depends on iran not only for energy and other trade but also for strategic access to central asia and for other strategic ties so on one hand it can't entirely dump or drop drop iran also for fear that if it drops iran beijing and china would would pick up the pieces especially on preferential financial terms but at the same time it can't entirely reject. the united states this position because of course india is america's sort of burgeoning strategic ally they have tremendous amounts of trade they sh

western-led sanctions. >> this is a visit of mrs. clinton to afghanistan and pakistan as well, with discussions among indian leaders. >> that is right. she is due to begin foreign talks -- to begin further talks. those countries will figure, pakistan in particular -- the issue of the 2008 mumbai attacks continues to be the main thing holding the country's back. that is something the indians say they will continue to raise, particularly the alleged mastermind of the attacks, who continues to be in pakistan, who in the once tried and handed over. they want the indians to put pressure on pakistan. two years from now, when the last american troops leave -- that is something else the sides are expected to discuss. >> thank you for the update. the polls have closed in syria, where multi-party parliamentary elections have been held amid continuing violence. a new constitution enables the formation of groups to stand against president bashar al- assad's ruling party. we have rare access in this report from damascus. >> today's elections are meant to be proof syria is changing.

these are the writings of osama bin laden found from western officials inside pakistan.out the president -- guest: they were afraid of obama at first because he made the speech in cairo and made a couple of other speeches bed looked like we were changing our policy in the middle east. there were very eager to get rid of him. until a somewhat died, but backed off a little bit because words were not followed by deeds by the american government in terms of our policy in the middle east. host: guest: it was very big. the documents are odd. there are 17 of 6000. there are only four in the package of 17 that were written by osama bin laden. when you read those documents, you come away with the idea of there is no incompatibility between the seventh century religious zealot and a 21st century ceo. they are an impressive small group of letters and consistent with his attitude since 1978. it is important we kill them. there is a steady hand at the tiller and very intelligent. he had established an order by which to be jihad should proceed. first was to attack the americans and dr

government and the military, because unfortunately, you know, pakistan has a huge safe haven for all sorts of militants that are anti-u.s. and anti-western they've got nuclear weapons. it's one of these things where you can't just give up on pakistan itself. one of the things i've said and is often lost in the debate is really we're down to two points. one is to cut and run to leave afghanistan. that will give us a chance to regroup and pull ourselves back, give us time to prepare if needed, be prepared if we have to go to iran and deal with issues in iran and the nuclear program. or the other option is to stay in afghanistan and say we need the base, we need the footprint, we need the logistics. but the problem is we really haven't led onhese issues. the president hadn't talked about afghanistan in a year until he gave a speech about a week ago, we don't have the military out there. we don't have a clear policy of what we want. we're just going to stay about 12 months. >> and that lack of clarity is one of the things that is perhaps the most frustrating for the electrorate and the most difficult to make decisions on. thank you, mike. we

. >> khar says pakistan and india should find a way to solve the territorial dispute over kashmir through negotiations. >>> representatives from six western nations have left a meeting in baghdad essentially emy-handed. they were trying to reach an agreement with officials from iran about the country's nuclear program but they weren't able to make much progress. the meetings ended in baghdad a day later than scheduled. western delegates demanded that iranian scientists stop enriching uranium toward levels that could be used for weapons. >> it's clear that we both want to make progress and that there is some common ground. however, significant differences remain. >> iranian negotiators pressed u.s. and european officials to lift their economic sanctions. >> translator: iran has the right to enrich uranium and generate nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. >> the negotiators will meet again in moscow next month. >>> human rights activist chen guangcheng is savoring his freedom, but not forgetting the family he left behind in china when he sought refuge in the united states. nor is he giving up on his commitment to change. chen gave his firs

. >> khar says pakistan and india should find a way to solve the territorial dispute over kashmir through negotiations. >>> representatives from six western nations have left a meeting in baghdad essentially empty-handed. they were trying to reach an agreement with officials from iran about the country's nuclear program but they weren't able to make much progress. the meetings ended in baghdad a day later than scheduled. western delegates demanded that iranian scientists stop enriching uranium toward levels that could be used for weapons. >> it's clear that we both want to make progress and that there is some common ground. however, significant differences remain. >> iranian negotiators pressed u.s. and european officials to lift their economic sanctions. >> translator: iran has the right to enrich uranium and generate nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. >> the negotiators will meet again in moscow next month. >>> chen guangcheng is savering his freedom, but not forgetting the family he left behind in china when he sought refuge in the united states. nor is he giving up on his commitment to change. chen gave his first in-depth interview

serious, and when it turned that serious on pakistan's eastern border, i would say we probably didn't have quite the high level intense look at their western border to our regret later. >> fred, you write about not seeing the future, although, as you know, it's through a glass darkly, but in terms of counterterrorism, that was a very successful period for the united states. the united states undermined its -- if you look at list of top terrorist objectives of our counterterrorist community in that era, '89 through '91, we got them. anidal was considered the most dangerous terrorist. he was decimated by covert action involving a number of countries. two, shiningpath. we deserved some credit for getting guzman, working closely with the previousians. if you went and talked to counterterrorism specialists. >> hezbollah. >> if you want to counterterrorist specialists in 1991 and said which brand of islamic fundamentalism is the most dangerous, they would have said shiia because, in fact, the most successful muslim terrorist group was hezbollah. they killed more americans than any other terrorist organization, and we hadn't and, of course, he wo

pakistan's been invited to the forthcoming nato summit in chicago the move comes amid signs the country may reopen its western border to the. u.s. army which was closed in november after a nato airstrike killed twenty four soldiers the route is a strategic nato military supply line to the war in neighboring afghanistan as stayed away from the last major summit after the incident. dominic strauss kahn has made a one million dollar counter claim against the new york hotel maid who accused him of sexual assault a former i.m.f. chief said enough he says the alo lied about the alleged attack a year ago which seriously damaged his reputation the criminal case against charles kahn it was dropped after prosecutors said deol had lost credibility after the frenchman's arrest he resigned from the i.m.f. and was unable to take part and has in the presidential race as a leading socialist candidate. for years syria was able to capitalize on its rich history and ancient cities to build a thriving tourist industry but after months of conflict his final source of income has all but dried up and those arches arcs out of boy re

afghanistan and pakistan and the group's under significant financial strain and is struggling to secure steady financing to plan and execute attacks against the united states homeland and western interests. the terrorists and the enemies we now face -- the terrorist enemies we now face are more diverse, diffuse, and decentralized than ever. al qaeda and their affiliates have concluded that to bring america down they will attack with, quote, smaller but more frequent operations, what some may refer to as the strategy of a thousand cuts. the aim is to bleed the enemy, meaning us, to death. if june 2011, the obama administration unleashed a national program for counterterrorism. aqap receiving charitable donations in yemen. hezbollah's drug and criminal activities. aqa m's link to drug trafficking and kidnapping with al shabab and kidnapping for ransom and extortion. hezbollah facilitators were particularly savvy in skirting u.s. restrictions on terrorist financing and have been charged in a number of high-profile criminal schemes. as a former united states attorney in philadelphia, i initiated investigations into hezbollah's fund-raising activities that included attempts to tran

should carve out a new friendly state, beluchistan from within pakistan to stabilize afghanistan's western border. the article goes on, even if mr. gohmert does not necessarily speak for washington, it is logical to assume that he may -- made this observation after picking up the buzz in american political circles. the u.s. wants a consulate but so far pakistan has resisted this request. the g.o. strategic location of beluchistan and its potential in minerals, gas and oil, is something that interests the world's sole superpower, so says the "pakistan daily times." . they say it's one of the few if not the only one that has not been declared a terrorist movement which the -- by the u.s. the u.s.'s soft attitude toward this resistance movement does not necessarily mean that they're enamored of the complaints and aspirations of the people, but that the americans have their own vested interests there. they may now want to snip away at the roots of the pakistan military's duel policy in the war on terror by a flanking move in beluchistan. before this loud thinking is embraced as policy by washi

western sanctions on the islamic state choosing to continue to buy fuel from around the government's been pushing for a reduction in imports before sanctions come into effect next month make trade increasingly more difficult. in pakistan thousands a call for the prime minister to resign after his recent conviction for contempt of court last month the country's supreme court charges against me for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the president learned he was found guilty but given only a token sentence people accuse the government of working to try to hide it corruption and not to allow the huge issue become tainted. tornadoes hit eastern japan it's killed one and injured dozens the city of around sixty kilometers from tokyo appears to be the worst affected the severe winds caused a major power outage to and as you can see their scores of houses completely destroyed. just ahead we have live coverage lined up for you of the inauguration ceremony of its own in just a few minutes time to hope you can stay with us for that of course set to be sworn into office for a third time you're watching broadcasting live from moscow. please . please just so. you. see. the people of the united states and our friends a

western nations. why invade and/or drone strike afghanistan and pakistan while at the same time accepting faisal shahzadmes square bomber, as a new immigrant and u.s. citizen? >> guest: yes. i wouldn't disagree with that. i'm opposed, i'm in, you know, i'm an immigrant, and i tend to feel uncomfortable talking about immigration issues. for that reason. because i'm not sure it's certainly having been admit today this country, it's not my business to tell you, okay, now pull up the drawbridge and keep everybody else out. but i think there's a difference between individual immigration and mass immigration. and i think mass immigration is a very difficult, very difficult to justify in a rational sense. the way that western nations have found to justify it is as a sign of moral virtue, that we concoct, we concoct various reasons nobody's quite persuaded by, for example, president bush's line we need, we need immigrants to come here to do the jobs americans won't do. the question then, i think, is, well, why won't americans do those jobs? in part because it becomes very difficult for people to stay in college

westerners about mohammed morsi. >> under his leadership, egypt is the next iran? >> we might not have an iran per se, we're more likely to have a pakistanintervenes in a radical, political sphere at will. >> i put that to morsi's ally, as well. if he wins, egypt will not be like pakistan or iran. he says they won't move toward being a theocratic government. and says we shouldn't be listening to people he calls islamaphobes. >> so would the military try -- or could they, pull him back if they felt he was likely to be too antagonistic to the united states? >> analysts say they probably would do that if it involved foreign policy and he tried to get in america's face about different things because the egypt and military are still powerful. but it's on the domestic affairs front. if he tries to impose sharia law and suppress women as some think he's going to do, the military wouldn't necessarily stand in the way of that. they care less about that than they do about the relationship with the united states. >> thanks so much, brian. that's a little unnerving, i think. >> could be. >>> and training for terrorists. u.s. troops joining forces wi

westernism could not get to them. fifth, al qaeda would serve as a base certain for the conquest of us can stand -- of afghanistan and pakistan. this is important because the mists -- because of the mystical origins of where al qaeda came from and where it built up at the end of the soviet jihad period and where it turned toward these local jihadi activities and the galvanized the framing and bringing together of al-zawahiri with al qaeda and focused on the far end of may 1 to defeat the near and -- the far enemy first and the near enemy second. three of these five elements have been castigated. this notion of a brand name that was free from retribution or had impunity against being captured or attacked, that was brought to its knees. most of us who followed j. hadi website saw that clearly over two or three months. this notion of how could this have happened, followed by this claim and his desire to revenge and rage. al-zawahiri and others of the core group alamance still feel the wrath of that. there are no longer seen as -- they are no longer seen as immune. any [unintelligible] any [unintelligible]