the yemen dt nabe population was a concern of the task force from the outset. when we started this process under the president's executive order in february 2009 there were 97 yemeni detainees out of the 240 detainees subject to the refusal by far the single largest nationality represented at guantÁnamo were from yemen. and this was a problem that existed before 2009. in other words prior to 2009, government officials had struggled with how to, how to handle the disposition of the substantial number of yemen detainees. over the course of that year. task force effort, we were very aware of a number of different factors. one, that the situation, the security situation in yemen was continuing to deteriorate over the course of that year and by december of 2009, we were quite aware of the concerns that the intelligence community and our military leaders were expressing about yemen. we were also quite aware that our record of success and the habeas court, the number of yemeni detainees as well as others were challenging the lawfulness of the detention, and we were be

could have done his job in yemen and had really had the full backup to go and to really push in yemennd what kind of networks he could have exposed. but, you know, we do know that there were yemenis involved in the attacks of september 11. so, is it possible that if... if he had been able to really open up that network and really expose that network, that he could have in some way deterred the tragedy of september 11? i don't think we know. but it... it's sad because we won't know the answer to that, but i think there is at least a fighting... he would have had a fighting chance if he'd been able to do his job. >> narrator: by early summer of 2001, other intelligence services were putting the bush white house on full alert. every single indication was that al qaeda was planning a major attack on the united states. >> in june of 2001, the intelligence community issued a warning that a major al qaeda terrorist attack would take place in the next many weeks. and so, in my office in the white house complex, the cia sat, briefed the domestic us federal law enforcement agencies-- immigratio

the young man who was the alleged shooter in that case is a convert who traveled to yemen and spent 18 months there and disappeared into the training camps there, and senator john kerry and the foreign relations committee have an excellent report done over a year ago called yemen, the ticking time bomb cataloging the number of americans traveling there and the number of converts there as well. >> host: going to seattle washington where ed calls on the democrat's line. good morning, ed. >> caller: good morning. you know, i live in south seattle, and i live very close to where the islamic center is, and i probably have seen these guys that were plotting. what i want to say is a general comment to the american people, and it has nothing to do with the terrorists or anything like that. it has to do with our foreign policy. we support the mop arks of the middle east in our support for israel. if you listen to what they were saying, they do have a point. it has nothing to do with islam, but with our policies. without a change in these policies, what's going to happen is this will continue, s

my son was arrested in yemen.my family cried out for help to bring my son back to america, for the american government. we got in touch with the united states embassy, the state department we also asked for help from our u.s. representative, and the fbi special agent who had been tracking my son in nashville, ask that our son was finally released and brought home to us. no one said in a to is about what might've happened in yemen or what they may have learned that so on the fbi to interrogate carlos while he was in the custody of yemen. political secure organization. carlos experience jail was a final statement is radicalization. he was in there with true evildoers, hard-core al qaeda men who convinced him to get revenge on america. nothing is wrong with muslim leaders and national. what happened to carlos these enormous. i have other family members, they are modern peaceful law-abiding citizens who have been buzzing for many who are not radicalized. i also have several uncles and brothers in a military. my family

yemen's president is vowing to return to this country two months after leaving for saudi arabia to be treated for his injuries after his palace compound was attacked yemen has been torn by six months of mass street protests calling for president saleh to be ousted and there are fears his return might spark a civil war the u.s. has frequently urged him to quit over concerns that a renewed conflict could encourage the yemen based wing of al qaida. to men in britain have been a sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's rioting by using facebook they became the first people to be sent down by judges for the mass arrests that swept england and in a separate case three men were jailed for between sixteen months and two years for looting and howlings stolen goods and a thirteen hundred suspected riders have been walking and. of the oil firm a shell is struggling to plug a second leak at one of its. north sea platform the company was forced to admit it's responsible for the worst spill in british waters for more than a decade and about thirteen hundred barrels of leaks

treated for injuries after his palace compound was attacked well yemen's been torn by six months of mass street protests calling for president saleh to be ousted and there are fears his return might spark a civil war the u.s. has frequently urged him to quit over concerns of a renewed conflict could encourage the yemen based wing of al qaida. now an investigative journalist report says u.s. drone strikes in pakistan have killed at least three hundred eighty five civilians almost half of them children and washington is refusing to pull back on its aggressive military campaign against al qaida and chris was from the group which studied the deaths says american officials are getting in the way of comprehensive research on the killing innocent people. a minimum of three hundred eighty five civilians we think and as many as seven hundred seventy five civilians are among those killed just to be clear the cia has now admitted that they have killed around fifty civilians in pakistan during the duration of the seven years of the drone war but they say they haven't killed a civilian since may

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yemen's president is a value to return to his country two months after leaving for saudi arabia to be treated for injuries after his palace compound was attacked well yemen's been torn by six months of vast street protests calling for president solid to be ousted and there are fears that his return might spark a civil war the u.s. has frequently urged him to quit over concerns that a renewed conflict could encourage the yemen based wing of al qaida. to men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's writing by using facebook well they became the first people to be sent down by judges for the mass civil unrest that swept england and in a separate case three men were jailed for between sixteen months and two years for looting and handling stolen goods nearly thirteen hundred suspected riders have been brought before the courts. now an investigative journalist report says a u.s. drone strikes in pakistan have killed at least three hundred eighty five civilians and almost half of them children but washington is refusing to pull back on its aggres

i'm -- yemen. i'm huge in yemen. [laughter] if you were actually in great britain here is what you saw of that segment. ♪ you didn't see it. they censored it. why? we were praising them. are you not allowed to praise england in england? is it that a result of the 1683 eat it to false -- edict to false modesty is it because praise from an american makes you feel dirty. it turns out our show is censored in england because we aired footage of our parliament on a comedy program. this is true, it's illegal to use parliamentary footage in a comedic or satirical context. if you were a right honorable newscaster i could have shown the same footage come back on camera and so emily say, tonight we have no confirmation that the members of parliament are baby eating goat (bleep). [laughter] but we have not received or actually asked for any denials of it either. that is something the english audience would have been allowed to watch but a sincere offering of admiration from a comedian is illegal. seems crazy. i've seen parliamen

each of these situations they began whether it was egypt whether it was tunisia whether it's been yemen bahrain all of them have faced massive military assault at the beginning only in libya was the decision made to take up arms i'm not going to second guess that decision or in this i'm just going over there are two hundred one says. all right and that's why it's really. a good part of the structure of the notion of that's. my job. why is it different because phyllis brought up a very good point why is it different because it used now it is different why do you think. well i don't personally think that it's a numbers going up i think in terms of victims being a numbers game i don't want to say that there were more people here or more people who were there but equally we realize that gadhafi was on the radio program i mean if we look at i want to use iraq as a very good example as to why things were wrong and things are right personally when bush and blair came out saying there was a forty five minute threat and it was imminent and they tried to fool the rest of the world in the along wi

each of these situations they began whether it was egypt whether it was tunisia whether it's been yemen bahrain all of them have faced massive military assault at the beginning only in libya was the decision made to take up arms i'm not going to second guess that this is all in the same sentence there are two hundred one says that you are. right and that's why as we see where. the heart of the search for the nationals is going to jump the line. why is it is because of the very thing why is it different because it used now it is different i just think it is. problem personally i think it's a numbers going on i think in terms of victims being a numbers game i don't want to say that there were more people who are here and more people who are equally realize that give birth he was on the radio program i mean if you look at i want to use iraq as a very good example as to what things were wrong and things are right personally when bush and blair came out saying there was a forty five minute threat and it was imminent and they tried to fool the rest of the world in the long with it but if ther

as of yet but that's one of our biggest fears let's think about what we have in yemen right now where we supported a leadership which had no control of the region but the problem is is there was nothing better that was there and then when he gets pushed aside you have such incredible instability that you can't turn to anybody and say you can stop what's going on in your own country so now we've expanded into the likes of not just iraq and afghanistan a bit of both places other parts of the horn of africa but you're also talking about yemen he does the american government preparing to actually move into libya he is very real said to what president obama has been very hesitant to do that but you should know that the likes of repairing the likes of bachmann the likes of mitt romney have all said that president obama was not aggressive enough we should have there were troops we should have had more planes or yes well then what does that say puja things like conservatives always just want to have some of them the hawks want more about walk away and see if this is a bad day continues to exp

qaeda groups and clashing with the government. >>> the united states says it's concerned it may make yemen another afghanistan. a hot bed of terrorism. >>> now we look at an art form which has its roots in the streets of bangladesh. it is bright and full of social commentary. but the artist as times change are seeing their fortunes fade. >> reporter: the people movers of bangladesh. cycle rickshaws are a common sight in dhaka. as many as 300,000 are said to apply the streets of the bangladesh capital. as in other asian cities, these man powered taxis are cheaper. but function takes a back seat to style. the canopy, seats and bodies are a thing of color. the signature piece is the rickshaw plate. the themes of these works are as wide as the colors are bright. this vibrant street art is the work of rickshaw painters. d.c. das is a specialist in the art of rickshaw paintings. his art is fantasy paintings. >> translator: pleasing drivers, riders with art is my calling. >> reporter: but these are hard times for rickshaw painters. work has been drying up. and the number of painters in dhaka is o

destroyer in ayden, yemen. but he always had the aspiration of attacking the united states in his homeland. he faced a problem. basic plans for the attack had been formed at a meeting of his key operatives that took place in malaysia in january of 2000, and the two men who came in through los angeles had that meeting -- had been at that meeting. he realized that if he was going to carry out an attack of the complexity that 9/11 became, that his operatives were going to be very vulnerable for a long period of time. of the 19, only one or two spoke any english. of the 19, only one or two had any previous experience and the united states. the 19 people were largely strangers to each other. with those constraints, those 19 people were expected to complete the final planning, to practice and then to execute an extremely sophisticated and complex operation. bin laden was aware that this was going to be very difficult to achieve. and so, he sought out an infrastructure, a support unit that would assist his 19 in carry

yemen is the leading al qaeda affiliate..s., because of the internet, there are lone wolves, almost impossible for the police it find. there is no network, no trail, they are the individuals. >> is the president right? tough question. is the president right, they don't have the capability for a big operation right now? >> they don't have the capability of a big mass casualty like 9/11. but they can pick up an aught mafic rifle, shoot up a shopping center, airport, there is a recipe book for how it make ieds, make explosives. >> aren't you amazed -- i'm a movie nut, every time i go to the movies or a ball game, an average ball game, over 30,000 people at it. >> right. >> baseball. in a movie, backed houses on friday and saturday nights. it isn't hard it find americans where we are really null verable. >> that's right. think of it as pebbles into the kogs, the juntd underwear bomber, these are not -- >> they can bring an airplane down. >> right. economy is bigger. air traffic stops. >> people are thinking now in the countries,

the names of the australians believed to have links to terrorist groups in yemen were listed.sked if the disclosure is affecting australia's close security ties with the u.s. >> the australian government will not comment specifically on those individuals named by wiki- leaks, who may be of interest to the security services here. newspaper reports rico is suggesting six women in australia have been identified in these diplomatic cables, four australians, two britons, and another from the philippines with allegedly connections to the philippines and yemen. jiabao of these women say the claims are basis -- based less. -- two of these women say the claims are baseless. with the early 1950's signing of the security alliance pact, this has damaged that. >> you are watching newsday on the bbc live from singapore and london. still to come on the program, asia's population problem -- will declining birth rates have that damaging economic impact? >> and the bottom line, why the modern baby demands more. there have been violent clashes in south africa between police and supporters of the

the implications not just about libya, in north africa, yemen, in syria. in fact, some of the dissidents and rebels in libya have signs saying now libya, tomorrow yemen, and the day after syria. this tells you about the consequences and the lessons that will le learned. remember, first testify tunisia, eye jept, then braun, oman, yemen, libya and syria. if there's one lesson, it's that the revolutionary momentum in the arab world is not even a -- it's going full cycle still in libya and other places as well. >> fawaz gerges and james straub, thank you for sharing your perspectives. >>> up ahead, our specialist with the three things we request do right now to lower the unemployment rate. >>> and bracing for impact. nearly a third on notice for hurricane erenal. coming up we'll talk with the weather channel. >>> first, earth quack? zingers from our friends out west. ♪ i'm in love ♪ i'm all shook up helps defends against occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probioti

we did not know about the traditional physical screening in the yemen cargo plot. it is critical and some of the best intelligence comes from industry. >> looking ahead, what obstacles and issues arise as we try to evolve the processes to deal with the balding risk and how do we stay one step ahead of -- with the balding risk and how do we stay one step ahead of the terrorists? -- the evolving risk and how do we stay ahead of the terrorists? >> we want to make sure the intelligence is flowing freely. i start every day with intelligence briefings from around the world. because tsa is almost exclusively domestic, we have to make sure our international partners are informed and able to take steps to detect and deter the terrorists. the challenge is up to any actual intelligence that is timely and credible and gives us a basis of doing some things. most often times, it is threw industry partners -- it is through industry partners. >> all i would add is that from the pilot and command perspective, the sharing of intelligence and the briefs prior to flights are what you

we already knew that the former gitmo detainees were in the aqap leadership in yemen, but it was only after aqap's failed christmas day attack that the transfer stopped. in my mind, this was an unacceptable risk for us to take. he mentioned in my office the question on the task force in part because you were guided by the executive order on closing gitmo. i suspect that the one-year deadline for closing gitmo affected task force analysis and decisions. when the only original two options for each detainee for the prosecution or transfer, it seems like there would have been significant pressure to lean towards transfer. i wonder if this explains why, after the initial task force review, found 92 detainee's suitable for transfer to my second review came up with 40 more transferable detainee's, and another 40 for conditional detention, which at the time was essentially delete transferred. congressman frank wolf of virginia who has expressed similar concerns about the transfer decisions in a letter to the kennedy and some of the interactions he had with you regarding the potential transfer

has frequently urged him to quit over concerns that a renewed conflict could encourage the yemen based way of al-qaeda. two men in britain have been sentenced to four years in jail for trying to stir up last week's writing by using facebook well they became the first people to be sent down by judges for the mass civil unrest that swept england and in a separate case three men who were jailed for between sixteen months and two years for looting and handling stolen goods nearly thirteen hundred suspected riders have been brought before the courts. now an investigative journalist report says u.s. drone strikes in pakistan have killed at least three hundred eighty five civilians and almost half of them children and washington is refusing to pull back on its aggressive military campaign against al qaida crosswords for a big group which study the deaths of american officials are getting in the way of comprehensive research on killing innocent people. a minimum of three hundred eighty five civilians we think of as many as seven hundred seventy five civilians among those killed just to clear t

somalia who we know are moving into yemen soon after. so there's an invisible bridge between the two. >> and the recent arrest, can you talk about that? at this point, i'm happy -- lesley stahl, could you try -- i'd like to open it up to questions. and can everybody except lesley stahl who needs no introduction introduce themselves before they ask a question, and i will call on you. >> you had talked about the dozen missions. i don't think many of us realize how many missions your forces, the special forces are performing so often. you go and talk about how the lessons learn 3d1 years ago, that had been incorporated a long time ago, do you, on these missions, are they planned the same way the osama bin laden one was with backup helicopters, with that much care in each case? can you give us a little more on all these dozens of missions every week? >> they're all planned differently and a force is selected according to the mission needs. but in almost every case, there is a quick reaction force on call to render assistance should things go

that's a powerful communicator. >> one reads in the paper about yemen, somalia, nigeria. worries you the most? >> well, let's take the triangle. pakistan which has the center of those networks and a large number of people who cross over regularly between pakistan and europe, particularly great brita britain. yemen, where you have anwar awlaki as a key commuter reaching directly to the west and somalia. somalia is the odd duck because you think somalia, where is the threat from there? a decent number of the recruits from al shabaab have been american citizens, two of whom have become suicide bombers, the first americans to ever be suicide bombers from a terrorist group and a large number of those recruits -- i mean more than a dozen or so, have been american citizens from places like minneapolis and portland and others, where they have large somali communities. i flag that because the ability of al shabaab as a terrorist group to take someone who came from united states who splay traveled a long route, to turn them around the way al qaeda does when they get someone in paki

frequently urged president saleh to step down over concerns that a renewed conflict could encourage the yemen based wing. the syrian government siege of the port of latakia has continued into its fourth day despite demands from neighboring states that damascus stop shelling civilians and withdraw its forces from the country's towns and cities according to the u.n. representatives of both syrian gun boats and tanks are shooting at anyone seen trying to escape so far thirty four people have been confirmed dead and house to house arrests are made by government troops the un human rights council plans an urgent meeting on the syrian crackdown but the u.s. claimed it is not going to demand president assad's resignation all it wants is to stop the violence. reporter on the scene is one of the few journalists in syria and you can read her take on the latest developments directly from our twitter feed. and i'll be back with a summary of our main stories in just under ten minutes from now but first the classic english summer took a dark turn this year as riots and looting flared up across the country

well syria is a far different animal than either yemen or even libya there is a lot more at stake. with syria and and given given iran's relationship and also saudi arabia's relationship in the region and the concern that saudi arabia has for the spread of them. in the middle east. we've looked upon bahrain for example of basically a proxy war between saudi arabia and iran and i think you might say the same thing is actually occurring right now and in syria but no one's going to say that openly with the way the pressure is mounting up in syria other parallels to be drawn with what happened in libya could we see another libyan scenario. i don't think so i already britain. russia china have expressed opposition to any kind of sanctions or even movement of troops or anything similar to what occurred in libya. and i just don't i just don't see that happening we might see some sanctions imposed but i don't think damascus is too concerned about sanctions which have been imposed on them for years already and they receive what they want from from iran pretty much already michael maloof we