this guy, ramzi ahmed yousef, claims he's an iraqi refugee.e's got an iraqi passport and the boss says we just gave the last to this other nut case so i'm sorry. grant him a hearing. grant him a hearing. she stamps it and ramzi ahmed yousef, the mozart of terror walks into the night, heels a cab and at jfk where does he go? the al-farooq mosque where all these guys that are on, you know, that were on the surveillance of the fbi in 1989. now what do they find -- okay, by the way with no one ever translated that into tuna with the basic rule meant? the base, al qaeda. and the name al qaeda comes from the fact the database of all the guys that came to fight with mujahideen and ali mohamed and bin laden copied all their names down and the guys from the philippines, south africa, chileans and they dispersed after the war against the soviets and the data base of brothers willing to die for allah became al qaeda. and this guy has a book that says al qaeda if the fbi 1992. now, ramzi ahmed yousef is a new york city and a bomb factory and is building t

yousef is in jersey city. in a bomb factory.and he is building this fuel oil device. 1500-pound bomb to go a. he wants to knock our one into tower two. he wanted 250,000 people killed. at so they are building this thing. remember the good egyptian, the good guy? they weaned him. they gave him like a couple of months to find a new chapter they kept saying in the $500. he needs dancey at the subway shop, one of my favorite venues by the way when i am in manhattan, and he meet her there and she gives him the last $500 in the presence of another fbi agent and he says, nancy, somebody is in town, there is something going on. i had to back away from this. he told the brothers at the fbi was watching them. that way they wouldn't suspect, right? what is it, says mitch. i am telling you there's something going on. just do me a favor and follow them. follow those two guys and they will lead you to whoever this is. nancy says you don't understand i have no credibility. he won't talk to me. look, i will pass it up the food chain but don't -

and of course we are to believe them until we are proven wrong. >> farmer yousef, a member of the ruling party is betting things will turn around. that government will become more responsive. he's investing in a dry season crop for the first time in years. >> the minister of water associates was there for about four weeks on this project. and he made a pledge that the government is going to supply all the facilities that are required for this irrigation. >> they prepared to bet that this government will deliver the water you need this winter. >> by the grace of god. >> it's critical for the larger region that farmers succeed, that few geria begins to meet more of its own food needs, with its large population and oil reason revenues there is widespread fear that nigeria will increasingly crowd out its smaller impoverished neighbors from the region's food market. >> this report was part of >> ifill: this report was part of a joint initiative of the pulitzer center on crisis reporting and the project for under-told stories. at newshour.pbs.org, you can follow links to their coverage and als

guys sees it and dropped a dime and that is how they get yousef.they kept secret the indictment of khalid sheikh muhammad four years. the day ramzi was sentenced in january of 2008, there was a famous front-page story. i am a terrorist and i am proud of that. on the inside of the "new york times," today the southern district happen to unsealed warned against sheikh mohammed believe to be a relative of yousaf. deberry this thing at the bottom of the story. why did they keep the hunt for khaleej sheikh secret? that is an important question i would like to ask patrick fitzgerald. if you go to peter lance.com and demo the time when our get the book you will see and understand why i feel that way. next question please. >> have you read the new pearl harbor by dr. david ray griffin? >> i've not only read it but he has my permission to excerpt significant parts of my work coming in either the book for the next one so i am aware of his work. as i said i am not a subscriber of the inside job theory because part of the problem with the inside job theory is t

the cleric who founded the site, yousef qaradawi, is considered a moderate in the region. but his fatwas have opposed women traveling alone without a male guardian and he's ruled against women being heads of state. for secular muslims, like dalia ziade, such views are decidedly anti-modern. ziade is a human rights activist. the 26-year-old accuses religious institutions in egypt of spreading fundamentalist beliefs, like the veiling of women. >> in my mother's age, when she was my age, i see her photos. it was tremendously different. it was, you know, she wore shirt skirts and she used to wear t- shirts, without sleeves, sleeveless t-shirts and nobody used to ask her or to instruct her not to wear this or wear that. >> reporter: ziade says in today's environment she has to wear a headscarf in order not to be harassed. she blames this on what she calls the growing piety movement. >> everyone now believes that if only he gets religious, all his problems will be solved. >> reporter: as part of her work, ziade's been compiling fatwas that target women. some clerics say they can

. >> we talked by phone with yousef megahed. how 2kid all this unfold?ars ago, megahed, a student at the university of south florida, went on a road trip with a friend, am med mohammad. they were pulled over and police found a detonator for model rockets. it was a video posted on youtube that made the case against mohammad. in arabic, he explains. on the family's home computer, authorities say they found videos, documents and an internet search history that supports, quote, jihad against the united states. the jurors believed megahed, not the government. he was freed for all of three days. this time immigration and customs enforcement is accusing him of being, quote, engaged in or likely to engage in any terrorist activity. megahed says he's been racially profiled. >> first it's double jeopardy. second they keep talking about change and change. if president obama wants to talk about change, he should look first inside, inside the u.s. before talking about change worldwide. >> reporter: a senior administration official told us the white house would have n

so, jeweler osm yousef is an enthusiastic supporterf president al-bhir. >> ( translated ): this situationas improved grtly. there's devopment everywhere. even in my home area, thers been great impvement. a new sugar plant has beenuilt where i live, and irrigatn projects have bn completed tht are helping with that project. >> narrar: while the people of sudan debate his mers, the country's president is now ofring his strongest hint yet that h time in power may be coming to an e. >> reporter: did you eve consider not standing forhe presidency aga? >> ( translated ): wthought at, after signing the peace agreement south sudan, that this s an achievement one could end eir political life with. four yrs ago, i urged the party telect a new president because weannot present to the sudanese people president who s been in power for 20 year because thsudanese people would be naturally bored political work isudan, as i see it, is not a comfortab task. it is tiri, exhausting, and with great responsibities. i used to tell some psidents whose time in officead ended at the best thing is to be a former pre

. >> host: yousef. >> guest: yousef. i appreciate this. how is c-span funded?s. >> federal or grant funds. >> mabey private contributions. >> honestly i don't know. >> i would say commercials. >> advertisement. >> something from the government. >> 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as the public service. a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >>> a discussion now about the $787 billion economic stimulus package passed in january. this is hosted by the brookings institution in washington. it is an hour-and-a-half. [inaudible conversations] >> i would like to welcome everyone to brookings this morning. i have been many times over the years i have sat out there with you all or i am sure some of you probably very people were out there, but is really fun to be up here on this side, be kind to us. we are here as you all to talk about the stimulus, and as the title of the program pretty much says it all six months has it been a boom or a boss or obviously somewhere in the middle. and i am jackie calmes, national c

, has described how our national security interests were compromised in the prosecution of ramsey yousef when an apparently innocuous bit of testimony in a public courtroom about delivery of a cell phone battery was enough to tip off terrorists still at large that one of their communication links had been compromised, end of his quotation. but he goes on to say this communication link had provided enormously valuable intelligence but as a result of the public testimony, the link was immediately shut down and further intelligence information lost. end of quote. cognizant of these serious national security concerns, congress has in a bipartisan fashion repeatedly ratified its support for military commissions. indeed, just last week, as the chairman noted, the senate passed an amendment to the national defense authorization act that once again stated that military commissions were the preferred forum for the trial of terrorists. in light of the significant national security risks associated with civilian prosecution of terrorists, and the oft repeated support of military commissions by cong