here, about the osama bin laden file, hundreds of pages of documents seized in the raid that killed him one year ago released by the u.s. government. now another dead terrorist is speaking from the grave. the yemen based militant died last fall in a drone strike, but his group has published new irn constructions and among other things they re telling followers to set fire to america. set fire. these new instructions include guidance on how to create a so-called ember bomb to ignite wildfires. want to go straight to irvine, california, bob formerly of the cia. good to see you again. this is something we hadn t heard, the idea of using wildfires as weapons of terror. question to you, is this a new idea? is this something law enforcement has considered? they have considered it, of course. arson is a very effective weapon. it is easy to light places on fire and attack at several places. you don t have to procure explosives. the rest of it, it doesn t surprise me. al qaeda is de
today florida prosecutors charged 11 alleged participants with what s called felony hazing. they charged two others with misdemeanors. if convicted, the maximum anyone could face for beating someone to death would be six years in prison. again, the question is why not murder or manslaughter charges? one answer, say prosecutors, is that it would be tough getting convictions with the evidence that they have. the testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder in that it does not contain the elements of murder. we can prove participation in hazing and a death. we do not have a blow or a shot or a knife thrust that killed mr. champion. it is an aggregation of things which exactly fit the florida statute as written by the legislature. well, that statute was written seven years ago with the best intentions to hold people accountable for hazing deaths. you have to wonder, though, does the very fact that it s on the books allow some people to pay lighter penalties
army staff sergeant accused of the unthinkable. walking off base and executing 16 civilians, nine of them children. the sergeant is a qualified sniper trained to hit and kill people at a distance of eight football fields. let s go to chris lawrence. what else do we know about this accused gunman? he s a combat veteran that did three tours in iraq. on the last tour in 2010, his vehicle rolled over. he suffered a traumatic brain injury. the army treated him for that. he was diagnosed and declared fit for duty. he s a married man, a father of two. over the weekend, the military moved his family, his wife and kids on to the military base in the state of washington for their own protection. now, as to what happened here, he left the base, his combat outpost at 3:00 in the morning. the afghan guards noticed he was gone. noticed him leaving. they called their american counter parts. it raised alarms. the americans put a search party together to search for the soldier. at the same