our national security. within two hours of the president s departure, a suicide bomber rocked kabul. at least seven people were killed. the taliban is claiming responsibility for the attack. the nfl suspended four players from the new orleans saints today. anthony hargrove, scott fujita, will smith, and jonathan vilma were all named in the so-called bountygate scandal. players were allegedly offered bonuses for hurting players. the league has already suspended sean payton for the 2012 season. hillary clinton is in china there to talk economic strategy, but the name on everyone s lips is chen. that s chen guangcheng who is now we are told at a hospital in beijing. chen is the blind human rights activist who was convicted and thrown in jail for leading protests against the government. he spent six days under american embassy protection after escaping house arrest. it s not clear if he left the embassy by choice. a friend of the activist said chinese authorities threatened
struggling to piece it together. from the capitol, we want to show you images from new york city. scenes just like this. police popping up in the backs of trucks. taking a close look at trucks, vans. here is what we have learned just within the past hour. all of this coming from intel sources in washington. they say their source of information is a communications intercept involving a known al qaeda operative in pakistan. this known operative is said to have discussed a vehicle bomb attack against either new york or washington on the tenth anniversary of 9/11. we ll get you more details on that momentarily. but first, i want to okay. we re going to get straight to our terror expert. terrorism analyst out of new york. paul, we have heard that authorities are trying to trace the movements of it s not one, it s not two. apparently these three individuals, including possibly one american, these three may have recently entered the u.s. or perhaps are on the way. what more can
the car companies. the u.s. defense department says it will not allow rolling stone reporter michael hastings to accompany troops in the afghan war zone. this follows the major fallout from his last article which mocked the obama administration. mcchrystal was fired and the military faced sharp new questions about the u.s. strategy there. michael hastings joins me now. he has a article on u.s. helicopter pilots in the september edition of men s journal. thanks for being with us. thanks for having me here. you were offered a chance to be embedded with the troops but at the end of the month that s when the rolling stone article on stanny ley mcchrystal came . the letter said i had been approved for the embed that was
our adversaries can learn a lot about our tactics, procedures from the body of these leaked documents. so i think that puts our soldiers at risk. senator carl eleven, chairman of the armed services committee, says the pentagon is looking into just how much the leak is impacting our operational security in afghanistan. nearly 700 national guard soldiers from massachusetts are now bound for the afghan war zone. everybody here volunteered, folks. you are here to make a difference to keep our country safe. massachusetts new senator there. the new stadium in worchester transform sfwood a sea of fatigues and american flags as thousands of supporters rallied to give the first battalion 181st infanry infantry regimen a proper sendoff. they will be providing security for reconstruction teams while helping officials develop a
lawmakers are struggling to form a coalition government. the body of an american sailor has been found in eastern afghanistan. the search continues for the second missing sailor. they disappeared after leaving a u.s. military base in kabul. one died in a fire fight and the other is being held by the group. experts seem to agree there are no bomb shells in the classified military documents leaked by wikileaks but they do reveal disturbing secrets from the afghan war zone. nic robertson reports. there s a guy in white right there. reporter: fall, 2007, u.s. troops fend off a feared attack. they got one on top of the building right here, too. reporter: it is a remote, barely accessible u.s. mountain base, barely 100 troops there at the time. i just arrived. they told me a month earlier, a