tonight. taxpayers pay $150 million a year for that. the president vowed to close it again and again five years ago first making that promise but closing a facility that houses some of the most dangerous terrorist in the world has a cost of it s own. one everyone should know about. chris lawrence has an out front investigation. reporter: former detaining people are still returning to terrorism, years after the u.s. let them out of guantanamo bay. a u.s. intelligence report reveals former detained people communicate with each other, sometimes having discussions about terrorist operations. we know terrorist organizations when these individuals are released will in every way, shape or form focus on them. reporter: two of the terrorist seen conferring with the second in command were transferred from gitmo. the very next year, he organized an attack on the american
an attack on the american embassy in yemen and rose to become number two before he was killed in a drone strike. the man who uligised yesterday in the, 603 detained people have been transferred from guantanamo bay. more than 16% of them, 100 in all returned to terrorist activity. but peel back those numbers a bit, since president obama took office in early 2009, 71 detained have been released, three have returned to the battle field and four more are suspected of going back to terrorism. if you look at the recent numbers, it s as little as maybe five percent. doesn t that show the program is now working? you look at the countries where they have gone back to and the job they are doing.
and obviously the embassies have reopened, including the american embassy in yemen. is this an all-clear or given all the information that they have, do they think there s another attack in the works? right. on this conference call they vaguely discussed a threat and said some teams that were in place. there was a date around that threat. now that date has come and gone. the consulate in lahore, pakistan, remains closed. what we know is that the overall threat from al qaeda remains, the specific threat may have passed. we know they re out there and they re trying to plan attacks and we have to be vigilant at all times. josh, thank you very much. josh roggen breaking it with eli lake. how and where was the accused boston marathon bomber shot? we have new details tonight for you. and the secretary of state hillary clinton, put four officials on administrative leave following the american attack on the embassy in benghazi, guess what? they re being brought back to their jobs. wh
successful u.s. strike against terrorists who targeted the american embassy in yemen. the strike among the latest in an aggressive counterterrorism campaign waged by american drones. with the details here is our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. reporter: a small but significant sigh of relief from u.s. counterterrorism officials. with a senior u.s. official telling abc news four al qaeda terrorists connected to the latest threat stream against the american embassy in yemen had been killed in a drone strike over the weekend. yemen has become the center of the latest al qaeda plots against the u.s. according to other u.s. officials, about three dozen al qaeda operatives have been killed in drone strikes in yemen over the last two weeks. not among those killed according to u.s. officials is the mastermind bomb maker, al siri. al siri created the underwear bomb meant to bring down a u.s. airliner and last year devised a bomb with ingredients u.s. officials admit would go t
terrorists who targeted the american embassy in yemen. the strike among the latest in an aggressive anti-terrorism counterterrorism campaign waged by american drones. with the details here is our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. reporter: a small but significant sigh of relief from u.s. counterterrorism officials. with a senior u.s. official telling abc news four al qaeda terrorists connected to the latest threat stream against the american embassy in yemen had been killed in a drone strike over the weekend. yemen has become the center of the latest al qaeda plots against the u.s. according to other u.s. officials, about three dozen al qaeda operatives have been killed in drone strikes in yemen over the last two weeks. not among those killed according to u.s. officials is the mastermind bomb maker, al siri. al siri created the underwear bomb meant to bring down a u.s. airliner and last year devised a bomb with ingredients u.s. officials admit would go through screening