yes. they were mid to high ranking members of the taliban government. so, yes, they were part of planning. my point was we have no direct evidence of any direct involvement in their direct attacks on the united states or any troops. they were part of the taliban at the time. they were combatants. your point is they didn t pull the trigger but they were senior commanders of the taliban military who directed operations against the united states and its coalition partners. would that be a better way to do it? that s right. as i said in my statement, congressman, they were combatants. we were at war with the taliban. there is no getting around that. i made that point pretty clearly. just like bin laden didn t
. they stand accused of plotting the dets of nearly 3,000 americans. khalid sheikh mohammed and four other suspects facing arraignment today in guantanamo bay. chris lawrence is there for us. it seems like these men are doing everything they can just to drag all of this out further. reporter: yeah, don. and the arraignment was just about over and there was another outburst in the courtroom, just literally a few minutes ago. we were watching the court proceedings. everything seemed to be wrapping up, and then the judge sort of turned to one of the detainees and said no, no, no. and the judge said put your shirt back on and sit down or you will be escorted out of the courtroom. now, because of the vantage point, we couldn t tell which defendant he was speaking to, but clearly there was an attempt by one of the defendants to take his shirt off in the courtroom, which the judge quickly put a stop to and moved on. what about that first outburst during the proceed ings? somet
california. not just on the outskirts of al qaeda but inside. we ve seen this propaganda video and it was always perpetuated that he was being used by al qaeda because he could speak english. these documents paint a different picture. he was a counsellor. what you re seeing here as bob talked about, the difficulty bin laden and the senior leadership were having with all the affiliates. and there are two major lessons out of this document worth about. the first is the affiliate challenge. bin laden didn t have control over them. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, al qaeda in iraq. what he discovered, and this is the more important point, is that these affiliates were doing more to harm the al qaeda brand than anything else because they were killing so many innocent muslims. so the null of innocent muslims are being killed in the name of al qaeda directly troubled bin laden and he knew that was impacting his ability and the ability of al qaeda and the grand sense to achieve their missi
more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn s stan grant is in beijing and has been following this story from the beginning. dramatic developments, huge interest at stake, stan. you had a chance to speak with the u.s. ambassador gary locke about all of this. what is the very latest? reporter: yes. he is gary locke, the man with the answers about what went wrong at the embassy. chen guangcheng said he was encouraged to leave and without knowing the full range of his threat that
may day protests all around the world. occupy wall street trying to regroup and calling for a day without the 99%. no work, no shopping, no banking. hoping for a nationwide disruption. and rescue 411. a 4 11 firefighter just the right size to save a little baby who fell 20 feet down a drain pipe. we ll be talking to the hero. up first this morning, pure gold. it s how intelligence officials are describing over 100 internal al qaeda documents that detailed past attacks and future terror targets. here is something incredible. the information was embedded in a porn movie. it was uncovered by german authorities after they arrested an al qaeda operative last year and that operative was searched. and that s when police found his underwear and inside, a memory card. the microchip had a pornographic video on it. when the authorities went further and dug deeper with be they found a treasure trove of information embedded in the film. nic robertson is live in london this morning. y