eight days. now take a look at this. same picture but this time it s him with his alleged taliban ak-47, and you begin to wonder if, in fact, he s a hostage or if he is a visitor. that photo was provided by one of the men who actually runs a thintank in pakistan. we should point out we can t independently verify that particular photo but he spoke to cnn s walsh. greg mortenson said that you kidnapped him, did you? no, he s lying. he s lying. we didn t kidnap him. he was our guest. and we treated him as a guest. if you saw greg mortenson now, what would you say to him? i would simply say, why would you defame me and my family and my tribe? we treated you well. we housed you in our homes. so why the hell you have made all these lies about us. then there are questions
did you see? well, what we saw in the city, very much under siege by libyan forces surrounded by three sides. it s actually coping far better than i expected. they have two months of food, supply of two months of food. unlike in the east, they seem to be fairly well organized militarily. they ve managed to hold off the libyan army for quite some time. coming up next, mortenson. tonight, though, allegations that some of the stories in the book are fiction. and some of the schools are, too. also ahead tonight, last year s gulf oil spill killed thousand of birds. tonight we ll preview an hbo documentary that tracked the rescue of a single brown
well, he people have met greg mortenson knows that he is a different sort of person. you know, he s he has done a lot of great work over there. and i think we should be careful not to immediately throw all of that out because there are some questions being raised. you know, he can be an odd person to talk to. and when i asked him about that i gave him a chance to, you know, say, you re really just saying this was something that happened to you? it wasn t you weren t a participant in these inaccuracies. inaccuracies. inaccuracies. inaccuracies. participant in these participant in these participant in these he didn t really take that chance. he said, yeah, i didn t understand publishing or nonfiction writing. it was almost like he got rolled by the process. and that s too bad. but obviously, it s not a good enough answer, but i don t think it means that everything in those books is a lie. remember, in outside magazine we did a profile of mortenson where our writer was him from
he s lying. we didn t kidnap him. he was our guest. and we treated him as a guest. if you saw greg mortensen now, what would you say to him? i would simply say, why would you defame me and my family and my tribe? we treated you well. we housed you in our homes. so why the hell you have made all these lies about us. then there are questions about the school building mission. cbs news 60 minutes recently looked into 30 of 141 schools the mart ten sent orgsz cia said it built in pakistan and afghanistan and they found that roughly half of those, 30 were empty, built by others, or receiving no support at all from cia. the principal of this school told us that the institute had built six classrooms poorly several years ago and, since then, not a single ruby.
in afghanistan we could not find no evidence that six of the schools even existed. most of them in war torn province. that was 60 minutes steve croft. then there s the money. according to 60 minutes an analysis of receipts he spent 41% of the money it raised to build schools but $1.7 million, according to 60 minutes went to mortensen s book related expenses. to put that in context, more nonmy than they spent inle skoos in pakistan that year. here is what greg mortensen sent via e-mail to his supporters about the allegations on sunday. said this. the 60 minutes interview paints a distorted picture using inaccurate information, innuendo, and a microscopic focus on one year s irs 90 financial and a few points in the book three cups of tea that occurred almost 18 years ago. mortensen declined our request for an interview but he did speak to the editorial director