shabab has changed strategy from choosing best of legit targets to hitting whatever target they can and legitimizing it later. this isn t the first time he s been attacked and reportedly killed. he tweeted this, quote, just been shot in neck by shabab assassin. not critic icaical yet. as i said, he s been reported killed before, only to emerge alive each and every time. so this time, is it real? j.m. burger runned the website, intelwire.com. he also wrote the book jihad joe, americans who go to woar i the name of islam. you follow hamami, is this latest account of his death credible? well, it s definitely more credible than anything we have heard before. the news of the attack on hamami first came from al shabab social media users.
for the killing of westerners for years. and the producer of the terrorist publication, inspire, also killed in the attack. the problem is, their message will survive, thanks so cyber space, and plenty of their followers are still out there in this country and around the world. here now, the author of jihad joe, americans who go to war in the name of islam and editor of intel wire.com, jm burger. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. heather: so you refer to figures like al-awlaki and bin laden as larger than death. explain that. well, we often talk about heroic figures being larger than life and jihaddist pan thee on, these figures who die, especially in something that can be considered martyrdom take on a larger than death quality. they really had an image and personality that expands beyond what they did in their lives. because they re dead, they can t
in short order probably in the next 30, 45 minutes. they ll go underneath the shuttle atlantis and take a look at the tiles and heat shield and have that one bit of emotional closure of wow, this is the ship we spent 13 days in orbit on. 200 orbits around planet earth and this is the 133rd landing of the space shuttle, 135 launches, two landings unaccounted for were challenger and columbia and commander ferguson did make a nice point on his posts-landing speech, commenting on, you know, including columbia and the challenger crews as part of the big team overall that really got us to where we are today. phil keating, tom jones, great job. appreciate you bringing us through this entire process and the final landing of the space shuttle program. thanks, guys. thank you. thank you, dr. manny. you bet. just call him jihad joe. al-qaida teaching children all about terror through cartoons. how effective is this? a terror expert who has seen this work next. then the g.o.p. fighting
and this is the 133rd landing of the space shuttle, 135 launches, two landings unaccounted for were challenger and columbia and commander ferguson did make a nice point on his posts-landing speech, commenting on, you know, including columbia and the challenger crews as part of the big team overall that really got us to where we are today. phil keating, tom jones, great job. appreciate you bringing us through this entire process and the final landing of the space shuttle program. thanks, guys. thank you. thank you, dr. manny. you bet. just call him jihad joe. al-qaida teaching children all about terror through cartoons. how effective is this? a terror expert who has seen this work next. then the g.o.p. fighting for spending cuts but democrats say that will make government smaller. isn t that the direction the last election told its voters they wanted us to go? huh? mine was earned over the south pacific in 1943.
had been flying in? first it was an eerie feeling. hijackers moved here.com plex in san diego at the parkwood apartments. and omar signed the lease. on page 517 in a footnote from the commission report is a reference to four phone calls february 4th, 2000 between omar and a local imam awlaki. the fbi was aware he had contact with al-qaeda figures in the past. author of jihad joe has filed thousands of freedom information act requests. he was involved in suspicious charities. they cut the information shortly before the hijackers arrived. they decided that awlaki was not worth investigation getting worth investigating any more. was was the relationship? the assumption was it was a close relationship and awlaki may have been one of the few, if not only people that they