used his own brother as a suicide bomber in august of 2009 for the attempted assassination of a saudi prince and the actual leader of al-qaida in yemen is a longtime aid to osama bin laden and he s believed to be in the south of yemen. a u.s. official says that it s believed they have been apart for some time for operational security reasons. traveling to israel today the defense secretary who was recently the cia director said it was too early to write off the al-qaida affiliate. there is no question that al-qaida remains a threat, that there are individuals within al-qaida that are still there, that are still planning to try to attack the united states. reporter: a former senior intelligence official reminded me this morning that we had a similar strike with al-qaida in yemen back in 2002 and in a seven year period it was able to reconstitute itself and launch attacks against the united states. jenna: victory on one hand but
middle. if we achieve victory in 2003, we re done. we could have left then. and frankly, that s what we should have done. we keep trying to help these people and we can t do it. it s not really us we should not shape them in our form, they don t want to be shaped in our form. and most importantly, when you look at the current situation, dylan, if we left tomorrow, if the karzai government fails, i don t think the taliban have the momentum to actually become the governors of the country. there s too many other competing tribes and frankly, there s other elements that will prevent them from doing that. we ll always be there looking over their shoulders to make sure they can t launch attacks or do things to support al qaeda. it s just not in the cards for them. and there s a great irony in this. in that the united states brought karzai to power. the cia teams physically escorted him to parts of the country and helped him create his power base. that everybody knows. that s well docum
because your choice didn t win or you want to checkup the other runners up, go to suzanne malveaux s page,. and it s the big story today. today is the big day for president obama. that long awaited jobs speech on congress. it was planned for last night. you know the republicans were debating last night and had to be moved to tonight, the president s speech. here we are six hours away from the speech. he is expected to propose more investments and tax breaks that will cost $3 billion. the president may call for an infrastructure bank providing for low cost loans to get projects off the ground. he is expected to call for an extension in the payroll tax break which almost every american worker gets. and more tax breaks for those that hire veterans and the long-term unemployed. the white house says none of this ought to come as objectionable to republicans. all of these ideas are bipartisan in nature. they are the kinds of things that republicans and democrats have broadly su
see the taliban beginning to regroup and launch attacks once again. but when you talk to people on the ground, they say there s still so much to be done. they remember the fact that in the past there s been a pullout or certainly with the war in iraq, attention was drawn away from afghanistan and that gave the taliban the ability to regroup and to increase its forces, increase it s strike power, they re say tlag the u.s. needs to stay the course, not just to deal with security in afghanistan, but to secure the u.s. as well and try to prevent any further attack there. all right, stan grant, live in kabul, afghanistan. thanks, stan. and just ahead, imagine sitting in your living room, watching television and seeing the u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s as they take out osama bin laden. it s quite possible that the obama administration was doing exactly that. and we re going to show you how technology connects troops in remote foxholes to their u.s. troops in washington. it s not just a hollywood
are talking about. we re not just talking about ordinary individuals. we re talking about people that may be in a position to carry out these threats and make good on these threats. that s what s worrying. even discussions about what happened yesterday with the president s visit at ground zero, right? there were people on these forums urging people to go out and launch attacks against obama s visit in new york and launch attacks on crowds outside of the white house or ground zero celebrating the death of bin laden. that s what is worrying. we have al qaeda and then we also have these random homegrown extremists who may be mobilized by this rhetoric. we ll have to keep closely watching this in the coming days and make sure that nobody tries stepping up and making a name for themselves at the expense of the united states. the statement really more than a statement indicating what s happening in terms of chatter. hopefully not but a warning. thank you. what you saw there is wh