relationship is breaking? not really, not for the long run. i think there s going to be difficult times in the short run here. but they need us desperately, we need them desperately. and that s just a fact of life and we re going to have to figure out how to make it work together. and they have made the point that they have lost thousands of military personnel, police personnel, civilians, two attacks by al qaeda and by the taliban. so they have paid a great price in the war on terror themselves. but, yes, there are factions within their military and within the isi that are loyal to the tall land, are loyal to bin laden and his followers. so those parts or their elements will have to be rooted out, but they need us and i think that the embarrassment of this, you know, while it s great, you know, in fairness to them, there s a lot to be said for the possibility that they really didn t know he was there. and you know, we saw the video neighborhood. there are many houses in that neighbo
asked paul cruikshank about, which is how small the al qaeda operation apparently was if in fact osama bin laden was running the operation from this home. did that strike you at all? it has struck me, drew. i think the question there is that one of the reports coming out about al qaeda s pending attacks was to place an item on a railroad track and derail a train in the united states. if al qaeda is reduced to pulling teenaged pranks as acts of terrorism, then i think it s pretty clear that they re vastly dm diminished from the old al qaeda. the point i would like to make is i think the united states government has done something very, very clever. for the last 15 years, the images of bin laden, any time his name has been mentioned by worldwide media, the immediate picture shown on the screen is of the macho warrior, strolling in the mountains of afghanistan with his ak-47 taking on the
contemplates this draw down of the number of u.s. troops in afghanistan, how would you c describe the security situation in this country? we have seen more attacks launched by the taliban. the taliban have announced that they re about to begin their spring offensive and they have launched attacks in the province of kandahar. there were multiple explosions there, a number of people left dead and wounded, they targeted government installations, the national police headquarters, in fact they said they were trying to kill or abduct the governor and that drew a response from the foreign forces and also afghan forces who were able to drive the militants out but it once again shows what a potent force they can be. and the training that bin laden has given them and also financing the organization, we talked to people here there s a long way to go to bringing the
the hi jackers and buying flight simulation materials. he was captured in 2003, also in custody in guantanamo bay. mustama ahmed al-hawsawi, known as the operations if a tifacili for al qaeda. he s in custody at guantanamo bay. there is only one other major player and he s not in custody. his whereabouts are unknown. that man. ayman al-zawahiri, known as osama bin laden s top lieutenant. often seen next to bin laden. he s presumed to be alive somewhere. perhaps best positioned to take over al qaeda. his whereabouts, not known. more on the new bin laden videos coming up. we ll look at this one and others, just part of the bounty from the raid on the compound in pakistan. [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america.
looking at images of himself. it s a different image than some of his followers would have been used to, but it s not going to alter their perception of osama bin laden. it wasn t like it was look at a flat screen and he was on some sort of guilded chair, so i don t think it will dramatically alter the image of bin laden. paul, what does this tell you, though, about his media strategy and how perhaps attached he was to his own image. well, it illustrates how important the media strategy really was to bin laden. he told omar in the 90s that the media part of it was 90% of the battle, and since 9/11, bin laden has released more than 30 tapes, audiotapes and written statements, in those statements he s trying to direct the al qaeda operation, when they should attack, how they should attack, he s also presented