advisor, counselor on that morning. karen, you were not with the president in florida, september 10th is your wedding anniversary. you were here in washington. can you bring us back to how uncertain these moments ten years ago were four and for the government? well i just remember the complete shock and horror. i was, as you say in washington. i was at home because i was scheduled to represent the white house at another event. my assistant called me from the white house and said karen, a plane has hit the world trade center. like many of us i thought a small plane and i turned on the television and called my deputy traveling with the president in florida and i watched in horror as the second plane crashed into the second towers as so many americans did and i remember telling him another plane hit the second tower. then we knew it wasn t an accident. he said what kind of a plane? i said i don t know a big plane like a passenger plane. it never occurred to me there
passed into niger, according to reports from several news agencies. it borders on libya and algeria. officials in niger are saying the head of moammar gadhafi security forces entered the country on sunday but there s no official word who may be traveling in this latest convoy. anti-gadhafi rebels have vowed to take control. rebels told cnn just a few minutes ago they ve resumed negotiations with tribal leaders on the surrender of bani walid. the international committee of the red cross says it s been allowed inside syria s main detention facility. this is the first time it s been given access to detainees since protests started six months ago. the increased access was called an important step forward. a man claiming to have a bomb has taken a child hostage at a court complex. police have surrounded the building in a suburban area of sydney and evacuated people from the area. the child reportedly is the man s young daughter. police negotiators are at the scene. just a mont
a decade after the twin towers attacks. new buildings finished in two years time. the iconic skyline in manhattan remains uncomplete to this day. on that fateful morning 3,000 people died in new york at the pentagon in washington and in shanksville, pennsylvania. after exhaustive studies by congress and the 9/11 commission, there are questions we are still asking today. who really helped the 19 men? who helped them to move around our country largely undetected? and was this man american born cleric anwar al-awlaki at the center of the plot of 9/11? is he the new bin laden? we begin our report with catherine herridge. january 5th, 2000. malaysia. in a condo overlooking a beautifully designed golf course usama bin laden operatives including these future hijackers
at the pentagon in washington and in shanksville, pen . after studies by congress and the 9/11 commission there are questions we are still asking today. who really helped the 19 men? who helped them to move around ourpeé1u country largely undetected? was this man, american born cleric awlaki at the center of plots of 9/11? is he the new bin laden? we begin our report with catherine herridge. reporter: january 5th, 2000, colin:, malaysia. in koala lamb purr, malaysia, two future hijackers, gathered for a meeting. the purpose, discuss details in the upcoming plots to bomb the uss cole and attack plans for 9/11. it was a terror summit.
capacity and can get lucky. and certainly the death of bin laden is something that a number of people around the world will try and take revenge, particularly in a country where he s just been killed, because the people motivated by these ideas regard the united states not only as an enemy but the pakistani government itself, 3,000 pakistani civilians have been killed by groups motivate the by al qaeda s ideology in the past several years and bin laden and his number two ayman al zawahiri have made it a point to attack the pakistani state and military in the last several year. one last quick question, did who knew in pakistan within the pakistani government that bin laden was where he was? i don t think we know the answer to that, john. okay. peter, thank you very much. peter bergen live for us this evening in washington. we appreciate it. thanks. all right. we want to take a step back for just a moment with some background on osama bin laden s life before the 9/11 attacks