his al qaeda deputy ayman al zawahiri meet around a campfire in kandahar, afghanistan, with one of pakistan s top nuclear scientist. they discuss al qaeda s aspirations to build a nuclear bomb. the two apparently met, we referred to as the fireside chat, or had a dinner and talked about al qaeda s interest in nuclear bombs, where the al qaeda leader apparently was trying to gain some basic sense of what it would take. rolf larson. how hard this was and how difficult this was for pakistan. bin laden said if i had the material, then how i do build it? the pakistani scientist later confirms to u.s. officials that the meeting took place, and that he gave al qaeda leaders a pencil drawing of a crude nuclear bomb design. just one month after that meeting in kandahar, september 11th, 2001.
protect the country. and to defend the world from grave danger. but the dramatic action the bush administration takes is to invade iraq, which at the time has no active nuclear program or weapons of mass destruction or any connection to al qaeda. meanwhile, the real work of stopping the real threat of nuclear terrorism proceeds almost frantically with no public attention at all. rolf larson combines an agency. find out if al qaeda has a bomb, if the next attack could be nuclear. find out how their efforts to get one can be stopped. in 2003, a smuggler crosses from russia into georgia carrying 170 grams of very pure bomb-grade uranium. mowat-larson and the cia trace its origins back to an old soviet nuclear facility inside russia. three years another smuggler caught with more nuclear
i thought you can t do this. malcolm nance spent 20 years in the naval intelligence community and was a master instructor at s.e.r.e., the military s survival evasion resistance and escape school. we teach how to properly behave in captivity and how to attempt escapes. nance travelled the world researching foreign interrogation tactics to better prepare u.s. troops for captivity. when i got my orders do to go to s.e.r.e. i wasn t to cambodia and wanted to see the prison in phnom penh and found a killing machine. this was a prison whose sole function was to document you coming in, document your torture, document your confession and document your execution. it was almost like a compendium of everything that we could do bad to you. it was the first time i ever saw a water board. the entire function was to get you to confess that you worked for the cia, that you worked against the khmer rouge government, and that was necessary of the your death. whether you told the t
interrogation techniques, suggestions for military interrogatoriers had migrated through official channels. these were techniques that america s enemies had used against us in wars past that the u.s. military cataloged and studied to teach american troops how to survive torture. i thought you can t do this. malcolm nance in the naval intelligence community and was a master instructor at s.e.r.e., the military s survival evasion resistance and escape school. we teach how to properly behave in captivity and how to attempt escapes. nance travelled the world researching foreign interrogation tactics to better prepare u.s. troops for captivity. when i got my orders do to go to s.e.r.e. i wasn t to cambodia and wanted to see the prison in phnom penh and found a killing machine. this was a prison whose sole function was to document you coming in, document your torture, document your confession and document your execution. it was almost like a compendium of everything tha
weapons of mass destruction or any connection to al qaeda. meanwhile, the real work of stopping the real threat of nuclear terrorism proceeds almost frantically with no public attention at all. rolf larson convenes a group to find out if al qaeda has a bomb, if the next attack could be nuclear. find out how their efforts to get one can be stopped. in 2003, a smuggler crosses from russia into georgia carrying 170 grams of very pure bomb-grade uranium. they trade its origins back to an old soviet nuclear facility in siberia. three years later, another smuggler caught with more nuclear material from the same facility. there is a pipeline supplying a black market what it takes to build a nuclear bomb. find it and shut it down in.