yemen earlier this month. tonight, former fbi agent ali soufan, author of the black banners, talks about his interrogation of al-quso before 9/11. how the heck quso is involved in what just happened? what did we miss? correspondent martin smiths interview with the interrogator. what if that information had been shared? oh, my god. i think the world would be very different today. these two stories on this special edition frontline. frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. and by reva and david logan, committed to investigative journalism as the guardian of the public interest. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critil issues. and by tfrontline journalism
united states and the world? this week america and the revolution starts right now. good morning, and this week, the world has experienced a massive tectonic shift. people peacefully overcoming 30 years of rule. egyptians put their stamp on their future. today, the military has been pulling down tents on tahrir square. and ordinary citizens armed with brooms and trash bags swept out the old to usher in the new. egypt s prime minister says the priority is to restore security. we ll try to navigate the fallout for the united states and the region. we ll have interviews with newt gingrich and the israeli defense minister, ehud barak. surely those 18 days in egypt shook the world. it was an epic showdown between the people and an authoritarian regime they had chafed under for decades. but on friday, the people won. egypt won its freedom from a man who had ruled them for 30 years. in 18 days, they won the support of the rest of the world, as the irresistible pictures of their st
shook the world. it was an epic showdown between the people and an authoritarian regime they had chafed under for decades. but on friday, the people won. egypt won its freedom from a man who had ruled them for 30 years. in 18 days, they won the support of the rest of the world, as the irresistible pictures of their struggle played out across the globe, on the internet, and on television. and they won a victory for the revolutionary idea that democracy could now sweep across the middle east. word spread friday morning that president mubarak had left cairo for his vacation home on the red sea. my colleague, terry moran, was outside the presidential palace when the crowd there learned that he had also left the presidency. reporter: the news hit this crowd like an enormous wave. in an instant, there was ecstasy. less than a week ago, the president said he had resigned himself to leaving the presidency eventually but said that he couldn t do it any time soon, for fear that the