al ahmad investigates the toll on civilians. ahmad: the drone strikes, the raids- adds to the massive fear and confusion yemenis are already feeling in the midst of this very complicated war. narrator: these two stories tonight on this special edition of frontline. frontline is made possible bt butions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. the ford foundation: working with visionaries on the ontlines of social chang worldwide. additional support is providedam by the afoundation, committed to excellence in journalism. the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the john and helen glessner family trust. supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires. the heising-simons foundation: unlocking knowledge, opportunity, and
out of ember the phones twenty sixteen syrian human rights lawyer. launches an appeal on facebook. we are looking for people who were abducted taken to intelligence service jails two one five two two seven and two three five and tortured there we want to press charges in germany and send a clear message to the torture is in syria there is no impunity. one hundred people responded that same day offering to testify as witnesses. khaled or ours was in germany when he saw the appeal he had heard good things about the syrian human rights lawyer alderney was known for his courage in defending countless political detainees at trials in syria. never less. that s far i was surprised actually. here i had an opportunity to bring criminal charges. despite not being german. exactly and chance for me so as i said it was an opportunity. and i soon as i saw the appeal. i talked to and were right away. in twenty fifteen hundred and his wife were able to escape and come to germany where they w
president thanks for giving us the opportunity this is your first in a drama is watching an interview with bashar al assad in which the syrian president is confronted with photos of people tortured to death assad rejects the claim that they were killed by his own security forces you can bet you thought he just spoke by god i just think it was i was there and my friends died in front of my eyes because of torture and until this very moment there s people who are dying because of torture if we are getting this if it is who are we defending syria against school and for assad dismisses criticism as efforts to demonize his regime and you where do you draw the i ve been tortured everyone i met in the present in tortured . to lie. it is a way of defense of the government against the people you know the execution is part of the seat of government was also the way they can make it legally but it s been here for decades they don t have anything to think with the execution according to
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 alack can i at the center of the plot for 9/11. is he the new bin laden? we begin our report with kathryn herrige. january 5th 2000. kuala lumpur malaysia, in a condo overlooking a beautifully designed golf course at least a dozen of osama bin laden s hijackers gathered for a meeting. the purpose, discuss details in the upcoming plots to bomb the u.s.s. cole in the gulf of aiden and the attack plans for 9/11. it was a terror summit. since the 1998 bombings of the u.s. embassies in tanzania and kenya which killed over 200, the nsa has captured and recorded phone calls made from a specific house in yemen. it was some 60 miles outside of the capital. the house was osama bin laden s operat
within. do you believe the massacre could have been prevented? i do. that s the painful conclusion. there was a failure to act. the obama administration says no purple hearts will be avoided. what happened at fort hood almost 3 years ago should be addressed in the context of a broader threat of workplace violence. the big question is why didn t anybody ever blow the whistle on hassan? i am bill hem mer. i am katherine jarrett. i am greg begun feld we are here on this episode of fox files. i wanted to help soldiers and i wanted to work in mental health. hideidaho native shawn manning comings with a family of a proud tradition of serving the nation. my father wasgrandfather was in ee roy jemaah world war ii was a marine. he drove a tank. he was proud i joined the military. it was in october of 1999 when the 23-year-old followed in his grandfather s foot steps. what is your rank and position? staff sergeant mental health specialist. active duty?