80 people dead. and in claiming responsibility, the pakistani taliban calls the attack retaliation for the american raid that led to bin laden s death. reza sayah is live for us in islamabad. does the pakistani government view that has a singular message from the taliban, or do they believe there ll be more attacks? reporter: they believe there will be more attacks and the pakistani taliban says there will be more tobaccoattacks. this was a coordinated attack designed to kill a lot of people, and it did just that. 80 people killed, the deadliest attack this year. twin suicide attacks targeting hundreds of military recruits that hd just finished an extended training program. apparently, the night before, they were celebrating. morning came, they came out of this the training facility, ready to board vans to go home. that s when a suicide attacker walked up to the scene, blew himself up. there was chaos, commotion, people came to help, and that s when another suicide attacker came on t
pornography. this in the hideaway of a self-described religious warrior who says the united states and the west are immoral and godless. let s assess the importance of these new revelations with michael shoier, and with our national homeland security adviser, fran townsend. michael, let me start, i guess it s no surprise that the leader of al qaeda would want the president of the united states dead. but it s startling and jolting a bit to hear what written communications, plural, in which bin laden discusses his desire to have the president of the united states assassinated? i don t think it s surprising. and i think it s probably even worse now. they ll be looking to exact an eye for an eye. i suspect the secret service is very much en garde, because obama put himself in the bull s-eye. is assassination in the playbook? bin laden was very much involved in the early 90s in yemen in arranging the assassination of socialists and marxist yemeni politician. so it s not out