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All these affiliate groups who have designs on either killing americans or targeting inside the united states. >> do we know if the homeland security committee is calling for more to be done to protect us? >> absolutely. it was interesting both congressman king and ranking member benny thompson asked specifically, what can we do? there were discussions. lee hamilton was very clear, we need to have the radio bandwidth for them. congress needs to reorganize so that the oversight is rational. i tal...

We can expect the affiliate groups will jockey for prestige, for power, and to control the future direction of al qaeda. he has continued to try to target the united states. whether the attempted underwear bomber on a christmas day plane. the computer cartridges and cargo planes or nidal hasan at ft. hood. he represents that faction of targeting western interests as opposed to saif al-adel. and what the intelligence community hopes for is just such tension, just such conflict. >> fran townsend, ...

One of the most dangerous al qaeda affiliate groups lead by that american-born clear rick. no word yet on whether bin laden and ma lack key were in communication. we dont know that. but very disconcerting to know that bin laden was in a communication with that group. as for these other plots, it turns out that u.s. officials suspected late last year when they usualed a travel alert for americans in europe to be careful traveling in europe to be careful. they suspected bin laden might be behind...

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arnold schwarzenegger and the scandal. youre in the situation room. hes a billionaire and head of a powerful world agency. the international monetary fund dominique strauss-kahn now sits in the new york city jail cell facing sex crime charges for assaulting and he does not qualify for diplomatic immunity. whats going on? >> wolf, its 24 hours now for dominique strauss-kahn. he has had one unidentified visitor so far. prosecutors are analyzing forensic evidence strauss-kahn cannot do ...

Targets. reza sayah is in pakistan. why do you think that his followers wanted to move beyond attacks to the united states? >> there are indications they didnt want blowback or america to move into their region. that seemed to be a source of disagreement between osama bin laden and some of his affiliate groups. certainly, u.s. officials say when they looked at these documents, they do show that osama bin laden was fixated on carrying it out, another attacken o the scale of 9/11 on u.s. soil. the...

Oppression and justice and conflict in this particular region. he thought the best way to get the u.s. and u.s. forces out of this region was to kill as many civilians as possible on u.s. soil. whats interesting again is that some of those affiliate groups in other parts of the world, yemen, somalia, algeria, didnt necessarily agree with him. they wanted to focus on smaller, regional attacks, somewhat of a source of frustration for osama bin laden according to these documents. >> interesting. i ...

I have to talk about organized terrorists. whats left? >> these affiliate groups, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and group inspired by bin laden, but not controlled by, because after 9/11, the invasion of afghanistan really destroyed the past for the management infrastructure, but these groups are every bit as dangerous, in some ways more dangerous. >> can they pull off something big with the combination of hijackings, are they capable of the big operations? are they going to blow up whateve...

Member of the commission and a navy s.e.a.l. howard drum for the cia in europe. in america we have crime and organized crime. i have to talk about organized terrorists. whats left? >> these affiliate groups, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, and group inspired by bin laden, but not controlled by, because after 9/11, the invasion of afghanistan really destroyed the past for the management infrastructure, but these groups are every bit as dangerous, in some ways more dangerous. >> can they pull o...

>> the process of radicalization takes many different forms, it can be through local preachers, the affiliate groups of al qaeda, these are groups that have local grievances as well as international objectives and so depending on if youre looking at an immigrant and they come from somalia, that might pull them in the direction of some of those east african terror groups you mentioned. at the end of the day -- >> leland: i want to get this before we have to go, when it comes to the issue of radic...