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Jeddah was its main door to the west, main port on the red sea and a huge amount of building had taken place. i taught osama bin laden english in saudi arabia from 1968 to 1969. osama sat about two-thirds of the way back on the right by the windows. he was not an outstanding student academically. on the other hand, he was a very bright boy. >> reporter: although arabic and religious instruction took priority, the al fatah school, one of the top schools in the kingdom, was surprisingly progressiv...

>> reporter: osama bin laden grew up in the boomtown of jeddah, saudi arabia, a town his father helped build. >> saudi arabia in the 1960s was of course a fantastically wealthy kingdom. jeddah was its main door to the west. it was its main port on the red sea and a huge amount of building had taken place, im brian. i taught osama bin laden english in saudi arabia from 1968 to 1969. osama sat about two-thirds of the way back on the right, by the windows. he was not an outstanding student academic...

Osama sat about two-thirds of the way back on the right, by the windows. he was not an outstanding student academically. on the other hand, he was a very bright boy. >> reporter: although arabic and religious instruction took priority, the al fatah school, one of the top schools in the kingdom, was surprisingly progressive. >> the boys had a western uniform. they had trousers, shirts, jackets and shoes. >> reporter: faifel shaler had taught a number of bin ladens brothers. osamas family was well...

Full trust. our relationship has been one where we reach points of mounting distrust, and then we reach a point where we have to renegotiate that relationship. for example, one such point was when i first arrived as ambassador to pakistan in august of 2001. by september of 2001, i was under instruction to go and talk to president musharraf and say, look, are you with us or against us? the trust had gotten so great. and then, as a part of that renegotiation, yes, they were with us and going after...

Directing what to do and who to do what, you know? >> absolutely correct here. osama bin laden, when it comes to the operational side of al qaeda, he was completely insignificant for the last ten years. >> was that really about looking for a replacement, is it? >> al qaeda now is transformed. its changed. it is a flat, loose organization. there is no pyramid built al qaeda as it used to be say 10 or 15 years ago. you have al qaeda in somalia, al qaeda in yemen, al qaeda in iraq, al qaeda in afgh...

We can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al qaedas terror, justice has been done. back to "hardball." what a statement that was. nearly 3,000 innocents lost their lives in their horrific attack of september 11th. with us tonight, jimmy boyle, former president of the new york firefighters union, jimmy sons michael was a firefighter killed that day trying to save lives in the north tower of the world trade center. also patricia riley is with us. she lost her sister lorraine, who ...

Instruction of osama bin laden hands and by introduction of osama bin laden that we finally got justice and im very grateful to them for that. im very happy. im really most happy that osama bin laden knows that the last thing he thought was that the americans game and they got me for what i did to them. i feel a lot of gratitude for that. >> ive never heard it put that way. jimmy, thank you for coming on. i cant imagine losing a son. i cant imagine it. your thoughts tonight, sir? >> very happy, ...

That our for not forgetting and ensuring that all the innocent people who were by instruction of osama bin laden that we finally got justice, and im very grateful to them for that, very happy. im really most happy knows that the last thing he thought was the americans came to get me for what i did to them. i feel gratitude for them. >> i never heard it put that way. jimmy, thanks for putting it on. i cant imagine losing a son. i cant imagine it. your thoughts tonight, sir? >> very happy, chris, ...

Is. now, you can say, well, steve jobs learned calligraphy so we dont have to, but there are other things you can do once youve learned it, so i dont think its ended. >> so, in an era, though, where kids are increasingly using technology and bringing with them any manner of mobile devices to help them do that, how do teachers go about teaching cursive? >> they cant go about it as their ancestors did in the 19th century. then cursive was really needed as a business handwriting because there weren...

To tennessee where a proposed bill would prevent elementary and middle school teachers from talking about homosexuality to kids in the classroom. the bill has been dubbed, "the dont say gay bill." senate bill 0049 says, quote, no public elementary or middle school shall provide any instruction or material that discusses sexual orientation other than heterosexuality. the man behind the bill, state senator stacy camfield. the republican senator from knoxville tried unsuccessfully for years to get ...