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Politics. michael says despite what you might think, there was no love lost between osama bin laden and the taliban and now is the perfect time to try to negotiate a peaceful settlement to the conflict there. welcome. >> good evening. >> explain this completely counterintuitive notion to me. youre saying the taliban is almost cheering at the death of osama bin laden. >> we have to be careful not to do this publicly but certainly many in the taliban unit, including people in the leadership privat...

skills, experience, motivation. and one more thing says matt tiabi, the ability to lie with a straight face. and epic floods. the mississippi is rising. and so is the cost. e.d. hill takes a closer look at a disaster in the making. but first, that handwritten diary wasnt the only terror blueprint osama bin laden left behind. he also kept his records on thumb drives that his helpful courier reportedly carried out to followers. what they found at the compound is an indication he had seri...

al qaeda and taliban fighters. >> were trying to take down an insurgency, take away its safe havens, take away its leaders. >> hit the guy on the road. >> the joint special operations command is almost an industrial- scale counterterrorism killing machine. >> narrator: frontline investigates the latest us strategy... >> bludgeon your opponent. kill and capture as many as you can. make them ask for peace. >> narrator: ...its impact and its risks. >> by launching those attacks, are we cr...

al qaeda and taliban fighters. >> were trying to take down an insurgency, take away its safe havens, take away its leaders. >> hit the guy on the road. >> the joint special operations command is almost an industrial- scale counterterrorism killing machine. >> narrator: frontline investigates the latest us strategy... >> bludgeon your opponent. kill and capture as many as you can. make them ask for peace. >> narrator: ...its impact and its risks. >> by launching those attacks, are we cr...

flakes if you will. real snow will hold off until midday and this afternoon. when it peaks, that is when we discourage any sort of travel. regardless of how much we get all of us will be getting winds that could gust up to 35 miles per hour. closer to the beaches white out conditions where winds could be gusting up to 50 miles per hour. it is up through delaware and new york shorelines. the highlight with this particular storm, there will be more snow towards the east. a winter storm w...

>> 1% of americans are serving in these wars, but 100% of americans need to reach out and support them. >> then "a rope and a prayer." journalists on the front lines of the afghan war. reporter david rohde held captive by the taliban for seven months while here at home, his wife, photo editor, kristen mulvihill, waged a stealthy struggle for his freedom. an incredible look inside a shared ordeal. and an inspiring tale of hope in the most intractable of wars. >> i know that she wouldn...

>> couric: congress demanded answers today about what could become the worst offshore oil spill in u.s. history. what it got was finger pointing as executives of three companies involved in the disaster blamed one another. three weeks ago an offshore rig in the gulf of mexico exploded killing 11 workers before sinking and causing the leak that continues to gush tonight. the slick is constantly shifting pushed by air and sea currents. its drifted north, then west, and is now seeping int...

instructions. >> reporter: all three companies worked together on the doomed deepwater horizon, oil giant b.p. hired halliburton to seal the undersea well with cement in preparation for drilling, leasing the rig above it from transocean, the worlds largest offshore drilling company. >> i hear one message, and the message is dont blame me. >> reporter: b.p.s head promised lawmakers he would pay all "legitimate claims." >> okay, so if its a legitimate claim, a harm to the fishing industr...

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: good evening. im gwen ifill. blizzard conditions wreaked havoc in the northeast and mid- atlantic today. >> woodruff: and im judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight snow and high winds even kept plows off some roads. >> you dont see washington like this. i have never run down the middle of pennsylvania avenue in washington, d.c. so this is the first. >> ifill: we get the latest from maryland governor martin omalley, wayne co...

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> ifill: good evening. im gwen ifill. blizzard conditions wreaked havoc in the northeast and mid- atlantic today. >> woodruff: and im judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight snow and high winds even kept plows off some roads. >> you dont see washington like this. i have never run down the middle of pennsylvania avenue in washington, d.c. so this is the first. >> ifill: we get the latest from maryland governor martin omalley, wayne co...