terrorists bad year is former vice president dick cheney and his lawyer, liz cheney, chair of a national security advocacy group, keep america safe. together they wrote in my time: a personal and political ma am war. thank you both for joining us. i want to start with the drone strike that took out the top propagandist, at least for al qaeda in the iranian peninsula, perhaps took out the bombmaker for the same group, al aserei and also took out samir kahn. what s your reaction to that? well, i think it was a very good strike. i think it was justified. i think it is very effective use of our drone technology. the thing i m waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago when they criticized us for overreacting to the events of 9/11. they, in effect, said that we had walked away from our ideals, or taken policy contrary to our ideals when we had enhanced interrogation techniques. they clearly had moved in the direction of ta
vice president dick cheney and his lawyer, liz cheney, chair of a national security advocacy group, keep america safe. together they wrote in my time, a personal and political ma am war. thank you both for joining us. i want to start with the drone strike that took out the top prop gan diss, at least for al qaeda in the iranian peninsula, perhaps took out the bombmaker for the same group and also took out samir khan. what s your reaction to that? well, i think it was a very good strike. i think it was justified. i think it is very effective use of our drone technology. thing i m waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago when they criticized us for overreacting to the events of 9/11. they, in effect, said that we had walked away from our ideals, or taking policy contrary to our ideals when we had enhanced interrogation techniques. they clearly had moved in the direction of taking robust action when they feel it is just
is libya is not a one-off. this is not something that we can do alongside of other things in the arab world. this is a zero sum game. the military assets we put into libya, we take away from somewhere else, and almost more important than the military assets, the brain cells that we devote to libya are brain cells we won t be devoting to yemen, which i still consider ground zero in terms of danger to the u.s. homeland. there are the people who are training and plotting to attack us. and with a vacuum being created there, as the leadership is crumbling, you have the possibility of al qaeda really taking a stronger al qaeda in the peninsula, taking a much stronger foothold there and planning attacks against our homeland. we ve seen already the impact of terrorists in yemen leading to the times square bomber and others who did attempt to blow up americans. well, specifically, the christmas bomber, was trained in yemen. the parcel bomb plot, the
part over radiation concerns. now there is an internet campaign urging passengers to refuse screenings the day before thanksgiving, one of the busiest travel days of the year. as tyner left the airport, he says security officials chased him down and told him he had to complete screening once he d started it. he says he walked off anyway after being threatened with legal action. the focus will be on air cargo security today on capitol hill. the head of the tsa is expected to testify on the new actions being taken to improve security in light of that parcel bomb plot. british police discovered an industrial explosive packed into printer cartridges sent from yemen, destined for addresses here in the u.s. we are learning this morning that the qantas mid-air engine blowout earlier this month could have been a lot more serious than first believed. leaking oil caught fire in the engine and heated metal parts. those parts disintegrated and the flying metal cut important lines, causing the
was holding more than 50 catholic parishioners as hostages. we re are now told all of those hostages are safe. that s the update out of iraq and that s a good one based on the news we just reported earlier. and then there is this. another fox news alert for you. new developments coming out of yemen in connection with the terror scare we had domestically on friday. reuters news service is reporting yemen has granted conditional release of the female suspect in connection with that parcel bomb plot. this woman was arrested. she was described as a medical student in her 20s. and yemen had reported that she was arrested at her home over the weekend. now we find out, according to reuters, she s been granted conditional release. our national correspondent has some details. katheryn, what do we know? . thank you. i think one of the biggest headlines is u.s. officials are confirming the same bomb macer is with these bombs as over