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Attention. the first leader of al qaeda outlining a possible attack. the second, said to be a response from an al qaeda leader and two weeks leader the u.s. snagged a third message from him appointing a deputy. a u.s. official declined to discuss specific code words but said quote was there a sense of imminence, the overall area at risk and known actors. there was this, officials said, great concern and we know in audition to the em bbassy closings, drones launched an attack that abc news is kil...

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They were married in 1985 and the mother of bin ladens son. she is a saudi national. and a wife named siham sabar. she is the mother of the son of bin laden killed in the raid. also a saudi national with bin laden in afghanistan after 9/11. i asked cnn national security analyst peter burgin more aboab two wives. >> one has a degree in legal law and another in arabic studies of some kind. they had a number of kids with bin laden. >> reporter: the wives and several children are now in pakistani cu...

white house to suggest that someone protected the al qaeda leader. >> the obvious question is how could osama bin laden hide in plain sight in the scenic rouei surroundings. lets not rush to judgment. allegations of incompetence are absurd. >> the prime minister said u.s. military assets entering pakistan without permission as those navy s.e.a.l.s did a week ago would be met with full force. the obama white house is looking to calm tensions with pakistan but on the other will not rule ...

states right now. the obama administration says it is taking pakistans concerns very seriously. but it wont back down from tough questions about who may have helped bin laden or from its defense of the raid that killed him. >> we also do not apologize for the action we took, that the president took. he said dating back to the campaign, if there is an opportunity to bring osama bin laden to justice and hes on pakistani soil and this is the only way we can do it, do it unilaterally, hell...

Of al qaeda, it is simply not there. we dont have capacity no matter how many interrogations there have been. some were relying on the fact that some had a watch, very common watch, that was given out at a certain al qaeda training facility to say heres the link. as though somehow there are 1 million people with that watch and thats the evidence were relying on. when you see this as a lawyer and someone who has been a federal prosecutor, you look at how does it make you feel in that capacity to ...

Population. this is a deeply pro-taliban heartland where nato will always have its work cut out. >> all right. thank you, nick, for that report. joining us from mnew york, you are no fan of our afghan policy. welcome, peter. >> good to be with you. >> heres my question. is this horrific unfortunate fact pattern a metaphor for everything wrong with our afghan policy? >> its a metaphor for whats wrong with our afghan policy and a big problem in its own right. we have spent billions of dollars in k...

What it really underscores is that the counterinsurgency strategy that we embarked is not working and cannot work. counterinsurgency strategy depends on having an afghan partner. it depends on the government winning the trust of the population. and when they win the trust of the population, people are then going to be prepared to turn against taliban and to inform and this escape took place with not one person in kandahar informing on the very unusual developments such as youre discussing earlie...

Appear to have done nothing held for many years. the ability pro project dangerousness is very difficult and we werent always right. >> peter, you were the expert in al qaeda. youre the expert in gitmo. it seems we have to place to send these guys and not enough evidence to convict any of them. we cant release them because some of them are dangerous and so no president will do that. does gitmo just become a permanent repository for these 172 people? >> thats what the obama administration seems t...