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Open the doors. >> and united sent another plane to pick up the passengers and get them on the way to los angeles. now to a situation weve watched unfold of in iran. they have one of the advanced drones and they are not going to give it back. a general with the revolutionary ground calling its capture a victory for iran and defeat for the united states. and claiming it shot down the plane over it territory. and squeezing the most propaganda value out of the drone, flaunt it go on television next...

It may not actually harm their core capability but you will get into the concern of sometimes you can give the other side propaganda value out of it, so, as an example the fellow that tried to employee himself up in times square a year ago, he said he got into the game of terrorism because of his anger over the drone strikes. so it is a very complex issue of figuring out when it makes sense to carry out the strikes and when it is not worth it. >>shepard: thank you, peter, fascinating stuff. than...

Liberal democrats by why dont you debate it on the merits. why use scare tactics. a lot of people dont watch the factor who are older. they are going to take my medicare away. why dont you debate it on the merits of it. >> lets debate it on the merits. its a silly ad. im not going to defend it on the silly ad. debate it on the merits. >> bill: president obama himself has gone out on the stump and said if you are older, you are going to get hurt by this plan thats not true. >> if you are 54 or yo...

Liberal democrats by why dont you debate it on the merits. why use scare tactics. a lot of people dont watch the factor who are older. they are going to take my medicare away. why dont you debate it on the merits of it. >> lets debate it on the merits. its a silly ad. im not going to defend it on the silly ad. debate it on the merits. >> bill: president obama himself has gone out on the stump and said if you are older, you are going to get hurt by this plan thats not true. >> if you are 54 or yo...

This, david, and you know me well enough to know im not going to say anything i havent had a chance to study at this point, right? were just starting to go through this large cache of information and well learn as we go along. well have, hopefully, information about our ability to additionally attack and strategically defeat al qaeda, but if we develop any information about planning or imminent threats, obviously, we will act on this. but it is important, it is important that osama bin laden -- ...

Before he would appear on videos, would dye his beard black and dye his hair black before he would show himself to the world. this will be the candid osama bin laden, white/gray beard, white/gray hair. the government -- the obama administration in distributing these videos to the news media wanted to show the world what they had -- some of what they had found. but one of the things they did on these five videos is they do not show us or let us hear any of the audio. they have stripped the audio ...

Media. unclear what kinds of charges hes going to face. the u.s. embassy is working to try and get him released. we dont know a lot of details about what his circumstance is. i would think this is going to take some time to play itself out because clearly syria sees some propaganda value on this. on the other hand, they have a lot of other things on their plate so they might be kind of willing to let this go or get rid of this problem because they have bigger things to deal with. >> ron allen in...

There is some propaganda value that the syrians perhaps see in having these two americans who they accuse of being involved in the protest, but well have to see if the syrians try to do that. as i say, they have a lot of other things on their mind to try to deal with. >> the worlds attention has been distracted. we appreciate it, ron. thanks very much. we want to let you know lib yab state television is right now reporting that for the first time air strikes have hit moammar gadhafis home town. ...

Minutes what the narrative is and how terrorists use it to attract new recruits. america waging war on islam, invading because they hate muslims. america doing for its own self interest, despite what muslims want and how they might self define. the narrative didnt come from the george w. bush presidency. american intervention in muslim countries has been exploited for propaganda value and used to make a case, long before afghanistan. the narrative got that much worse when in addition to all of t...

Perhaps thinking there is some propaganda value. but the bottom line is the u.s. is just hopeful to get this guy out safely, shep. >> shepard: probably hoping for a nice photo op. over there. mike, good to see you. terror network linked to al qaeda threatening what it calls "massive war." hours later pulled off a bloody attack. militants from the group somali group called al shabaab stormed hotel in the capital of mogadishu. killed more than 30 people more than half a mile from the presidential ...