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>> you were there for two or three years. >> i was there for under two years. >> and then you moved to -- >> "the daily mirror." ten years. >> another huge paper in great britain. what happened to you at "the daily mirror." >> i had great time for ten years and then i got fired. i got fired over a pretty serious issue. it was abu ghraib had blown up in america and was all over your media and was obviously a scandal of pretty epic proportions and we had had by coincidence for two months some phot...

>> so you still believe the pictures may be real. >> i believe the jury is out. i believe at worst they were reproductive pictures of a genuine incident which is unacceptable journalistically and i wouldnt pretend it is but i havent seen the concrete evidence. nobody produced to me the person that took them, where they took them, or what they really are if theyre fakes. until they do i wont apologize. i dont believe in apologizing to a regiment that frankly had a number of troops in their ranks ...

Unacceptable journalistically and i wouldnt pretend it is but i havent seen the concrete evidence. nobody produced to me the person they took them, where they took them, or what they really are if theyre fakes. until they do i wont apologize. i dont believe in apologizing to a regiment that frankly had a number of troops in their ranks who were doing despicable things to iraqi civilians. >> how do you recover from something like that? there was a huge story in britain. these pictures on the fron...

Britain. what happened to you at "the daily mirror." >> i had great time for ten years and then i got fired. i got fired over a pretty serious issue. it was abu ghraib had blown up in america and was all over your media and was obviously a scandal of pretty epic proportions and we had had by coincidence for two months some photographs of what appeared to be british troops abusing iraqi civilians in a similar manner. and we had a lot of fact checking on this for two months. we found out that the ...

Dianas death and 9/11 and stories of magnitude, there has been nothing like it since. everybody was waiting for me to crash down and feel humiliated and downtrodden and its over. i remember going back to my apartment with a few very close friends, and we got a chinese meal, and we got some fine french wine and i watched my own obituaries on television. i was quite impressed -- >> you watched people criticizing you on television. >> i was the first ten minutes on both the main evening newses. >> ...

Apartment with a few very close friends, and we got a chinese meal, and we got some fine french wine and i watched my own obituaries on television. >> you watched people criticizing you on television. >> i was the first ten minutes on both the main evening newses. >> you watched it. >> i was watching people i knew hated me trying to pretend they were sorry i was fired. i loved that. its wonderful, im so sorry hes gone. no youre not you little -- >> all right. >> but what i felt was i would be vi...

Them, or what they really are if theyre fakes. until they do i wont apologize. i dont believe in apologizing to a regiment that frankly had a number of troops in their ranks who were doing despicable things to iraqi civilians. >> how do you recover from something like that? there was a huge story in britain. these pictures on the front page. youre very publicly fired. for a lot of people that would be the end. >> yeah, but, you know, i was 38 years old. i always thought my book would be called t...

It was abu ghraib had blown up in america and was all over your media and was obviously a scandal of pretty epic proportions and we had had by coincidence for two months some photographs of what appeared to be british troops abusing iraqi civilians in a similar manner. and we had a lot of fact checking on this for two months. we found out that the guys who were giving them to us were solders in a particular regiment who had been in iraq. they were who they said they were and they had been in ira...

Services, how to communicate in a secret manner. >> soon, al qaeda instructors are training bryant on ak-47s, rockets, heavy machine guns, how to build bombs, how to kill u.s. troops across the border in afghanistan. >> so he was really going through a fixed regiment, a training regiment that al qaeda has been using. >> bryant was becoming a fully trained terrorist, becoming a danger to his own nation. >> once they go out there and gain that kind of operational training, whether its communicatio...

Training in very small facilities on things like how to build an explosive device, how to evade foreign security services, how to communicate in a secret manner. >> soon al qaeda instructor s are training bryant on ak-47s, rockets, heavy machine guns, how to build bombs, how to kill u.s. troops across the border in afghanistan. >> so he was really going through a fixed regiment, a training regiment that al qaeda has been using. >> bryant was becoming a fully trained terrorist, becoming a danger ...