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Mantra, this theme out there that president obama and the first family, particularly the president, is outside of the american mainstream, that he is an other. we just went through an entire year where lots of people believed the conspiracy theory that president obama is not an american citizen and therefore occupying the oval office illegally. weve spent a lot of time talking about whether the president is not a secret closet muslim, you know, a sleeper cell, if you will. its all part of part a...

Obama and the first family, particularly the president, is outside of the american mainstream, that he is another. we just went through an entire year where lots of people believed the conspiracy theory that president obama is not an american citizen and therefore occupying the oval office illegally. weve spent a lot of time talking about whether the president is not a secret closet muslim, you know, a sleeper cell, if you will. its all part of part and parcel of a project to portray the preside...

well begin with the breaking news, all of us with money in the stock market, were just catching our breath and now this, another big selloff on wall street. all three major indices way down at the closing bell. the dow losing a hefty 419 points. its the fourth biggest slide for the dow in a month of big losses. the dow has plunged 1152 points so far this august. thats a drop 9.5%. and the month isnt even over yet. lets turn to cnns richard quest. hes following whats going on. a lot of ...

So how will the seizure of more than 100 computers storage devices at bin ladens compound and any potential release of the photos showing the terror chiefs corpse hurt? roger, good morning. >> good morning, alex. >> less talk about the treasure trove thats been seized there. do you think thats going to cause al qaeda leaders to go further underground, to avoid the same fate as their leader, or might they be more inclined to attack sooner? >> well, i think either one is possible. i think people l...

Focused in the middle east and south asia. they dont have the capability to reach into the united states in a sleeper cell format or from a strategic reach in from the middle east. so i think the threat level is quite low right now, but the mid to long term could be different. >> lets address the mid to long term. how does bin laden play out in your estimation as a martyr? >> to your first question, we are safer today because of bin ladens death. al qaeda central is going to try and respond. the...

Times in the interview with me. he said these are al qaeda. al qaeda sleeper cell operating in the country which he hadnt been aware of and he actually called for the west to show more support and solidarity with him, with libya in fight is these al qaeda fighters, and that was quite a surreal experience but that was the line he was sticking to and not budging from that. >> nick kristof wrote about that last week in the "new york times" when he invited female journalists back in the 80s and 90s ...

Weve got to be careful not to the paint a broad brush of one student on a student visa comes to the united states, there are all applicants are suspect. this is one individual. but lynn, what really is problematic about it is that he came into this with full intention, premeditated approach coming to the united states to conduct an attack. its almost like he was a self-selected sleeper cell. and that is impossible to identify because theres not a jihad box on the student visa application. soets ...

>> see, again, he was off already. they went to get the other two guys off so they thought they were cleared. they werent. he turned around. heres what im thinking, if im on the plane, im worried if im an f.b.i. agent, when they realize the plane is turning around, if you are indeed a sleeper cell, if you are indeed a terrorist -- >> this is the time to make your move. >> this is the time to make your move. you have a box cutter, something on you and all those people are on jeopardy. if they put...

Necessarily mean al qaeda or taliban. but given the claim of credit early on, clearly, thats a direction that authorities would be looking. true? >> reporter: yeah. which i think, greg, what we are hearing from the washington post report is the suggestion that there may have been been some support mechanism here in the u.s. so was shahzad faisal acting on his own? apparently not is what we are picking up now. apparently, there is something else in the water. and that, of course, raises the threa...

About that? >> not quite sure about the people taken off the flights but he did have a recent trip to pack, he -- in pakistan, he came back in february. its a hot bed for terrorism, you have al-qaeda, taliban, let, the mom buy attacks were the responsibility of let members. juliet: he has family there? >> has family in southern karachi. theres a lot of training catches in southern pakistan. the question is when did he become radicalized, is this an individual who was radicalized, came to the cou...