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Two american embassies, two truck bombs, two terrorist attacks just nine minutes apart in neighboring countries along the coast, kenya and tanzania. more than 200 dead, more than 4,000 injured. who was behind this carnage and why? within eight days there were leads and suspects and a stunning realization. osama bin laden had lived up to his threat. his al qaeda terrorists had just struck their first direct blow in their holy war against the united states. the attacks were carefully planned.

And now had his own spy casing the target. >> my name is ali mohammed. >> reporter: an agent who had spent years inside the u.s. military. two american embassies, two truck bombs, two terrorist attacks just nine minutes apart in neighboring countries along the coast, kenya and tanzania. more than 200 dead, more than 4,000 injured. who was behind this carnage and why? within eight days there were leads and suspects and a stunning realization. osama bin laden had lived up to

Where the sheriff testified there were 20 terrorist attacks by nonmuslims and 10 terrorist threats by nonmuslims and 10 by muslims in america. the numbers are going down. in fact, the numbers show that the threat is really coming from nonmuslims in america. its going to take time. theres not in the koran that in any way whatsoever sanctions honor killing. its wrong. theyre murderers. every muslim american organization has said that and no honor killings are justified at all in islam but its goin...

What would you like to say to the person who wrote that? >> i would have to only ask if they have an open mind and hear us out. i hope this is a reset time. we have a chance to build some bridges. i can understand people thinking that. if you look at the facts and recently i was at peter kings hearing where the sheriff testified that last year there were 20 terrorist attacks by nonmuslims and ten terrorist threats by nonmuslims and ten by muslims in america. the numbers are going down. in fact t...

His beard. many americans dye their hair and beard. but this sense of machismo was undermine by that video. >> let me read a response we got to your op ed piece. bin laden himself 9/11 alone made me wary about the arab world, nine out of ten times for the last 30 years when you hear of an act of terrorism its a muslim. its also the way they treat women, honor killings, violent behavior, nonacceptance of anything other than exactly what they believe. that is what makes me wary of them. what would...

Wu. answer the question or refuse to. >> the memo was signed and provided. >> i know it is sign so do you. stop wasting my time. >> i am not trying to. >> but now osama bin laden is dead. >> i think that those policies have successfully provided information to the government to have allowed the country to prevent terrorist attacks by qaddafi on our homeland in --. take me back to the day that you were first asked to draft a memo. that ultimately created the legal authority. and our agency scored...

Wu. answer the question or refuse to. >> the memo was signed and provided. >> i know it is sign so do you. stop wasting my time. >> i am not trying to. >> but now osama bin laden is dead. >> i think that those policies have successfully provided information to the government to have allowed the country to prevent terrorist attacks by qaddafi on our homeland in --. take me back to the day that you were first asked to draft a memo. that ultimately created the legal authority. and our agency scored...

The decision he made with osama bin laden was a tactical decision. it wasnt a strategic decision, the strategic decision was made by president bush to go after him. what president obama has done on his watch, the issues that have come up while he has been president, he has gotten it wrong strategeically every time, whether in central america, columbia and honduras, the middle-east, with egypt, syria and with iran. we had an opportunity, 18 months ago to topple a regime that is a sworn enemy, is ...

Before and after. >> there you go. when you have to resort to torture, what happened in 9/11 was we had no human assets inside of al qaeda. at least according to french intelligence, who i was working very closely with. and all of the major terrorist attacks that the french stymied, stymied through infiltrating these groups. and the idea that torture is number one effective, because you reach a point where even if they say something is true, you keep going, and theyll say anything to stop the pa...

If youre going to get good information, people are going to try hard and use these methods to get it. i would rather we didnt try it. if that meant bin laden had gotten away, i suppose he would still be running free. but i dont think we should flee from the possibility that the information was related, and i think we should just accept that and accept that maybe those programs, horrific as they were, may have helped lead to this outcome. >> being a good intelligence officer is not that different...