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America was willing to lose. the eight or nine children in bin ladens house, some perhaps his grandchildren, played with others in the village, including zara, age 12. >> translator: the kids said the guy with them is their father nadine. once i saw his two wives, one speaking urdu and the other arabic. he had a brother, a fat guy with a goatee and mustache. i dont know why they had security cameras installed outside the house. we used to knock on the door for ten or 20 minutes and someone used ...

From pakistan. the wives were pakistani. u.s. officials say there was never any intention other than to capture bin laden. this is one neighbor remembered about the worlds most wanted terrorist. >> translator: i used to go no their house. he had two wives, one spoke arabic and the other spoke urdu. they had three children, girl and with the boys they gave me two rabbits. >> reporter: we learned seal team six the that you want carried out the raid landed at andrews air force base today and are be...

Long was he working with bin laden and is it significant, that he was a kuwaiti living in pakistan? in any way? >> reporter: it is very significant. what we are trying to clarify is, would he have looked pakistani? did he speak urdu and pashtun and we know he was born in kuwait but would he have looked like a gulf arab to locals and that raises questions, why this compound was not noticed by the locals. bill: a great point, too, especially if he was the one who was going in and out, jennifer, th...

Details like his men shopped for food in a market just yards from the compound, bought western brands like coke, pepsi, and nestle from local merchants, and neighbors reportedly new arab women were living behind the compounds walls. neighborhood children recognize the children speaking arabic as opposed to urdu. >> reporter: this is a military town. its a garrison city. the military are everywhere here. weve been driving around and seeing -- there is extra security of course today, but weve been...

were barely out of the worst recession since the 1930s and the light at the end of the tunnel looks dim. unemployment is still higher today, 16 months into the so-called recovery, than it was in the worst moments of all but one post-war recession. now many experts think this pessimism will go away once the economy bounces back, but if you read the polls, many americans believe that were in the midst of something that is more than a cyclical down tuturdownturn. it is a structural shift ...

president obama but the american economy. were barely out of the worst recession since the 1930s and the light at the end of the tunnel looks dim. unemployment is still higher today, 16 months into the so-called recovery, than it was in the worst moments of all but one postwar recession. now, many experts think this pessimism will go away once the economy bounces back. but you read the polls, many americans believe that were in the midst of something that is more than a cyclical downtu...

[inaudible conversations] >> for more information about the national book critic circle and the nbcc award, visit bookcritics.org. >> welcome to booktvs coverage of the 2010 virginia festival of the book in charlottesville, virginia. this is a festival held over five days and several different venues in the town of charlottesville including places at the university of virginia. coming up today are several different author panels. were going to show you panels discussing early american ...

Someone should stand up, and the group of scholars should stand up to condemn it absolutely, to declare that terrorism is terrorism. and no good intention can be made to provide any justification to act of terrorism. no pretext. no discussion of foreign policy of certain countries. >> now, here is the partial fatwa, its 600 pages in the original language, in urdu, but ive got a translation of it. theres certain buzz on websites, people saying, you know, this is not new, weve had lots of muslim s...

political settlement is the integration on some of the taliban into the structures of local national government. hows that going to >> how will that happen? >> i think, it already is happening, it happened in the west, in harat and there are other examples in the south and the east, and essentially, the -- there is an interesting and -- reconciliation and reintegration is meant to be for those who are not ideologically committed to the insurgency and those who have perceived to have a ...

assets. we have an ongoing superadvisory process. we have this remarkable exercise in the spring where the federal reserve working together with the fdic simultaneously analyzed all the major portfolios over the largest bank holding companies of the united states accounting for about 2/3 of all the assets of the banking system. we were able to look across banks and examiners and asset classes and combined our usual examination procedures with off sight surveillance done by economists u...