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Forgot. he stayed in afghanistan as a guest of religious extremists called the taliban, who took over after the soviet withdrawal. and, in his mountainous safe haven, bin laden was embolden. if a cowboy from texas and the cia could arm a bunch of islamists with guided missiles and defeat the soviet union, perhaps he could bring down the united states. with guide aircraft. for most americans, 9/11 seemed to come out of nowhere. a sucker punch, master minded by a man they'd never heard of. blow fwrak a covert war most americans never knew happened. but 9/11 woke a slumbering giant. >> usa! usa! ...

Al Jazeera's undercover film was censored after Qatar came under pressure.

New u.s. sanctions tonight on three north korean hacking groups behind some of the most notorious sign notorious cyberattacks ever. these hackers have made billions of dollars for the -- >> reporter: the u.s. government is going after them. but experts are telling us tonight kim jong-un's army of cyberpredators will likely be undeterred. armed only with laptops and internet access, kim jong-un's legion of north korean hackers has opened up a covert war, wreaking havoc and raking in cash. tonight the u.s. government is fighting back. the treasury department says it is sanctioning three north ko...

>> you know, seth, it's so interesting, the topic of your book fits in. i remember talking to dr. brzezinski a good bit and was surprised when i first started talking to him about what he was doing in the 1980s, but he would regularly talk to the cia director, bill kasie, and casey would ask for any information or any help, where should they move money to help in poland's covert war against the soviet union. tell us about it. >> well, i talked to dr. brzezinski a number of times about this as well. the ironies between today and that period are interesting. we had the soviets conducting a range...

>> inevitably, reagan's covert war became national news. >> two american congressmen who visited nicaragua today charged that there's no doubt that the federal government is deeply involved in attempts to overthrow the sandinista government. >> when seen close-up, the contra's tactics were alarming. >> the contra war became quite brutal. it was a war against civilians. if there were people they thought were involved in the sandinista government, they would line them up and shoot them in front of the population. they were essentially terrorists. >> but before the contras' culture of death and i...