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Thought. >> jamie: the difference that this analysis can make in us preparing and preventing future terrorist actions and identifying those who may be critically involved, whether at his direction or otherwise, how do you put an estimate on the value of that? >> well, it's, i mean, it will go down again, as one of the largest single high level intelligence coups in u.s. history. i think, however, you know, if you look back in other scenarios like in world war ii we were fighting the germans and trying to get to break the inanything m enigma, hitler encryption, if it had yielded intelligence, p...

Can, but it rings hollow. moussa koussa tricked this government, tricked the leadership and has left the country and left them hanging, wolf. >> how significant is this defection? will it wind up hurting gadhafi? >> reporter: it's significant, because this was a man trusted by gadhafi, as head of intelligence all the way through to 2009, but also in the '80s, he was a man who was behind a lot of libyan terrorist actions, a wanted criminal in europe at the time. so this is a man who was trusted by gadhafi to deal with wmd, to deal with the lockerbie issue, a man who would vet visiting heads of ...

Lockerbie, scotland leaven 270 dead. the u.n. security council answered with crippling sarngz sanctions. after years of refusing, gadhafi relented handing over the lockerbie suspects. following the september 11th attacks in the iraq war, gadhafi went further. libya took responsibility for the bombing and agreed to compensate the victims' families. the u.n. lifted sanctions. and that same year, gadhafi abandoned his efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction. >> colonel gadhafi correctly judged that his country would be better off and far more secure without weapons of mass murder. >> repor...

Nature terrorist attacks. it is a group that is, as you say, technically illegal, and more of a rallying point or concept for many of its partisans than an operational organization. so it's not out there in the business of committing terrorist actions. now, the question is -- the question is what lurks beneath, ideologically and otherwise. my own guess, however, is there are a lot of egyptians, mostly egyptians who do not favor the kind of extremism that some of the former brotherhood members promote and transfer i think it's probably a risk that we will be able to tolerate. the brotherhood as...

Whitewash he and his fellow terrorist actions. here it is. >> when people got on buses and rode interstate or sat down at lunch counters or sad in at draft boards, we weren't being violent ourselves, we were exposing the violence that was inherent in the system. >> glenn: the question on whether planting bombs in the pentagon, capital building, police stations, bank, plotting riots and plotting the deaths of 25 million americans, whether that's terrorist. it would have been a good follow-up question, but good thing they didn't ask it. the russian news agency probably, you know, didn't have tha...