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Qaeda. terrorist operations are considered a very serious potential threat in the case of yemen. the most serious al qaeda threat to the united states. and it is no secret that since the war in afghanistan began, the united states has been slowly, steadily, and more rapidly just recently, building up its drone force. unmanned aerial planes that essentially are arm. that can take, hover over a target for a day or longer. and take out the targets without putting pilots at risk. it has been a very effective weapon. certainly in pakistan. taking out al qaeda targets. those kinds of drones have bee...

emerges, or was there prior to that departure, you would have a different piece. but there's quite a -- that's an important point just to be clear about. >> my final question is it seems to me on the face of it that the news of the world was sacrificed in order to try to protect rebekah brooks' position at news international. in effect, rather than her being -- having her departure being announced, "the news of the world" was offered up as an alternative to try to deal with the whole thing. do you regret now making that decision? do you regret closing "the news of the world" to try a...

Activists. >> who funded them, do you know? >> they have been known to be, i talked with former chief of police in northern ireland and he told me the dissident republicans had begun trying to get funds from the united states where the i.r.a. had been successful in the '70s and '80s getting funds for their terrorist operations. they've gone back to the same roots to try and get money to fund bomb building. these bombs are not expensive. and also a lot of them will be taken and will have been taken out of i.r.a. weapons dumps before the weapons dumps were decommissioned. nobody really knows how...

there's no bail for dominique strauss-kahn. one of the world's top bankers is behind bars on sex assault charges. targeting tripoli, the area near moammar gadhafi's compound is hit again. in another night of nato air strikes. and thousands of flooded homes, thousands of people evacuated as the mississippi river levels continue to rise. we begin this hour in ireland where authorities say they have intercepted and defused a bomb on a bus headed for dublin, just hours before an historic visit to the capital by britain's queen elizabeth. irish police tell cnn the military found an ...

Numbers would tell the u.s. officials quite a lot. richard? >> tazeed ahmad, thank you very much. what are u.s. officials findsing in the treasure trove of intelligence they found at osama bin laden's compound? and how much of it will they make public? nbc is joining us live from the pentagon. and jim, what can you tell us about this? >> well, you know, the intelligence analysts both at the cia and fbi are going to be looking for names, telephone numbers, addresses, dates, anything that will lead them to al qaeda operatives elsewhere in the world and perhaps even iman al zawahiri, number two...