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Terrorism and the development of new terrorists. is that your understanding of what mortenson's message largely was? >> yeah. i mean, you know, let's be fair here, i mean the guy has done quite a lot of good, not as much good as, perhaps, he's claimed and, perhaps, his charity has claimed, but he's certainly built these schools and whether they defeat extremism or not, i mean, providing girls education in parts of the world which have very little of that, that's a good thing. >> the criticism here, "60 minutes" says that they were sort of -- there had been complaints about some of what the fou...

Villagers. here's what author john krakauer, you'll know him as the author of books like "into thin air" said about that claim last night on "60 minutes." >> it's a beautiful story and it's a lie. if you go back and read the first few chapters of that book, you realize, i'm being taken for a ride here. >> the charity that mortenson founded, the central asia institute, is said to have raised more than $60 million. now mortenson himself, the author, has not responded on camera, but he says he stands by the information conveyed in the book. cnn national security analyst peter bergen, has been loo...

Distinguished [ inaudible ] in the pakistan tribal regions, you know, mortenson has claimed he was kidnapped by a group including mansour kan. he says that's ridiculous and in the last couple hours saying he's planning to sue mortenson about making a defamatory statement about him. that he's a taliban kidnapper. when mortenson says he was kidnapped by the taliban in '96, the taliban wasn't present. the taliban banned photography. we have a picture of the supposed kidnappers. "60 minutes" showed a picture of mortenson carrying a gun with his supposed kidnappers. pretty unusual for a group of ki...

They will no longer be able to work in unscheduled midnight shift following a day off. today faa officials began a tour of air traffic control facilities across the country. there's a bombshelf a story claiming that two best-selling books and a clarity tied to them are based on lies. you have probably heard of the books, "three cups of tea" and "stones into schools" by greg mortenson, sold millions of copies, both "new york times" best sellers, one is required reading for troops heading to afghanistan. now "60 minutes" and another author are saying much of what went into the books was made u...

That for 19 years this organization's been in operation, they have only done audited statements once. listen to this part, this is interesting. there's a photograph in the book which shows mortenson is, the kidnappers he claims to have been taken by, one of those kidnappers is allegedly mun sore masud, somebody you know. he said this on "60 minutes." >> this is totally false and he is lying. he was not kidnapped. >> who are these people that are also in the picture? >> some are my cousins, some are our friends from our village. >> he goes on to say that he was welcomed. he welcomed -- they wel...