: aziz seems unsure what to do. aziz tries to persuade the village elder to hand the taliban over without a confrontation. he forgets he is wearing a microphone. >> narrator: the us military acknowledges that there aren't enough taliban foot soldiers switching sides to make a real difference in the war. but they argue that the kill/capture campaign might soon drive the taliban leadership to the negotiating table. we were offered the chance to meet a senior taliban leader. mullah yunus is high on the list of kill/capture targets, and is on the run from us special forces. he is the taliban head of operations for the province of baghlan, and is said to have been behind an infamous suicide attack that killed 70 people, most of them civilians. yunus is a rising star in the taliban leadership, and was promoted to his position after special forces killed his predecessor last year. we ask him if the taliban are ready to talk peace with the afghan government. >> narrator: we ask mullah yunus if the taliban will ever be willi

a lot of people, tourists come there. >> reporter: aziz says he was shocked that osama bin laden used the city as his final hide out. and tonight he dismissed claims that pakistan was helping al- qaida's founder. and says he views osama bin laden just as dangerous as americans do. >> maybe we hid more than american people or osama bin laden, because they destroyed all our country. >> reporter: but senator feinstein has concerns. >> was this just benign and different or was it indifference with a motive. >> reporter: the chair of the senate intelligence committee expressed alarm at the fact that osama bin laden was able to hide in a sprawling compound at the home of many pakistani officials. >> if they didn't know why department they know. why didn't they pay more attention to it? >> reporter: aziz agrees questions remain but the answers won't change the fact that the terrorist master mind is dead. >> and i want to congratulate all the officers that got him. they got him. everybody has been waiting for that in a long time. >> reporter: reporting live tonight here in san francisco, i'm

a lot of people, tourists come there. >> reporter: aziz says he was shocked that osama bin laden used the city as his final hide out. and tonight he dismissed claims that pakistan was helping al- qaida's founder. and says he views osama bin laden just as dangerous as americans do. >> maybe we hid more than american people or osama bin laden, because they destroyed all our country. >> reporter: but senator feinstein has concerns. >> was this just benign and different or was it indifference with a motive. >> reporter: the chair of the senate intelligence committee expressed alarm at the fact that osama bin laden was able to hide in a sprawling compound at the home of many pakistani officials. >> if they didn't know why department they know. why didn't they pay more attention to it? >> reporter: aziz agrees questions remain but the answers won't change the fact that the terrorist master mind is dead. >> and i want to congratulate all the officers that got him. they got him. everybody has been waiting for that in a long time. >> reporter: reporting live tonight here in san francisco, i'm

first time we met, he came to king abdullah aziz university in 1976. >> reporter: the 21-year-old and bin laden became very close. >> we love horses a lot. especially arabian horses. >> reporter: when bin laden would journey on horseback into the saudi desert, he would travel with few supplies, always testing himself, perhaps in preparation for a different life. >> we would have our debts with us in our pockets and water and that was it. we would sleep on the sand. >> reporter: bin laden also took his children, seen here, into the desert, subjecting them to the same regimen. >> so at least the children will see that sometimes they have to be tough. >> reporter: despite his wealth, bin laden also insisted on few comforts at home. >> i went to visit him, and i noticed that the apartment was very bare. there were no pictures. the carpet was cheap. things were -- i wouldn't live there myself. >> he likes to be very, very, very simple. >> in hollywood terms, bin laden has a great back story. my name is peter bergen. i met osama bin laden in eastern afghanistan in march of 1997. >> reporter

. >> ali ab-buhl aziz ali bought flight simulation materials to the hijackers. he's in custody at guantanamo bay. mustafa ahmed al haw sa which is in guantanamo bail, as well. there is only one major player in the 9/11 conspiracy not in custody and his whereabouts are unknown. ayman al zawahiri is known as osama bin laden's top lieutenant. often seen next to bin laden in his videos, he's presumed to be still alive and perhaps best positioned to take over leadership of what's left of al qaeda, his whereabouts unknown. >>> well, today the world can't forget is especially poignant for a group of american teenagers. we'll hear how they remember president bush in their classroom on that morning of 9/11. ant a warm, super-delics strawberry toaster strudel yeah but now i have nothing to eat sure you do. hey! you can have the pop tart! pillsbury toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat pillsbury toaster strudel. coldwell banker. we never stop moving. [ thunder rumbles ] [ male announcer ] the motorola xoom. designed to access anything and everything on the internet wit

first call for sahar aziz on the democrat's line from texas. caller: good morning. is due process a civil rights? guest: yes, it is. caller: then my comment is that, due process is being obstructed by entrenched of structures in the system. they have saturated the system where there is no legitimate investigation going on. there is no legitimate enforcement of laws and procedures. i think that that is accepted. i think it is realize. this is one of the reasons why you have the justification of saying that it is uncomfortable. there is an insult. you are not hired to be comfortable. there has been a consistency in mistakes in oops and whenever you want to use to justify due process not been achieved. guest: that was a good question. let's talk about due process because it is a broad term. it use the means you have a right to know what you'd have been accused of. it gives you the right to rebut the allegations and to try to -- and to provide evidence in your defense. you could be hurt by a neutral arbiter. it gives you -- you could be heard by a neutral arbiter. due p

we will discuss the work of the office of civil liberties with former policy adviser sahra aziz. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> i am newt gingrich and i am announcing my candidacy for president of the united states because i believe we can return america to hope and opportunity. >> with the field of republican presidential hopefuls are beginning to take shape, of all the candidates announcements on the road to the white house and look back on their careers with cspan online. it is what you want when you want. >> next, a discussion on the role of cia interrogations' in the operation that killed osama bin laden. panelist focused on whether the enhance interrogation techniques which some consider torture were responsible for some of of the success of the mission. the forum is moderated by john yu who helped draft the regulations for the bush-era policies. this is an hour and a half. >> it is my great pleasure to be the moderator for this panel on cia interrogations'. rather than presentations followed by discussion of the panel, we will do

after that , sahar aziz discusses the work on the office of rights and civil liberties. you can see "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern here on c- span. this weekend on c-span2, the gaithersburg festival, live with offers on the oil spill, the plus, a panel discussion on the book industry. then frederick kemp on the standoff regarding the berlin wall. get our schedules and he mailed directly to you. signup for our booktv alert. >> inside, a new and returning house and senate members, with contact information, including twitter addresses and committee assignments, and information on the white house, supreme court justices, and governors. >> here's a look at this morning's shuttle launch. the last mission for endeavour as it delivers an times as the experiments to the international space station. >> t-minus two minutes and counting. >> go for pressurization. >> one minute, thirty seconds. >> now arming the sound suppression water system. >> one minute. oxygensing the liquid auct and liquid hydrogen control valves. standing by for control of onboard computers. inus 30