he was the number 2 next to osama bin laden. he is someone that has been committed to violent extremism since he was a young boy. he is very dedicated to this. he is a dangerous man. nevertheless, he is inheriting an all qaeda that is very fragmented and is much weaker and much diminished from what it was before. >> it took six weeks to appoint him. is that an indication that al qaeda is not operating as efficiently as it once was? >> that is right. it is decentralized. the decision making is decentralized. they cannot group together very much. these are part of the pressures that the united states and allies have been put on al qaeda to make it difficult for them to operate. >> do you think we could see the same kind of capture of ayman al-zawahiri as we did of osama bin laden? >> i do not know the current state of what information they may have on him, but i agree with admiral mullin that he is a very high priority target. i believe his days will be numbered. he will be found sooner or later, just like osama bin laden. >> it w

a little more than a month after osama bin laden was killed by u.s. commandos, al qaeda has a new leader but his face is very familiar. joel brown has the latest in washington with this. good morning, joel. >> good morning, betty. the news came down from al qaeda on a website affiliate with al qaeda that osama bin laden's long time lieutenant, ayman al zawahiri, is now officially taking charge of the terror network. al zawahiri has been at bin laden's side for years as a personal adviser and international head often acting as al qaeda's spokesman. he was born in egypt, and he turns 60 next week. he warned the u.s. it's facing an international community of muslims that seeks to destroy it and its allies. his whereabouts are unknown but it's believed he's hiding somewhere along the pakistan/afghanistan border. al zawahiri has been described as the "real brains of al qaeda" and he holds a $25 million bounty on his head from the state department. >> joel brown, thank you on that latest breaking news. >>> nato aircraft pounded libya's capital again this mo

. >> the united states has conducted an operation that has killed osama bin laden. >> it was extraordinary news... >> a large amount of blood on the floor. >> ...a story ten years in the making. >> we had very close sharing of information with the americans about targets. >> frontline goes inside the secret war against al qaeda and the taliban. >> when people see others, you know, going up in a puff of smoke, one hopes that will induce people to go home and sit out the fight. >> and later tonight... >> ...a rare look at the men who say they will keep fighting for bin laden. afghan journalist najibulah quaraishi goes behind enemy lines to investigate the question of al qaeda's presence in afghanistan. >> they are said, "we are following osama bin laden. we are his men." >> the sties d more on this special edition of frontline. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major funding is provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation. committed to building a more just, verd

he radicalized osama bin laden back in the 1990's and got him to think global. he was the operational brains behind the 9/11 attacks and the u.s. has long had a 25 million- dollar bounty on his head. he was radicalized long ago, imprisoned by the egyptian state after president saadat's assassination. the extreme violence perpetrated by al qaeda is often attributed to his strategic direction. his supporters want more attacks. as the arab population calls for it and to dictatorship, critics of al qaeda say he will struggle to prove that have anything constructive to offer. >> the financial sources are drying up, they're operational space has been confined, its leadership has been picked off. >> zawahiri has inherited an organization that is struggling to carry out attacks. >> yet this al qaeda operative killed in somalia was carrying it early plans for an attack on london's hotel and david cameron's old school. the plans were not advanced and is not known if al qaeda's new leader knew anything about them. zawahiri is taking over al qaeda at a crucial time for the

>> stephen: tonight, how did we get osama bin laden, and how can we get him again? the buzz is starting to wear off. [laughter] then, should oil companies give back all those tax breaks? yeah, as soon as the seagulls give back all that oil. and my guest amy kremer is the chair of the tea party express. i'll interview her dressed as a great american patriot -- me. cnn anchor john lemmon has come out as gay, but can he find the courage to tell his family he's on cnn? [laughter] this is "the colbert report." captioning sponsored by comedy central [theme song playing] [cheers and applause] [audience chanting "stephen"] >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the report." thank you. please. welcome to "the report." thank you for joining us. nation, right off the bean i have to address the breaking news out of china. ming ming, the world's oldest panda, is dead at the age of 34. this comes as a real surprise. and i just want to say, well done, seal team six, another righteous kill. for too long our mortal enemies, the chinese, have been using pandas' cute

>> he was always sort of seen as being the ideologue behind osama bin laden. it's no surprise that he, one of the most influential people in the organization should essentially nominate himself with presumably some level of backing to be al qaeda's leader. it's taken a month and a half to do this. i think what we can expect to see, we're already hearing in his first statement, is a commitment to the same. they will carry on tribute to osama bin laden, calling out to the people of palestine, calling out to many of the other franchises around the world, somalia, yemen, afghanistan, pledging support to different ongoing offshoots if you will, zain. >> how hard was it within al qaeda itself to pick him? >> reporter: i think he had always been the leader in waiting. it's certainly what he would have expected himself. what he doesn't bring to the table is the charisma that bin laden had. and it will be interesting to see if he can be that figure head that bin laden was, that rallied people to the cause. in many ways it sort of doesn't matter. al qaeda is franchised

journals found in osama bin laden's compound contained evidence of al qaeda's desire to attack trains. following that warning, someone tampered with train tracks in iowa, trying to derail a train filled with highly flammable ethanol. the fbi is now investigating. while authorities do not suspect terrorism, sources tell abc news, this incident is a sob sobering reminder that trains are vulnerable. this week, amtrak announced it was stepping up plans to attack against terrorism and sabotage. and authorities are now warning major hotel chains to be on the lookout. after discovering an al qaeda threat list that included a major uk hotel. >> i think we are interesting a unique window of vulnerability. but i would suggest we are entering a window of opportunity. >> reporter: this homeland security expert says now is the time to hit al qaeda hard. >> we sold accelerate some of our activities to keep the adversary looking over their shoulder rather than plotting attacks. >> reporter: the u.s. has been targeting al qaeda relentlessly, killing not just osama bin laden, but two other top terrori

it was about osama bin laden being able to operate in a safe haven of afghanistan. part of that component was the taliban. we need to make sure that afghanistan can defend itself when we leave. if we do anything short of that, i think we do a huge disservice. guess what. we will be back there in the future. i think that's a serious mistake. >> schieffer: you know, a lot of americans... i mean it really knocked their socks off this week when they pick up the "new york times" and read that pakistan, where we have poured billions of dollars into, which is supposed to be our ally in all this, we find out that the pakistan military has gone out and arrested the people who tipped us off to where osama bin laden was hiding in pakistan. what's going on here, congressman? >> well, first of all, many, many of those people had absolutely nothing to do with our effort on finding osama bin laden. that is horribly unfortunate. i just returned from pakistan last week, had some very hard, candid conversations with general kiani who is head of the army and posha who is head of the i

killed osama bin laden. for many, himself, included, that is mission accomplished. >> reporter: one thing they discussicide the role the new secretary of defense will play in withdrawing the troops and if he will have a less contentious relationship with president obama. reporting live, patty lee, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> a congresswoman believes president obama troop draw down plan doesn't go far enough. she was the only one to vote against the war in 2001, now she is at odds over the troop reduction. she wants 10 times as many troops to come home this summer. >> i am talking 50,000 troops. this is the longest war in american history. we need to see a beginning of the end of this war. >> she is building a biparzen coalition. >>> now to san francisco where family whose belong to the muslim and jewish faith joined together to fight a ban on circumcision. this measure singles us out, along with the muslim community as unwanted in our own city. >> i believe it would take away my rights to circumsize my male chi

team six taking out al qaeda leader osama bin laden. many wondering who was going to step up and be the leader of al qaeda. one of the names that came up was ilyas kashmiri. word he has been killed in a drone strike in pakistan. you might not know his name, you might not know his face but intelligence officials sure do. considered by many security experts one of the most dangerous men in the world and called al qaeda's military brain. our phil black is on the ground in pakistan. >> this is a big name in intelligence circles, certainly from a u.s. national security point of view. he was very much on their most wanted list. among the key targets of u.s. drones flying over the tribal regions of pakistan and it is now believed that he is, perhaps, one of the victims of a u.s. drone strike in that lawless pakistani tribal region, particularly in the area of south waziristan, just overnight. nine people were killed by a drone strike. we understand from pakistani intelligence officials, one of them, according to growing reports, including one

and to the team that took out osama bin laden. standing in front of a model of bin laden's compound, the navy s.e.a.l. who led that effort paid tribute to those who had been lost. brothers and sisters in arms whose names are now written on bases where our troops stand guard overseas, and on headstones in quiet corners in our country where their memory will never be forgotten, this officer, like so many others i've met on bases in bag dad and bag ram and at wat walter reed, hospital, spoke with unity, how they depended and each other, as a family might do in a time of peril. that's a lesson worth remembering. that we are all apart of one american family. that we have known disagreement and division. we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents. and a conviction that the united states of america is a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. now, let us finish the work at hand. let us responsibly end these wars and reclaim the american dream that is at the center of our story. wit

this mass murder was planned by osama bin laden and his al qaeda network in afghanistan and signaled a new threat to our security, one in which the targets were no longer soldiers on a battlefield but innocent men, women, and children going about their daily lives. in the days that followed, our nation was unight as we struck at al qaeda and routed the taliban in afghanistan. then our focus shifted. a second war was launched in iraq, and we spent enormous blood and treasure to support a new government there. by the time i took office, the war in afghanistan had entered its seventh year. but al qaeda's leaders had escaped into pakistan and were plotting new attacks. while the taliban had regrouped and gone on the offensive. without a new strategy and decisive action, our military commanders warned that we could face a resurgent al qaeda and a taliban taking over large parts of afghanistan. for this reason, in one of the most difficult decisions have i've made as president, i ordered an additional 30,000 american troops into afghanist afghanistan. when i announced this surge at west po

to osama bin laden. >>> burn notice. for the first time in more than 30 years the government rewrites the rules on sunscreen. >>> and hats off. the u.s. army ditches a much >>> and hats off. the u.s. army ditches a much hated part of their uniform. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to our viewers across the nation including pacific time zones. i'm lynn berry, and today we begin with asking for trouble. in a development that's certain to increase tensions between washington and islamabad, the "new york times" is reporting pakistan has arrested several cia informants who provided information that led to the killing of osama bin laden. for more on the report we go to nbc's tracie potts. she's in washington for us. tracie, good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. five in all, according to "the new york times" report this morning including an army major who apparently was writing down license plates as they were going in and out of the bin laden compound. we've just gotten

we did it, we found osama bin laden. they can't hide. we have the greatest special op forces in the world, and they are quick, mobile, and fluid. i think let them do their job. we shouldn't be there trying to build a nation and place they don't want us anyway. >> is your position pull them all out now, and if so, is there a risk in your view that immediate withdrawal will cost the united states more in the long run if we have to go back and clean up the aftermath? >> joe, here is the thing, i have never nor have i attempted to tell military experts and generals and all the forces we have so much expertise how to do their job. i know one thing. when the civilians give the military in america the mission to be done, it's accomplished and it would be done in the best manner that possibly could. so i would not advocate any of the things that would be harmful to the troops we have and what we accomplished. but other than that, how long is enough? if ten years is not going to get the job done, are we there to build their nation, indefinitely i

some say osama bin laden was a figure head for al qaeda. they fear al-zawahri will try to prove his credentials by stepping up attacks against the united states and other countries. >> i don't think that the death of osama bin laden that al qaeda is regrouped. i am afraid we will witness in the future, the near future, within a year, a very big act committed by al qaeda. >>> in pakistan, hundreds of supporters are ready to begin a new life after completing a course to rid them of the militant group's violent ideology. 250 men last week received a certificate after three months at the deradicalization in pakistan. they were taught technical skills. they learned to move on with their lives from the taliban. the taliban controlled the valley since 2007 and 2009. some locals say they had little choice but to obey the taliban. >> translator: they were very strong here. they were violent. they could force us to follow them. we had no other option. >> months after retaking the area, the pakistani army opened four centers to provide education and v

laden to be hiding. >> the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. >> reporter: president obama also comes off making a risky decision to go after osama bin laden, which proved enormously successful. so, does the president come into this tonight with more national security juice? >> as a result of the success that there's been on the ground, he's in a position where he can pull those troops out and feel confident that the gains that we made are enough to feel like our nation is secure. >> reporter: it's a very different environment from 2009, when the new president, with little national security experience, took months to craft a new strategy and decide on how many additional troops to send into afghanistan as part of the surge. >> and as commander in chief i have determined that it is in our vital national interest to send an additional 30,000 u.s. troops to afghanistan. >> reporter: abc's diane sawyer asked bob woodward, author of "obama's wars" about the atmosphere at the time. the meetings. obama felt -- you're writing in a ge

one of them, i forget the name, one of them calls osama bin laden a genius. now, one question from the audience, if al-qaeda is so smart, how was it that we were able to send in a few navy seals and take out their most famous leade leader? >> but on the other hand, look at where we are between 2001 and 2011, 10 years after the fact. we have al-qaeda franchises, if you will, in over 60 countries. we have al-qaeda of the arabian peninsula being a real menace in lebanon. we have a continuing fear of al-qaeda striking. so bin laden may be dead, but think of the talent that it took to fund and build up from nothing, you know, a bunch of different people a widespread clandestined of 60 countries with the cia and the musad in the intelligence outfits of various western countries worrying about you. you know, he's certainly overmatched but he was no fuel. indeed, one of the reasons that i think al-qaeda has been so intent on acquiring nuclear materials is they are looking for an equalizer. they are looking for a game-changer and, you know, all they could do is try to

. >>> osama bin laden is no longer facing criminal charges. six weeks after navy seals killed osama bin laden during a raid on his home in pakistan a federal judge granted a prosecution request to dismiss all criminal charges against him. federal authorities indicted osama bin laden in 1998 on charges related to terrorism attacks on two u.s. embassies in africa. >>> the british government has told ups it will not be allowed to move air cargo through some facilities in the united kingdom because of security concerns. the government refused to say which facilities are effected but it said the move came after security tests. last year authorities discovered a bomb disguised as a toner cartridge in a ups shipment. it had been shipped from yemen. ups said it is working to clear up the security problems and things should be back to normal soon. >>> lawyers for the man suspected in the beating of bryan stowe are still searching for evidence to clear their client's name. prosecutors say he attacked him. now a tv station reports his attorneys went door

official word from al qaeda this morning, osama bin laden's longtime lieutenant has taken command. >> egyptian born ayman al zawahiri is now vowing to pick up where he left off to attack the u.s. >> the cia learned how such an attack might take place after sifting through information from bin laden's pakistan compound. we'll have those details ahead in a "good morning america" exclusive. >>> and inside pakistan this morning, the government is still so embarrassed by the u.s. commando raid to take down bin laden that it's cracking down on some of its own citizens. john hendren joins us now from washington with the very latest. good morning, john. >> reporter: good morning, peggy. good morning, daniel. pakistan gets $2 billion a year in u.s. ai in u.s. aid, but after the pakistani government rounded up and arrested several of those who helped the cia find osama bin laden, several lawmakers on capitol hill are asking, why? for the crew of the "uss carl vinson" who buried osama bin laden at sea -- >> how are you doing, baby? >> reporter: -- it was a relief-filled homecoming. >> i was scar

before the raid that killed osama bin laden. one report says the informants took note of license numbers on cars visiting bin laden's compound. the arrests are putting additional pressure on the already difficult relationship between pakistan and the u.s. and a taped message sent direct ly to the leaders of southern and northern sudan, president barack obama called for an end to air strikes and what he called campaigns of intimidation. that message comes during a rise in violence between northern and southern sudanese forces. the two regions voted earlier this year to split into two independent countries. >>> and in just the last half hour the international olympic committee said libya will not be given any tickets to the 2012 london games until the situation in libya becomes clearer. earlier organizers admitted a few hundred passes had been given to libya's national olympic committee headed by mohammed gadhafi, the son of the libyan leader. >> my mom will be upset that i called you a nerd. >> no, it's fine. i am. that's it from

commando raid that killed osama bin laden. according to the newspaper, those arrested include a pakistani army major who copied the license plates of cars visiting bin laden's compound in the weeks before the raid. the fate of the informants is unclear. the arrests are the latest indication of a damaged relationship with pakistan. >>> the bay area's lock heed martin will lose 1200 jobs nationwide with most of the layoffs coming from sunny vale, colorado and pennsylvania. lock heed says it will offer voluntary layoffs to eligible middle managers first. that could ruse the number ofin voluntary job cuts. >>> social security misspent billions of dollars.

you deserve credit for your part in taking down osama bin laden. congratulations to you and the president's national security team for that accomplishment. i get the sense that people were prematurely declaring that the fight is over because we have degraded al qaeda in afghanistan. i am glad to hear you point out that they metastasized to other parts of north africa and the region. i want to ask you in particular -- there are other groups that may not be as familiar to .mericans as al qaeda - could you talk about the islamic jihadist groups that are out there and could easily more for -- easily morph into a threat as dangerous as al qaeda? >> there are other groups out there. al qaeda is the one we are principally concerned about because they attacked this country. they continue to attack this country. there are interrelationships they have with other groups. there is a group that has relations with al qaeda. they are conducting attacks in afghanistan. there is a group called ttp that has relationships with al qaeda that conducts a tax -- planned

people have been killed in attacks outside pakistan since the raid that killed osama bin laden early last month. >>> israel is bracing for more violence after clashes between israeli troops and pro-palestinian protesters turned deadly over the weekend. soldiers opened fire yesterday at syrian demonstrators trying to cross the border in the israeli controlled golan heights between israel and syria. at least 20 people were reportedly killed with hundreds wounded. the violence came on the 44th anniversary of israel's capture of the golan heights, and as the second outbreak of violence in the area in less than a month. more now from itn's john ray. >> reporter: israel had promised to defend its disputed border with determination and restraint. it soon became clear that meant firing on apparently unarmed protesters. they were pinned down trying to breach israeli razor wire and a deep trench. the injured pulled back up deep slopes into syria and angry and bloody standoff that continued as casualties on the arab side mounted. >> this narrow valley has echoed to the sound of sporadic gunfire

the leader of al qaeda, osama bin laden, is now dead. but it's far from clear what the long-term consequences of this kill/capture campaign will be. >> next time on frontline... >> meth has destroyed this community. >> methamphetamine is a highly addictive drug... >> she looked 20 years older than she was. >> ...made from a highly profitable pharmaceutical. >> cold medicine is a $3 billion moneymaker. >> was this epidemic preventable? >> back home, it was tearing lives apart. here in congress, it was as if there was no problem at all. >> the meth epidemic. a frontline investigation. >> visit frontline's web site for more on the kill/capture policy. more on the controversy over night raids. >> we didn't think, in this case, with respect. we knew. >> explore interviews from the program. >> before killing them, talk to us first. >> get in among the people. protect the people. isolate the insurgents. >> chat with the producers. watch the program again online, and look for us on facebook and twitter. or join the discussion at pbs.org. >> fron

and to the team that took out osama bin laden. standing in front of a model of bin laden's compound, the navy s.e.a.l. who led that effort paid tribute to those who had been lost. brothers and sisters in arms whose names are now written on bases where our troops stand guard overseas, and on headstones in quiet corners of our country where their memory will never be forgotten. this officer, like so many others i've met on bases and n baghdad and bagram, and at walter reed and bethesda naval hospital, spoke with humility about how his unit worked together as one. depending on each other and trusting one another, as a family might do in a time of peril. that's a lesson worth remembering, that we are all a part of one american family. that we have known disagreement and division, we are bound together by the creed that is written into our founding documents. and a conviction that the united states of america's a country that can achieve whatever it sets out to accomplish. now lets us finish the work at hand. let us responsibly end the

. >> jon: i wonder if she's going to announce that we killed osama bin laden! (laughter) former speaker of the house will be giving her regularly scheduled press availability. oh [bleep],it's on! >> nancy pelosi now addressing the anthony weiner scandal. >> good morning, as usual we're here to talk about jobs, about protecting medicare, and to protecting the middle class. if you are here to ask a question about congressman weiner, i won't be answering any. (laughter) >> jon: the economy, jobs? no weiner talk? the economy and jobs are important. let's give it a chance. >> i will just tell you that up front. it is day 163, 163 days since the republican -- >> all right, i actually saw john keane sort of grinning maybe because he sort ched much expected that and dana

you spent 10 years and did not get osama bin laden. what is killing you is president obama said he would get him before he got elected into office and he did. is it true you were a lobbyist for libya? guest: no, i am not a lobbyist for libya. for libya. and it does not kill me at all. i and grilled. m thrilled. i made the decision to leave congress, and then i made the decision to run for governor. i lost in the primary. host: republican line from texas. caller: i am retired military. when did the military's functions mean stop fighting wars and become nation building? also, how long will we be on the hook for paying these guys salaries over there? we are paying the whole country in afghanistan. it is time to get out of there. i have been a republican for 46 years, and i did not believe anything you are saying. guest: that is an interesting comment. i appreciate that. i do not think the military's i do not think the military's job has ever been nation building. i think we have seen that in a number of the wars we have been involved wit

six weeks after osama bin laden was killed, al qaeda has named a new leader. and to many, the choice comes as no surprise. ayman al-zawahiri has long served as the terror organization's number two and now, according to a web posting, he assumes the top slot. the u.s. state department dismissed any significance of today's announcement with the response that it barely matters. the bbc security correspondent, frank gardner, has more. >> al qaeda's new leader is a familiar figure. he worked hand in glove with osama bin laden for many years and has given al-qaeda much of its strategic direction. he's long been the group's most visible spokesman. here he is saying the war with the west will go on. disappointment has been largely welcomed on the extremist web site. bin laden and al-zawahiri collaborated closely. both were fugitives for years, hiding out in afghanistan and pakistan. al-zawahiri, the natural successor to bin laden, is named the f.b.i.'s most-wanted terrorist, the leader of al qaeda. >> it's not a surprise that, from our perspective, that he's moved int

you deserve credit for your part in taking down osama bin laden. congratulations to you and the president's national security team for that accomplishment. i get the sense that people were prematurely declaring that the fight is over because we have degraded al qaeda in afghanistan. i am glad toear you point out that they metastasized to other parts of north africa and the region. i want to ask you in particular -- there are other groups that may not be asamiliar to .mericans as al qaeda - could you talk about the islamic jihadist groups that are out there and could easily more for -- easily morph into a threat as dangerous as al qaeda >> there are other groups out there. al qaeda is the one we are principally concerned aut because they attacked this country. they continue to attack this country. there are interlationships they have with other groups. there is a group that has relations with al qaeda. they are conducting attacks in afghanistan. there is a group called ttp that has relationships with al qaeda that conducts a tax -- planned attacks a

even, of course, in the aftermath of the killing of osama bin laden, the u.s. and pakistan are trying to get that relationship back on track. and so trying to get him, trying to work together to go after what they call high value targets is important. and, of course he was responsible allegedly for the attack on the karachi naval base recently, attacks on previous pakistani leaders and all sorts of things that have really upset the apple cart in pakistan and relations between pakistan and the u.s. >> christiane, there's another big story i want to ask you about this morning. breaking news out of yemen, another terror hot spot. the president of that country who's ruled for decades has left to get medical care after he was hurt in a rocket attack. and this morning we're hearing there have been more attacks on the presidential palace and protests in the street. what does all this chaos mean for america's national security? >> well, it's vital for america's national security in fact it is really paramount right now because after al qaeda was degraded significantly

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the carrier's role in osama bin laden's death. ktvu.com, complete bay area news coverage. . >>> the aircraft carrier carl vincent arrived home today after playing a role in the death of osama bin laden. family members greeted the crew. back in may a navy seal team flew osama bin laden's body to the vincent. its crew put the body of the al qaeda leader in a weighted bag and oversaw his burial at sea. the white house today assisted that president obama does not need the approval of congress for its ongoing military action in libya. some say the president must seek their consent under the war powers act to carry out the bombing runs. ten members of congress have now filed a lawsuit they did so today, a gesture to get the president to halt the air war. >> why did the president come to the congress and ask the congress to be supportive and try to justice the action that was taken? >> white house president secretary jake harny says the president does not need congressional authority because the action in libya does not amount to hostili

government has not released much information about exactly where osama bin laden was buried at sea. but, that is not stopping one california man. he is determined to find the body of the al qaeda leader. reporter adrian moore of our san diego station kfnb has the story. >>> it is an adventure of a lifetime to prove a point. is he dead or not? >> reporter: call it fishing or proof or a far-fetched quest, but noah warren is on a mission to find the body of osama bin laden. >> it's going to be like finding a needle in a haystack. but i always believe in luck. >> reporter: after navy s.e.a.l.s killed the al qaeda leader last month his body was lowered into the north arabian sea. warren claims he has a good idea where the body may be, but is still awaiting more detailed information from sources. he refuses to identify. >> so i'm going to pull out all the -- all the stops and just try to find more information about where we should really begin to search. >> reporter: over the last 30 years, the entrepreneur and self-proclaimed treasure hunter says he's discovered more than 150 shipwrecks

a warning from the man once considered osama bin laden. al-zawahiri wants the fight against america and warns the fight against america is not being waged by mere individuals or groups. he's calling it a jihad awakening and calls the political uprising sweeping the middle east in north africa a catastrophe for the united states. the aircraft carrier that buried bin laden at sea is back in the united states. it arrived in pearl harbor, hawaii yesterday it will head to san diego on friday. >>> the state is taking on president obama's health care law bringing their fight to the next level today. a federal appeals court in atlanta hearing arguments over whether it's unconstitutional to require americans to buy health insurance. one judge today saying the supreme court will ultimately have the final say. >>> president obama rubbing elbows with the national champs. we present to you the auburn tigers. the football team visited the white house today. 50 people were on hand for the congratulations. i want you to watch this cute moment. this is whe

and we were able to expend the time it took to get osama bin laden and to do it and do it right. >> pelley: are you saying that we can't afford afghanistan? >> i'm saying that it's coming down to a choice. can you afford afghanistan at the present rate that we're doing? we've spent $443 billion. we're on track to spend another $485 billion, almost a trillion dollars being spent on that war. so here we are in a... trying to build a nation by all accounts that doesn't maybe want to be rebuilt or has no nation to build around with an infrastructure and economy that's not there. we are the economy of afghanistan. >> pelley: and that's not something, in your estimation, the american people should be doing? >> absolutely not. >> pelley: bob schieffer is our chief washington correspondent and anchor of "face the nation." what are the political realities the president addressed tonight. >> it was almost in his speech as if senator marchian wrote the last page. the president said, "it is time to focus on nation building here at home." i mean, that was the signal of how the priorities are shifting h

. >>> did pakistan know about osama bin laden's hideout? a new clue being reported today raising suspicions that not only did the government know, they might have helped. >>> first, i want to begin with this alleged mobster. whitey bulger's alleged reign of terror and life on the lamb comes full circle in boston. look at this picture. it looks more like someone's old grandfather than a diabolical mob boss that would kill you if you crossed him. this is the subject of the biggest manhunt in history. he terrorized southy for years and years. he was involved in the murders of at least 19 people. tloiven th listen to this. >> coming up with a .45 and puts it it to my head. he said if you don't pay me, i'm going to kill you and your father. >> nervous the guy who actually killed my uncle. there was a lot of hits that were done by his associates, but my uncle was killed by james "whitey" bulger. >> this is what he looks like. this is a photo taken just after his capture wednesday night in california. after 16 years, not so much on the lamb, appar

a possible link between osama bin laden and pakistan's government. a cell phone recovered during the raid on osama bin laden's compound contained contact numbers for a militant group that worked with pakistan's intelligence service. >>> and record breaking floodwaters are due to crest this weekend in minot, north dakota. 10,000 people have evacuated. officials expect the town to be swamped. >>> now the latest indication of how this country is changing. for the first time, more than half the children in the u.s. are minorities. the latest census figures indicate nonhispanic whites make up just under half of all children under 3 years old. by contrast, whites make up 80% of people 65 and older. demographers say ethnic minorities will become the u.s. majority by mid century. the census also reports a troubling statistic about this country's children. one in five kids between the ages of 2 and 5 is overweight or obese, twice the rate seen in the 1980s. some families are beginning to fight back as kerry edderrer reports. >> reporter: a few months doctors

caller: is the mission in afghanistan was to get osama bin laden and osama bin laden has been taken down, that's the very reason the united states went in. if he is taken down, the soldiers need to come home. they need to come back home. the government is well aware of the strategy. this is the right idea. i think we're on the right track. host: here is some reaction to the president's speech from capitol hill. we begin with speaker john boehner. host: nancy pelosi. "we are now beginning the process of bringing our troops home and ending the war in afghanistan." host: senator cornyn, republican of texas. back to your calls. josh is a republican in sweetwater, texas. what did you think of the president's speech last night? caller: it was interesting. host: what does that mean? caller: i do believe we need to draw back our troops as soon as possible. yes, i do. i do not believe that we should be spending all the money that the united states spends to help them rebuild their country. germany and other countries we went to war with in the past -- has made them proud for themselves. if we con

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bin laden's body from several news organizations from a.p. to politico and he said i love you but you are wrong on this one we don't need to drag the body through the streets as proof so eight hundred eleven we were cast in one thousand and eleven now this is where i would like to politely disagree with atheist reagan he that i never said that we should be dragging osama bin laden's body through the streets in fact i couldn't be further from what i want i simply want just like a.p. reuters fox news politico and countless other journalistic organizations for the us government to be open and honest about a mission that was carried out in the name of the american people the last thing i'm calling for is some kind of public celebration and calling for transparency from a government that professes to believe in it so once again i call on the u.s. government to stop making a mockery of freedom of information act requests and release the pictures of osama bin laden's body and our next i want to respond to something from hellraiser on facebook you gu

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they've chosen a successor to osama bin laden. it's the terror organization's long-time number two, ayman al zawahiri. 59 years old, joined forces with bin laden after meeting him in 1986, becoming his personal physician and adviser. >>> nato war planes carrying out another round of raids near moammar gadhafi's presidential compound in tripoli. the latest air strikes come as members of congress challenge the u.s. involvement in libya in court. >>> later this morning, the defense will begin presenting its side of the story. on the casey anthony murder trial. after the prosecution rested yesterday. the defense tried unsuccessfully to convince the judge to dismiss the case. >>> a same-sex marriage bill a step closer to becoming law in new york. the state assembly approved the marriage equality act last night. now it goes to the senate. in it passes, new york would be sixth state to legalize same-sex marriage. >>> it was an ugly scene on the streets of vancouver after the canucks lost the stanley cup final. angry fans threw bottles, t

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an american member of al qaeda may now be as grave a threat as osama bin laden himself. holder says that he is a clear and present danger. >> he is an extremely dangerous man. he has shown a desire to harm the united states, the desire to strike the homeland of the united states. >> he is believed to be undercover in yemen. >> he is a person, an american citizen, familiar with this country, and he brings a dimension because of that american familiarity that others do not. >> where would you rankin? >> he would be on the same list with osama bin laden. whether he is 1, 2, 3, 4 -- i do not know. but he is among the people that worry me the most. >> does the u.s. have a preference -- dead, captured, alive? >> we certainly want to stop him. >> i care about what i do and i want to do it well. when you do that, they're nervous feelings that come with doing the job. >> how you walk the fine line of not being too aggressive, but not being too soft so that they will invite you back? >> just through the many conversations that you have with them and their staff, where you tell the

i am suggesting that he is not as charismatic leader as osama bin laden. everybody pretty much agrees with that. why did al qaeda picked him as the leader? an important reason is because he has a presence. he is well known. he has been in charge of the jihad is movement for years. for my propaganda perspective, from a psychological operations perspective, it makes sense to as the new leader and to present continuity and the organization. operationally, the way things are going in al-qaeda, the network of affiliates will do what they want. it will plan their own operations individually. i think it is useful to have a figurehead. i think a ayman al-zawahiri may be useful. host: here is a tweet -- guest: [laughter] that is a good question. they communicate in a clandestine way. it is not an election of all members of al qaeda. these are the leaders of al- qaeda, a select few leaders. nobody should get the idea that there were some kind of general election and people voted. no, this was the leader is communicating in a clandestine way expressing their preferen

he is the man who taught terror to osama bin laden. ayman al-zawahiri, a 59-year-old egyptian, was bin laden's number two in al qaeda. today an islamist web site announced he has taken over and u.s. intelligence sources are telling us that it's true. david martin says this marks the rise of a physician turned terrorist who is determined to do violence in the united states. >> reporter: the king is dead. how long will the new king live? ayman al-zawahiri, osama bin laden's right hand man for over a decade, is the new leader of al qaeda. and with that comes the title of world's most-wanted man. >> well, i'm not sure it's a position anybody should aspire to under the circumstances. >> reporter: to that mind, defense secretary gates, joint chiefs chairman admiral mullen added this at a pentagon press conference today. >> as we did both seek and succeed in killing bin laden, we certainly will do the same with al-zawahiri. >> reporter: al-zawahiri doesn't have bin laden's charisma but he's ever bit as committed to killing americans. >> he's

just on the heels of last month's take down of osama bin laden, we're now getting word of a drone strike in pakistan that killed ilyas kashmiri. but security officials know him and they know this could be a big get. phil black live in pakistan. they call him the military arm, the military brain behind al qaeda. please, give our viewers a perspective on how big of a get this would be. >> sure, t.j. this is a local militant who has risen from very local origins. his early career was fought fighting in a local comfort in kashmir indeed most of his military career has been involved in south asia, india, pakistan, afghanistan. that in recent years he has relocated his operation to the pakistan/afghanistan border area. that tribal territory of north wuzeerstone and from there he developed close relationship with the afghan taliban and al qaeda. he has risen through the ranks of al qaeda quite dramatically in that time. rising to that position, as you say. essentially the operational chief. the man whose job it was to implement al qaeda strategy. that is to decide on targets to dedicate resourc

the movement as we were discussing osama bin laden just one part of it. al qaeda still lives and thrives but you have the likes of the muslim brotherhood and iran and hezbollah and the brotherhood many cases you don't see them coming. if they gain power in egypt is not only buffer israel, the northern neighbor, it is very bad for america because the sharia law will be the goal and i can tell you i was in israel, i was in jerusalem meeting with the government officials in february as mubarak was out the door, very, very concerned to say the least that egypt will end up in the muslim brotherhood hand and you need look no further and the brotherhood spiritual leader. keyes and use off. i know we're offering a lot of names. >> host: al jazeera. >> guest: he's got the biggest show in al jazeera. he is the global spiritual leader of the muslim brotherhood. he is a guy that has said we will conquer the west. this is a guy with probably tens of millions of not hundreds of millions of insurance around the world who watched the show, muslims. he said he will conque