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In a new investigative report published by The Nation magazine, independent journalist and Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reveals the CIA is using a secret facility in Somalia for counterterrorism as well as an underground prison in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has issued an urgent appeal over the crisis in Somalia, where more than 11 million people are in need of life-saving assistance as they face the worst drought in decades. We speak to Yves van Loo in Nairobi of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Somalia, who was in Mogadishu just two weeks ago and to investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, who recently returned from assignment in Somalia. The British phone-hacking scandal engulfing Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has crossed the Atlantic, and could impact his maze of interests in the United States. We speak with Ilyse Hogue, senior adviser at Media Matters for America, and Kevin Zeese, a spokesperson and lawyer for ProtectOurElections.org. A massive week-long demonstration continues in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in perhaps the largest rallies in the five months since the uprising that led to the fall of former president, Hosni Mubarak. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.

The manhunt for Osama bin Laden is over. Nearly 10 years after the attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, U.S. forces are said to have assassinated the Saudi-born founder of al-Qaeda inside Pakistan. We speak with Jeremy Scahill, the national security correspondent for The Nation magazine, who has followed the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts closely as well as reported on the covert war inside Pakistan. New York City Police Cadet Mohammed Salman Hamdani died on Sept. 11 after he raced to the Twin Towers to help survivors. He earned a mention in the USA PATRIOT Act for his bravery, yet because he was a Muslim immigrant, the New York Post and others considered him a suspect until his DNA was discovered. We speak to his mother, a member of September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, about the killing of Osama bin Laden. "The idea that Bin Laden got from Tora Bora to that house over the last seven or eight years without a single element of the Pakistani state knowing about it just doesn’t ring true," said Pakistani journalist Mosharraf Zaidi who has been reporting in Abbottabad. "What rings even more hollow is the notion that somehow U.S. military choppers, gunships could fly into Pakistan undetected." Pakistani writer Tariq Ali questions how Bin Laden could have been living inside a fortified compound within a mile of Pakistan’s premier military academy. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.

The crisis in Yemen is growing following high-level defections from the regime of U.S.-backed President Ali Abudullah Saleh. “The Obama administration has really escalated the covert war inside of Yemen and has dramatically increased the funding to Yemen’s military, particularly its elite counter-terrorism unit, which is trained by U.S. special operations forces," says Democracy Now! correspondent and independent journalist Jeremy Scahill. The U.S. and allied air strikes on Libya have entered their fourth day as part of an international effort to enforce a no-fly zone. “In Iraq, [the no-fly zone] resulted in the strengthening of Saddam Hussein’s regime ... I think it could end up backfiring in a tremendous way and keeping Gaddafi in power even longer,” says Scahill. In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, Amy Goodman was there on Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s flight from exile. Today, part two of her conversation on the flight with Aristide and former Haitian First Lady Mildred Aristide as the plane approached Haiti. Democracy Now!, a daily independent newshour.

"The US has basically already lost the war in Afghanistan, if they even knew what victory was defined at in the beginning," says Jeremy Scahill, just back from two weeks reporting unembedded in that country. The Taliban there are not unlike the Tea Party here, he notes, not popular in themselves but rather as a protest against the failures of the current regime.Then, this week, two bombs were found in packages in cargo holds on two planes from Yemen. Is this a new front on the "war on terror"? Jeremy fills us in on the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan, the soft war in Yemen and other countries, and why the wars have been conspicuously absent from this year's election campaigns.In our first installment of our new GRITtv Digs investigative series "Conspiracy Tactics," we were introduced to a new concept in the anti-choice movement: the co-opting of Civil Rights Movement language and strategies to break up the progressive coalition. In this segment, reproductive justice leaders in the African-American community question the sudden interest of white Conservatives in black women and their babies.