ABC's Brian Ross says Zawahiri was at attack site

Taylor Marsh reports on an interview with Ross by Charlie Rose:

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The U.S. believes al-Zawahiri was at the location the drones hit, which was a high level summit of al Qaeda. There were a series of strikes and on the third house in the compound, "before it was hit, but after the other two were hit, people ran from that house, took off and then the strike came." Some people got away, al-Zawahiri being one, but his son-in-law and chief bomb maker weren't so lucky.

As an aside, al-Zawahiri's son-in-law was in charge of making many of al Qaeda's tapes. Ross says his house was hit a year ago, where we found a "studio" of sorts for media production, though not as fancy as that description implies.

Ross says al-Zawahiri "was hurt bad" by this assault. He lost key people that aid him and help him move around. A man like al-Zawahiri doesn't make friends easily because he no longer can trust people. He needs the individuals who have come up through the ranks that are loyal.

Obviously, somebody provided the information that led to the CIA drone attack. al-Zawahiri has to be wondering, who talked and gave up our position?

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This is where it gets really interesting. Musharraf has created, inside his own intelligence agency, a minor intelligence agency. It is called "The Spider Group" made up of "trusted Pakistani intelligence agents, CIA agents, and a number of wealthy business men who have funded privately a group that is tracking bin Laden and al-al-Zawahiri." On a personal note, if this is true and this cell exists - we have no reason to doubt Ross - I could not have been more wrong about President Musharaff's sincere efforts to aid the U.S., which I'm happy to admit. moving on...

The Spider Group is spreading a lot of money around, developing relationships to try and find out the details of the comings and goings of bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. The Spider Group is seen to be the key to catching these terrorists.

Al-Zawahiri's operation has obviously been penetrated.

The other fact is that the U.S. keeps picking off al Qaeda's #3 man, which Ross equated to Vietnam tactic of picking off the first lieutenants. It's damaging their organization badly.

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