On May 10, 2012, Ali Soufan appeared on Bill O'Reilly's The O'Reilly Factor, given a chance to rebut false statements told about interrogations.

Former FBI Agent Ali Soufan on FBI vs.CIA interrogation methods of Al Qaeda members after 9/11.

News media claim to have uncovered the true story behind headlines involving a would-be bomber in Yemen, who was allegedly developing a more sophisticated underwear bomb that could be used for a terror attack. The Los Angeles Times, Associated Press and New York Times all in the span of twenty-four hours managed to speak with sources that confirmed an international sting operation had been unfolding. Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency and the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were cooperating and the would-be bomber was an informant tasked with convincing al Qaeda to give him the new and improved bomb so he could hand it over to the United States.

Part 1: The story behind Yemen bomb plot: One of the world's top experts on Yemen, Ali Soufan, tells Christiane Amanpour about the al Qaeda bomb plot.

Part 2: U.S. tribunals at Guantanamo Christiane asks the lead prosecutor at Guantanamo about the criticism of U.S. tribunals, with comments from Ali Soufan

Al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula's mission The foiled underwear bomb plot in Yemen serves as a stark reminder of al Qaeda of the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP's, primary mission - bring down an American plane, reports John Miller.

Fahd al-Quso, a senior Al Qaeda militant linked to the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole, a Navy destroyer harbored in the port of Aden, was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Yemen yesterday, according to authorities there ... less well-known in Al-Quso?s saga is that he was also at the center of a debate about whether American intelligence agencies could have prevented 9/11. Former FBI interrogator Ali Soufan told FRONTLINE last year that his interrogation of al-Quso after the USS Cole attack brought him close to uncovering the 9/11 plot.

The U.S. we may have learned a great deal from what was found in Osama bin Laden's compound on paper or in hard drives. But over the last two weeks, in a federal courtroom in Brooklyn, CBS News correspondent John Miller reports we have gotten a different window into bin Laden's thinking from some of the very terrorists he gave orders to.

Ali Soufan speech (starts at 50 minutes), with introduction by Karen Greenberg, the Director of Fordham's Center on National Security, in receiving the 2012 Ridenhour Book Prize, for The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al Qaeda. The awards were held at The National Press Club in Washington DC, April 25th.

Ali Soufan presents his new book "Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda" with WAC-DC members and guests. Mr. Soufan provides an in-depth narrative on the successes and failures of the United States before and after 9/11 in their attempts against al-Qaeda.