he was a libyan intelligence agent working for moammar gadhafi. three scottish judges found megrahi guilty of planting a bomb on the pan am flight. a fragment of its timer was found among the wreckage. allegedly wrapped in megrahi's shirt. megrahi's son said his father was innocent and that he died of cancer at home in tripoli surrounded by friends and family. many libyans claim megrahi was a scapegoat. but u.s. security officials say he was no patsy. he was a terrorist. >> this was a man who was an operative, who worked on behalf of moammar gadhafi, and was absolutely instrumental in the death of 280 people in bombing pan am 103. >> reporter: families of the victims today found some solace in megrahi's passing but not much. >> there'll never be closure for any of us when your loved one is blown out of the air at 31,000 feet. there's some step of justice. the families for 24 years now have been trying to seek the truth. >> reporter: that truth for many remains unclear. did megrahi act alone? and why was he released at all? a scottish court let meg

when moammar gadhafi of libya threatened to kill his own people, we acted.doing so, we get force to fundamental new principle that is the responsibility to protect. and in each case, it is important to recognize that we acted collectively under an umbrella of legitimacy provided by the united nations and regional organizations, the african union, developed states, and others. general brent scowcroft, who has been such a strong leader of this atlantic council said himself that this is the way of future. and i could not agree more. for events in modern memory have been more inspiring -- fewer events in modern memory have been more inspiring or more challenging than the arab spring. from the outset of this transition, transformations, i called, the united nations have called all leaders to listen to their people, carefully, sincerely, what they are challenges, what their concerns are, what their aspirations are. and to enter into an inclusive dialogue with them, to act before it was too late. now, we must help these nations in transition. that is one of my prio

moammar gadhafi's son, still alive. he'll have a lot of information about this. >> moammar gadhafi never denied a connection to the bombing. he paid $2.7 billion in compensation to the victims' families. >>> let's take you right now to chicago, the host city of the nato summit, 50 nations, leaders of those nations are meeting there inside. and then outside you've got a number of protests, at least demonstrators who have gathered. many have said they're trying to make a statement about the economy. others have said they've tried to make statements about the u.s. and its involvement in the afghanistan war. many pleading that the afghanistan war needs to be stopped, or at least the u.s. involvement stopped immediately. again, these live pictures taking place right here, thanks to our affiliate wbbm providing the images. right now you just see a whole lot of people milling about. unclear what kind of activity is happening there on the ground, as the leaders of 50 nations meet inside. a wider view, you can see it's a sizeabl

so you are not satisfied with just the death of al megrahi and moammar gadhafi. you believe there is still more justice? >> oh, there's no question. a couple months ago, the french arrested a guy by the name of sanusi, who was gadhafi's chief intelligence officer. he has the key to the truth of pan am flight 103 and it's up to the obama administration and the cameron administration to aggressively interrogate him to get the truth. i don't want know if they will, because i don't know if our government and the british government have the stomach to find the truth, because i believe it will lead to the doors of iran and syria. >> you don't have much confidence that the u.s. or the uk will further pursue anyone connected to the fligbombing of flight 103. >> it's now up to obama and it's now up to cameron. the families have persevered for 24 years and along with the support of the media, we've kept this as a front-page story worldwide and i do believe we could put the pressure on them to find the truth and i would love to meet with president obama. i met with bush 41 o

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sounds as if supporters of former dictator moammar gadhafi are still being held in libyan prisons with many of them tortured according to a un report many jails are secret and under the control of armed rebels who refuse to comply with the country's new government lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says that there is no sign maybe it is getting closer to democracy. this is a major disaster which was caused by the west and the asian regime change policy under the guise of humanitarian intervention the responsibility to protect and i think the country is in terrible shape and some people tell me in africa that the country may be on the verge of splitting up and was so it's created massive instability of course all over the site here in northern africa you have a tribal society you don't have a nationalistic clear direction misuse of a country so once you overthrew gadhafi who was no good no question about it but you did it in the way that the west did including the killing of. then you are setting up various tribal groups to vie for control and right now tho

at least four thousand former comrades of late moammar gadhafi are still in prison in libya subjectedto torture and abuse this according to the u.n. special representative ian martin he also mentioned most of the prisons are run by the so-called revolutionary teams martin point out the libyan government ought to immediately take control and demanded an investigation. seven police officers were killed seventeen injured after be ambushed by the fark or revolutionary armed forces of colombia police officials say the guerrillas attacked the drug squad with explosives before opening fire this in response to a series of police raids on known drug dealers in which one gorilla was killed and five others captured. in the u.k. hundreds of thousands of public sector workers and police officers took part in marches protesting spending cuts and pension plan changes the government says the current pension schemes are an affordable because people now live longer but unions say members are being rob working longer for less money downing street eventually plans to raise the compulsory retirement age f

the building demanding to be paid for the role they played in the last year's uprising against moammar gadhafi the premier also present however when the shooting happened and by the army as it is right at the pan african news why told us that this security problems that currently been government is facing now might pave the way to foreign intervention. there's a lot of our problems that exist are wanted the national transitional council inside of libya they were put in power socially by the pentagon and nato are they have not been for the air power the naval blockade the intelligence sharing on the part of the united states government and the various or european governments there is no way that the n t c could have defeated the libyan army or last year so these are are the dilemma's that they are the government is facing right now so it actually is creating a situation where there will be a rationale for possible u.s. or nato or direct military intervention on the ground in order to poorly or stabilize the situation inside the country. and of course there's always a lot more in store for you i

authorization last year, for example, in response to the crackdown and abuses and onslaught by moammar gadhafi i think was regarded as a similar bomb by many of the united nations security council coming together to refer the situation to the international criminal court and later authorize use of all necessary measures in response to that crisis. you know, there's also of course still many limitations, and we've seen most prominently in the last few months in the case of syria where the security council, you know, was paraly d paralyzed, exercises of a double veto by china and russia, rejecting efforts to condemn russia, al asad for the crackdown on the syrian population and the crisis that's led to nearly 10,000 deaths. in more recent weeks and months, you know, there has been an effort, of course, by former secretary-general kofi annan with another security council authorization to respond to the crisis, but very halting progress there and a cease-fire that does not seem to be able to holding and slow mobilization of u.n. monitors and i think overall a response that really is inadequate. al

into the sea rebels were promised compensation for their participation in the revolt against moammar gadhafi last year about a month ago payments to many of them were suspended. because they claim that there were a lot of irregularities in regard to who actually were entitled to these payments and what the payments were actually for there's a lot of problems that exist when the national transitional council they were put in power essentially by the pentagon and they took that had not been for the air power the naval blockade. the intelligence sharing on the part of the united states government and the various or european governments there's no way that the m.t.c. could have defeated the libyan army last year so these are the dilemmas that the government is facing right now so it actually is creating a situation where there will be a rationale for possible u.s. or nato direct military intervention on the ground in order to poorly stabilize the situation inside the country. and as the editor of the pan-african newswire i'm a human as a q we're talking about the situation in libya. as like a re

trucks and weaponry to them on cash for the role they played in last year's uprising against moammar gadhafi at least one person was killed in the attack. was not present when the shooting happened. the forces of c. sixty thousand rounds of ammunition from an italian container ship in lebanon the bullets were found hidden into cars on the vessel which was docked in the northern city of tripoli the ship's destination was unknown but syria claims that weapons are being smuggled over the lebanese border to fight against president to police and several protests in support of the forty uprising against the syrian leader. the us is a plot to bomb an aircraft on the one year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden the bomb was designed to fit into a passengers on the way and detonated aboard a u.s. bound passenger jet a similar plot was attempted in december two thousand and nine but failed when the . as it did not detonate properly device which was seized following a cia operation in yemen is being examined by the f.b.i. . also on the wall of the the cell prime minister benjamin netanyahu sa

live from moscow this is now thousands of supporters of libya's former dictator moammar gadhafi locked up and allegedly tortured in secret detention centers all across the country that's according to a new u.n. report which also claims several detainees have been tortured to death by revolutionary militias lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review magazine says there's no sign libya is getting any closer to democracy. this is a major disaster which was caused by the west and didn't the asian regime change policy under the guise of humanitarian intervention the responsibility to protect and i think the country is in terrible shape and some people tell me in africa that the country may be on the verge of splitting up and was so it's created massive instability of course all over the side hill in northern africa you have a tribal society you don't have a nationalistic clear direction misuse of a country so once you overthrew khadafi who was no good no question about it but you did it in the way that the west did including the killing of. then you are setting up various triba

when moammar gadhafi threatened and killed his own people, we acted.n doing so we have forced a fundamental new principle. the responsibility to protect. in each case, it is important to recognize that there will be action collectively under the umbrella of legitimacy provided by the african union, united states and others. general brent scowcroft, who has been such a strong leader of the atlantic council, said himself that this is the way of future, and i couldn't agree more. few events in modern memory have been more inspiring or more challenging than the arab spring. from the outset, i called -- the united nations have called on theirs to listen to people. to enter into an inclusive dialogue with them. for some, it was too late. now we must have these nations. that is one of my priorities. in tunisia, egypt, libya and israel, we are walking for -- working for solutions that focus on people. building democratic institutions, helping to promote human rights, creating jobs and economies, economic opportunities, especially for women and young people. th

obviously coming after again last year with, moammar gadhafi's killing, certainly this has to bring some, check off some boxes in terms of closure. closure such an odd term for family members to have gone through what you have gone through. there isn't such a thing most likely. but when we talk about the fact of this new arrest, do you think that al megrahi was much more of a red herring in certain aspects of things to take the heat off of other countries who may be involved and we may never really know the truth. >> possibly. when i met with bush 41 on april 3rd in the oval office in 1989 i said this was not a criminal act, this was an act of intelligence and if the president had enough intelligence, they should act independently from a criminal aeven. there's no question that when megrahi was indicted. there were people in the bush administration or the john major administration, were cursing a blue storm because they would have to be involved with other countries, it's my personal belief that iran and syria were involved. i base it on discussions i had with an fbi agent and a scottish

sort of comparison, trying to compare the camp guards at guantanamo bay to dead libyan leader moammar gadhafi, saying that -- seemed to hint that the guards may try to kill the detainees and make it look like suicide. the judge basically said this is not the time or the place for that. you're out of order. and he settled back down. but yeah, two major outbursts during the proceedings today, don. >> chris lawrence, guantanamo b bay. the man those gitmo defendants allegedly worked for, osama bin laden, tonight a new look into sboo the twisted, paranoid mind of the al qaeda leader drawn from clues he left behind at his pakistan hide-out. a cnn special report in just moments here on cnn. >>> let's talk politics now. it is official. the official launch in a political showdown will be tracking all the way to november. president barack obama kicking off his election campaign officially today with rallies in a pair of battleground states. jessica, it's interesting because people were writing me on social media saying wait a minute, i thought it happened already. so this is the official kickoff of the

he said something to the effect of we have a moammar gadhafi here, apparently perhaps comparing one of the camp commanders to the did dead libyan leader. the judge cut him off and said you're out of turn, this is not the place or the time for that. and then he basically said they may kill us and make it look like some sort of suicide. what made this stand out more than anything was the fact that the defendants had not responded to any of the judge's questions whatsoever. in fact many times ignoring them, looking down, reading the koran. but in lighter moments when say the camera wasn't on, when the court wasn't this session during recession, it was very different the interaction between them because they were laughing, they were talking amongst each other. they even had a koeccopy of the economist magazine that they were passing back and forth. >> and now what about control of the courtroom. do the attorneys, do those asib they have trofhave control of t courtroom and the next wave forward? >> reporter: a great question. one i'll sure we'll be asking when some of the attorneys come out

but that's when he continued and said, you know, mention moammar gadhafi, said perhaps there were threats to them that they could be killed and it would be made to look like suicide. it shocked to courtroom, and then that was it. they quieted down and didn't say much. don, there interesting thing is although they're not participating in the actual court hearing, when we're on recess and the cameras are off, you can see the five of them, they're talking amongst each other, they are laughing. at one point, a few of them had a copy of "the economist" magazine they were passing back and forth between them. don? >> chris lawrence in guantanamo bay, thank you very much. >>> other news, a former adviser to john edwards has testified that he repeatedly urged the candidate to steer clear of reelhuree rielle hunter. later to be revealed to be her mistress. edwards refused and then told him to back off. prosecutors say edwards broke law by accepting money from donors to pay for her health and living expenses. >> there are a bunch of fools, says the escort whom the secret service probably wishes it c

one man compared american guards to dead leader moammar gadhafi. khalid sheikh mohammed, who once boasted he was the mastermind behind the attacks, refused to speak or even listen to the hearing through earphones. one of the american defense attorneys came dressed in conservative islamic hijab and chastised the women on the prosecution team for wearing skirts saying the detainees had to avert their eyes to avoid committing a sin just by looking at them. and so it went for hours. silence and side issues dominating the hearing. the hearing lasted well into the night because one of the defendants demanded that the full list of charges be read against him, and that had to be done in both english and arabic. despite some reforms, there are still many critics who say these defendants cannot get a fair trial here at a military commission. chris lawrence, cnn, guantanamo bay, cuba. >> chris lawrence, thank you. >>> president obama is looking to recapture the momentum of 2008. this weekend he officially kicked off his re-election bid playing off his campaig