the movement to set up an al qaeda movement in libya. probably to some extent, not thought to be directly involved in the benghazi attack, but more an al qaeda operative, someone who fled there when al qaeda went on the run in the last several years. it goes to what we have been talking about, al qaeda morphing, dispursing itself, sending people into other countries to establish new satellite organizations. it looks now, tonight, like u.s. special forces were able to get him and again, we should be learning more in the coming hours about where he may be moving next. don? >> okay. you are reporting now, barbara, that he has been captured? >> senior u.s. official tells me he has been. he was captured by u.s. special forces in a capture mission. this is not an official announcement by the united states by any stretch. evan and i working the phones talking to our sources. all indications are now that he is in u.s. custody and is somewhere overseas still at this hour. >> barbara, stand by. i'm going to need your help throughout the hour on cnn. i'm going to get to peter bergen to talk about both of these operations. peter, let's start with libya. in fact,

al qaeda's early stages where their anti-u.s. agenda was being formed. >> his capture could be a serious blow to the al qaeda operation. al libi was the computer expert and his computer held a 180-page manual per operations. >> it remained clear how serious a threat al qaeda was because it laid out step by step the things an operative would have to do to pull off a terrorist attack like 9/11 or the attacks in somalia. >> al shabaab is the organization that launched the bloody takeover of a mall in nairobi, kenya, last month. officials say another man known as al ruqai'l was another. no other person was injured in the fire fight. as for al libi, he's going to eventually face terror charges here in new york. >> jericka duncan in new york. thank you, jericka. >>> well, international experts began destroying syria's chemical weapons on sunday. the u.n.-backed team has about nine months to eliminate the stockpile. syria is believed to have about a thousand tons of mustard gas and nerve agents. a chemical gas in august that killed hundreds of people in damascus prompted the mission. >>> and there were new clashes in egypt ove

. >> since 2009, the united states has used drone and missile strikes to target and kill what they say are al qaeda operatives in yemen. but as the drone war escalated, and in the aftermath of the revolution that removed president ali abdulah saleh from power, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula grew. the yemeni and us governments say they are co-operating to push al qaeda back. >> we are not fighting terrorism for the united states, we are fighting terrorism for the security of yemen. >> why not say we are not going to help you until detainees come home? >> i don't think this is the right approach. the right approach is to sit and look at the risk and benefits of every decision you take. it is not a bargaining table. >> we want to find out more about al qaeda in yemen, so we travel to meet a man who is said to have preached in afghanistan in the late 90s - and to have arranged osama bin laden's marriage to his fifth bride. rashad ismael has two relatives detained at guantanamo. his brother sadeq was released back to yemen in 2007, after six years. rashad says that a few yemenis have joined up with al qaeda aft

al liby's family said he just pulled up to his house after morning prayers when he was captured. the top al qaeda operative was indicted in the southern district of new york and wanted by the u.s. government for more than a decade for his role in the 1998 east africa bombings. >> we hope this makes clear that the united states of america will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror and those members of al qaeda and other terrorists organizations literally can run but can't hide. >> al liby has been wanted for 15 years and i wish he was being tried in guantanamo instead of new york. >> al liby will be intear gated for a few weeks before turned over to lawmakers, and he will not be sent to guantanamo. he hid in britain and iran after the attacks and returned to libya in 2011 during the up rising against moammar gadhafi. the s.e.a.l. operation in somalia was to capture a foreign fighter who was the close associate of two somalis wanted for the embassy bombings as well as an attack on a motel in 2002. it was not cleared if he was killed in the attack. one somali was killed

the local level allow al qaeda to in fill trait these places. they have reasons to work with al qaeda ap rativeoperatives. over the years, al qaeda has been unable to operate in other countries. it was a reason for al qaeda to persuade somali that kenya was an emy and deserving of an attack. and the question for the united states is, how successful will al qaeda continue to be at using africa's small wars to hurt u.s. interests? >> what are the u.s. interests in going after them what are our threats doe messically? >> i think there are very little threats at this point. 50 somalis who have u.s. passports have left the united states and gone to somalia. there is a remote possibility that they will come back and launch and attack. the u.s. is worried about al qaeda operatives. they are coordinatingwith the radicals. the u.s. has little reason to worry about al shabaab itself because it is primarily an insurgesy. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. >> there was still another apparent terror incident today this one in yemen. gun men attempted to kidnapping. >> under terms of the recently approved un security council resolution. syria's entire commhemical weap

the al shabaab guy, it will do something for awhile. i don't think anybody is predicting it's the end of al shabaab or al qaeda in syria. >> special operationsd the world every single day and missions being carried out. the reason these two are breaking news is because they are such high profile people they are going after and organizations. so, talk to me about what else could be going on. why these two are so significant, then i'm going to get to peter bergen. >> i think one of the things that is so significant is, you know, it doesn't take a lot of imagination, if you will, to figure out the risks that u.s. forces are at when they go on the missions. it's just a simple fact. they have to gather intelligence for weeks ahead of time to know what they are going into. they have to know where their targets are. are they going to go in by helicopter or aircraft, what kind of opposition they are going to face, who may be shooting as them as they land. all these things. planning these missions, very secretive and covert. we never hear about them ahead of time as they are planning them. everybody should probably be aware that this goes on all the

al shabaab were gathered. shortly thereafter in the capital of libya, elite special operations forces surrounded the vehicle of this man, abu al libi, a top al qaeda operative who has been indicted in the southern districts of new york, wanted by the u.s. government for more than a decade for his role in the east africa bombings. his family says al libi had just pulled up to his house after morning prayers when he was nabbed by the u.s. forces. pentagon press secretary george little issued the following statement. "as the results of a u.s. counterterrorism operation, al liby is currently lawfully detained by the u.s. military in a secure location outside of libya." it is not clear whether the target of the s.e.a.l. operation in somalia, the mastermind of the kenya mall attack, was killed. a firefight broke out. at one somali was killed, but the s.e.a.l.s could not retrieve the body to make a positive identification. liby is alleged to have done surveillance on the embassies before the bombing. he hid in britain and iran after 1998 and returned to libya in 2011 during the uprising against moammar gadhafi. an fbi hostage rescue team with prosecutori

the latest? >> reporter: al libi is on a u.s. naval in the mediterranean. al qaeda is sending operatives to libya to build established camps so does he have information about that. will there be retaliation? his wife says, look, he got out of al qaeda in the mid '90s. yes, he knew osama bin laden and worked for him. it gives you an indication he doesn't have an active al qaeda cell around him so potentially that level, no retaliation. the message that these strikes show, these arrests show is to al qaeda and libya and elsewhere is the united states is on the offensive. so i think in the initial faces, al qaeda operatives will hide where they can hide. will there be retaliation further down the line? there is always the potential for that and you got to be cautious for it. >> but, nic, i was reading in libya, the government there called this a kidnapping. >> reporter: yeah, that sounds kind of odd because we understand that the government there did know potentially that this sort of thing might happen. there is a level of frustration clearly creeping in that the libyan government have kno

escaped the united kingdom and went to afghanistan. >> is this somebody who you believe would still have operational useful information? >> i mean, he was one of the earlier members of al-qaedant with osama bin laden sudan, and then went to operate in the west african region. the whole entire time that osama bin laden was in sudan, he did the whole casing of nairobi and did casing for different french and israeli targets in east africa. and then he continued to talk about targeting american interests, even outside africa. >> so this is more about bringing somebody to justice as opposed to ongoing operations, things like that? >> well, you know, he has been in libya for a while, involved in incidents. his son was killed fighting the troops. so i am sure that law enforcement and the intelligence community has been monitoring him for a while and they have a lot of questions that probably they would like him to answer. >> chad, i want to turn to the operation in somalia. what kind of challenges did seal team 6 face with this operation that they maybe did not with the osama bin laden raid? i mean, a lot of people know how the osama bin laden operation took place. how would an ope

the vehicle of this man who is now being held on a ship. al-liby said he pulled up to his house after morning prayers after he was captured. the top al qaeda operative was indicted in the southern district of new york wanted for more than a decade for his role in the 1998 east africa bombing. >> we hope this makes clear that the united states of america will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable for the acts of terror. and those numbers of al qaeda and other terrorist organizations. >> i would be wanted for 15 years. i also raised the question why you would get al-liby would get operatives from benza. >> liby will be interrogated for a few weeks before being turned over to u.s. law enforcement. he will not be sent to guantanamo bay. he is accused for carrying out surveillance on embassies before the 98 bombings. he hid from iran after the attacks and returned to libya in 2011 during the up rising of moammar qaddafi. the operation in somalia was designed to capture the kenyan of somali origin. al shabab and somalia a close associate of two somali's wanted for the 98 embassy bombings as well as an attack on a hotel. it is not clear ikrima

came in the early morning hours just after the prime minister had met with the family of the al qaeda operative that was recently taken by u.s. special forces out of libya. you will remember a very daring raid by the american delta force grabbed that well-known al qaeda operative out of the streets of tripoli. there was talks the libyan government was involved or at least cooperating with that raid. whether or not the prime minister's arrest, kidnapping taken by armed gunmen had anything to do with that is what we are trying to figure out. >> investigators are trying to figure out why a retired police officer opened fire on a federal courthouse. police say 55-year-old thomas picard fired more than 20 rounds at the building from the parking lot before he was shot and killed by police. investigators are hoping to search his home today to determine a motive or if he was targeting someone specific. three security guards were hurt by flying debris. both should fine. >>> overnight a roller-coaster ride at universal florida became a fight mare. they had to rescue a dozen people on the hollywood rip ri

the al shabaab leader as well. al shabaab works as the proxy in kenya. u.s. special forces captured an al qaeda operative wanted for the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in kenya and tanz ani. abu anas al libi has topped the u.s. most wanted list for years. officials have wanted al libi to face trial in an american court. he joined al qaeda soon after its founding. straight first to barbara starr, our pentagon correspondent. she is working her sources at the pentagon and has the latest on these two major operations here. let's talk about what happened in somalia first. so, when did this commando raid take place and tell us who the s.e.a.l.s intended to capture, barbara. >> this occurred in the last 24 hours. a us navy s.e.a.l. team moving into an al shabaab stronghold town in south central somalia. they were going after someone they believe to be a major figure in the al shabaab network. this is the al qaeda affiliation in somalia that recently spread into kenya, in that shopping mall attack. growing concern that the group had rising strength and rising ab ability to project its power outside of somalia i

they surrounded the vehicle of this man. a top al qaeda operative who has been dieted in the southern districts of new york, wanted by the u.s. government for more than a decade in his role in the east africa bombings. they say he just pulled up to his house when he was nabbed by u.s. forces. george little issued the following statement, quote, as a result of a u.s. counter terrorism, he is currently detained outside of libya. it is not clear will the target in somali, the masser mind of the kenian mall attack was killed. the seals could not retrieve the body to make a positive identification. they are said today have done -- he returned to libya in 2011 during the uprising. an fbi hostage rescue team was embedded with the u.s. forces that carried out this attack. u.s. officials confirm al libby will be sent o it the united states and not guantanamo. >> thank you. now to the partial government shutdown. >>> it's day six and their ticking closer to another debt lime. we have to raise the debt ceiling in two weeks or for the first time our country goe

does he know about al qaeda and al qaeda network in the libyan perhaps or other al qaeda operatives across north africa. does he have any information about that core al qaeda group still left in wack stan that he associated with back in the old days, so to speak, 12, 15 years ago. how much current information does he have? that's what they will really want to know. don? >> barbara, listen. turning to seal team 6. stormed the home of one of the top leaders of al shabaab in syria. that carried out what happened in the mall. is this a success, failure, what is it? >> we may not know yet because it is not clear exactly what happened there. their target wasn't seaside villa. soon to be the home or headquarters in the al shabaab network. they ran into a big fire fight. there are civilians there. navy commander on the ground that made the decision that would bug out of there, rather than risk some large number of civilian casualties perhaps that was a big worry. so they got out pretty fast. what we don't know, what they are not able to say yet, we're told, is whether they got the man they were lo

we begin with the capture of the al-qaeda operative in libya's capitol and the raid in somalia. reports officials insist these actions were both necessary and legal. >> we hope that this makes clear that the united states of america will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable of those who conduct acts of terror and alqaida and members of their organization that they can run but they can't hide. >> u.s. operations in libya and somalia send a strong message. >> we'll continue to try to bring people to justice in an appropriate way with hopes that ultimately these kinds of activities against everybody in the world will stop. >> navy seals from seal team 6 launched the first mission in somalia, home to the al-qaeda-linked al-shabab group. al-shabab spokesman claimed they had been warned ahead of the seals raid. it's clear that they are planning a large scale attack before the attack in nairobi. and this man is accused of playing a key role in the 1998 bombings in tanzania and is known to be close to osama bin laden years ago. >> the operations were conducted as you know

first, did we tell the leader we were targeting in somali, and should the al qaeda operative that we caught be tried in civilian c new rk >> i can't comment on whether or not we captured the leader in somali. having said that it was a daring raid. i give our special operators tremendous ed. af s odi we give any advanced notice that we were coming. as far as libya was concerned, he has been want for 15 years. i wish he was being tried in gan why didn't get get the operators from benghazi. why don we go get them as well. that has been aeal issue in congress why we don't goget gy seals and special forces tremendous credit. but i hope he is an intergator for a long time. granng lt with you. you said some pretty rough things. do you called them yahoos. ted cruz crazies and terrorists. with tom graves sitting here, sounds like it's more than just a disagreement over policy. >> ie great regard for tom graves. i was mainlyspeaking of tom cruise. that if we defund obama re, that he can keep it open. this was a strategy that never could have wormed. if we want to defundomething, we should reait

reporter: he said al libi returned to tripoli two years ago living in plain sight of the weak libyan authorities, at the time when al qaeda was setting up training camps, ramping up operations in the aftermath of the overthrow of libyan dictator moammar gadhafi. according to him, there is no known ties between al libi and the 2012 u.s. consulate attack in benghazi that killed four u.s. officials including u.s. ambassador chris stevens. nevertheless, he says a warning for al qaeda, the us now in the offensive in libya. >> they tried to convince people america is soft, america won't go to war, americans are coward. that's exactly what they keep teaching from western years. >> i want to bring in nic from london. tell us about the interrogation process here. he is in u.s. custody. what is legallial allowed in terms of trying to get information that this guy? >> well, from what we understand, he'll be in the hands of this navy vessel very likely in the mediterranean sea. they will be able to sit him down, ask him questions, without torture, to try and find out what he knows. his wife has said he doesn't know very much. she indicates he left al qaeda in the 1980, but he's not bee

. >> we confirm that the al-qaeda operative wanted for the 1998 embassy bombing is in u.s.ill try him in the united states and the justice department is preparing to do so. and we also can confirm that u.s. navy seals carried out a raid in somalia and targeting the leadership. we cannot confirm who was killed in that attack and whether the target was the one killed. they could not leave and take the body with them. we are waiting to see the confirmation, harris. >> busy night and sunday for you. that's how fox reports on saturday. i am harris faulkner. and watch out for my updates on twitter. i will see you on huckabee with a live up date. >> tonight on huckabee. finger pointing. >> if you hope to end the republican shut down get rid of the tea party direction. >> this is harry reid's shut down because he wants it. and refuses to listen to the american people. >> speaker john boehner will not let the bill get a yes or no vote. >> the wall street journal out. we are winning. it is not a damn game. >> they are talking tough, but where is the action. >> the former congressman

made to wrap up the use of drone strikes in the federallied federally admitted l areas of par pakistan. that is someone that is known to be a top al qaeda operative who was killed in 2012. the u.s. government has not confirmed that the top al qaeda operative indeed was killed. but ther there have been a numbf documents made public that the nsa carried out the cia o operatives were able to launch a don'don'tdrone strike that thend him. >>> roz in washington, d.c. thank you. >>> i'm meteorologist dave warren. we are watching the pacific. another typhoon developing. wind are 150 miles southwest of guam. >> the track is taking it towards japan over the next five days and turning it north. tuesday evening. 115 miles-per-hour local japan time. that is the outlook for the tropical system looks like for this typhoon. this is big. a few days weighing we ha we hat passed over the so muc southernf japan. we had 3 30-inches of rain in se areas. mud slide and 18 18 dead and ao numbea number of people missing. we are cleaning up from this and watching the forecast. we'll continue to monitor this and have a look at the national forecast a little later. >> tony:

the vehicle of this man, who is now being held onboard a u.s. ship. al libi's family said he had just pulled up to his house after mourning prayers when he was captured. the top al qaeda operative was indicted in the southern district of new york, wanted by the u.s. government for more than a decade for his role in the 1998 east africa bombings. >> we hope that this makes clear that the united states of america will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct acts of terror and those members of al qaeda and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can't hide. >> al libi has been wanted for 15 years. i wish he was being tried in guantanamo rather than the southern district of new york, and i also raise the question, why, if we were able to get al libi, we didn't get the opera operatives from benghazi? >> they say al libi will be interrogated for a few weeks before being turned over to u.s. law enforcement. he will not be sent to guantanamo bay. he's accused of carrying out surveillance on the u.s. emba y embassies before the 1998 bombings. he hid in britain and iran and returned to libya in 2011 in the uprising against moammar gadhafi. it was d

the u.s. military is holding a terror leader, senior al qaeda operative, abu anas al liby was captured in tripoliays he was seized before he could even reach for his gun. al liby stands accused for the twin embassy bombings. >>> number two, u.s. forces stormed a villa frequented by top members of the terror grab of al shabab. a fire fight broke out and a al shabab spokesman says one of the members was killed. >>> and one of the bikers accused of beating a suv driver has been charged. another key suspect, he is the one seen smashing the window with his helmet, and he is also facing assault charges. >>> two weeks into fall, and south dakota gets walloped by a blizzard. two feet of snow in some parts of the state. cnn spoke with one woman who was trapped in her car there for 20 hours. many roads are still closed. >>> the cold front is heading east. it's expected to drop a lot of rain across the great lakes. let's bring in alexandra steele. >> heavy rain, cincinnati, an inch of rain already. this is the cold front on the backside was all that snow. we saw the pictures of rapid city downtown, 23 inche

abu anas al libi: one of the world's most wanted terrorists and an al qaeda operative, according to the pentagon. his wife says a group of men in libya's capital of tripolo ambushed al libi as he retd home from morning prayers on saturday. "they say there were ten people,ut i more than ten. ie couldn't count them, because there were many of them." she says al libi left al qaeda in '96 and had no connection to the twin bombings of u-s embassies in kenya and tanzania in 1998. a federal grand jury in new york determined otherwise, nd others believed to be linked to the attacks. a u-s official says commandos from the u-s army's "delta force" captured al libi, who was then taken to a navy warship. al libi will be interrogated while still in milary custody. c-n-n has learned the oba administration has activated theghl interrogation group" -- a team from several intelligence agencies led by the f-b-i. it's not clear when he might arrive in new york to face fedal charges. al-libi's capture coincided with a weekend raid in somalia, tageting a commanr of al-shabaab -- the group that claimed esiby

first, did we kill the al-shabab leader we were targeting in somalia, and secondly, should the al qaeda operative we caught in tripoli, should he be tried in civilian court in new york where he is currently under indictment? >> chris, i can't comment on whether or not we captured the al-shabab leader in somalia. having said that, it was a daring raid. i give our special operatives tremendous credit. i think after it is over, we have to find out, did al-shabab know we were coming? because obviously there was a heavy resistance when we got there. as far as libya is concerned, libya has been wanted for 15 years. i wish he was being tried in guantanamo rather than the southern district of new york. it raises the question why, if we were able to get al libi, why didn't we get the somalians as well? al libi is a great capture and i give the nia operatives tremendous credit, but i hope he's enter gatd finterrogated f time before he's brought to court. >> congressman king, let me start with you. you said some pretty rough things about your fellow republicans who are pushing this default. you called them

al libi. in libya, delta force operators surrounded the vehicle of this man. abu anas al libi, who's now being held onboard a u.s. ship at sea. the top al qaeda operative was indicted in the southern district of new york, wanted by the u.s. government for more than a decade for his role in the east africa bombings. al libi's family says he had just pulled up to his house after morning prayers when he was nabbed by what we now know were delta force commandos. pentagon press secretary george little issued the following statement. quote, as the result of a u.s. counterterrorism operation, abu anas al libi is currently lawfully detained by the u.s. military in a secure location outside of libya. >> al libi was wanted for 15 years. i wish he was being tried in guantanamo rather than the southern district of new york. >> u.s. officials tell fox libi will eventually be tried in the u.s. but could be held and interrogated for weeks before being turned over to u.s. law enforcement. he will not be sent to guantanamo bay. libi is alleged to have done surveillance on the u.s. embassies before the 1998 bombings. he hid in britain and iran following the at

the message that terrorists can run but not high. bya's prime minister says that he was in nation after special porces smashed -- snatched a to al qaeda suspect from the streets of tripoli. >> a senior al qaeda operative was one of the world's most wanted terrorist. washington was offering a $5 million reward for information leading to his arrest. on saturday, special forces captured him near tripoli and took him to an undisclosed location outside the country. at the sidelines of the apec theit, john kerry said raid set a message to al qaeda. clear thatthis makes the united states of america will never stop in its effort to hold those accountable who conduct act of terror. expected of coordinating the twin attacks in 200ania in 1998 that killed people. a court charged him in connection with the attacks. he has been on the most wanted list ever since. the libya operation came hours abab militants were attacked. concerned that their forces were involved against the terrorists, but offered no further details. agencies are reporting that u.s. forces were not able to achieve their objective. ab militants claimed responsibility for last month's attack on a shopping mall in nairobi. the hostage drama left 70

the al qaeda old guard and going after the new. a buh al libi is one of the last of the old guard of al qaeda operatives to be caught. w loaders are gaining strength and u.s. commandos are on the front lines of going after them. >> the arab spring allowed more travel and movement. we have seen groups cooperating with each other, cooling resources and pulling training, that's really a concern. >> reporter: al libi was long wanted for his role 15 years ago in the attack on the u.s. embassies in africa, but the 9-11 era of al qaeda operatives are largely dead or captured. key operatives like khalid sheikh mohammad, topping the list of still wanted, ayman al zawari, the leader of al qaeda with a $25 million reward on his head. he is believed to be hide income pakistan. some of the most hunted a a part of the new al qaeda affiliates like al shabaab in somalia. its leader leads the group said to be responsible for the attack on a fibroshopping mall two weeks ago. >> by normally merging with al qaeda, future americans were targeted, this group has put itself in the sights of the united states. >> the u.s. is also hund hungt

the target of this operation? >> the target was al shabab leaders and the fortune operatives from al-qaeda and this kind of of targets attacks are really something that we have been crying for a long time in somali. our forces do not have the capacity and means, so that's why our alice are helping us. >> our reports tell us that this operation failed because no one was arrested, no al shabab commander was arrested. can you confirm this to us? >> at the moment, we are investigating the aftermath. this has been very successful -- >> how has it been successful -- has anyone been arrested? >> successful in the terms that leaders hiding away in somalia can see that our friends are there to help us, so that is how successful it was, but i can assure you that the investigation is still undergoing and i cannot tell you any further due to security reasons. >> thank you for telling us what you've told us at least. thank you very much, presidential spokesman for somali joining us live there from mogadishu. thanks for your time. >> thank -- >> we are hearing about the competing demonstrations in egypt, happening on the occasion

government is the tearicating an al-qaeda operative. this is after a weekend rain in libya and somalia. he is believed to have ties to the '98 bombs of the embeta- adrenergicties in kenya and tanzania. he left al-qaeda in 1996 and had hoe construction with the twin bombings of the u.s. embassies back in '98. >> there were ten people, but i believe there were more than ten. i could not count them, because there were many of them. >> al-libi will be interrogated in u.s. custody. because he could hold information dating back 20 years. the libya strain coincided with the raid in target with al- shabaab. they claimed responsibility for last month's siege in kenya that killed 75 people. >>> 7 minutes after 5:00. today the supreme court begin as new term. and the justices are expected to tackle controversial issues including affirmative action, legislative prayer, and protests. tomorrow, campaign finance reform. >>> all right. well, sports now. the ravens are still in the rebuilding process, but, hey, they won yesterday, 26-23 in miami. it was

new spy novel as well as iran's nuclear ai ambitions. >>> we begin with the capture of the identif al qaeda operative e raid on a a al shabab compound n somalia. >> these actions both necessary and legal. >> we hope that this makes clear that the united states of america will never stop in it's effort to hold those accountable to conduct acts of terror and those members of the al qaeda and other terrorist organizations literally can run but they can't hide. >> u.s. officials including the secretary of state john kerri ky says the u.s. operations in libya and somalia send the message. >> we will continue to bring people to justice in the prop ratd way wit --appropriate way s that these activities will stop. >> the navy seals launched the first mission in al qaeda. it to forced them to withdraw without their target. a al shabab spokesman says they were -- within a few hours of the raid commandos grabbed this man off the streets of tripoli in libya. known by his ai alias he was accused of playing a roll in the bombings of libya an tan a tanz. >> the operations were conducted by the u.s. military under t

al liby, and the war against al-qaeda. it is a fascinating book. he is the head of a security firm. >> ali, let me start out with you. a lot of people don't realize this al-qaeda operativewho was taken in tripoli, he was actually stopped by the british back in 1999. and they let him go. you were called in to take part in that investigation. you had to watch him essentially walk out the door, explain what happened. >> basically, we were looking for him, his involvement in the 1998 bombing of the east african embassy in nairobi. and at this point, we realized he had applied for political asylum in 1995. at that time, in the world before 9/11, we didn't have enough to start a legal case against him. so we hoped with that operation that we did with our british counterparts to get some evidence, and unfortunately, we couldn't find any smoking gun. so according to the law, according to our laws and their laws they had to let him go. a few months later we were able to build a case against him. he was indicted, and by then he escaped afghanistan and went to the united kingdom. >> is this somebody who you believe would have operative international information. >> i mean he was a

he is in london and has details about the capture of a top al qaeda operative in libya. hey, nick. hey, al libbi, his wife looking out the window, sees him pulling up in his car, then three other vehicles, and within seconds, essentially men overpower her husband before he could even reach into the glover box to grab his pistol. the window of his vehicle was smashed, and he was taken away, removed from libya, will be taken we understand to the united states. his role as a senior al qaeda figure with expertise in computing and planning operations, believed to have planned the 1998 attacks on the u.s. embasses in kenya and assistance nia, but he may also have information about cells and camps in libya, as well as the north of africa, where we know thee trying to improve their footing there. >> joining me is jeremy batch. he's not the managing director for beacon global strategies. what are the chances -- at least the nod that it's okay from what there is of a government in libya? >> very hard to full off a completely unilateral military operation downtown in another country's capital

the u.s. generates roughly forty to sixty new enemies for every al qaeda operative killed by drones excuse me forty to sixty new enemies it's like battling the hydra cutting off its head only to have forty more appear in its place to say that drone strikes are counterproductive to u.s. interests is a severe understatement and it makes sense last year four hundred and ninety one civilians were killed by drone strikes in yemen alone. who. said it. was just so they're. ok let's face it drones are reality they are the frontline of the war on terror. but how did it come to this on the one nine hundred eighty s. israeli born kareem designed the albatross an unmanned aircraft able to fly for fifty six hours straight and as soon as the u.s. military learned about this early stage drone they put darpa funding behind it eventually drones were used for surveillance eighteen soldiers on the ground in bosnia in the ninety's and then in two thousand and one the cia decided to mount weapons on the now infamous predator drone and in a rush response to nine eleven the cia put together a program that would allo