bret: a suicide bomber blew himself up at a military parade rehearsal in the yesmen capital killing 96 soldiers today. the bombing one of the tedly yast attacks in the city in years appeared to be a failed assassination attempt of the defense minister in yemen. meanwhile, the defense department says three civilian contractorrings helping train yemen coast guard were attacked in a separate indent today. president obama addressed the yesmen prime minister saying he s concerned about the extreme activity there. convicted lockerbie bomber was buried today near libyan capital. no government officials attended abdelbaset al-megrahi s funeral. just family member and passersby. stark contrast to hero s welcome he received three years ago after receiving eight years of a life sentence in scotland. that is when he was released
implicated in a lockerbie bombing and a nightclub that killed an american. then things changed in the late 90s, trying to improve relations with the west. he turned over some lockerbie suspects that the international community wanted. he also eliminated weapons of mass destruction. that was a big deal, a really big deal, when president bush was in the white house. right. relations improved for a while with the bush administration in effect in the u.s. but then things took another southern turn, 2008 his son was arrested in switzerland so gadhafi responded by cutting off switzerland s oil supplies. theb in 20 oin into tl was a lockerb lockerbie, convicted lockerbie bomber released early for health reasons. he came back to libya and gadhafi s government gave him a hero s welcome. there has been up and down with the west but more down. it s interesting. i was talking to michael holmes about his supporters. he keeps talking about his supporters but he really doesn t have any besides
napolitano who heads up the department of homeland security, she sat down for an interview yesterday with diane sawyer for world news tonight and sawyer asked her about the threat of terrorism during the holidays and the christmas holidays and janet napolitano said this jaw dropper. what i say to the american people, we are and thousands of people are working 24/7, 364 days a year to keep the american people safe. whoopsy daisy. 364 days a year. even with the leap year, that increases the day, right? i m trying to come up with how you get to 364. i mean, sometimes you might have 366, right, but not 364. so the key is what day, madam secretary, does the department of homeland security take off? spin the wheel. let s hope it s not today and tomorrow. don t tell anybody. we ll find out. maybe it could be christmas day because that s kind of what happened last year when that almost christmas bomber was able
under concerning the release of convicted lockerbie bomber and terminally ill abdel basaet al-megrahi. you recall the accusations made at the time and in the past year really, that they forced the release of this individual to gain a lucrative oil deal, especially a big one with pwa p. these cables, in part the u.s. ambassador to libya a year before the 2009 release said u.k. faced enormous repercussions, dire consess if abdel basaet al-megrahi was not released. the u.k. ambassador says about the same thing. he says they will cut us off at our knees commercially from a money standpoint if abdel basaet al-megrahi is not released. even threats against both british and american citizens and the embassies in libya are in fear if the release didn t
obama in his first visit to the u.s. since taking office. bp is under fire over concerns the oil giant helped with the release of the only person convicted in the attack. here s gloria riviera. reporter: as bp continues to battle an oil disaster of its own making, it is now also refuting accusations it pushed for the release of convicted lockerbie bomber abdelbaset al megrahi. in 1988, 189 americans were killed, 270 passengers in all, when pan am flight 103 went down in scotland. when you have such a horrific crime committed, you have to go the extra mile to be very careful. we want to know some of the details that are now being raised. reporter: congress is investigating whether bp pushed the british government to support al megrahi s release so the company could secure an oil drilling contract in libya. but in a letter to secretary clinton, the british foreign secretary wrote that the uk sees