al-qaeda s affiliate in north africa. also known as al-qaeda in the islam okay magreb, or kqim. right. heather: most of the group leaders and their allies, they are algerian, including the suspected ring leader. this hostage plot, i really want to ask you about him. he s one-eyed desert bandit, he s also known as mr. marlboro and the uncatchable. you yourself have been involved in numerous operations in algeria going back as far as the 1990s. what do you know about the group claiming responsibility first for this attack and taking over the gas facility? everything is connected out there. so nothing happens in a bubble. this isn t something that backed up. the fellow you mentioned, he s been around ever since he was a teen-ager in the soviet occupied afghanistan. he s had a stent of jihad there and drifted to various jihads
quarters part of that gas facility where most of the hostage were held but they, perhaps, do not have control of the rest of the facility. that might explain why there are so many differing figures on how many hostage may have escaped and how many may have been killed. bill. bill: thank you, jonathan. jonathan hunt with that fox report tonight. the top guy at the pentagon now weighing in on the debate over guns in america speaking to u.s. troops from italy. defense secretary leon panetta expressing support for president obama s push for the restrictions on gun sales, which includes a renewal of the ban on assault weapons. who the hell needs armor piercing bullets except you guys in battle? and i love to hunt. and i love to be able to, you know, to share that joy with my kids. but i don t i mean, for the life of me, i don t know why the hell people have to have an assault weapon. well, today, the head of
government but many leaders have. it s clearly difficult to get information out of this remote area of algeria and the algerian government being anything about forthcoming. just yesterday, they said that this operation at that gas facility was over. at first reported on the fox report, that may well not be true and they did not have control of the entire gas facility. we learned today that those reports were in fact true. they didn t have complete control. frankly, gregg, the best information is from the hostages who have now got out. gregg: thanks very much. let s turn to jennifer cooke. what are america s options here? algeria clearly as a sovereign country has control of the situation. i think many, if the british responses is anything to go by,
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pictures. asked me to take a picture, i took it i had a conversation with him for a few minutes. thanks for inviting me into your home tonight. that s it fair, balanced and unafraid. sorting out fact from fiction in the siege of the sahara. tonight, the answers are far from clear. the terrorists say they took over a gas facility and took americans hostage. then, reports of a rescue attempt, of gunshots, of hostage killed. the situation is extremely fluid on the ground. there has been a variety of conflicting reports about the events there. tonight, the chaos in the desert and the lives on the line. he led notre dame to the championship game while reportedly grieving over the death of his girlfriend. then he said he learned she never even existed.