a longstanding al shabab stronghold themselves knew they were going into a very rough patch of territory. they were going after a top al shabab leader. they have not said who they were looking for themselves ran into a to have firefight. they leave them don t know if they got the man they were after. barbara starr, thank you very much. now back to libya. our report he spoke exclusively today, she joins us now. what did she say to you? she defended her husband. said that she is an innocent man. she did admit that he was a member of al qaeda but she said, he left the organization in 1996 after serving alongside osama bin laden. she said he served as a personal bodyguard to bin laden. but then in 96, she said they were in sedan. he left the country and the
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operation. a person who knows him well said it was a 10 out of 10 for the u.s. military, it happened so quickly. barbara, we know he was taken to a location outside of libya, and no details as far appears, and will liby be brought back for trial to the u.s.? my colleague, evan perez, has been looking into this and from the justice department s points of view, we expect him to be returned to the federal district in new york state which is the element for holding tries and prosecutions for the types of terrorists cases, expect for him to turn up there at some point and for a prosecution federally to go forward. u.s. forces went into libya, and the government how many details the libyan government
it would act on its own. took about 15 years, but then when the capture was ordered it was less than a minute. barbara starr at the pentagon this morning. keep us posted. thank you, barbara. another big raid in somalia this time. some 3,000 miles from libya. we re learning now it happened on friday, and we are just learning about it now, a navy s.e.a.l. team zoomed in by speedboat on their mark. a seaside villa. top militant commanders from al shabab stay at that villa. a fierce gunfire broke out. the terror group claimed responsibility for last month s shocking attack at the shopping mall in kenya. this is new video showing the armed militants inside the mall. a u.s. official says no navy s.e.a.l.s were injured in friday s raid. a member of al shabab may be dead and a big player in al
was attacked in 98, and that surveillance may have been in the 94 and 95 time period, and he disappeared 2000 before authorities raided his house, and at that time he was living in manchester in northern england and he has been on the run since and his trail has gone to afghanistan and other countries and eventually he ended up, we believe, in 2010 in libya where he has been living. do we know if he had any active role in the workings of al qaeda or any of the groups that are connected to them recently, since 2010, moving back to libya, if he had from that point any involvement? i am i don t think we know, victor. i don t think, for instance, that there is any belief that he was involved in planning the benghazi attack on the u.s. government facility there. certainly he has been a long-time member of al qaeda,