operative. perhaps what is more relevant is that he is a former senior member of the islamic fighting group, a man that abu anas al liby was taken in, and before he gravitated back towards al qaeda. appreciate you coming, sir. you have a lot of details about this that you can share with us just developing now. first tell us about the capture that happened on saturday. well, we know that he was a target, you know, for the last 15 years. he was hunted by the u.s. authorities. let s put it this way. and from my perspective, i think it s a very crystal clear message, you know, from the u.s. authorities to the different terrorists groups all over the world, we are never going to for
was one of the leaders of the islamic fighting group. we don t have any business in the global jihad or whatever, and he decided to quit his career with al qaeda in 1995 and he joined my group, the fighting group, and since then he was just part of the lig struggle against gadhafi, and it s like what happened, history in the early 90s, but the key person here, a moroccan, an al qaeda member. i think he is in the u.s. now and he is going to be the main witness against al liby, and he mentioned his name in his house. in 1993, i think maybe well,
that an individual who voted 95% of the time for every budget that came before you, you ve raised the debt limit nine times in washington, d.c., and to stand here in front of the people in the state of texas and say, trust me, i m going to balance the budget, that s a little tough to understand. up first, though, breaking news tonight in libya. there are missing missiles, thousands of them, and mounting concerns here in washington they could fall into the hands of al qaeda or other terrorist groups. and as we speak tonight, the libyan rebels who forced moammar gadhafi from power claim to have their former dictator surrounded. they won t say where, but they insist he won t escape this time. cnn s ben wedeman live for us in tripoli. ben, the rebels have claimed to be on gadhafi s close trail before. do we view credibly these indications tonight from their spokesman that they have gadhafi surrounded? reporter: i m approaching these claims with a certain amount of skepticism.
gadhafi out? is there a long-range government plan? do they have the aspirations to even put one together properly? yeah, thomas, i think that s the 900-pound question. i think they do on one level have people working with mustafa abdul jalil, who have been scripting out what s important. but the problem is, in contrast to perhaps what we ve seen in egypt, is that the opposition is very amorphous. we don t know which commanders are going to emerge as the real heroes of this. the western commanders are barely known to any of us here that are commenting, and i think that equation of power and the discussion of what governance is going to look like is going to have to take into account a whole new raft of people that we simply don t know where they re at. and i think on top of that, something that we in the west don t talk much about is that the most organized, and i think potent force against gadhafi for many years, that he used to harris in jail, are the islamic
idea that they could construct a nuclear weapon and transport it and hide it in europe is bordering on fantasy. and moichael isikoff has com across the case of a former libyan jihadi who is now helping the rebels. what can you tell us about this guy? well, what s in these documents is going to be disturbing for u.s. officials and members of congress. it was detainee assessment of this former gitmo detainee, a long time islamic fighting group member opposed to gadhafi.