providing security. the two seals were in libya working for separate agency. they responded when they heard the gun fire and they killed themselves. bret: the decision to release gupta from gitmo was the bush administration. but the bigger story may be the presence of al-qaeda in libya and how strong they may be. what we have discussed before that al-qaeda has the franchise operations specifically in north africa. when we talk about someone like qumu what we are look at is not only hqim but the libyan islamist fighting group. i know speaking to my contacts today, they look at the makeshift camp that sprung up in eastern libya that may be training jihaddist. not only for attack in country but syria as well. bret: we will continue to follow it.
we ll hear them both. hopefully people will be watching. let s talk about the other topic that is going on. guess what is in the back burner and foreign policy. the white house is getting asked questions. i am glad they were pressed about the libya story. remember on sunday, u.s. ambassador susan rice said the episode in libya was not a terrorist attack and not planned and part of an uprising about the videotape and spontanous was the word she used. jay carner yesterday was pressed on whether or not they are still sticking to that story. based on the initial information and that includes all information, we saw no evidence to back up claims by others that this was a preplanned or premeditated attack. there is an ongoing investigation and the fbi is
systems against those attacks. so, according to the experts the u.s. now has to lead the charge in trying to round up the weapons. the only way to do that is by good intelligence and getting in and trying to find out where they are going. that is what is necessary to ensure the security of the american people. jonathan: this is not the end of the story. in fact, it may well be for the united states the beginning of the hardest part of the libya story. trace: you may be right, thank you jonathan hunt. much more on the loose weapons in libya ahead and more details of the country s future. that is ahead in a few minutes on studio b. nato may have dropped the bombs but the rebels say they ultimately killed qaddafi. and took his prized golden gun as a trophy. we will look at how the dictator s final moments
department in the george w. bush administration. it s a pleasure to have ow again. we got this note in, diplomats say nato decided to end the ariel campaign over libya. what is your reaction to the decisions that the president was criticized for six months to what we see happening now and what happened in libya? tamron, i guarantee that they are breathing a sigh of relief as they get this news it. makes a decision to intervene as the fall of tripoli did look like the right decision and look like the president s policy in the end was the right one. looking back, i think that there things i wish and i m sure white house officials wish they had done differently, but the outcome here so far is the right one. this is not the conclusion of this libya story by any means as we have seen in iraq and afghanistan, but for this chapter we can say this is the right outcome. you say looks like the right decision. you have $2 billion spent and not a loss of life and the
where a manhunt by nato forces, muammar gadhafi keeps surfacing and taunting the world. earlier today nato bombed the barracks in baun knee wall lead where some reports say gadhafi may be hiding. if he is they didn t get him. a few hours later, gadhafi or presumably his voice turned up on a sympathetic tv network, al rae. translator: give up ourselves to them? we re not stupid. we are not cowards. the libyan people are brave. a few hours ago, the voice was back, this time gadhafi called on his followers to start an insurgency like the one that nearly destroyed iraq after the fall of saddam hussein. translator: we will fight against you, wherever you are. we will sacrifice our lives so that the son of libya will become and the stones of libya will become fire and fight against you. you will never have peace of mind inside our land. cnn s senior international correspondent nic robertson is with us tonight in tripoli. nick, is anybody listening to these tapes? reporter