at least 36 people have been killed there following a four-day assault. in libya, a nato spokesman says rebel forces fighting the gadhafi regime are making, quote, significant advances, they believe the regime no longer has, quote, an effective operational ability. clinton and panetta have said the libyan leaders days are numbered and senior officials tell nbc news the u.s. has increased assistance to nato in its mission providing two unarmed predator drones. some other news, british police say they ve foiled a plan to attack the site of next year s 2012 olympic games in london during this month s riots. authorities tell parliament they were able to make arrests by intercepting blackberry messenger exchanges and social media posts used by rioters to organize gatherings. this disclosure comes as president obama discusses the dangers america faces as the ten-year mark of september 11th
special operation forces and unconventional things like raids and ambushes and so on, and the kinds of things that s.e.a.l.s and rangers do all of the time unless conventional forces, and this is going to do nothing but make the president redouble the efforts to get conventional forces out of afghanistan as soon as he can. but since we are winding down, do you expect to see more incidents like this? proportionately, this is the only game in town, finding information and converting into finished intelligence and identify the high-value targets and the villages of al qaeda and using them to have predator drones or unconventional forces like s.e.a.l.s. and how does this affect the moral for americans and taliban? well, the americans are not happy about this, and face it, the americans are not focusing a lot of attention on a war that is going on for ten years. for this s.e.a.l.s, this is terrible, because they all know
last may, u.s. officials tell abc news that the u.s. military dispatched harrier jets, predator drones, and a special operations aircraft to follow a pickup truck in which al awlaki was a passenger. but this mission would be marred by what an official described as a series of errors. crews tracking awlaki were unable to keep the laser which guides the weapons homed in on the moving truck. the first missile came from the special operations aircraft. it missed. that gave awlaki time to call additional al qaeda operatives for help. more missiles were fired from the harrrrrs and predator. a huge fireball engulfed the truck. but u.s. military trackers sat stunned as they watched the truck drive right out of the fireball to safety. the aircraft tried to keep
are trying to maintain those relationships. remember, we need pakistan as a key place to supply our operation in afghanistan, our shipping comes into a port there, and predator drones are based in the pakistani air fields and pakistani in the region is vital. on the other hand, they founded the taliban in 1994 and every time we find a senior al-qaeda leader he tends to be in pakistan. more than two-thirds all of al-qaeda killed or captured anywhere in the world have been killed or captured in pakistan so they are up to their eyeballs in this. and it s chronicled in your book, people are getting angry and say we should walk away. but then there s a bigger price to pay. it s always great talking to you. thanks so much. thank you. up next, a police shootout caught on camera. signal zero, i have been shot at and i have hit the subject. the officer crediting his face for what happened next.
they believe the attack originated in china. remember, some of the targets were high-ranking u.s. government officials so this is a major problem now and pretty much every government agency and every major financial institution is scrambling to deal with this. shepard: jonathan will chat away about to story and others at foxnews.com/shep and you can join in the conversation on the on the hunt link. and a new convert program into killing al qaeda militants in yemen and they are preparing to use predator drones to target militants with or without the permission of the government. al qaeda in yemen is the source of several attempted attacks against america and yemen has been a key u.s. ally in the fight against the group that country is in the middle of political crisis. months of protests and armed