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
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. it s friday, october 21st. ali s off today. welcome to american morning. it s been a long week. a big week of news. it s been a very long week. i must say, i had a great time in vegas. i know. vegas seems like a year ago. doesn t it? all of the gadhafi news yesterday. you can back from the big debate and the gadhafi news. moammar gadhafi killed in his hometown, captured alive. almost 24 hours after reports he was mortally wounded there is still a fog surrounding exactly how it happened. right. and new videos popping up all over the web showing his final moments. we want to warn you. these videos obviously are graphic. this one showing a badly wounded extremely bloody confused gadhafi being man handled but is clearly alive here. the statement says he was killed in a crossfire. later pictured show his dead body with a bullet wound to his head add close range suggesting he was executed. news of his death
gunfire what happened in the next few moments is unclear, he was finally killed. how he died, we do not yet know. didn t take long for the death photos surface. we want to warn you, they are very graphic. gadhafi is indeed dead. the photos come from misrata where he was taken and killed possibly while trying to escape, possibly in a fire fight between captors and support toers or in crossfire or possibly executed. you can see he is surrounded by onlookers, he is not being mourned, certainly not there his death and of his son being celebrated in libya and in the west. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi forces in their tracks. a coalition that the united states, nato, and arab nations persevered through the summer to protect lybian civilians and courageous libyan people and broke the back of the regime. we ll have video as well and a much more impromptu of sec
[ speaking foreign language ]. that is the first time that we are seeing this video. it s another angle of the video that we saw earlier. clearly you see him wiping blood off his face, looking confused. that matches what a correspondent on the ground says occurred. the bottom line is, gadhafi is dead. the circumstances under which he died, though, are still a little hazy. still unclear. it didn t take long for the death photos to surface. i want to warn you, they are very graphic but this is, indeed, gadhafi, and gadhafi is indeed gone. this photo is taken from misrata. possibly executed or caught in cross fire. you can see there are onlookers. faced with the potential of mass otrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi forces in their tracks. a coalition that the united states, nato, and arab nations persevered through the summer to protect the civilians and libyan people and broke the back of the re
[ speaking foreign language ] gunfire what happened in the next few moments is unclear, he was finally killed. how he died, we do not yet know. didn t take long for the death photos surface. we want to warn you, they are very graphic. gadhafi is indeed dead. the photos come from misrata where he was taken and killed possibly while trying to escape, possibly in a fire fight between captors and support toers or in crossfire or possibly executed. you can see he is surrounded by onlookers, he is not being mourned, certainly not there his death and of his son being celebrated in libya and in the west. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi forces in their tracks. a coalition that the united states, nato, and arab nations persevered through the summer to protect lybian civilians and courageous libyan people and broke the back of the regime. we ll have video as well an