ships before they are brought back to the united states for federal prosecution. we do know that the us.s. a navy ship is in the med. not too far from libya. it has been there for several weeks in case the embassy had to be evacuated there due to unrest. there are warships nearby. we don t know if he s on one of them. the u.s. not saying what kind of forces captured other than military and law enforcement, but we do know that u.s. special operations forces, we are talking delta force, s.e.a.l. team 6, these are the guys who have operated in and out of libya in very dicey security circumstances for the last several years. they have captured other people there. so i think it s pretty safe to assume realistically it was one of these tier 1 types of special
certain trouble zones. here is what susan rice said about that. what we have done on a selective basis where we assess that the security conditions necessitate is to temporarily have family members and nonessential alpersonnel depart the country. that is something we do all over the world when security circumstances warrant. it s short term, it s temporary and prudent. reporter: rice says there i is no evidence to indicate that the attack on benghazi was prepared. butt interim president disa grows and says it looks exactly like a preplanned attack. the f.b.i. investigating and has yet to make a final determination. heather: let s transition to talk a little bit about afghanistan. it was a really rough weekend for our troops there. what do we know about what happened? reporter: officials saying an afghan soldier turned his weapon on a vehicle driven by nato soldiers in the south slightly
bust when president obama picked up the phone and together to president morsi, and right away things changed. what happened is the authorities in egypt have been robust in protecting our facility, not just in cairo but elsewhere in the country. president morsi has calmed for calm. we saw the same thing in yemen, in libya, tunisia. chris: so why ask all nongovernmental personnel to leave tunisia and sudan? guest: but are not asking all nongovernmental personnel. guest: we assess the security conditions necessity this, we have asked temporarily family members and nonessential personnel depart. we do that all over the world when security circumstances warrant. it is short-term. it is temporary.
malta, you could feel the sine sigh of relief. first off, the sick, the elderly and the children. they had been stuck on the boat for 60 hours. the seas are too rough to sail. no beds, nowhere to go, barely enough food, but not a word of complaint. we are happy to be here. we are beyond words happy to be here. donald escaped libya a week ago. he came to greet his colleagues. at least on the boat they were safe and had food and water. i spent my life waiting for my ship to come in. the ship to come out was the one. but what it escaped from wasn t so funny. we got stopped by with servants, rocket grenades going over our place, explosions. another hundred or so americans flew to turkey. the security circumstances in tripoli were such that it was impossible for anyone but a handful of people to flee by
we got stopped by military with ak-47s, rocket grenades going over our place, explosions. reporter: another 100 or so americans flew to turkey. the security circumstances in tripoli were such that it was impossible for anyone but really a handful of people to reach our plane. reporter: that leaveses about 300 more americans still in libya, among more than 100,000 foreigners trying to leave. children were tired, no surprise. this boy had one word to describe his ordeal. rough. reporter: and this young mother summed it up best of all. reporter: how are you guys? we re fine. we re very grateful to be here. yeah. reporter: there s still tens of thousands of foreigners who want to get out, including hundreds of americans. one woman who did told us she s still scared for her libyan friends she left behind. you can imagine. thank you so much. we appreciate it. a 2-year-old oregon boy is recovering after spending more