attackers were at the u.s. mission in libya. how disorganized the obama administration response has been since that deadly night. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the latest from washington. fox news learned that there is now significant evidence of former guantanamo detainee sufyan bin qumu that personally trained some of the operatives in the benghazi consulate september 11. the initial claim it was not premeditated and thrown together in a single day in response to the cairo demonstration in video continues to unravel. it was certainly before the tate of that event. they had kill and capture teams and they had other information. rogers the chairman of the house intelligence committee said in the month before the attack, the al-qaeda affiliate joined forces with other islamists. we do know that over the course of time they had been looking for western targets. so al-qaeda in the madrab looking for the western targets. more than three weeks after the a
said to have been key aides of bin laden. in response to extra division ruling, some jihadist website called for u.k. to be punis punished. they could be on their way to states in a matter of weeks but as the story has been full of legal twists and turns, those awaiting them at the department of justice won t breathe a sigh of relief until terror suspects are wheels up. bret: amy, thank you. obama administration has recently made public a new list of prisoners cleared for release or transfer from the terrorist detention facility at guantanamo bay, cuba. apparently having served time there is becoming for insurgents, but having a harvard degree is for college graduates. tonight, catherine herridge reports on what some of the gitmo alumni are up to. sufyan bin qumu identified
are talking about the issue that the administration facing, people can t get upset first about something they don t know that much about. seconds of all, given quite honestly voters heavy focus on the economy and in a sense they re tired of always worrying about thingsover seas. it s hard for to blow up? the problem is it is blowing up, david. kirsten, you look at al-qaeda in libya. and they re expanding. today there was a protest there, the demonstration there that was pro-u.s. good sign. senator mccain just put out a statement about that. by all accounts, al-qaeda is expanding there on the ground. we reported this guy earlier in the week that could be the leader of this very attack. sufyan bin qumu. there was report in augus august 2012, now unclassified and i ll quote from it.
washington. big story by the admission by the white house that the september 11 attack on the u.s. consulate in libya was terrorism. tonight on special report, the president press secretary called it self-evident that the deadly assault was a terror attack. this contradicts a week s worth of official statements. now the president is weighing in. we ll also give you the latest intelligence about the al-qaeda-link terrorist who may have been behind the attack and believed to have been training jihaddist in libya. hillary clinton is launching accountability review board. the terrorist sufyan bin qumu was transferred out of the gitmo camp in 2007. we have the back story tonight. hispanics are courted by the presidential candidate. president obama spoke at univision forum in miami. romney addressed the group yesterday. special report from washington starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to new york and my colleagues with the five.
well. so it will have an impact on pakistan. they believe this is the bost way to calm down the storm. john mccain is saying they have a fundamental misunderstanding of the situation. he says islamists push people the violence and that is the problem. bret: ed henry traveling with the president in miami. thank you. now the latest intelligence on the man thought to be behind the benghazi attack. here is chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge. this is believed to be the most recent picture of sufyan bin qumu taken after his release from libyan jail in 2010. fox news bret baier was first to report wednesday intelligence sources believed the coordinated commando style attack on the consulate in benghazi is tied to al-qaeda. and they believe that qumu, a former guantanamo bay detainee may be the driving force behind the assault. the 53-year-old libyan jihaddist was transferred out of the detention camp in 2007 by the bush administration, to custody of former libyan