personnel in libya have been moved to. there are also u.s. drones flying over libya. the u.s. government says they will be used to identify militant targets. they say these are surveillance drones, not shooting drones, so any targeting information they turn up will be handed over to the libyan authorities to act on. also, not incidentally, what, there go two u.s. navy destroyers. two guided missile destroyers, the laboon and the mcfall to be positioned off the libyan coast. the primary weapons on these destroyers are tomahawk cruise missiles. this is obviously a lot of big news tonight, but our coverage of the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, continues, including right after this break, when we are going to be joined live from egypt by nbc s chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. please stay with us. [ female announcer ] research suggests cell health plays a key role
the u.s. embassy in tripoli, which is where we re told u.s. personnel in libya have been moved to. there are also u.s. drones flying over libya. the u.s. government says they will be used to identify militant targets. they say these are surveillance drones, not shooting drones, so any targeting information they turn up will be handed over to the libyan authorities to act on. also, not incidentally, what, there go two u.s. navy destroyers. two guided missile destroyers, the laboon and the mcfall to be positioned off the libyan coast. the primary weapons on these destroyers are tomahawk cruise missiles. this is obviously a lot of big news tonight, but our coverage of the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, libya, continues, including right after this break, when we are going to be joined live from egypt by nbc s chief foreign correspondent, richard engel. please stay with us. bob. oh, hey alex. just picking up some, brochures, posters copies of my acceptance speech. great! it s alw
no immediate confirmation from the pentagon on that, which usually does not publicly acknowledge such strikes, anyway. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge on this. what can you report? good morning. reporter: what seems clear what the bomb operation compromised in yemen, the u.s. and other allies are maximizing the targeting information they have with at least three major strikes in yemen in the last week, and more than a dozen militants killed, including this operations chief, al cuso, so in other words they ve got this data, it s out there the operation is compromised so they re trying to maximize that targeting data before people scatter. bill: as you know, catherine, this drone technology is being imitated, not necessarily for war but for other reasons, here at home, in fact, and the faa is going to make an announcement of drones over american skies. what s going on with that? that s right, bill. drones are synonymous with yemen, afghanistan and iraq, but increa
ended just hours ago and now you re about to see a photo that is said to be gadhafi badly wounded and in custody and we warn you, it s pretty gruesome. all right, well, he has either badly wounded in this cell phone video or dead. it s a cell phone image obtained somehow by our colleagues at the french press agency. we ll point out that cnn can t independently confirm its authenticity. now, rebel leaders were excited, but a little coy when the news broke. this is what the information minister for libya s national transitional council said. as a big day, a big day for the libyan people. i think it s a great victory for libyan people, great victory for revolution and we know now from our sources that we have a big fish. i don t know how big the fish is you don t know who has been captured. just a senior figure. yes. misrata radio confirmed the big figure as moammar gadhafi himself. we re waiting for a statement from benghazi. and to think is the one and then to see pe
a u.s. drone fires its missile and one of america s top terror targets is dead. the death of awlaki is a major blow to al qaeda s most active operational affiliate. anwar al awlaki was a long way from the home when the missile found him in yemen. born in new mexico and educated in the u.s., he radicalized and became a leader in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. implicated in many plots to kill americans, he was a top terror recruiter, awlaki s presence was felt in [ sirens [. reporter: the alleged shooter, major nidal hasan is believed to have exchanged e-mails with awlaki before the rampage that left 13 people dead. awlaki is also linked to other terror plots, including the would-be underwear bomber s alleged plan to bring down a usair liner two years ago, the plot to blow up u.s. cargo planes, and the attempt to set off a bomb in new york s times square. i consider al qaeda in the arabian peninsulas with awlaki as a leader within that organization probably the most